Prakash Kumar
MBA (Finance)
Consultant: Financial Accounting & FSCM(TRM,CTRM,BCM & IHC).
SAP Office Location
SAP Service Delivery Center
8th Floor, RMZ Ecoworld Plot C1, 8A Campus
Bangalore – 560 103, India
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He is Master in Finance. He is SAP professional with more than 16 years of total experience which includes 14 Years of consulting experience in SAP .
He has a unique combination of business and systems experience. With his functional and adaptive skills he has delivered successful business solutions in different lines of business and regions.
His expertise also includes cross-functional knowledge on other modules of SAP.
He has worked in Seven end to end implementation projects (4 of them as FI/FSCM Lead) and three application implementation project.
He has also been a part of various other smaller assignments as an expert on niche solutions of SAP e.g. Solutions in R/3 Consolidation,In-house cash, Bank communication Management, Commoditiy management, Hedge Management Accounting and Analyzer etc.
SAP Experience – Summary
-Five full cycle implementations - Project planning through post go-live support.
-17 years of ERP experience including 14 years as SAP Financial Accounting, Contract Accountign, controlling and 8 years as FSCM(IHC, BCM & TRM) Solution Consultant.
-Experience in various modules of FI,FICA and FSCM including AP, AR, GL, Fixed Assets, IHC, BCM and TRM across various industries.
-Exposure of MM and SD intergaration in line to commodities trade and its hedge management.
-Lead FI, FSCM and R/3 Consolidation track for a joint venture company of Dow chemical and ARAMCO in saudi arabia.
-Commodities and finacial transaction Management.
-Indepth integration knowlede backed by good understanding of Hedge Management and TRM Analyser.
-Integration of TMS and IT2 with SAP.
-Proficient in ASAP and AGILE implementation methodology
-Knowledge in RDS and A2O Methodologies.
SAP Project Experience – Detail
Customer The Peninsula Hong Kong
Duration
Sep 2019 till today.
Company
SAP India Pvt. Ltd.
Industry
Hotel Industry
Project Description
S4HANA – BAM, Cash & liquidity and Treasury Implementation
Role
Sap Solution Architecht - FICO/BAM/CM/TRM
Responsibilities/
Deliverables
Global Templete Preparation for followign sub Module.
oBank Acconunt Managemnt
Bank Master
Multi Bank Integration (MBC)
Cash Application with ML.
oCash And Liquidity Management
Cash pooling.
Cash exposure from all opration.
oTresury and Risk Management .
Debt and Investment
Forex management
Derivatives Management (IRS & CCIRS)
Trade Finance
Hedge Management of Exposure.
Market Data Interface
Trade terminal Interface
Blue printing, design relisation UT and UAT testing going on !
Customer Airline (Colambia Domestic Airliance)
Duration
Oct 2018 Aug 2019.
Company
SAP India Pvt. Ltd.
Industry
Airline Industry
Project Description
S4HANA – Financial and Treasury Implementation
Role
Sap Solution Architecht - FICO/TRM
Responsibilities/
Deliverables
BBP workshop completed and design realisation for following areas.
oDispute Management (FIN-FSCM-Dm) : Setting of collection and Dipsute management .
oAccount Recivables and Interfaces for revenue accountings.
oBank account management paymant and Bank Communication Management.
oAircraft lease accountings and acquisition.
oTreasury and risk Management for finacial and fuel(Commodity) product.
Dispute Management (FIN-FSCM-DM)
oDisplaying Dispute Cases in Dispute Case Processing
oCreating Dispute Cases in Dispute Case Processing
oDispute Case Processing via Workflow
oMaking Mass Changes to Dispute Cases
oDispute Process Integration with Accounts Receivable Accounting
SAP Bank Communication management (FIN-FSCM-BCM)
oMerge payments
oApprove payments
oPayment status monitor
oBank statement monitor
oDisplay incoming status messages
oReservation for cross-payment run payment media
oStatus of collector payments
oDefine alerts
oBank interface/swift integration.
Lease Contract Management (TRM)
oDeal Capture
oProduct types:
Money Market
Fixed-term deposits (e.g., overnight
deposits at notice)
Floating rate investments
Any cash flows for Bank Guarantees
Debt Instruments
Fixed rate loans
Floating rate loans
Annuity loans
Facilities (bilateral or syndicated)
oOperating & finance lease enhancement in Debt & Investment management
oStanding Instructions
oOnline Limit check (linkage to CRA)
oPosition Reporting
Risk Management
oHedge Risk with Financial Instruments
oPerform Hedge Accounting
oMonitor hedges- and effectiveness.
