Summary


Arvind Kumar Thirukonda, B.Com., A.C.A CPA, MBA Fin
SAP FI/CO and BW SEM Consultant Functional
SENIOR
FI/CO and BW SEM FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT - with ECC 6.0 New GL implementation Experience and Core skills in FI/CO, Treasury, EC-CS/BCS Consolidation and CPM Corporate Performance Management.
Expert in Financial Business Process Re-engineering and Financial Risk Management having steered the companies during the East Asian crisis in 1996. High level of corporate Experience as a Finance Director/CFO with the regional office of a large European Multinational group in Asia-Pacific.
Total 10+ years of SAP R/3 FICO Functional and BW SEM experience involving versatile and hands-on configuration and business analysis experience. Senior SAP Functional Analyst with extensive professional qualifications and experience in Corporate Finance, Financial Risk Management and SAP FICO and BW SEM implementation with focus on designing robust Management Information Systems, operational Financial Risk Management Systems, to aid critical business decisions that impacts on cost-savings and bottom-line results.
1 of the senior FICO consultants by virtue of himself having been a hands-on Commodity Futures Hedging and Risk Management Director in Coffee and Cocoa with the Asia-Pacific regional office of 1 of the largest European commodities group, with a specialized, high level of global agricultural commodities trading business experience and hands-on configuration experience in SAP FICO and Treasury Modules on the Hedging/Financial Risk Management side of the Global Commodity Futures Market and Derivatives Hedging with excellent knowledge on US GAAP and IFRS.
A Qualified Chartered Accountant Equivalent of CPA and holding an Executive MBA in Finance and Risk Management from National University of Singapore with a functional and domain experience of nearly 20 years in Corporate Finance and Accounting up to regional wide consolidations, Risk Management Hedging in the Commodities Futures Market-having been an authorized Hedger in the commodities Futures market, Mergers and Acquisitions, Funds Management, IAS, IFRS, US GAAP and International Taxation etc.
Expert Knowledge of SAP FI/CO and BW SEM Products.
Experience in various business practices in analyzing, developing and implementing SAP R/3 versions ECC 6.0, 4.6, 4.7, 4.6C, 4.0B, 3.1H, 3.0D.
Experience in BW 3.2 and SEM 3.5, BW 3.5 and SEM 4.0, SEM 6
System testing of SAP upgrades or other special projects.
Generated the Blueprints for project planning, realization process, final preparation and going live on support ASAP methodology.
Familiarity with SOX compliance.
End user documentation on how to perform daily and periodic routine functions and required maintenance items.
Worked on integration points with other business process like OTC, P2P and MFG.
Strong techno functional experience combined with excellent academic and career achievements which includes an executive MBA in Finance and Risk Management from 1 of the acclaimed business schools in the world and working as the expatriate country CFO for a major commodities multinational group.
Provided functional support and trouble shooting of SAP system.
Facilitated and lead design sessions to review and configure the SAP system.
Good understanding of the best business practices, good interpersonal and effective communication skills, experience in working in a multinational environment.
Widely travelled in Europe, USA and Asia-Pacific for business and consulting.
SAP R/3 and SEM experience AREAS
Specializes in the Finance, Controlling and Enterprise Controlling modules, along with SAP BW SEM. Experience includes Product Costing, Profitability Analysis, Profit Center Accounting, Special Ledger, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, GL, AR, AP and FA with Cross Functional Skills and Integration with other SAP Applications. Functional experience and exposure to various modules of SAP, FI, MM, CO and SD, with emphasis in the GL, AR and AP sub-modules of FI, CCA, EC-CS, PA and Profitability Analysis in CO. SAP SD Master Data, account determination, tax determination, output determination, rebate agreements, Variant Configuration and foreign trade processes.
On assigned projects, monitor progress of deliverables, co-manage key project risks and issues and monitor performance of implementation partners as appropriate.
Strong understanding of IS Application support and development principles and practices.
Experience with business process analysis methods and flowcharting and documenting techniques.
Systems analyzed with exceptional knowledge on systems integration between cross-functional modules.
Recommend improvements and solutions which would improve business efficiency, quality and process while maximizing SAP functionality.
Developed interfaces and conversions in SAP to legacy systems, EDI/RFID.
Transfer SAP knowledge and capabilities to the Business Unit organizations, document development and training delivery.
SAP R/3 technical skills include system selection, hands-on configuration and the full lifecycle project experience.
Reporting requirements, Extensive process reengineering and translation of management needs into productive SAP R/3 applications.
Exposure to accounting and reporting areas of companies, both domestically and internationally, where through varied financial implementations acquired advanced knowledge of financial software and practice.
Hands-on experience in the business process blue print development, R/3 scope and design, realization of R/3 system, configuring R/3 business processes, customization of processes for client specifics, project planning and various system testing and verification phases.
experience in user training and documentation.
experience in Program and Project Management and Ascendant tools for managing projects effectively.
Conducted Corporate Trainings in SAP BW/SEM.
Skills in SEM-BCS Consolidation : Data model, Master data, Organizational units and Consolidation functions. Worked on BCS Functions, reports and International Consolidations. Skills in SAP-SEM, BPS- Business Planning and Simulation BPS, Balance Score Card KPI, Management Cockpit, Measure Builder, Web Interface Builder for BPS, SRM, Layout Builder, Dynamic Simulation, Extraction and Retraction of data from CO-PA and Cost center Accounting, Skills in SAP BW - Modeling and reporting info Providers, Info Objects, BexAnalyzer, Web Reporting
FORTUNE
500 and MULTINATIONAL INVOLVEMENT
SAP R/3 FICO Implementation for GE Betz, Ceram Tec, Amaco Mitsui, Perfetti Van Melle, Neumann Gruppe GmBh and Sabare USA Inc BW/SEM implementation for Global Oil Drilling GlobalSantaFe Corporation and Coca-Cola.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRY INVOLVEMENT
Manufacturing : GE Betz
Retail Distribution and 3 rd Party Logistics 3PL : Sabare USA Inc
FMCG : Coca-Cola, Perfetti Van Melle, Bernhard Rothfos Intercafe AG, Hamburg.
Global Food, Agricultural Commodities Processing and Trading, Commodities Hedging and Risk Management : Neumann Gruppe Gmbh, Hamburg, Charoen Pokhand Indonesia Tbk .P .T., Karya Prajona Nelayan Group, Indonesia.
Utilities Energy and Telecommunication : PT. Telkom Indonesia, Electricity Generating Public Company Limited, Thailand
Oil and Gas Global Oil Drilling-GlobalSantaFe Corporation USA GSF
Petro Chemicals - PT, Amaco Mitsui Indonesia


