KAJENDRAN JAYARAMAN

FICO/FSCM/TRM

acwbf2@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Over 10 years’ hands on Design and Configuration experience in SAP FICO / FSCM. 5 Full Life Cycle SAP implementations, 4 SAP rollouts, enhancements, and multiple support engagements. Industry vertical experience includes Energy, Chemicals, Retail, Printing, and Telecom.

11 years of Business Process experience as a Finance Manager in the Manufacturing and the Oil and Gas Industry.

Expertise includes GL, New GL, AR, AP, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting, EBS, Lockbox, Vertex, Expertise includes Cost Center Accounting, Cost and Revenue Element Accounting, Internal Order Accounting, and Profit Center Accounting

FSCM: Implementation experience in Collection Management, Cash Management, Dispute management and Credit management,

Treasury and Risk Management: Money Market, Forex, Derivatives, Securities and In House cash management.

Involved in Requirement Gathering, Business Blue Print, Documentation, Customization and Configuration, with an indepth understanding of business processes relating to SAP Finance, Controlling and integration with SD & MM.

Supported implementations on SAP Solution manager – from Solution Documentation to Template Management, Test Management, Change Control Management and Defect Management.

Trained in the new S/4 Hana Simple Finance covering General Accounting, Asset Accounting. Migration and configuration activities for General accounting, Asset Accounting and FSCM (Collection, Cash and Dispute and Credit management) Migration of the line item, totals tables and application index tables of General Ledger Accounting to 'ACDOCA' for universal Journal tables in simple finance.

Prerequisite activities - RASFIN_MIGR_PRECHECK and FAA_CHECK_MIG2SFIN

SKILL PROFILE

SAP Functional Skills

SAP Financial Accounting

General Ledger / New GL / Parallel Ledgers

Accounts Payable / Accounts Receivables

Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting

SAP FSCM / Treasury

Cash, Collection, Credit and Dispute Management

Cash and Liquidity Planning and Management with Intra-day / Current Day Reporting from Banks

Bank Communication via SWIFT / BCM

Bank Accounting and Electronic Banking Interfaces

ISO 20022 payment media, XML Standards

Global payments methods FIN (MT202, MT 103, MT 101)

Bank Statements / Bank Reconciliations (EBS) – MT940/2, BAIv2, CAMT53

Banking Value Added Networks

Lockbox

Money Markets, Foreign Exchange, Securities, Loans and Derivatives

SAP Controlling expertise includes Cost Center Accounting CO-CCA, Cost and Revenue Element Accounting CO-CEL, Internal Order Accounting CO-IOA, Profitability Analysis CO-PA, Product Costing (CO-PC) and Profit Center Accounting EC-PCA

Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Cost and Revenue Element Accounting (CO-CEL)

Internal Order Accounting (CO-IOA) Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)

Product Costing (CO-PC) Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AMERIGAS (AUG 2015 – JUNE 2016)

Client/Company

AmeriGas

Client

AmeriGas, King of Prussia, PA

Duration

Aug 2015 to June 2016

Position

SAP Finance Lead (FI/FSCM)

Background:

AmeriGas is the nation's largest propane company, serving over 2 million residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural and motor fuel propane customers from over 2,500 distribution locations in all 50 states.

Responsibilities as the SAP FI – FSCM Technical Lead

As the SAP FICO/FSCM Finance Lead I was responsible for the support of the technical and functional design, configuration of all SAP Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM) and FI cash processes (LockBox) within the Order-to-Cash business cycle.

Configured cash application for FI-AR. Configured automatic clearing of open items using lockbox interface n the BAI2 and IDOC formats. Enhanced the Clearing hit rate with a specialized Post Processor

Setup all incoming payments including Lockbox using EDI820

Configured the Automatic Payment Program, which included creation of house banks, company code payment methods, employee tolerances, terms of payment.

Designed and developed a solution for posting NSF changes to the customer account in the event of insufficient funds check returns for different amounts in the different states.

Designed and developed complex multi level workflows (e.g. Blocking the Sales Order for a Customer on dunning level 3, with sufficient credit limit, triggering a workflow to a central credit approval team.)

Designed and developed a comprehensive Collection process with an external collection agency with seamless integration to the SAP Lockbox incoming payment process.

