GANESH SURYANARAYANAN
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Email: ******.**************@*****.***
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Career Summary
Successfully completed SAP Certification from Siemens, {Certification id-000*******}
Experience of 3 years as SAP FI functional consultant, involved in technical design documentation, and
also for usage of SAP as per business needs
Experience in configuration and customization of SAP FI
Basic understanding of SAP BPC.
Conceptual knowledge in Controlling and Project Systems and HR
2 Years of Industrial experience in Finance Domain, Investment Banking
Excellent communication and inter personnel skills
Been an active CSR member in the current organization for the past 2 years, and have been able to
contribute in the projects that were undertaken
Educational Qualifications
Pursuing MBA from Madurai Kamraj University
Bachelor in Commerce 2005 to 2008
Successfully completed Financial Markets: A beginner’s module offered by National Stock Exchange of
India.(NCFM)
Work Experience
Ness Technologies (I) Pvt Ltd. (October 2011 – Present)
Achievements:
Promoted as the Team Leader in 2014 for the SAP Support Team and the Training and Development
Team
Received appreciation and recognition from Power users and Consultants for successfully conducting
trainings on various business applications namely SAP BI reports, SAP BPC, CRM Work Order
Management etc.,
Nominated by the Client to develop a complete training plan and provide Orientation to New joinee’s in
the SAP Team
Awarded the Best Performer for Q1 and Q2 for the year 2013 for working on the Workforce Planning
Project and for providing E2E training on various sap process for end users across Ness globally
Key Responsibilities
As a Team Leader (from April 2014 – Current)
Currently working as the Team Leader for the SAP Support Team in India, based out of Bangalore.
Responsible for Client Deliverables on projects / Testing / Training
Ensuring the task delegation is complete across the Team adhering as per deadlines of the project
To have Members look into SAP Helpdesk Tickets, for the trend analysis.
Highlights:
Business Planning and Consolidation:
Appointed as a Junior Consultant on the Go live of the New Budget System, SAP BPC for current year
Involved in the Initial phase of requirement gathering for movement from the legacy system BCS to
using BPC for consolidation
Responsible for performing QA testing, conducting UAT for the same and preparation of documentation
for end users to follow the same.
Familiar with concepts of File upload, Audit Trail, Data Access profiles, and Creation of Dimensions and
Model, BPF’s, Working with BPC for excel.
Financial Accounting:
Knowledge of configuring GL
Creation of Master Data details, also including Customer/Vendor accounts groups, number ranges, etc.,
Configuring Automatic Payment Program (APP)
Familiar with Process Runner Application for Financial Postings and managing of user licenses
Conducting Unit testing and Integration testing, analyzed the results and suggesting the
development team if any changes requested.
Asset Management:
Configuring Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Areas and Depreciation Keys
Knowledge of Asset Classes, Asset Number Ranges
Knowledge of retiring an asset in books
Controlling:
Creation of Profit/ Cost Centers, Pricing of activity types, Blocking/Unblocking Profit/Cost Centers
Creation of Cost/ Profit center groups in CO/PC hierarchy and aligning the Profit/ Cost Centers
Creation of Distribution Cycle and aligning Profit/ Cost Centers to it
Project Systems:
Creation of templates for project, WBS elements and standard network for real project creation
Creation of Work centers and indirect networks for cost centers
Performing Mass Changes in Indirect networks for changing work centers, activity types and profit
centers and subsequently releasing the indirect activities for time sheet reporting
Project # 2
Client : Ness Technologies
Organization : Ness Technologies
Duration : October 2012 – December 2013
Role : SAP FI Consultant for Post Go live and Support
Providing second level support to US, Europe & Asia Pacific users across Ness in the form of
tickets that were being raised with 48 hours SLA using Service Now ticketing system
Handling of Support tickets for SAP Finance& Controlling, Human Resource Management,
Project System, Material Management and Sales & Distribution
Handling authorization tickets for need of new roles in SAP. Duties include weighing the
genuineness and prioritization of such requests, unlocking user’s account, extending the validity
dates of the account and providing appropriate roles
Providing user trainings on various applications such as SAP Business Objects, Microsoft
Dynamics CRM 2013, and Ness Budget Systems reports in Business Warehouse
Help users in creating and understanding the live SAP system and the Business Scenarios
Constant interaction with the Consultant/s across various models and Business Solution
Architects on:
The process and the CR/Reports/
Ad-hoc Knowledge Transfer needs
Provided training to over 100 employees on the launch of a new application via Mybiz.
The training helps employees to perform for the Client and help managing of resources
both internally and externally, with the implementation of Workforce Planning system
Creation of Knowledge Base Articles (KBA’S) and Process Guides and for the above
Actively involved in one of the leading Learning Management system (LMS) from Success
Factors
Responsible for conducting the UAT for the requirement and also being trained by the
vendor success factor themselves
Prepared SOP documents and end user manuals on various processes and imparted trainings
Project # 1
Client : Ness Technologies
Organization : Ness Technologies
Duration : October 2011 to September 2012
Role : Implementation (FI consultant)
Understanding the Business process of the Client from Business Process Procedure document
Review of customizing documents and Technical documents
Preparing the tracker for the object status report and updating the same to the PMO Team
FI- AA: Maintaining Chart of Depreciation, Asset Classes and Asset number ranges. Document
Posting and Clearing, Month and Year-end Closure activities to be performed,
Defining Foreign currency valuation Process
CO: Creating Profit/Cost centers, pricing of activity types, and creation of cost center group
Getting to understand the basics of SOLMAN, and understand the process flow of the CR to be
implemented and the Technical Designs
KAAR Technologies (April 2010 - August 2010)
Job Profile:
Enhance support to clients, domestically with complete support on the Financial Accounting
part of SAP
Provide support assistance to International Clients, for all the Global Roll that were carried out
Handling issues via issue trackers for clients for their respective financial accounting related
queries and providing feasible solution as per their business requirements
Goldman Sachs (June 2008-June 2010)
Job Profile:
Adherence to Compliance policies especially in the areas of Intercompany Funding and
Reconciliation as per the statutory requirements.
Processing of Cash Dividend Corporate Action Events for all securities, including American
Depository Receipts (ADR’s) & Global Depository Receipts (GDR’s)
Processing of Cash Dividend payments across to various Counterparties by:
Proper control methods are maintained to as payments are made via SWIFT,
IBAN,CREST &DTC to have the dividends settled
Concept of Client Money Lock up, funds due to external clients, stay unaffected in case of
bankruptcy or other obligations that may arise
Communicating with Client across the globe and meeting their expectations to have sent across
Claim Letters sent across on Pay date with the details of the security and the details of the
traded security gets paid in the global market.(i.e., Pay date)
Declaration
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Place: Bangalore
(Ganesh.S)
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