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. Currently working as a Senior Managing Consultant - SAP Practice at

IBM Corporation - Global Business Services (GBS).

. Certified SAP FI/CO Consultant, from SAP Germany and with more than 13

years of consulting experience as a FI / CO consultant of SAP

solutions.

. More than 8 years of experience with big 5 Consulting companies and

over 7 years of functional experience in the industry and audit. Last

10 years worked with different clients in North America, in the area

of SAP FI/CO, Project Systems and Business Warehouse.

. Have worked on a Varity of projects like End to End Project

Implementation, Global roll outs, Support and Maintenance. Have worked

on 3.1F, 3.1H, 4.0B, 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 5.0 / 6.0 versions of SAP R/3

Solutions. Working knowledge in the areas like Business warehouse,

Integrated Planning and Solution Manager.

. Have worked in Automobiles, Pharmaceuticals, Mining, Manufacturing,

Consumer Goods and Retail Industries. Have carried out Five End to End

project implementations, Two Rollout projects, three up gradation

projects and one support project.

. Have implementation experience in the areas of Project systems,

Accounts Receivable, Account Payable, General Ledger, Fixed Assets,

Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Product Costing and

Business Intelligence.

. Involved with Pre-sales activities like Proposal preparations and

Final Client presentations.

. Good Professional Background in the field of Accounting, Finance,

Taxation and Software Applications. Have good understanding of the

business processes in Accounting, Intercompany, Costing and Logistics.

. Carried out different types of Professional Audits like Statutory

Audit, Internal Audit, Systems audit and Cost audit.

. Good team player, Strong team orientation and leadership qualities,

hard working and enthusiastic.

. Very good logical skills suitable for consulting, process design,

development, implementation and support. Excellent communication

skills, presentation skills and Customer satisfaction oriented

attitude.

SAP EXPERTISE

. Customization experience in various areas of IMG activities of FI and CO

modules including Enterprise structure and Global settings.

. Experience of business scenarios in FI / CO modules. Analyzing the

client requirements, analyzing the legal and statutory reporting

requirements.

. Interacted with Internal auditors, tax consultants and other external

agencies like banks, on behalf of the client to bring about the

necessary changes for business process re-engineering and mapping the

same to SAP Functionality.

. Proposed and presented best fit solutions and then Mapped / customized

the same in SAP R/3. Assisted clients in selection of hardware,

software and network configuration, gap-fit analysis, providing post

go live support and end user training to clients.

. Have Configuration knowledge of Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable,

General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Funds Management in FI Module and Cost

center accounting, Product Costing in CO Module.

. Have working knowledge with Office Communicator, Live meeting and HP

Quality Center.

. FI related ABAP reports and enhancements in the areas of Bank

reconciliation, ERS. Worked with user exits in some financial

transactions with the developers and build a validation and alternative

posting code during execution. Master data creation, filtering the data

from legacy system and migration of master data into SAP R/3 using

Cransoft, BDC's and LSMW.

. Good understanding of ASAP Implementation Methodology of SAP R/3

solutions.

IT / SAP EXPERIENCE

. IBM Corporation

. Bearing Point / KPMG Consulting

. WIPRO Technologies

. Tata Technologies Limited

. General Motors

IT / FUNCTIONAL EXPERIENCE

. Diebold HMA Limited

. M.A. Narayan & Co, Chartered Accountants

IT (SAP R/3) PROJECT DETAILS

Project XIII October 2012 to Till

Date

Employer IBM Corporation

Duration 2 Months

Project Global End to End SAP Implementation - Juniper Networks

Position Senior Managing Consultant - SAP FI/CO

Contributio Worked on the blueprint workshop materials for Cash Management,

n Liquidity forecast, Fixed Assets, Internal orders, Profit Center

accounting . Participated and presented the power point

presentation documents in the blueprint workshops and collected

the real business requirements.

Currently working on the Process Decision Documents for Cash

Management, Fixed Assets, Internal orders, Liquidity forecast

and Profit center accounting.