ACCENTURE (DEC 2009 TO 2015 till date)

Client/Company

Accenture

Client

DuPont, Wilmington, DE

Duration

April 2015 to Auguest-2015

Position

SAP FICO Functional Lead

-Worked on Bank communication and In house cash Management process(IHC)

-Responsible for configuration and implementation of SAP In-House Cash module for central cash payments process, Central incoming receipts which include customer collection from different lockboxes.

-Responsible for configuration setup to Integration In-House Cash Management with Procure to Pay, Sales and Distribution and general ledger

-Responsible for implementing BCM and establishing interfaces with SWIFT through PI interfaces

-SwiftNet messages and payment acknowledgement, Bank Statement

- Different payment types are used (FIN (Financial Institution Transfer) – International Cross- Border Payments, FIN message are used for Payments and cash management and FTA (Federal Tax Application) – Domestic Payment within Country

-Payment & Bank statement notifications

-FIN & FTA Payment Acknowledgement

-PAIN Acknowledgement by Bank

-Bank Statement notifications

ISO 20022 payment media, XML Standards

Global payments methods FIN (MT202, MT 103, MT 101)

Other ancillary processes included:

oIntercompany payment process.

oBad debts write off

oDunning

Client/Company

Accenture

Client

Hess Corporation, Houston, TX

Duration

Nov 2014 to March 2015

Position

SAP Accounts Receivable - Lead

Background:

Hess Corporation is a leading global independent energy company primarily engaged in the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas.

Responsible for implementing Release 2 for Asia region and for all bank & cash management related activities, such as grouping existing local bank to international bank fund transfer activities.

Included Malaysia company code bank accounts in the cash position and liquidity forecast report by configuring / grouping and structuring the mapping of the GL accounts.

Responsible for data load migration from classic GL to New GL migration process.

Responsible for the following master data load for Customer master data and customer open items, Vendor Master data and Vendor open item and Bank Master Data. This includes data cleansing, data validation and post load and preload validations.

Cost centre and profit centre master data load.

Material ledger configuration and activation for the MM plant.

Exposure in joint venture accounting.

Involved with project system team for restructuring the existing projects.

Created WBS element and cost center for projects.

Company

Accenture

Client

Dow Chemicals- Sadara (New End to End Implementation) – Saginaw - Michigan

Duration

February 2013 to Nov 2014

Position

SAP FSCM Solution Architect

Background:

Dow is as an integrated science and technology company with the scale and expertise to address global trends and create differentiated solutions for customers and society.

Dow continues to deliver a broad range of technology-based products and solutions to customers in approximately 180 countries and in high-growth sectors such as electronics, water, energy, coatings and agriculture.

Responsibilities

New SAP implementation for a newly formed Joint Venture between Dow Chemical and Saudi Aramco: Sadara Chemical Company.

This project started from the scratch, I have worked in all the phases of the project.

Project preparation, Business blueprint, Realization, Final preparation, olive

Sole owner for FSCM implementation; implemented four SAP FSCM sub modules in this project and directly managed offshore finance team to complete the Testing and Training material documents. Managed client coordination, customization and periodically updated senior management.

Managed complete AS IS and TO BE discussion (Requirement gathering & FIT GAP analysis as per the country specific requirements) configuration, testing (product test, UAT and Training) for all the four FSCM sub modules.

Recommended SAP best practices based on the AS IS/TO BE discussion for Collection Management, Cash Management, Credit Management and Dispute Management for this new implementation.

Prepared master data process mapping design for FSCM Credit and Collection management and loaded customer master data, FSCM Credit management and Collection management.

Collection Management:

SAP Collections Management supports an active receivables management. The receivables processing is divided into the following processes:

Automatic business partner creation using CVI (Customer vendor integration), implemented automatic creation of business partner when business creates customer.

Master Data synchronization

Controlling the Collection of Receivables:

Data Synchronization and Creation of Worklists

Transferring data from Accounts Receivable (FI-AR) to Collections Management

Dispute Management

Responsible for requirement analysis discussion, customization, involved in product test, Unit test, Integration and UAT with Client, till to post Go-live support.

Responsible for the complete configuration, Create RMS ID, Attribute profile creation, case search, functional profile, Automatic status change functional process for the dispute cases.

