Suresh Yalavarthi

Chief Architect – S4/Finance

Suresh Yalavarthi

As a Chief Architect – S4/ Finance at TekLink International, Inc., Suresh leads TekLink’s SAP Finance solution development, implementation and training of such solutions.  Suresh is a Chartered Accountant with over 28 years’ experience in the industry that includes 8 years of functional experience in finance and cost accounting roles, 5 years of SAP FI/CO, over 15 years of SAP Planning & consolidation solution architecture & solution delivery experience. He is a former SAP Planning Principal Consultant with SAP America Inc. Suresh has deep function and technical background and experience in designing, developing and deploying financial consolidations, integrated financial planning and analytical reporting solutions at CPG, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Service, Apparel, Oil-Gas, and Retail industry

A few of his other accomplishments include:

  • Architected and provided financial consolidation, integrated financial planning, and reporting solutions for a $21 billion revenue world leading  appliance manufacturing company
  • Architected and managed the rollout of forecasting, budgeting and Integrated planning and reporting for a $75 billion revenue oil and gas fortune 500 company
  • Instrumental in designing a new process and implemented an innovative detailed allocated multi-dimensional profitability reporting solution using FI-GL,CO_OM,CO_PC,CO-PA and BI-IP for $70 billion revenue consumer Products Company.
  • Designed and implemented an integrated planning global template and roll-out to all regions and sectors of $70 billion revenue consumer Products Company. Architected various financial reporting solutions in ECC and BI
  • Architected and lead the delivery of various projects in FI-CO, CRM, SEM, BW and BPC

Prior to joining TekLink in 2006, Sureh worked as a Principal consultant in the FI/CO and BI areas for SAP America, Inc. Prior to SAP International, he worked as Controller, Sr. Finance Manager at Stiles India Ltd heading Finance and cost accounting departments.

Suresh has a Bachelor’s Degree in commerce from Nagarjuna University and an Associate Member of Chartered Accountant from India .