Worked in the area of New GL, Document splitting, Inter company

postings, Document types, Financial statement versions, chart of

accounts. Worked in the areas of foreign exchange settings,

month end revaluations accounts payables and accounts

receivables.

Working on the design of Internal orders vs. Asset under

construction, Capital project capitalization process. Reviewed

the settlement rules, setting up of the settlement source

structure and settlement profiles. Working on the area of auto

creation of settlement rules for asset under construction and

final assets.

Worked on the Electronic Bank Reconciliation (EBS) and lockbox

related processes.

Project XII March 2011 to July 2012

Employer IBM Corporation

Duration 17 Months

Project Global End to End SAP Implementation - Estee Lauder

Position Senior Managing Consultant - SAP FI/CO

Contributio Worked in the area of intercompany posting for the regional hubs

n and affiliates

Worked on the cross border inventory movements between inventory

and non inventory locations.

Worked in the area of New GL, Document splitting, Inter company

postings, Document types, Financial statement versions, chart of

accounts.

Worked in the areas of foreign exchange settings, month end

revaluations accounts payables and accounts receivables.

Worked on the BEX analyzer using different standard queries in

the area of BI. Worked in the area of setting tolerance limits

for the use of availability control.

Worked on the drop shipment inventory movements and move between

different SAP and non SAP plants

Moving an existing active plant from one company code to other.

.Worked with user exits in some financial transactions with the

developers and build a validation and alternative posting code

during execution .

Worked in the area of Project systems and Investment management.

Configured the Coding Mask by defining and using special

characters. Created standard structures of projects and WBS

elements to use as a template, involved in creating project

profiles, WBS status profiles, Budget profiles and Investment

profiles.

Part of the design team in working on the number of WBS elements

vs. Asset under construction and project structures. Reviewed

the settlement rules, setting up of the settlement source

structure and settlement profiles. Worked In the area of auto

creation of settlement rules for asset under construction and

final assets.

Worked on the retail JDA system to SAP interface functional

specification and mapping between Brand, Door, Profit center,

Segment, Distribution channel .

Worked on the country Chart of accounts for Spain, Portugal and

assigned the Country specific GL account to the Global GL

account. Created LSMW for loading of the GL accounts and

mapping between the country specific GL account and the global

GL account.

Worked on the withholding tax related configuration for Korea

and Thailand

Worked on the Electronic Bank Reconciliation (EBS) related

configuration for Spain, Portugal, Italy and CE North .

Assigned different posting periods variants to different company

codes to facilitate the posting period open for the non leading

ledgers.

Created a position paper on detaching an existing plant from a

company code and attaching the same to another company code.

Worked through the existing sales order, inventory, stock

transport orders, material master related information.

Project XI February 2008 to February

2011

Employer IBM Corporation

Duration 37 months

Project Global End to End SAP implementation - Kraft Foods

Position Senior Managing Consultant - SAP FI/CO

Contributio Worked in the area of Project systems and Investment management.

n Configured the Coding Mask by defining and using special

characters. Created standard structures of projects and WBS

elements to use as a template, involved in creating project

profiles, WBS status profiles, Budget profiles and Investment

profiles.

Part of the design team in working on the number of WBS elements

vs. Asset under construction and project structures. Reviewed

the Settlement rules, setting up of the Settlement source

structure and settlement profiles. Worked In the area of auto

creation of settlement rules for Asset under construction and

Final Assets.

Defined person responsible and applicant number master data for

the capital projects.

Discussed the benefits of percentage settlement vs. partial

settlement amount, GR/IR valuation. Worked in the area of

creation of equipment record simultaneously with asset record,

Issues relating to the Project finish date and Asset

capitalization.

Defined the conversion logic for the Cransoft team for

conversion of legacy projects into SAP

Worked in the area of Budgeting cost projects, investment

projects, availability controls and Commitment management

Integration with Investment management with project systems.

