Arun Kumar Kanapathi Nadar Vijayan (L* - Valid till 17th Feb 2025)

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Career Objectives:

To excel as SAP FICO Business Consulting & Finance by offering most appropriate and complete financial & controlling solutions to organizations.

To work with complete dedication for achieving organizational and personal goals.

Professional Summary:

Having 11 Years of SAP ERP experience; of which 7 Years in consulting, support, configuration, and project management. Remaining 4 years in financial accounting, reporting as an SAP end user & super user

Possess good domain experience on industries like Logistics, Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, Retail and Semiconductors

Support and implementation experience in of SAP GL, AR, AP, FA, CO, CCA, PCA and PS

Specialized in the functional area of SAP FICO, and conversant with integration of FI - CO, MM, SD, and PS

Strong background in various Internal and external reporting tools like BW, BPC, BO BOFC, HFM and one stream, and in various upstream applications

Hands on experience in agile and waterfall methodologies, worked on various IT and Business application like Jira, Focal point, Service now, Solution Manager, HP QC, HP ALM, Blackline and Spotfire

Experience in ASAP project implementation methodology and test case creation

SAP Financial and controlling implementations – 2; Roll outs – 6; Support projects – 3

Employment Details:

Business Process Advisor with Maersk GSC from 08th May 2017 to 8th July 2020

SAP FICO Consultant with Shell Business Operations from 15th July 2013 to 5th May 2017

Period End Analyst – GL with Capgemini from September 10th Sep 2010 to 12th July 2013

Worked as an Intercompany Accountant with Infosys from 01st July 2009 to 9th Sep 2010

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION:

M.B.A from Anna University Trichy, India. Graduated in April 2009 with 69%.

Bachelor of Commerce from Madurai Kamarajar University, India. Graduated in April 2007 with 70%.

Professional Experience:

Maersk Global Service Center, Chennai, India

Business Process Advisor: 8th May 2017 to 8th July 2020

Custodian for overall SAP ERP system Finance functionalities. Responsible for any new developments & enhancements to existing SAP functionalities and process design

Writing Jira user stories and prioritizing projects based on business criticality. Presenting and getting approval from Solution Architect and Searing committee for development

Involve in discussion with CFO’s, process owners, product owner, solution architects, technical team & SAP end users during new implementation, legal changes, tax requirements & system issues

Liaise with finance and IT community to help timely resolution of issues to ensure smooth book close and reporting activities

Ensuring adequate process handover and support for SAP End Users through proper training and documentation

Perform / Support integration & regression testing. Test scripts preparation for UAT, reviewing and sign off UAT for transporting changes to production environment.

Pre and post go live support for end user and super user community & conducting training sessions

Worked with audit team, in control standardization and to bring in new controls wherever required

Preparation of process maps and SIPOC’s for process standardization, new process & change in process

Some important Projects Handled:

Acted as a test manager in EHP6 to EHP8 SAP ECC upgrade project. Representing Business IT team; managed IT enhancement consultants, Upstream Business application leads and 100+ End Users from various streams like operations, AP, AR, GL & internal and group reporting

New company code set up for Vietnam, Italy, and Mauretania

TRAX - Automatic payment, EBS and IHB implementation for Italy and few Latin-Americans Countries

Implementation of E-invoicing solution for Italy and Taiwan

Key member in the project team for automating part of customer contract creation, AP MM and FI invoice posting though LSMW functionality which resulted in process efficiency and reduction of 20FTE’s

Designed SIPOC’s & Process maps for various processes with high integration between various upstream and downstream Business applications for new activities arise out of business strategies and legal changes

Was part of New ERP evaluation project. Interacted with other ERP (Workday, Sage & Blujay) experts and sales team. Did product feasibility study and submitted reports to IT Management Committee

Shell Business Operations, Chennai, India

SAP FICO Consultant, 15th July 2013 to 5th May 2017

Client : BG Shell North Americas & Latin Americas

Project : Development

Period : June 2016 – May 2017

System : SAP ECC 6.0

Project description:

Shell announced the successful completion of British Gas Merger valuing $ 52 billion USD by mid of Feb’2016. The acquisition was majorly targeted to strengthen Shell’s global presence as an energy company. Talks on BG and Shell system integration started early Q2’2017, post which phased integration were scheduled based on Geographical locations.

Job Responsibilities:

AS-IS Analysis: Understanding the existing business processes, identifying the non-value-adding events, understanding differences in processes in various locations

BPR Activities: Mapping the existing processes to Global Best Practices (GBPs), Standardizing the processes amongst various locations, analyzing the processes available in SAP software, Identifying the gaps between AS-IS and TO-BE processes. New Ledger Functionality for Multi GAAP reporting for IFRS, and US GAAP

Configured AP and AR module including the Account Groups / Number Ranges, Automatic Payment Program, integrations to MM for various material movements and its Account determination

Data migration using LSMW (Vendor, Customer, cost objects and line-item report)

Automatic Payment Program configuration- Creation of House banks, Payment methods, Determination of GL’s, Variants for Check payment and Payment advice. EBS setup and performed end to end testing

Automatic Account Determination for GR/IR, Bank Clearing Accounts & Down Payments.

