Name : Barath Jayagopal

Company Name: Ernst & Young LLP

Email : adbvk1@r.postjobfree.com Cell: 860-***-****

Profile Summary

Barath Jayagopal is a widely experienced SAP FI and S/4 HANA consultant with good experience in S4 HANA & Central Finance implementation, upgrade and maintenance projects in SAP. He has built strong business process knowledge across Financial, Sales and Logistics, while working for clients in UK, India and NA regions.

Total 4+ years domain experience and 4+ years of SAP FI Functional Consultant with resourceful experience in configuration, integration and testing of SAP Finance modules.

Experience in configuration of SAP FI modules- Global settings, GL, AP, AR, APP, dunning, Taxes on sales and purchases, Asset Accounting.

Knowledge on New GL, activated new Ledger, Performed document splitting.

Experienced in configuring Cost Element Accounting (CEA), Cost Center Accounting (CCA) and Profit Center Accounting (PCA).

Extensive hands-on experience in the integration of FI with MM and SD modules.

Good understanding of Business processes in Finance and controlling module.

Excellent organizational skills, Self-motivated, hardworking, ability to adapt quickly to the changing environment and needs, and Quick Learner.

Good team Player and coordination with team members.

Strong Problem Solving and Analytical skills with high aptitude to adopt new tools and technologies with ease and seamlessly integrate skills set into the project implementation lifecycle.

Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, to effectively interact with all levels of organization, and prepare required documentation.

Solution Design

Driven standardization and best practice adherence of end-to-end processes for SAP FICO, JVA S/4 HANA in multiple client facing roles including UK, NA and Global.

Has good experience in like IDOCs Jupiter Interface, EDI invoice, NVR Vendor Tool, OB10 Invoices Blackline Interface, MS Dynamics and other third party tool related to FICO and JVA like ZGLSU (General Ledger Spreadsheet Uploader), Winshuttle.

Provided thought leadership in architectural and design decisions for S/4 HANA, Integration, Testing and Data Migration.

Provided training to the users global users spread over the regions of UK, NA, Norway, Denmark and India.

Training the users post implementations of SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA in areas like FI AP, AR process, period closing activities and provided them the user manual.

Training the users to create the Master data relevant for their Business As Usual and making them to understand the processes AS IS.

Educational Qualification

2008-2009- SSLC in Shri Dhanraj Misrilal Surana Jain Vidyalaya Matriculation School, Chennai.

2009-2011- HSC in Jaigopal Garodia National Higher Secondary School, Chennai.

2011-2012- CA-CPT in Institute of Chartered Accountant of India, Chennai.

2011-2014- BCOM in Madras University, Chennai.

Certifications

Application Professional – Service with SAP FI ECC EPH 6.0.

Employment History

Feb 2019 - till date : Associate Consultant at Ernst & Young LLP

July 2018 – Feb 2019 : Associate Consultant at Capgemini Technologies India Private Limited.

May 2017 - Jun2018 : Senior Analyst at Capgemini Technologies India Private Limited.

July 2016 - Apr2017 : Senior Executive – Accounts at CADD Centre Training Services Private Limited.

July 2015 - July2016 : Executive – Accounts at DahNAY Logistics Private Limited.

June 2012 – Sept2014 : Audit Assistant at Royal Security Services.

Project History (only key projects, S/4 HANA, India, GST, India Clients, mainly India based clients)

Project 1: Centrica Energy PLC May 2017 – Nov 2017

Centrica PLC is a British multinational energy and services company with its headquarter in Windsor, Berkshire. Its principal activity is the supply of electricity and gas to the businesses and consumers in United Kingdom, Ireland and North America. It is the largest supplier of gas to domestic customer in the United Kingdom, and one of the largest suppliers of electricity operating under the trading names Scottish Gas in Scotland and British Gas in England and Wales.

Role : FI CO JVA Consultant

Project : Support

Responsibilities:

Core responsibility is to analyze the assigned tickets and providing satisfactory resolution to customer within time frame.

Solving of production problems in General Ledger, Accounts payable, Accounts Receivables and Assets Accounting.

Interacting and guiding the users to their day to day problems in Finance, Controlling and Joint Venture Accounting modules.

Maintenance of Exchange rates.

Assisting in Month End Closing operations.

Analysis of Flow from MM to FI i.e. Goods receipt and Invoice Verification.

Documentation of the issues posted on the detailed document with analysis of the issue after providing solution to the users.

Educated the users on new functionality after enhancements and process related issues.

Providing immediate Training Employees at Various Levels for Document Entry with Concept like Hold Document, Parking, Reference Documents, Simulate Editing and Document Entry screen.

Coordinating with the users on a regular basis.

