Rajesh Narayanan

SUMMARY:

Over 6 years of functional experience with 4 years of in hand SAP (FI/CO Functional)
experience.

Hands-on designing, configuration, testing and documentation experience with FICO

(G/L,
AP, AR, CO)

Extensive exp. on SAP FICO and Integration with SD, MM and SAP Business
Workflow.

Excellent Project Management exp. (duration of project, budget estimates, resources,

tasks, and change management issues etc.) with complete Project Life Cycle experience using
different methodologies like ASAP, Power and Fast Track.

Strong understanding of the business processes, technology, project planning, and

translation of business requirements into SAP solutions.

Worked in SAP new releases and implementations in major Oil and Gas, Aviation,
Cement,
Automotive and Chemical industries
SAP SKILL SET:
SAP R/3 FI/CO - Configuration and Implementation (Successfully implemented two full cycle
implementation)
FI Module: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, and Accounts Receivable.
CO Module: Cost Center Accounting, Cost Element Accounting, Product Costing.
Excellent Accounting and Finance knowledge acquired during MBA and further developed while
working
at different clients in India and US
Cross Functional Module integration of FI/CO/MM/SD
RELATED SKILLS:
MS word, Excel, Visio and Power Point
ASAP implementation Methodology
EDUCATION:
Master of Business Administration (Finance)
Henry B. Tippie School of Management, University Of Iowa, USA
Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronic)
Bharatidasan University, India

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Client: ConAgra Foods Jul 2002 till Date
Role: Senior FI Consultant SAP
This project involved conversion of Oracle Finance in to SAP R/3 system for implementing and
Customization of SAP R/3 4.6c FI/CO. As a senior team member I was involved in
implementation and
customization of FI/CO Modules. In this project my responsibilities included:

Prepared and reviewed Business Process Procedures (BPPs) for GL, AR, AP, CO-CE
and
CO-CA.

In General Ledger (FI-GL) involved in Customization and Configuration of GL

Accounts,

Account groups, retained earnings account, tolerance groups, posted G/L Accounts document.

In Accounts Receivable (FI-AR) involved in Customization and Configuration of

Customer
Master records, interest on arrears, account balance calculation on account balances / line items,
foreign exchange calculations, automatic payment program, Dunning program, Special GL
transactions, credit management, deduction Management, actual postings and so on.

In Accounts Payable (FI-AP) involved in Customization and configuration of the Vendor

Master Records, designed balance confirmations, account statements, and other forms of reports
to
suit your requirements in business correspondence with vendors, assigned authorizations for
users,
created expense accounts, configured for automatic outgoing payments

Involved in developing test scenarios, executing and error correction for integration
testing in
FI/CO area with SD.
Environment: SAP 4.6C, FI, CO-CE, CO-CA, SD, MM
Client: BP Chemicals Oct 2001 till June 2002
Role: Senior FI Consultant SAP
The Project involved customization of SAP R/3 4.6C and implementation across all enterprises in
US.
The application included SAP R/3 FI, CO, SD and MM Modules. I was involved in the
implementation of
FI/CO applications.
Responsibilities:

Developed Business Process Design Roadmap to establish strategic design

standardization
across implementation (with modules FI, MM, and SD).

Responsibilities included design, configuration, and testing in the areas of accounts

payable, general ledger, fixed assets, cost center planning, internal orders, business areas,
validation
rules, account determination, and foreign currency valuation, house banks, and payment program

Configured US company code and parallel currencies to support US Dollar.

Responsible for loads of fixed asset master records and fixed asset balances. Also
assisted
in loading of cost center plan data using upload designed for that purpose.

Performed end-user training on financial accounting functionality.

Provided solution to business area production issue involving intercompany balances

and
cash disbursements.

Worked with ABAP developers and business process owners to perform data cleansing
and
build cross-reference tables for vendor master load. Also worked with developer to design and
test a
SAPScript for local check printing using a MICR encoded font.
Environment: SAP 4.6C, FI, CO, SD, MM
Siemens Information Systems Ltd. (SISL) India 1998-2000
SISL - Business Solutions has pioneered the SAP implementation in India, being the thrust area
of its
business. It is preferred National Implementation partner for SAP in India as well as Value added
Reseller for sale of SAP licenses in India.
Projects:
Releases: SAP R/3 3.1H through 4.6B
Client: GEC ALSTOM, Chennai
Role: FI Team Member

Did entire cycle of understanding structure and business processes of organization relating it with
standard processes of SAP R/3 3.1H, reorganized existing structure, processes and implemented
it in
SAP R/3 System by way of configuration and customization. Mapped business processes to
SAP.
Configured and tested GL, AR, AP, C0-CA and CO-CE modules.
Other Responsibilities included:

Configured the provision for doubtful debts in FI-AR including the Special G/L for the
old line
items.

Determined methods for calculating the provision for Bad Debts, Liquidated Damages,
Damages in Transit etc.

Developed for Field Exits to stop payment of additional advances through special G/L
indicator.

Configured the Dunning Procedure in the system and tested and released it for
transports.

Configured Interest on Arrears without G/L posting and with SAP-script formats for
informing
the Customers of the interest chargeable on their overdue outstanding.

Configured Asset Classes, account determination, G/L accounts master data, assigning
them to the Depreciation areas etc and then transported them to the production client after
successful
testing.
Client: ITC Limited, Kolkata
Role: FI Team Member
I was involved in configuring some special G/L Accounts and providing training on FI module to
the end
users.
Training program included:

Creation of Company Code

Creation of Chart of Accounts

Creation of FI org structure like credit control area, business area , Fiscal year variant,
document configuration, Tax procedure configuration etc

Configuration of G/L module account group creation, tolerance groups and master
data
creation , line layout and screen layout configuration, transactions postings, automatic clearing ,
inter
company transactions configuration , business area adjustment account for monthly closing ,
financial
statement versions, negative postings , interest calculation on G/L balances , Validation and
Substitution rules etc.

