KAUSHIK CHATTERJEE

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PROFILE

Manager with 11 years of SAP experience in the areas of:

Controlling, covering Product Costing (CO-PC), Material Ledger (CO-ML), Activity-

Based Costing (CO-ABC), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Profit Center Accounting

(EC-PCA), Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) and Internal Orders (CO-IO),

and Finance, covering New General Ledger (FI-GL), Asset Accounting (FI-AA),

Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR).

Also proficient in Dispute Management (FSCM-DM), Collections Management

(FSCM-COL), Project Systems (PS) and Joint Venture Accounting (JVA).

Started as a Consultant with PwC, then worked as a Manager with Capgemini, as a Technical

Delivery Manager with IBM where he led a team of 40 functional consultants, as a Manager with

Accenture, and now consulting in the United States

Involved in various phases of SAP projects, covering template development, implementation (6

full cycles), rollout, upgrade, testing and support

Worked for major blue-chip and public sector companies across Europe, Asia and America, in

diverse industries such as Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Industrials, Household & Personal Products,

Food & Beverage and Tobacco

Deep hands-on experience in different SAP releases such as ECC 6.0, R/3 Enterprise 4.70, and

R/3 4.6C, 4.6B, 4.0B and 3.1H

Expert in the integration of CO and FI with other modules such as PP, SD and MM; also trained

in BI

2 years of business process experience in Utilities and Media industries

Strong academic background with a First class First degree in Engineering (Gold Medal), plus an

MBA from Asia’s premier business school

SAP SKILLS SUMMARY

• Product Costing (CO-PC) in Process Industry, Make-To-Order (including Variant

Configuration and Result Analysis), Make-To-Stock, Repetitive Manufacturing

environments – with co-products, summarization hierarchy, cost object hierarchy

• Material Ledger (CO-ML) Parallel Valuation with multiple currencies for legal, group and

profit center views

• Material Ledger (CO-ML) Actual Costing multi-level, with monthly cockpit run as well as

alternative valuation run for year-to-date

• Activity-Based Costing (CO-ABC) in standard costing, process orders, product cost

collectors, LTP transfer, allocation and formula planning environments

• Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) planning integrated with SD LIS, BI-IP extraction, SOP

Demand Management, LTP, BI-IP retraction and scheduled activity transfer to cost centers

• Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA) with Transfer Pricing, used in standard costing of

profit center valuation as well as in internal trade within the same company code

• Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) with cost flow model involving indirect activity

allocation through the use of multiple activity type categories as well as fixed cost pre-

distribution

• Internal Orders (CO-IO) for expense tracking, budget control, PM planning and additional

reporting

• Inter-company sales and inter-company transfer across controlling areas with validation and

substitution

• General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL) with New GL, use & sales tax, and foreign currencies,

cost of sales accounting using functional areas

• Accounts Payable (FI-AP) with logistics invoice verification, cash discount, payment by

check & wire, cross-company code payment, 1099 report

• Accounts Receivable (FI-AR) with Dispute Management (FSCM-DM), Collections

Management (FSCM-COL), credit management, down payment, dunning

• Asset Accounting (FI-AA) with special depreciation and investment support as well as

different fiscal year variant for fiscal and group reporting

• Special Purpose Ledger (FI-SL) for split architecture of master data, planning and actual

postings with roll-up and export across central master server and distributed functional

servers using global company code

• TR Cash Management and Liquidity Forecast

• PS Project Systems with budget availability control and commitment management as well as

down payment excluded as operating expense through the use of source structure

• JVA for cash call, cutback, parent company overhead in oil upstream

• Inter-module integration such as FI/MM account assignment, FI/SD account assignment,

CO/PM (Plant Maintenance)

• Reporting through Report Writer, Report Painter and ABAP queries with extensive use of

form-based drill-down reports and report-to-report interface

• Data upload through LSMW tool

• Regression testing of QTP scripts automated through Test Director

• Support through strong proficiency in system debugging and tracing

SAP CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

Industry: FABRICATED METAL PRODUCT MANUFACTURING

Client: Bradley Corporation

Bradley is the industry's leading manufacturer of commercial plumbing fixtures

and washroom accessories.

