VINAYAK TATUSKAR

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SUMMARY

An accomplished Technology professional with comprehensive 20+ years of IT (SAP) and business experience in Big 4 consulting firms (PwC, IBM) and industries. I have progressive growth in my career and have effectively led all aspects of delivering SAP Finance solutions globally.

Extensive hands-on and leadership experience:

Developed ERP- SAP strategy roadmap in alignment with business needs of stakeholders across organization in Finance

Program and Project management (PMO)– Led PMO office -delivered SAP projects and provided governance of projects for completion within time and budget

IT Business Partner- Facilitated and coordinated/liaison across Finance stakeholders to align on process and solutions with individual roles/responsibilities

Subject matter expertise and architecting SAP solutions across end-to-end process integration: Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay and Record-to-Report.

Ownership of applications – enhancements and production support

Implemented global ERP – SAP, SAP-BPC, CRM (saleforce.com), SAP-Concur, Kronos, ADP

Implemented Master Data Management (MDM) for Finance and Commercial operations

Developed SAP Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics solutions using SAP BO

Vendor Management – contracts, SLAs, governance

Merger and Acquisitions - Integration of applications and processes

Championed Process improvements, Change Management, Innovation and Lean Six Sigma Operational Excellence programs.

Degrees in Finance and MS in Information Systems backed with certifications in project management (PMP), CMA (Certified Management Accountant), SAP, ITIL, and Lean Six Sigma Master Black belt.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ALLERGAN 2015 – Present

Director IT - Finance and Business Intelligence

Reporting to the Head of Finance IT, I am the IT business partner/Business relationship manager and developed strategy roadmap, business analysis, delivered projects and managed business applications in Corporate Finance, Finance Shared Services and Business Intelligence. Applications/solutions managed are SAP FICO, BI/BW, SAP BPC, Kronos, ADP, Concur, Treasury and Corp Tax.

System roadmap and Budget:

Developed applications strategy roadmap, business architecture, and data flows and applications portfolio for Finance. Conducted strategy workshop and created as-is and end-state vision for all Finance critical applications including FP&A, Planning and Budgeting, Tax, Treasury, Reporting and Finance Shared Services.

Managed project portfolio of $22 mil spanning across Finance functions.

Collaboration and Integration across Stakeholders:

Managed cross-functional integration and sign-off on solutions and processes involving Commercial, Supply Chain, Compliance, Finance, HR and R&D.

Project management:

Integrated applications in Finance (BW, BPC, Concur, and SAP FICO) and HR systems (Workday, Kronos, ADP) between Allergan and Actavis.

Implemented Business Planning and Consolidation BPC 10.0 for enterprise planning

Managed the BW Finance team to generate data analytics and real-time reporting capabilities for effective decision-making using SAP BW.

Supported SAP BPC on HANA Cloud and SAP BPC 10.0 on MS

Rolled out Expense and Travel Management – Concur application to NA, APAC and EMEA regions.

Implemented Time Management -Kronos applications integrated with Payroll (ADP)

Implemented Finance Master Data governance process

Production support, vendor management and IT ownership:

Manage IT support organization and vendor management (SLAs)- onshore and offshore matrix resources (25+)

SOX audit

GLAXOSMITHKLINE (GSK acquired Novartis Vaccines) 2015

Director IT - Business Partner

Reporting to the Head of Integration (PMO) I was the Integration Lead for Finance and Commercial Operations.

Led Integration of the Finance and Commercial operations -Order-to cash business functions and applications (SAP, Customer Master Data, Contracts, Chargebacks, Veeva, Government reporting) from Novartis Vaccines to GSK.

NOVARTIS VACCINES AND DIAGNOSTICS 2011 – 2014

Director of Systems (Finance and Commercial) & Operational Excellence

Reporting to the US Regional CFO and the Head of Commercial Operations:-

Developed applications roadmap, designed solutions, delivered projects, provided operations support and continuous improvements for Commercial and Finance organization.

Championed and led all aspects of Operational Excellence initiative: Novartis Sigma Program and Innovation Program.

Finance and Commercial Systems:

System road-map and Budget:

In collaboration with IT and business stakeholders created a systems landscape and roadmap moving disparate non-integrated systems to integrated systems using ERP-SAP (FICO, MM, SD), SAP-BI/BO reporting, MDM (Master Data Management), website and CRM (salesforce.com)

Delivery of projects:

oManaged Project portfolio with budget of ~$18 mil

oPMO - Project Management: Set up new PMO with direct reports of Project Managers and delivered cross-functional projects in execution of the strategic road map. Developed standard project management templates, reporting structure, change control, release management, project governance and toll-gate reviews for consistent quality deliveries of all projects.

Projects delivered:

oCRM (salesforce.com) Veeva, iRep

oCustomer Experience in end-to-end Revenue Cycle

oSAP EDI

oSAP BI (Business Intelligence) Reporting

oSales Incentive compensation

oMobile reporting- ROAMBI on IPad

oSAP Order-to-Cash system enhancements

oWebsite enhancements

oOnline Payments integrated with SAP A/R

oCustomer Master Data management (unique customer Id across different data sources)

oData analytics and competitive intelligence reporting

oSet-up of Finance Shared Service center

oRolled-out Chatter for collaboration.

Incident Management (Production Support): Single point of escalation for all systems, data and process issues. Liaison across business process owners and IT to resolve data and production issues. Production support included SAP FICO/MM/SD, PI, SAP BI, Website and EDI. Tracked and reported metrics of the incidents by applications and functions. Developed internal SLAs and change control procedures to manage production issues. Managed on-site and off-site team of 62 resources supporting both Finance and Commercial applications.

