Ankur Gandhi

• Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirements and Business Processes and mapped them with SAP,
• Developed plans and specifications for building projects to meet the needs of clients,
• Hosted multiple workshops to make End users understand S4 HANA concepts,
• Implemented Product costing, Asset management, credit management, Margin Analysis, Project Systems integration, flexible workflow etc,
• Development of automatic approval of payment proposals, various reports etc.
• Business support of everyday banking, month end & year end support,
• Conducting operational meetings with business, providing project status, and answering business queries.

• S4 HANA Architect : following are the activities that are handled as part of Brown Field Implementation
• Preparing the plan as per RISE metrology
• Carried out conversion readiness assessment along with technical team.
• I was part of business driven transition assessment & Fit to standard assessment
• Preparation of old and new tables and listing of old tables to be available in new system.
• Analyzing of Material Ledger without actual costing.
• Analyzing GAP Exits, addons and implementation in ECC system
• carrying out conversion in test client as a part of POC
• Demonstration of various business processes as proof of concept to various stakeholders.

• Worked as integration manager responsible as overall delivery of SAP across Canada and Mexico region.
• Handled projects like Carve out , Carve In , EHP upgrade etc
• Laid down the strategy for the Planning, data migration and post carve out, reconciliation and data deletion post migration of the project.
• Configuration of product costing, Result Analysis and settlement to COPA
• Providing solution on new developments in Finance and Controlling area
• Handled Service pack upgrade project from SAP FICO which involves the sanity testing, functional testing, bug fixing, user acceptance testing and interface testing.
• Conducted and documented Root Cause Analysis of production system failures to minimize future failures and optimize operations.
• Gathered business requirements for SAP reporting and functionality enhancements.
• Established and maintained key relationships with business stakeholders to promote future opportunities.
• Hold monthly performance review meeting with CIO & Key stake holder, presented monthly performance and the system health status.

• As a SAP FICO Lead consultant following are the activities that are handled as part of Green Field implementation
• Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirements and Business Processes and mapped them with SAP.
• Regularly interacted with users to ensure proper understanding of the Business Requirements and Functional specifications.
• Hosted multiple workshops to make end users understand S4 HANA concepts
• Configured chart of accounts, account groups, field status groups, and posting keys, assigned these variants to company codes, created GL Master records, reconciliation accounts for sub-ledgers, document types, number ranges, invoices and payments, tolerance groups, automatic account
• Configured chart of accounts, account groups, field status groups, and posting keys, assigned these variants to company codes, created GL Master records, reconciliation accounts for sub-ledgers, document types, number ranges, invoices and payments, tolerance groups, Incoming bank statements, Automatic payment programs, Planning etc.
• Configured Product costing , Cost center Accounting, Profit center accounting, Characteristic derivation, COPA, sales activity reports
• Configuration of FI integration with Material Management & Sales logistic
• Prepared data migration strategy & designed migration programs & LSMW for data migration
• Supported end to end customer testing
• Carried out system go live, Data migration & hyper care support for SAP FICO

• Implementing roll outs as per standard template configuration across Europe region.
• Implemented SEPA for banking system across Europe.
• Implemented result analysis ( Revenue based, Resource based & Percentage of completion based ) for Sales/Service orders and settlement thereof to COPA.
• Analysis, design , development of the local GAPs in SAP.
• Handled all the change requests over the period of 3 years in relation to finance and controlling
• Conducted knowledge transfer sessions with customers regarding their usage of SAP FICO modules.
• Collaborated with external vendors providing third-party solutions integrated with SAP FI and CO module.
• Validated data migration from legacy systems into SAP FI and CO environment through LSMW tool.
• Participated in user acceptance testing prior to go-live activities.
• Performed post-production support activities including root cause analysis, troubleshooting and resolution tracking for reported incidents.

• Worked as CO/BCS Team lead and was responsible for all the quality deliverables for the developments (enhancements) as well as to support group consolidation and reporting
• Supported calculation for intercompany profits
• Worked on complex custom development projects across various geographies covering responsibility of integrated solution design, leading design workshops, conducting UAT workshops and user trainings and support.
• Prepared various Functional specifications and development of custom reports
• Creation of Validations and Substitutions as per business requirement
• Conducted and documented Root Cause Analysis of production system failures to minimize future failures and optimize operations.
• Implemented Milestone based billing with project systems
• Hosted multiple workshops to for business process training

• I was a part of implementation team for the greenfield implementation of SAP
• Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirements and Business Processes and mapped them with SAP. Regularly interacted with users to ensure proper understanding of the Business Requirements and Functional specification
• Configured chart of accounts, account groups, field status groups, and posting keys, assigned these variants to company codes, created GL Master records, reconciliation accounts for sub-ledgers, document types, number ranges, invoices and payments, tolerance groups, automatic account
• Configured areas of AP, House Banks and Automatic Payment program (APP). Involved in optimizing bank details for wire payments, check lots, void reason codes and clearing inter-company vendor/customer open items
• Configured settings of fixed assets, normal depreciation run and posting of asset acquisition.
• Resolved SAP finance related tickets to find the possible solution of issues.
• Participated Month End activities for managerial reporting purposes.
• Responsible for Data Migration from legacy to SAP (Master Data and Transaction Data) using LSMW and BDC programs after preparing the files from Data Services along with for customized fields.
• Wrote various Functional and Technical specs and was the liaison between the logistics/finance/purchasing business teams and the development team to build the conversion programs and the upload programs for various data objects. 
• Responsible for all the cutover activities and preparing the project schedules and sequences of loads along with coordinating with the tasks with offshore teams
• Develop business rules, business partner extension functions in business rule framework
• Responsible for data migration of FI and CO Master and Transaction Data. Involved in building ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) process in Data Services for various Objects based on legacy process and requirements.
• Provided various Custom Reports to Business during multiple phases of the project to help Business validate loads.
• Responsible for maintaining the Partner profiles, ALE distribution model configuration. Involved in load integration activities and defining the sequence of loading of data, cutover activities and assigning the jobs and getting status and working on the issue that occurred during development

· Preparation of the Group Balance Sheet and getting the same Audited through coordinating with statutory auditors.

· Preparation of the CMA Reports and Fund Follow up reports for banking compliances to be submitted to the financing banks.

· Supervising Internal Audit for the group companies and exercising internal controls as lay down by the top management.