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Profile
A multi-faceted Lead Consultant with nearly 12 years of techno-functional expertise in SAP with
specialization in SAP BW/BI and HANA and SAP BPC/BOFC.

SAP Experience Summary

Certified in SAP HANA & BPC.
Completed 7 full cycle implementations, 1 Upgrade and 3 Development Projects in SAP BPC & BW, this
includes 5 full cycle SAP BPC (BPC NW 10.0, NW 7.5) Implementations and 1 Upgrade (MS 7.5 & 5.1).
Experience in Leading Team including but not limited to technical configuration, integration and
production support activities. Leads the team in understanding the AS-IS situation, design and validate
the To-Be design (TCO).
Possesses experience Presales activities like creating POC, presentation, Solution Design, scoping
exercise, preparing SOW etc. Strong experience in Solution Architecting workshops with business
managers, client staff, and end-users.
Strong experience in various phases of a project including analysis, design, development, configuration,
testing, as well as documentation, and end-user training specifically focussed in SAP BPC for various
versions ~ BPC NW 10.0, NW 7.5 & MS 7.5 & 5.1.
Extensive experience in SAP BPC for planning, budgeting, forecasting, consolidation and Legal
Consolidation.
Proactive team player and an independent performer delivering significant value addition to projects and
customers.
Worked with functional consultant for mapping the source data (R3/non R3) to target Data Sources in SAP BI.
Defined the initial sizing requirements based on source data volume estimates (OLTP/OLAP).
Creative problem-solver with effective interpersonal, leadership and organizational skills with the ability to
prioritize and multitask.
Worked with multi-culture across UK, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Qatar.
Business Areas FI/CO, IS-Retail, MM, SD, CO-PA, AR, AP, GL, PS, HR-HCM, APO, CRM (TPM)
HANA - Data Modeling (Row/Column), SQL and MDX interface, calculation engine, relational stores,
persistence, Architecting Reporting & analytic.
BPC NW & Outlooksoft Application Set, Dimensions, Properties, Members, Transformations, Data Load,
Formulas, Security setup, System admin tasks, Live reporting, Input schedules, EvDRe, Data Manager, Work
Status, Currency Translation.
BIIP - Multiproviders, Real-time infocubes, Aggregation Levels, Filters, Planning Functions, Planning
Sequence, Characteristic relationships, user exits, BADIs, Data slices, Variables, Input ready queries,
Workbooks, WAD templates.
SEM-BPS - Transactional Cubes, Planning Areas, Planning levels, Planning Packages, Planning functions,
Manual planning, Planning layouts using characteristic relationships, Planning profiles, BPS Authorizations,
Data slices, Variables, hierarchy variables, currency translations, FOX extensions, exit functions, Retraction,
Web-interface builder.
SEM BCS Consolidation workbench, Consolidation monitor, layout methods, currency translation,
allocation, reconciliation, balance carry forward, validation, posting, reporting, authorizations, and transports.
SEM-CPM KPI, Measure Builder, Balance Score card, Management Cockpit.
BW/BI - Administrator Workbench, Info Cubes design, Info Sources, Info Objects maintenance, ODS Objects,
Process Chains, Multi Providers, Info Package groups, process chains, Design Issues, Open Hub Services,
Info Spokes, Data marts etc.
BI Reporting - BEx Analyzer, Info set Query, Calculated and Restricted Key figures, structures, variables,
conditions, exceptions, Web Reporting.
BI Security - Reporting Authorizations, profile maintenance.
Customizations - Data source enhancements, generic extractors, Logistics Cockpit set up and customization,
user exits, update/transfer rules creation.
BI operations - Data load management, reporting optimizations, transport management.
Testing Unit/Integration/stress.
Training - Conducting training sessions for power-users and end-users.

