Raghunandan K

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Seeking Finance functional lead position in SAP FICO Career Precise

More than 10 years of experience in implementation, rollouts, upgrade and support projects in SAP FI-CO with multiple onsite, end to end implementations. Strengths & Achievements

Progressive personality capable of developing Rapport with colleagues, customers and manage- ment with excellent feedback from customers & management

Self motivated and consistent performer in achieving targets with timelines, team oriented and eas- ily adaptable to new concepts and ideas

An effective communicator with excellent relationship building & interpersonal skills. Strong analyti- cal, problem solving & organisational abilities.

Holds the distinction of developing documents on training, configuration, functional specification, User acceptance test, unit testing, integration test and specimen formats for master data creation etc.

Being awarded by customer every year for my excellence in performance, co-ordinating with team as well as on time deliveries

The TS President’s Award (Nov 13) – This certificate has been awarded for his contribution to the SPRING program. The President’s award is the highest recognition for the exemplary work done.

TS IT Excellence award (Dec 12) – Dedication to the SPRING program in 2012 delivering On-time SAP deployment to 2 new FM manufacturing sites in China (Chongqing) and Romania (Ploiesti), fol- lowing defined standards and best practices.

Strong project management skills and handled multiple projects Besides possess excellent commu- nication, Analytical skills and ability to build teamwork SAP Projects Handled and Nature

Roll Outs

o Federal Mogul (Omega)- Global

o Honeywell (Day1) divestiture - Global

o Honeywell – Spring – US

o Honeywell – Spring - EMEA

Implementations End to End

o Honeywell – Spring - Romania

o Honeywell – FSCM – EMEA(Spain, Italy, US, France & Germany) o Honeywell – Fixed Assets & Investment – US & EMEA o Honeywell – Neo – North America

o IAL – Vision – India

o FlashInfotech – IBC – US

Support

o Honeywell – COE – US, Spain, Italy

o Honeywell – COE - Romania, France & Germany

o ITC – Support – India

o FlashInfotech – Alcan - Canada

Others

o Honeywell- SEPA implementation - EMEA(Spain, Italy, France & Germany) o Honeywell – Upstream -Brazil

o Honeywell – Freight Interface – North America

o Honeywell – Price Waterfall Analysis – North America and rollout to EMEA o IDocs’ Functional Specs for reports and usage of exits. Core Competencies

Team Management & Collaboration

Collaborate with different teams i.e., USA, Europe, local site, NTT Data, CITIBANK, JPMC etc.

As Finance Functional lead, responsibilities included are liaising business community and the consultants

Provide Weekly status update to the management and be part of steering committee meet- ings periodically

Adhere to the project, Module, activity timelines so as accomplish tollgates (Milestones)

Acted as one point contact to finance community

Worked with US, Germany, French, Spain, Romania & Italy Finance users

Coordinate with cross functional modules for integrating the solution.

Handled multiple projects at same time by meeting the deadlines. SAP – FI

Organizational structure – Define the org. structure based on the customer’s business process and map the same into SAP for Finance & Controlling Module including the config- uring the global parameters

General Ledger – Creation of Chart of Accounts, Assign to company code, Account Group, maintaining the range of GL account for the account group, Group GL account Number, Financial Statement Versions, Document types, number ranges etc.,

Accounts Payable – Define the vendor account groups, assign the number ranges (external

& Internal), settings in respect of Automatic Payment Programs

Accounts Receivable – Define the Customer account groups, assign the number ranges

(external & Internal)

Bank Accounting – Creation of House Bank, account symbols, posting rules, transaction types, assigning the bank accounts to transaction types. For EBS - defining the port, part- ner profile.

Lead implementation of FSCM - Collections Management, Credit Management & Dispute Management.

