SAP Finance Manager, Project Lead

SAP Project Lead & Financials, Controlling - SME

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Skills Synopsis

Specialized Experience on IT & ERP

Around 19 years of experience in Consulting, Management Accounting, Business Process Re-engineering, Systems Design & Development / Maintenance / Enhancement and Project Management and financial information systems, working capital management, Auditing, Internal Control & MIS system implementation and maintenance in functional domain.

Around 5 (plus 3 years as audit assistant) years of auditing, Financial management, management accounting, Taxation experience.

Around 16 years of Business Process Engineering / SAP Consulting & Implementation experience

Good conceptual knowledge in Business Information Warehousing and Business process Simulation in SEM

Extensive SAP R3 functional & configuration, working knowledge, Integration modules environment of MM, PP, SD, HR, PM, QM, PS and Versions from 3.1i to ECC 6

Conceptual knowledge in ABAP programming, proficient in Data migration Management.

Industry experiences in ERP domain

o Hi-Tech (Cable)

o Consumer FMCG

o Chemicals

o Discrete and Process Manufacturing

o IS Auto

Extensive Functional domain experience in Electrical equipment manufacturing industry as finance manager.

Multi ERP product skills including Oracle Applications- Financials Special Skills

Expert Skills on:

Project management for SAP project deployment/delivery/execution and resource planning

Finance domain as core finance manager with manufacturing industry

SAP S/4 Hana – Finance Training Skills / Fiori plat form & design specification skills

SAP R/3 Finance/Controlling Core Process Analysis skills and on configuring o FI [General Ledger, Procure to pay, Order to Receipt, Dunning, Payment Program, Special Purpose Ledger, Tax Balance Sheet, Asset Accounting] o CO [Cost Element/Centre Accounting/Profit Centre Accounting, Product Costing, Profitability analysis(costing/accounting based)]

SAP R/3 Integration: MM, SD, PP/PI, PS, PM, SM aspects and cross module configuration

SAP Reporting & SAP Programming/Technical aspects o Report Painter/Report Writer, Drill-down Reporting & EIS, Detailed Functional Specs, ABAP Query Generation/Execution/Creation, ABAP Code debugging

Project Management skills o Project Software Development Life Cycle adoption/Monitoring/Execution o Preparation/Execution of Testing cycle and Test Cases o At ease to discuss/extract/disseminate business case needs at both users & Higher management levels

Management soft skills

o Interpersonal skills to work with a team of multi-lingual, multi-cultural team o Motivating/directing/instructing skills based on the need of the hour o Proven skills on getting things done with active involvement of team o Forming, Storming and norming skills on various team needs. Skill Area Level Details

Finance Process / analysis Expert – Experienced for more than 17 years

General accounting processes

Tax reporting

Management accounting/Management Information Systems

Product cost specification

Group Reporting & Consolidation

Shared Services Establishment

Project Methodologies /

Management

Expert – Experienced for more than

12 years

Project Methodologies – ASAP/Agile

Project SLCM

Resourcing – Recruit/Enrich/ Manage

KPI metrics measures – People/Projects/Programs

Mentoring & Guiding

Area in Individual

contribution as SME

Expert – Experienced for more than

17 years in

Configuration

UT, SIT, testing, Training &

Data Load

Workshops on Systems &

Processes

SAP S4 HANA – Central Finance

SAP Controlling – CCA/PCA/OHO/CO-PC/CO-PA

SAP Financials – GL/AR/AP/Asset Accounting

SAP Integration Knowledge on – SD/MM/PP/PM/QM/HR

Debugging skills – ABAP

Expertise in soft skills and team management

SAP Project Lead & Financials, Controlling - SME

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Involved Project and R&R details:

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

He had worked as a senior audit professional with KR Satyam & CO., Coimbatore, which is a professional financial services, & audit company in south India. His roles and responsibilities include being in team and as leader in conducting audits of companies including public limited companies as Hindustan Photo Films Ltd. Led a team of CA-Inter qualified trainees in conducting various-system as well as routine audits-internal as well as statuary of private and public limited companies in computerised environment and in tax assessments.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

SAP USA Certified SAP FICO Consultant

Certified Accountant, Fellowship member of Institute of Chartered Accountant of India. ACA from ICAI.