SAP Project Experience Detail

Customer
Duration
Industry
Project Description
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Function
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Profriends, Manila A Property Development Company

May 13 Till date
Real Estate
Implementation
12
SAP BPC Solution Lead (Planning Lead), BPC 10.0, BW 7.3
Facilitate solution architecting workshops with business managers, client staff,
and end-users.
Participate in functional requirements definition and package selection, and provide
guidance on SAP BPC functionality.
Development of financial planning/forecasting models, collection and aggregation
of forecast data, evaluation of forecast results, reporting and presentation of annual
plans and forecasts to both senior level financial and operational management.
Design and configure system requirements in the admin client. Designing and building
full applications, dimensions and optimizing of dimensions properties to efficiently
meet the businesss needs.
Develop complex input schedules and reports.
Knowledge transfer and training of end-users.

Customer
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Sapura kencana, Kuala Lumpur

Feb 13 April13
Oil & Gas Sector
Legal Consolidation
8
SAP BPC/BI Solution Lead (Legal Consolidation) BPC 10.0, BW 7.3
To deliver legal consolidation solution to customer based on SAP Business Objects
Financial Consolidation
Develop and maintain key internal and external reports, including monthly Board of
Director reports, quarterly and annual SEC reports and the FDIC Call Report.
Provide technical guidance (User training) and training on SAP software to end users.
Develop and maintain user documentation guide for end users reference.
Maintain and monitor daily GL consolidation results including the oversight of all data
integration from corporate sub-systems.
Performs various daily and monthly financial analyses and create ad-hoc system
generated reports to assist senior management review.
Assist in the review, analysis, and implementation of new reports or system changes
as required by new authoritative accounting guidance.
Understanding and Collecting Business Requirements of customer and converting
them accordingly into the IFRS standards.
Monitor and optimize the performance of the BPC application.
Strong working knowledge of all BPC business rules (account transformation,
currency, conversion, automatic adjustments, forecasting, and consolidations).
BPC scripting logic, Assure BPC applications (Rate/Ownership) follows best practices
Perform BPC administration functions and Leads problem management including
ticket creation and resolution.

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Shell, Kuala Lumpur

Oct 12 Dec12
Oil & Gas
SAP Business Objects Financial Consolidation
SAP BI / BOFC Consultant BOFC 10.0, BW 7.3
10
To deliver consolidation solution to customer based on SAP Business Objects
Financial Consolidation. Understanding and Collecting Business Requirements of
customer and converting them accordingly into the IFRS standards.
Collecting the Data from different Systems SAP/Non SAP through Data publication
and Adjustments. Consolidation Process Monitoring and Rate and Scope Definition.
Configuration of Data Collection with in Application Structure & Adjustments.
Working on Matrix Consolidation different Investments and across the GAAP UK and
USA. Understanding and collecting Financial business requirements and consolidate
them according to the FIT/GAP analysis. Working on planning and developing
management Reports/Flash process/description using BOFC. Worked on planning
and developing Statutory Reporting process /description using BOFC.

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PTT Public Company Limited, Bangkok

Jan 12 Sep 12
Chemical
Implementation BPC & HANA
9
SAP BPC / HANA Consultant [BPC 10.0, HANA 1.0] BOBJ 4.0
Provide guidance and advice to SAP Customers, Sales Executives, Pre-sales and
Solution Architect resources on the data approach to BW / BPC / HANA.
Gathering business requirements from key stakeholders and translate them to a
comprehensive data solution design using one or multiple products in SAPs EIM
group of products.
SAP BPC/HANA modeling scenarios and activities such as adding a system,
creating schemas, importing table definitions, adding connections.
Reporting techniques such as creating calculation views, managing attribute
mappings, creating analytic privileges, adding variables, using system generating
joins.
Determine the size and scope for a suitable data solution in HANA based on the
identified business requirements.
Design the data flow from HANA database to HANA Appliance for optimizing SQL
query performance.
Leverage knowledge of data warehouse and software development methodologies to
contribute to the overall planning of projects by recommending approaches, identifying
resources, and developing timelines.
Good Knowledge of Data Provisioning and replicating data from source system to
HANA Database using SLT, Sybase Replication Server and Business Objects Data
Services. (Trigger based, Log based and ETL).
Worked on Importing and Exporting Landscapes, Tables and Models,
Documentation, User Management, Backup and recovery in SAP HANA.
Build ETL architecture and provide guidance to ETL developers on the best
practices to handle high volumes of data and displayed with dash board.
Design of Dimensional & Relational Data models; create the BO Universe by
connecting to custom applications & Data Marts for end user dash boards
development.
Monitoring and administering security access to BI systems and analyzing the impact
of business processes on data in BI systems.