Involved in Setting up the Settlement with the Mix of amount,

Percentage and Equivalence Number

Worked on the IFRS initiative at Kraft foods as the Canadian

operations need to be IFRS compliant by 2011 and the US

operations by 2013. One of the challenges is to identify the

difference between the US GAAP Vs. Local GAAP and provide a in

depth follow ups and its implications

Worked on the IAS 36 - Impairment of assets and the level of

impairment. It requires the ability to allocate goodwill,

measure fair value at aggregate and at granular level. Also

worked in the area of cash flows and recoverable amount of PP&E.

Worked closely on the IAS 40 - which permits the investment

property measured at a fair value, deemed cost and cost based

models.

Worked in Info areas, Multi provider layers and databases for

Bex Analyzer reporting

Worked through the logic to derive the depreciation calculation

for the derived area. Also worked in the area of additional

account assignment objects for the new General Ledger in ECC

6.0 . Also supported different other releases by participating

in the unit test, integration test of R1A, R1C, R2B, R2C, R3,

R4, R5 and R6 scripts.

Created functional requirement and user requirement documents

using SAP Solution Manager Tool . Worked in the area of Capital

planning, cost center planning, balance sheet planning using

Business Intelligence -Integrated Planning

Developed planning enabled queries and basic planning functions.

Created few reports using the standard FI cubes in the area of

BW

Worked on BEX analyzer, using different standard quaries in

the area of BI

Defined Chart of Depreciation, asset class, asset types,

depreciation areas, depreciation keys, period controls. Defined

and configuring the business process in relation to retirement

of assets with and without customers.

Calculation of planned depreciation run, unplanned depreciation

run, repeat depreciation runs and month end closing. Defined

accounts for Acquisition, Retirement, Asset under construction

and creating settlement profiles.

Created capital internal orders and statistical internal orders

for budgeting

Worked in the area of tolerance limits setting for availability

control

Worked in the area of interest determination on projects and

budgeting and availability of funds functionality in project

system.

Environment SAP ECC 6.0 and Business Intelligence (BI)

Project X February 2007 to February

2008

Employer IBM Corporation

Duration 12 months

Project Global End to End SAP implementation - Zimmer USA

Position Senior Certified SAP FI / CO Consultant

Contributio Created functional requirement and user requirement documents

n using SAP Solution Manager Tool .

Worked in the area of Capital planning, cost center planning,

balance sheet planning and head count planning using Business

Intelligence -Integrated Planning

Developed planning enabled queries and basic planning functions.

Created few reports using the standard FI cubes in the area of

BW

Worked in Info areas, Multi provider layers and databases for

Bex Analyzer reporting

Used aggregation levels, filters, sequences, planning functions,

planning sequences, data slices and conditions for integrated

planning (7.0)

Worked on multi providers for cross cube planning

Defined Chart of Depreciation, asset class, asset types,

depreciation areas, depreciation keys, period controls.

Defined and configuring the business process in relation to

retirement of assets with and without customers.

Calculation of planned depreciation run, unplanned depreciation

run, repeat depreciation runs and month end closing.

Defined accounts for Acquisition, retirement, Asset under

construction and creating settlement profiles.

Created capital internal orders and statistical internal orders

for budgeting

Environment SAP ECC 6.0 and Integrated Planning (7.0)

Project XI December 2005 to February 2007

Employer IBM Corporation

Duration 15 months

Project End to End SAP implementation - Philip Morris, USA

Position Senior Certified SAP FI / CO Consultant

Contributio Involved in development of test scenarios, test cases for

n different types of testing like Component testing, String

testing, Unit testing, Acceptance testing, Integration testing.

Worked on integration of the FI/CO module with other modules

like MM, SD, PM.

Defined Country code, Jurisdiction code, and tax codes for sales

and purchases

Payment run procedure and Electronic Receipt System (ERS) has

been implemented for proper payment to the vendors as per the

credit policy of the company

Configured the ACH payment method, Check payment method and Wire

transfer payment method for various banks

Working in the area of Capital planning, cost center planning,

balance sheet planning and head count planning

Environment SAP 4.7, BW 3.5

Project X May 2005 to November 2005

Employer Bearing Point

Duration 7 months

Project End to End SAP implementation - Johnson & Johnson USA

Position Senior Certified SAP FI / CO Consultant

Contributio Defined Chart of Depreciation, asset class, asset types,

n depreciation areas, depreciation keys, period controls.

