Amit Bhandari
Hyderabad
Summary
- 24+ years of experience in delivering large-scale SAP FICO implementations and technology transformation programs.
- Extensive Big Four consulting experience with Deloitte and Capgemini.
- SAP FICO and SAP FSCM Functional Consultant with expertise in General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Project System, Product Costing, and Profitability Analysis.
- Successfully completed 6 SAP global implementations with multi-million-dollar budgets, handling complex requirements, including multi-lingual, multi-currency, and global compliance.
- Strong background in financial accounting, management accounting, and SAP FICO integration with MM, SD, and CO modules.
- Expertise in customizing and enhancing SAP FICO solutions, including user exits, ABAP development, and financial reporting.
- Adept at leading cross-functional teams to ensure seamless SAP FICO integration, compliance, and regulatory adherence (GAAP, IFRS, VAT, WH Tax, etc.).
- Experienced in project management, stakeholder management, training, and post-implementation support.
- Designed and implemented automated financial reconciliation solutions for improving accuracy and auditability.
- Provided strategic guidance on enterprise architecture, streamlining financial workflows, and optimizing system performance.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Solution Architect
Warner Bros Discovery
Burbank
02.2009 - 02.2025
- Understanding business processes and designing and implementing solutions for incoming and outgoing royalties.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to define business objectives and create cost-effective solutions.
- Estimation of project scopes and timelines during planning phases.
- Ensured compliance with industry standards and best practices for system design.
- Understanding the scenario for revenue and implementing it using the SAP standard accrual engine – time-based, cash-based, avail-based.
- Collaborated with other projects and teams to design the SAP ECC and SAP CRM sides of several critical interfaces.
- Proposing a solution to SAP America and confirming the solution before implementing.
- Lead the SAP FICO area in the conversion of BP, customer, contract data, rights data, billing, cash, revenue, FX, WH tax, VAT, and inactive data.
- Identified the root cause of the issues and provided a permanent solution.
- Closely worked with the client in proposing solutions for the overall stability of the applications.
- Prepared test scenarios and documentation, and transitioned to support at the completion of work, as per Warner Bros standards.
- Performed root cause analysis for production issues escalated from support teams.
- Analyzed system performance, identified issues and implemented improvements.
- Worked on an archiving solution for TV distribution transactions.
- Involved in the SAP BRIM and SAP Payment Portal prototype.
- Localization - Australia, Japan, Mexico, France, Italy, Germany, UK, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Canada, and India.
- Implemented WH tax
- Implemented VAT
- Country-specific invoice process to support local requirements.
- Design Workshops in SAP RTR modules: PS, AA, Lease Management, GL, Payroll, Reporting.
- POC for S/4 HANA functionalities as per business requirements
SAP Finance Lead
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Orlando/Boston
06.2008 - 01.2009
- Reviewing gap between Peoplesoft and SAP in SAP FICO and SAP Dispute and Deduction Management; Configuring solutions in SAP FI and CO area.;
- Configuration of Payment processing (house bank) and reconciliation (EBS) – Banking;
- Created Functional specification for ABAP development;
- Coordinated code review with Client and sign off;
- Conversion of Data from Peoplesoft to SAP
Senior SAP FICO consultant/Conversion Lead
Genentech
South SFO
10.2007 - 05.2008
- Reviewing FRS and URS document to understand the current Design in FICO (GL, AR, AP, AA, PS, CO, and Internal Order):
- Conducted Finance workshop users;
- Conducted workshop for finalizing Integration of SAP FICO with SAP PM, PTP, QM, SD:;
- Creating Templates for Post reconciliation of Master data and Transaction;
- Providing functional logic to SAP ABAP resources to create/modify programs/reports;
- Assisting issues arising in data uploading;
- Monitoring sequence of data load:
- Coordinating with Data owners and Quality Team for Final sign-off
Process improvement champion/Onsite Lead FI AR, COPA and Treasury
Chevron
Concord and San Ramon
07.2007 - 09.2007
- Production support for downstream processes;
- Handling Help desk tickets;
- Unit and integration testing;
- New developments and reports;
- Configuring system as per the new requirement;
- Support closing activities;
- Process Improvement Champion: SAP FICO, SAP Treasury, SAP JVA;
- Monitoring Trends of help desk tickets;
- Identifying new developments and improvements
SAP Finance lead
ICICI Bank
Mumbai
01.2004 - 07.2004
- SAP Finance lead during upgrade (4.0b to 4.7E) and Roll-out to international territories
SAP Finance Team member
Futura Travels
Mumbai
10.2003 - 01.2004
- SAP Finance Team member during implementation of SAP
SAP Finance lead
Essar Power
Hazira
07.2003 - 10.2003
- SAP Finance lead for SAP Asset Accounting Implementation
SAP Finance Team member
Essar Steel
Hazira
02.2003 - 07.2003
- As a SAP Finance Team member for SAP Production support and new enhancements
File investigation – credit analysis
Mahindra and Mahindra Financial services ltd
Jaipur
11.1999 - 11.2002
- Updating, checking, and reconciling of accounts;
- Trade advance;
- IRR calculation and debtor’s collection efficiency;
- Monitoring Collection efforts;
- Year-end closing
Education
Master of Business Administration - Finance And Marketing
Indian Institute of Rural Management
Jaipur, India06-1999
Skills
- SAP S/4HANA
- SAP FICO
- SAP CRM Billing and Revenue
- SAP BRIM
- SAP FSCM
- SAP Loans Management
- SAP BW
Training
- SAP FICO
- SAP Treasury Training and Certification for Chevron processes
- SAP New GL Training by SAP
- SAP S/4 Hana
- SAP BRIM
- SAP IS- Media
Industry Experience
- Media and Entertainment
- Bio Tech
- Energy and Power
- Banking
- Manufacturing
- Travel
Timeline
Senior Solution Architect
Warner Bros Discovery
02.2009 - 02.2025
SAP Finance Lead
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
06.2008 - 01.2009
Senior SAP FICO consultant/Conversion Lead
Genentech
10.2007 - 05.2008
Process improvement champion/Onsite Lead FI AR, COPA and Treasury
Chevron
07.2007 - 09.2007
SAP Finance lead
ICICI Bank
01.2004 - 07.2004
SAP Finance Team member
Futura Travels
10.2003 - 01.2004
SAP Finance lead
Essar Power
07.2003 - 10.2003
SAP Finance Team member
Essar Steel
02.2003 - 07.2003
File investigation – credit analysis
Mahindra and Mahindra Financial services ltd
11.1999 - 11.2002
Master of Business Administration - Finance And Marketing
Indian Institute of Rural Management
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