Arvind A.
Lead FICO Consultant at PLIXXENT- Claim this Profile
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Hindi Native or bilingual proficiency
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English Full professional proficiency
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German Elementary proficiency
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Raman Kaushik
Arvind is very intellectual with his thought process. He has mastered his topics concerning Sap and accounting at same time. His dedicated and make it simple approach has helped many of the colleagues to learn the topics quickly and efficiently . The above quality makes him total team player yet at the same time he has shown skills of being a good leader with supporting his team and taking responsibility for his work . I would recommend arvind for a role where he could lead manage and inspire a team for betterment of organisation
Leong Lai Chun
Along with arvind undeniable talent, he has always been an absolute joy to work with. He is a true team player, and always manages to foster positive discussions and bring the best out of other employees. Without a doubt, I confidently recommend arvind .As a dedicated and knowledgeable employee and an all-around great person, I know that he will be a beneficial addition to your organization
Raman Kaushik
Arvind is very intellectual with his thought process. He has mastered his topics concerning Sap and accounting at same time. His dedicated and make it simple approach has helped many of the colleagues to learn the topics quickly and efficiently . The above quality makes him total team player yet at the same time he has shown skills of being a good leader with supporting his team and taking responsibility for his work . I would recommend arvind for a role where he could lead manage and inspire a team for betterment of organisation
Leong Lai Chun
Along with arvind undeniable talent, he has always been an absolute joy to work with. He is a true team player, and always manages to foster positive discussions and bring the best out of other employees. Without a doubt, I confidently recommend arvind .As a dedicated and knowledgeable employee and an all-around great person, I know that he will be a beneficial addition to your organization
Raman Kaushik
Arvind is very intellectual with his thought process. He has mastered his topics concerning Sap and accounting at same time. His dedicated and make it simple approach has helped many of the colleagues to learn the topics quickly and efficiently . The above quality makes him total team player yet at the same time he has shown skills of being a good leader with supporting his team and taking responsibility for his work . I would recommend arvind for a role where he could lead manage and inspire a team for betterment of organisation
Leong Lai Chun
Along with arvind undeniable talent, he has always been an absolute joy to work with. He is a true team player, and always manages to foster positive discussions and bring the best out of other employees. Without a doubt, I confidently recommend arvind .As a dedicated and knowledgeable employee and an all-around great person, I know that he will be a beneficial addition to your organization
Raman Kaushik
Arvind is very intellectual with his thought process. He has mastered his topics concerning Sap and accounting at same time. His dedicated and make it simple approach has helped many of the colleagues to learn the topics quickly and efficiently . The above quality makes him total team player yet at the same time he has shown skills of being a good leader with supporting his team and taking responsibility for his work . I would recommend arvind for a role where he could lead manage and inspire a team for betterment of organisation
Leong Lai Chun
Along with arvind undeniable talent, he has always been an absolute joy to work with. He is a true team player, and always manages to foster positive discussions and bring the best out of other employees. Without a doubt, I confidently recommend arvind .As a dedicated and knowledgeable employee and an all-around great person, I know that he will be a beneficial addition to your organization
Credentials
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SAP Management Accounting
SAPJun, 2014- Sep, 2024 -
SAP Financial Management (FICO)
SAPApr, 2014- Sep, 2024
Experience
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PLIXXENT
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Germany
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Chemical Manufacturing
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100 - 200 Employee
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Lead FICO Consultant
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Jan 2022 - Present
• Managing FICO requirements from stakeholders. • Working on implementation of FICO module in SAP S/4 HANA 2021 system and integration with SD, MM, PP, VIM and Concurr. • Process designing by using SAP standard processes or through 3rd Party Applications. • Global Template design for future Roll outs. • Vendor Management including vendor contract negotiations. • Weekly meetings with Stakeholders including HODs and CFO on project updates. • Implementation of Material Ledger and Actual Costing Show less
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Baker & Baker
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United Kingdom
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Food Production
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200 - 300 Employee
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IT Business Partner FICO
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Mar 2020 - Dec 2021
• SAP FICO/ RTR Consultant and Project Manager for Global implementation. • Process design, optimization, Standardization and customizing in SAP systems. • Integrating finance module with other SAP systems SD, MM, PP, APO, VIM and Concur. • Writing business cases for CIO for S4 HANA Implementation. • Global Template design for FICO to move to S4 HANA. • Vendor Management and key decision maker for vendor selection. • Requirement gathering of all IT requirements for finance department in company. • Project Management and Working with C-Level stakeholders for requirement gathering and with cross functional consultants for process design and solutioning. Show less
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SGB-SMIT Group
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Germany
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Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
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100 - 200 Employee
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Manager SAP FICO
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May 2019 - Mar 2020
• Business Process Optimization in SAP for Transition to S4 HANA. • Preparing global template for S4 HANA implementation. • Analysing Business Process, Prepare blueprints, customizing documents and functional specs. • Co-ordinate with external consultants for ABAP developments. • Supporting internal users on Controlling (CO) for Product Costing, COPA and PCA • Working on change requests for integration of SD,MM and PP. • Working on SAP processes of RTR, PTP, OTC, MTO, MTS and SFC. • Work on SAP ABAP queries, report writer and Report painters to develop standard reports in SAP. • Help in ABAP Debugging. Show less
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cbs Corporate Business Solutions
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Germany
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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500 - 600 Employee
