PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Possess valid H1B - Work Permit for another 4.5 years
• Expertise in SAP BPC 11, 10.1, 10.0, 7.x(both Embedded & Standard Variants), SAP BW/4HANA, BW 7.x, EPM, Analysis for Office(AFO)C
• Good exposure to BPC Optimized for S/4HANA, BPC Embedded, BW IP & Analysis office 2.x along with latest trends in SAP BW space like BW4/HANA, BPC11
• Core competencies in BPC Analysis, Design, Development, Deployment & Support of BPC solutions
• Good amount of experience in different business areas like Sales, Finance, HR related to planning process & scenarios
• Work experience with different clients allows to work efficiently in teams of different cultural and functional background
• As part of BPC Center of Excellence (COE) Team
• Supported many projects fixing their issues ranging from simple bug-fixes to major performance issues
• Responded to many RFPs, RFIs by providing the required project estimations, staffing details & high level solution design/guidance
• Value add-on that I can bring to a project involves
• Good amount of Hands-on experience.
• Strong Analytical & Problem Solving Skills
• Independent & in-depth thinking
• Business Oriented Solutions
• Cultural & functional skills to face customers across Europe & North America
• Expertise in design and development of Planning applications using SAP BPC 10.x/7.x Standard & Embedded & also in BPC Optimized for S/4HANA
• Very Good understanding of Consolidation topics like FX translation, eliminations & adjustments, intercompany matching & reconciliation process and statutory reporting
• Translating the requirements into BPC/BI specific mapping; analyzing AS-IS Business processes; specifying TO-BE design
• Experience in implementing different planning applications such as Cost Center Planning, P&L Planning, Sales Planning, Balance Sheet Planning, Cogs Planning, Headcount Planning, S&OP planning
• Expertise in different areas of BPC like Model/Dimension design, Reporting, Logic Scripts, Transformations, work status, BPFs.., etc
• Possess good understanding of integrating BPC security with SAP GRC tool
• Good exposure to different BPC BADis like WB BADi, Retraction BADi, Custom Logic BADi etc..,
• Provided s to business & support teams and knowledge transfer to support team
• Provided competency level s of BPC
• Worked on multiple POCs along with pre-sales teams and provided required project estimations, staffing details & high level solution design/guidance
• Hands-on experience in converting all kinds of input layouts & reports from 7.x’s EVDRE format to 10.1 reporting format
• Enhancing existing reporting capabilities using the 10.x’s new functionalities using excel macros
• Good at writing macros and developing different reporting functionalities like SAVE, CLOSE, TOGGLE ZERO ROWS etc…,
• Tuning & recreation of complex layouts improving them in terms of Functionality, Usability & Performance
• As a certified SAP BI consultant, executed activities related to development and maintenance of BW/BI, which include Data-Modeling, Data Extraction and Data Loading.
• Experience in Management Work Bench, involved in creating and maintaining Data targets like Info Objects, DSO, Info cubes.
• Strong expertise in BW 3.x and BI 7.x version Reporting.
• Expertise in installing the Standard Business Content objects and enhance them into custom objects based on the business requirements.
• Executed many BW support project activities viz.., data loading, monitoring and troubleshooting
• Experience in system maintenance tasks (Delta queue cleaning, Setup table deletion & validation)
• BW load/job automation through process chain and Control-M.
• Good exposer to performance tuning (Data loading and BEX reports) and job failure reduction activities.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Module: SAP BPC

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with Engagement, Solution Delivery, Service Management and Business to fine tune the BPC support and governance models.
• AssistNewmontsupport and Business teams with regular BPC maintenance and support.
• Cooperate with Confidential and Solution Delivery as Solution/Design Architect on enhancements and CI items.
• EducateNewmontsupport team on BPC applications as required and verify that the corresponding Application Information Documentation is up to date.
• Document and enforce processes and procedures for any changes made to the system.
• Manage the BPC system landscape to establish consistency between Development, QA and Production.
• Conduct RCA and system checks as needed.
• Act as a BPC Subject Matter expert.
• AssistNewmontwith Hardware upgrade as needed.
• Assist with preparation work for the BPC Upgrade project as necessary
• Responsible for preparing the ideation, business requirements and solution design documents for all enhancements
• Conduct workshops with business to implement the best practices
• Responsible for building the pipeline to effectively use the AM hours

Confidential

Onsite Lead

Module: SAP BPC

Responsibilities:

• Driving day-day workshops with business to gather the requirements
• Preparing FRS document in consultation with business finance team
• Leading detail design of the application & coordinating offshore team
• Played different roles like onsite coordinator, technical lead, functional consultant during the entire tenure of this project