Update the ticket management tool with resolution details.

Project 2: Centrica Energy PLC Nov 2017 – March 2018

Role : FI CO JVA Consultant

Project : S4 HANA 1610 Migration

Responsibilities:

Responsible for migrating the SAP ECC system to SAP S4 HANA System.

Successfully worked on that data cleansing which is the pre-requisite for migrating to S4H.

Worked on the Customer Vendor integration since the customer and vendor master data has been replaced as Business Partner.

Worked closely with logistics team to resolve the cross modules issues during the Simplification Item check.

Worked on all the pre-requisite configurations and data migration which is the post processing activity using the standard functionality during the cut over period.

Helped the client to perform their Unit Testing on time and helped them to fix the issues then and there.

Conducted various workshops on training the user to SAP S/4 HANA and its functionalities.

I had trained user to new functionalities in S/4HANA in the areas like creating House Bank using the NWBC NetWeaver Business Client. Also trained user on uploading the EBS for Bank Reconciliations.

Project 3: Direct Energy Mar 2018 – Feb 2019

Direct Energy is a North American retailer of energy and energy services. The company was founded in 1986[3] and has more than four million customers in Canada and the United States. Direct Energy is a subsidiary of UK-based utility company Centrica. Direct Energy owns and operates approximately 4,600 natural gas wells in Alberta, most recently acquiring natural gas assets from Suncor Energy and Shell Canada.

Role : FI CO Consultant

Project : Central Finance Implementation

Responsibilities:

Implementation of CFIN is about replicating the posting from ECC to S4/HANA and Non-SAP to S4/HANA system.

Worked on creation of 195 company codes to replicate the posting from source to target system.

Worked on creating all the required Master data mappings like GL, Profit Centres, Cost centres etc.

Worked on all the configurations related to Application interface framework and System Landscape Transformation Servers.

Conducted workshops to train the users how the CFIN works and to monitor the issues and to fix the issues

Performed unit testing all the end to end scenario to make sure that the real-time replication of document works fine.

Project 4: Tractors and Farms Equipment Private Limited

Feb 2019 – May 2019

TAFE – Tractors and Farms Equipment limited is an Indian tractor manufacturer. They’re the 3rd largest tractor manufacturer in the world and 2nd largest in India by volumes. TAFE has had a partnership with AGCO Corporation and Massey Ferguson brand over 55 years.

Role : FI CO Consultant

Project : S4/HANA 1709 Migration

Responsible for migrating the SAP ECC system to SAP S4 HANA System where they 6 instances in ECC and migrated all the 6 to SAP S/4HANA 1709.

Successfully worked on that data cleansing which is the pre-requisite for migrating to S4H.

Worked on the Customer Vendor integration since the customer and vendor master data has been replaced as Business Partner.

Worked closely with logistics team to resolve the cross modules issues during the Simplification Item check.

Worked on all the pre-requisite configurations and data migration which is the post processing activity using the standard functionality during the cut over period.

Helped the client to perform their Unit Testing on time and helped them to fix the issues then and there.

Conducted workshops on S/4 Hana functionalities and made the user to understand the simplified functionalities in S/4 Hana compared to ECC.

Prepared the User Manual on end user transactions and processes which includes the period closing activities and year end activities.

Project 5: Swelect Energy System Limited

May 2019 – Aug 2019

Swelect Energy systems limited formerly known as Numeric Power Systems Limited is one of the leading Solar Power Systems Company with a strong presence in global energy market for over 30 years.

Role : FI CO Consultant

Project : S4/HANA 1809 Implementation

Project 6: Department of Employment and Labor, South Africa

Sep 2019 – Jan 2020

The Department of Employment and Labor is the department of the South African government responsible for matters related to employment, including industrial relations, job creation, unemployment insurance and occupational health and safety. I had involved in their Explore and Design phase of the project wherein I need to understand their AS-IS landscape and process which includes their business process and units. Also, had proposed the design and delivered Blue prints relevant for their Business operations which will be used for their realization phase.

Role : FI CO Consultant

Project : S4/HANA 1809 Implementation

Project 7: AB InBev

Dec 2019 – Till Date

Anheuser – Busch InBev SA/NV, commonly known as AB InBev, is a multinational drink and brewing company based in Leuven, Being. The company was enlarged in October 2016 when AB InBev purchased SABMiller and concluded a merger of the two entities.

Role : R2R SME

Project : S4/HANA 1809 & Central Finance Implementation

Personal Details

Date of Birth : 20.10.1993

Sex : Male

Marital Status : Single

Address : No. 30/34 Dr. Ambedkar Street, Gandhi Nagar, East Tambaram,

Chennai - 600059.

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