The company is implementing FI, CO, MM, SD, PP, QM, e-Commerce, BI

modules in the United States

Duration: February 2008 to date

Location: United States

Environment: SAP ECC – Release 6.0

Job Profile: FICO Lead

Specific Work:

• Blueprinting and prototyping all financial processes, including process flows

• General Ledger (FI-GL), including

o New GL using segments as legal entities in order to achieve single sales organization

to the customer, thereby ensuring that all Financial reporting is done at segment level

o Use & Sales tax (AP and AR)

o Cost of sales accounting using functional areas

• Accounts Payable (FI-AP), including

o Logistics invoice verification, with an enhancement to handle surcharges in invoice

processing)

o EDI 210 for incoming carrier invoices, related to shipment cost documents created

from transportation (LE-TRA)

o Cash discount during payment processing

o Payment by check, with positive pay

o Payment by ACH & wire

o Customer-defined report giving payment history by expense GL account

o 1099 report

• Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), including

Dispute Management (FSCM-DM), including dispute case & promise to pay creation

o

and processing between different departments

Collections Management (FSCM-COL), including displaying the overview of the

o

current status of open invoices of a customer account as well as displaying the

complete customer contact in the worklist

Credit management, integrated with sales order processing

o

Dunning at 3 levels, by print, fax and email

o

• Asset Accounting (FI-AA), including

o Acquisition of fixed assets, with or without internal orders, the former fully

integrated with Investment Management (IM)

o Asset transfer and retirement

o Depreciation of different asset classes at different conventions such as half-year,

modified half-year, mid-month and full-month for book, MACRS and state

depreciation areas

• Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), including

o Designing the cost flow across different cost centers and setting up assessment cycles

o Cost budget leading up to plan actual activity price calculation

o Actual activity price calculation, as an input to revaluation of production order

activities

• Internal Order (CO-IO), including

o Full integration with Investment Management (IM) for fixed asset purchase

o Budget control and commitment tracking

• Product Costing (CO-PC) for make-to-order and make-to-stock, including

o Enhancement for sales order costing, where individual requirement materials are

recosted within sales orders triggered by creation or change to sales order BOM,

routing, variant configuration and sales order quantity

o Enhancement for collective costing of raw materials, including surcharges

o Revaluation of production orders at actual activity price, followed by WIP, variance

and settlement

• Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), including

o SD integration for regular trade-related invoices

o FI integration for miscellaneous non-trade-related invoices, such as sale of fixed

assets or scrap

o Derivation of 3-level product hierarchy from sales order via table lookup

o Derivation of ship-to-party attributes from sales order, such as country, state, zip

code and jurisdiction code via multiple steps of move, clear and table lookup

o Derivation of multiple sales representative as partner functions

o Derivation of 3-level customer hierarchy

• Write ABAP query reports in different areas of FICO to suit reporting needs

• Integration testing of different end-to-end scenarios, such as Order-to-Cash, Forecast-to-

Stock, Procure-to-Pay and Period-End Closing

ACCENTURE :– SAP CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

Industry: HOUSEHOLD & PERSONAL PRODUCTS

Client: Unilever

With sales of € 51 billion in 150 countries, Unilever has more than 400 brands in

14 categories of Foods (e.g. Lipton, Knorr, Magnum, Cornetto), Personal Care

(e.g. Axe, Dove, Lux, Sunsilk, Pepsodent) and Home Care (e.g. Omo, Surf)

products. It is world number 1 or 2 in most of these categories.

The company implemented FI, CO, TR, MM, SD, PP, PM, QM modules in

Turkey, Arabia, Israel and then in South Africa, Indonesia, Thailand.

Duration: July 2007 to January 2008

Location: Singapore & Turkey

Environment: SAP ECC – Release 6.0

Job Profile: Core Team Lead in template packaging of FICO

Specific Work:

• Packaging the regional template with process flow diagrams, roles and authorization and

cutover plan to enable deployment in Indonesia, Thailand and other countries in Asia and

Africa.