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Senior FICO Consultant System Landscape Transformation
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Nov 2018 - May 2019
• Working on data conversion/ Migration for New GL implementation, Chart of Accounts (COA) mergers, Controlling area (CO) mergers and S/4 HANA system readiness and migration. • Preparing proof of concept system for S/4 HANA for client testing. • Using Business objects to perform extraction and migration of date from source to target. • As FICO functional consultant ensuring standard SAP process is followed and SAP configuration is available to perform data transformation. • Conduct workshops with clients for system analysis, requirement gathering, blueprints, migration strategy, cutover plan and Go live. • Take part in pre-sales activities to support project manager in preparing proposals and estimate calculation. Show less
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SAP ERP Application Analyst for FICO and PP
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May 2018 - Nov 2018
• Managing SAP implementation for FICO and PP. • Preparing functional specs for external consultants. • Configure Product costing and Profitability analysis as per business requirements. • Extensively working on Product costing and CO integration with PP and FI. • Managing change request projects. • Analyse business procedure and map solutions. • Business Process Optimization. • Conducting workshops for requirement gathering, blueprint and discussing solutions. • Working with external consultants to analyse recommended solution and ensuring business needs are met. Show less
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SGB-SMIT Group - SGB MY
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Malaysia
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Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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SAP and Controlling Manager
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Feb 2016 - May 2018
As a part of SAP team, working as internal consultant of a manufacturing company HQ in Germany. • Managing FICO change requirements in Malaysia and implementation in other group companies. • Process optimization and solution designing as per company practices. • Process documentation • Managing day to day SAP related activities for FICO, PP, SD, MM • Extensively working on Product costing, group reporting requirements and COPA. • Creating SAP reports using ABAP queries, Report writer and Report Painter. • As controlling manager responsible for preparing departmental and company budget, Variance analysis and taking active part in strategic meeting with key stakeholders. • Also a key member in group strategy implementation and its execution. Show less
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Senior SAP FICO consultant
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Nov 2014 - Dec 2015
SAP Finance consultant involved in the design, development, testing and implementation of SAP system for an IS-Retail client in Malaysia. • Performed Gap Analysis (AS IS- TO BE) through requirement gathering workshops. • Conduct business and system study and suggest process improvements where ever possible to leverage system performance and features. • Worked with stakeholders on reporting requirements. • Prepared detailed blueprint, functional specs, training manuals, test scripts and UAT scripts. • Worked on integration of procure to pay cycle (MM-FI) including consignment procurement for automatic tax code determination while preparing Purchase order. • Worked on IDOCS for POS (SD-MM-FI) integration with SAP. • Configured tax condition type, tax procedure, tax code and account determination settings in SAP. • Created validation rules in Financial Accounting • Created reports through Abap Query and report painter. • Performed pre implementation data validation, unit and integration testing in test environment • Prepared detailed Cutover strategy for Go-Live. • Re-designing cost center and profit center structure as per the requirement. • Development of costing sheet as per the new requirement. • Working on Cost center accounting (CCA), Profit center accounting (PCA), Product costing (PC) and CO-PA modules of SAP controlling. Show less
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Vodafone
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United Kingdom
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Network and Enterprise Support- SAP Support
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Sep 2012 - Jun 2014
Worked on-site for providing support to business users for issues related to SAP system. Co-ordinate with 2nd/3rd line support for complex issues. Provide out of hours support for system related change requests. • Monitor issues as part of the support team and develop reports as per business requirements. • Prepared detailed user training manuals and conducted training sessions. • Gather new business requirement and worked with 2nd/3rd line support team to provide resolutions within SLA. • Configured G/L accounts, bank accounts and automatic account determination. • Maintained G/L Account, Vendor, Customer and Material master data. • Tested the solution in Quality system before deploying to Production server. • Managing Transport requests. • Resolved tickets within SLA. Show less
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Dell
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Sr. Technical Support - SAP Support
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Dec 2009 - Jan 2011
Worked on-site for provide support to business users for issues related to SAP system. Co-ordinate with 2nd/3rd line support for complex issues. • Provided 1st line support to users of the SAP system. • Co-ordinate with 2nd/3rd line support to resolve complex queries within SLA. • Resolved tickets with 100% resolution rate. • Maintained G/L Account, Customer, Vendor and Material master data. • Tested the solution in Quality system before deploying to Production server. • Managing Transport requests. Show less
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USHA ENCLAVE PVT. LTD.
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India
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Real Estate
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Finance Assistant
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Jun 2005 - Nov 2009
• Helped in introducing customized AR/AP application into the organization. • Co-ordinated with IT team for design and implementation of automatic AR/AP procedure. • Analysed blueprint proposed by different process owners to ensure they align with the business requirement. • Assisted finance manager in analysing financial data. • Analysed business demand to identify functions that can be utilized maximum. • Prepared detailed training documentation for training. • Helped in introducing customized AR/AP application into the organization. • Co-ordinated with IT team for design and implementation of automatic AR/AP procedure. • Analysed blueprint proposed by different process owners to ensure they align with the business requirement. • Assisted finance manager in analysing financial data. • Analysed business demand to identify functions that can be utilized maximum. • Prepared detailed training documentation for training.
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Education
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2013 - 2014
SAP ERP
Certified SAP ERP Financial Associate, Financial Accounting (FICO) -
2011 - 2012
The University of Northampton
Masters, Accounting and Finance
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