Dispute cases and role assignment setup, processing the dispute case and integrating with accounts receivable

Dispute case processing, with workflow and without workflow approval

Dispute management Integration with Accounts Receivable- AR

Dispute management integration with Collection management.

Write off- authorization and work flow process and approval mail.

Credit Management

Configuration of Credit Management organization structure, credit exposure check, set up credit limit functionality, credit scoring and Credit formula etc.

Integration with AR and SD,

Credit limit setup and request for new credit limit and approval. Workflow set up and WRICEF

Obtain Credit Information and Business Partner Rating score.

Score and Credit Limit Calculation and Credit Limit Check (Credit Rules Engine)

AR- Dunning and mapping harmony Credit management for credit history.

Cash Management:

Cash Management- Grouping and Structure definition for daily Cash Position, wire transfers, EBS, EDI 820 and IDC mapping and creation, configuration and cash concentration

Basic settings for liquidity calculation

Configuration of cash accounting (source symbol, planning level, planning groups, structuring the cash position report.

Configuration of liquidity planning and calculations

Liquidity planning and Reporting

Grouping structure created to group together bank and sub ledger accounts in the cash position or the liquidity forecast report

Different SWIFT global payment format has been used FIN (MT202, MT103, MT101) and XML ISO 20022.

Integration to SWIFT with SWIFT Alliance Gateway

Adoption of ISO 20022 (XML) for all designated payments (domestic and cross-border)

Money Market transactions and Securities (Short term to medium term investments and borrowing capitals)

Fixed term deposit, Deposit at notice, commercial paper and interest rate instrument

Back office (settlements, reversals)

Accounting functions (postings, payments, Accrual / Deferral

Hedging Instruments (Foreign Exchange and Derivatives)

Spot exchange transactions, Forward exchange transactions

Forex swaps, OTC currency options, Trading, back office and Accounting functions

Credit risk analyzer and Market risk analyser. Limit management and Limit utilizations

Integrated single transaction check,

Company

Accenture

Client

NewPage Corporation, Miamisburg, OH

Duration

May 2011 –Feb 2013

Position

AR Application Lead

Background

NewPage is a leading producer of printing and specialty papers in North America, NewPage is headquartered in Miamisburg, Ohio, and owns paper mills in Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Responsibilities

Involved in FSCM implementation for Credit mgt, collection and dispute.

Worked on banking conversion project from JP MORGAN BANK to WELLS FARGO.

Completed EBS (Electronic bank configuration) and Lockbox configuration for US company codes.

MT940 structure created for download the bank statement and reconciliation with SAP.

Created account symbols, posting rule and internal transaction types for electronic bank statement.

IDocs mapping

Implemented Collection management and Dispute management and credit management.

Created DME file structure, Cash and Liquidity management, Created source symbol, account group, planning level

Created payment request, Designed Liquidity forecast report

Collection Management:

Collection strategy for four type of customers, Collection Group per strategy of customers

Work list creation process, promise to pay, status change configuration

CVI integration for automatic BP creation

Dispute Management, Activate company code for the collection

Dispute case process configuration, RMS ID, attributes, dispute reason codes.

Manual creation of Dispute cases and Automatic creation of dispute cases and Dispute auto write off

Credit management:

FI- AR integration, SD- Credit management integration, Dunning, Created collection rule used for customer collection strategy to achieve valuation objectives.

Worked on Dunning extensively.

Credit block and approval.

WRICEF developments.

Company

Accenture

Client

NewPage Corporation, Miamisburg, OH

Duration

Dec 2009 to May 2011

Position

SAP FICO Team Lead

Background:

NewPage is a leading producer of printing and specialty papers in North America, NewPage is headquartered in Miamisburg, Ohio, and owns paper mills in Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin

Responsibilities

Managed finance team and supervised 30 resources in India; led FI, MM, SD and ABAP teams.

Worked on day to day finance support issues on product costing, Internal order, Project Systems

Controlling, profitability analysis, profit centre and Cost centre etc

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Prepared COPA KE30 reports and created and mapped character and value field for the reporting.

Handled employee performance reviews, set targets and objectives...

Involved for one to one discussion with all the resources for the ratings.

Conducted one-on-one discussions with all the resources regarding ratings.

Foreign currency valuation and translation

Prepared few data design – functional design document for custom developments.

