Sudhakar.

SAP- FICO / S4 HANA FIN 2020 / Vertex O Series /

One Source – Lead Consultant
[email protected]

+91 99080 19487 - India

English – Professional level
Profile Summary
SAP Skill Set

SAP FICO -S/4 HANA 2020 FIN

A result-driven professional with Overall 13+ years of Experience
with 11+ relevant SAP FI CO / S4 HANA 2020 / VERTEX O SERIES/
SAP FI –GL, AP,AR,AA,CE/BANKS
ONE SOURCE TAX ENGINES
SAP-Controlling-COPA / Product
Contributed in all the project stages – Requirement confirmation,
Design configuration, custom code specifications, testing, go-live
Costing / CCA/PCA /CEA
assistance and post implementation support
SAP – RTR, PTP, OTC Expertise
Worked with Global Cross Functional Project teams – for Multiple
Countries USA,CA, GCC- Gulf Cooperation Council (UAE / KSA / SAP- Banking
Bahrain), Netherlands, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Greece & UK
under different delivery models - Managed Services and Agile SAP – GCC-Gulf Tax Integrations
Changed domain from Financial Accounting to SAP Consultant SAP FI – Vertex O Series IDT Engine
and worked for multiple clients in different environment SAP ECC /
S4 HANA / SAP Global Taxation projects. SAP FI – Brazil –SEFAZ Integration
Continuously focussed on building SAP skill set /Third party Tax SAP – Agile Project Execution
Software integration.

Good and thorough understanding on P-to-P and O-to-C cycles of

business, implementation of indirect tax, which includes
integration of ERP Systems with third party Bolton’s like Vertex etc

Strong Focus on Functional process designing and approach to Technical skills/Tools

Problem solving and resulted in Innovative solution options.

Cross Components/IS- FI-Integration Cycles Experience SAP -SOLMAN , Service NOW,

 Record to Report Cycle (R2R) Remedy
 Procure to Pay cycle (P2P) –FI-MM
SAP – REV TRAC- ALM / JIRA
 Order to Cash Cycle (O2C)-FI-SD
 Controlling- Product Costing / Cost Centre / PCA
SAP-OPEN TEXT VIM
 SAP- PHARMA
 SAP –IS Oil & Gas (Upstream & Down Stream) SAP-ARIBA Procurement solutions

Third party Global Tax Software Integration Experience

 GCC- Gulf Cooperation Council (UAE/KSA/BAHRAIN) –VAT Tax Education
 Vertex Accelerator / Vertex Tax engine O Series(US / CANADA/
EU / LATAM / APAC)
 Brazil SEFAZ integration / NFe electronic invoicing
 One SOURCE(Sabrix)-Global NEXT Tax Engine Computer Appreciation and
 EU –SAFT/SII- E-Invoicing –Netherland / Germany Tax Programming in Finance &
Integration Accounts from State Bank of
 India GST-Tax Integrations Mysore
 Knowledge on Avlara / CFA/ CCH Tax Engines BSC from SK university –
Anantapur
 Work Experience

Key Result Areas:

Driving & implementing projects as per schedule timelines, extending post-implementation and hyper-
care support to the Technical Support Team and Client

Defining & aligning the Functional designing based on the functional requirements and preparing,
reviewing & validating functional specifications and handover to Technical Team for development

Actively involved in smooth implementation and testing of the application and extending post go-live &
application maintenance support to the client

Identifying potential workaround to system changes or limitations, recognizing level of effort required
to successfully implement changes to business processes and user activities

Mapped business requirements, and developed designs to support defined business requirements,
participated in detailed design reviews, reviewed test plans, and provided technical guidance &
support to other team members

Multiple Global template model agile projects implementation on ERP ECC-SAP FICO / S4 HANA

As Functional Lead for the third-party software implementation tool for SAP, one of the most
challenging assignments for ensuring Bugs are fixed in a race against time for Go Live

As Lead Analyst for on boarding of Vertex for Accounts Payable transactions flowing to SAP, was
responsible for Design and configuration, Preparation of Functional Specifications, Support to
Development Team, Functional Unit Testing

SAP-Global Taxation / VERTEX O SERIES - TAX software

Integration Experience:
US/Canada/EU/APAC- Vertex O Series tax engine
implementation
Greece/Hungary/Turkey/Netherlands/UK- SNI Tax Software
Brazil – SEFAZ –NFe Integration
GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) - SNI Tax Software integration
Europe - SNI Tax Software integration

SAP Industry Specific Experience :

