PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a recognized leader with more than 18 years of professional experience in the implementation of SAP S/4 HANA, BW/4 HANA Data Analytics, Data Management and Digital Transformation solution for Confidential 500 companies.
• Over 13 SAP full cycle implementations, managed and led multiple large scale technology enabled business transformation projects using state of the art in - memory, predictive and big data technology which includes S/4 HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud, BW/4 HANA, Cloud Data Migration, SAP ERP, SAP BW, SAP BPC, Business Objects, Fiori, Power BI, Tableau.
• He is specialized in the areas of IT Strategy, S/4 HANA Embedded Data Analytics, Security, Financial planning on HANA BW/BPC solution, Team building, Project Management, Design and Execution of data-driven strategy using customer analytics to improve business performance and processes.
• Project evangelist and team builder has played multiple roles as IT advisory, delivery lead, SME and Solution architect with strong finance and supply chain hands-on experience with several Confidential 500 clients.
• Experienced in leading RFP’s for S/4 HANA, Go-to-market solution, Cloud transformation, Data Migration, Big data analytics, implementations focused on business transformation and performance improvement for revenue generation.
• He has conducted and led global IT workshops and strategies to customers, implementing data governance, data management, and defining business process and leading projects and global teams at all phases from the initial assessment through go live and hyper care.
• He is a trusted technology advisor and performance management specialist helping clients realize the value of technology as a strategic asset to run, grow and transform the business and gain competitive advantage

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

SAP Analytics Cloud - SAP Digital Dashboard BW/4HANA and Datawarehouse Solutions

Embedded BW/BPC Driver Based Planning SAP HANA Cloud platform

SAP HANA Data Management / Architecture S/4 HANA Finance Architecture

Reporting /Data Governance /Strategy Data Analytics and Dashboard solutions

Business Requirement Gathering (workshop) Project Management

SAP UX Architecture (Fiori/UI5, Lumira Designer & Discovery)

SAP PROJECT EXPERIENCE:

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Sr. Solution Lead

Environment: S4 HANA, BW7.5, Fiori 2.0

Responsibilities:

• Developed the scope, design and collection of all S/4 HANA business analytics and data requirements across multiple value streams.
• Architected S/4HANA embedded analytics development of Fiori BI and SAP Analytics Cloud Visualization on ABAP CDS Views / Virtual Data Models.
• Architected HANA Views, CDS Views, ADSO and Composite Providers for Information modelling and deployed the Fiori analytical reports.
• Established data strategy for migrating data to S/4 HANA platform for R2R /BPC workstream to enable integrated and centralized data platform for digital solutions.

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Lead Architect

Environment: S4 HANA, BW7.4, Fiori 2.0, MDM, SRM, PI

Responsibilities:

• Lead for Finance report migration from SAP BW to S/4 HANA platform for implementing Fiori analytical reports using CDS Views and VDM and replace legacy reports
• Involved in Blueprint, Realization, Cutover activities, Data modelling, Business requirements, system setup, and security.
• Developed functional requirements for General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Cost Center Accounting and Internal orders.
• Planned and supported testing activities including functional unit testing, system testing and integration testing of off-shore development objects.

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Finance Reporting Architect

Environment: S4 HANA, BW7.5, Hyperion, Fiori 1.0

Responsibilities:

• Reporting lead for S/4 HANA implementation for deploying Fiori based cost center planning and operational reporting for supply chain
• Conducted management reporting and financial planning workshops with business teams to plan and strategize the reporting requirements.
• Participate in requirement gathering sessions to analyze business requirements and discuss with the cross functional/technical teams to gain access to the data and develop the objects/reports.
• Architected and deployed the financial reporting and dashboarding solution in SAP Analytics cloud and Fiori replacing existing Xcelsius and BI Webi reports.

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Project lead

Environment: ERP 6.0, BW7.4, HANA

Responsibilities:

• Created value proposition to maximize business adoption of modern data warehouse with BW/4HANA capabilities to reduce IT administration and simplification in modelling.
• Led the project to replace current BI data warehouse with BW HANA 7.5 version to support reporting capabilities for regulatory, SOX, financial and compliance.
• Responsible for assessment and improvement of existing reporting environment, proposing an overall BI roadmap and recommended best practice solutions in terms of EDW design and overall development approach.