BPC SME

Confidential

Module: SAP BPC

Responsibilities:

• Involved in brainstorming sessions to finalize the sales & operational process
• Functional to technical requirement mapping
• Running the feasibility checks of various options along with developing the design
• Realizing the design technically in the system by building all the required objects
• Support in deploying the solution

BPC SME

Confidential

Module: SAP BPC

Responsibilities:

• Understanding in detail how BPC Optimized is positioned as a planning solution in S/4HANA
• Activating the planning modules in S/4HANA by applying relevant NOTES
• Executing the require configuration steps to make the planning solution playable
• Creating required Business Process Flows, activating Work Status & executing steps to enable work status

Offshore BPC Techno-Functional Consultant

Confidential

Module: SAP BPC

Responsibilities:

• Involved in month end activities related to closing and working closely with regional BPAs to ensure smooth closing of LO/LE/BUD processes
• Identifying process GAPS and providing required technical or functional solutions to fix those GAPS.
• Working enhancements requested by clients related to security, logic scripts and BADI enhancements that will improve the functionality and in turn usability of the tool
• Monitoring different data load activities and guiding the team to fix them
• Taking care of activities related to application optimization, improvement, creating new report/input layout after discussing and understanding the BPA communities reporting needs.

Confidential

Reporting Consultant

Module: SAP BPC

Responsibilities:

• Brain Storming sessions with BPA community of the business to understand their requirements
• Involved in design and development of the final solution covering the business needs
• Developed frontend interface through which business users will interact with the applications that we have developed.
• Developed Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet & Cash Flow related input schedules and reporting with wide variety of features like buttons to SAVE & REFRESH data
• Designed custom drill through functionality where users can drill through from BPC query to its respective BW query with automatic passing of required variables
• Incorporated different validations checks and functionalities which helps users to select the correct context
• Developed almost 30 reports covering all kinds of analysis requirements covering all the 3 modules viz.., P&L, BS and Cash Flow

Confidential

Consultant - Offshore & Onsite

Module: SAP BPC

Responsibilities:

• As part of development team, had discussions/workshops with business for requirement gathering, prototyping, testing and post go-live user sessions
• Took up the responsibility of design and development of input layouts/reports/custom menus
• Created logic scripts for allocations, Fx Translation, data transfer and for few other calculations
• Involved in development of required backed staging layer for BI actuals and Master Data
• Developed data manger packages and data manager package links to support different activities of tool
• Developed disaggregation & weighted disaggregation using write back BADi with the help of ABAP team
• Worked on Cost & COPA retraction from BPC to SAP ERP using retraction BADi
• Design and configure BPF, Work Status to support the entire planning process
• Involved in discussions with S&A team for integrating BPC security with GRC tool
• Provided critical support during month end closing
• Provided business assistance in executing several activities in BPC during planning period and in ERP system post planning
• Assisted business in retraction of Cost & COPA Data, reconciliation of COPA/COST/Sales reports with ERP and BPC, execution of IO settlement, running of COPA to GL data push and then P&L report reconciliation with BPC’s P&L report
• As part of migration team, performed critical tasks related to reporting like
• Conversion of all input layouts & reports from 7.x’s EVDRE format to 10.1 reporting format
• Enhancing existing reporting capabilities using the 10.x’s new functionalities using excel macros
• Very good at writing macros and developing different reporting functionalities like SAVE, CLOSE, TOGGLE ZERO ROWS etc…,
• Tuning & recreation of complex layouts improving them in terms of Functionality, Usability & Performance
• Received many appreciations from client and Confidential management for my support during critical closing periods and also for maintaining good rapport with all the business users

Confidential

Associate Consultant

Module: SAP BPC

Responsibilities:

• As part of Support team lead for BPC, Raj has been overseeing the overall Global BPC support and has been taking care of data verification for major critical reports and Initial Support for all BPC applications.
• Support involves activities like loading actual and master data loads, actual reconciliation between BPC and BI
• Providing business assistance in report execution/data input/usage of different other functionalities of BPC
• Worked on few major enhancements to extend the functionalities and optimize the performance of these tools
• Played a key role in S&OP Planning implementation for UK market and a major enhancement for S&OP Russia along with performance tuning of the application
• Involved in all the discussion with UK business starting from requirement gathering, Prototype demo, UAT and post go-live support
• Developed almost all the required BPC objects like layouts/reports/script logic/DMs/Custom Menus/backend BI data flows for actual and maser data for UK S&OP solution
• Provided BPC to few other team members and helped them in grooming BPC skills and in turn BPC team at offshore
• Received many accolades from both business and team for my contribution towards BPC support