• Product Costing (CO-PC) in process industry (PP-PI), including

o Transfer control of future cost estimate across plants

o Overhead groups at plant level to facilitate overhead costs via Activity-Based Costing

(CO-ABC)

o Production version representing a unique combination of bill of material and routing

o Product Cost Collector created at the level of plant, material and production version

o Transfer structure linking auxiliary cost component split to main cost component split

o Revaluation of activity type quantities at actual activity price

o Production variances split by cost components transferred to Material Ledger (CO-

PC-ML)

• Material Ledger (CO-ML) Actual Costing, including

o Actual costing run at month-end, including single-level price determination, multi-

level price determination, revaluation of consumption and closing

o Manual correction of actual cost component split and/or actual price, in order to add

subcontracting supply costs manually

o Price differences posted to Financial Accounting (FI), and if needed balances cleared

via journal entries

o Demonstrated the SAP logic of calculating actual cost through lucid example

• Activity-Based Costing (CO-ABC), including

o Templates for standard costing and product cost collectors, i.e. in environments 001

and 010 respectively

Template allocation at month-end in order to transfer overhead costs from indirect

o

cost centers to product cost collectors

• Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), including

o Data transfer from SD using conditions and from FI/MM using characteristic groups

and PA transfer structure

o Characteristics derivation for 9 levels of Product Hierarchy

o Integrated planning within CO-PA involving retraction of sales quantity from BI-IP,

product costs from CO-PC through valuation and non-product costs from CO-CCA

through assessment cycles; also extraction of planned profitability to BI-IP

• Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA)

o Distribution from higher-level to market-level profit centers using statistical key

figures as tracing factors

o Cost centers determination through mapping to profit centers for all relevant cost

elements

o Balance sheet transfer to AP and AR

• Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), including

o Plan and actual activity price calculation using splitting structure

o Cost flow model depicting the flow of costs from services and indirect cost centers to

production cost centers through assessment and distribution cycles

o Cost center planning involving scheduled activity transfer from LTP and plan

reconciliation

• Internal Orders (CO-IO), including

o Planning and tracking of different expenses, such as advertising, promotion and

market research, by brand, by market and by month

o Budget control and commitment tracking during purchase requisition and purchase

order

o Carry forward of budget and commitment at year-end

Industry: INSURANCE

Client: American International Group

American International Group is the world’s third largest insurance company

with sales of $ 113 billion. It provides insurance and financial services in four

segments: General Insurance, Life Insurance and Retirement Services, Financial

Services, and Asset Management.

Duration: May 2007 to June 2007

Location: Hong Kong, Philippines & Taiwan

Job Profile: SAP End-State Architecture design for American International Assurance, a

member of AIG

Specific Work:

• Assess what financial processes could be supported by specific SAP modules, such as FI,

CO, SEM-BCS, BW, BI-IP, FSCM and FS-CD

• Assess differences between Hong Kong, Philippines and Taiwan in terms of process and

system requirements

• Recommend an end-state architecture model along with an implementation roadmap

• Assess the feasibility of having a single Asian ERP instance and recommend an SAP support

structure

Industry: INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

Client: CATERPILLAR

Caterpillar is the world’s largest industrial engineering company with sales of $

36 billion. It operates its business in 3 business lines: Machinery for

construction, mining and forestry; Engines; Financial Products.

The company has implemented FI, CO, TR, MM, SD, PP, PM, QM modules.

Duration: September 2005 to April 2007

Location: Singapore & USA

Environment: SAP R/3 Enterprise – Release 4.70

Job Profile: Template development of CO; Rollout of FICO in Singapore & USA

Specific Work:

• Product Costing (CO-PC) for make-to-order and make-to-stock, including

o Variant configuration scenarios involving sales order costing

o Costing of co-products sharing a common bill of material and routing through

equivalence numbers in the apportionment structure

• Material Ledger (CO-ML) Parallel Valuation, including

o Multi-currency parallel valuation for legal, group and profit center views

o Enhancement through sales order user exit to enable sales order BOM cost estimate

in parallel valuation

• Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), including

o Data flow in parallel valuation with different profitability reporting standards for

legal and group purposes

• Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA), including

o Transfer Pricing, used in standard costing of profit center valuation as well as in

internal trade within the same company code

• Reporting through Report Writer, Report Painter and ABAP queries with extensive use of

form-based drill-down reports and report-to-report interface

• FI Intercompany purchase and payment on behalf

Industry: OIL & GAS

Client: TOTAL

Total, based in France, is the world’s sixth largest oil & gas company with sales

of € 122 billion. Its upstream business encompasses exploration and production

of oil and natural gas, conducted in 44 countries through joint ventures; its

downstream business covers refining, marketing, trading and shipping.

The company has implemented FI, CO, TR, PS, JVA, MM modules.