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Lead Architect

Environment: ERP6.0, BW7.3, HANA, BPC10.1, BI 4.1

Responsibilities:

• Served as analytics lead for the development of financial reporting process for COPA, FI P&L corporate adjustments that required a consolidated view of all bookings made in legacy and current BW systems.
• The solution included a custom interface for adjustments to be extracted from legacy and mapped to new structures as additional GL accounts and adjustments were created

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Solution Architect

Environment: S4 HANA, BW7.5, BI 4.1, Hyperion

Responsibilities:

• Managed and demonstrated HANA capabilities for Spend Analytics solution for a POC using fuzzy logic to demonstrate global spend by supplier/products and match parent supplier to create a supplier hierarchy for a consumer product industry.
• The POC focused on HANA text search capabilities and performance to enable business reduce their spending.
• Assessed current state data and IT applications of the client’s data governance framework for SCM to identify opportunities to deliver business value and seamless data integration across supply chain processes.
• EY’s Go-to-market application framework and methodologies were applied to improve global visibility and standardization of core systems and process.
• Assessment included associated revenue opportunities, cost to achieve and ROI.

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Global Data Lead

Environment: ERP 6.0, BW 7.3, BI 4.1

Responsibilities:

• Served as America’s data lead for large multi-year enterprise transformation program responsible for assisting the client with the definition and development of optimized data cleansing methods, with the goal of reducing the time line given the tight schedule for Wave1.
• Responsible for supporting the Mercury Business Process Owners (BPOs)/ Data owners, aligning data team activities and orchestrating the overall delivery model across eighteen countries for master and transactional data.
• Conducted business requirements meetings with key business users for SCM reports to understand existing challenges with reporting and limitations of existing data models in delivering new reports.
• Architected BW hybrid data models for SCM reporting with client development team.
• Supported customer development team for report enhancements and business report validation.
• Planned and supported testing activities including functional unit testing, system testing and integration testing of BW-HANA development objects.
• Responsible for assessment and optimization of existing BW environment, proposing an overall BI roadmap and recommended best practice solutions in terms of EDW design and overall development approach.
• Conducted workshops with BI team as advisory to define their short and long term reporting strategy and the desired ‘Future State’ hardware and software.
• Recommended solutions around emerging and changing BI Technologies for successful integration with non-SAP data warehouse.
• Financial transformation 5C1 project is to transform finance process like invoice processing, vendor management, travel and expense, spend and delegating approvers by using HANA and Business objects technology.
• Orchestrated the BI and HANA implementation for major financial transformation program implemented by CSC for transforming business process and implement a single financial reporting system.
• Lead for business requirement gathering and conduct workshops with GPO’s and SME.
• Delivered BI technical strategy for deploying Big data solutions and enable fact-based decision making by management and executives.
• Organized and managed 20 member BI team (onsite/offshore) from project initiation to report delivery.
• VSAP ERP convergence transformation project was to standardize finance process like invoice processing, vendor management, travel and expense, spend and delegating approvers by using HANA and Business objects suite technology.
• Lead architect and delivery for finance reports using HANA views consumed in BW, Web intelligence and Analysis tools.
• Conducted requirements gathering with key business users from finance to understand existing challenges and limitations with analytics data models and reports in legacy BW.
• Implemented composite data providers with GL view from HANA for data integration and reported data through BEx and Analyzer, Webi. Architected and supported BW hybrid data models for travel and expense reporting. Managed finance team developers onsite.
• KieCore SAP implementation is a Kiewit strategic initiative to create a sustainable competitive edge through optimized business processes and the leverage of Business objects technology.
• Lead and delivery for finance reports using Web intelligence and crystal enterprise tools for adhoc and formatted reporting.
• Designed data models for Asset accounting for calculating tax for mobile and fixed assets. Designed highly formatted finance (AR/AP/GL/AA) reports using Crystal reports for Enterprise
• Architected and implemented data loading process for Kiecore enterprise.
• Involved in Realization, Cutover activities, Data modelling, Business requirements, system setup, security and data governance.
• Supported Kiecore process during hypercare and co-ordinated with offshore on development
• Global rollouts of SCM solutions for multiple SBU involving multiple releases.
• Analyzed new business report requirements for GATP, DP and SNP to be developed using business objects.
• PROPEL is an enterprise project to replace current ERP platform with SAP ECC, BW and BI 4.0 implementation for EMC.
• Analyzed reports for POC for HANA implementation using Business objects data services
• Strong technical understanding of SAP HANA architecture for SAP BW and hands on experience through SAP application training.
• Worked with development team members to validate data loading process, data integrity for reporting are meeting business requirements.
• Participated and modelled security roles for BW and business objects reporting and performing the testing for security requirements at the query and infocube level.
• Project FORCE is CRM 7.0 implementation for LSG and CAG for Lead, Opportunities, Activities, Service contracts, Business partner
• Involved in Blueprint, Realization, Cutover activities, Data modelling, Business requirements, system setup, and security.
• Developed functional reporting requirements to support new developments or modifications in current BW landscape, reports and interfaces.
• Architected, Implemented and managed CRM data models - Activities, Lead, Opportunity reports for Interaction center, Sales, Marketing, Survey, and Campaign.
• Developed Native language solution (NLS) for Accounts and Contacts for 3 languages.
• Architected and implemented open hub solution for Sales, Marketing, Campaign and Activities.
• Served as subject matter expert for defining solutions to meet requirements, quality of testing, and acceptance from clients.
• Coordinate/collaborate with team members on best practices, design and environment setup.
• Project Torque is implementation of ISU- I for Collection and Disbursements (CD), Claims, Policy and ICM modules
• BI Lead for FI-GL, AP, AR, Collections and Disbursements and ICM module implementation.
• Involved in cutover plan, Data modelling, Business requirements, system setup.
• Created functional reporting requirements with business input to be modelled in BI using Business objects and Web intelligence.
• Confidential is a business transformation project to establish a platform to support a $10 billion Stanley Works.