Pharma Industry – Vaccine / pharma / Consumer Healthcare
Industry
Manufacturing Industry
Oil and Gas Industry
Automotives Industry
Core Pharma Industry
Metals and Minerals Industry

Domain Experience

Sep’04 – Dec’06 with State Bank of Mysore

Sep’04- Sep’06 Finance &Accounts Officer –General Banking &
Finance

ANNEXURE
Project: ES-COE / SAP -S4 HANA 2020 – Finance & Controlling Implementation & Support
Clients: FOOD MFG COMPANY - US/CA/EU/APAC
Position: ES COE – S4 HANA FIN Specialist
Module : GL,AP,AR,BANKS, Cost Elements , Cost centre accounting , Product costing
Period: Aug-2021 – Till date

Responsibilities:

 Extensively worked on S4 Hana Finance implementation

 Good knowledge on Software upgrade Manager SUM
 Good exposure on data migration and Application conversion
 Good exposure on Enterprise design.
 Extensively worked on GL, AP, AR, Procure to Pay order to cash cycles.
 Extensively worked on FI-Automatic Payment programme FBZP
 Extensively worked on Controlling Distribution and Assessment cycles
 Extensively worked on PTP/OTC integration cycles.
 Extensively worked Month end closure activities
 EU Triangulations implementation for Swiss, France & Italy for different Partner functions
 EU Triangulation for Sold to party, Payer, Ship to party Partner functions
 Good exposure on Revaluation and Translation currencies
 Good exposure on drop shipment and Incoterms based rules
 US Jurisdiction taxes / State -County-City level tax levy
 US- Sales tax, used taxes and Withholding taxes
 Implementing TAXUSX Tax Procedure
 Creation of primary cost and secondary cost elements
 GL master creation and assign
 Good exposure on EBS and Global Automatic payments
 Good exposure on F110 -APP payment process
 EU Triangulations implementation for Swiss, France & Italy for different Partner functions
 EU Triangulation for Sold to party, Payer, Ship to party Partner functions
 Provide Vertex support to EU/Brazil/APAC/NA Regions
 Define DP document types, Business Rules and process types.
 Defined Taxability Drivers / Taxability categories and Tax Rules
 Extensively worked on Customer tax exempt certificates
 Define multiple tax rules for Brazil and Mexico
 Extensively worked on Tax Reports / Intrastat reports
 Worked on IDT improvement areas and provide inputs to team
 Good knowledge on CHARM process/ NC workflow process
 Good knowledge on Service Now supporting tool
 Good knowledge on Taxpayer/Vendor/Customer mapping in Vertex O Series.
 Good knowledge on Change Test document updates
 Good exposure on Transaction tester.


Project: SAP S4 HANA 1909 / SAP Financial Management

Clients: Global Giant Pharma industry / UK
Position: SAP S4 HANA Financial management (FI/CO) -Lead
Period: Oct-2019 –Aug-2021

Responsibilities:

 Extensively followed SAP-ACTIVATE Agile Scrum Project methodology for project execution/delivery and
production Support.
 Gathered requirements from business SPOC’s and bridged IT Team and ensuring the successful delivery with
multi-level testing before delivering to client for better quality assurance and achieving mile stones as per the
project plan.
 Extensively worked on GL, AP, AR, Procure to Pay order to cash cycles.
 Extensively worked on new GL concepts, Month end closures
 Good exposure on EBS and Global Automatic payments
 Good exposure on F110 -APP payment process


 Prepared Business Blue prints for high level business process cycles in the areas Procure to Pay (P2P),
Order to cash(O2C), Record to Report (RTR),
 US Tax Jurisdictions and master data mapping with Vertex Accelerator.
 Integration of Brazil tax system Nota fiscal-e- SEFAZ system
 Defined Tax procedures and multiple condition types for taxes.
 Configured FI Organization structure and Controlling Structure for multi-level Legal and MIS reporting.

