Arun Raj

510 415 1994 (C), 408 441 7077 (L) SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant SUMMARY

Over four years of strong SAP R/3 FICO experience as Functional Consultant and five years on experience in Finance/Accounting. Extensive experience in configuration of FI/CO modules- GL, AR, AP, Asset Accounting, CO-CCA and integration across SD & MM . Strong analytical and problem solving skills. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to work effectively in cross-functional team environments. Experience of providing training to business users. TECHNICAL SKILLS Financial Accounting

Controlling Reporting Integration R/3 MS Office Tools

: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting and Special Purpose Ledger. : Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting. : Report Writer, Report Painter, EC-CS for reporting. : FI/CO with SD & MM. : 3.1H, 4.0B, 4.6C, 4.7 : MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS PowerPoint.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Client: Nissho Electronics, CA Jan 2004 August 2004 Role: SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant Sap R/3 4.7 Implementation. Nissho is a fast growing high end electronic goods manufacturer. Very established in the Asian and South East Asian Countries, Nissho is already making its presence felt in the US market. The best among it various alliances is being the leading technology provider to electronics major, Samsung. SAP 4.7 with modules FI/CO (GL, AP, AR, Banking) MM, SD and PS was implemented. GL/AR/AP/AM/SPL/EC-CS Business process Review, Design, Configuration in the areas of GL, AR, AP and EC-CS Configured Chart of Accounts for multi-company code scenario. Tested scenarios for foreign exchange gain & loss on rate differences for revaluation. Created Field Status groups and assigned Field Status Variants. Configured additional terms of payment, payment methods, reason codes and tax codes. Configuration of Credit Management, Dunning procedures, and Bank Accounting. Configured Automatic Payment program for vendors with checks printing. Set up configuration for posting cross company code transactions. Configured integration settings of FI with MM and SD modules. Period end closing operations for Receivables, Payables and G/L Account balances. Developed settings in Special purpose ledger for reporting purposes. Developed various configuration settings in EC-CS, to create parallel reports for 2 different versions. Worked on 2 Dimensions.

 Designed functional specs and tested various accounts receivable reports and coordinated with ABAP development and Business users to fix the bugs. Conducted Unit and User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Client: Gedas Inc, MI Nov 2002 Dec 2003 Role: SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant SAP R/3 4.6c. Gedas is a leading global information technology provider. It has been successfully supporting select industries for 20 years. Gedas develops, implements and operates individual solutions along entire value-added chain. GL/AR/AP/CO/EC-CS: Assisted project team to reconstruct enterprise organization and streamline business process. FI-GL master data preparation, G/l Account creation, setting for processing open items. Configured dunning program Check management with pre-numbered scenario, tested all complex scenarios for check reprinting, voiding, encashment, resetting etc. Complete asset accounting with five depreciation areas including Book, Tax Federal, State, ACE, and AMT with group and company currency as parallel currencies. Responsible for Asset Data Transfer from Legacy to SAP by using Microsoft Excel /Microsoft Access. Configuration settings for Asset under Construction (AUC) and its distribution rules. Developed user defined reports using SAP report writer and report painter. Configured Credit Management for Customers in sales orders & other documents including credit release and its integration with SD. EC-CS Team member. Involved in continuous support for various issues encountered by the business users on a day to day basis. Influenced big changes in the basic configuration. Configuration of cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, cost center standard hierarchies, cost center categories, assessment and distribution settings. Created CCA standard hierarchy, cost element groups, cost element categories like primary cost element group and secondary cost element groups. Client: Wind River, Alameda, CA March 2002 Oct 2002 Role: SAP FI/CO Consultant Wind River is the worldwide leader in embedded software and services. Wind River provides market-specific embedded platforms that integrate real-time operating systems, development tools and technologies. Wind River's products and professional services are used in multiple markets including aerospace and defense, automotive, digital consumer, industrial, and network infrastructure. This Project is to upgrade the SAP R/3 system from 3.1H to 4.6.C Enterprise and to support the existing system in different countries. AP/AR/AM/CO Responsible for the Integration and Unit testing for A/P, A/R and AM. Resolution of issues arising in the area of FI/CO on SAP R/3 for 40 company codes in different countries, USA, Mexico, Brazil, United Kingdom, UAE, Germany, Europe, Asia and Middle East. Maintaining and testing the Data Flow in Cost Centers. Month end closing for different company code in different countries.

Created End user procedures to Document the Business Transactions related to Asset Acquisitions and retirement. Also, conducted a one of its kind Business user training program.

ITC INFOTECH INDIA LIMITED, March 2000 - Feb 2002 Role: SAP FI/CO (Permanent Employee) SAP R/3 4.6b implementation The ITC Ltd. Tobacco Division, Food Division, Lifestyles Retail Business Division has a Turnover of USD 2 billion. This implementation was big bang implementation with all SAP modules together. It included all Finance and Controlling.

Configuration of Enterprise Structure, containing Company Code, Chart of Accounts, Controlling area, Business area, Valuation area and Credit Control area finalizing Business Organization Structure and mapping business processes. Configuration of Customer /Vendor settings in AP/AR and creation of screen layouts and creation of payment programs, dunning. Configured the post-dated cheques (PDC) process and other processes in AR. Created customized statement of account report and Aging analysis report. Uploaded legacy customer/vendor data and open items as on the cut-off date. Configuration of dunning process and automatic payment program (and its integration with the local bank). Configuration to support the bank reconciliation. Configured Credit Management for Customers in sales orders & other documents including credit release and its integration with SD. Use of Standard SAP reports for Credit Management. Created the required asset classes with their screen layout rules and account determination rules. Created depreciation keys for the SLM and WDV methods. Created settlement profile for settling AuC to assets.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Client: - Petron, Mumbai, India April 1997 Dec 1999 Role: Manager Accounts Payable Managed all the Accounts payable of the company. Developed and Maintained excellent relations with the vendors of the company. Involved in planning and implementing the payment procedures for the company. Grew from a team member to being the Manager of Accounts payable within a short span of 2 years. EDUCATION QUALIFICATION Masters of Business Administration, Finance & Accounting.