Priyabrata RaySAP FICO CONSULTANT. Phone : +91-9831805339Email: priyabrata.ray@gmail.com

priyabrataray@rediffmail.com Objective:

Professional Synopsis and Areas of Expertise:

Qualified professional with cumulative experience of 14.5 years, comprised of about 4 years of SAP FICO functional experience and 10.5 years of domain experience in Accounts and Finance.

8 month of T&E [travel and expenses] Exp. – Configuration, Testing & Defect Management

Two ‘Full life cycle’ project Implementation experience with Testing & post “Go-Live” support.

8 month of In-house Cash. Implementation – Testing & Defect solutioning

Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interact with Management, staff & client at all levels.

Possess excellent conceptual & working knowledge in SAP FICO and core Financial Accounting.

Analyze client’s business requirement and identify the areas for improvement to provide viable business solutions through SAP.

Worked out various business scenarios through integration with other integrated modules of SAP namely Human Resource, Material Management and Sales & Distribution modules.

Got good hands on experience in FICO-Basic Configurations, Testing & support.

SAP Skills:

Good hands-on experience in key skills like T&E, In-house Cash, Asset & Product Costing.

Strong Exposure to T&E – Configuration, Testing & Defect solutioning.

Strong Exposure to In-house Cash. Implementation – Testing & Defect solutioning

Worked across FI modules like New G/L, Assets, In-house Cash, T&E, Release Strategy & Product Costing.

Good exposure in mapping Organizational elements as per client business scenarios into SAP Integrated Environment.

Good at Basic Configurations, Master Data creation and testing various business transactions.

SAP-FI settings for General Ledger Accounting by configuring Chart of Accounts, Company Codes etc.

Data migration and upload through various LSMW – Creating as per project requirement. Versed with testing tools like HPQC & support tool like Triole.

Seeking a challenging position to utilize my skills and abilities in areas of SAP functional development, which offers a professional growth while being resourceful, innovative and flexible

Technical Skills:

ERP Package : SAP R/3 4, 4.7, ECC 6.0 Version.

Application Package : MS-Office’2013(Excel & Word)

Versed in using all Windows Platforms.

Soft Skills: Enthusiastic, goal oriented, Quantitative, Logical & Analytical abilities.

Good oral, written communication abilities and good interpersonal skills.

Self motivated, independent and willing to perform multiple and cross-functional tasks with ability to work in and motivate team.

Work Experience:

Organization : IBM India Pvt. Ltd Client : British American Tobacco (BAT) (12.06.2014 to 08.05.2015) Project : Template Rollout Project Role : SAP Functional Consultant. Environment : SAP ECC 6.0.

British American Tobacco (BAT) having its Headquarters located in London, UK. BAT employs around 60000 people approximately. It is the 2nd largest tobacco company by market share of 13%. It has its brands sold in more than 180 countries and its leadership in more than 50 markets. It provides more than 250 brands. Global Brand includes Dunhill, Lucky strike Rothmans etc. Role & Responsibilities:

Was part of two entire cycle (DG3 & DG4) of implementation comprise of Designing, Build, Unit Testing, and Integration Testing & Hyper-Care.

Configuration & then Execution of various test scenarios across modules like Transactional Finance (New G/L), Assets, T&E, Release Strategy and Product Costing.

Configuration, master data creation [through IDoc] and test execution of all the possible scenarios of Travel and Expenses – Cost Centre, WBS Element, Different types of credit card [AMEX, VISA, Master Card].

Configuration and master data creation of Release Strategy. Knowledge on Project Systems that includes creation of the master data and the WBS. Configuration and execution of Asset accounting scenarios (Acquisition, Retirement, inter-

company transfer etc.) Maintaining the master data of G/L s, Cost center, Profit center and Number range etc. Part of various Manual Build activities. Creation & Data upload using with LSMW. Competitive knowledge acquired on Product Costing through testing. Provided Hyper-care or post go-live support using tools like Triole. Handling & Solving defects at various stages of the project.

Organization : IBM India Pvt. Ltd Client : AP Moller Maersk [SWITCH Project] (April’2013 to

March’2014) Project : Implementation & Support. Role : SAP Functional Consultant. Environment : SAP ECC 6.0.

The project SWITCH was a five quarter project [started in January’2013], which is driven by different parts of the business in Maersk Line and consist in heavily modify our process accompanied by an improvement in SAP platform to achieve better and faster financial information.The SWITCH actually provides Maersk Line business with timely and accurate data for decision making by delivering global standardized processes enabled by one global IT system. Through standardization, simplification and automation, SWITCH will improve not only timeliness, consistency and accuracy, but also do it in a cost-effective and scalable way.