Customer Capita UK.
Duration
Feb 2018 to Oct 2018.
Company
SAP India Pvt. Ltd.
Industry
Service Industry
Project Description
S4HANA – Financial and Treasury Implementation
Role
Sap Solution Architecht - FICO/TRM
Responsibilities/
Deliverables
BBP workshop completed and design realisation, UAT, Cutover and hyper care for following areas.
Credit Management (FIN-FSCM-CR) : Setting of credit limits and controls with additional functionalities like scorecards, automatic determination of limits, workflow, etc.
SAP Cash and Liquidities :
SAP Cash position management
The Liquidity Forecaster management
The Liquidity Planner tools for entering and adjusting, aggregating and evaluating planned cash flows, and for determining actual values.
SAP Bank Communication management
Approval of Payment
Payment Batching
DMEE configuration.
In-House bank (FIN-FSCM-IHC) :
Introduction to In-House Cash.
Objective of In-House Cash
Advantage of In- house Cash
In house cash organization structure.
Master data of In-House cash.
In-House Cash Process.
Internal Payment with In-House Cash.
POBO (External Payment on Behalf) with In-House Cash.
Periodic Activities.
Integration with SAP Bank Communication Management
Integration with SAP General Ledger
Customer Agro Industry
Duration
Oct 2017 to Jan 2018.
Company
SAP India Pvt. Ltd.
Industry
FMCG
Project Description
S4HANA – Financial and Treasury Implementation
Role
Sap Solution Architecht - FICO/TRM
Responsibilities/
Deliverables
BBP workshop and solutioning for following areas given :
Treasury and Commodities Risk management :
Treasury & Risk Management (TRM)-Master Data
Business Partners
Securities Master
Securities Account Master
Comodities market data
Commodities Intrument : (Derivaties)
Forward contract
Future
Option
Treasury & Risk Management (TRM)-Money Market
• Create Fixed term deposits
• Create Deposit at notice
• Create Commercial Paper
• Create Interest Rate Instruments
Treasury & Risk Management (TRM)- Securities
• Create Equity Transactions
• Create Mutual Fund transactions
• Approve securities transactions
• Exercise Security rights (Exercise/Reverse)
• Generate correspondence /Deal slips
• Update incoming confirmation (Matching) for correspondence
• Account Securities transactions
• Payment (outgoing/incoming) for securities contracts
• Post accrual/deferral for securities contracts
• Post Dividend, Interest, Instalment repayments and other receivables.
• Corporate Actions
• Post valuation for Securities instruments
• Impairment of Securities
Treasury & Risk Management (TRM)- Borrowings
• Managing of Borrowing as separate subledger
• Generating repayment schedules
• Generating Cash flows
• Loans on Fixed and variable rate of interest
• Withholding tax deduction on Interest paymentsBilling document status
Financial Risk Management – Hedge Management
Exposure Management of exchange rate and its hedge accounting.
Position management of comodities price and its hedge accouting.
Overview Report, Prospective Effectiveness Assessment, Exposure Expiration Report, Hedging Relationship History.
Customer Post Bank – South Africa
Duration
Feb 2017 till Oct 2017.
Company
SAP India Pvt. Ltd.
Industry
Bank Industry
Project Description
S4HANA – Financial and Treasury Implementation
Role
Sap Project Lead- FICO/TRM
Responsibilities/
Deliverables
Understand Business Processes through workshops with Business Process Owners for following areas.
New GL Accounting(S4HANA).
Assets Accounting (New).
Project system.
BAM(Lite)
Bank Interface Integaration.
Treasury and Risk Management (TRM)
Short term Investment/Borrowing using Money Market tools(Bonds)
FX financial instruments (Spots, Swaps, Forward exchange) Derivatives (IRS, FRA, OTC Currency Options).
System Configuration and testing.
Training and cutover activitie carry over.
Customer Philips - Europe
Duration
Nov 2016 till Feb 2017
Company
Wipro Technology.
Industry
Manufacturing Industry
Project Description
S4HANA – Global template rollout.
Role
Sap Project Lead- FICO
Responsibilities/
Deliverables
Enterprise Structure Set-up.
Gap Analysis.
Pokering and RPS session co-ordination.
Scrum team build and realization of user story.
UT,UAT and SIT co-ordination for two sprint.
Customer Petney Bowes
Duration Aug`2015 till Nov`2016
Industry
Manufacturing Industry
Project Description
TRM, BCM and IHC deplaoyment for : Release -I (USA and canada region). Release – II (Europe region)
Role
Project lead for TRM, BCM and IHC.