Asset Accounting – Asset Classes, Account Determination, Screen Layout, Number Ranges for asset classes, Defining & Assigning Chart of depreciation, Defining and Assigning De- preciation Key, assign input/output tax, mapping to Finance SAP - CO

Cost Centre Accounting – Designing the cost centres, fixing the cost centre hierarchy

Cost Element Accounting – Designing and fixing the Primary & Secondary Cost elements, creation of assessment & distribution cycles, Planning

Internal Orders – Order Types, Planning Profile, Budgetary Profile, planning, budgeting with availability control check

Product Costing – creation of costing variant, cost component split, cost component groups, activity types, activity rates, costing run ABAP

Functional Specification for layouts, reports

Migration of Data

Master Data – Creation of LSMW layouts and Functional Specifications for creation of BDC

Transaction Data – Creation of LSMW layouts and Functional Specifications for creation of BDC

Career Contour

SAP Exposure

Federal Mogul (Southfield MI) SAP FICO lead Jul ’14 to till date Project 16 – Omega (Rollout) Project

Client Federal Mogul (Braking)

Project Name Omega

Locations EMEA US & APAC

Period since Jul ‘14

Role: Finance Functional Lead

Highlights:

Rollout of Honeywell Friction business to Federal Mogul business

Change of names and Logos of the company, change in banks and interfaces

Created housebanks with new bank accounts and assigned payment methods tested successfully

Testing in SLO environment with test scripts

Forex rate updating interface, Concur (T&E) Interface, bank Interfaces.

Understand the business process and solution implemented at other sites and implement the solu- tion

Honeywell Lead Consultant Dec ’08 to Jul ‘14

Project 15 – Friction Materials Divestiture (Rollout) Project Client Honeywell Friction Materials

Project Name Day 1

Locations EMEA APAC and NorthAmerica

Period Jan ’14 till Jul ‘14

Role: Finance Functional Lead

Highlights:

Rollout of Honeywell Friction business to Federal Mogul business

company code name changes and all the correspondence, forms like payment advices, FSCM forms

Collected info for all the finance applications like HARs, EBP, Peoplesoft, Concur, Hyperion, ARRES Dolphin etc.

Gathered Business requirements and understanding the business process

Understand the business process and solution implemented at other sites and implement the solu- tion

Project 14 – SEPA implementation

Client Honeywell Friction Materials

Project Name SEPA for EMEA

Locations EMEA (all sites)

Period Nov ’13 to Jan`14

Role: Finance Functional Lead

Highlights:

Worked extensively on SEPA payments – which will be a single payment platform used in EU

Direct interaction with four European banks for SEPA file formats and design discussions.

Maintained House Banks and Bank GLs, IBAN, Bank Account IDs.

Created new payment method and updated the payment method in Vendor masters Project 13 – Upstream Brazil

Client Honeywell Friction Materials

Project Name Upstream Implementation Brazil

Locations Sorocaba, Brazil (South America)

Period Sep '13 to Nov ’13

Role: Finance Functional Lead

Highlights:

Implementation of Upstream process for Brazil Finance team.

Mapping chart of accounts to Hyperion chart of accounts

Built an interface to update the GL balances from SAP to Hyperion at the month end which saves lot of time for finance community

Understand the business process and solution implemented at other sites also. Project 12 – Freight Interface for North America

Client Honeywell Friction Materials

Project Name Freight (PLS) Interface

Locations GreenIsland, NY USA,

Period Sep '13 to Sep ’13

Role: Supporting from functional side

Highlights:

Interface with USbank (Syncada) for freight payments

Interacted with ftp server team to build the interface which posts the freight charges from Syncada into SAP.

Flat file would be received and gets stored into AL11 folder and developed a Z program which will pick the file and posts a document.

Successfully completed standard design with proper interfaces and reporting Project 11 – Spring US (rollout)

Client Honeywell Friction Materials

Project Name Spring A2T

Locations USA ( Troy-MI Greenisland, NY)

Modules Implemented FI, CO, AM, SD, MM, PP, QM

Period Feb ’13 to Aug `13

Role: Finance Functional Lead

Highlights:

Spring is a project to migrate data from one SAP instance (APW)Friction to another (TPW)Turbo

Standardizing processes, Master Data, Reporting etc

Interface with Taxware for posting the taxes and tax related reporting while posting to SAP Project 10 – Spring Romania (full cycle Implementation) Client Honeywell Friction Materials

Project Name Spring A2T

Locations Ploiesti, Romania

Modules Implemented FI, CO, AM, SD, MM, PP, QM

Period Oct ’12 to Feb `13

Role: Finance Functional Lead

Highlights:

Spring is a project to migrate data from one SAP instance (APW)Friction to another (TPW)Turbo

Standardizing processes, Master Data, Reporting etc

Preparation of Global Blueprint Document to have standard solution across Honeywell FM

Mapping Country specific requirements and capturing the same in the Blueprint

Successfully completed standard design across Honeywell Friction Materials

Lead various activities that are supposed to be carried out in different phases of Project, such as Project preparation, Blue-printing, Realization, and Conversion & Go-live.

