Sudharsan Rangarajan
Chennai
Summary
SAP Functional Architect with 14+ years of experience in architecting, designing, and governing SAP Finance, Banking, and Insurance solutions across large-scale enterprise landscapes.
Proven leader in Big 4–led transformation programs, defining end-to-end SAP financial architectures, and delivering scalable, compliant solutions for the Energy, FMCG, Logistics, Banking, Insurance, and Fintech industries.
Expert in translating complex regulatory and business requirements into optimized SAP designs and target-state architectures, driving process harmonization, superior customer experience, and high-impact financial reporting.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
SAP FPSL Functional Architect
Cognizant
Chennai
06.2025 - Current
- Architected end-to-end SAP FPSL solutions covering source systems, data ingestion, subledger processing, valuation, posting, and integration with S/4HANA Finance, ensuring alignment with enterprise finance architecture, and regulatory requirements.
- Defined and governed source-to-target data models and mapping frameworks, including GL derivation logic, accounting principles, and posting rules, ensuring accurate, auditable, and reconciled financial postings to S/4 General Ledger.
- Owned FPSL configuration and solution design across accounting engines, valuation areas, posting schemas, subledger hierarchies, and reporting structures, driving scalable, and reusable solution patterns.
- Led daily operational monitoring and AMS governance for FPSL runs, proactively managing batch processing, error handling, reconciliation issues, and SLA adherence to ensure business continuity and financial close timelines.
- Acted as the design authority for FPSL change management, evaluating business change requests, performing impact analysis, defining solution approaches, and ensuring controlled delivery across enhancements, regulatory updates, and system upgrades.
- Headed and mentored a cross-functional FPSL delivery team, providing architectural guidance, conducting design reviews, ensuring adherence to best practices, and enabling high-quality, on-time delivery.
- Collaborated with Finance, Actuarial, Risk, and IT stakeholders to translate complex accounting and regulatory requirements (e.g., IFRS 17/9) into compliant SAP FPSL designs and implementation roadmaps.
- Established reconciliation, controls, and audit frameworks between source systems, FPSL subledger, and S/4HANA GL, improving data transparency, traceability, and audit readiness.
- Supported cutover planning, data migration validation, and post-go-live stabilization, ensuring a smooth transition from legacy systems to FPSL-enabled finance platforms.
- Contributed to the FPSL roadmap definition and platform optimization, identifying performance improvements, automation opportunities, and future-ready enhancements aligned with the enterprise digital finance strategy.
Senior Consultant- SAP FICO/FPSL
Ernst & Young GDS India
08.2021 - 05.2025
- Led end-to-end SAP FICO and FPSL project delivery, ensuring 100% adherence to timelines and budgets while enhancing financial process efficiency by 20% and aligning system performance with evolving business needs.
- Directed cross-functional teams of 18 professionals, achieving 95% stakeholder satisfaction through proactive communication, role clarity, and structured issue resolution.
- Defined and managed project milestones for three internal transformation initiatives, with 80% of deliverables completed ahead of schedule and within budget, contributing to smoother business transitions and system upgrades.
- Streamlined SAP FPSL and FICO modules across three legacy systems, increasing system integration efficiency and improving financial data processing performance by 25%.
- Reduced financial systems risk exposure by 30% through proactive project planning, change control, and issue escalation protocols, ensuring continuity and cost control.
- Acted as primary liaison for external stakeholders, handling over 20 technical and business inquiries weekly, ensuring timely resolution and minimizing project disruptions.
- Collaborated with product owners and finance leadership to prioritize backlogs and process up to 50 system enhancement requests per sprint, improving agility and responsiveness.
- Configured core FPSL organizational structures (Valuation Areas, Ledger Groups, Accounting Principles) to meet both IFRS 17 and local statutory reporting requirements across entities.
- Integrated FPSL with Universal Journal (ACDOCA) via Reconciliation Ledger settings, ensuring accurate subledger-to-general ledger data flow and financial integrity.
- Customized financial accounting settings, including Chart of Accounts (CoA), Account Assignment References (AARs), and Account Determination Rules to ensure IFRS 17-compliant insurance postings.
- Optimized and maintained key FI/CO modules (FI-GL, AP/AR, AA, BA, PCA) to support global financial operations, compliance, and timely regulatory reporting.
- Delivered end-user training for key finance and actuarial staff, enhancing adoption of IFRS 17 accounting logic in FPSL and reducing post-go-live incidents by 40%.
- Performed FPSL performance tuning and batch optimization, reducing processing time for high-volume insurance portfolios and accelerating month-end close by 20%.
- Led digital transformation of FPSL configuration for IFRS 9, including sub-ledger setup, GL mapping, and reporting data layer (RDL) design, aligning system capabilities with business and compliance objectives.
- Enhanced FPSL cost center derivation logic and GL posting rules, aligning configuration with evolving product structures and ensuring IFRS 9 reporting accuracy.