Defined and configuring the business process in relation to

retirement of assets with and without customers.

Transfer of Assets within group companies and outside the group.

Calculation of planned depreciation run, unplanned depreciation

run, repeat depreciation runs and month end closing.

Defined accounts for Acquisition, retirement, Asset under

construction and creating settlement profiles.

Defined Country code, Jurisdiction code, and tax codes for sales

and purchases.

Created capital internal orders and statistical internal orders

for planning

Worked in the area of Capital planning, cost center planning,

balance sheet planning and head count planning using SEM BPS

Worked in the areas of BEX analyzer, using different standard

quaries in the area of BW

Created few reports using the standard FI cubes in the area of

BW.

Environment SAP 4.7, SEM-BPS

Project IX August 2004 to April 2005

Employer Bearing Point

Duration 9 months

Project End to End SAP implementation - Apple Computer, Inc USA

Position Senior Certified SAP FI / CO Consultant

Contributio Configured the Customer Master, Document Types, House banks,

n IDOC generation

IDOC's detail mapping from the SAP system to third party systems

like Clear Commerce, Value Link, Paypal

Mapped and Posted the external and internal information through

IDOC's into SAP

Exposure in working the IDOC Message types 855, 856, 810

Creation of FI-AR Customer Groups, creating Number Ranges and

assigning, creation of tolerance groups

Configured for incoming payments, residual payment and automatic

account determinations for discounts and short payments

Configured Credit Control Area and Customer Credit Management in

consultation with the SAP SD consultants

Defined the Credit Risk categories, Credit representative groups

and worked in the area of credit monitoring

Defined Country code, Jurisdiction code, and tax codes for sales

and purchases.

Environment SAP 4.7

Project VIII December 2003 to July

2004

Employer Wipro Technologies

Duration 8 months

Project End to end SAP implementation - Weyerhaeuser USA

Position SAP FI / CO Consultant

Contributio Configured the Vendor master, House banks, Automatic payment run

n programs and IDOC generation.

IDOC's detail mapping from the legacy systems to SAP

Developed the interfaces to be used in sending the remittance

advices and supplemental remittance advices to the vendors.

Worked on the interfaces of File Manager and Data Validation

Tool, which is used to validate the legacy data from GEAC,

MAXIMO, LAWSON through the pipeline.

Mapped and Posted the external and internal information through

IDOC's into SAP

Exposure in working the IDOC Message types 820, 824, 831

Helped the client in creation of master data in the areas of

General Ledgers, Vendors, Customers, Banks, Cost Elements, Cost

Centers.

Developed reports and DME files to be sent to bank, after the

payment run.

Worked in the area of interest calculation area by defining

Interest calculation types, Interest rates and Time dependent

terms

Worked in the Area of cash management area by defining planning

levels, planning groups, treasury groupings

Involved in development of test scenarios, test cases for

different types of testing like Component testing, String

testing, Unit testing, Acceptance testing, Integration testing.

Worked on integration of the FI/CO module with other modules

like MM, SD, PM.

Environment SAP 4.6C

Project VII June 2003 to Nov 2003

Employer Wipro Technologies

Duration 6 months

Project End to end SAP implementation - BrAun Oral-B Ireland Ltd,

Ireland

Position SAP FI / CO Consultant

Contributio Configured the General ledger, Accounts receivable and accounts

n payable modules, special purpose ledgers, business area

concepts. Also worked on integrating FI/CO with other modules

like PP, MM, SD, PM.

Defined Country code, Jurisdiction code, and tax codes for sales

and purchases.

Created and defined financial statement versions, cross company

code transactions, configuring automatic payment run

programs.

Developed reports and DME files to be sent to bank, after the

payment run.

Worked on Commissioner Enabled Business Operating Model (CEBOM),

where business processes are defined on the basis of Principal

and commissioner.

Defined chart of Depreciation, asset class, asset types,

depreciation area depreciation key, revaluation and defining

transaction type for retirement of assets with and without

customers.

