ERP Manager / SAP Solution Architect Resume Example

Global PRIMO project is a headquarter initiative from Sony Corporation to implement One System and One Process in Finance, Accounting and Controlling organizations across various regions around the world.

• Driven Global Process Modeling Sessions in defining one process for finance and accounting organizations
• Led the requirements Definition Documentation and Architecture design document compilation for implementing SAP as one System across the organization globally
• Provided recommendations to management based on current and emerging technologies
• Engaging architecture Design with various regions and presenting at CEO, CFO and Senior management levels
• Engaged in resource planning for implementing the project and subsequent travel to India and Singapore to recruit team members
• Conducting Regional Process Modeling workshops in Europe and North America to explain the Global Process Model established inside the organization

SIMPLE SAP Implementation Project 

Regional SIMPLE SAP Implementation aims to bring the whole Asia Pacific region of Sony under one SAP platform.

• Managed the business requirements by conducting workshops with business users and compiled blueprint for system development and configurations
• Ensured proper and adequate resource leveling required for the FI-CO modules and managed a team of functional leads and developers during the implementation
• Managed the configuration and development in General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Special Purpose Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Controlling and Profitability Analysis modules
• Monitored and summarized progress of project to management on a weekly basis
• Instrumented and coordinated unit, integration and user acceptance tests to improve software quality and reliability.
• Responsible for preparing Key User Manuals and conducting Key User Training
• Coached, developed and trained team members for handling the support and maintenance
• Managed support and maintenance issues by establishing workarounds and proactively resolving issues with the team by sharing ideas and vast sony knowledge accumulated over the years
• Managing the enhancement requests required in the production system and estimating the effort/costing for the same

SOAR SAP Implementation Project 

SOAR SAP Implementation project aims in retiring numerous legacy systems and bringing the North American operations of Sony Electronics under one SAP platform.

• Building up of offshore development teams in Singapore and India
• Configuration of General Ledger, Accounts Receivable and Profit Center Accounting modules
• Participated in SAP Platinum review of the solutions implemented
• Co-ordination between the SAP and legacy teams for the transmission of interface files and testing
• Drafted detailed functional designs and developed solutions by managing offshore team
• Building up of System test scripts
• User Acceptance testing, System Testing and Integration testing
• Coordinated with QA testers for end-to-end unit testing and post-production support
• Designed custom Cash Applications Module in SAP to facilitate the matching of EDI remittances and ACH Payments and integration of it with SAP's standard Lockbox Processing
• Resolved customer issues by establishing workarounds and solutions and by debugging and creating defect fixes.
• Managed support and maintenance of the system after Go-Live

Early Career Projects 

Quality Audit Lead: SAP Quality Auditing Project - Europe 

Led a team of technical consultants to drive continual improvement to ABAP Codes before getting transported to production environment

SAP Lead Consultant : S-Galaxy Roll-Out - Singapore 

Led a team of consultants to implement new company codes for Sony Global Treasury in the existing SAP system

SAP Team Lead : Automation of Financial Reports - Hong Kong 

Led a team of consultants to automate the financial reports from the Special purpose ledger of SAP

SAP Team Lead : Interfacing SAP with E-Accounting - Shanghai 

Responsible for designing interfaces with the external system and implementing them

SAP Team Lead : FI-SL Implementation - Hong Kong 

Sony Hong Kong's Special Purpose Ledger module was based on pool tables. Since SAP does not support the pool tables in the latest versions, the module had to be re-implemented using transparent tables

FICO Consultant : SAP Version Upgrade from 3.1H to 4.6C - Hong Kong 

Technical upgrade of the SAP R/3 system from 3.1H to 4.6C

SAP Team Lead : Budget Implementation- Beijing 

Implemented the budget functions in CCA and COPA modules for Sony China

SAP FICO Consultant : Additional Company Code Setup- Shanghai 

Additional 8 company codes and related configuration settings done in the existing SAP system

SAP Team Lead : S-Galaxy Implementation - Singapore 

Sony Precision Engineering center wanted to scrap their existing SAP R/3 system and then join the newly implemented S-Galaxy system which is a single SAP instance for all the SONY companies in Singapore. Played the role of the SAP team lead in the project.

SAP FICO Consultant : Rainbow Implementation - Shanghai 

Sony China implemented Finance, Controlling, Sales & Distribution and Materials Management modules of SAP R/3. Played the role of the FICO consultant in the project

SAP Technical Consultant : UOB Implementation - Singapore 

Played the role of the technical consultant in the implementation project

SAP Technical Consultant : Unicorn Implementation - Singapore 

Played the role of the technical consultant in the implementation project

SAP Technical Consultant : SAP Kao - Thailand 

Developed financial and management reports using report painter

SAP Technical Consultant : Asset Barcoding - Singapore 

Sony wanted to implement bar-coding for all their assets and then interface it with the SAP R/3 for Asset Taking exercise

SAP Technical Consultant : Company Code Currency Change - Hong Kong 

Played the technical consultant role when Sony corporation wanted to change the company code currency from HKD to USD