SAP CO Consultant

• SAP Delivery/ Project Management: Spearheaded ~120 plus medium to large SAP delivery engagementso Led International SAP BW Upgrade to v7.4 laying foundation for modernizing reporting landscape o Directed & supervised Reporting transformation for UK, Europe, SE Asia, China & LATAMo Key Stakeholder in SAP ECC 6.0 implementation for Europe, SE Asia, China & LATAM• Partnering business: Build business partnership, understand business needs & priorities, collaborate within organization for solutioning. Provide consulting to business on emerging technology & influence tech adoptiono Championed Self-service BI & analytics across all business division & functions. Led Tableau adoption & formulated strategy roadmap for analytics. o Provide consulting to business functions on BIG Data, Analytics & automation• Operations Management: Managed system availability 24*7 using follow the sun model, communicated with key stakeholders for planned & unplanned outageso Led operational initiatives like Global SAP BW Change Control, Global 24x7 Support Model• Technical capabilities & Talent Development: Spearheaded building 15+ high performing teams, recruited ~100 talented staff; partnered with US & international stakeholders for expanding services resulted in multi-million $ savings for GM Inc.o Build, Lead, develop 40 member (includes 4 managers) global analytics services o Built technical capabilities in Data Governance, Data Science, SAP BW, HANA, R, Hadoop, SAP BOBJ & Tableau, championed Self-service BI & Analytics reducing IT dependency by over 60%o Coach & mentor project managers/ team members for success in projects & career• Strategic Initiatives: Led strategic initiatives across various functions, generated new ideas, build consensus and solved organisation problems. Key initiatives: Innovation (iCafe), Visualisation (72HVC), Design Thinking, Project Management (PM Pulse)

IBM is the largest IT Company in the world with a growing SAP practice in India. Global Business Services in IBM implements global SAP projects with on-site and off-site model.• Shell Hong Kong GSAP (Oct’06 – Nov07) – Implemented SAP FICO, SAP PS, IM o This was largest SAP initiative ($2 b) to transform downstream business adopting uniform business processes & financial reporting. It was a global collaboration project executed by Teams based out of London, HK, Bangalore and Melbourne. o Led blueprinting, gap analysis, configuration, testing, training, cut-over and successful go-live, working with culturally diverse team as Technical Lead (Hong Kong) for Asset Accounting, Project System, Investment Management & Integration with FICO and other moduleso Solved major go-live issue due to last minute inter-company asset transfers by end-user o Developed project plan for FICO implementation with schedule and monitored progresso Received appreciation from Shell HK for meeting local business requirements, tough deadlines and overcoming challenges in various project assignments• Thyssen Krupp India (Nov – Dec 2007) – SAP FICO Implementationo Successfully completed all cut-over activities for asset module including data preparation from legacy system, load using LSMW and finally validating asset master, asset values and future depreciation. Providing key inputs in GL, AR, AP for data conversion to meet client's requirements• Suncor Energy Inc. Canada (Jan 08 to April 08) – SAP FICO Supporto Led off-site team of FICO consultants for successful knowledge transfer from Calgary, Canada in taking over support/ development work• Pre-Sales & Solution Design Assignmento Participated in Lodha & Comau Pre-Sales business analysis session to understand FICO business scenarios and provided consulting on key business issues with SAP solutions.

Colgate-Palmolive established Global Support Service Organization (GSSO) based on follow-the-sun model at Mumbai. It had an aggressive growth since 2005 as a captive center to provide SAP services to its subsidiaries in Asia-Pacific, Euro-Africa and Americas. GSSO catered to 7 instances, 66 countries and over 100 company codes.• Project 2-2-7 (On-site US – NJ for 3 months)o Performed due diligence for FICO modules of Euro-Africa instance, prepared estimates & plano Knowledge acquisition of several North & Latin America business processes and SAP configuration o Steered efforts to take over complete support of BizRights (later acquired by SAP) which was critical to SOX compliance• Team Lead Off-Shoreo Led formation of off-shore delivery team that provided Global SAP FICO & development services o Resolved SAP FICO issues faced by business users in China, AsiaPac, USA & provide them with necessary trainingo Provided critical support to Colgate China in their long-term planning process

Bayer CropScience India had a group turnover of over INR 1600 crores in agro-chemical business with 3 own plants and 10 toll manufacturers. Reporting to Head – Enterprise A/c, Reporting & Taxation, played a crucial role in various Business Transformation and organization re-structuring initiative. • SAP FICO Implementation: Successfully led core team to implement two successive SAP projects transforming business processes - recognized by CFO for Project Excellence Awardo Project BRIDGE 4.6B (Feb’05-Dec’05) global SAP with teams in HK, Germany, Australia & Indiao Core Team Lead for FICO implementation, developed Uniform Chart of Accounts, Product Costs at actual, Profitability Analysis & Profit Centre A/co Project SAP 3.0f (Sep’04-Dec’04) implement 5 SAP modules in 3 own, 10 TPL and 40 storage locationso Core Team Lead. Replaced legacy BayMAP system in less than 4-month time. Implemented Standard Product Costing over 13 plants & 40 storage locations. Designed cost center structure in SAP for Inter-company cross-charging of expenses • Controllingo Product Costing, Profitability Analysis, Analysis of variances & preparation of annual budgetso Monthly analysis of Inventory, valuation and write-off, Cost Audit as per CARRo Managing system changes for mergers, carve-out and new company formation

o Established System Audit cell and developed system audit strategy, approach and methodology. Conducted business process audits and risk-based audits leveraging data analytics to detect system gaps or misappropriation of fundso Transformed business processes by designing & automation – Procurement, Production, Rebates, Freight

o Promoted thrice and was conferred with ‘Star Performer Award’o Implemented SAP payment run (~200 crores pa) saved time & improved processo Automated invoice processing for complex material transactions. Reduced processing time by 50%o Reconciled direct material vendor, resolved old outstanding ~INR 200 croreso Established budgetary controls for marketing expenses like shared promotionso Accounts Payable, Receivable, GL, Finalization, Internal Audit, SAP Enhancements

o Fundamental and Technical Analysis of listed companies, recommending investment avenues for investors. Contributed to designing of internal application for accounting and performance analysis of retail network

o Led a team of auditors for monthly MIS audits of Sun Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. for their C&F operations at Patna, Guwahati, Kolkata & Lucknow. Areas covered debtors aging analysis, DN/CN analysis, inventory, bank transactions etc., preparation of audit report with recommendations.