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Avanade’s Technical Advisory team sits at the intersection of business strategy, technology and industries and thrive on turning ideas and innovations into breakthrough results for leading organisations the world. The Technical Advisory team provides strategic advice on how best to adopt and optimise security, cloud, enterprise architecture as well as CIO services to drive digital transformation that align with a client’s business strategy, constraints and technology to produce broader business value.Lead strategic business case formulation and scaled adoption strategy for Gen AI tools like M365 Copilot.Delivery Lead for a specific use case of data automation to effectively use data automation framework and practice to transform, map and convert legacy product data to modern SaaS based product module; use automation to create verification tool to test across legacy and SaaS product for complete range of product set.

Management Consultant focusing on defining Tech strategy, Operating Model, Transformation strategy and architecture. Program Architecture for large scale S/4 Hana and Microsoft ERP Transformations covering multiple business streams.

Advising clients on their Technology Transformation roadmap and implementations to steer towards a Digital Finance organization. Part of multiple complex multi-year Finance Transformation and a Business Transformation programs for clients across Freight & Logistics, FMCG, Tech and Telecom industries.Decompose key business problems to identify value areas and structure and implement complex technology solutions for the office of CFO I Create innovative and differentiated offerings, staying relevant and in sync with market demand I Deliver advisory services in support of technology enabled business change, e.g.: package & third party integrator selection, vendor selection, application studies, solution architecture studies and/or program diagnostics and recovery I Deliver advisory services to the office of the CFO I Grow market share by leveraging relationships, winning work, and being integral to delivery of on-shore consulting engagements.

Project Delivery Enablement Consultant- Project Estimations for RFPs, Project Management, Business Process Modelling, Agile/Hybrid Agile Project Management across Technology Service Lines for all US and Global Deloitte engagements.

 End to end project management and business analysis for multiple big bet SAP Supply Chain Finance Transformation projects from scoping, planning and process mapping to final execution of projects Cutover and Deployment Lead for a major Product Costing and Global Forecasting Project for Unilever with 8 Country Rollouts in South East Asia, Australia-NZ regions Conduct workshops with Business Users and buisness leads to finalise To-Be processes to be implemented. Discuss and finalise Project release planning with business leads and IT SMEs Vendor Management – Lead and manage a multi-vendor team of 40 resources across geographies involved in Design, Testing, Migration and Support Single-handedly own the IT project budget, drive cost optimization with vendor partners. Successfully enabled cost savings of 1.5mn EUR annually

-> Provide SAP Advisory Service for FI-CO Module for a leading Healthcare Global Company-> Work with business leads/managers and process leads in the FICO area to conduct review and validate functional Requirement Specifications, Business Process documents, Configuration Documents, RICEF objects, test scripts-> Co-ordinate with offshore & onsite Process teams on to resolve the identified and captured defects in business Process Documentation, Test Scripts-> Matrix and status reporting to J&J Senior Leadership team

• Work with Deloitte Leadership to set up large Functional Support account. Organize trainings for SAP Functional domain and prepared Functional Training Materials highlighting Implementation Designs. Participated in Leadership meetings to set up account and Knowledge transfer sessions• Project Manager to help set up Financial Shared Services Center at Costa Rica and migrating all LATAM Country Shared Service centers in multiple roll-outs for Mexico, Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Brazil.• Analyze the existing Workflow architecture for the Client, working with the Development team in understanding the business Requirements, working with QA Team to ensure seamless Testing Cycle, co-ordinate complete functional testing to ensure data flows in the workflows to reach SAP. Understand and analyze requirements for data workflows that needs to flow in from Vendor Invoices to SAP.• Manage Budget, Cost Plan, Resourcing of $1 Million Project.

• Create BPP documents for FICO Module in Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, FSCM, CO sub-modules.• Configuration of functionalities and maintenance of the configuration documents. Functional Testing of the FI Modules- FSCM- Credit Management, Collections Management, GL Master Data, AP. Maintenance of Master Data and Configuration templates.• Research existing Deloitte templates and configuration workbooks for FICO, MM, SD modules to be used in the project.• Work on Configuration template creation aligned to Deloitte methods. Creation of configuration Workbooks, assigning configuration values populated from The BCD documents and existing Deloitte Sandbox.• Worked on all FICO sub-modules- AR, AP, GL, FSCM, CO.• Drive DT/1 standards and methodologies across USI locations. Work with SAP Project leadership on Project proposals in RFP and RFI stage to provide estimation in terms of effort and cost. • Identify the scope of the project and align to EVD. Identify the scope of the projects in terms of Industry process groups, processes and sub processes.• Worked on a major Implementation Project to provide input on how and support discussion about how PMC will be used on project.• Developed case study on PE & PS to explore the techniques of estimation.

Part of the Quality Control team, involved in automation and manual testing projects, acting as offshore team lead for several projects, coordinating with client for business logic and requirement, post release support, Maintaining test metrics, Traceability matrix, involved in providing test estimation, resource loading strategies ,implementation of Orthogonal Array, single point of Contact for handling auditing activities. Have been awarded the ‘Titan Award’ by Wipro Technologies for the ‘Best Team Award’.  Have been among the top 5% performers in my organization to be awarded the highest rating during confirmation