A performance-driven executive with 20+ years of experience in the SAP ecosystem with several successful on-premise and cloud implementations. Passionate about applying excellent organization and communications skills to create, manage, and lead highly functional teams. Effectively partnered with C-Level leadership, vendor partners, and IT teams to deliver transformational solutions via fostering a culture of innovations to address key business challenges. Experience transforming business functions with the use of advanced technologies like ML/AI/RPA along with SAP ecosystem via S/4HANA, CRM on HANA, BW/4HANA, Ariba on Cloud, Concur, and Fieldglass implementations. Result-oriented individual well-versed in interfacing and consulting on business processes to drive results based on sound overall business judgment. Demonstrated expertise delivering customer success in business & digital transformation, Cloud Migration (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS models), and successful implementation of large Scale ERP programs. SAP S/4 HANA and GCP certified, believe in continuous learning with expertise in cultivating relationships with SPs, SIs, ISVs, and SAP product managers.
- Leadership
- Resolving business challenges through innovations and technology solutions
- Relationship building and business development
- Effective communication
- Delivering presentations in key industry events
- Building highly effective teams
- Conflict resolution
- SAP Ecosystem (S/4HANA, Ariba, Concur, Fieldglass, BW/4HANA, SAC)
- Building strategic partnerships with SP's, SI's, ISV's and SAP product owners
- Cloud Technologies: GCP, AWS
- Business Intelligence & Advanced Analytics (ML, AI, RPA)
- Triathlete, Meditation, and Yoga
- Developing and implementing large scale transformation programs
- Process Improvements
- Continuous Learning
- Agile and Scrum management
Oslo, MN, 08/2015 - 04/2021
- Spearheaded Finance Transformation Roadmap partnering with CFO & CIO that resulted in the lowered total cost of ownership by 20%, reduced data footprint by 30%, and improved system agility via cloud migration to foster a culture of innovation addressing business challenges.
- Successfully implemented S/4HANA replacing ECC, migrating on-premise backend load to AWS, and adding new analytics capabilities. The project reduced total cost of ownership by 20% while providing lot more business agility.
- Identified ML/AI business use cases and completed POC's to further refine the business cases
- Migrated Ariba on Premise to Ariba on Cloud, replaced two legacy procurement systems with Ariba on Cloud routing additional 2B of spend through Ariba Cloud Network resulting in 15M of annual savings.
- Replaced three SAP BW and BPC systems with BW/4HANA, consolidated 2400+ reports and planning functions into less than 500 objects enhancing analytics experience by providing self service capabilities to the business users.
- Developed FP&A transformation roadmap in the partnership of the Senior Divisional Leadership that reduced total cost of ownership of the FP&A systems by 25%, routing 30% of the additional spend through Ariba Network, resulting in $ 10M of additional savings on an annual basis.
- Partnered with Office of Customer Success at SAP and GCP teams to identify technology solutions to address business challenges in the areas of Spend Analytics and Business Intelligence.
- Converted legacy production system (GPAS) and legacy Ad-Sales systems to next-generation SaaS-based systems.
- Successfully upgraded S/4 HANA from 1511 to 1610 to 1809 to 1909.
Yorktown, VA, 12/2004 - 08/2015
- Developed a transformation roadmap to replace multiple legacy systems to SAP HANA (CRM-IPM, Suite on HANA, and BW on HANA) for the TV Distribution business with USD 10B annual revenue. The roadmap covered business functions like Rights and IP management. Availability Analysis, Revenue, Billing, and Period Close Processes for First Run, Syndication, Free TV, and Streaming businesses.
- Introduced innovation showcase series to demo art of the possibilities, partnered with Warner Bros internal line of businesses to identify business cases that can leverage innovations to deliver simple, faster, and economical solutions.
- Collaborated with SAP Innovation center and WB Theatrical Production to automate prediction of Domestic Box Office using HANA Predictive Tools.
- Implemented first of a kind HANA + UI5 and BO based UI application for the Sales Executives, taking user experience to the next level, improved performance by 400% and improved TCO by 30 %, removing the ETL layer and all the complexity associated with daily loads, monitoring and recon.
- Automated period close processes to improve period close timings by 80% reducing manual efforts generating Bad Debt, Imputed, P&L, and BS re-classes from a week to one day.
Berlin, NH, 12/2003 - 12/2004
- Presented SAP BI roadmap to IT Stakeholder. Addressed business challenges around Performance Gained reports and Days Sales Outstanding reports with innovative IT solutions improving report results by 50%.
City, STATE, 03/2002 - 08/2002
- Analyzed SAP Security and Authorizations Design, recommended changes to improve user experience and maintenance of the solution. Improved system maintenance by reducing RTPM combinations by 25%.
City, STATE, 05/1999 - 01/2001
Implemented Just In Time supply chain solution using SAP for the newly created business unit covering P2P, R2R and BI modules. This was a green field implementation.
- Certification in SAP S/4 HANA 1910 - Finance Solution Architect
- Awarded an innovative solution award from SAP for Central Finance implementation at Sony Pictures
- Certification in Google Cloud Product Fundamentals
- Certification in Business Transformation with Google Cloud
- Actively working on GCP ML/AI certification
Delivered presentations as a speaker in following events,
- CIO forum 2020 at Southern California BI Group on measuring IT cost and value.
- SAP Insider Event 2019, Panel discussion around lessons learned from Central Finance implementation
- Digital meets business @ TCS Conclave 2018
- Southern California ASUG 2018 on S/4HANA Treasury implementation lessons learned
- SAP Financial Excellence Forum 2017 @ Harvard Hall in New York on Finance Transformation
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- S P University
- Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya
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