Sales, VAT & Use Tax Accounting: Tax Accounting Design, Configuration, Tax procedures, assignment, tax codes, tax jurisdictions, GL assignment to keys

Integration with Vitex for chargebacks and rebates.

Used External Tax Interface and configured the integration points between FI and Vertex. Maintained tax rates in Vertex.

Closing operations: Performed Month end closing operations for GL, AR, AP and AA running the depreciation run, running the APP program, opening new periods, MMPV, Foreign currency revaluations, update exchange rates, recurring entries.

NIIT TECHNOLOGIES- INDIA

Company

NIIT technologies

Client

Emaar Alloys pvt ltd

Duration

May 2009 to Dec 2009

Position

FICO Lead

Background:

Emaar Alloys Private Limited is a Sponge Iron manufacturer with registered office at Jamshedpur and plant at Chowka, India.

Responsibilities

Responsible for the Full Life Cycle Delivery of the SAP General ledger, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable and Tax configuration.

General Ledger:

Chart of account creation, Company code and company, Fiscal Year Variant, Posting period variant, Number range creation, Field status group, setting up account group, Clearing process, like open item clearing and

Cash journal configuration and different FSV

Accounts Receivable:

Defined Customer Master data, Customer account group, number ranges, Created tolerance groups etc

Tax code for Sales tax / Purchase

In Accounts Receivable, Configured Customer Accounts Groups, Tolerances and configured the system for customized A/R customer statement. Configured special G/L indicator for down payments

Accounts Payable:

Defined Vendor master data,Vendor account group, number rang creation, Screen layout rules

APP- Automatic payment program

Accounts payable, Configured Vendor Account Groups, Tolerances, payment Terms, Automatic Payment Program, vendor banks, Data Load of Vendor Master data and Open items through LSMW. Configured special G/L indicator for down payments.

Accounts Payable / Procure to Pay (P2P) process (Master data maintenance, receive invoice, invoice verification, payment process, execute payment, reconcile and monitor vendor open items.

Tax code Creation Basic settings like, calculation procedure, assign country to calculation procedure, tax code creation for sales / purchases.

Involved in FI- MM and FI- SD integration

Involved in FI – HCM integration, created GL account for symbolic accounts, cost centres for different wage types and involved set up in account determination.

Controlling:

Maintain Controlling Area, Basic Settings Assign Company Code to controlling area, Maintain Versions, Maintain Number Ranges for CO Documents, Maintain Allocation Structures, Maintain Allocation Structures Assignments, Maintain Allocation Structures.

Automatic creation of primary and secondary cost element.

Created cost center, profit center, cost center hierarchy and profit center hierarchy, Internal order and internal order settlement, AUC and settlement process to the asset Accounting.

Profitability Analysis (COPA): Creating Operating Concern, Maintaining Characteristics, and Maintaining User-Defined Characteristics and value fields.

Creation of allocation structures and settlement profiles, Creation of Different Internal Order Types.

Activity types, Result analysis, Allocation structures, Settlement profiles, WIP, CO-Profitability Analysis: Configuring and Customizing Costing based CO-PA and Account based CO-PA including setting up of the operating concern, characteristics, and value fields.

COPA reporting.

Planning, Derivation rules and structures, Product and customer hierarchy, PA settlement, realignments and integration issues with SD.

Company

NIIT Technologies

Client

SCHENCK PROCESS INDIA LTD, GERMAN

Duration

Sep 2008 - April 2009

Position

FICO Lead for Implementation

Background

Schenck Process India is a 100% owned subsidiary of Schenck Process Group, Germany-a global leader for more than 125 years as a manufacturer and supplier of durable processing equipment.

Asset Accounting

Asset master data, Organization structure, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation area and key, Depreciation key, Depreciation Run, Asset acquisition, write-off. Asset Creation,Asset Class

-Bank Accounting: Created house banks and configured manual bank statement and Cash journal configuration

-Involved in creating Financial statement version – FSV for India location company code as per the country specific requirement.

CAPGEMINI CONSULTING INDIA PVT LTD

Company

Capgemini Consulting India Pvt Ltd

Client

Alcatel Lucent India Pvt Ltd (Bluepl@net)

Duration

May 2008 - September 2008

Position

FICO Senior Consultant

Background:

Alcatel-Lucent provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. Alcatel Lucent India is in the process of merging its five units into a single legal entity. The broad objective of this project is to convert their various ERP solutions and Accounting software to SAP Bluepl@net.