Quality Governance: Championed the set-up of the Quality Governance body with members from cross-functional business process owners and IT to ensure that all system changes are tested with specific focus on end-to-end business process integration.

Process design, Business Analysis and Architecting solutions: Provided subject matter expertise of SAP and business process integration on projects. Facilitated business process design discussions, set-up of business rules, internal controls and sign-off.

SOPs and Training documentation: Led the creation of SOPs and project documentation for end-user training.

SAP enhancements, technical patches and new user requirements: Collaborated across functional teams to create business case for new projects/enhancements and prioritize demands for funding and resource allocation.

Systems Security and IT SOX audit: Maintained SAP security roles and profiles to ensure segregation of duties and maintain system integrity.

Continuous business process and system improvement: Improved various business processes for Commercial operations:

oReduced SAP invoice rebill rate from 3.5% in 2013 to 0.3% in 2014;

o Increased chargeback hit rate from 54% in 2012 to 94% in 2013;

oDeleted ~2000 duplicate SAP customer master records in 2013;

o Developed data driven decision making template and process for pricing and contracting.

Management Reporting: Provided monthly and quarterly reporting of program/projects, budget and health of systems to the leadership team.

Led Customer Experience Programs: Delivered solutions to enhance the customer interactions at various customer ‘touch points in the end-to-end revenue cycle.

Marketing Programs Solutions: Led process and system solutions to manage “Loyalty Program”, special pricing, and “on-demand” Marketing programs using SAP.

Product Launch: Led the Operational Readiness team (Customer Service, Finance, Distribution and IT) to successfully launch new product (Bexsero) in the US market.

Operational Excellence (OE)

Novartis Sigma Program Management: I am Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and led the Novartis Six Sigma program to instill quality culture and focus on continuous improvement across all functions.

oRolled-out the Novartis Sigma program across the organization.

oDeveloped training materials and provided Six Sigma business process improvement training to 26 employees across business functions including Sales, Marketing, IT and certified 8 Green belts,

oCoached, mentored and led projects using DMAIC and Novartis 4S methodology.

oManaged Six Sigma PMO portfolio with 22 cross-functional projects spanning across business functions providing revenue growth of over $1mil, productivity improvement $600K, improve data quality and reduce compliance risk.

oPublished OE Quarterly Newsletter on OE initiatives, business performance and projects metric

Innovation Program Management: Enhanced the Novartis Innovation program and implemented Innovative Ideas to improve products and business processes

oDeveloped and rolled-out the process of managing the Innovation

oCollaborated with cross-functional team and selected winning idea/s and implemented them.

oAwarded winners and recognized them in the OE Quarterly Newsletter.

MERCK (Merck acquired Schering-Plough) 2010

Associate Director - Global PMO

COMET Program Management: COMET is One Merck Enterprise Transformation program to harmonize business processes and implement common SAP solutions template globally. Led the COMET PMO for SAP applications in Record-to-Report (FICO), Source-to-Settle (MM) and Order-to-Cash Workstreams (SD, SCM) and managed the end-to-end system integration plans, Workstream dependencies, SAP system change control, data conversion and cutover plans.

Developed fit-gap analysis of rolling out the US SAP template to Canada.

Led the development of ERP-SAP solutions from Pharma to Consumer division.

Led the integration of business applications (order-to-cash, procure-to-pay and record-to-report) for integrating Schering-Plough with Merck.

Managed SAP support (FICO, MM, and SD) using offshore and onshore resources

SCHERING-PLOUGH 2005 – 2009

Senior Technical Advisor in SAP CoE (Center of Excellence) in Global IT

Managed SAP Solution design, deployment and support for Finance (FICO, Product Costing) and Supply Chain (MM,SD)

Led the consolidation of Finance shared services of Pharma and consumer divisions in one Shared Service center to manage Accounts Receivable, AP and Credit management.

Led the Finance Integration of the merger of Intervet and Organon (JDE Finance) with Schering-Plough SAP FICO.

Business Transformation Program:

oLed the SAP Finance Workstream to harmonize Finance business processes (Chart of Accounts, master data and systems) across divisions.

oReduced legal entities from 27 to 11.

Awards Received:

oProfessional Excellence Achiever Award in 2007.

oVarious shining performance awards on projects.

PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS (PwC) & IBM BUSINESS CONSULTING SERVICES 1998 – 2005

Principal Consultant (SAP FICO)

Recruited as a Consultant and earned promotion to Principal Consultant and have led Finance team (FICO) on global SAP implementation projects, SAP enhancements, Account management, Project Management and SAP production support. Prepared RFPs, presented solutions/roadmap to clients, gave demos of solutions, managed billing and account. Clients included – AGA Gas, Chevron Texaco, McKesson, Pearson Publishing, Port Authority of NY/NJ. Delivered SAP solutions – FICO, Product Costing, MM, SD, PP.

SIEMENS LTD, India and SIEMENS AG, Germany Prior to 1998

Finance - Plant Controller

Managed Financial closing, Financial consolidation, Management reporting and implemented ERP-SAP FICO and Product Costing for multiple plants.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

MS, Information Systems (MS IS), Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ

BS, Computer Science

Indian Cost and Works Accountant (CWA) All India Rank # 27 (similar to CPA)

Diploma in Business Finance from Certified Financial Analyst (CFA)

CMA (Certified Management Accountant) from IMA (Institute of Management Accountants)

Certified SAP (FICO) consultant

Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) from PMI (Project Management Institute).

Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt

Certified ITIL v3 foundation

Trained in S/4 HANA

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