bharath manan

 

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
â?¢	Senior SAP FI/CO consultant with over 7+ years of experience with expertise in Treasury, In-House Cash, Transaction Manager, Asset Accounting, GL, AP & AR.
â?¢	Consultant for Financial Management processes. Gathered SAP Finance and Treasury experience as a user and consultant over several years. Responsibilities include Business Process Analysis, Design, Implementation and support of various SAP R/3 projects carried out at different locations of the world. Gained hands on experience in customizing, preparing end user documentation and test cases. Strong business knowledge in Financial Management & Financial Accounting environment as well as in Financial Services. Worked as a senior Executive in Capital Markets, Investment Banking and Hire Purchase & Leasing. 

SAP Skills: 

Treasury:  Configuration including Electronic bank statement, US lockbox, Cash polling, cash position, liquidity forecast, money markets (lending/borrowing), foreign exchange deals, AP F110 payment program, TR F111 payment program, and cash concentration.
 
Asset Management (AM):
â?¢	Configuring Chart of Depreciation and depreciation areas
â?¢	Configuring Integration with FI General Ledger, Financial statement version for Asset reports etc
â?¢	Asset Valuation including Special value adjustment to Assets through Investment support
â?¢	Setting up the system for depreciation calculation, includes ordinary depreciation, Special depreciation, unplanned depreciation and different valuation methods based on the customer specific requirements
â?¢	Dealing with special Valuation including Reserves, Investment support, Revaluation of Fixed Assets, Interest, Preparation for consolidation, Leased Assets
â?¢	Asset Master Data configuration, including Asset classes, Screen layout rules, Account determination and definition of Validation and Substitution rules
â?¢	Dealing with Inter Company Transfers and making necessary system settings in sending and receiving company codes, which include Depreciation & Parallel Currency settings

Financial Accounting: 
General Ledger: Configuring and Customizing the GL account master records, chart of accounts, Account Groups, Field Status Groups, financial statement versions, House Bank configuration, and bank account. Payment Program (FBZP) Interest Calculation, Payment terms, Account Clearing
A/P and A/R: Configuring and Customizing vendor/customer master records, account groups, tolerance groups, country/company code specific payment methods, automatic payment programs for outgoing payments, dunning, bank settings, check management, reason codes, interest calculations, Special G/L Transaction (FBKP) and Credit Management

Controlling: 
Cost Center Accounting (CCA): Maintain Controlling area, version, number ranges for CO document, Configuring and Customizing the cost elements, creating cost centers, standard hierarchy, cost centre group, cost element group, repost line items and assessment process configuring
Profit Centre Accounting (PCA): Maintain CO area settings for PCA, creating dummy profit centre, setting control parameters for actual data, maintain plan version, creating profit centre, assigning profit centre to cost centre

ABAP
Good Knowledge of ABAP and ability to analyze the requirements and developing program specification for delivering the solution.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY 

Union Pacific, Omaha						August 2007 to till date
Role: Treasury and FSCM consultant
	Aim of the project was to implement ECC 6.0 SAP Financials project.
Responsible for Preparing Blue print, process description and design documents for Cash Position, Liquidity forecast,  Electronic Bank Statement, Manual Bank Statement, Money Market and Debt Management functionality 

AIG, New York						March2007 to July 2007
Role: Fixed Assets, Treasury and FSCM consultant
	Aim of the project was to implement Treasury and FSCM (In-House Cash) solution.
â?¢	Responsible for setting up In-House Cash solution (FSCM)
â?¢	Integrate the In-House Cash (FSCM) with Accounts Payable and Treasury Cash Management.

IPG, New York						April2006 to Jan 2007
Role: Consultant â?“ FI-TR consultant
Aim of the project was to develop and Roll-Out a template to various Agencies and Corporate.
â?¢	Responsible for Treasury Management Business Process documentation AS-IS and TO-BE 
â?¢	Working with IPG Cash Management and Treasury Department for understanding current business process and to present SAP solution. 
â?¢	Gathering technical and functional requirements for Electronic Bank Statement and Cash position, Liquidity Forecast. 
â?¢	To test the configuration of Electronic Bank Statement, Cash position and Liquidity Forecast 
â?¢	Bank Reconciliation Statement (Automatic and Manual) 
â?¢	Coordinated setting up the Interface between Kyriba (Legacy Treasury System) and SAP
â?¢	Detailed Concept presentation on Corporate Finance Management (CFM) including Transaction Manager, In-House Cash (IHC), Portfolio Analyzer, Market Risk Analyzer and Credit Risk Analyzer
â?¢	System Demo for Transaction Manager Components of CFM including, Money Market, Foreign Exchange and Derivatives.

