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Radhe Shyam

FICO Lead/Manager in Deloitte Consulting

SAP Experience Overview

More than 13 years in SAP with all project stages including business development, project

estimating, requirements determination, gap analysis, BPR, System design and architect, System

build, System Integration, test Management, go live assistance and post implementation support.

4+ years of SAP Project Management experience: Worked as FICO lead and Integration Manager

in various industries including High tech, Life sciences, Oil and Gas, Consumer & Industrial

product, Retail and Manufacturing Industry. Also worked as offshore delivery manager.

Lead instructor for SAP facility delivered courses on FICO certification and ASAP Methodology.

A finance transformation agent, whose expertise lies in advising CIO, CFO and COO level clients

on the alignment of Business Finance and Technology Strategy and integration,

Managed and developed 10 million dollars in sales pipeline and 50,000 managed hour year on

year basis for last 4 years.

Skill Summary

Led successfully large global FICO teams through complex program and project tasks. Focus

areas include project planning, staffing, communication and scope management. Delivery

focused and able to motivate teams.

Performed extensive work with project proposals, oral presentations, timeline determination,

budget estimation and staffing plans. Multiple engagement experience with global delivery model

including offshore functional and development support.

Hands on industry and expert consulting experience with best practice in SAP Finance, FSCM,

Simple Financials, SAP Fiori, Migration Strategy, COPA and CO PC. Worked in fortune 500

clients across various industries such as Oil & Gas, C & IP, Retail, High Tech, manufacturing,

heavy engineering, and Pharma and medical supply industries.

Experienced in leading large global teams through complex program and project tasks. Detail

oriented, delivery focused and able to motivate teams. A proven leader, with solid interpersonal

skills and experiences across the full lifecycle of an engagement.

Industry Experience Summary

Aliened to Consumer & Industrial Products – Retail: With deep expertise in growth and financial

strategy of C & IP products, enables CP clients to achieve higher rates of profitable growth by

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helping them to define and execute winning strategies and configure for growth primarily focused

on global finance operating model transformations.

Secondary industry alignment to High Tech Industry: Deep experience in growth and finance

strategy of high tech industries including Semi conductor, Technology and Media industries

through operating model design programs which drive large scale cost reduction, process

efficiency and effectiveness improvements for High Tech clients.

Experience Detail

Jan 2002 Present:

FICO Manager – Health care and Life sciences, CA, United States

Duration: Aug 2014 to Present

Responsible for managing the Global Finance Transformation for their system implementation that

enabled the company to deploy a leading practice sourcing strategy. Additionally, serving as a subject

matter expert and provide recommendations on IT and System Architecture after a merger.

Responsible for developing global implementation strategy and work instruction. Managed starting with

conducting design workshops, organizing and resource planning, design of the business processes, Fit

Gap analysis, System build and custom developments, high performance test execution of different cycle,

defect management and reporting management. Provided support in deployment and cutover including

developing conversion strategy, data cutover strategy and risk mitigation strategy test for deployment

phase.

FICO Manager – Oil and Gas Engineering Industry in Houston, TX, United States .

Duration: Sep 2013 to Aug 2014

FICO Manager for a global provider of pressure control, processing, flow control and compression

systems as well as project management and aftermarket services for the oil and gas and process

industries. Responsibility for managing the global FICO development program including managing design

and build activities of multiple releases simultaneously across the globe, redefining the business

processes with SAP best practices, FICO development strategy, roadmaps and transaction flows.

Developed SOW and project plan for ~$1 million of add on work.

Offshore Engagement Lead– Health Insurance Industry in Canada.

Duration: Aug 2012 to Sep 2013

A not for profit organization and leading health Insurance company in Canada offers essential services

within the supplementary health care and travel benefit fields. It is also a large provider of group health

and dental benefits, health spending accounts and employee assistance programs in Canada.

Architect for SAP claims solution and provided guidance and support to Project leadership in the areas of

project planning / project tracking, status reporting, issue management, risk mitigation and role definitions.

Developed a repeatable SAP project toolkit consisting of 65+ work products covering 25 major activities

across all project phases. Managed internal Solae team to create PMO charter, competency definitions,

and prioritization roadmap and roles & responsibilities matrix.

FICO Manager – Software giant in Islandia, NY

Duration: Oct 2011 to July 2012

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FICO Manager for SAP ECC 6 rollout to 8 LatAm countries. Developed the pre project work products

required for SAP FICO rollout, Statutory reporting, legal and Tax reporting, budget estimation and

statement of work. Managed a team of more than 22 FICO and Tax consultants of different LatAm

counties for activities including requirements gathering, fit/gap analysis against the existing solution and

solution presentation. Rolled out the complete solution to LatAm countries including establish data

governance organization, cleanse data and develop the implementation plan for BI.