Customer
Duration

OLAM International, Singapore

Oct 11 Dec11

Industry
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Food Processing
Upgrade
14
SAP BW/BI & BPC MS Consultant, BW 7.0, BPC 7.5, BPC 5.1
SAP BI/BPC NW Product Analyzing Knowledge Management requirements of
organizations.
Designed and implemented a Knowledge Solution comprising technology, content and
administrative support required to create and maintain the Knowledge Bank.
Configuring the consolidation related FI configuration in FI/NEW GL.
Legal consolidation, as well as using profit center as balancing segment.
Modelled BI data source for BCS, Configuring BCS data stream with required data
conversion logic. Creating updating time, version dependant hierarchy in BCS.
Currency translation task to link company and currency translation methods.
Configure consolidation of investment functionality, Create, generate BCS data basis,
consolidation area. Leverage special version for BCS configuration, Configure/ load
Consolidation Master Data for company, consolidation group, and FS item.
Maintain document type hierarchies in BCS. Currency translation method for BS &
PL sheet, income statement items.
Balance carry forward, Copy data, BCS BW reporting for consolidated financial
statements such as balance sheet, Income /Expense Statement.
Customizing all measures including e.g.: Consolidation of Investments

Customer
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QATARGAS, Doha
Feb 11 Oct11
Gas
Implementation
7
SAP BW/BI & BPC MS Consultant BW 7.0 ,BPC 7.5
SAP BPC Product Analyzing Knowledge Management requirements of organizations.
Designed and implemented a Knowledge Solution comprising technology, content
and administrative support. That required creating and maintaining the Knowledge
Bank with SAP BPC.
Created a New Application Set and applied associated dimensions,
defined its properties and managed dimension members.
Designed and developed multiple Hierarchies in Account Dimension for
Chart of accounts and financial statement versions.
Loaded Actual and Budget data into Finance Application and helped the
users gain good understanding of Variance analysis capabilities in BPC.
Developed Sales and Manufacturing, Finance and Profit Data modeling, Application
set and Application at SAP BPC.
SAP BPC Consolidation Process Monitoring, Rate and Scope Definition.
Design and configuration for intercompany eliminations, allocations, consolidated
reporting.
Dimensionality, report and Input schedules design and development.
SAP BPC Internal merger between two subsidiaries, for that consolidation done with
IFRS standards.
Worked with SAP BPC Account transformation, Currency conversion, Carry-forward
processing, US eliminations, Validation of input data, Automatic adjustments
Types.
SAP BPC Developed e- learning curriculum & provided power users training.

Customer
Duration

M&S, London
May 10 Dec10

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Retail
Implementation
8
SAP BPC NW Consultant BPC 7.5 ,BW 7.0
Gathered the requirements for Blue print, build, the Consolidation, Planning,
Budgeting and Forecasting functionalities.
Prepared process Definition Document (PDD), Report definition Document
(RDD) for the finalized consolidation, planning, budgeting and forecast processes.
Involved by the implementation partner in BPC prototype development to analyze the
existing excels based financial planning solution (Income St/ P&L / Balance Sheet/
Cash Flow) Vs. BPC capabilities.
Worked Strategy of Master Data, Data Governance/Standardization, Master Data
Process Design, High Level SAP BPC Architecture and the Implementation Roadmap
defined by the business case. Coordinated with Sales Directors during proposal
preparation and delivery.
Preparing Presentations for Sales & Business Development Team.
Writing Proposals detailing, estimates, milestones etc.
Assist in developing Marketing collateral, case studies, brochures etc.
Extensively Provided the SAP BPC NW Conceptual, Logical and Physical Data
Model and Relational and Master Data Model.
Created SAP BPC NW Data Models, Application Set Dimensions, Properties and
Application. Worked with business users and SMEs to best determine approaches to
satisfy user requirements, Gap Analysis and risks.

