D. MURALI KRISHNA

SAP FICO PROFESSIONAL(IS-OIL Upstream JVA )

PROFILE & STRENGTHS

  • Competent and diligent Cost Accountant with over17 years’ experience, out of whichover7 years’ of

SAP Implementation & Support experience in SAP-FICOand over 10 years’ experience in functional domain of Accounts, Finance & Audit in various reputed Industries like Videocon group & Reliance Group. ; currently spearheading as Team Lead- SAP FICO with Essar Information & Technologies Ltd.,Kurla,Mumbai.

  • Presently Leading the Team for SAP Implementation, Roll Outs & Support for Oil Vertical-Upstream(JVA) &

Downstream (Refinery)

  • Hands on Experience in Implementing, Roll Outs & Supporting SAP-JVA Module (IS-Oil Upstream).
  • Hands on Experience in Project preparation, Project Planning & Project executions of SAP-FICO implementation Projeccts.
  • Hands on Experience in integration of SAP with Hyperion for Financial Consolidation & GAAP Conversion-IFRS Accounting
  • Hands on Experience of 5 End-to-End Implements (One in Overseas-Malaysia) & 5 Support Projects.
  • Thorough exposure across designing and implementing SAP FICO solutions and steering Financial & Cost accounts activities; Seasoned professional with hands on exposure to handling the complete life cycle for

SAP-FICO Implementation.

  • Adept at implementing New GL functionalities of ECC 6, Accounts Payables(FI-AP), Accounts Receivables(FI-AR), General Ledger(FI-GL), Asset Management(FI-AM), Funds Management(FI-PSM) & Investment Management(FI-IM) , India taxes(FI-EWT & CIN), Project Systems((FI-PS) ,Joint Venture Accounting((FI-JVA),FI-MM Integration, FI-SD Integration,FI-PP Integration, Cost Center Accounting(CCA), Internal Order(IO), Product Costing and Profit Center Accounting.
  • Solutions oriented approach with excellent relationship management skills, successfully and consistently delivering the responsibilities thereby streamlining accounting and commercial operations leading to revenue generation and profitability.
  • Proficient in designing and implementing standard accounting procedures and systems to meet company’s long and short term financial needs and enhance operational efficiency of the Organization.
  • Proficient in working on Interfaces with SAP & Non SAP systems( Primavera, TIBCO POS Systems ,

Cordyes interface System,etc).

  • Hands on Experience on SAP-ABAP Coding.
  • Hands on Experience to handle Business Process enhancement & tailoring in SAP through the SAP tools like ABAP, BADI, BAPI, User-Exits, LSMW, SCAT, Idocs etc.
  • Hands on Experience to provide Solutions in SAP to implement & support Shared Services process.
  • Professional Experience in Managing Support & roll-out projects & leading the Team.
  • Industrial domains-Electronic Industry, OIL&GAS Industry, Petrochemicals , Textiles & Project Industry

CORE COMPETENCIES

  • SAP-FICO Implementation
  • Need Assessment & Gap Analysis
  • Project Planning & Execution
  • End-to- End SAP FICO Solutions
  • JVA-Oil Joint Venture Accounting
  • Cost Centre Accounting
  • Product Costing Profit Centre Accounting
  • Financial Accounting
  • Budgeting
  • Internal Order
  • Statutory Compliances

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE(SAP-FICO & JVA)

ESSAR Information & Technology Ltd.

As SAP-FICO Team LeadFrom: April 2010 -till date

Key Projects:

Oil & Gas- Upstream Project.

Key Accountabilities:

  • Implementing & rollouts of SAP for E&P Business in India & Overseas .
  • Supporting SAP-JVA(Joint Venture accounting ) E&P Reporting’s.
  • Manage JV partner relationships
  • Maintain JOA & JV Master Data
  • Process JV equity Adjustments i.e. Equity group change management
  • Perform Cash Call Forecast
  • Record Operated Cash Call
  • Record Non-operator Cash Call
  • Maintain & Process Overheads i.e. Parent company overhead calculations
  • Generate Corporate & Joint Venture Partners Positions i.e. Cutback (sharing the total expenses with all the partners)
  • Reconcile & Issue Partner Billings i.e. Partner hard copy billing
  • Process Non-operated Billings
  • Joint venture reporting

Oil –Downstream Project.

Implementing funds Management with Oil-Refinery Business of Essar Oil Ltd.

Key Accountabilities:

  • Preparing Plans & executions for all phases of Funds Management Implementations Process.
  • Preparing & documenting for Business requirement gathering ,Business Blueprinting, realization,

go-live & support

Essar Group Financial Consolidation & GAAP Conversion(IFRS-Accounting).

The project is concerned with Implementing Essar Global Consolidation for the group

& GAAP conversion-IFRS Accounting with Hyperion Product.

Key Accountabilities:

  • Participating in the Business Requirement Study(BRD Phase),
  • Participating Business Blue Print (SDD Phase)
  • Participating Realisation & Go-Live
  • Leading the Post Go-Live Support.

Implementing Partner for the Project :Deloitee.

