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Suresh Telikicharla

Suresh Telikicharla

Secunderabad

Summary

Seasoned Manager with a proven track record in ERP implementation and team leadership, notably at Genpact India Pvt Ltd. Excelled in R2R monthend close, financial reporting, and client relationship management, achieving significant process optimizations and fostering robust stakeholder relationships. Skilled in JIRA and adept at driving business change, demonstrating a confident approach to achieving strategic objectives in ERP implementation projects.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Manager, Business Analysis

LTIMindtree
Hyderabad
09.2021 - 02.2025
  • Migrating from the Smart Reporting Ledger to the Financial Full Suite Reporting Tool.
  • IFRS 9 implementation in the global accounting engine as part of the SDLC.
  • Vision Plus to Vision Next software implementation for card operations.
  • Organizing workshops to gather 'as-is' process business requirements from the business and receive a draft of the 'to-be' process from functional consultants for solution build.
  • Documenting and updating the raid log items to seek further business inputs for functional consultants.
  • Organized 'Show and Tell' (SAT), playback sessions with the collaboration of functional consultants to business stakeholders.
  • Testing environment readiness: BRD, FRD preparation, and updating over the JIRA tool.
  • Maintaining the required master data setups for successful data load without any errors.
  • Maintaining the mapping structure that includes map groups, map IDs with input and output parameters creation, and linkages with proper execution orders.
  • Trial data load planning and execution by liaising with the technology partners.
  • Local to local and local to global attributes data validations post data load day 0, day 1, and day 31 to identify any anomalies and ensure timely correction with technology partners.
  • Updating the map data set ups and revisiting the mapping data for any incremental additions/ deletions
  • Handover of each stage of data validations viz day0 & day31 with summary and explanations to financial checks processing team for further reconciliation and sign off
  • Resolving the production user queries during production support gestation period
  • User stories creation in Jira platform, working in agile way of workings
  • Scrum updates, Sprint planning, execution and closure
  • Seeking TDD sign off, seeking unit testing evidence from Developers, SIT & UAT Use case testing, sign off

Manager- One ERP SAP Project

Genpact India Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad
01.2020 - 09.2021
  • Company Overview: (UK Pharma and Consumer Clients) TPF.
  • Organizing workshops to gather 'as-is' process business requirements from the business and receive a draft of the 'to-be' process from functionals for solution build for R2R, commission off-invoice process.
  • Documenting and updating the raid log items to seek further business inputs for functional consultants
  • Organized 'Show and Tell' (SAT), playback sessions with the collaboration of functional consultants to business stakeholders.
  • Driving data cleansing in the legacy system for smoother migration.
  • Legacy data cleansing for a smoother data load in the new system.
  • Load data verification and sign-off in application lifecycle management.
  • Liaising with businesses to clear the legacy open items on time and intervening when help is needed.
  • Collaboration with business super users and functional consultants in 'Early User Testing' (EUT) and 'Day in the Life' (DIL).
  • Mapped chart of accounts (COA) between legacy and new ERP for data migration.
  • Creation of master data, i.e.,
  • Cost center, WBS (Work Breakdown Structure), and finance data sets for 'Trial Data Load' (TDL) and 'Production Data Load' (PDL), post-load reconciliation of data sets.
  • Usage of the DCW data collection workbook, the DOMD data object mapping documentation, as standard files.
  • Preparing the business activities day in the life (DIL) testing scenarios in coordination with business and functional teams.
  • Preparing the raid log items file for coordination and timely closure.
  • Conducting team meetings within cross-functional teams for wider business end-to-end testing and visibility.
  • Providing the necessary business activities list for cutover planning and timely execution.
  • Ramp up and ramp down plan visibility to business stakeholders and functional consultants.
  • Coordinating with super users and business stakeholders to complete the 'Business Change Impact Assessment and Plan' (BCIAP) template.
  • Work with Change Management Leads to shape up the 'Change Action Plan' (CAP) for a smooth go-live.
  • Collaboration with business users on access provisioning.
  • Early Life Support (ELS) to business users post go-live.
  • (UK Pharma and Consumer clients) TPF