Employment

June, 2005 -  Present
Position : Senior Functional Consultant

Project # 1 Client Manufacturing- Retail Distribution and 3rd Party Logistics-3PL Position Module Period Sabare USA Inc, Atlanta
Manufacturing- Retail Distribution and Supply Chain Management Senior Consultant- SAP FICO.
Sabare International Ltd

ECC 6.0 January 2007 to December 08 Sabare USA Inc is a market leader in body pillows and home textiles headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia State, USA, with marketing offices in Bentonville and Minneapolis, the headquarters of Wal-Mart and Target respectively and manufacturing plants in Atlanta and Arkansas. It Operates the Integrated manufacturing, warehousing and distribution facilities in USA The merchandise items are manufactured and shipped from Sabare International plants in India and China and in USA they are assembled, Value added, repacked Pick and Pack operations and distributed across 3000 stores of W-Mart and Target Corporation. Stocks require 6 weeks to meet any stock out situations. Receives purchase orders from the customers on a daily basis through EDI and the products are delivered on time Equipped with 7 state of the art Pillow stuffing machinery line 10 State- of the- Art Cushion Blow fill machinery line - 1 of the biggest in USA Sabare offers a 3PL Third Party Logistics business for US Customers.
Sabare decided to implement mySAP ERP 2005 ECC 6.0 to meet its future requirements, to enable its business processes integrate all the functional areas. The legacy systems in Accounting and WMS functions were carried out by QuickBooks and Custom developed Visual Basic system.
Worked and completed the implementation projects for Sabare group in USA, India and China.