Accenture, Plano, Texas						Feb2006 to April 2006
Role: Consultant â?“ FI
Aim of the Project was to create 37 new company codes and setup Chart of Accounts and Fixed Assets for their Spin-Off unit.
I was responsible for setting Chart of Accounts in different clients and company codes, Configuring and testing Fixed Assets, Creating Profit Centers and Cost Centers for all the new company codes.  
As a part of FI_TR Cash Management, Created source symbols, planning groups and planning level for Cash Management and Liquidity forecast. Assigned internal MM and SD transactions to planning level, configured GL account structure for clearing accounts, created treasury grouping, treasury headers and cash management account names and tested the configuration. 

Siemens US Filter, NJ					         September 2005 to January 2005
Role: FI-TR-CFM Consultant

Aim of the project was to streamline the business processes and upgrade the solutions in the area of Financial Accounting, Treasury and Corporate Finance Management.

â?¢	FI-TR:   I am Responsible for implementing TR-Cash Management processes including Electronic Bank Statement, Lockbox, Cash Pooling, Memo Records, Cash concentration, Cash Position and Liquidity Forecast.

â?¢	FI-CFM: In an effort to streamline the Internal Payment processing of Siemens and to ensure Liquidity, Portfolio and Risk Management CFM-IHC (In-House Cash) and CFM-TM (Transaction Manager) including Money Market, Foreign Exchange, and Derivatives components were implemented. I was responsible for Concept presentation; Configuration and Knowledge transfer in the area of SAP-CFM.

â?¢	FI-AR: Currently we are in the process of upgrading, Streamlining and integrating the entire FI-AR Processes with our Business Partners with regard to complaints pertaining to Billing, Credit and Payments. To enable numerous invoices/Credit Memos of customers, reduce long processing time for Invoice-related and payment related complaints from customers. In this regard making necessary configurations in FI-Accounts Receivable, Credit Management including integration with SD, Periodic Processing including Dunning (F150), Payments (F110). As a perfect solution currently workshops being conducted, knowledge transfer is taking place to implement my SAP Financial Supply Chain Management functionality.

Siemens Energy and Transportation, Belgium  		            July 2004 to Aug 2005
SAP FI Consultant

Aim of the Project was to integrate several business units, processes and solutions within the one SAP system and one company code.
Main Tasks: I was responsible for setting up a new company code, configuration of FI-TR, configuring Inter-company clearance processes, Bank accounts, cash management including cash position and Liquidity forecast, Data Take-On activities, preparing the system and data migration. Additionally, two workshops have been designed and conducted for Treasury and CFM functionality at customerâ?™s site with detailed explanation on Transaction Manager, In-House Cash functionality and Cash Budget Management.

â?¢	GL/AR/AP- Customer master records, vendor master records and GL master data. Data cleansing both Master data and Transactional data. Open Item processing, setting up the Payment program and correspondence. Configured additional terms of payment, reason codes and tax codes, created new GL accounts.

â?¢	FI-AAâ?“ created additional Asset classes, depreciation areas, Asset master data. As several company codes were merged, data migration was a primary topic. Setting up conversion rules, making the necessary master data and customizing changes to enable to take over data from legacy systems. LSMW was used for data migrating. Conducted consistency check through several Asset reports and tables. 
â?¢	Treasury â?“ Created source symbols, planning groups and planning level for Cash Management and Liquidity forecast. Assigned internal MM and SD transactions to planning level, configured GL account structure for clearing accounts, created treasury grouping, treasury headers and cash management account names and tested the configuration.
â?¢	Interacting with End user to understand requirements.

Siemens Medical Solutions and Building Technology, Finland 	Nov 2003 - April 2004
SAP FI Consultant

Aim of the Project was to legally merge several business units into Siemens. 
Main tasks:  I was responsible to streamline the Business Processes, Customizing and Data migration, as well as conducting Gap-Fit Analysis and providing solutions for FI functionality covering all the data objects including GL, AR, AP, AA, Bank Accounts, Customer and Vendor master data and Transaction data.

â?¢	Gap analysis: Each process scenario was linked to a set of SAP standard processes. Gaps were identified between SAP standard processes and desired process scenarios. Necessary process changes and workarounds were suggested.  
â?¢	Provided functional resource on troubleshooting, day-to-day basis for SAP R/3 FI. 
â?¢	Configured and tested General Ledger Accounts (GL), AP, AR. 
â?¢	Interacted with client to define General Ledger (GL) account groups and assigned number ranges to these account groups. 
â?¢	Supported user community for FI related modules.
â?¢	Maintained Master Data and structures for Cost Center Accounting, General Ledger, Internal Orders, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable. 
â?¢	Responsible for full production support of GL, AA, AP, AR modules.  
â?¢	Defined tolerance groups, tolerances for employees, customers and vendors.  
â?¢	Defined customer account groups and created customer master data for accounts receivable. 
Configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments for company codes in Accounts Payable (AP&AR).
â?¢	Maintaining Controlling Area, configuring and customizing cost elements, cost centers, standard hierarchy, cost center group, cost element group. 