Manager

Genpact India Pvt Ltd
05.2016 - 12.2019
  • Company Overview: (UK Pharma and Consumer clients) TPF operations.
  • Expertise in R2R and O2C month-end close, and year-end closure of accounts for export markets in European, Middle East, North Africa, and Asia Pacific regions for two legal entities.
  • Customer account creation, credit sanctioning, billing, cash applications, unapplied cash resolution, and aged creditors/open debts management.
  • Month-end support for closing AR books with clean reconciliations, followed by trial balance variance analysis.
  • Balance sheet reconciliations
  • Supported in data cleansing activities for three big legal entities for smoother data load on time.
  • Working with business stakeholders to seek approval for open items, cleansing, and accounting.
  • Review of the trial balance, commentaries, variance analysis, reconciliations, and sub-ledger age analysis.
  • Support the statutory accounting team in the preparation of the annual statutory and financial statements.
  • Preparation of the net sales position for finance directors enables accurate monthly Flash sales submissions.
  • Preparation and review of balance sheet reconciliations, and categorize them as per BSR policy.
  • Updating the L1 Sox control monitoring file to ensure applicable controls are being performed.
  • Organizing monthly governance calls with key stakeholders, and taking actions on the minutes of meetings.
  • Appraisal review and discussion.

Assistant manager Team lead

Genpact India Pvt Ltd
10.2013 - 04.2016
  • Team lead and SME for R2R, fixed assets process managing people, process, customers under Trading partners finance
  • Conducting process improvement sessions with team
  • Preparing Value stream mapping for processes having defects
  • Discuss succession of career development plans with management for each team member and ensure every person accomplishment acting as a personal mentor

Management trainee

Genpact India Pvt LTD
03.2012 - 09.2013
  • Hands on experience on month end close and yearend close activities
  • GL reconciliations and Bank & Subledger-GL reconciliations
  • Inventory adjustments, Reconciliations and provisioning
  • Journal entries review and postings
  • Fixed assets clearance, additions, disposals, reconciliations
  • 3rd Party Sales related Off Invoice discounts -Commission accounting

Process developer

Genpact India Pvt LTD
07.2008 - 02.2012
  • Worked on the cost minimization project of biggest high value packaging vendor
  • Processing and payment of these packaging vendor invoices via ERS evaluated receipt settlement
  • Understanding end to end process and preparing value stream mapping VSM as part of project
  • Weekly governance calls with Purchase group leads and warehouse manager
  • Have worked in all the sub teams of AP process and have good understanding of P&B, POT metrics
  • Instrumental in driving process improvements like accounting right at first time that results in lower number disputed state invoices with AP

Process Associate

Genpact India Pvt LTD
11.2006 - 06.2008
  • Well-versed in the ACATS cycle segment within the capital management group at Wells Fargo's BFSI vertical.
  • Lead to the increase of the receiving institutions’ business on a proactive approach to receiving the client’s securities on time, due to system automatic failure.
  • Received first appreciation for excellence from a big US brokerage firm, and I was adjudged Employee of the Year.

Education

M. Com -

Berhampur University
Berhampur, Orissa
01.2004

B.Com (Hon.) -

Rayagada College
Rayagada, Odisha
01.2002

Skills

  • ERP Implementation
  • Team management
  • R2R: General Ledger Month-End Close
  • Intercompany
  • Financial reporting
  • Client Relationship Management
  • Business change impact assessment
  • Bank reconciliation: Review
  • Master data setups: Review
  • Training
  • Balance sheet reconciliations sign-off
  • Trial Balance commentary review
  • JIRA
  • O2C
  • P2P
  • SAD SD

Certification

  • IFRS certified
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Timeline

Manager, Business Analysis

LTIMindtree
09.2021 - 02.2025

Manager- One ERP SAP Project

Genpact India Pvt Ltd
01.2020 - 09.2021

Manager

Genpact India Pvt Ltd
05.2016 - 12.2019

Assistant manager Team lead

Genpact India Pvt Ltd
10.2013 - 04.2016

Management trainee

Genpact India Pvt LTD
03.2012 - 09.2013

Process developer

Genpact India Pvt LTD
07.2008 - 02.2012

Process Associate

Genpact India Pvt LTD
11.2006 - 06.2008

M. Com -

Berhampur University

B.Com (Hon.) -

Rayagada College
Suresh Telikicharla