Responsibilities

This is one of global rollout project, I was responsible for FI, GL, AR, AP and worked with France Alcatel Team.

I was taking care of complete conversion activities for General Ledger, Customer Master, Vendor Master data and bank master data. Vendor master data was managed in Ariba tool, so I have extracted data from Ariba and done data cleaning, validation, data mapping and data load to SAP.

Company

Capgemini Consulting India Pvt ltd

Client

Canberra-USA (Meriden)

Duration

May 2007 - April 2008

Position

FICO Senior Consultant

Background

CANBERRA is a manufacturer of nuclear radiation detection & measuring instruments. This is an end to end SAP ECC6.0 implementation project.

Responsibilities

Worked as offshore FI team member. Participated in project preparation, Blueprinting, Configuration, Unit testing, Integration testing, cutover and GO-Live.

Responsible for the GL customization & Chart of accounts preparation. It covers the complete company code creation, Assignment of company code, create fiscal year variant, Number range, document type, maintain global parameters,

SAP New G/L:

Ledger Solution: Defined ledgers for various company codes as per legal reporting requirements. Assigned scenarios to leading and non-leading ledgers.

Document Splitting. Designed logic for zero balanced - active splitting rules. Defined splitting rules for Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, FI-AR and FI-AP business transactions.

Accounts Payable (FI-AP):

Automatic payment medium configuration and Functional specification for the check print for US payment

Responsible for designing and creating payment proposals and payment program/FBZP and configuration of settings for payment release

Accounts Receivable (FI-AR):

EBS configuration Billing, Configured Dunning for collection of defaulted payments

Complete bank configuration for incoming payment with bank transactions for multi house bank scenario.

Down payment request, manual payment, automatic, clearing open items, setting credit limits

EDI/ALE IDOC review for the missing docs, fixing defects, Lockbox and Business process EBS

oCustomer master data creation,Customer Group,Number range,Down payment process

oDunning process

Company

Capgemini Consulting India Pvt ltd

Client

Limited Brands- Columbus- Ohio

Duration

August 2006 - April 2007

Position

FICO Senior Consultant

Background

Limited Brands Inc. (formerly known as Limited Brands Inc and The Limited Inc.) is an American fashion retailer based in Columbus, Ohio. L Brands currently operates Victoria's Secret, Bath & Body Works, Pink, Henri Bendel and La Senza retail brands.

Responsibilities

Global SAP rollout for Hong Kong and Singapore, Global template has been used for the complete rollout projects.

Worked with LSMW and eCATT’s, created scripts for mass vendor, customer master upload, cost center upload, asset master upload.

Prepared Data upload programs using LSMW.

Collated data and handled cutover activities with Business Solution Team

Uploaded data in Test, Development, and Quality and Production clients.

Participated in data cleansing, preparation, conversion and validation for FICO master data upload namely Profit Centers, Cost Centers, Bank Masters, Vendors master data, Customer master data.

NON- SAP- MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

Company

Hidesign

Duration

April 1998 - June 2006

Position

Finance Manager

Background

HIDESIGN is a leading Indian leather goods manufacturer with a presence in U.K, U.S., Middle East and Singapore.

Responsibilities

Managed Capital budgeting and working capital management and Monitored the actual/budget and analyzed variances.

Involved in preparation of projects reports, budget forecast and planning for efficient working capital utilization and Prepared Monthly P&L Statement and Yearly Balance Sheet.

Prepared monthly MIS Reports and quarterly bank statement.

Involved in half yearly internal audit work.

Client/Company

Hides

Duration

Jan 1995 to March 1998

Position

Assistant Accountant

Background:

Hides is a leading Indian leather goods manufacturer, a sister concern of Hidesign.

Responsibilities

Have been managing daily Account postings and involving internal auditing.

Client/Company

Akela Exports

Duration

Feb 1991 to July 1992

Position

Export Executive

Background:

Akela Export is an Indian leather goods manufacturer and supplier.

Responsibilities

QUALIFICATIONS

Degree

Subject

College / University

MBA

(Master in Business Administration)- Regular

Management - Finance

Pondicherry University

B, Com

Bachelor of Commerce

Pondicherry University

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