PRANAB JANA

USP: I am a senior and certified SAP Professional with around 10 years of SAP FICO Consulting expertise, eager to leverage my rich financial functional experience and technological background. Having served global IT majors like IBM and HP as well as Indian IT Majors like HCL Axon and Satyam Computers, I am currently employed with a mid-sized, growing increasingly global IT Services company in India as SAP Financials Solution Architect. My SAP expertise is enriched with experience of working for prestigious international SAP projects for various Fortune 500 Companies like Royal Dutch Shell, Procter & Gamble, British American Tobacco, AB Volvo, SONY, Xerox, SAB Miller, Cofely GDF Suez, EMI et al. To supplement my consulting competence and technological background, I do possess effective communication & client facing skill across Asia, Europe, and America. With a view to capitalizing on my SAP capability and soft skills, I aspire to be entrusted with more responsibilities for leading/architecting/managing SAP consulting global service deliverables on behalf of reputed and growing organization for long term career prospects.

EXECUTIVE BRIEF:

SAP Consulting expertise encompasses full life cycle Implementation, Rollout & Upgrade and Maintenance & Support and Customizations & Enhancement activities on various SAP versions from 4.5b to ECC6.0.

Core competency of SAP includes FI components like GL/AR/AP/AA coupled with good working knowledge of CO components including COPC & COPA.

Have extensive exposure in SAP New GL (ECC6.0) and Enterprise Asset Management(EAM).

Have good cross module knowledge like FI Integration with SD & MM and knowledgeable about Cash management & Credit Management component of SAP Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM).

Have work experience in big complex projects wherein various business applications like SAP CRM/SRM working in an integrated landscape with SAP ERP along with BI/BW components.

Above 10 years of SAP FICO consulting (broadly Implementation-5 yrs & Support-5 yrs) experience covering 12 big international projects( 4 each on implementation/ Support/ Rollout &Upgrade) for many Fortune 500 clients across Asia, America and Europe.

Extensive onsite client facing experience in major global economies like USA/China/Japan/UK/Australia.

Extensive exposure in Incident management, Change management and Problem management pertaining to various SAP projects of different international clients across the globe.

Have industry exposure across Manufacturing, Financial services and Oil & Energy sectors(SAP IS Oil, JVA).

Have proven success in contributing within a team environment and demonstrated Leadership skills.

Having effective communication and interpersonal soft skills.

Having good exposure to SAP Solution Manger and ASAP implementation methodology.

Being a fast learner, my academic career is distinguished with National Scholarship, Government of India.

Armed with good analytical skill & problem solving aptitude coupled with good project management and people management skill with hands-on approach, I am dependable to deliver in a demanding, multi-tasking work environments.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Organization Duration Designation

Mindtree Consulting., Bangalore Since August 23, 2010 Project Manager- SAP

HCL Technologies., HCL-AXON SAP EAS business unit, Bangalore Nov 2, 2009 – Aug 20, 2010 ERP Specialist

( PM grade, E 3 band)

Sony India Software Center (SISC), Sony India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore February 2009 -October 2009 Lead Consultant

(PM rank, band M1.1 )

Satyam SAP practice (now Mahindra Satyam, formerly SCSL), Bangalore February 2007- February 2009 Project Lead-SAP

(PM grade-band Bi1-level8)

IBM India Pvt. Ltd. ( formerly IBM Global Services-IGSI), Bangalore. January, 2005- January 2007 Senior Consultant- SAP FICO

(Band 7b-PL rank)

Hewlett Packard Global Soft Ltd. (HPGDIC), Bangalore. July , 2003- January 2005 Consultant (SAP)

ASM Technologies Ltd, Bangalore September 2002 – June 2003 SAP FICO Consultant

B2B Software Technologies Ltd., Hyderabad. July 2000 – August 2002 ERP Financials Consultant

Project 1(Last/Current)

Client: Diagonal Consulting Ltd, part of 2E2, UK based IT Service provider which has outsourced SAP Support functions for around a dozen clientele which include Bank of England), SAB Miller(breweries), COFELY GDF Suez (construction), EMI Music among others to Mindtree at Bangalore.

Employer: Mindtree Ltd, a mid sized growing Indian IT services company based at Bangalore.