Duration: July 2005 to September 2005

Location: Myanmar

Environment: SAP R/3 – Release 4.6C; SAP IS-OIL – Release 4.6C; SAP JVA – Release 4.62

Job Profile: Solution architect of FI, CO, TR, PS, JVA

Specific Work:

• Asset Accounting (FI-AA) with investment support and different fiscal year variant for fiscal

and group reporting

• Cash Management and Liquidity Forecast (TR)

• Project Systems (JVA) with budget availability control and commitment management as well

as down payment excluded as operating expense through the use of source structure

• JVA for cash call, cutback and parent company overhead in Production Sharing Contract

IBM :– SAP CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

Industry: FOOD & BEVERAGE

Client: NESTLÉ

Nestlé, based in Switzerland, is the world's biggest food and beverage company

with sales of CHF 87 billion. It operates in diverse markets such as coffee,

water, ice cream, infant foods, pasta, confectionary and pet care. Its flagship

brands include Nescafé, Aquarel, Häagen Dasz, Cérélac, Maggi, Kit Kat and

Friskies.

The company has implemented FI, CO, PS, MM, SD, PP modules.

Duration: June 2004 to July 2005

Location: India, Germany, Brazil

Environment: SAP R/3 Enterprise – Release 4.70, migration from Release 4.6C

Job Profile: Technical Delivery Manager of 40 functional consultants with full responsibility

for the implementation, testing and support of FI, CO, PS

Specific Work:

• Special Purpose Ledger (FI-SPL) for split architecture of master data, planning and actual

postings with roll-up and export across central master server and distributed functional

servers using global company code

• Product Costing (CO-PC) in Process Industry – with co-products and summarization

hierarchy

• Material Ledger (CO-ML) Actual Costing multi-level, with monthly cockpit run as well as

alternative valuation run for year-to-date

• Activity-Based Costing (CO-ABC) in standard costing, process orders, LTP transfer,

allocation and formula planning environments

• Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) with planning integrated with BW and LTP

• Data upload through LSMW tool

• Regression testing of QTP scripts automated through Test Director

• Support through strong proficiency in system debugging and tracing

CAPGEMINI :– SAP CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

Industry: SPECIALTY CHEMICALS

Client: GE SILICONES

GE Silicones is a division of GE Advanced Materials, one of the 11 operating

segments of the $ 72 billion GE group. With own sales of $ 8 billion, GE

Advanced Materials is a world leader in quartz, plastics and silicones products.

In particular, the GE Silicones division manufactures specialty silicones.

The company has implemented FI, CO, MM, SD, PP, EHS modules.

Duration: Sep 2003 to May 2004

Location: Japan and Thailand

Environment: SAP R/3 – Release 4.6B

Job Profile: Roll-out and support of FI, CO, PS

Specific Work:

• FI General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Bank

Accounting with daily moving exchange rates – buying rate to valuate receivables and selling

rate to valuate payables

• FI Asset Accounting with special depreciation

• Product Costing (CO-PC) in process industry (with cost object hierarchy for summarized

analysis and cross company code costing)

• Project Systems (PS) with budget availability control and commitment management

• Inter-company sales and inter-company transfer across controlling areas

Industry: SPECIALTY CHEMICALS

Client: RECTICEL

Recticel, based in Belgium, is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of foam,

with sales of over € 1 billion. In Bedding, it produces branded mattresses and

slat bases. In Insulation, it manufactures rigid foam for construction. In

Automotive, it manufactures seat cushions, window encapsulation, door panel

and dashboard trim for BMW, Mercedes, etc.

The group has implemented FI, CO, MM, SD, PP modules.

Duration: May 2001 to Aug 2003

Location: Belgium and Germany

Environment: SAP R/3 – Release 4.6B & Release 4.0B

Job Profile: CO template development for Bedding business line, implementation and support

for Insulation and Automotive business lines

Specific Work:

• Product Costing (CO-PC) for make-to-order (with variant configuration and result analysis),

make-to-stock and repetitive environments (with cost object hierarchy for distribution)

• Material Ledger (CO-ML) Parallel Valuation with multiple currencies for legal, group and

profit center views

• Activity-Based Costing (CO-ABC) in standard costing and production orders

• Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA) with Transfer Pricing, used in standard costing of

profit center valuation as well as in internal trade within the same company code

• Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) planning integrated with SD-LIS, SOP Demand

Management and scheduled activity transfer to cost centers

• Inter-company sales and inter-company transfer across controlling areas with validation and

substitution

• Extensive use of Report Writer, Report Painter and ABAP queries with form-based drill-

down reports and report-to-report interface

PwC :– SAP CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

Industry: TOBACCO

Client: India Tobacco Division

Part of the British American Tobacco group, ITC is one of the largest business

houses in India, with diversified interests in tobacco, foods, hotel, paper and

packaging. ITC’s sales of $ 3 billion is propelled by India Tobacco Division,

which dominates the cigarette industry in India with 60% market share.