Project: SAP S4 HANA 1809 / FI/CO & Vertex Tax Engine - UNICON-UAE
Clients: Automotive industry / Germany
Position: SAP S4 HANA (FICO) / Global Tax Lead
Period: 2018 -2019

Responsibilities:

 Worked on various business scenarios and AS-IS Process Study and designed TO-BE Process solutions
 Involved in all phases of the Implementation Life Cycle which include System Design, Analysis, Configuration,
System Testing, Data Conversion, and Post Go Live support.
 Analyzing of the existing system for, as is study, gathered functional requirements through user workshops,
gap analysis, and participation in process improvement teams.
 EU Triangulations implementation for Swiss, Germany & Belgium for different Partner functions
 EU Triangulation for Sold to party, Payer, Ship to party Partner functions
 Extensively worked on SNI Tax software integrations for Greece/Hungary
 Defined multiple tax codes, condition types, Tax rates.
 Extensively worked on Universal Journal and Extension Ledger postings.
 Extensively worked on New GL Parallel ledger accounting
 Defined Leading and non Leading ledgers
 Extensively worked on Open Tex- VIM (vendor invoice management for Paper Invoice Scanning with Invoice
Capture Centre-ICC with Optical Character recognition(OCR).
 Configured Automatic Payment Program (APP) via DMEE transmission

Project: SAP S4 HANA 1609 / Tax implementation - UNICON SYSTEMS-UAE

Clients: Metals & Minerals Industry/ UK
Position: SAP S4 HANA -Senior Consultant
Period: 2015 -2018

Responsibilities:

 Defined Organization structure and Controlling structure

 Defined New GL Document Splitting for financial reporting
 Defined Tax Procedure, Tax condition types
 Defined Multiple Tax codes, Tax rates and Tax accounts
 Extensively worked on New GL Parallel ledger accounting
 Extensively worked on FI/CO –Month end/Year end closure process
 Configured Automatic Payment Program (APP) via DMEE transmission
 Extensively worked on down payments/alternate recon accounts for Supplier and Customer
 worked on Revenue account determination and Account determination for SD and MM
 Defined Recon accounts for Customers, Vendors and Spl GL.
 Configured House banks and bank rank order and assignment of GL Accounts

Project: ERP-E-Business Tax / Tax implementation – Deloitte

Clients: Shipping Industry/ Netherlands
Position: Senior Consultant
Period: 2013 -2015

Responsibilities:
 Defined Organization structure
 Defined Regime to Rate flow tax structure
 Define multiple tax statuses / Tax Rates

 worked on Revenue account determination and Account determination

 Define multiple tax rates and tax conditions
 Defined Location based and Material based taxes
 Defined Multiple Tax codes, Tax rates and Tax accounts
 Extensively worked on down payments/alternate recon accounts for Supplier and Customer

Project: ECC 6.0 SAP FICO – HCL

Clients: Oil & Gas /Automotives / UAE
Position: Senior Consultant
Period: 2009 -2013

 Configured Company Codes and Chart of Accounts

 Creation of GL Master Records, Account Groups and Number Ranges.
 Defined Recon accounts for Customers, Vendors and Spl GL.
 Defined multiple account groups for financial reporting.
 Defined multiple account principles and assigned scenarios for reporting
 Classify GL accounts and account groups
 Defined GL masters at COA and Company code levels.
 Configured Posting period variant and Fiscal year variant.
 Defined Vendor account groups and Customer Account groups.
 Good exposure on Electronic bank statement EBS of International banks Swift-MT940/BAI2.
 Configured multiple Company codes and Operational, Group and Country Specific Chart of accounts for
Global reporting

Project: ERP-Testing – POLARIS SOFTWARE LABS

Clients: Manufacturing industry / US
Position: Trainee Consultant
Period: 2007 -2009

 GL Transactional Posting
 Worked on Documents Hold ,Park, Account Assignment model, Sample and Recurring
 GL Foreign Currency Postings
 Payable Invoice Postings and Payments
 Payables Residual and Partial Payments
 AR Outgoing Invoice postings and Receipt Against Invoices.
 Down payment and Advance receipts.
 Hold documents and recurring documents.

Employer Name: State Bank of Mysore - (Sep-2004 – Dec-2006)

Positions: Finance & Accounts Officer

Responsibilities:

 Clearing Transactions Of the local area Banks.

 Telegraphic transfer of Funds through Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS).
 Extraction of Statement of Accounts, Schedules of Demand Drafts.
 Prepared Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Currency chest Transactions Reports.
 Updated maintenance and tallying of Jotting Book (RBI’s Currency Chest Register).
 Nullifying the outstanding credit entries in Bank’s Sundry Deposit a/c and Bank’s Branch Clearing Suspense
a/c.
 System Documentation for Crop Loans, Commercial Loans and high priority Advances.
 All State Govt. Treasury Transactions viz., State Govt. Receipt & Payments.
 Preparation of Documentation for advances.
 Weekly and Monthly Statements.
 Bank Receipts & Bank Payments.
 Prepared Cash Flow and Cash Specifications details for the month.