Integration Manager, Software giant in Islandia, NY

Duration: May 2011 to Oct 2011

Worked as integration manager for the migration project from SAP 4.7 to ECC6. Direct

involvement starting from preparation of testing strategy document to business case development

and performance measurement. This also included defining the scope of testing, assigning

resources, monitoring testing progress and defect resolution coordinated the organization impact

process by providing direction to the functional teams in documenting the changes and impact to

the business. Also managed the offshore functional resources for the unit testing, integration

testing effort, business scenario testing, volume testing and stress testing of client business

scenarios including defect management.

FICO Business Process Reengineering Lead – Leading fabless semi conductor company,

Irvine, California.

Duration: Dec 2010 to May 2011

As a BPR and PI Lead helped the client in identifying key business processes and

suggested/demonstrated their potential benefits derived from those to be processes. The BPR

stream consisted of a series of workshops to engage the client business and IT stakeholders to

document the “as is” and develop the “to be” operating model, performance KPIs, process

models, business benefits, and change impacts. This was accomplished by rigorous pre

workshop preparation within the client and consulting team, developed a straw man for review and

refined in the business processes and helped them to their process improved their workshops.

Additionally, many of the existing business process were improved by adopting best Industry

practices and best SAP practices.

FICO Lead – Largest retailer of the world, Bentonville, AR, US.

Duration: March 2008 to Dec 2010.

In charge of AR/AP/GL/AA and CO, led the Finance teams through UK, US, Canada and Japan

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rollouts. Led teams through all Project phases design, build, integration test, cutover, dress

rehearsal, conversions and post production support phases. Managed a team of 18 Deloitte + 2

SAP US consultants and is the architect of the SAP Financials design. Conducted design

meetings with stakeholders including CFO, CIO, Controllers, Treasury, Tax, Close, International

Accountants from US and outside US. A solid track record of working effectively with business

stake holders in understanding the requirements, advising the leading practices in finance and

mapping them to SAP package to optimize the benefits of SAP. He had a very solid experience

with SAP Solution manager, Remedy, Mercury Test director, Quality Center, Revtrack etc. Worked

with Master data teams and integrated SAP solution with MDM.

FICO Lead – Wholesale distribution company, Minneapolis, MN, US

Duration: Oct 2007 to Feb 2008

Led FICO team of three members in the end to end implementation project. Involved starting with

vision documents and conducting workshops to all other phases of the project starting with the

design, build, integration testing cycles, data cutover to the final delivery and operational phase.

The project designed on unique combination of industry print and solution manager methodology

to provide high quality deliverables.

The project covered FI CO, MM, CS, SD, CRM and BI and Enterprise Portal. Also led for Product

Costing, Asset Management team in phase 2

FICO team member in upgrade from SAP 4.7 to ECC 6 in one of the largest entertainment

Co. in Burbank, LA, US

Duration: June 2005 to Sep 2007

As FI upgrade co ordinator and worked on enhancement of new functionalities, impact analysis of all

business transactions in 4.6C with the new upgrade version ECC 5 the upgraded systems. Role was to

identifying all the potential FICO process and RICEF to be effected because of the system upgrade,

preparation of scenarios with the help of offshore team and client business team. Coordinating the testing

activities and make sure the defects gets resolve in time to stay the testing in the plan.

Instrumental and mentor for the first financial closing period after the upgrade system.

FICO Lead Implementation MySAP Business Suite, Mumbai, India.

Duration: July 2004 to April 2005

Led the FICO team of 4 members in a end to end project implementation. Involved right from the project

plan stage to conduct design work shop, blue prints, Gap resoltion,builds, testing, data cutover, end user

training and operational support for a month. The project covered FI CO, MM, CS, HR, SD, CRM and

Enterprise Portal.

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FICO Team member – SAP Implementation in one of the largest global logistics company

and Rollout of SAP 4.7 in LatAm countries.

Duration: March 2002 to April 2004

As FICO Global team member worked on workshops, mapping of different business processes

into SAP and preparation blue print, Customization and preparation of various template for the

global implementation in Finance area and roll out SAP to different South American countries.

Direct involvement in workshops, Blue print, build, testing, function specifications, data conversion

and user documents.

Development Tools: Solution Manager, HP ALM, QTP, Revtrac, PMC, PE & PS, Sharepoint, MS Project,

Sharepoint etc.

Education, Personal interest & Achievements

Executive MBA – Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

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Cost accountant –Institute of Cost Accountants of India, Calcutta.

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Bachelors of Commerce.

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Harvard Management Essential program

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Harvard Leadership Essential program

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First Prize in SAP Innovation Quest in Deloitte and member of Deloitte Wall of Fame.

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