Calculation of Planned depreciation run, unplanned depreciation

run, repeat depreciation runs and monthly postings.

Defined accounts for Acquisition, retirement, Asset under

construction and creating settlement profiles.

Environment SAP 4.6C

Project VI January 2003 to May

2003

Employer Independent Consultant

Duration 5 months

Project Support of the existing SAP implementations - BHP BILLITON

Position FI / CO Consultant

Contributio Supported the client on both onsite and offshore model through

n post go live and day to day problem solving in FI/CO Module.

Trouble ticket logging and updating the same using HEAT and

REMEDY call tracking systems.

Imparted user training on the processes and assistance in

developing end user document.

Developed different customer specific reports through ABAP query

Environment SAP 4.6C

Project V April 2002 to December

2002

Client Independent Consultant

Duration 9 months

Project End to end SAP implementation - Pharmacia Canada Limited

Position FI / CO Consultant

Contributio Defined Cost centers, cost center hierarchy, Primary cost

n elements, Secondary cost elements, Statistical Key figures and

assessment / distribution cycles for proper cost allocation.

Product costing with / without quantity structure, marking and

releasing the prices to Material masters.

Created process order / production order during a particular

period, WIP Calculation, Variance analysis, order settlement at

the end of the period.

Defined different types of valuation categories, using different

currencies.

Defined valuation types for in house production and external

procurement.

Valued different batch stocks of the same material using split

valuation. Defining different valuation types for different

batches.

Creation of New company code, defining new chart of accounts,

maintaining general ledger master data, defining and assigning

business area, defining field status groups, and defining line

item layouts.

Defined document types and number ranges, created tax codes for

sales and purchases, created financial statement versions, cross

company code transactions.

Defined Operating Concerns, Characteristics, Value fields and

mapped the flow of documents from SD to Profitability Analysis.

Creation of Vendor Masters, creating settings for logistics

Invoice verification. Setting up of bank accounts and

configuring automatic payment run programs.

Environment SAP 4.6C

Project IV January 2002 to March 2002

Employer Independent Consultant

Duration 3 months - Hindustan Inks and Resins Limited

Project Enhancement & Support of the existing SAP implementation

Position FI/CO Consultant for Functional Support & Enhancement

Contributio Configured the General ledger, Accounts receivable and accounts

n payable modules, special purpose ledgers, business area

concepts. Also worked on integrating FI/CO with other modules

like PP, MM, SD, PM.

Defined Country code, Jurisdiction code, and tax codes for sales

and purchases.

Mater data creation, migration using LSMW, filtering from legacy

systems and making country specific settings as required by

federal guidelines.

Environment SAP 4.OB

Project III July 2001 to December 2002

Employer Independent Consultant

Duration 5 months Aventis Cropsciences Limited

Project Enhancement & Support of the existing SAP implementation

Position FI/CO Consultant for Functional Support & Enhancement

Contributio Cost center accounting with planned / cumulative pricing

n methods, imputed cost calculation, assessment / distribution

cycles, defining planning layouts, defining distribution keys.

Calculated Planned /Actual activity price calculation, overhead

calculation.

Product costing with / without quantity structure, standard cost

estimate and inventory cost estimate for tax purposes.

Created process order / production order, WIP Calculation,

Variance analysis, order settlement.

Defined Operating Concerns, Characteristics, Value fields and

mapped the flow of documents from SD to Profitability analysis.

Defined transfer price variant and attached the pricing

procedure for planned and actual data.

Defined different types of valuation categories. Defining

valuation types for in house production and external procurement

using split valuation.

Environment SAP 4.6C

Project II January 2001 to June 2001

Employer Independent Consultant

Duration 6 months - TELCO

Project Enhancement & Support of the existing SAP implementation

Position FI/CO Consultant for Functional Support & Enhancement

Contributio Created and defining financial statement versions, cross company

n code transactions, configured automatic payment run program.

Defined chart of Depreciation, asset class, asset types,

depreciation key, revaluation and defined transaction type for

retirement of assets.