(Equivalent to ACCA, UK & CPA, USA) Graduation in Bachelor of Mathematics-Distinction and Rank holder.

LANGUAGES

English - Written/Spoken – Expert level

Thamizh - Written/Spoken – Expert level, Native

PERSONAL DETAILS:

Name - Arivu Alangaram ASN

Visa Status - Singapore Permanent Resident (SPR)

Others - Male/Indian national/Married/With kids

Role Project Implementer Core Deliverables

Regional Deployment Lead –

Record to Report

Managed team of 11

Zoetis APAC – Pfizer Group

02/2015 to 09/2015

Infosys Consulting Global Ensure template delivery, GAP manage & deploy, delivery, stakeholder management &

Communication in ECC 6.0

Center of Excellence –

Financial/Controlling/CO-PC

Stream, Template

custodian/improver

Managed team size - 7

Panasonic APAC

05/2013 to 11/2014

Internal team Managed multiple deliveries for

Malaysia/Singapore/Thailand for PAPARD

Training in SAP BW

Solution Architect – SAP

financials/Controlling/ COPC

Team Size 17

Pfizer Global – Singapore

Parkway Health – Singapore

Razor – Singapore

02/2011 to 11/2012

IBM Global Consulting -

Singapore

Solution architect for CO-PC, ISH-Finance

deployment & FICO team lead

Regional Financial Lead / Solution

Architect

Team size 21 for 3 markets

MSD Inc – SG/MY/ID

Nokia Global – 53 Markets

12/2007 to 10/2010

Accenture Consulting –

Singapore

Regional lead for finance for three markets / SME

for Template deployment for 53 markets /Project

lead for Travel claim tool

SME – SAP Financials

Team Size 3

Fujitsu Singapore

04/2007 to 11/2007

Deloitte Consulting –

Singapore

SME for reorganization project for Fujitsu

Singapore

AMS Lead / SME – SAP Financials

Team Size 5

Hercules Chemicals

PUB, Singapore

Atos Origin Consulting

07/2004 to 12/2006

Atos Origin Singapore SME & Client engagement manager for AMS, custodian of SLA’s on call management system

Regional Lead – SAP FICO

Team Size 9

Upgrade roll out - 9 markets

New deployment-Singapore

06/2002 to 04/2004

Alzo Nobel IT Team Regional lead for 9 markets for upgrade project and new deployment for casco-nobel, subsidiary of

Akzo Nobel

SME- SAP FICO

Team Size 5

IS Auto pilot creation for client

demos – KPMG USA

02/2002 to 05/2002

Cybertech INC, Chicago,

USA

SME for business project chain creation/testing for pilot client in IS Auto

DPM / Deployment lead-SAP FICO

Team Size 19

Saudi Cable Company

11/2000 to 11/2001

KRSL, Chennai Deputy Project Manager, team Lead for SAP FICO, COPC, COPA deployments

Consultant – FICO

Team Size 11

Saint Gobain Glass India Ltd

07/2000 to 11/2000

PWC India, Chennai Funds Management, Overhead Orders – Template deployment

Consultant – FI

Team Size 12

Cavinkare India

12/1999 to 06/2000

MAARS Softwares, Chennai Team member – GL/AR/AP deployment Training in SAP Modules

Finance Manager

Managed Team span-4

Finance Manager

12/1993 to 11/1998

Sinetec Systems,

Coimbatore

Responsible for mechanized accounting system

management, manufacturing costing, Book

Keeping, Annual financial statement Generation,

Liaising with auditors, Tax filing

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