Period: September 01, 2010- till date

Position: SAP FICO Specialist

Team size: 19

Project Brief: It is a global SAP Support project named Calico Project wherein around a dozen companies, mostly based out of Europe which run on different SAP versions like 4.5B/4.6C/4.7E/ECC 5.0/ECC 6.0 are supported under Shared Services model.

Roles/Responsibilities:

After the smooth successful Knowledge Transition at onsite at London, Steady State support phase is ongoing from January 1, 2011 from Bangalore ODC as per strict SLA norms.

Managing SAP FICO related deliverables for all nine customers under shared services offshore delivery model.

Different companies have different System Landscape including SAP CRM where Billing is done and then gets transferred to ECC.

There are whole lot of systems like COGNOS/Hyperion/SAP BI which are interfaced to SAP R/3/ ECC in addition to SAP CRM & SRM.

FRICE list include lot of important bespoke developments pertaining Taxation/ Interfaces.

Project 2:

Client: Xerox Europe based at London, part of XEROX Ltd, the US based $ 20 billion document management company.

Employer: HCL AXON SAP division under HCL Technologies Ltd, part of 5 billion $ HCL group, Indian IT major.

Period: November 02, 2009- August 20, 2010

Position: Lead SAP FICO Consultant/ERP Specialist

Team size: 35

Project Brief: It is a global ESAP A2B (Average to Benchmark) Project for Xerox Europe based at London which is built on SAP CRM 5.0 and ECC 6.0 platform involving all 15 major European nations.

Roles/Responsibilities:

This is a recently Go- live project, yet to achieve steady state as further Build/Test phase work is undergoing. Therefore post implementation support is all the more challenging in terms of strict SLA compliance prior to steady state declaration.

CRM centric project wherein CRM billing Engine and Tax Transaction Engine (TTE) sends Billing data to FICO components in ECC through Business Documents (BDocs) and Business Add Ins (BAdis).

The Contracts are incepted in CRM and sends Accrual schedule to SAP Accrual Engine (AE).

All accruals are based on Contracts/price agreements in Sale, Service, Rental and Usage based (Usage Based billing-UBB)

Standard SAP deferrals are used with Lease Accounting Engine (LAE).

Reporting are based on COPA, BW and Hyperion and Incident Management is based on Solution Manager.

Project 3

Client: SONY Global Solutions (SGS), part of Sony Corp., the Tokyo-based global electronics major, a Fortune 500 company with annual turnover of $80 billion.

Employer: Sony India Software center (SISC) based at Bangalore, a SONY global competency organization and SAP COE (center of excellence) for captive software services for Sony worldwide entities.

Period: February 06, 2009- October 30, 2009

Position: Lead Consultant -FICO

Team size: 25

Project Brief: It is a fresh SAP Implementation project on SAP ECC 6.0 for Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan.

Sony Corporation HQ is essentially Group sales company which buys material from Sony Manufacturing Company(EMCS) and sells to Domestic Sales Company(SMOJ) as well as other Sony overseas Sales companies.

Roles/Responsibilities:

This is a fresh end to end SAP Implementation project on SAP ECC 6.0 platform replacing existing legacy ERP system with SAP Financial Accounting and Management Accounting modules to start with at the first phase with activation of new GL functionality. Business Blueprint (BBP) was finalized in SAP Solution Manager environment and Solution design document prepared for Realization to start.

RICEF list was being finalized and User Exits got identified and Customized Z Programs/Enhancements are to be developed based on Fit & Gap Analysis.

The project involves lot of customized developments dealing with numerous Interfaces across various legacy systems, which entails many Functional Specifications preparation followed ABAP development based on Technical specification, finally undergoing extensive unit testing, Integration testing, user acceptance testing.

Project 4

Client: NGK Spark Plugs Inc, and NTK Technologies Inc., USA, the Japan-based multi-billion dollar automotive OEM manufacturing company.

Employer: Mahindra Satyam (formerly Satyam Computer Services Ltd, SCSL, NYSE:SAY), a leading Indian IT & Software Services Company with an annual turnover of $ 2 billion approx, now known as Mahindra Satyam on corporate restructuring.

