Venkata Ballim

Professional Summary:

• Over 28 years total experience which includes 18years of SAP experience in all project phases including requirements gathering, design, build and post go-live support 
• Record to Report Accounting (RTR) is responsible for RTR process for dedicated Affiliate/s and coordination and oversight of accounting activities for this affiliate as a first point of contact (FPOC).
• Experienced with Record to Report (RTR), creating Functional specification for BI to extract data from FI and CO for reporting and Financial Accounting.
• I have worked on new SAP project implementations, template-based roll-outs, upgrades and currently working as aSAP FICO Lead on post go-live stabilization team for product costing, controlling (profit-center accounting), capital/expense internal orders, fixed asset accounting and project systems. 
• Experience in Open Text - Vendor Invoice Management (VIM) like understanding the end-to-end workflow, configuring the new roles, exceptions and also some of the enhancement and interface objects related to it.
• Knowledge and experience in all aspects of RTR (Record to Report), PTP (Procure to Pay) and OTC.
• Has been involved in 4 SAP projects which were successfully implemented of which 2 full cycle SAP FICO-AR module implementations (for entire Asia region), 1 FICO support deployment (all sub modules) and 1 project which involved roll out of global template to specific country (with changes/enhancements w.r.t to statutory requirements). Also worked on an assessment project to check for possibilities of mapping tax related process on to SAP for a media company. Currently working on global roll out of US based company the responsibilities of which include roll out of New GL module, FI-AR and FI-AP module.
• US GAAP and IFRS according to SOX Controls.
• Knowledge and experience in all aspects of RTR (Record to Report), PTP (Procure to Pay) and OTC (Order to Cash).
• Good exposure in SAP EM Business process types, Application objects types, Event types, Event handlers, Expected events profiles, Rule sets.
• Experience in working on all SAP Open textareas like Vendor Invoice Management VIM, Archive link configuration, ICC/OCR and ES.
• Record to Report Accounting (RTR) is responsible for RTR process for dedicated Affiliate/s and coordination and oversight of accounting activities for this affiliate as a first point of contact (FPOC).
• Worked on Global implementation / North American   & Asia pacific rollout projects.
• Strong knowledge in Product Costing MTO (Make to Order) & MTS (Make to stock- repetitive manufacturing processes) for inventory valuation and Standard Cost Estimate Run valuation at plant level or at company code level and WIP calculations and variance analysis
• Working knowledge in Actual Costing.
• Worked with interfaces like ARIBA, Blackline and Concur (T & L Expenses)
• CO expertise includes - Cost Center accounting (CCA), Profit Center accounting (PCA), Internal Orders (IO), Product Costing (CO-PC), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
• CO-Profitability Analysis: Configuring and Customizing Costing based CO-PA and Account based CO-PA including setting up of the operating concern, characteristics, value fields
• Configured and supported Project Systems for project accounting functions like creating various project/WBS types for cost capital cost collection, interest calculations and settlement to balance sheet via asset under construction
• Diverse, extensive but cohesive international experience besides SAP covers the functions of Accounting, Finance, Audit, software design & development and entrepreneurship
• Design and       deployment of custom interfaces, reports ,remediation / streamlining of business and system processes, audit and SOX compliance issues, user training and documentation
• Assisted SAP Audits to create roles for the external and internal auditors 
• Experienced in data conversion using LSMW, BDC (including IDocs’), custom interface and reports development
• Sound knowledge in integrating FI with SD and MM modules (Procurement, sales, billing, inventory).
• Experience in configuration and testing related to country specific localization (Germany, Hungary, and UK)
• Strong experience with HPQC, Info Pak for Unit, Integration testing
• Good Knowledge in interface like Reuters, Bloomberg, GE Cars, Cyprus. T & L etc.

EDUCATIion

• ICSI (Final), Institute of Company Secretaries, India 
• ICWAI Inter from Institute of Cost and Works Accountant, India.
• Bachelor of Commerce (B. Com) graduate from Andhra University, India