Career Objective

Interests on any challenging work environment, where I can take the responsibility headlong and work towards meeting the desired objectives and total fulfillment of work commitment.

Professional Summary

SAP EPM / SEM Practice Hear / Project Manager cum Solution Architect / Advisor with around 7 years of experience

SAP Certified “BPC”, and “BPC MS migration from Outlooksoft” consultant and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Application Lead with around 7 years of experience in SAP Business Intelligence (BI), SAP Integrated Planning (IP), SAP Business Objects Planning and Consolidation (BPC) and SAP Business Planning and Simulation (BPS) and equally proficient in SAP BPC NetWeaver as well as SAP BPC Microsoft version and certified on both the areas. I contribute actively in SDN for the business planning forum and currently hold the position of Top Contributor in the forums of “EPM”, “BPC for MS”, and “BPC for NW”. Additionally, I have published few “How to Documents” on BPC. I also have the understanding of various other EPM products like SAP Disclosure Management (DM).

I am proficient at engaging at CxO levels to define the overall performance management strategy and framework leading to the more detailed planning and reporting processes in line with the organizations long term vision & objectives, with experience in handling pre-sales initiatives, requirements gathering and project scoping activities, business blueprinting and realization activities with hands-on configuration skills.

I possess strong leadership, inter-personal, planning and execution skills, with the ability to quickly understand and grasp the different process across various industries, and possess great skills in working as a team and an excellent team player.

My roles and responsibilities include:

•Managing multiple projects, simultaneously

•Customer expectation and escalation management

•Handling Pre-sales

•Practice development, including conducting recruitments, internal training of the team

•Meeting CXOs, engaging them and educating them about the EPM products, as part of pre-sales activities.

•Inventing innovative ideas to help different projects, satisfying the customer needs

•Inventing innovative ideas that can help in delivering cost effective solutions to all the prospects

My articles on BPC have been published on http://www.expertplug.com/.

I get involved in the pre-sales activities and managed multiple projects simultaneously.

I have been awarded for good Management of Projects, from my previous organization, InfoPower (Shanghai).

LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/neilchatterjee

June 2015 - Till Date

Currently working as Director – Analytics & EPM in Diligent Consulting PTE LTD. (Singapore), heading the Global Operations of Analytics and EPM.

Sep 2013 - June 2015

Worked as Principal Consultant in CPM Consulting PTE LTD. (Singapore)

Worked as a Project Manager / Solution Architect, with involvement in various Internal Strategic Initiatives, Business Development Activities, Pre-Sales, Specialist in handling escalated assignments

Apr 2012 - Aug 2013

Worked as Business Process Consultant in SAP Global Delivery (Bangalore, India)

Jan 2011 - Mar 2012

Worked as Project Manager in Infopower (Shanghai, China)

Received an award for good Management of Projects

My main responsibility was to spearhead coordination and execution of BPC implementations and consultants. My role also included leading the pre-sales for prospective SAP BPC engagements. My responsibility also included building up the Shanghai team and making them proficient to take up projects, independently.

Responsible for end-to-end project management: from detailed needs assessment to functional design, application build, and enterprise deployment, and served as technical advisor to design systems architecture and ensure technical quality

Jun 2007- Dec 2010

Joined as a Management Consultant in Satyam Computers (India), eventually moved to the role of practice head of BPC, and got involved in various pre-sales support activities, collateral developments, arranging various training initiatives for the team, etc. I built the team of BPC, and eventually, the team expanded to a size of 21.

Professional Experience & Certifications – Summary

•Certified SAP BPC 10.0 Consultant

•Currently working as the Director – Analytics & EPM

•Worked as Project Manager cum Solution Architect at CPM Consulting PTE LTD (Singapore)

•Worked as a Business Process Consultant at SAP Global Delivery (Bangalore)

•Worked as SAP BPC Solution Architect at InfoPower (Shanghai)

•Worked as SAP BPC SPOC at Mahindra Satyam

•Self-trained in SAP Disclosure Management (DM)

•Trained in SAP Planning & Consolidation

•Trained in SAP SEM BPS

•Trained in IP

•Trained in BW fundamentals

Work Experience

1.Director – Analytics & EPM (June 2015 – Till Date)

Client: Multiple

Role: Director – Analytics & EPM

Organization: Diligent Consulting PTE LTD.

Location: Singapore

As the Director of Analytics and EPM, the responsibility is to head the Global Operations of Analytics and EPM Business.