Period: June 20, 2008 to December 24, 2008

Position: Project Lead /FICO Architect

Team size: 15

Project Brief: It is essentially a SAP Implementation and Global Rollout project wherein existing non SAP ERP systems (mostly JD Edwards) are being replaced with SAP ECC 6.0.

Roles/Responsibilities:

The SAP Grand Design project was based out of Detroit, USA but the requirements for North America (US), Europe (Germany) and Brazil are all captured in AS IS workshop.

The salient feature of this include, inter alia, activation of new General Ledger wherein IFRS is the Leading Ledger and US GAAP/Japanese GAAP/German GAAP will constitute the non leading Ledgers in respective geographies.

To do Gap Analysis and prepare To Be document for new system Landscape and RICEF requirements.

Business Blueprint (BBP) being prepared in line with SAP best practices baseline package with the help of SAP Solution Manager which is delivered by October 15 as per tollgate model of project delivery.

Global Template Build phase is already initiated from 1st November on completion of Conference Room Pilot (CRP) demonstration in end October.

Project 5 :

Client: SONY China Ltd., part of SONY Corporation, the Tokyo-based global electronics giant.

Employer: Employer: Satyam Computer Services Ltd (SCSL), a leading Indian IT & Software Services Company.

Period: February 20, 2008 - June 17, 2008

Position: Functional Lead – (FICO/SD/MM)

Team size: 15

Project Brief: It is essentially a SAP Upgrade project with R/3 4.5B being upgraded to ECC 6.0.

Roles/Responsibilities:

It entails leading a project team in delivering SAP solutions according to project charter/contract.

This also involves managing project plan, scope, cost, schedule and all contractual deliverables.

I was also predominantly responsible for all functional modules of FICO, SD and MM in preparation/upgradation of BPML/BBP, Impact Analysis and Test Script preparation as the project involves extensive Testing (UT/SIT/UAT) on upgradation & cut-over.

Project 6

Client: Volvo Information Technology AB, the IT subsidiary of 35 billion dollar global automobile & engineering conglomerate, AB of Sweden.

Employer: Satyam Computer Services Ltd (SCSL), the leading Indian IT solutions major.

Period: November 12, 2007- February 15, 2008.

Position: Team Lead (FICO)

Team Size: 12

Project Brief:

It entails development of Global Rollout Kit/Template for Volvo Construction Equipment (VCE) which will be handy for future SAP Rollouts of VCE across the globe.

Role/Responsibilities:

It requires a study, analysis and consolidation & compilation and updation& modification of existing available documents pertaining to business process master list, blueprint, Configuration document etc and then develop/update/validate to provide deliverables, which inter alia, consist of Global Business Process Master List (BPML), Business Blueprint (BBP),Configuration script, Testing Strategy et al.

This Rollout kit will also include data migration strategy, global rollout methodology etc with ultimate objective being to optimize cost & time requirement for fresh rollout by obviating the necessity of making As- Is analysis and instead emphasizing on To-Be from the onset of gathering local requirements.

Project 7

Client: Queensland Rail (QR National), the billion dollar public sector utility company based at Brisbane, Australia.

Employer: Satyam Computer Services Ltd (SCSL), the leading Indian IT solutions major.

Period: July 30, 2007- November 9, 2007.

Position: Project Lead (FICO)

Team Size: 17

Project Brief:

The project was known as Coal Revenue Protection & Order Management project(major revenue used to come from Coal freight for QR) which include simultaneous implementation cum integration of CRM 5.0, SCM 5.0, SAP ECC 6.0 and SAP Net Weaver BI 7.0 based out of QR corporate office at Brisbane, Australia.

Role/Responsibilities:

The Project is being implemented using ASAP implementation methodology. Now Business Blueprint (BBP) is being prepared to be followed by Business System Design (BSD) document. The project was to go live on 31st March, 2008 with classical GL.

My role entails, inter alia, mostly looking after mainly Account Receivables area including Dunning & Interest calculation and working with Logistics and CRM team to finalize Pricing/Billing. Further helping with functional financial expertise to Business Intelligence team to generate FI Analytics reports pertaining to Budgeting & Forecasting as well as Earnings Reports.

This project involves lot of Interfaces and Middleware like Web Methods and XI. Therefore we need to meet requirements and do validation of Reports/Interfaces’ involved /Conversion/Enhancements (RICE).

