Sruthi Sridhar

• Designed and governed a global SAP Finance templatecovering General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, and Product Costing, supporting consistent global deployments across APAC and North America.
• Led the end-to-end SAP delivery lifecycle across multiple releases, including fit-gap analysis, business requirement gathering, blueprinting, solution architecture, FI/CO configuration, WRICEF design and oversight, integration testing (SIT/UAT), cutover planning and execution, transport management, and post-go-live hyper care support.
• Conducted country localization workshops to capture statutory and regulatory requirements and implemented SAP standard and localized solutions, including tax configuration, withholding tax, document splitting, financial statement versions, payment formats, and statutory reporting.
• Architected and delivered a custom Product Costing automation solution in the absence of the PP module, designing custom logic to replicate core PP costing processes such as material cost roll-ups, overhead calculations, and variance handling.
• Designed and delivered multiple inbound and outbound integrations using IDocs, BAPIs, RFCs, and file-based interfaces, including solutions for automated exchange rate updates and external system connectivity.
• Led SAP–legacy system reporting integration using IICS, enabling seamless data synchronization and delivering a wide range of custom operational and management reports across FI, CO, MM, and SD module
• Delivered hands-on ownership across all WRICEF objects (Workflows, Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms), ensuring stable business operations during deployments and post-go-live phases.
• Designed and implemented a customized Credit Management solution, integrating SAP FI-AR with a third-party Accounts Receivable platform to enhance credit exposure visibility and receivables governance.

Implementation Projects

End-to-End SAP FICO Implementation (Onsite – Spain)

• Led end-to-end SAP FICO implementation including requirements gathering, KDS preparation, and business blueprint design, ensuring alignment with business and statutory requirements.
• Authored functional specification documents for FI/CO configurations and coordinated closely with technical teams for development and deployment.
• Designed and implemented integration between SAP and a third-party taxation system to address local statutory and compliance requirements.
• Executed unit testing in Development and QA environments, conducted end-user training, supported UAT cycles, and obtained formal business sign-off.
• Managed cutover planning, data migration, and go-live activities, ensuring smooth transition to production.

End-to-End FI & Asset Accounting Implementation for Corporate Audit Compliance

• Led requirement gathering for complex accounting scenarios, including the treatment of asset valuation differences between Fair Market Value (FMV) and Book Value (BV) to meet corporate audit requirements.
• Prepared and drove business blueprint sign-off with corporate stakeholders, ensuring governance and compliance alignment.
• Developed functional specifications for FI and Asset Accounting configurations and supported full testing cycles.
• Executed data migration, cutover activities, and provided hypercare support post go-live, ensuring solution stability and audit readiness.

Implementation of Financial Closing Cockpit (FCC)

• Gathered business requirements from multiple origins to define Month-End Closing (MEC) activities and dependencies.
• Designed and configured Financial Closing Cockpit templates, including task hierarchy, dependencies, and monitoring structures.
• Automated custom transaction codes within FCLOCO to streamline closing activities.
• Conducted end-user training, supported UAT, and managed go-live and hypercare support to stabilize the solution.

SAP GRC – Governance, Risk & Compliance Rollout

• Defined and implemented Segregation of Duties (SoD) rulesets across FI, CO, SD, MM, and PP modules.
• Performed SoD risk analysis for user roles and authorizations and identified critical access violations.
• Designed remediation strategies in collaboration with implementation partners to mitigate access risks.
• Engaged with business stakeholders to explain access control impacts and compliance requirements.
• Supported UAT in Quality environment and executed successful GRC go-live.

Support Projects

SAP FICO Support Consultant – Africa & Europe (Olam Group)

• Provided end-to-end SAP FICO production support for multiple African and European legal entities, ensuring resolution of incidents and service requests within defined SLAs.
• Delivered intensive month-end and year-end close support, including Material Ledger close activities and BPC data uploads, ensuring timely financial closure.
• Collaborated closely with ABAP teams to design and enhance custom and standard reports based on evolving business requirements.
• Led KNOA usage analysis implementation and automation, driving improved SAP user adoption across multiple entities.
• Anchored knowledge transition and handover from implementation to support teams, ensuring continuity and effective collaboration between business and IT stakeholders.