•Heading the Practice (current team size of 25)

•Managing the P&L of the Practice

•Following up with the Leads / Prospects

•Establishing / maintaining relationship with the Prospects and the Customers

•Looking after the P&L of all the projects, and playing the role of Project Director on all the projects, being a part of the Steering Committee

2.EPM 10.0 Process Innovation and Improvement (December 2014 – May 2015)

Client: Hydro Tasmania, Australia

Role: Project Manager / Solution Architect

Organization: CPM

Location: Australia

The objective of the engagement was to re-engineer the process, based on the assessment, done previously.

As part of the engagement, I was involved in

•Conducting discussion workshops with the Business Users and the Management Team

•Solutioning of the entire system, based on the requirement gathering

•Conducting solution walkthrough sessions with the Teams, explaining the proposed solution for each of the items

•Coordinating with the Onsite and Offshore development team to ensure that the work is appropriately delegated

•Conducting regular status meetings, to discuss the project status and the upcoming activities

•Coordinating with Hydro Project Managers (from Business and IT perspective) for risk identification and mitigation of the same

3.EPM 10.0 360 Assessment (November 2014)

Client: Hydro Tasmania, Australia

Role: Solution Architect

Organization: CPM

Location: Australia

The objective of the assessment was to understand the current budgeting and forecasting process of Hydro and the Budget Consolidation and Management Reporting requirements of the Hydro Group

As part of the engagement, I was involved in

•Conducting assessment sessions on different Business Processes across Hydro

•Understanding the Budgeting, Forecasting and Reporting requirements of each of the Business Processes

•Understanding of the current process of publishing the Statutory and Management Reports using SAP DM (Disclosure Management)

•Presenting the Roadmap and Rollout Approach for the Implementation of EPM 10.0

•Presenting the To – Be Process Requirement Specifications

4.EPM Implementation Proposal and POC Preparation (September 2014 – October 2014)

Client: Ministry of Finance (MoF), Singapore

Role: Solution Architect

Organization: CPM

Location: Singapore

The objective was to prepare a comprehensive solution overview and a Proof of Concept (POC), in response to the RFP, published by MoF.

As part of the engagement, I was involved in

•Understanding of the high level budgeting and budget publication requirements, from the RFP

•Preparing a solution design for the budgeting requirements, including top-down and bottom budgeting, revenue forecasting, manpower budgeting, budget publication to the Parliament, etc.

•Coordinating with the team during the development of an integrated system, including components, like BPC, DM (Disclosure Management), and EP (Enterprise Portal)

•Presentation of the overall POC to Key Stakeholders of MoF

5.EPM 10.0 360 Assessment (June 2014)

Client: SingTel, Singapore

Role: Solution Architect

Organization: CPM

Location: Singapore

The objective of the assessment was to understand the current budgeting process of SingTel, OPTUS, and NCS, and the Budget Consolidation and Management Reporting requirements of the SingTel Group

As part of the engagement, I was involved in

•Conducting assessment sessions with 20 different Business Units across the SingTel Group

•Understanding the Budgeting and Reporting requirements of each of the Business Units

•Presenting the Roadmap and Rollout Approach for the Implementation of EPM 10.0

•Presenting the To – Be Process Requirement Specifications

6.Budgeting System Implementation (Jan 2014 – May 2014)

Client: Marafiq, KSA

Role: Project Manager

Organization: CPM

Location: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

The objective of the project is to replace the existing BPS system with more integrated and dynamic Budgeting and Forecasting system, with main focus on Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Production Planning, Cost Planning, Revenue Planning and Financial Planning.

This project had started in March, 2013. Post UAT, certain issues were identified by the IT team, and the project went into certain escalations.

As part of the engagement, I got involved in

•The project management activities

•Handling Client Expectation Management

•Managing the team to efficiently close the issue list raised by the IT and the Business teams

•Efficiently setting up a positive relationship and maintaining the same with the Stakeholders to get their extensive support to get the project to successful closure

7.STAR (Smart Transformation at Reliance (Aug 2012 – Aug 2013)

Client: Reliance Industries Limited, India

Role: Project Manager cum Solution Architect

Organization: SAP, Global Delivery

Location: Mumbai, India

Project STAR is one of the biggest implementation projects for complete SAP Suite. The SAP suite is being implemented to support very complex business processes in the company engaged in Oil & Gas, Refinery, Manufacturing and Telecommunications.

The client wanted to implement their entire planning process in BPC 10.0 NW.

Scope of Solution included 8 major tracks:

•Exploration and Production

The focus was on the Exploration, Appraisal, Development, and the Production phases of Blocks and Fields. The budgeting was done at the Fields level, whereas the actuals were captured at the Well level.

