Company : Tech Mahindra Limited Duration : June 2007 to till dateClient / Loc. : Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NetherlandsIndustry : Health Care, Lighting and Consumer Lifestyle

Client details: Philips is the leading company in the industry of Health Care, Consumer Lifestyle and Lighting. It has completed its 125 years in 2016. It has annual turnover of Euro 24,244 million clocked in 2015 with EBIDTA of Euro 1,372 million.

Project Gemini/ Lumileds / Audio/ TV Disentanglement : The disentanglement project within Philips is triggered from the spin-offs of some divisions. The project involves the setup of parallel running system for new companies formed. Focus area for me is payments with banks, ICA, transaction manager and cash management.

Project Role: Business Analyst and Team LeadSAP Areas: In-house Cash, Bank Communication manager, PMW DME XML and MT messaging, Treasury Management, Cash Management, SAP FI payments, EBS, Interfacing and idocs

Project Responsibilities: End to End implementation of payment process for 35 countries across globe. Setup of In-House Cash center and Bank Communication Management for payment and

direct debit processing on behalf or from own account. Development of international standard file XML ISO 20022 format and connection with

banks using FILEACT channel with PI and SWIFT. Aligning with Bank and Country Specific requirements for Payment file are the key

challenge. Implement MT101 payment file (XMLv2) format and connection with bank using FIN

channel with SWIFT. Other MT messaging like MT199 and bank statement MT940 exchange using FIN. Implement HMAC signing of XML ISO 20022 and MT101 payment file for secure delivery

to bank. Different payment types - ACH, High value, book and International and check payment

setup. Exposure to different country rules and banks. Setup of FI payment methods and bank determination at company code level. Bank statement setup and processing using BAI, MT940 and Boleto for Brazil. Setup Treasury management different products for business - Deposits, loans and FX. Implemented country specific Bills of Exchange process for France (LCR), Italy (RIBA) and

Spain (Pagare). In-depth knowledge of idocs msg. type PAYEXT, DIEDEB, FINSTA, TXTRAW. Roles and authorisation analysis.

Project Supplier Finance: Supplier Finance process allows Philips vendors to get the money much before the actual due date by paying small fee. This project has won various internal Philips award. The challenge is to develop the file format requires by bank and the timing of sending the payments.

Project Role: Team memberSAP Areas: In-house Cash, SAP FI payments, EBS, Interfacing and idocs

Project Responsibilities:

Setup of payment methods and bank determination on company codes participating in Supplier Finance program.

Setup of payment on behalf concept in existing In-house cash centre for payments. Integrating Supplier Finance flow in payment process to ensure no payments are made

for un-approved invoices. This requires exchange of XML messages with bank containing invoice information and in return acceptance/rejection by bank.

New Idoc message type for sending invoice data (grouped) and receiving return in idoc format. Provided mapping of idoc data to xml file for PI.

Project Profitability Analysis: Philips Healthcare has challenge in using COPA module. In early 2000, Costing based COPA was implemented, but due its very nature it never reconcile with FI. Accounting based COPA was then implemented, but then it has same issues. Project was triggered to analyse the reason of non-reconciliation of Accounting based COPA with FI and take corrective actions.

Project Role: Team LeadSAP Areas: CO-PA, PS, Product Cost, Result Analysis & Revenue recognition, Orders

Project Responsibilities: Aligning Account based COPA with FI to match profitability. Analysed the challenges and have trained users of Europe, US and Asia on use of COPA

and way of working. This is done for 50 company codes representing countries across the globe.

Exposed to various facets of cost center, profit centre accounting, project system accounting.

Fine tuning process and develop reports which help users during month end for analysis and corrective actions.

Change Project – Treasury Area: Different changes are handled in Treasury area using concept of Delivery Centre. Key changes handled under Change Project –

Project Role: Team LeadSAP Areas: In-house Cash, SAP FI payments, EBS, Interfacing and idocs

Project Responsibilities: Cash Pooling with Zero-balancing Structure. Value Date Logic calculation using Float and Lead Days per bank branch. Special character handling for traditional Chinese characters in payment and RA file. Cash Management using Moneta tool (integrated in SAP). Check payments for US using XML and data in file.

Change Project – Healthcare & Consumer Lifestyle: Following key changes were handled.

Project Role: Team memberSAP Areas: SAP FI, CO-PA, PS, Product Cost, Result Analysis & Revenue recognition, Orders

Project Responsibilities: Accounting and reporting of Cost of Sales with the right usage of accounts, Result

Analysis/WIP calculation of project and service work orders. Mapping of payment idoc to .dat file for MY. ICA open item extraction using RFC by other SAP system. COPA summarization. Result Analysis setups for PS WBS and Order settlements. Yearend closing project

Company : Satyam Computer Services ltd. (now merged into Tech Mahindra Limited)Duration : May 2005 till June 2007Client / Loc. : Unilever, Netherlands & IndiaIndustry : Foods

Client details: Unilever is number 1 fast moving consumer goods company with turnover of Euro 48.40 billion. Unilever has more than 400 brands, 14 of which account for sales in excess of Euro 1 billion a year. More than 172000 people work for Unilever across globe.

Project Role: Team MemberSAP Areas: CO Modules-Cost centre/cost element accounting, Product Costing, Internal Order & COPA and FI- GL & AP/AR

Project Responsibilities: Implementing change requests in CO related areas – Cost Centre Acc, Internal Order,

Product Costing and in FI for General Ledger and AP/AR. Provide production support activities to 13 EU countries by analysing and solving

incidents, bug fixes, trouble shooting and resolution of user queries. Work with other functional supports specialists on integration issues to ensure a

consistent level of service across all systems. Involved in various testing scenarios – Integration testing, Regression testing, Stress and

Volume testing. Involved in Period and Year end process.