- Configured and validated derivation rules, account mapping, and financial posting frameworks, improving financial data accuracy and supporting real-time reporting.
Module Lead -SAP Bank Analyzer
Sopra Steria India
11.2019 - 07.2021
- Led cross-functional teams (finance, IT, business) in SAP Bank Analyzer integration, reducing reconciliation time by 25%.
- Optimized Smart AFI configuration and enhanced derivation logic, improving process efficiency by 30%.
- Directed system readiness testing across Development, Quality, and Testing servers, ensuring 100% issue-free deployment.
- Streamlined sub-ledger to G/L mapping and posting record configuration, improving audit accuracy by 18%.
- Led regression testing, identifying and resolving 15% of discrepancies before deployment, and minimizing post-launch issues.
- Maintained clear communication with senior leadership, achieving 95% satisfaction from stakeholders.
- Drove performance monitoring, reducing system-related issues by 10% in the first quarter post-deployment.
Senior Software Engineer- SAP FICO
Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd
11.2017 - 11.2019
- Provided application development support for key SAP FI sub-modules (AR, AP, GL, Taxation, Asset Accounting) in S/4HANA.
- Configured and utilized the Automatic Payment Program, including House Banks, Payment Methods, ranking orders, payment terms, and foreign currency valuation.
- Configured New GL features like company hierarchy, document splitting, and parallel accounting, resolving posting period alignment issues.
- Developed a custom invoice print solution with a tailored transaction code.
- Collaborated with technical team to expose BAPIs for third-party integration, ensuring seamless posting to FI modules.
- Participated in end-to-end IDoc configuration and monitoring for interfaces between SAP and external systems.
- Led testing efforts across multiple phases, including unit, functional, system, integration, UAT, and performance testing.
- Created end-user training documentation for Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, ensuring effective system use.
Consultant- SAP FICO
GAVS Technologies Pvt Ltd
06.2015 - 11.2017
- Delivered end-to-end support for the SAP Finance module, configuring key settings such as Company Code, Posting Period Variant, document number ranges, and Tolerance Groups.
- Payment Program configuration for seamless banking transaction processing and led reconciliation of Profitability Reports with financial data.
Process Analyst
TATA Consultancy Services
07.2013 - 06.2015
- Proactively identified and detected fraudulent transactions, enhancing security measures and safeguarding cards.
- Developed and implemented effective travel strategies, ensuring seamless card usage for cardholders during trips.
- Efficiently updated cardholder addresses, improving customer service and communication.
- Coordinated the issuance of new cards promptly in response to cardholder requests, ensuring uninterrupted access to services.
Process Associate
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
05.2011 - 06.2012
- Efficiently processed invoices using SAP, both Purchase Order and Non-Purchase Order, ensuring timely and accurate financial operations.
- Managed Credit Invoices and executed comprehensive vendor reconciliation to enhance financial clarity.
- Collaborated with buyers to resolve blocked and parked invoices, significantly reducing aging and accelerating supplier payments.
- Conducted rigorous quality checks on team-processed invoices, achieving a target of 100% accuracy.
- COPA report configuration for enhanced profitability analysis and contributed to Tax Procedure Migration (TAXINJ-TAXINN) and GST Implementation in line with Indian tax regulations.
- Configured Procure-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash cycles to improve operational efficiency and managed FI-AP, FI-AR, and GL configurations, including end-user training.
- Implemented Park & Post functionality for better transaction handling and collaborated with onshore consultants to update business process changes.
- Created detailed user-testing documents to support the implementation of system changes.
Education
B.Com - Commerce And Accounting
University of Madras
Chennai06-2011
Skills
- SAP FPSL - IFRS 9 & 17
- SAP FICO S4 HANA
- SAP FI P2P/O2C/ R2R
- SAP COPA
- SAP FI GST Implementation
- Sub-Ledger Coding Block
- FPSL Derivation Simplification
- Defect Root Cause Analysis
- Implementation Hyper Care
- Agile Project Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Collaborative Leadership
- Integration Co-ordination
- Delegation and Empowerment
- Scoping and Forecasting
- Process Re-engineering
- Resource Management
- Risk Management
Timeline
SAP FPSL Functional Architect
Cognizant
06.2025 - Current
Senior Consultant- SAP FICO/FPSL
Ernst & Young GDS India
08.2021 - 05.2025
Module Lead -SAP Bank Analyzer
Sopra Steria India
11.2019 - 07.2021
Senior Software Engineer- SAP FICO
Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd
11.2017 - 11.2019
Consultant- SAP FICO
GAVS Technologies Pvt Ltd
06.2015 - 11.2017
Process Analyst
TATA Consultancy Services
07.2013 - 06.2015
Process Associate
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
05.2011 - 06.2012
B.Com - Commerce And Accounting
University of Madras