Project 8:

Client: Shell Chemicals BV, a group company under Royal Dutch Shell Plc the global energy major, listed among top 5 in Fortune 500.

Employer: IBM India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, part of IBM Corp, the numero uno in global IT Consulting & Software Services and ranked among top 50 in Fortune 500.

Period: January 7, 2005 to January 31,2007.

Role: Senior Consultant- SAP FI CO

Team size: 32

Project Brief:

It is a global SAP Support project (encompassing both Application Development &Application Management) called Global SAP(GSAP) for Shell Chemicals worldwide. It is based on SAP R/3 4.6C IS: OIL version.

Role/Responsibilities:

My role primarily encompasses Consulting & Support for SAP Financial Accounting & Controlling related issues/tickets for GSAP project. I am primarily focused on solving predominantly FI-GL/AR/AP/AM related issues.

It also entails implementing Development/Configuration changes wherever requested and required by adhering to relevant Change Management & approval procedure in compliance with Sarbanes Oxley (SOx 404) regulations for business process control & documentation.

I was also involved in Enhancement project activities pertaining to SAP FICO for GSAP project for Shell Chemicals.

It entails conforming to strict SLA compliance as well as ensuring quality project deliverables capability.

Project 9:

Client: Proctor & Gamble Co, the global FMCG Major, ranked among top 100 in Fortune 500.

Employer: Hewlett Packard Global Delivery India Center (HPGDIC), part of HP, the world’s largest technology company listed among top 20 in Fortune 500.

Period: April 2004 - January 2005

Role: Project Manager

Team size: 12

Project Brief:

It is SAP Archiving Project that runs on IGDE (Integrated Global Development Environment) based on SAP R/3 4.5B/4.6B/ 4.6C/4.7 enterprise versions platforms & Unix OS and Oracle 9i RDBMS.

Roles and Responsibilities

Working in Global Service Management (GSM) team for A&FR (Accounting and Financial Reporting) Archiving for Proctor & Gamble worldwide. It also involves Knowledge Transfer and it entails a client facing role meeting global delivery datelines.

It entails, inter alia, doing Financial Report generation (conforming to country’s accounting & legal requirements) & Archiving these Financial Reports for around 300 company codes in different SAP Clients/Boxes, spread over various regions across the globe.

Project 10:

Client: HP Global eBusiness Operations Ltd, Bangalore.

Employer: Digital Global Soft (DGS) Ltd, Bangalore

Period: July, 2003 – April 2004

Role: SAP FICO Consultant.

Team size: 14 Consultants

Project Brief

Light House General Ledger (LHGL) is an Implementation Project into a single SAP R/3 4.7v Platform for new HP worldwide (after merger of Compaq). It envisages to implementation of FI,CO and BW Modules for more than 300 odd company codes across 150 countries.

Roles and Responsibilities:

For LHGL Project, Realization was over and Testing was in progress when I got involved in the project.

As a member of HPFO Finance Design Center (FDC, Bangalore) my role involved working in implementation team in General Ledger, Cost element and Cost center components.

I was predominantly doing Validation & checking of Master Data (GL Accounts, Cost Centers, Cost Elements) for Currencies, Account Groups, Field Status Groups, Cost Element categories etc for company codes predominantly in Asia Pacific region.

Master Data Maintenance (MDM) including Bank Master data for all 300 odd company codes.

Project 11:

Client: Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), Muscat, a joint venture of Royal Dutch/Shell, Total and Government of Oman having majority stake.

Employer: ASM Technologies Ltd., Bangalore

Period: October 2002 to May 2003

Role: SAP Consultant

Team size: 20

Project Brief

Post Implementation Support & Maintenance Activities and corrective actions were being undertaken across FI, CO, MM, IM, PM, PS modules on SAP R/3 4.6C on IS-OIL Joint Venture Accounting(JVA) version.

Roles and Responsibilities:

As a member of Fin CAT(Financial Corrective Action Team)I was involved in mainly maintenance and support activities encompassing predominantly Asset Management sub module engaged in doing, inter alia, the following.

Creating Master data (AMRs) for Assets and assigning the Asset Class.

