Associate Consultant
2006 - 2008
As an Associate Consultant, Responsibilities included being involved in various activities for clients which included:
- Preparation of business plan for setting up a BPO
- Preparation of Presentations, Collaterals for different service offerings
- Assisted in Preparation of Business Plan for setting up Call Taxi service in Mumbai
- Assisted in preparing a Pre-sales presentation followed by a Diagnostic Study in a large sugar co-operative
- Received training in Ramco ERP
- Ramco ERP Implementation is large sugar co-operative
Associate Consultant
2008 - 2009
As a SAP Associate Consultant, Responsibilities included configuration of certain functionalities and have worked on:
- Prepared Configuration Document for Extended Withholding Tax – S194C- Payment to Contractors
- Prepared SAP Tutor as Proof of Concept for client regarding Sales Entry, Bad Debts, Customer Master, Financial Statements under Parallel Accounting
Consultant
2009 - 2011
Client: Kesko Foods
Project: Support / Development
Responsibilities:
- As SAP FI Consultant, responsibilities included configuration, testing and re-engineering of various functionalities
- Since client was in retail domain, worked significantly on FI – SD integration issues
- Involved in Change Requests based on alteration of existing design to accommodate business requirements
- Working on different priority level Incidents based on SLA’s
- Key Assignments included:
- Undertook CO Document archiving activity
- Assisted in execution of Tax Audit Reports specific to Kesko Food for the year 2009
- Involved in year end activity in order to ensure smooth functioning of processes in the new year
Client: Onninen Oy
Project: Support / Development
Responsibilities:
- As SAP FI Consultant, responsibilities included configuration, testing and re-engineering of various functionalities
- Since client was in retail and trading domain, worked significantly on FI – SD / FI – MM integration issues
- Involved in Change Requests based on alteration of existing design to accommodate business requirements
- Working on different priority level Incidents based on SLA’s
Key Assignments included:
- Part of a small team handpicked for integration testing as a Pre Go – Live activity
- Involved extensively in providing post Go – Live support to client
Team Lead
2011 - 2015
Client: Leading Mining and Resource Company
Project: Implementation / Support
Responsibilities:
- As a FI / BCM Module Team Lead, I manage a team of 4 people and my Responsibilities include interacting with business to understand requirements and develop and implement solutions in the system. My key work areas include:
BCM
- Assisted in development and implementation of end to end BCM solution
- Assisted in setting up interface for banks like ANZ / Bank of America / Banco Santander / Banco de Bogota / HSBC / Standard Chartered for payments as well as bank statements
- Development of logic of BCM and Non – BCM related payment runs
- Logic of grouping based on which Payment Batches get created in the system
- Creating / Modifying DME Structure for SEPA / ACH / WIRE payments
- Deploying complex BCM – Payroll solution for South American countries like Chile / Columbia
- Developing complex DME solutions for garnishment related requirements for NAM region
- Email notification and status updates for Domestic and Cross border payments
- Mapping of internal status to external status in the system
- Maintenance of OBPM4 variants for generation of bank file
- Maintenance of users for approval of payment batches
- Integration of BCM with Vendor / Payroll / Treasury
Financial Accounting
- Have worked on issues related to Asset Accounting
- Configuring Automatic Payment Program and Dunning for Vendors/Customers
- Complete Electronic Bank Configuration settings along with Bank Statement Monitor
- Worked on various Bank Statement formats – Multi Cash, BAI, MT940, MT942, Camt.53
- Analysis of FBZP settings and forms attached to the FBZP configuration settings
- Worked extensively on FI – HR and FI - MM integration areas
Treasury and Risk Management
- Defining Business Partners
- Concept of Payment Requests and generation of the same
- Configuring Automatic Payment Program specific to Treasury – F111
- Hands on experience in Money Market for Transaction Manager
Cash and Liquidity Management
- Defining Default Value Date and Source Symbols
- Defining Planning Levels and Groups
- Maintaining Grouping and Structure
- Was involved in requirement gathering and development of solutions for complex DME structure requirements for payroll and finance related data to be sent to bank
- Was an integral part in 2 global releases – Release 3 and 4 as part of the project
- Was part of on-site team involved in BCM / FI UAT activities for a major release
- Was part of on-site team for BCM Post Go Live support activities
- Have also prepared learning series and conducted internal training sessions for Basic configuration in BCM and GTS
- Have worked on GTS functionality used under payment processing which includes identifying the blocks and releasing the same as per compliance procedure
Senior Consultant
2015 - 2016
Project: Industrialised Solutions Delivery – S/4 HANA
Responsibilities:
- As SAP FI SME, assist in development of industrialised solutions
- Working with project teams in order to deliver industrialised solutions to clients
Senior Consultant
2016 - Present
Project: SAP FI / FSCM Implementation and Development – S/4 HANA SFIN Version 1610
Responsibilities:
- º As a FI / FSCM SME, my current Responsibilities include interacting with business to understand requirements and develop and implement solutions in the system. My key work areas include:
- Financial Accounting
- Assisting in implementation of Vendor Invoice Management (VIM) module
- Working on deploying Bank Statement interfaces for MT940, BAI2 and Camt 53 formats
- Assisting in deploying Autobank solution to work along with EBS
- Deploying Lockbox solution for North America region
- Deploying solutions for Accounts Payable and integration with VIM / BCM and Bank Statement
- Deploying and developing Closing Cockpit as a functionality for FI Month End and Year End closing
- Development of Cash Journal and Petty Cash functionality
- Development of Withholding Tax solution and assisting in OneSource integration
BCM
- Assisted in development of end to end BCM solution
- Assisted in setting up interface for banks like CITI / JP Morgan / HSBC / Banco Internacional / Banco Pichincha for payments as well as bank statements
- Creation / Modification of DME Structures for ACH / Wire payments and Garnishment solution
- Developing complex DME solution for Tax addendum requirement for Tax reporting in NAM
- Mapping of internal status to external status in the system
- Maintenance of OBPM4 variants for generation of bank file
Treasury and Risk Management
- Exposure in Money Market products for Transaction Manager (Loans and Deposits)
- Defining Account Assignment Reference, Creating account symbols, defining Posting Specification which
- helps in accounting flow for final payment to GL accounts
- Building reports for reporting of Treasury related balances
- Development of Free Form payment related workflows as well as OT81 settings
- Integration of custom approval workflow with FRFT and RVND transactions used for free form payments
FSCM
- Deploying Credit Management functionality for NAM and Ecuador
- Integration of workflow for creation of DCD Cases
- Assisted in developing interface between SAP Credit Management and existing tool
- Involved in workshops for Collection and Dispute management
- Defining Collection Rules and Strategy