venkatraman jayaraman

Conduct statutory and internal audits for Private and Public Limited Companies.

* Participation in pre-sale activities, review and responding to RFP and in evolving support strategy. * Leading a team of senior consultants in conducting Due Diligence. * Transition Manager for transition of services from the outgoing vendor and also closely coordinating with business partners to ensure smooth bedding-in of support services. * Ensure delivery of all contracted services in accordance with agreed Service Level Agreements. * Adherence to the agreed support processes and procedures and Sarbox compliance requirements. * Management and co-ordination of escalated issues and prioritize activities within the support team. * Managing a team of ~90 onshore / offsite consultants.

Draw-up a detailed project plan for the biggest ERP project in Sri-Lanka. The plan also included a strategy to harmonize business processes across the group and to also come up with a cut over strategy to Go Live in all the 68 legal entities within an aggressive timeframe of 12 months. The key highlights of the approach were as follows o Seamlessly integrate the supply chain processes across the group o Implement SEM BCS to handle legal and statutory reporting requirements o Provide an optimal solution to interface with disparate operational systems o Standardize the Operating Chart of Accounts across the Group. o Standardize the Key Performance Indicators and reporting across the group. Manage a team of over 40+ consultants and over 70 core team members throughout the project duration Involved in business process re-engineering and harmonization of business processes of the client. Involved in the implementation of Cost of Sales Accounting and Material Ledger. Involved in the implementation of BIW and set-up a Management Cockpit for the Top Management.

* Project Management using ASAP methodology using Q&A Db, CI Templates, Issue Database and Business Process Master List. * Involved in evolving a strategy and detailed plan for the Pilot and Roll Out phases. * Involved in preliminary GAP analysis by mapping the re-engineering document with SAP processes. * Project Manager for SAP Enterprise Version implementation for Engineering Industry. Ensured delivery of all in scope services on time and in accordance with the agreed project plan and successful transfer of services to BAU Operational support teams. Ensured successful completion of Post Go Live / Warranty phase, preparation of project documentation, Operational Acceptance Checklist, Lessons learned documentation and Project closure reports. * Developing and maintaining detailed project plans, proactively monitor overall progress, effectively manage RAID log and initiating corrective action as appropriate. * Involved in business process harmonization across the business units. * Implemented Solution Manager to support post go live support activities.

Project Manager for SAP R/3 (Ver 4.6c) implementation for Pharmaceutical Industry. Ensured delivery of all in scope services on time and in accordance with the agreed project plan and successful transfer of services to BAU Operational support teams. Ensured successful completion of Post Go Live / Warranty phase, preparation of project documentation, Operational Acceptance Checklist, Lessons learned documentation and Project closure reports. Developing and maintaining detailed project plans, proactively monitor overall progress, effectively manage RAID log and initiating corrective action as appropriate. Involved in Business Process Mapping, Identifying Gaps and evolving procedure to handle Gaps. Involved in developing Data Migration programs and assisting core team members to migrate data from legacy systems onto SAP.

* Deputy Project Manager and Lead Consultant for Financial Accounting and Controlling. * Involved in developing interface with Lotus Notes interface for indenting and expenses accounting processes. * Involved in setting up process for migrating data from Legacy systems using Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW).

* Functional lead consultant for Financial Accounting and Treasury Cash Management. * Involved in setting up process for migrating data from Legacy systems. * Preparing End User documentation and training end users.

* Functional lead consultant for Financial Accounting, Asset Management and Treasury – Cash Management. * Involved in Process Change Management study and working on Business Information Model with SAP as backbone.

* Functional Support consultant for Financial Accounting (Accounts Receivable), Asset Management. * Involved in training Project Team members * Involved in setting up process for migrating data from Legacy systems * Preparing End User documentation and training end users.

* Management Consulting. * Preparation of Project Feasibility Reports, Budget and Cash Flow Forecasts. * Supervise a team of accounting staff involved in maintaining full set of accounts for MNC clients.

* Responsible for Finance and Treasury functions. * Supervise a team of accounting staff in 22 branches in Tamil Nadu. * Initiated a project to develop integrated accounting software. * Responsible for establishing IT processes, procedures and internal controls.

* Supervise a team of accounting staff to ensure timely preparation of financial and management reports * Preparation of Cash Flow Forecasts and monitoring of treasury functions. * Evolved internal control procedures for recording and accounting accruals of scrap at various departments / work centers within the Ambattur Factory. * Involved in the maintenance of computerized inventory control system, reconciliation of movement of stock between Factory and bonded warehouse, preparation of aging analysis of inventory and identification of stock into moving, non-moving and obsolete stock

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