Interfaces - Citibank, Deutsche Bank, Payroll, Peoplesoft, concur, Hyperion.

Functional Specification for layouts, reports

User trainings and helped them in testing

Project 9 – FSCM implementation

Client Honeywell Friction Materials

Project Name FSCM

Locations EMEA

Period Jul '12 to Oct `12

Role: Finance Functional Lead

Highlights:

Integration of the Account receivable with Financial supply chain management

Responsible for configuration of Credit Management organization structure, credit exposure check, credit scoring and comparison of functionality,

Responsible for setup for dispute cases and role assignment, processing the dispute case and inte- gration with account receivable.

Collection Management setup for collection strategies, collection work lists, collection Management activities and integration of the collection management with dispute Management & account receiv- able.

Project 8 - Fixed Assets & Investment Management Implementation & Roll out Client Honeywell Friction Materials

Project Name Fixed Assets & Investment Management

Locations (Greenisland NY)US & EMEA

Period Nov '11 to Jun`12

Role: Finance Functional Lead

Highlights:

Preparation of Global Blueprint Document to have standard solution across all the sites

Mapping Country specific requirements and capturing the same in the Blueprint

Creating country specific Chart of Depreciation and configured depreciation areas

Defined the classes of assets, capitalization procedures and depreciation calculations.

Successfully completed implementation of Fixed Assets for various countries i.e., USA, Germany, France & Spain.

Project 7 - COE Activities

Client Honeywell Friction Materials

Role: Support for the day to day issues

Highlights:

Discuss and understand the issue with respect to the nature, complexity, responsibility and co-ordi- nate with the respective representative to close the issue and test with business representative for the given solution.

Supporting to the issues of all modules of Finance

Built good rapport with Finance community at all levels

Adhere to the timelines based on the nature of the issue

Acted as a single point of contact for the users and resolved the issues timely

Track the issues properly, have recurring status meetings for status updates, co-ordinate with cor- responding representative for completing the issue, close the tickets. Project 6 Price Waterfall Analysis

Client Honeywell Friction Materials

Project Name PWA

Locations North America Troy MI

Period Mar ’11 to Jun `11

Role: Finance Functional Lead

Highlights:

Developed a Price Waterfall Toolkit

Accrue certain variable costs in SD and pass down to COPA. And assess and allocate other fixed costs based on characteristics identified by business.

Got FM IT Excellence award for successfully and effectively completing this project Project 5 – NEO SAP Implementation (full cycle Implementation) Client Honeywell Friction Materials

Project Name Neo

Locations North America (Troy -MI, GreenIsland-NY and Danbury-CT) Modules Implemented FI, CO, AM, SD, MM, PP, QM

Period May ’09 to Feb `10

Role: Finance Functional Lead

Highlights:

It’s a full lifecycle implementation with multiple company codes

Preparation of Global Blueprint Document to have standard solution across North America

Managing the activities, resource assignments, progress reporting, status and tracking of the events during the life cycle of the project.

Worked on various interfaces like, Travel and Expenditure, Bank interface, Appropriation Request etc, and interacted with all the third parties

Creating project plans, project schedules, and defining responsibilities of the project team members

Interacted with user and client to understand their requirement and concern over existing system to identify system improvement points

Worked closely with the users in all phases of the project and assisted them in month end and yearend procedures.

Lead various activities that are supposed to be carried out in different phases of Project, such as Project preparation, Blue-printing, Realization, and Conversion & Go-live.

User trainings and helped them in testing

ITC Infotech India Limited IT Consultant July’07 to Dec’ 08 Project 4 – Post Implementation support

Client ITC Limited (Foods Division)

Locations Bangalore, India

Role: Team Lead for Finance and deliver the deliverable within the timelines Highlights:

Successfully completed the AS-IS Study

Configured valuation classes for the new materials and did the FI-MM integration as and when the new material/product gets introduced

Plant specific CIN account assignments whenever new plant is setup.

Prepared Functional specifications and explained it to the Technical team and tested the scenarios for the expected results with technical team.

Configuring the required terms of payments for vendors and customers and Creation of House Bank for automatic payments, normal payments as well as for preparation of manual bank reconciliation statement

Used LSMW tool for data conversion, field mapping and uploading data

Involved in E&Y SOD (segregation of duties) audit runs.