•Refinery and Marketing

•Petrochemicals

This division focused on the planning process of Polymers, Polyesters, Chemicals, and Crackers. The planning process starts with the determination of sales / downstream requirements, norms and production / manufacturing plan finalization, reconciliation of the manufacturing with the sales / downstream demand, and then, finally, preparing a price plan

•Fixed Expenses

This division involved the planning of the costs for the various fixed cost elements

•Procurement & Contracting

•Captive power planning

•Security

•Technology

This division focuses on the technological upscaling of the plants / equipments / recipes to produce more cost effective products. The process, mainly, involved the budgeting of the various R&D activities, carried out for the production improvement.

I managed a team with peak size of 45 consultants, and was involved in reviewing the BBPs developed for each of the tracks, and the solutioning.

Was involved in Running business blueprint workshops, including architecting business process improvements across the various planning scenarios & continuously helping the team in modifying their current objects to deliver a better system to the Client.

From the Project Management perspective, I was involved in Day-to-day project management activities, including definition of project scope, project plan, and risk analysis, delegation of tasks, project monitoring and reporting. Responsible for change management activities, including delivering end-user training

Assisting the building of the functional solution including BPC Excel templates & BPC applications

8.Legal Consolidation (Nov 2011 – Jan 2012)

Client: Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL), Hong Kong

Role: Project Manager

Organization: Infopower, Shanghai

Location: Shanghai / Hong Kong

The client wanted to implement their Legal Consolidation in BPC 7.5 NW. OOCL wanted to develop their Legal Consolidation scenario, in house, with the help of their internal SAP team.

Our Scope of Work included assistance in training them with BPC (NW) to carry out the development process.

Our engagement included to help them with the Requirement Gathering, Blueprinting, and Solution Designing. It also included our services for the quality assurance, and the Agile Project Management methodology.

9.Legal Consolidation (Jan 2011 – Jan 2012)

Client: Meiya Power Company (MPC), Shanghai

Role: Project Manager

Organization: Infopower, Shanghai

Location: Shanghai

The client wanted to implement their Legal Consolidation in BPC 7.5 MS. This involved development of a standard financial reporting platform for China Entity and then rolled out to other Regions.

On-line reporting for management with relevant KPIs

Quicker closing and consolidation process

Better data integrity: through automated monthly upload processes and secure environment for data storage

Managing and assigning team tasks based on project phases and timelines.

10.Long Term Planning (Jun 2011 – Nov 2011)

Client: Meiya Power Company (MPC), Shanghai

Role: Project Manager

Organization: Infopower, Shanghai

Location: Shanghai

Financial Long term planning which includes Balance Sheet, P&L & Cash Flow planning along with the Sensitive Analysis based on drivers like – tariff, coal price, utilization hours, etc.

The objective of the Planning was to understand the sensitivity of the Cash Flow with respect to the leading indicators of the business.

Used BPC MS

Requirement gathering with prime users for the existing “as-is” planning, budgeting and forecasting process.

In depth involvement in the various project phases from requirement gathering, blueprinting, realization, SIT, UAT, go-live and post go-live support.

11.Daily Sales Planning (Dec 2011 – Mar 2012)

Client: City’Super, Hong Kong

Role: Project Manager

Organization: Infopower, Shanghai

Location: Shanghai / Hong Kong

The project involved implementation of planning scenario for Daily Sales Budgeting.

Sales Planning was done at a daily level by the Department Buyers, which is then reviewed and approved by the Division Heads before submission to the Finance Team, following a bottom – up approach.

The daily sales planning is compared against the annual planning. The annual budgeting begins with planning by the division heads. This value is then distributed to all the underlying departments and then to all the item sums underneath it, thus following a top down approach.

Solution lead / Project management including managing project tasks and ensuring timely completion, preparing test plans / scripts and execution of same

Involved in review and confirmation of user requirement, definition of data model and design philosophy

Design, Development and Configuration of Applications, Dimensions, script logic and calculations, develop reports and input schedules, master data synchronization

Definition of work flow and work status, setting up security features, Define User roles and profiles, authorization matrix

12.Planning and Budgeting (Jan 2011 – Apr 2011)

Client: IMERYS, Singapore

Role: Project Manager

Organization: Infopower, Shanghai

Location: Singapore

The client wanted to implement their Budgeting scenario in BPC 7.5 MS. This involved development of a standard financial reporting platform for Singapore Entity and then rolled out to other Regions.