Doing Asset verification and Reconciliation of asset values/data including those transferred from legacy systems and clearing of dummy assets.

Doing system setting for Depreciation postings.

Making settlement of maintenance activities and capitalization to assets.

Setting distribution rules for different asset receivers and settlement of costs held in AUC from various cost centers to capitalize on AMR.

Making transfers and effecting Write offs of Assets.

Doing year-end closing and various reports generation on assets.

Posting Depreciation run and making Schedule of Depreciation.

Doing GR/IR and SR/IR Reconciliation and clearing operation in GL.

Integrating FI-AA with FI-GL, Controlling (CO-CCA), Project System (PS), Investment Management (IM) and Material Management (MM).

Project 12:

Client: GTN Textiles Ltd.

Employer: B2B Software Technologies Ltd.

Period: February 2001 to July 2002

Role: FI Consultant

Team size: 12

Project Brief

It was a SAP Implementation project on R/3 4.6b platform for FI, SD, MM modules using ASAP implementation Methodology.

Roles and Responsibilities:

As a SAP FI/CO Consultant in the team I was predominantly involved in the following activities:

Study of the existing system & making Business Process review.

Documentation of the process under AS-IS study.

Gap-Analysis & Design of the TO-BE system.

Configuration of General Ledger, Account Receivables, Account Payables and Asset Accounting sub modules which include, inter alia, the following.

Making Financial Accounting & Controlling Global parameters settings by defining the Organization structure including Chart of Accounts, Fiscal year and posting period variant etc

Preparing GL Accounts Master Record creation and carrying out document settings for business transactions.

Making Dunning run for Customers.

Configuring Automatic Payment Program and making payment run for Vendors.

Configuring Depreciation rules like creating Chart of Depreciation, Defining Asset Class, Depreciation keys and posting Depreciation run etc.

Integrating FI with SD and MM Modules.

Generating Financial Statements Reports by selecting suitable FS Version.

Post Realization, doing Testing before going live and finally handing over the system.

NON-SAP FUNCTIONAL EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

Company IFCI Venture Capital Funds Ltd, (formerly Risk Capital and Technology Finance Corporation, a subsidiary of Industrial Finance Corporation of India), New Delhi which manages funds of IFCI, UTI and IBRD (World Bank).

Duration August 1997- June 2000

Designation Manager

Responsibilities:

Due Diligence and Credit Appraisal.

Venture Capital Funding & Structured Finance.

Risk Assessment and Financial Analysis

Company West Bengal Financial Corporation, a State Finance Corporation (SFC) jointly promoted by RBI/IDBI/SIDBI with head office at Calcutta.

Duration December 1994-August 1997

Designation Technical Officer

Responsibilities:

Techno-Economic feasibility study of industrial projects.

Project Finance including working capital assistance.

Business Planning and Resource Forecasting (BPRF).

Company Indian Rare Earths Limited, a Dept of Atomic Energy, Government of India, industrial enterprise with Head Office at Mumbai.

Duration August 1991- December 1994

Designation Chemical Engineer

Responsibilities:

Production Planning & Technical Services.

Techno-Financial Analysis, Business Process Reengineering

Corporate Planning & Management Reporting

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS & CERTIFICATION

Passed B.Sc. Engineering (4-year degree course in Chemical Engineering) from National Institute of Technology (NIT, formerly REC), Rourkela, India in 1989 with 1st Class.

Certified in my SAP Financials ERP 5.0 by SAP AG .

Underwent Training on new dimensional SAP products like my SAP Financials - Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM 4.0) at SAP India sponsored by IBM India.

Advanced certificate program on International Finance Reporting Standards (IFRS) by KPMG, Bangalore.

PERSONAL INFORMATION:

E- Mail Id : rkdg1r@r.postjobfree.com

Date of Birth: 15th May, 1969

Phone No : +91-984*******(cell)/080-********(off)

Passport Availability: Indian passport valid up to 2020.

Onsite Work exposure(aggregating 3 years approx): London (UK), Tokyo (Japan), Detroit & Ashville (USA), Shanghai (China), Seoul (S. Korea), Sydney & Brisbane (Australia), New Castle (UK), Muscat (Oman).

Marital Status: Married and blessed with two kids.

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