Participated in defining and analyzing the project objective, followed by gap analysis.
Performed business blueprint analysis and design based on company code separation and EC-CS implementation.
Configured the New GL functionality of ECC 6.0 so as to have automatic splitting of documents based on Profit Centers.
US GAAP assessment and user requirements documented.
Defined Leading ledgers and non-Leading Ledgers and extracted reports out of both for management reporting using the table structures FAGLFLEXA and FAGLFLEXT.
Completed System Configuration to set up all new required Global Companies ; company Codes, modification of FI document types, the inter-company relationships for cross company code postings for payables/receivables, sales/cost of sales and revenue/expense and FI trading partner validations.
Creation of Inter- company Customer and Vendor master records for Inter- company relationships
Mapped existing operating COA to group COA for the connection to the FSIs in EC-CS.
summarized on the FI Side : FI GL, AP, AR, Bank accounting, fixed assets, FI-MM-SD integration, Logistics invoice verification, FI month end closing. On CO side : Cost center accounting, internal order, product costing, WIP, Material Ledger, profitability analysis, profit center, period end closing etc.
AP Configuration : Customer and vendor master records, vendor invoice payments, creation of a new AP Vendor group OBD3, automatic payment program, invoice verification, invoice tolerance verification, payment terms, one-time vendors, baseline date, special GL indicator electronic banking etc.
Completed EC-CS System configuration and documentation to setup the dimension, consolidation chart of accounts, ledgers, versions, financial statement items, financial statement item hierarchy and selected items for posting.
Creation of flexible upload for opening balance load into period 12 of EC-CS for carry-forward task.
Setup and activation of real-time update into EC-CS.
Performed all unit testing and documentation for the FI/CO configuration as it related to the requirements of the EC-CS module and continued the unit testing related to the configuration of EC-CS and development and modification of Report Painter/Writer reports for the data in EC-CS.
Support and execution of the production cutover for EC-CS configuration and go-live.
Creation of new consolidated financial reports using the row models, for the new consolidation group.

Maintained Foreign Currencies, Parallel Currencies, Transaction Currency and performed foreign currency revaluation using the Transaction Keys, maintaining GL accounts for loss or gain from foreign currency transactions and settling the differences to related cost objects using Settlement Rules of Internal Orders by configuring the allocation structure and Settlement Profiles.
Configured Lockbox setup, defined control parameters for BAI2 file import which provided different level of detail of the incoming payment. Defined posting rules for processing Electronic Bank payments.
Worked on SAP TR Cash Management Module for prototyping the cash management functionality for a Global implementation.

Independent Implementation of Cash Management and Electronic Bank statement Functionality for TR module. Configured integration with CIT bank in Newyork which is the factoring bank for Sabare and which discounts the factoring of sales invoices of W-Mart and Target Corporation.
In Product Costing, Configured standard Cost estimates in Cost object controlling for production orders, Configured WIP calculations, variance calculations, maintained settlement structures and handled month end closing procedures for production order.
Configuring and Customizing Product Cost Planning material costing with Quantity Structure and Cost Object controlling, product cost by order product cost collectors and cost object hierarchies, by period manufacturing orders and by sales order. These configurations and customizations involved costing variants, valuation variant, cost component structures, cost component splits, costing sheets, work-in-process, variances, co-products and joint-products, scrap, result analysis, settlements.
Analyzed the profitability segments taking into various considerations like customer group, material group, product line and different market segments in costing based CO-PA.
Configured Operating concern, created custom characteristics, used various derivation techniques like table lookups and derivation rules and mapped SD condition types to value fields.
Defined valuation strategy and profitability segments. Configured PA Transfer structures for transferring values from FI and controlling to CO-PA.
Configured automatic account assignment for transferring values from MM to CO-PA.
Designed and developed contribution margin reports in CO-PA based on a combination of characteristics using Report Painter and Report Writer.