Responsibilities/
Deliverables
Understand Business Processes through workshops with Business Process Owners for following areas.
Bank Communication Management (BCM),
Treasury and Risk Management (TRM)
Hedge Management and Accounting.
Credit Risk Analyzer.
Cash and Liquidities management.
System Configuration and testing.
UAT and user training.
Cut-over activity planning and Master data migration.
Go-live and Hyper care support.
Customer Sadara (KSA)
Duration Oct 2013 to Feb 2015.
Industry
Manufacturing
Company
Accenture India Pvt Ltd.
Project Description
Implementation, ECC 6CAr00,
Role
Consultant for FI & FSCM
Responsibilities/
Deliverables
Responsibilities:
Understand Business Processes through workshops with Business Process Owners.
System Configuration and testing.
UAT and user training.
Master data migration and Cut-over activity planning.
Go-live and Hyper care support.
Sub Module:
New GL implementation with parallel accounting and Closing cockpit.
Consolidation implementation for following subtask.
-Apportionment.
-Inter-unit elimination.
-Currency Translation.
-Investment consolidation or reclassification.
Bank Communication Management (BCM)
Treasury and Risk Management (TRM)
-Short term Investment/Borrowing using Money Market tools(Bonds), FX financial instruments (Spots, Swaps, Forward exchange). Derivatives (IRS).
Cash and liquidities Management.
Hedge Management and Accounting.
Customer Cargill Foods - USA
Duration Feb 2011 to Sep 2013
Industry
Foods and commodities.
Project Description
Rollout and hyper care support, ECC 600,
Role
Functional Consultant for RTR and TRM.
Responsibilities/
Deliverables
Plant rollout configuration and testing for FI & CO side.
Ticket resolving for RTR, IHC and TRM.
New requirement deployment through Change management.
Simulation demo of new functionality in front of BUs.
User manual documentation broadcast for new changes.
Changes update over solution manager.
Customer Uttam Galva Steel Ltd.
Duration Feb 2012 to Sep 2013 (Parellel Activities)
Industry
Steel industries (UGSL)
Company
Accenture India Pvt Ltd.
Project Description
TRM and Fund Management
Role
SME support for TRM and fund management
Responsibilities/
Deliverables
Reviewed the Business Process involved.
System Configuration and testing.
Cutover activities planning.
Go live and hyper care.
Customer Himachal Pradesh Power Corporation Ltd.
Duration July’11 till Jan ’14
Company
Accenture India Pvt. Ltd.
Industry
Hydro Project construction
Project Description
FICO
Role
Development lead consultant.
Responsibilities/
Deliverables
Reviewed the Business Process involved.
GAP Identification,
Development for reporting and testing.
Propose development demonstrate to business.
Customer LNG Petronet.
Shashun Pharmaceutical Ltd.
Wipro technology.
Duration Jan 2010 till June 2011
Company
Wipro Infotech.
Project Description
Change management, Business process automation and support .
Role
FICO Consultant
Responsibilities/
Deliverables
Requirement discussion with BPO and BPE.
Customization.
Demo to business.
Move the changes over production system and support.
Customer
University of Petroleum and Energy study
Duration
Jan 2008 to Dec 2010
Industry
Education
Project Description
Implementation, ECC 600 Campus Module
Role
FICO Consultant for Financials, Asset Accounting and FICA
Responsibilities/
Deliverables
Gather Information and documented it.
Configure Contact accounts ES.
Configure and test the flow of FICA and FICO integration.
Student Fee calculation and FI reconciliation.
Cash journal set-up for cash disbursement.
Cash desk configuration for student fee receivable & security refund.
Withholding Tax calculation and submission Process.
Report desk board development to address statutory and Exe. Board member presentation.
Customer/Duration
(ER&DCI), IT Ministry (Govt. Of India)
Duration
Oct`06 to March’08
Project Description
NECTER to SAP ECC.6 Migration.
Role
Consultant for Financials
Responsibilities/
Deliverables
Understand existing Landscape and interfaces through system access and user discussion.
Understanding current Business process.
Mapping to SAP 4.7 from NECTER.
Configure AR and AP process area.
Configure Assets accounting and Bank accounting.
Training material creation and training to users.
On-behalf of CDAC also participated in corporate training.
General Information
Academics
Bachelors of Science from BBAB University
Professionals affiliations or certifications
Master in Finance from Maharishi Institue of Management.
Citizenship
Indian
Consultant’s home Location
Bangalore (India)
Languages
Written and Spoken English, Written and Spoken Hindi