Customer
Duration
Industry
Project Description

EDF, Utilities, UK
April 09 April10
Utilities
Implementation

Team Size

14

Function
Responsibilities/
Deliverables

SAP BPC Consultant (BPC 7.0, BW 7.0)

Gathered the business requirement and design the planning, forecast, budgeting
requirements.
Involved in BPC design and architecture, reports.
Involved in reviewing and redefining the existing budget process, validating and
mapping new data requirements to support the budget process.
Created Different types of SAP NW Data model for Sales and operations,
Headcount, Capital planning, budgeting
SAP BPC application design, development, administration and maintenance and
worked for SAP BPC on the Netweaver platform.
Customized BW Objects to support the Planning and forecasting with InfoCubes, ODS,
MultiProvider, Custom Characteristics and Key Figures
Worked extensively with Different Types Consolidation Model (Account
transformation, Inter-company eliminations / booking, Validation of input data)
Developed input schedules, reports and custom interfaces using advanced script
logic. Developed test scripts for user acceptance testing.
Managed and participated in user acceptance testing for multiple releases.
Assisted with development and delivery of user training.

Customer
Duration
Industry

Barclays (Financial Project), Singapore

Jun08 Mar09
Banking

Project Description
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Implementation
20
SAP BW -BCS Consultant BW 7.3
Senior team lead responsible for the support of SAP BW BCS
Involved in reviewing the existing budget process, validating and mapping new data
requirements to support the budget process.
Provided SAP BI& BPC developmental, support from functional users in Financial and
Purchasing for cross functional analysis.
Provided solutions to the problems for SAP BW BCS
Worked with Annual Business Plan, Running Forecast and Quarterly Forecast
(Historic Trend/Quarterly Allocation and others) data.
Hosted training sessions, mentoring & training reps, Users and Clients.
Wrote best practice documents, updating KB (knowledgebase) working with
escalated Customer Incidents/ messages.
Created SAP NW BI Data Modeling Cube, DSO, Multi Provider, Info Providers.
Troubleshooting all aspects of the product from Report, Input Schedules, Logic,
Security, Data Packages, BPF (Business Process Flow), applications, and
dimensions to Finance & Accounting related issues.
Moderate understanding of GAAP & how to apply it electronically.

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PepsiCo , Bangalore
Oct07 May08
Beverage
Implementation
12
SAP BW Consultant BW 3.5
Involved a team of technical/functional consultants for implementing the SAP BI
solution.
Defined work packages and technical specifications for design, development, testing
and Roll-out.
Worked with functional consultant for mapping the source data (R3/non R3) to target
Data Sources in BI. Defined the initial sizing requirements based on source data
volume Estimates.
Worked with the users for defining the reporting needs and develop Flexible queries
and pre-calculated reports using BEX reporting features like variables, Exception
and conditions in Sales and Purchasing areas.
Created SAP BI reports which Include Plan/Actual revenue comparison, Order and
sales value by sales representatives And Vendor delivery efficiency.
Trained users in reporting functions and Support the Business Procumbent.
Created iViews, Roles, Pages, Work sets, layouts, Security and Single Sign-On.
Customized Business Package for Employee Self Service (ESS) & Management Self
Service (MSS).
Preparation of the environment and establishing the network connections between XI
and SAP/Non-SAP systems using ALE/EDI settings and documented the architecture in
Microsoft Visio.