Performed period end closing activities for both FI and CO.

Creation and delivery of user training documentation to support the first month end close process.

March, 2006 -  November, 2006
Project # 2 Client FMCG/Food and Beverages Position Module The Coco-Cola Company SEM-BPS Consultant

Worked as SEM-BPS consultant. This Project is enhancement of earlier version of MCP Manufacturing Cost Planning consists of a team of 3 and implementation of SAP BW 3.2 and SEM 3.2.
Involved in implementation of SEM-BPS, conceptualizing and building the Planning areas, Planning levels, Planning packages, planning functions and planning folders relating to Manufacturing cost planning for COGM and COGS.

Extraction of required data from SAP R/3 and other source systems into cubes.

Involved in designing BW - Bex reports and work books as per the user requirement.
Designed user aids and user documentation.

Project # 3 Client Oil and Gas Position Module Period Global Oil Drilling GSF- GlobalSantaFe Corporation USA SEM-BCS Consultant BW/
SEM July 2005 To January 2006 GlobalSantaFe GSF is the world's second largest offshore driller, head quartered in Houston, Texas with operations all over the world.

Global Oil drilling company has a BW 3.2 and SEM 3.5 .I worked as a Production support and Process improvement consultant. My role in the following tasks includes analysis on the existing configuration, Process improvements and Knowledge transfers in SEM-BCS area.

SEM Business Consolidation SEM-BCS
Analyzed GSF Business process Documentation and Blue Print document SEM-BCS.
Analyzed the existing configuration - Data Model, Info cubes, Data Basis, Consolidation area, Versions, Master data and Sub assignments.
Analyzed the Existing Consolidation Functions. Data collection, Manual Entry, Inter-company Eliminations, Carry forward balances...
Provided Improvement process steps to Sync Master Data from BW than loading from a File.

Consolidation of Investments design solution proposed to GSF on Minority Interest Negative and Reduction of Capitalization Configuration. activity type 06 Configurations
Suggested task wise and Consolidation Group wise Security to Users.

July, 1998 -  March, 2005

Project # 4 Client Manufacturing-Engineering and Water Process Systems Position Module Period GE Betz South East Asia
Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Australia
Manager I - Senior Consultant.
Version 4.6C August 2003 - March 2005 GE Betz Singapore Pte Ltd is the regional leader in Asia-Pacific market in the engineered chemical treatment of water and process systems in industrial, commercial and institutional facilities. Its products are used in plant utilities like boilers, cooling towers, wastewater systems and in manufacturing operations, to improve productivity, product quality, reduce operating costs and meet environmental regulations.

Worked as FICO Lead for roll out projects in S.E. Asia and Australia total 7 countries

Involved in implementation and customization of the FI-GL AP AR FA and Spl Ledger Mainly, configured withholding tax WT and extended withholding tax EWT for all company codes as per the local requirement.
Configured the Payment run and generated flat files/loadable files to perform bank interfaces to banks as per their requirement. Configuration of manual bank reconciliation using transaction Manual bank statement.
Configured recurring entries for the utility vendors and Spl GL indicators for Employee vendors as per the requirement.
Involved in implementation and customization of the Product costing, CO-PA, Spl Ledger and PCA modules, architect, design and implementation of MIS reports using Report Writer and Painter.
Created the CO-PA Planning framework as per the client s requirements Product, Customer and Sale office.
Configured CO-PA Actual value flow as per the requirement to get profitability at various segment levels and facilitate to get various Contribution/profitability reports.
Configured Spl. ledger to get the reports for local GAAP and IFRS requirements in Indonesia, S.E. Asia and Australia.
Configured fixed assets module as per the local requirement for S.E. Asia and Australia.
Involved in the configuration and integration between FICO and Treasury Module enabling CFM, electronic banking, liquidity forecast, WC and debt management like bonds, commercial papers, money market, derivatives etc.
Worked extensively on EC-CS enterprise consolidation SAP R/3 Configured EC-CS configurations : Consolidation types, Consolidation units and hierarchies, Charts of accounts, Online data collection, Offline data collection using Access and Excel, Flexible upload from non-SAP systems, Validation, Posting, Currency conversion, Elimination of Inter-unit payables and receivables, Elimination of Inter-unit revenue and expense, Reclassification, Consolidation of investments, Drilldown reporting, Versions and restatement, Balance carried forward.