ESSAR EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION (I) LTD.From:Oct 2008 –March 2010

Sr.Manager SAP-FICO

Key Accountabilities:

  • Implementing & rollouts of SAP for E&P Business in India & Overseas .
  • Supporting SAP-JVA(Joint Venture accounting ) E&P Reporting’s.
  • Contributed in developing various ABAP developments for E&P Business specific reports & Business process enhancements in SAP..
  • Entrusted with implementation of New GL functionalities of ECC 6 with the focus on the following functionalities.

Document Splitting Functionality

  • GL account and Item category mapping
  • Document type and Business transaction mapping
  • Implemented E-Payment Process & Post go live support
  • Real time integration of CO & PS with FI
  • Supporting SAP-Project system & Budgetary Controls for E&P business.
  • Supporting month end process in SAP for E&P Business like JVA-Cash Call Process, JVA-Cutback Process, Project settlements, Asset Capitalisation & Depreciation runs etc.

RELIANCE INFOSOLUTIONS LTD.

RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LTD.

Sr.Manager SAP-FICO From: 2004-2008

Key Role : Sr.Consultant SAP-FICO.

Key Accountabilities:

  • Successfully implemented end-to-end life cyclesof SAP FICO Module in 4 Projects in India & Overseas

( Recron Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. - Malaysia ) from 2004 to 2008 .

  • Handled Project Preparations to identify business requirements, Preparations of Business blue prints, project realizations, interfaces, conversions, reporting & go-live supports.
  • Handled the whole gamut of functions pertaining SAP Financial Accounting-Configuration & support of SAP-AP Process, SAP-AR Process, SAP-GL Process, SAP-EWT Process, SAP-AM Process, SAP-PS Process,
  • Handled SAP Process tailoring for Reliance Shared Service activities –Automations in Invoice Verifications Process, Automations in Customer Collection Process, Automations in Credit Notes/Debit Notes Process ,E-Payment Process etc.
  • Handled Implementation & support of Logistic Execution Process.
  • Handled interfaces of SAP with Legacy system like Primavera & Oil-Retail Pos Systems.
  • Handled Implementation & support of SAP- OIL Retail Process in FICO area.
  • Handled integrations of FI-SD,FI-MM,FI-PP & FI-PS process.
  • Handled merger & amalgamations Process in SAP-FICO.
  • Handled the whole gamut of functions pertaining to SAP Cost Centre Accounting - looked after design of Cost Center Hierarchy; number logics for Cost Center Master data; creation of Master data through LSMW; creation of Distribution and Assessment cycles; facilitated CCA planning through ‘ integrated excel planning’ tool, Plan and Actual Activity price calculation and creation of Splitting structures and Allocation structures.
  • Spearheaded efforts across Product Costing with make to stock scenarios entailing creation of Costing variant for Standard cost estimate; design of Cost component structure; settings for WIP calculation; creation of Settlement profile;design of costing sheets for overhead surcharge on inter-plant material consumption etc.
  • Handled Internal and CO Production Orders and configuration for real and statistical internal order types, settlement profile, planning profile, budget profile etc.
  • Handled the functions pertaining to Profit Center Accounting– Profit Center Hierarchy, Master data Creation, Creation of Authorization Groups and Creation of various reports.
  • Handled SAP Business Process Enhancements & Tailoring through SAP Tools like ABAP development , User Exits, BAPI, BADI ,IDOCs etc.
  • Expert utilization of SAP Legacy management tools like LSMW, E-CATS ,SCAT IDOCs etc.
  • Handled User Trainings & User supports.

Project Details

  • Support & Roll outs in SAP-FICO for Reliance Petroleum Sector & Petro Retail Sector.
  • Implementation of SAP FICO Module in Recron Malaysia Sdn Bhd (Malaysia)
  • Implementation of SAP FICO Module Reliance Haryana SEZ Ltd .
  • Implementation of SAP FICO Module Reliance Mumbai SEZ Ltd .
  • Implementation & Support of SAP-FICO Module Reliance Logistics Ltd.
  • Merger Project in SAP for RIL with acquired Units like IPCL & DCL.
  • Implementation of SAP CO in Relene Petrochemicals Ltd from
  • Implementation of SAP FICO modules in Reliance Life Science Ltd.
  • Implementation of SAP FICO modules in Reliance Utilities & Power Ltd.
  • Implementation of SAP FICO modules in Reliance Industries Ltd(Textiles Division).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (Fianance,Accounts & Audit Domain)

Functional Experience Details (Accounts and Audit Departments) From: 1992-2004

  • Reliance Petroleum Ltd.-

Worked as Manager Accounts & Commercial for 2.5 Yrs from Sept2001 to March2004.

  • Videocon International Ltd.( & Videocon Group)-

Worked as Audit & Accounts officer for 5Yrs.from Nov1996 to Oct2001 .

  • BTW Industries Ltd.(Bhalotia Group)-

Worked as Accounts Officer for 2Yrs. From July1994 to Oct’1996.

  • KOCH-ROY Pharmaceuticals-

Worked as an Accountant for 2Yrs. From April 1992 to May 1994.

ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS

ICWA(Cost Accountant)-June1996

From :ICWAI

LLB - 1998

From : Berhampur University, Orissa.

B. Com.-1991

From : Berhampur University, Orissa.