The division has implemented FI, CO, MM, SD, PP, QM modules.

Duration: Jun 2000 to Feb 2001

Location: India

Environment: SAP R/3 – Release 4.6B, upgrade from Release 4.0B

Job Profile: Implementation of CO

Specific Work:

• Product Costing (CO-PC) for make-to-stock and repetitive environments

Project: SAP BUSINESS INFORMATION WAREHOUSE PROTOTYPING

Duration: Apr 2000 to May 2000

Location: India

Specific Work:

• Data modelling – identification of key tables, fact tables, dimensions of fact tables, attributes

and hierarchies, aggregates, source of data and information

• Preparing the source system and updating metadata

• Maintaining the communication structure and transfer rules

• Creation of info cubes and maintaining update rules

• Creation of info package and scheduling of data extraction

• Creation of queries, extraction of queries in Business Explorer and saving queries in info

catalog

Industry: COMMODITY PETROCHEMICALS

Client: HALDIA PETROCHEMICALS

Jointly promoted by the Soros Fund Management and an Indian state

government, Haldia Petrochemicals is one of India’s largest naphtha-based

petrochemical companies, with sales of $ 1 billion. It manufacturers polymers

such as polyethylene and chemicals such as pyrolysis gasoline and LPG.

The company has implemented FI, CO, PS, MM, SD, PP, PM, QM, HR modules.

Duration: Oct 1999 to May 2000

Location: India

Environment: SAP R/3 – Release 4.0B

Job Profile: Implementation and post go-live support of CO

Specific Work:

• Product Costing (CO-PC) for process industry (PP-PI)

• Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) with cost flow model involving indirect activity

allocation through the use of multiple activity type categories

• Internal Orders (CO-IO) for integrated PM planning and additional reporting

Industry: COMMODITY CHEMICALS

Client: BRITISH OXYGEN CORPORATION

BOC, based in the UK, is a world leader in Atmospheric, Process and Specialty

Gases, with sales of £ 5 billion. It serves a wide range of industries: food and

beverages, healthcare, semiconductors, chemicals, refining, primary metals.

The company has implemented FI, CO, MM, SD, PP, HR modules.

Duration: Feb 1999 to Sep 1999

Location: India

Environment: SAP R/3 – Release 3.1H

Job Profile: Implementation and post go-live support of CO

Specific Work:

• Product Costing (CO-PC) for make-to-stock and repetitive environments

• Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) planning integrated with SD LIS, SOP Demand

Management, LTP and transfer of scheduled activity to cost centers

DOMAIN EXPERIENCE

Industry: MEDIA

Organization: REUTERS

Although best known as the world's largest multimedia news agency, 90% of £ 2

billion sales of the UK-based Reuters is derived from financial services business,

in equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, money, commodities and energy

markets. These include information, trading services and risk management tools.

Duration: May 1998 to Jan 1999

Location: India

Job Profile: Responsible for analyzing the future of the fixed income and derivatives markets

in India; also, the Euro Co-coordinator in India responsible for managing the

impact of Euro on the company’s Indian business.

Industry: UTILITIES

Organization: CALCUTTA ELECTRIC SUPPLY CORPORATION

A flagship company of the RPG Group, CESC is one of the most profitable

private-owned electricity utilities in India, with sales of $ 0.6 billion.

Duration: Aug 1994 to May 1996

Location: India

Job Profile: Involved in several team-based projects in the areas of Cost Estimation, Planning

and Quality Control.

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES

SAP R/3:

Modules FI, CO, TR, PS, JVA

Releases ECC 6.0, R/3 Enterprise 4.70, R/3 4.6C, 4.6B, 4.0B, 3.1H

SAP BW:

Data Modeling, Data Loading, Data Extraction, Query Design

Methodologies:

ASAP Focus Methodology

Accenture Delivery Methods

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

MBA (PGDM Major: Finance Indian Institute of Management, 1998

Minor: Systems) Ahmedabad (IIM-A), India

BE (Power Engineering) Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India 1994

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