Akrish Sharma Email & Phone Number

Gurugram, Hr, In

Akrish is a Senior Manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers Acceleration Centre. He has an experience of 8+ years in Workday Financial implementations and an overall experience of 11+ years in financial software implementations. He is a Workday practitioner certified in Workday Financials Core, Record to Report, Procure to Pay, Contracts to Cash, Accounting Centre, EM/PM and Adaptive Planning. He is proficient in the Implementation and Support of Workday financial workstreams. He has extensively worked on Supplier Accounts, Procurement, Banking, Assets, Projects, Financial Accounting, Expenses and other workstreams of a Workday financial project. Prior to PwC, Akrish has worked with one of the leading consulting firms on multiple Workday Financials implementations in the TMT and Financial Services industries. He was involved in Requirement Gathering, Design, Build, Testing and Post Go-live support phases of a project life cycle.

Akrish is a Workday Financials, Adaptive Planning and PM certified consultant having 10+ years of experience in the IT industry. He is currently working as an Offshore Delivery Lead on two separate clients for supplier accounts, customer accounts, expenses, business assets, banking, security and reporting areas across two clients on the Workday ERP tool. He has considerable knowledge in WD across solution architecture, business process design, requirement gathering and tenant configuration across different modules, security setup, reporting and has a good understanding of accounting, projects, and expenses configurations. In the past, he worked on the Oracle Applications ERP as an application developer and has been involved in PMO activities, Market Research, SQL Testing and different RFPs. He holds an MBA degree from IMT Ghaziabad and has done his engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology.

Gurgaon, India

Workday Financials Project 1:Worked as the Supplier Accounts, Procurement, and Reporting lead. The key responsibilities were:a) Configuring the entire Procure to Pay cycle for the client, which included setting up suppliers, configuring the necessary business processes and custom validations, configuring the matching conditions, SIT and Gold tenant build, defect resolution during SIT and UAT and providing KT sessions for the clientb) Successfully developing close to 20 complex financial reports for the client. These reports spanned multiple functional areas including, Supplier Accounts, Procurement, Tax, General Ledger, Projects etc.c) Working on related functional areas such as Security (including business processes and custom validations), DA reviews and other tenant build activitiesWorkday Financials Project 2:Worked as the Reporting lead from offshore and successfully built 31 complex financial and HR reports pertaining to the needs of the client. The reports included, income statements, balance sheets, actual vs. budget comparisons, payroll reports, statistic reports etc.

Hyderabad Area, India

Key Responsibilities:1) Devise strategy to improve the client's as-is processes, thus leading to an increase in efficiency of the client's daily operationsSuccess Story - Successfully managed to clear 80% of the client’s invoice backlogs in just 2 months using the improved process leading to a Commendation certificate from the client. Personally received an excellence award for work done on the project.2) Digital supply chain planning and implementation - functional implementation of the supply planning process through a unified digital platform3) Project management4) Requirement gathering5) Quality assessment6) Project document creation7) Proposal creation8) Market research

Pune Area, India

My responsibilities include:1) Interpreting and Analyzing the As-Is and To-Be solutions2) Requirement Gathering and Analysis3) Creation of Business specific documents

Pursuing internship in marketing at Indus Balaji Pvt. Equity Portfolio company - SmartPrep India Ltd.Successfully completed projects titled - 1. Conceptualize, Develop and Implement a Repeat Sales strategy to increase customer persistence across all its franchisees across India2. Develop a Go to Market strategy for its upcoming Tablet product for the International market including defining its key value offerings, website layout and content, sales and distribution strategy and international market research3. New product development for a stand-alone product in the area of Maths.

1. Client’s single point of contact for customisations and responsible for the development and support of the General Ledger module in the Oracle Application based Procure2Pay cycle for the CITIBANK project.2. Client Support interface for all deliverables related to the General Ledger module.3. Resolution of production issues and providing real time solutions without interrupting the process of Outbounds.4. Assisting front end users in the functional aspects of the module.5. Successful implementation of the New Employee Induction Program as a Mentor.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Marketing

Activities and Societies: Member, Club MarkUp, Official Marketing club of IMT Ghaziabad. Activities: Event design and Corporate relations.

B.E., Electronics And Communication

Activities and Societies: 1. Member, Organising Committee, “TEDx Manipal 2010”-an international and independently organized TED event. 2..