Project # 5 Client Energy-Power Generation Position Module Period Electricity Generating Public Company Limited, Thailand. Manager I - Senior Consultant.

January, 2003 -  July, 2003

Electricity Generating Public Company Ltd is the principal Electricity Generating Company in Thailand owned by the Thailand Government.

Worked as Project Lead and SEM Consultant. This Project team of 6 and implementation of SAP R/3 4.7 Enterprise version BW 3.2 and SEM 3.2.
Involved in implementation of SEM-BPS, conceptualizing and building the Planning areas, levels, packages, planning layouts, FOX functions and planning folders relating to Profit planning and Sales Planning.
Involved in implementation of SEM-VDT and SEM-MC, designed for finance and sales related walls, views and frames.
Creation of info-objects, Basic and transactional cubes, Process chains, Activation of Business content and data extraction from SAP R/3 and flat file to load the legacy Master and Transactional data.
CO-PA data Extraction and Retraction into SEM BPS.
Extensively used hierarchies to meet the BPS planning and Bex reporting requirements.
Configured EC-CS : Configured Master data and Organizational Units IN SEM : Consolidation types, Consolidation units and hierarchies, Consolidation chart of accounts

Project # 6 Client Agriculture/Agribusiness Processing Position Module Period Charoen Pokhand Indonesia Tbk .P .T. Principal Consultant-SAP FICO.

February, 2002 -  October, 2002

PT Charoen Pokphand Indonesia Tbk CPI is part of an agribusiness market leader group of companies with companies in Thailand, Indonesia, China, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia, Charoen Pokphand Ltd in Indonesia has over 60 companies and employs over 12000 people.
Worked as FICO and EC Team Lead. This Project involved implementation of SAP R/3 version 4.6C for FI AP and CO PC

Configuration related to creation of payment method for EDI compatible for house bank.

Configuring the house bank as EDI partner in the house bank profile.
Configuration for global settings for the electronic bank statement which includes creating and assigning Business transactions, creating Account symbols, assigning accounts to account symbols, creating keys for posting rules and defining posting rules to post accounting entries.
Allocate external transactions to posting rules. Define posting rules and posting specifications. Creating the search strings as per the requirement.
Involved in Archiving the SAP data unto year 2001 using the archiving objects in FI, CO and EC modules.
Architect for the design, creation and implementation of Integration of Planning. Total integration with Controlling with Financial, Materials Management, Sales and Distribution and Production planning and then data transfer to PCA.
Extending the Product Costing module to entire company for all products. Capturing the overhead cost using the indirect activity allocation IAA methodology for various Activity types as per the business needs. Calculation of Activity Prices for various Production Cost centers those used in Production Processing for the Long products and Flat products.
Providing solutions for General ledger and Consolidation EC-CS Functions in the process of foreign currency valuations at the end of the months by setting a specific system of specific postings providing correct solutions for the foreign currency valuations.

Project # 7 Client Utilities-Telecommunications Position
Module Period PT. Telkom
Indonesia Principal Consultant-SAP FICO.
Version 4.6C August 2001 - January 2002 With 6 million customers and 37000 employees, PT Telkom is Indonesia's largest fixed line operator in Indonesia.
Implemented the Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, G/L and Fixed Asset Management in SAP- FI.