Asset Accounting- Asset Class, Depreciation Keys, Automatic Determination of Asset GL during acquisition, Depreciation, Sale of Asset etc.

Defining and mapping profit center and Cost center hierarchies & Setting up Assessment and Distribution Cycle

Practical knowledge of configuring the requirements to SAP Project systems (PS) module & setting up the organizational structure and global settings using IMG.

Preparation of test scripts for unit testing, integration testing and UAT to validate the data before transporting them to production system.

Building standard hierarchies and setting up allocation and distribution cycle based on business needs

Pre and post go live support for end user and super user community.

Client : Shell Upstream Americas

Project : Project Management, Rollout & Testing

Period : Oct 15 – May 2016

System : SAP ECC 6.0, Business Objects, Blackline, Spotfire

Project description:

Shell kick started the introduction of new internal reporting, reconciliation tools, and upgradation from Business Warehouse to Business Objects. Involved in driving the project and ensured data alignment from SAP front.

Job Responsibilities:

Verifying project progression and coordinating with multiple teams on the development and deployment deadlines and ensured project go-live as per schedule.

Responsible for Plan, Analyze, Design & Build test cases and prepare test scenarios.

Ensuring defects raised by the testers are addressed on time by the development team and initiated re-testing before signoff.

Conducted training programs along with the development team for user community

Go live support for end user and super user community.

Client : Shell North Americas & Latin Americas Upstream Entities

Project : Support and Rollout

Period : July 2013 – Sep 2015

System : SAP ECC 6.0

Role : Handling Incidents and small enhancement for North American Entities

Operational Support to end Users and resolution of escalated issues

Extensive support for users during Month end closing on issues raised on closing routines.

Managing validation and substitution table in SAP to avoid validation errors during financial consolidation (External Reporting) and for internal system controls

Setting up Assessment and Distribution Cycles and fixing month end issues relating to it

Resolving P1 P2 incidents and preparation of impact analysis document for business review

Resolved Lockbox, DMEE and Bank files issues at the time of month end closing

Handling small enhancements though service request and upload supporting document to HP QC

Worked in creation of Bank master data, vendor and customer master, Automatic payment program. Dunning area configuration and in Cross-functional module like (FI and SD integration, FI and MM integration. Involved in Closing activities in Finance and controlling area.

Capgemini Business Services, Chennai, India

Period End Analyst (General Ledger & Group Reporting), 10th Sep 2010 to 05th July 2013

Client : Coca Cola Refreshments

Period : Feb 2012 to July 2013

Region : North America

Role : User Access Management, Testing and Training

Performing Period end Closing, Group, and Internal reporting

Deductions Management – Analyzing customer short payment and work on issue resolution

KPI Reporting & Handling process queries relating to General Ledger accounting

Custodian for Financial Master data creation activities relating to Cost Element, Cost Center, Profit Center and maintaining standard hierarchies

Perform UAT for new developments on bank, Company code creation & tax changes

Reviewing and authorizing security access for end users and Business communities & periodic SOD review

Client : NXP Semiconductors

Period : Sep 2010 to Jan 2012

Region : Asia

Role : General ledger Accounting and Period End Closing

Fixed Assets Creation / Capitalization / Sales / Scrap / Depreciation Execution

Handling month end & Year end activities

Executing and reviewing month end auto- revaluation and posting manual adjustments

Managing SOX Audit and conducting periodic internal and external control reviews

Preparing BCS load files, clearing validation errors and performing SAP vs BCS reconciliation

Bank Reconciliation & Balance Sheet account reconciliation

Preparing and Posting of Journal entries

Infosys Ltd.,

Intercompany Accountant, 01.07.2009 to 09.09.2010

Client : Philips

Period : July 2009 to Sep 2010

Region : North America & Latin American Entities

Role : Managing Intercompany Accounting activity (AR and AP)

Performing bank reconciliation and preparing documents for SOX Audit

Executing intercompany payment. perform overdue analysis & payment block analysis

Ensure accuracy in invoice processing, quality check and back up creation

Performing balance sheet reconciliation & Intercompany balance confirmations during month end

Vendor and Customer master data management.

PERSONAL DETAILS:

Date of Birth : 11th Aug 1986

Passport & VISA : Z4928458 (valid till 15th July 2029); L2(Valid till 17th Feb 2025)

Fathers Name : Vijayan Kanapathi Nadar

Marital Status : Married with one kid

E-Mail Id : adt46o@r.postjobfree.com

Present Address : 837, Terrastone PL, Cary NC - 27519

India Address : 6/41, Packiam Street, Anuppanadi, Madurai - 625 009, India

Preferred Location : North Carolina, Atlanta, Virginia & Remote Roles across US

Place:

Date: (Arunkumar KV)

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