Siemens IT and Business Solutions Asia Pacific, Bangkok 	     Sep 2003 â?“ Nov 2003
SAP FI-TR-CFM Consultant

Role: Application Management Consultant FI-TR-CFM
Aim of project: Support FI-TR-CFM implementations, Configuration, Knowledge transfer, conducting workshops on TR and CFM Functionality.
Main tasks: Worked in the area of FI-TR-CFM. Responsibilities include conducting workshops for prospective customers from Japan, Singapore, Korea, India and other regional companies. Topics include comprehensive presentation of CFM functionality, Concept & System Demo for Transaction Manager including money market, Foreign Exchange, Derivatives and Securities, a detailed knowledge transfer for In-House cash, Market Risk Analyzer, Credit Risk Analyzer and Portfolio Analyzer.

Extended configuration support for General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Accounts receivable covering G/L accounts, Account Groups, Field Status, Customer Master Records, and Invoices â?“ Postings, Incoming Payments, Partial payments, interest calculation, Dunning program, and Dunning procedure integrated with Sap Script.

Asset Management (AM)
â?¢	Configuring Chart of Depreciation.
â?¢	Master data configuration, Screen layout rules and Account determination.
â?¢	Configuring Intra-company Transfers of Assets, especially cost center transfers.
â?¢	Depreciation adjustment and write-ups etc.
â?¢	Fixed Assets retirement.
â?¢	Inter-Company Transfers, configuring receiving company code to enable to transfer asset data from sending company code.

Siemens Business Services on mySAP Financials 		    Sep 2002 â?“ Aug 2003
SAP FI-TR-CFM Consultant

Role:  Consultant â?“ FI/CO/CFM/TR
	Aim of project:  Set up different scenarios for Treasury and CFM functionality.
Main Tasks: Preparing presentations and setting up different scenarios in the system for CFM in SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.7, in order to being able to present it to the potential customers. Topics include a General Presentation on CFM functionality & Integration with BW, Transaction Manager, In-House Cash, Market, Credit and Portfolio Risk Analyzers.

Financial Accounting Module:
â?¢	General Analysis of business requirements, determining organizational structures and classifying business units/locations as company codes.
â?¢	Identifying and configuring currencies in which accounts are to be managed at Group/Company code level. Defining currency conversion factors and maximum deviations per currency and for each company code.
â?¢	Grouping the companyâ?™s vendors and customers to define dunning areas.
â?¢	Configuring fiscal year variants and posting period variants.
â?¢	Configuring for inter-company code transactions.
â?¢	Defining document types and number ranges, field status variant and field status groups for determining field status.

Configuring for G/L:
â?¢	Defining chart of accounts, account groups and general ledger accounts for each company code. Creating Bank Master data, House banks, G/L accounts in different currencies for each bank account and creating reconciliation accounts for vendors and customers (in foreign currency and local currency).
â?¢	Making settings for automatic procedures in payment programs and for interest calculation on account balances and line items.
â?¢	Creating account assignment models for recurring entries.
â?¢	Customizing for recording transactions involving special G/L indicators.

Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable:
â?¢	Grouping vendors and customers by company code including identification of nature and volume of business transactions.
â?¢	Creating vendor and customer master and specified number ranges.
â?¢	Identifying one-time vendors and defining a separate screen layout for them.
â?¢	Configuring for vendor who is also customer/trading partner.
â?¢	Configuring for different payment terms, with day limits where required and specification of baseline date.
â?¢	Configuring for automatic interest calculations on account balances/line items.
â?¢	Configuring the Dunning program according to the client requirements.
â?¢	Configuring for posting bills of exchange, for security deposits and for guarantees given.

Asset Management (AM):
â?¢	Configuring Chart of Depreciation.
â?¢	Depreciation areas and Depreciation keys.
â?¢	Configuring Purchases of Assets: Master records, Purchase order and postings, further issues of goods for fixed Assets.
â?¢	Configuring Intra-company Transfers of Assets.
â?¢	Depreciation adjustment and write-ups.
â?¢	Fixed Assets retirement.
â?¢	Inter Company Asset Transfers, a transfer of Asset values between company codes.
â?¢	Automatic transfer of Gross/Net values, Manually Transferring the Gain/Losses between the company codes. 
Controlling: 
Cost Center Accounting (CCA): Maintain Controlling area, version, number ranges for CO document, Configuring and Customizing the cost elements, creating cost centers, standard hierarchy, cost center group, cost element group, repost line items and assessment process configuring
Profit Center Accounting (PCA): Maintain CO area settings for PCA, creating dummy profit center, setting control parameters for actual data, maintain plan version, creating profit center, assigning profit center to cost center

SBT ERP Implementation, Switzerland                  		Apr 2002 to  Jul 2002
SAP FI and TR Consultant

Role:  Consultant â?“ FI and TR
Aim of the Project:  Developing a Template that can be rolled out to different locations of Europe. 
Main Tasks: Design business blue print for the entire financials, including treasury - cash management. Configuration and customizing documentation was part of my tasks. This project has given an excellent opportunity to gain a thorough understanding of business process in finance & at the same time helped in improving specific skills in the areas of general ledger, Asset accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash management, including cash concentration and liquidity Forecast.