Supported user community for all finance related queries IAL (Ivitesse) Technologies IT Consultant Aug’06 to Jul’ 07 Project 3 – SAP Implementation (full cycle Implementation) Client PMT Machines Ltd

Project Name VISION - mySAP ERP-2006

Locations Pune India

Modules Implemented FI, CO, SD, MM, PP, QM

Highlights:

Documented the requirements and laid a blueprint for implementation process

Sign-off and process documentation

Defining Vendor master data. Configuring down payments, Payment methods, and automatic Pay- ment program

Configured for vendors subject to withholding tax, interest calculations on item \ balance interest calculation, number ranges for forms, interest on arrears, account balance calculation on account balances / line items

Configured dunning program, dunning levels, dunning areas and dunning forms for each company at company code level. Configured payment terms for dunning, for over-due interest calculations, for down payments and automatic clearing of line items. Report specifications to ABAP program- mers regarding report format objects of the report, technical information i.e. tables fields and then testing

Configured Withholding Tax settings (TDS) as per Country Version India

Integration of FI-MM and FI –SD modules

Configured Cost centre hierarchy, cost element accounting, & cost centre accounting,

Creation of Internal Orders and settlement to external (FI) accounts for expenses/assets.

In respect of Controlling Area, configuring the CO Area, Operating Concern, Internal Orders and cre- ation of Cost Centers, Profit Centre Accounting and Cost Elements

Product Costing i.e., Secondary Cost Elements, Activity types, Costing Variant, Costing Run

In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), created the Operating concern, configured costing based profitabil- ity analysis. Defined and configured the reporting characteristics, value field, profitability segments used in profitability analysis

Testing and Integration Testing

Analyzing business reporting requirements that could be satisfied by the standard reports and Pro- viding specifications to the technical consultant for report modifications Flash Infotech IT Consultant Apr’03 to Jun’ 06

Project 2 – SAP Implementation

Client Interstate Bakeries Corporation

Project Name SAP R/3 Implementation for IBC

Locations US

Period Mar’05 to Jun‘06

Highlights:

Worked as a consultant for SAP implementation for GL, AR, AP modules

Configuration of GL Master Data, Customer Master and Vendor Master Data in FI.

Configuration of Field Status Groups, Fiscal Year Variants, Posting Periods, Document number ranges, Posting Keys and Document Types for posting / validation of business transactions.

Configuration of GL Accounts both at Company Code and Chart of Accounts Level.

Documented end user training material and provided support on various queries

Helped in month end activities i.e., Depreciation posting, Creation of Accounts Assignment Model, maintenance of Exchange Rates, FC Valuation, Open/Close posting periods Project 1 – Support

Client Alcan Inc, U.S.A

Project Name SAP R/3 Implementation and Support for Alcan Inc Locations Canada

Period Dec’03 to Jan‘05

Highlights:

Worked as SAP FI Consultant for Pre and Post Go live and stabilization phase

Provided offshore post-implementation support in FI

Resolved issues relating to Payment program

Failed idocs Processing

Handling and Clarification of User Queries,

Documenting end-user training manuals

Bank Accounting – House Banks including Electronic Bank Reconciliation Functional Exposure

INTI Engineering works Accounts Executive July ’01– Mar’03 Highlights:

Monitoring day to day transactions

Preparation of Payroll and disbursement of Salaries

Preparation of Bank Reconciliations

Liasioning with banks and various Financial Institutions

Valuation of Inventory for Balance Sheet.

Any other assignment entrusted by the Superior/Management from time to time.

Maintaining and reviewing records and execution of the tasks put forth in Execution Planner.

Preparation of Cash Flow Statements, Payroll processing, Month end activity including MIS

Meeting statutory requirements i.e. TDS, PF, ESI etc. Preparation of Budgets and reviewing the per- formance of the unit on quarterly basis and variances are reported to management with reasons

Responsible for dealing with Internal & External Auditors and preparation of Financial Statements IT Skills: Well versed with MS Office, Tally, SAP R/3 Educational Qualification

Professional

MBA – From S V University Tirupati India

Academic

Bachelors Degree in Commerce from S V university

Personal Profile

Date of Birth : 29th August 1978

Passport Number : J7204680

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