The scope of work included AS-IS study, TO-BE analysis, gap analysis, business process re-engineering, configuration, modifications to suit the client's requirements, user documentation and user training.
Office visits, plant visits, Initial discussions and presentations, conducting interviews with concerned personnel using structured and open questionnaires and documentation of processes using SAP Documentation Tools like VISIO, SAP Notes and Word.

Based on As-Is analysis and functional requirements, SAP reference business processes are modeled to suit client's requirements, using SAP Reference Model. To be processes were designed in terms of Process view, component view, functional view, information view and organizational view. Demonstrated 'To-Be' way of working for the approval of the client.

Gap analysis was carried out between SAP Reference Process and To-be concept and additional functional requirements were documented.

Created and Maintained COA, customized account groups, field status groups, posting keys, document types, Open and close posting periods and created G/L Account master records
Configuration of Master data, business transactions, dunning or payment processes in AR/AP.
Configured Lockbox- configured settings for control data, posting data, posting keys, updating bank MICR number for customers using Lockbox import program.

Fixed Asset Accounting - Defined chart of depreciation, various depreciation areas and depreciation keys, Fixed Asset classes, number ranges, revaluation settings etc. Responsibilities involved identifying and customizing daily reports per user requirement.

Cost Center or Profit Center Accounting - Defined standard hierarchy for cost center accounting, Designed automatic account assignments, Assigned profit centers to cost center, Created primary and secondary cost elements.

Information System - Created forms and generated various reports using Variants, key figures and constants to produce the Balance Sheet Analysis and to calculate Ratio Analysis like current ratio, debt-equity ratio and income per employee etc.

Integration - Assigned G/L accounts for the predefined processes for integration with AM AA, SD and MM modules.

Closing of accounts - Created GR/IR clearing accounts, Individual value adjustments, posting of periodic accrual and deferral expenses and revenues and Carry forward of Balances

Project # 8 Client Manufacturing Position Module Period Ceram Tec
Indonesia, Malaysia Senior Consultant-SAP FICO.
Upgradation Version 4.0B-4.6C March 2001 - August 2001 CeramTec under the CeramTec AG and Metallgesellschaft AG Holding Co. is a manufacturing company of ceramic dipping formers for rubber gloves and laboratory porcelain.
Worked as Team Lead
Involved in implementation of new features available in SAP 4.6C.

Involved in Converting User profiles of existing SAP4.0B into Roles.

Involved in Core user training and end user training.
Involved in User testing of all CO business processes and rectification of errors. Involved in integrated testing and final sign off.

Involved in the process of Migration of the UNIX and Oracle to WindowNT and SQL Server. Administered the training on system back up, archiving, etc.
Involved in mapping GL for IRFS Compliance- Chart of Accounts, Fixed assets, Currency valuation.

Project # 9 Client Agriculture and Agri Business Position Module Period Karya Prajona Nelayan Group
Indonesia Senior Consultant SAP FICO and EC

Version 4.0B March 2000 - September 2000 PT. Karya Prajona Nelayan Group - Wilmar or KPN is a leading processor, merchandiser, trader and distributor of edible oil and related products globally. KPN is based in Singapore which is located near the major edible oil producing and consuming countries. KPN centralizes the trading, treasury and logistics activities of the group in Singapore.

These activities complement the processing, marketing and merchandising activities in Indonesia, China, India and Malaysia. KPN hired Magnus for the Implementation for the functional areas in Production Planning, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis, Project systems with full integration to the SAP modules.

Worked as FICO and EC Configuration Consultant. This Project involved implementation of SAP R/3 version 4.0B. The modules implemented are FI, CO, EC-PCA, MM, SD, PP, PM, HR and QM modules.

Involved in implementation and customization of the FI/CO module, CO Planning, Periodic Allocations, Product costing by Sales Order, MIS Reports involving
Costing and Profit center Accounting.
Architect for the design, creation and implementation of MIS ORS reports using Report Writer.
Configured Product Costing with quantity structure for standard cost estimate using Make to Order methodology.