BI SME and Project lead architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Directed BI development activities on a daily basis to offshore technical team to ensure cost effective BI implementation.
• Developed and executed detail technical project plan identifying milestones, resources, deliverables and schedules. Developed high-level to-be blueprint design for STP (MM), QTC (SD), PTP (PP), HTR (HR) areas.
• Conducted BI workshops for STP, PTP, QTC, HTR and FTM with business process owners for business reporting and KPI requirements.
• Analyzed and implemented BI architecture for Stanley global reporting. Architected data models and data flows for STP, QTC, HTR, FTM & PTP areas.
• Configured the J2EE connectivity between BI and Java stack. Setup the BI administration cockpit in the BI portal based on user role for data load monitoring.
• Responsible for supporting Component Production rollout phase7 as BW lead consultant Involved in Data analysis, mapping process, requirement gathering, workshop meetings, and Business content installation, proposed and re-designed BW data flow for the daily loads utilizing process chains with custom programs. Involved in transport process and QR process for functional and technical reviews.
• Developed generic data source for MRP shop orders and enhanced the PP transactional data sources. Created and scheduled value sets in process chains for dash board reports. Extensively worked on RSCRM bapi’s for creating dashboard reports.
• Created and customized the DB connect data loads from ODM for 3 instances by creating dynamic jobs through programs. Automated data loads using dynamic date selection through routines for process chains.
• Created characteristics and formula variable for reporting solutions. Worked on queries, workbooks, WAD for dash board reports.
• Responsible for handling the entire effort from requirement study to implementation and post go-live support. Defined technical Standards for the BW developments.

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BW consultant

Responsibilities:

• Prepared functional and technical specifications, validation test scripts, midpoint reviews with functional owners during development phase before actual delivery.
• Re-designed CO-PA cubes for integration with SD using two level data staging for consolidating orders from non- sap systems using ODS.
• Worked on open hub services for data distribution to non-sap data target. Improved query runtime and cube performance by creating aggregates and logical partitioning. Re-designed the SD and COPA data flow with process chains.
• Responsible for Manufacturing and Cost Planning (MCP) to provide an integrated planning tool for Standard Cost Planning as Senior BW consultant.
• Supported the enterprise management processes on the strategic and operational levels for MCP implementation for their concentrate manufacturing division.
• Configured and implemented multi-planning area to transfer the Volume and cost data for each ingredient for different currencies.
• Worked on planning functions like - Formula, Copy, Delete, Currency translation, worked extensively on Exit function for flat file upload to transaction cubes.
• Implemented FOX code, Layout builder, layout formatting and interface to SEM-BPS.
• Worked with Variables, data slices, planning profiles, multi-planning area, planning levels, planning packages, & user specific worklist to limit/restrict values for Characteristic variable, parameter groups, planning folders and planning sequence etc. thereby planning & simulating different scenarios related to MCP.