D NIRANJAN PATRO

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Experience Summary

A result oriented financial and accounting professional with functional and management experience in the Finance, Accounts and Taxation department of Aditya Birla Group Company as well as Essar Group Working in SAP for the last more than eight years.

Over 24+ years of experience including 12+ plus years as SAP R/3 FI/CO consultant

Expertise in configuration and customization of FI (GL, A/P, A/R, AA,SPL)

Strong working knowledge in Controlling (CCA, OM, IO, PCA, PC) and B/W modules.

Expertise in configuration and customization of MM & SD Modules

Strong knowledge in SAP Funds Management

2 complete implementation lifecycles and 2 small scale implementation lifecycles

Extensive experience Two Full life cycle large implementations in SAP Configuration.

Strong Post Implementation support 24/7

Excellent communication and inter personnel skills. Proven ability to work independently and team environments.

Excellent domain Expertise in cement, Steel Manufacturing Sectors

Worked in Modules MM, SD, PS, PM, CIN & PP with connections to FI-CO

SAP R/3 Expertise:

Complete life cycle implementation experience in the following modules:

FICO Module

Materials Management Module

Sales & Distribution Module

Plant Maintenance Module

Worked in Full life cycle implementations, Rollouts, Support and Upgrade projects.

Extensive experience in configuration and testing of FI/CO modules -GL, AR, AP, Fixed Assets, Treasury, Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Orders and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA). Product costing (CO-PC) and Special purpose Ledger

Integration of FI with MM and SD with Procure to Pay and Order to cash Cycles

Reporting tools like Report Painter, Report Writer

Through understanding of a customized SAP system

Through understanding of SAP system from business process, cross functional and integration view points

In-depth knowledge in configuration, implementation, ASAP methodology, system design and development and gathering user requirements

Experience in Blueprint, Configuration, Unit, Stress, Volume, Regression, User Acceptance and Integration Testing, Training, Documentation and Production support.

Special emphasis on Data Migration specifications with BDC, Legacy System Migration workbench (LSMW) for data uploads for various SAP Projects

Extensive experience in developing specifications for Interfaces and Custom Reports

Good knowledge in ABAP debugging techniques to work with user-exits and cross applications

Excellent in working with posting validations, substitution rules, forms, interfaces (ALE & EDI), user-exits, and reporting tools

Active member in conducting the team meetings, Customer feedback meetings & self-assimilation programs.

Involvement in the GAP analysis, ASIS & TOBE processes, BPR studies, and flow chart documentation, presentation to the management team and time & job scheduling.

Involved in the planning, conceptual design, configuration, prototype presentation, testing and documentation of user manuals of FI/MM/SD module. Played key role as a member of the team interacting with the process owners, top management and users

Providing Post Implementation Support in SAP FI/MM/SD/PM Modules

Resolving the various types of problems faced by the users.

Testing of transactions and Reports.

Preparation of Functional specifications and guidance to ABAP consultants

Providing training to end FI/MM/SD/PM Modules

SAP EXPERIENCE

Project Details:-

Project #2

Organization : Accenture Consulting

Role : FI & MM core team leader representing Essar Steel

Client : ESSAR STEEL LIMITED, HAZIRA

Team Size : 25 (Twenty five)

Period : Dec 2006 to April 2008

Client Profile : Essar is a diversified business corporation with a balanced portfolio of assets straddling the manufacturing and services sectors: Steel, Energy, Power, Communication, Shipping & Logistics, and Construction. EGL, through its six sectoral holding companies, has an enterprise value of over US $ 50 billion (INR 200,000 crores) and employs 30,000 people worldwide

Job Profile

As a FI & MM Module Leader representing Essar Steel Limited involved right from AS-IS study till project GO Live.The job profile involves requirement gathering, discussions with top management and end users, preparation of AS-IS, TO-BE, Business Blue Print documentation, testing, discussions with ABAP and Basis teams for Report development as well User Authorizations etc.,

Supporting teams, Business Process Managers and end users in all SAP related matters.

Conducting quality assurance activities.

Developing test scenarios

Organizing key user training sessions.

Interfacing between the SAP IT team and key users during the SAP rollout.

Responsible for any changes within the SAP system.

Defining new master data structures.

Integrating SAP activities with other IT areas to ensure successful implementation of projects.