Calculation of Activity Prices for various Activities used in Production Processing for the Long products and Flat products.

Project # 10 Client Petrochemicals Position Module Period Amaco Mitsui Indonesia
Indonesia Senior Consultant-
SAP FICO.

September, 1999 -  February, 2000

PT Amoco Mitsui PTA Indonesia is a joint venture between Amoco Chemical and Mitsui which produce Purified Teraphthalic Acid PTA from its plant in Cilegon, West Java, Indonesia.
Worked as FICO Module Lead. This Project involved implementation of SAP R/3 version 4.0B and CIN 2.2B using ASAP methodology. The modules implemented are MM, SD, PP, FI, CO, PM and QM modules.
Design, development and implementation of the Financial Accounting and controlling modules of SAP.
Study of Business Process, evaluation and preparation of Business Blue print Document.
Mapped the complex enterprise structure after considering various business and statutory factors.
Configured special G/L transactions, created new document types and validated business areas and cost object entries. Setup recurring entries, sample documents and document display variants.
Configured Product Costing with quantity structure for standard cost estimate and modified standard cost estimate. Involved in the configuration of Cost component Structure.

Project # 11 Client Food Industry Position Module Period Perfetti Van Melle
Indonesia Senior Consultant-
SAP FICO.
Version 4.0B March 1999 - August 1999 Global brand names Perfetti and VanMelle merged to establish a formidable market leadership in local market candy goods manufacturing.
Worked as FICO Module Consultant
Involved in configuration of Product Costing and Special Purpose Ledger modules.
Worked on Product costing run for the Finished Products.
Work-In-Progress configuration and testing.
Variances and Variance analysis for input and output variances.
Settlement process for the production orders.
Created Financial Statement Version as per the client required format.
Created Profit and Loss Statement incorporating the Cost center and GL account combined values using the Report Writer tool.
Created cost center reports using Report Painter to get the specific values at the period end.

Project # 12 Client Global Food and Commodities Processing ; commodities Trading ; Futures Trading, Hedging and Risk Management-Coffee, Cocoa, Sugar and other agricultural commodities Position
Module Period Neumann Gruppe GmBh, Asia Pacific Regional companies in Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, Australia

April, 1997 -  February, 1999

Neumann Gruppe Gmbh, www.nkg. net a European commodities major, with headquarters in Hamburg is the largest green coffee company in the world, representing some 15% of global coffee trade, with an annual turnover in excess of USD 2 billion and operations in more than 40 countries around the world. It owns the futures trading companies in London and New York and several downstream operations and retailing companies in the coffee industry. It is active in the global trading and marketing of cocoa and sugar.

Heading the SAP FICO implementation team Internal for the Asia-Pacific group companies of Neumann Gruppe. Responsible for business process migration to SAP environment. Worked as an Internal consultant in the FICO Module version 3.0 D implementation team : Worked on the analysis of company's nature of business and studied business process, existing systems and external relationships. Implemented enterprise structure, global settings of the organization. Creation of chart of accounts, balance sheet and P/L using FSV and other statutory statements and user required reports using report painter. Used screen field status variant, layouts and line layouts for master and transaction for GL accounts, vendors, customers. Designed document types, number ranges for master and transaction. Created tolerance groups, executed dunning program and payment run.

Configuring the R/3 to enter the hedging and derivatives transactions of LIFFE/NYC futures, position management and foreign exchange contracts into the company s core SAP data. Integrating the FICO with SAP Treasury CM and CFM for the group wide companies in the Asia-Pacific region for the day-to-day operative treasury functionalities like cash flow management, hedge and FX management, Liquidity forecast, Liquidity planning, electronic banking and position trading mark-to-market valuations with LIFFE/NYC terminal markets for market risk analysis between the physical inventories Vs. Futures market hedged positions for the PTBF-Price to be fixed forward sales contracts and Outright sales contracts.

Configured the GL in R/3 to comply with IASC International Accounting Standards Committee which is rechristened as IFRS.

