Murali Shankar

Overall, 18 years of rich experience in Finance domain with consulting experience for D365 F&O modules General Ledger, Cash and Bank Management, Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payables, Fixed Assets. Worked on other ERP'S like SAP for testing of various functionalities and customization while implementation and support. A strategic planner with expertise in envisioning, analyzing existing systems & procedures, preparing business continuity plans, project implementation plans, cost monitoring & reviewing solution architecture.

Hands-on experience in gathering business requirements, business process analysis, GAP analysis etc. An effective communicator with excellent relationship building, presentation & interpersonal skills with working experience in IT, Consulting, Retail, Finance Services industry. Hands-on experience in documentation like FDD, FRD etc.

D365 F&O Functional Consultant at Manuka Health (Aug 2024- July 2026)

• Business requirement gathering and analysis, translating requirements into D365 F&O system solutions
• Configure and set up system functionality in Sandbox and production environment
• Implement new features, and deliver enhancements across Finance & Operations modules
• Drive continuous improvement across D365 areas to align with best practices and ongoing requirements
• Collaborate with technical consultant to address BAU issues and implement system enhancements
• Analyze business requirements and design solutions within Finance and SCM Modules
• Testing of new functionalities in User acceptance testing (UAT) & deployment to production environment
• Provide Support to business users and resolve the issues based on priority
• Managing multiple legal entities and delivering user support across New Zealand, Germany, China & US
• Managing test data, workflows, user account creation & their roles and licenses, item set up etc
• User account creation, align user roles according to the licensing requirement
• Set up and manage workflows, batch jobs to ensure smooth and reliable system performance
• Support Finance & Operations upgrade and lead UAT testing to validate the system readiness
• Triage and resolve various production issues of Finance and Supply chain modules on priority basis

D365 F&O Functional Consultant at Sonata Software Solutions Limited (2022-July – 2024-May)

• Data migration from legacy system to D365 –Purchases, Sales, Payments, and general journals etc
• Provide hyper care support to business post go live as per support plan
• Configure Finance & Operations modules and implement new features, and deliver enhancements
• Implement Finance and Tax modules, prepare business documents relating to F&O modules
• Data Migration to UAT and production environment & Data Correction in production environment
• Work with technical consultants on the customization requirements
• Demonstrate the standard business processes to clients ensuring clarity and understanding
• Analyze the business issues and work on the required process to fix the issues
• Configure the functionalities in Sandbox, Preproduction and Production environments
• Work with technical team for development and testing of solutions as per business requirement
• Prepare the Business documents which includes FDD etc and user manuals

Finance Consultant at Accenture (2014-09 – 2022-07)

• Training completion in D365 Finance modules AP, AR, GL, FA, C&B and Tax
• Prepare document on different test cases and replicate the scenario in D365 F&O
• Set up legal entities in D365 F&O and complete the Finance configurations in test environment
• Testing the finance and SCM functionalities and preparing the document
• Advance Warehouse Management set up and configuration in D365 F&O
• Responsible for allocating the regional cost to countries in Budget and Forecast
• Prepare the allocation keys and update the allocation model
• Liaise with controllers in allocating the expenses and ensure they are aligned with budget and forecast
• Perform variance analysis between actuals/budget/forecast and prepare commentaries, review the monthly performance with expense management head
• Analyze the General operating expense by cost center and function and perform variance analysis on actuals vs budget
• Participate in the monthly close calls and prepare the monthly KPI pack
• Support budget and forecast process, coordinate with regional HQ and countries
• Analyze the regional actuals cost every month in comparison with budget and forecast and prepare the commentaries on the variances
• Review the monthly performance with expense management head
• Prepare the monthly headcount report, perform the headcount analysis which includes TDC comparison against budget and forecast for management review
• Prepare the monthly Insurance product packs for business partners
• Perform the SAP BPC UAT implementation testing and liaise with the functional team in implementing the changes
• Tested allocations, intercompany transactions, expense bookings, cost center to profit center allocations, Admin, IT and Operations cost allocations etc
• Prepare test cases of the activities in pre implementation phase, track the results
• Prepare variance analysis reports comparing actuals with budget and forecast

Process Lead at Tesco (2011-03 – 2014-09)

• Perform variance analysis at department and cost center level actual versus budget
• Perform month end close – prepare store expense accruals, warehouse accruals on transport, labor, electricity, water, sand IT equipment and other reclass
• Prepare the allocation entries on Distribution center cost a monthly basis
• Provide insight & analysis to Business by department on weekly basis
• Analyze the stock loss balances loss on a weekly and monthly basis
• Prepare known loss pack and report the trend performance and provide commentaries
• Prepare the Bonus computation pack for all the store personnel every quarter and review with Regional Director
• Extract data from database using SQL query
• Perform System Reconciliation between Business objects and Oracle
• Prepare the weekly and monthly stock loss KPI packs, Payroll weekly book showing stores actual vs budget

Financial Analyst at Hewlett Packard (2010-09 – 2010-12)

• Prepare Vendor profitability report monthly and report top ten vendors contributing major revenue to business
• Compare revenue with the budgeted figures and report the variance
• Prepare the cost and revenue reports according to business function codes and report gross profit monthly
• Perform month end close activities include posting Journals - accrual's, reversals
• Share the metrics with the clients monthly

Lead Finance & Account Operations at IBM Daksh Business Process Services Limited (2008-09 – 2010-09)

• Prepare project results file to report the cost and gross profit for GBS IBM North America
• Prepare and analyze the department wise expense reports and report the variance compared with the previous year's reports on a monthly and quarterly basis
• Prepare Senior Leadership Team Report weekly to report spend and productivity of GBS Canada Business
• Publish the weekly dashboard to spend and productivity manager
• Prepare the unapproved hours report and cost not billed report according to business divisions
• Prepare the utilization reports

Senior Process Associate at Hewlett Packard (2005-10 – 2008-05)

Master of Commerce (M.com) & Bachelor of Commerce (B.com)