Interacting with technical experts from other fields.

Areas of Expertise:

Experience of all aspects of the SAP application lifecycle.

Effective in leading change management

Product Costing & Profitability Analysis

Integration of FI with SD and MM modules

Customization of all CIN related activities

Funds Management

Project #1

Organization : IBM Computers

Role : FI core team member representing Grasim Industries

Client : GRASIM INDUSTIRES LIMITED, Chennai

Team Size : 12 (Twelve)

Period : Aug 2005 to March 2006

Client Profile: A US $28 billion corporation with a market cap of US $31.5 billion and in the league of Fortune 500, the Aditya Birla Group is anchored by an extraordinary force of 100,000 employees, belonging to 25 different nationalities. In India, the Group has been adjudged "The Best Employer in India and among the top 20 in Asia" by the Hewitt-Economic Times and Wall Street Journal Study 2007. Over 50 per cent of its revenues flow from its overseas operations. The Group operates in 20 countries: India, Thailand, Laos, Indonesia, Philippines, Egypt, China, Canada, Australia, USA, UK, Germany, Hungary, Brazil, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Malaysia and Korea.

Job Profile

As a FI team Leader representing Grasim Industries Limited involved in the project right from beginning to project go live. Got Expertise in the following areas

General Ledger:

Accounts Payable

Accounts Receivable

Asset Accounting

Cost Centre Accounting

Profit Centre Accounting

Product Costing

Profitability Analysis

Integration with MM, SD Modules

CIN Module for Central Excise activities

Debugging activities

Data Migration activities

Performing Testing of development objects

Interaction with end users for UAT

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

ICWAI(cl)

MBA Financial Management from Andhra University

DFM from IIAM, Bangalore

B.Com Costing from Andhra University

Professional Experience:

Essar Steel Limited, Visakhapatnam

Aug 2006 to till date

Dy.General Manager

Essar Steel is the largest steel producer in Western India and has full control over the entire process of manufacture from iron ore to ready-to-market products. Essar Steel is India’s largest exporter of flat products.

Present Job responsibility

Heading Costing, Budgeting & Accounts finalization section

Time to time implementation of new developments

Development of ABAP Report functional specification and get it done through ABAP Team

Periodic review of Roles, profiles & authorization of end users & consultants

Providing SAP supporting in resolving day to day SAP related issues in respect to FI/CO/MM/CIN & SD modules

Training to end users on new developments

Grasim Industries Limited., Cement Division - South Jan 2002 – Aug 2006

Sr.Officer ( F & A)

Grasim Industries Limited., is a blue chip company of Aditya Birla Group having 8 Cement unit across the country. They have implemented SAP 4.0B Version in all the units. During 2005-06 they have decided to upgrade the version to 5.0 (Mysap) with a plan to integrate all the units under one plant by adopting Profit center accounting (PCA). My role in this integration is Module leader representing Grasim to support IBM team for implementation.

Having 17+ years rich experience in Finance Department in the following areas:

Finalization of Accounts

Cost Audit & Tax Audit Reports

Insurance

Indirect Taxes i.e Excise, Service Tax & VAT

Analysis of MIS Report Budget Vs Actual variances

Planning & Budgeting Exercises

Raw Material Costing

Imports & Export Accounting

Liaoning with Banks for CC Limits, BG, LC matters

Other Strengths:

Sharp analytical ability and quick grasping capabilities

Effective training capability

Sincerity, commitment, motivation and ability to plan for the assignments undertaken

Ability to work well in a team, team building and leading a team

Ability to understand the core issues and identifying the weak areas with a view to improve upon the same

Have excellent organizational and management skills

Effective communication skills

Birla Periclase (A Division of Indian Rayon and Industries Limited) May 1992 – Jan 2002

Officer ( F & A)

Project Accounting

Risk Management

Sales Tax Matters

Indirect Taxes i.e. Excise, Service Tax & VAT

LC & BG matters

Personal Information

Full Name : D Niranjan Patro

Father’s Name : D Patro

Date of Birth & Age : 24.03.1968 & 47 Years

Martial Status : Married

Passport No. : J3960110

Address for Communication : 9-9-118/1, First Floor

Mangapuram Colony

Visakhapatnam-530 017

Andhrapradesh

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