Role & Responsibilities:

Worked on Implementation, Testing & Support for In-house cash. Configured the Enterprise Structure, FI-Gl & other various FI business processes through system

integration with other functional module i.e. MM. Maintained the prerequisites such as creation of Customer/Vendor Groups, Document Number

ranges and Payment configuration etc in AR & AP Module. Configured & customized House bank & Bank Reconciliation A/C, Manual bank statement,

Automatic Bank statement Migration of data through LSMW – Vendor, Customer, GL.

Organization : IBM India Pvt. Ltd Client : Total E&P SAP Upgrade Project. (From Sep 2011 to Mar 2013) Project : SAP Upgrade Project Role : SAP Functional Consultant. Environment : SAP 4.6c, SAP ECC 6.0.

TOTAL E&P is one of the largest Oil Company in whole world. SAP is being updated from 4.6C to ECC 6.0 in all the geographical locations using two different templates – UNISUP & SALSA.

Role & Responsibilities:

Creation of Test Script Templates – Integration, Unit. Process Change Documents, Delta Document [Difference in 4.6c with ECC 6.0 – specifically in FI-GL, FI-AP and FI-AR].

Dual Maintenance Work – CR & Configuration in ECC 6.0 with Functional Unit Testing. Was also responsible for effective communication between the project team and Client taking

personal ownership of the solution builds & defect free delivery. Part of various Manual Build activities during go live. Handling & Solving defects at various stages of the project.

Organization : IBM India Pvt. Ltd Client : Fast track project (IBM internal Implementation). (From July 2011

to Sep 2011) Project : Implementation & Support Role : SAP Functional Consultant. Environment : SAP ECC 6.0.

FASTTRACK is a unique initiative launched by IBM India to impart SAP consulting and project delivery skills to its SAP functional consultants who have sound business knowledge and industry experience.

As a part of this program, the SAP FASTTRACK Simulation Project has been launched with the

objective of imparting the experience of a real life SAP implementation project to these consultants through a simulated project environment.The project includes implementing SAP ECC 6.0 and Solution manager 4.0 in a model company involved in manufacturing automobile accessories and industrial products:- Product range: lead acid battery and related accessories- 2 legal entities, 8 Manufacturing Plants, 50 Branch Offices

The business case for the model company and the project structure has been designed and developed by very senior and experience SAP consultants and project managers, drawing from their own real experiences. They are also managing the project execution and in the process monitoring and grooming the new consultants to help them develop their consulting skills following IBM specific project delivery methodology (Ascendant).

The simulated implementation project includes: SAP modules: Sales & Distribution (SD), Material Management (MM), Warehouse Management

(WM), Finance (FI), Controlling (CO), Human Resource (HR) Technical skills for functional consultants: Functional specifications for ABAP developments

(reports, enhancement, data conversion etc), inputs to SAP security / Authorization design Major business processes of a typical Engineering and Auto Ancillary industry All the major phases and deliverables of real life SAP project such as Blue printing, Realization,

Cutover, Go-Live and post Go-Live support – covered over a period of 3 months under stringent delivery deadlines.

Role play of Client Business teams and stake holders by the senior IBM managers and executives

Role & Responsibilities: Understanding the As-Is business process (based on the business case and role plays) Preparation of Business Process Master List, To-Be documents Gap analysis Arranging process validation workshop and getting sign-off of “To-be” document Preparation of development functional specification. Co-ordination with technical team for object development System Configuration Unit testing and Integration testing Test problem resolution. Authorization design and coordinating with Security team for role build. Creation of User Training manual. Co-coordinating User Acceptance Test Post Go-live support.

Organization : IBM India Pvt. Ltd Client : Nestle (From May 2005 to July 2011) Role : SPOC - Cost recovery for Nestle Project

Role & Responsibilities:

Cost Recovery: His Collecting/Validating/Analyzing of cost data (All types of cost - Labour, Non Labour, GDOS Payment, Shift Charges, Oncall Charges, TP Adder Charges, Infrastructure Cost) Reporting to Business Finance through Residual Billing System ; Reconciliation of cost data; Revalidating in Inter Company Service Billing System for cost billing; Reporting to GD managers and Account Team; Resolving Issues with the Business Finance and the Geo Team.

ICA Tracking: Tracking all ICAs/BMS IDs and their respective billing for labour and non labour are tracked in an excel template for the year. It tracks the all ICAs/BMS Ids related to the Nestle Account and tracks all type of billing viz; Auto billing of labour, and Non labour billing and reconciliation with the ISB and the balance for the ICA duly matched with the balance in the CIAS.

Other MIS - YTD Onsite Realization for Nestle Project & Tax file Calculation: Both reports done in monthly basis. Onsite Realization is required to reconcile the time booking in ILC & gTime. Tax file is prepared for current month.