Carried out unit testing and integration testing. Creation of

authorization profiles for end users.

Environment SAP 4.6C

Project I May 1998 to December

2000

Employer General Motors

Duration 32 months

Project Implementation of SAP R/3 with FI, CO, MM, PP, SD,PM, QM Modules, Post go-live support.

Position Financial analyst

Contributio Responsible for implementation and maintenance of Accounts

n Receivables, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, General Ledger on

FI Module and product costing, cost center accounting in CO

module of SAP R/3 solutions.

Implemented Electronic Bank Reconciliation and Dealer

reconciliation on SAP

Implemented SAP FI Module at Dealership end to share the

information about the product and to improve customer

relationship

Payment run procedure and Electronic Receipt System (ERS) has

been implemented for proper payment to the creditors as per the

credit policy of the company

Responsible in development, implementation and operation of

complete accounting functions / credit control management

involving receivable management, credit monitoring, funds

mobilization

Preparation of different MIS reports at regular intervals for

the management and some specific need based special MIS reports

for decision making

Implemented the policies and procedures as per the Guidelines

issued by GENERAL MOTORS WORLDWIDE POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

.

Environment SAP 3.1 H / 4.0B

FUNCTIONAL PROJECT DETAILS

Organization Diebold HMA Limited

Designation Finance Manager

Duration June 1996 to May 1998

. Responsible for MIS, Cost and Budget preparation, Key Responsibility of

establishing and maintaining the need based Management Information

System

. Responsible for functioning of Excise Department, maintaining the records

required under the Excise Rules, Modvat credit on Capital Goods and

Imported Raw materials, availment and utilization, finalization of

monthly returns

. Overall responsibility for arranging and managing the finance of group

companies

. Evaluation of various proposals of raising private capital for short term

requirement of the project

Organization M. A. Narayan & Co, Chartered Accountants

Designation Audit Manager

Duration May 1992 to June 1996

. Responsible for Statutory Audit for Companies, Banks and Individual

entities.

. Internal audit and management consultancy for manufacturing units,

processing units, plantation units and educational institutions.

. Internal / Systems audit of a multi million finance company having

branches in Vehicle finance, Corporate finance, Merchant banking, Bill

discounting and Fixed deposits.

. Responsible for compilation of accounts, drawing up of Balance Sheets and

Profit and Loss accounts of Companies, Firms, Trusts, Stock Brokers,

Individuals.

Educational & Professional Qualification

. Certified SAP FI/CO Consultant, SAP AG, Germany

. Trained in the areas of SAP Business Warehouse (3.5) and Business

Intelligence based Integrated Planning (7.0)

. Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, New

Delhi (ICAI) (Equivalent to CPA).

. Graduate Member of the Cost and Works Accountants of India, Kolkata

(ICWAI).

. Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Management (MBA Finance) from

Institute for Financial Management and Research.

. Graduate in Commerce (B.Com.Hons) from Berhampur University.

. Diploma in Computer Applications (DCA) from Loyola Institute of Business

Administration (LIBA).

Industries: Automotive, Consumer Goods, Mining, Life sciences,

Pharmaceuticals, Retail Products

Project Domain: SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant, Business Process

Re-engineering and Application Re designing

ERP: SAP R/2, SAP R/3 3.1H, 4.0B, 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 5.0 / 6.0

BW 3.5, BI 7.0

SAP Solution Manager

Operating Windows 07, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows NT, Windows

Systems: 95, MS-DOS

Computer PowerBuilder 3.0-6.0, Visual Basic 4.0-6.0, COBOL, Pascal,

Languages: FORTRAN.

Applications: Office 2007, Office 2003, Office 2000, MS office, Office

communicator

Training: SAP BW (3.5), Business Intelligence - Integrated Planning

(7.0)

Financial ACCPAC,TALLY

Packages

Vendor / In GEAC, MAXIMO, LAWSON, ICES, U perform, Red Brick, Black

House Managed Line, OFA, Hyperion, HP Quality Center, Cransoft, Vista,

Tools Universe, Red Moon

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