Asset Management (AM):
â?¢	Configuring Chart of Depreciation.
â?¢	Depreciation areas, Depreciation keys, and various valuation methods to meet the country specific requirements, mainly tax postings.
â?¢	Master records, Purchase order and postings, further issues of goods for fixed Assets.
â?¢	Depreciation adjustment and write-ups.
â?¢	Creating additional Asset classes and making the changes to the existing once to meet the customerâ?™s requirements.
â?¢	Configuring various Transaction types for Asset Acquisition, Transfer and Retirements.
â?¢	Configuring Screen layout rules and Account determination.

Siemens AG, Germany        					Sep 2000 to Apr 2002  
SAP FI Consultant

Role: Consultant FI
Main Tasks: Responsible for FI application and process consulting during Implementation phase of Spiridon R/3, covering all aspects of General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and Asset Management and Investment Management. Responsibilities include Solution Development, Customizing, testing, and Roll Out to different customers along with documentation. As a member of Delivery Management I visited customers in various countries like Austria, Spain, Switzerland to present and support the Implementation of Spiridon Solution.

General Ledger: Defining organizational elements in SAP, i.e. Company codes, business area. Defining chart of accounts; Basic configuration of the system in the areas of: global settings, organizational structure, company code definition, taxes with jurisdiction code levels, pricing procedures, validation and Substitution, account groups, field status groups, line layouts, documents, open items clearing. Customizing document types, posting keys, posting periods, document number ranges. Customizing for financial statements (Balance sheet and income statement), foreign currency valuation, recurring entries
Accounts Receivable: Defining customer master data, terms of payment, tax codes, and Industry codes; Customizing for customer invoices, incoming payments, partial payments, reason codes, payment advice notes; Customizing for balance confirmations, interest calculation; writing specifications for customer reports
Accounts Payable: Defining vendor master data; Invoice verification; Defining automatic payment program, check management; Settings for invoices and credit memos
Cost Elements: Creating cost element, cost centers, hierarchy thereof, and activity type, activity rates, posting and reposting of cost, assessment & distribution cycle. Defining key identification for distribution of cost 
Profit Centers: Creating of costing sheets, Valuation of inventory, Creation of costing collectors, Settlement structures/rules, and Result analysis. 
Profit Center Accounting: Creation of Profit centre, Profit centre group hierarchy, posting and reposting rules, Distribution cycle. 
Integration: Definition of valuation classes and account assignments. Configuration & account determination for various movement types.

Asset Management
â?¢	Configuring Chart of Depreciation.
â?¢	Configured various Depreciation areas, Depreciation Keys and Control methods.
â?¢	Master records; Purchase order and postings, further issues of goods for fixed Assets.
â?¢	Configured Siemens AG specific posting logic, which is different from Standard SAP logic. For this additional reports were used.
â?¢	Configuring Intra-company Transfers of Assets.
â?¢	Depreciation adjustment, write-ups and Revaluation.
â?¢	Fixed Assets retirement.
â?¢	Configuring Sending and Receiving company codes to enable Inter Company transfer. These company codes were within Siemens Group but different legal entities.

Siemens Health Services, Germany 				     Mar 2000 â?“ Sep 2000  

Role: Team member in SAP International Sales & Project Implementation 
Main tasks: Responsibilities include developing R/3 Demo System for International Customers, Presentations, Business Processes and Concept Development, Solution Development, Customizing and Implementation of Finance Module of SAP R/3. During this period Projects were implemented mainly in the Healthcare Market. As a part of the team implemented a Healthcare Project at University Hospital, Regensburg, Germany

Nagarjuna Capital Markets, India				Oct 1994 â?“ Jan 1998

Role: In charge Portfolio Manager
Nagarjuna Capital Markets is involved in Financial Services and Private Banking activities. As in charge of Portfolio Management, I was responsible for Stock Market Operations, buying and selling of shares, Collection and disbursement of funds, Asset Management, and other Private Banking and Treasury operations.
Involved in the activities of Hire-purchase & Leasing, Personal Financing, extending the Credit Facility to Corporate clients in the form of Inter Corporate Deposits etc

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP
ABAP
	SAP R/3 FI/CO 4.6, CFM 4.7, FSCM 6.2
Overview

 

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
 
1	BS in Commerce, India
2	Masters in ERP & IS, Brandenburg University, Germany



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