Customer
Duration
Industry
Project Description

Timken, Bangalore
Dec06 Sep07
Manufacturing
Development

Team Size
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18
SAP BW Consultant BW 3.5
Developed of Functional Specifications for standard cost reporting.
Developed Technical Design Documents including GAP Analysis.
Configured, activated and enhanced Business content for base actual cost and project
actual cost according to the requirement.
Multidimensional Data Model using Extended Star Schema designed and developed
Info cubes, DSO, Info Source and Data Source.
Created Start Routines, Transformation rules for DSO and Info Cubes.
Provided support for data load, validation, performance monitoring and tuning.
BW Data load scheduling, monitoring and troubleshooting data extraction / load
problems.
Analyzed OLAP performance using BW statistics. Improved query and load
performance using Aggregates, Partitions, Indices, Packet Size, Data Selection, and
Data Compression.
Created queries with Variables, Filters, conditions, and Restricted & Calculated Key
figure.
Developed a series of common reports that can be easily used by managers to
compare actual costs to budgeted costs.

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Owens Corning, Bangalore

July05 Nov06
General Building Materials
8
Development
SAP BW Consultant (BW 3.5)
Configured and activated Business content according to the requirement based on the
Application areas.
Extract data from data source 2LIS_03_BX, 2LIS_03_BF, 2LIS_03_UM to extract an
opening stock balance, material movements and valuated revaluations in Financial
Accounting.
Created non-cumulative info cube to trace historical stock balances on a daily level
Create data model with ODS and info cube to hold Snapshot and cumulative key
figures for the comparison of the monthly end stock.
Created multicube to all access reportable Objects on daily and monthly level.
Created Start Routines, routine for Update rules for ODS and Info Cubes
Created Process chains for all Master data and transaction data loading process.
Created query to report the historical stock balance on a monthly level and daily level
of all materials.

Customer
Duration
Industry
Project Description

McKesson, CA, Bangalore

April04 Jun05
Development
Development

Team Size
Function
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Deliverables

10
SAP ABAP/4 Consultant
Vendor Evaluation Report: A report is developed for reconciliation purposes between
Logistics and FI, showing for a particular vendor the history of Invoice Numbers (MM
and FI), PO Number, and vendors invoice reference number and so on.
Buyer Receiver report: This report finds PO documents based on selection criteria,
corresponding PO items, and goods receipt documents against each PO item from PO
history.
Developed several lists and interactive reports. Some of them include interactive sales
information reports.
Modified standard layout set MEDRUCK to get the company header and logo, supplier
address, delivery address, total purchase order value
Created a report based on the details of daily purchases made by company in a
Specific format like sellers address, sales tax reg. No, purchase value, amount paid.
Data migration from legacy system to SAP was done using BDC Interface programs
were written for vendor master and material master. Interfaces were in batch
processing to load or modify master data in SAP and used LSMW for migrating huge
volume of data.
Created the layout set for sales order and its corresponding extract program for
outputting the sales orders.

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N Power Distribution, Bangalore

Aug03 Mar04
Distribution
Development
10
SAP ABAP/4 Consultant, ABAP 4.6
Responsible for writing classical and interactive reports.
Developed reports for sales order, delivery, billing documents, quotation, inquiry
according to the Business requirements.
Responsible for writing module pools including features such as Function modules,
Search helps and Views.
Involved in writing conversion exits for different types of data elements displayed on
the screen.
Developed Interface programs, creating and processing batch input using BDC
sessions and Call Transaction.
Extended Basic IDOC type ORDER05 to include a new segment field master BOL
number and modified the function module IDOC_INPUT_ORDERS for inbound
orders.
Modified layout sets extensively as per the client requirement, for Sales Order
confirmation, Quotation and Purchase Order.
Developed batch input programs for Customer, Vendor and G/L account master.
Wrote unit test plan,business purposes document,unit testing,code walk through and
integration testing

Professional Experience & Certification Detail

SAP HANA and BPC Certified.

SUN Certified Java Programmer Edition 1.5.
ORACLE PL/SQL Trained at ORACLE Corporation Bangalore

General Information

Education
Citizenship
Languages

M.B.A International Business Management, London, UK.

B. Tech from J.N.T. University at Hyderabad, India.
Indian
English