Other Admin work/coordination: Workitem creation; Autobilling initiative, ICA creation, Validation & Tracking for Nestle Sustain Teams Data Card Charges, Monthly Validation, Reconciliation with the service Provider, Cost Recovery and Payment.

Also doing the billing & finance related work for Lantheus Medical & Ace Hardware.

Providing training/KT session for new joinees for financial processes and methods.

Achievements in IBM:

Received BRAVO award from IBM India Pvt. Ltd consecutively 3 years (2005, 2006, 2007)

In 2009 received “The Best of Our Account “from Nestle Globe for outstanding achievements and tireless efforts in the Nestle account for the year 2007.

Organization : Weizmann Forex Limited Kolkata Branch Duration : From August 2004 to April 2005 Role : Branch Accountant cum Cashier

Role & Responsibilities:

Responsible for total Accounts of Kolkata Branch Keeping liaison with different branches ( Cannaught Place Branch , Bangalore Head Office ,

Indore Branch etc) Statutory compliance like payment of TDS , various norms of Reserve Bank of India for Book

keeping Finalization of Accounts. Routine work like the Role of Cashier , creating vouchers, supervision of payments ( Stray

Customers, Business Customers , Agents etc ) making Western Union Money Transfer Transactions

Daily Fund Management , preparation of daily reports and sending it to Chairman & vice President of the Company

Making Travel Insurance for Travellers through Bajaj Alliance Handling Statutory Auditors & Internal auditors. Preparation of Stock Statement (currency notes, USD cards, travelers’ cheques etc.) of different

Banks, all types of reconciliation. Aging analysis for debtors and creditors and taking necessary actions. Reconciliations of customer and vendor accounts and also BRS.

Organization : Varma & Varma (Chartered Accountants), Bangalore Branch Duration : January 2004 - August 2004 Role : Audit Assistant

Role & Responsibilities:

Played active role in Statutory Audit of Weizmann Forex Ltd (Corporate Office, Connaught Place Branch, Nehru Place Branch, KG Road Branch, and Residency Road Branch.)

Internal Audit with ERP Exposure (AS 400) in TYCO Electronics Corporation India Limited , System Audit & Internal Audt for Snowman Frozen Foods Limited

Physical Verification of Stock in various assignments: IVP Limited, Snowman Frozen Foods Limited , Cinch Connectors Limited, Trigem India Limited

Organization : A.K Sarkar & Associates (Chartered Accountants) Duration : September 2000 - October 2003 Role : Audit Assistant

Role & Responsibilities:

Was responsible for Preparation of Monthly, Quarterly and Statutory Audit reports of United Bank of India, Allahabad Bank etc

Revenue Audit of different Banks. Was responsible for Internal Audit & Tax Audit for Webel Nicco & Corporation. Was involved in Preparation of Accounts of Employee Welfare Trust for Nicco group Was responsible & involved in Fixed Asset Verification & Preparation of Fixed Asset Database

of IISCO Collieries (Ramnagar, Dhanbad etc.)

Organization : De Chakraborty & Sen (Chartered Accountants) Duration : August 1997 - August 2000 Role : CA Articleship

Role & Responsibilities:

Played active role in Statutory Bank Audit of Allahabad Bank (Patna Zonal Office, Bhagalpur & Chinsurah Office.

Played active role in Concurrent and Statutory audit of Balmer Laurie & Co, CMPDIL. Central Cottage Industries Limited.

Involved in Cash/Bank/Journal/Purchase/Sales Vouching, Ledger Scrutiny, Physical Cash and Securities verification, Bank reconciliation statement and also analysis report on monthly and quarterly Purchase and Sales results OIL India Limited

Regular verification of Salary, incentive records, conducting Stock audits of the organization where advances has been made (Alliance Venture Capital Ltd.)

Academic Qualifications:

Degree : CA Intermediate Examination – May 2000Institution : Institute Of Chartered Accountants of India

Degree : B.Com [Hons.] - 1997University : Calcutta University

Institution : Maharaja Srischandra CollegeSubjects : Accounting & Finance Division : 1st Degree : Higher Secondary Education -1993Board : W.B.C.H.S.ESchool : Tamluk Hamilton High SchoolSubjects : Science Division : 2nd

Degree : Madhyamik Examination - 1991Board : W.B.B.S.ESchool : Tamluk Hamilton High SchoolDivision : 1st

Achievements:

Represented school and college in Quiz.

Hobbies and Interests: Hobbies- Philately and Numismatic. Reading books and articles.

Personal Details:

Date of Birth : 23rd August 1975.Gender : Male.Languages Known : English, Hindi and Bengali.