Configuration of A/R and A/P module: Credit management, Tolerance groups, Open
item
clearing , Dunning Procedure, account group creation, line layout configuration fort sort key,
terms of
payment, configuring accounts for outgoing payments/incoming payments and open item
clearing,
reason codes configuration, Configuring Automatic Payment Program, Special G/L transactions,
interest calculations on open items, Foreign Currency valuation, regrouping of line items

Configuration of Bank module: Define House banks, Bank chains, Cash journal, Bills of
exchange transactions.

Configuring the Asset Management Module: Creating Chart of Depreciation, Asset

Classes,
assigning G/L account to asset classes, Screen layout for master data, depreciation Areas, Group

Assets Configuration, Accounts for Posting Depreciation, Depreciation Key configuration,

Acquisitions,
Retirements, Transfers, Revaluation of Assets, Capitalization of Assets, assets data transfer.

Configuring the TDS portion in the CIN version 4.0. The Tax types, tax codes, setting
up the
Company code, in the IMG settings upto the Account Assignment, configuring accounts with the
Excise Transaction Groups, In J1IT configuring Business Place, Clearing accounts for
Provisions,
Number ranges for Remittance Challans and Tax Certificates etc

Configuring Bank Statement Electronic and Manual Bank Statements. Creating

business
transactions, creating account symbols, assignment of accounts to account symbols including
masking of accounts, defining posting rules and assigning them to the posting keys, account
symbols,
defining variants for manual bank statements, creating special transaction types for Electronic
bank
Statement uploading, assigning them to the posting rules etc.
Client: Carrier Aircon Ltd, Gorgon
Role: FI Consultant/Coordinator
I was involved in providing support during 4.6B SAP R/3 implementation.
Some of the highlights of the issues resolved in the FI module are:

The Dunning Procedure for the entire company.

The Interest Calculation procedure on Open items of Accounts Receivables.

The Foreign Currency Valuation of Open Items and Account balances by configuring
the
valuation Procedure, the exchange gain and loss accounts for the exchange rate keys,
configuring the
valuation and the adjustment accounts for valuation loss and realization/translation gains and
losses
etc.

The Balance Confirmation Procedure for the Company as a whole in liaison with ABAP
development.

The configuration of Automatic Clearing of GR/IR procedure in FI-GL area

specification of
the selection fields which was not configured earlier.

The bill of exchange configuration and processing in FI-AR by configuring the

Reconciliation
accounts in the Special GL., bank charges accounts, bank sub accounts etc. The Configuration of
Adjustment and Target accounts for Sorting methods in FI-AR.

Accounting for taxes like Octroi (input taxes) at the sales condition type level.

Transactions like Excise Balance Transfer for Capital Goods, posting excise invoices,
tax
deducted at sources under the EWT module etc.
OTHER EXPERIENCES:
Internship
Client: Rockwell Collins
Role: Sourcing Analyst

Established sourcing strategy for specific types of components by researching current

market trends, and evaluating current and potential suppliers

Conducted sourcing review for Connectors, renegotiated existing contracts with more
than

20 suppliers, and achieved savings of over $400,000

Reviewed the current Spend Pattern and formulated micro and macro level strategies

Extracted and analyzed past and future requirements from SAP and formulated
SupplyBase strategies.

Successfully developed commodity and negotiation strategies with suppliers

Developed a generic commodity pricing model using multiple regressions to estimate

fair
price across heterogeneous product lines
Internship
Client: Henry Fund The University of Iowa
Role: Financial Analyst

Developed a fully integrated investment review, based on a top-down approach

incorporating
extensive economic, industry, and company-specific analysis

Evaluated economic and industry value drivers by researching specific companies for
potential investment

Valued securities using a variety of techniques including: Discounted Cash Flow

Analysis
(DCF), Economic Value Added (EVA), Fundamental Multiple Analysis, and Relative Multiple
Valuation

Served as both sector analyst and portfolio manager, providing basic industry research,
proposing investment ideas and evaluating the ideas of the other managers

Presented the investment thesis to the Fund's Investment Advisory Committee for their
approval
Client: SIEMENS LTD. POWER TRANSMISSION & DISTRIBUTION
1996-1998
Role: Financial Analyst

Analyzed companys monthly financial statements and set targets for regional
executives

Utilized the qualitative approach for sales forecasting (sales force polling, consumer
surveys,
executive opinions)

Determined expected production volume

Estimated manufacturing costs by constructing the factory overhead budget, which

provided
a schedule of all manufacturing costs other than direct materials and direct labor

Estimated operating expenses by developing the selling and administrative expense

budget

Determined cash flow by constructing the cash budget, which helped to anticipate cash
inflow and outflow for a designated time period and also to avoid cash shortages and excessive
idle
cash
Business Development Executive

Researched market and successfully launched Siemens Numeric Relays, Extra High
Voltage Circuit Breakers and new series of Vacuum Contactors

Conducted competitive intelligence and developed pricing strategies for projects

Effectively renegotiated pricing structure and credit lines with suppliers, improving cash
management and resulting in more than 10% savings for the company

Launched retrofitting project which replaced the old technology circuit breakers with
Siemens state-of-art vacuum circuit breakers
Executive Design & Engineering


Standardized electrical schemes for typical products later adopted by all other regions

Developed a user-friendly database for preparing bill of materials, which reduced the
drawing
preparation time by more than 20%

Coordinated SAP front-end module in the region

Conducted internal audits and checked for compliance to ISO standards