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Veera Prabhakaran

Bangalore

Summary

Finance professional with over 13 years of expertise in Finance & Accounts having exposure to Financial Planning & Analysis, Mgmt Reporting & Accounting, Budgeting & Analysis and allied reporting functions of S4 & BPC Consolidation.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Financial Planning & Analysis Specialist

ACCENTURE SERVICES PVT LTD
Bangalore
02.2024 - Current
  • Budgeting and Forecasting on monthly basis and data loads using SAP HANA/Oracle (Hyperion).
  • Variance analysis on Budget v Actuals and Forecast v Actuals and providing initial insights for mail drivers
  • Carried out budget analysis tasks to predict future budget needs and control expenditures.
  • Being a part of Annual plans (AOP) which leads to prepare annual budgets for the financial year.
  • Producing and analyzing periodic financial reports before month ends to help counterparts keep track on opex spend and help manage the budget & actual position as forecasted.
  • Analyzing the Reports with actual, budget and variance analysis.
  • Monthly Accrual calculation and Journal booking for opex expenses
  • Extraction of Financial results and reports from SAP, ORACLE and Other Client tools by using the different queries for different set data like Actual, Forecast. Budget.
  • Trained end-users in best practices to minimize errors and protect key data.
  • Supported customers by answering questions and guiding end-use.
  • Identified improvement opportunities to effectively meet customer and business needs.
  • Responsible for three way reconciliation of monthly forecasts and Annual plans.
  • Integrated new technologies to meet area requirements.

S4 AND BPC Consolidation

ACCENTURE SERVICES PVT LTD
Bangalore
01.2020 - 01.2024
  • Closely with accounting team on the financial consolidation system maintenance and close processes
  • Opening the Period in BPC and setting up the Fiscal Variant for the current month
  • Fx-rates into the BPC system and setting up the USD rates on yearly basis
  • Running the Translation and Revaluation process and Validating with BPC system for financial statements
  • Carry forward the company code data from current period to future periods and modifying the allocation percentages
  • Master Data Attributes checks from Un-Assigned to assigned in the system
  • Creating and modifying the AO Reports based on the business requirements
  • Analyzed data from multiple sources to identify discrepancies and resolve errors.
  • Prepared detailed reports on consolidated financial results for management review.
  • Documented all consolidation activities including journal entries and reconciliations.
  • Validating BW vs BPC data and S4 vs BW data
  • Creating and approving the COA in the MDG system.
  • Reviewing and reconciling accounts on a daily basis to ensure accuracy of financial records.
  • Working closely with external auditors during annual audits to provide requested information quickly and accurately.
  • Ensured that all consolidation activities were completed according to established internal controls.
  • Preparing year-end closing documents such as balance sheet reconciliations prior to audit.

Financial Planning and Analysis as Specialist

ACCENTURE SERVICES PVT LTD
Bangalore
07.2012 - 12.2019
  • Variance analysis, budget vs actuals and preparation working file on expense analysis on a monthly basis
  • Preparing Operating expenses related accruals
  • Preparation of HC Dash board analysis
  • Preparation of Forecasting on the basis of trend
  • Budget management/allocation analysis
  • Month end review for Aged PO’s reporting
  • Dash board preparation for business review preparation for Discussion with Business partners
  • Arrange monthly & quarterly business review call with client and discuss on improvements & achievements
  • Working on improvements in reports and suggesting the same to the client
  • Analytical review of the expenses based on trend analysis
  • Overseeing the process updates and updating the Process DTP based on changes in the process including follow-up on Sign-off of the updated Process documents
  • Helping the team on any issues in the process & try to resolve the issues within the team.

Accounts Payable

ACCENTURE SERVICES PVT LTD
Bangalore
12.2009 - 06.2012
  • Accounting and Invoice processing, Payments
  • Invoice Entry: Analyze and match invoices to PO and enter non-PO coded invoices, send on-hold and rejected invoices to BU for approval, process corrected/approved invoices, follow up and resolve the invoices with issues
  • Supplier/Internal Customer contacts: Handle the Queries/issues as per the requests, respond/resolve the issues
  • Adhere to the escalation matrix and follow up procedures
  • Independently handled financial accounting and Invoice processing activities with in process
  • All Accounting entries entered in Accounting Package in Oracle
  • Preparation/Review/ Posting of Journal Entries of Account Reconciliations.

Education

B.Com (Computer Application) -

C.P.A. College of Commerce, Bodinayakanur, Madurai Kamaraj University, Tamilnadu
06.2008

Pursuing MBA in Finance

JGI Online
Bangalore

Skills

  • Account Reconciliations
  • Preparing / Posting Journal Entries in SAP
  • Month-End Closure / Year-End Closure of books of accounts [SOBPs / Entities]
  • Budgeting and Forecasting Reporting (Hyperion, Oracle & SAP)
  • Variance analysis on FvA & BvA
  • Month end accruals for Opex
  • Financial statements reporting (S4 & BPC)
  • Client Relationship Management
  • Data validations - ERP migrations
  • ERP - Oracle Financial System, SAP (S4,& Bpc)
  • Records Organization & Management
  • Journal Entries & General Ledger
  • Budgeting & Financial Control
  • Smartview, HFM, SAP, Google client tools
  • Training, Mentoring and Assessing team members on process specifics
  • Microsoft Office Package applications including MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS Power Point [Version 2003 /2007 / 2010] and SQL
  • Functional Skills of Oracle11i & R12, SAP S4 Hana & BPC for Transaction processing and Consolidation process for Financial Reporting
  • Skillful in using Microsoft Excel Application as I am familiar with some Shortcuts and basic functions in MS Excel [like Macros, vlookup, pivot, SumIF, CountIF among others]
  • Project management of technical and non-technical projects
  • Creation of documentation for implemented processes
  • Involving in Team SLA calculation & MBR reports to respective tower owner for finalization of SLA for the particular period and Management Reporting

Accomplishments

  • Received appreciation for my contributions in projects Flyer AFS and Penguin at Accenture
  • SAP implementation - - Requirement gathering, Design, BPD, Data mapping, testing (Unit,SIT, UAT), Sox controls, Defect resolution, Training, cutover, go-live, hypercare

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 04/09/87
  • Father's Name: M.Devadoss
  • Nationality: Indian
  • Gender: Male
  • No.1, 5th Main, Narasamma layout, Uttarahalli, Bangalore – 560061

Languages

English, Kannada & Tamil

Disclaimer

I conclude by stating that all the details mentioned above are true to the best of my knowledge.

Timeline

Financial Planning & Analysis Specialist

ACCENTURE SERVICES PVT LTD
02.2024 - Current

S4 AND BPC Consolidation

ACCENTURE SERVICES PVT LTD
01.2020 - 01.2024

Financial Planning and Analysis as Specialist

ACCENTURE SERVICES PVT LTD
07.2012 - 12.2019

Accounts Payable

ACCENTURE SERVICES PVT LTD
12.2009 - 06.2012

B.Com (Computer Application) -

C.P.A. College of Commerce, Bodinayakanur, Madurai Kamaraj University, Tamilnadu

Pursuing MBA in Finance

JGI Online
Veera Prabhakaran