September, 1990 -  July, 1998
VIII . BUSINESS EXPERIENCE AS AN EXPATRIATE CFO and RISK MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR

Education

Training

SAP FI/CO
SAP Business Warehouse and SEM

10+ years of International Work experience as an expatriate Finance and Accounting Manager with various multinational companies , as the CFO and Risk Management Director of PT . Bernhard Rothfos Indonesia , a wholly owned subsidiary of Neumann Gruppe Gmbh , a global coffee , cocoa and commodities major headquartered in Hamburg .
As the expatriate country CFO my broad responsibilities include Finalisation and consolidation of Monthly/Quarterly/Annual Financial results , valuation of Stocks , Open Fixed price purchases/ sales contracts against the LIFFE or NYC Terminal months . Responsible for the day-to-day risk management functions of the physical or spot market activities Hedging in the LIFFE/NYC Futures market and position trading in the allocated limit of USD 15 mio . Costing , Budgeting , Cash flow Management , Banking , International taxation , IFRS and US GAAP compliance , Internal ERP functions etc .
As a Director in the Board of Management for Asia-Pacific regional office , my primary responsibilities are in the areas of commodities futures and financial risk management and secondary/oversight responsibilities as a team member include sourcing and physical trading of coffee , cocoa and other commodities ; Processing of various grades of coffee and cocoa ; coordination of marketing , production and sourcing ; business development and policies concerning suppliers and customers ; cup tasting of coffee to maintain the quality standards of Nestle , Starbucks and Taloca Kraft foods standards ; business plan and budget ; M and A ; execution of decided upon strategy both long and mid-term ; position and hedging in the limits of business plan ; actual execution of commercial policy in the limits ; coordination with other operative sister companies in the NG ; strategy to source coffee , cocoa and sugar in the internal market and development of new sources ; annual crop survey in the origins , collection of crop statistical data , reporting and analysis of crop estimates ; informing the Holding company and Coach on the pertinent developments concerning the country politics , general economy and commodities economy ; HR policies on recruitment , remuneration and incentives ; representation of the company in the national and international forums ; fixed assets and investments ; Warehousing , Logistics and supply chain management .
IX . SAP TRAINING IMPARTED Conducted Corporate Training on BW SEM , Measure Builder .
Corporate Performance Monitor CPM
Balance Score Card BSC .
Management Cockpit MC .
Value Driver Tree VDT .
Business Planning and Simulation BPS :
Cost center planning , profit planning and balance sheet planning .
Using the sales values in the profit planning to derive the receivables and cash balances .
Rolling the forecast data , top down and bottom up planning , used a combination of standard and custom developed functions to map complex requirements .
Configured the planning areas , multi planning area , planning level , planning packages and planning functions for cost center planning , Profit planning and Balance sheet planning .
used the fox formulas to translate complex cost calculations for profit planning and transferred the direct labor component from production cost centers to profit planning cube based on product lines and product .
Stakeholder Management SRM .
Business Information Content BIC .
Conducted Corporate Training on SAP R/3 FICO
Product Costing Planning and Cost object controlling .
Profitability Analysis
Profit center Accounting .
Report Painter and Report Writer
X. SAP SEMINAR/WORKSHOP CONDUCTED
Mr.Arvind Kumar TJ , Senior SAP Consultant , Neumann Gruppe GmBh companies in Indonesia with Mr.Olivia Tichit , Managing Director of Ecom Agro Industrial Group in Indonesia and Dr.DWH Watson , ICO Chairman International Coffee Organization , London at the AEKI Association of Indonesian Coffee Exporters meeting held in Jakarta in 2001 . Mr.Arvind Kumar delivered a lecture and conducted a workshop organized by the Indonesian Government and AEKI on Harnessing the ERP system for the day-to-day Hedging and efficient Price Risk Management of agricultural commodities
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Resume of Arvind Kumar Thirukonda B.Com ., A.C.A., MBA Finance Senior Consultant : SAP FICO and BW SEM