Vikrum Mehta Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

Vikram joined the Oracle team within IBM Consulting with a remit to lead and deliver Oracle projects globally. Vikram is responsible for developing existing customer relationships, winning new business and leading the successful delivery of projects. Since joining IBM Vikram has been responsible for managing and delivering multiple Finance and IT transformation projects, working at a Programme level helping set up global delivery teams, developing project Governance, Reporting and commercial frameworks Under his leadership multiple projects have been delivered on-time and to budget with excellent client feedback on the quality of the delivery solution and teams Responsible for:• Manage and Control Programme Resource, Cost and internal Financial reporting• Manage all internal and external Project reporting (GDPR, Risk & Compliance, Internal and External client reporting)• Re-established the concept of and adherence to a Global Design solution working closely with solution and technical architects on Scope and Change Control Process• Introducing new Programme Governance Reporting and Change frameworks• Reshaped and replaced a number of the team with high performers• Establishing strong relationships at C-level• Implemented and enforced rigor and controls across the programme • Managed onshore, offshore consultants both technical and functional• Manage building key stakeholder relationships (Client, External Software Vendors, Internal). Including working closely with Oracle Consulting on developing QA model• Managing projects across multiple project lifecycles from Mobilization to Realization• Responsible for providing Oracle expertise in client RFP responses• Establishing Application Management Services models and framework

London, United Kingdom

Part of the Capgemini Core Banking Business Unit in the UK, delivering Oracle EBS solutions and projects for Financial Services clients.Recently delivered Oracle R12 Finance Transformation project for a global insurance client. - Solution Architect Leading the Oracle functional and technical teams (teams both on/off-shore) to replace the clients legacy Oracle 11i solution with the Oracle R12 Oracle E-Business Suite, Hyperion, Financial Accounting Hub and reporting solution. The solution was a multi wave implementation across both the UK and US- Managing the global delivery of the Oracle solution through the Design, Build, Testing, Deployment and Post Go-Live Support phase- Leading & Planning the Data Migration team, responsible for migrating Procurement & Financials data from the legacy 11i Oracle platform on to the new Oracle R12 platform- Rolling out the Global Design across the UK and North America business groups, including the implementation of standardised global business processes across the U.S & UK operations- Managing & documenting the critical ‘Solution Blueprint’ document. Outlining the future solution including application, technology, business process and system integration to support the global solution - Leading client functional design workshops across, Procurement, Order To Cash, Record To Report, Projects & E-Business tax workstreams. Sessions to review, validate functional design documents- Establish Programme Governance including the process for managing Risk & Issues, Design Authority to manage solution change control and weekly cross project reporting- Responsible for delivering the integration between client operational systems (Procurement) and Oracle R12 platform (UK & U.S operations)- Leading the delivery of system integration testing (Ensuring applications, integration solution, data, processes and people in place to support SIT)- Producing and managing Oracle solution Project Plan

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

- Worked on a number of Oracle 11i projects for a variety of clients across a range of industry sectors including Public Sector, Financial Services and High Tech- Project planning and liaising with client leadership teams- Providing detailed functional expertise of Oracle Procurement and Financial modules- Managing and running Oracle Finance conference room pilots gathering client requirements- Implementation of Oracle i-Procurement for NHS Shared Services, managing a team of client and Oracle consulting team members. Implementation of new business processes- Configuration of Oracle E-Business Financial Modules (AP/AR/Purchasing/iExpenses/GL) - Implementation of Oracle AX global Accounting Engine for an Investment Bank

London

- Implementation of new Defence Billing Agency Oracle 11i solution at the Ministry of Defence, which involved improving and simplifying billing and cash collection processes- Provide proposed solution to new centralised accounts receivable function- Evaluate existing Oracle 11i setup with client Finance systems team, providing functional Oracle subject matter expertise- Documenting and identifying issues with existing AR processes focusing on invoicing and cash accounting

London, United Kingdom

- Global roll-out of Oracle solution across EMEA region. Solution lead for Procure to Pay and General Ledger- Led design teams to ensure local management and statutory requirements included in global solution, critical in implementations in France and Italy- Managed data migration for AP/GL/AR- Implement new month-end/year-end processes & procedures