On-line reporting for management with relevant KPIs

Quicker closing and financial consolidation process: Reduced from 5 days to 2.5 days, including more frequent adjustments, which increased accuracy

Better data integrity: through automated monthly upload processes and secure environment for data storage

Solution lead / Project management including monitoring detailed project plan, test plan and execution,

Addressing User concerns and mapping business process to system build

Design, Development and Configuration of Applications, Dimensions, create logic and calculation, develop reports and input schedules

Prepare and conduct User Acceptance Testing and complete sign-off, followed by cutover to production system

13.Planning and Consolidation (Jul 2010 – Nov 2010)

Client: SONY, US

Role: Project Manager

Organization: Satyam Computers Services Ltd., India

Location: Bangalore, India

The client wanted to implement their Planning and Legal Consolidation scenarios in BPC 7.5 NW. This involved implementation of a simple Revenue Planning, Cost Center Planning and a legal consolidation scenario.

•Forecasting performed at the Product level. As prior year data is copied in the SKU level, planners can modify the data depending on the business requirements.

•Once the data entry is completed, the same will be approved by the Manager and subsequently by General Manager through standard workflows.

•Importing Master Data and Transaction Data into BPC from BI system.

•Reporting for BPC Planning and Consolidation.

Solution lead / Project management including preparation of detailed project plan, project charter, installation plan and execution

Involved in user requirement assessment, review the requirement and preparation of business blueprint for planning and budgeting system, definition of data model and design philosophy

14.Migration from OS 4.2 to BPC 7.0 MS (Aug 2009 – Oct 2009)

Client: Forteq Group, Switzerland

Role: SAP BPC Consultant

Organization: Satyam Computers Services Ltd., India

Location: Bangalore, India

Customer had implemented their Legal Consolidation and Planning scenarios in Outlooksoft 4.2. With the introduction of BPC 7.0 MS in the market, customer wanted to move to BPC. The Project involved migration of their systems from Outlooksoft 4.2 to BPC 7.0 MS.

Contribution

As a BPC consultant, was responsible for

•Run the Migration Tool provided by SAP exclusively for migration from OS 4.x to BPC 7.0 MS.

•Re – creating all the Data Manager packages using SSIS technology on SQL 2008.

•Creating Custom Menus to match with BPC 7.0 standards.

•Updating all the migrated objects.

•Adjusting all the report and input schedules in BPC 7.0 MS.

•Making adjustments to the stored procedures involved in the consolidation process.

•Making adjustments in the various business rules involved for validations, automatic adjustments, etc.

15.Manufacturing Cost Planning (Jan 2008 – Apr 2009)

Client: Coca Cola, Atlanta

Role: SAP SEM Consultant

Organization: Satyam Computers Services Ltd., India

Location: Atlanta, US

Implementation of Manufacturing Cost Planning

MCP is the system that uses SAP SEM BPS for calculation of Cost of Goods Sold (COGS), used in the Profit & Loss Statement. This project involved the design of SAP BPS system for the same and its maintenance.

SAP R/3 does not calculate or keep track of cost variances to the standard costs of products at the product level. Therefore, the company has to create this functionality outside of SAP R/3 and then feed it to the Global Planning System (GPS), ESSBASE, etc. SAP R/3 only records COGS by plant by each item’s overall cost. However, the business requires additional detailed information to manage and analyze COGS. MCP will meet this need by reporting COGS via the following:

•Customer hierarchy (i.e., Customer Development Team - CDT)

•Major Brand (grouping of detailed SKU’s by packaging configuration)

•Cost Component (ingredients, packaging, overheads, etc.)

I was able to help MCP roll – out successfully within the stipulated time in spite of the complexities involved and thus was successful in getting new project from the Client.

Contribution

As a SEM/BW consultant, was responsible for

•Leading the team to achieve business targets.

•Conducted training sessions for the Clients.

•Prepared functional and technical specifications based on the discussion with the clients.

•Understanding of existing ABAP functions, matching them with the required functionalities and changing them as and when required.

•Coordinating with the Onsite counterparts. Giving them all the requirements from Offshore.

•Coordinating with ABAP developer (both Onsite and Offshore), providing all the requirements and providing the logic to be implemented.

•Conducting sessions for Knowledge Transfer as and when required.

•Identification of enhancements required for BW info-objects and info-cubes.

•Modifying the Infocubes and creation BEx queries and reports as required.

•Modification of planning application involving planning folders, Planning areas, multi planning area, planning levels, packages, functions, parameter groups, characteristics relationships.

•Involved in the modification of few R/3 extraction functionalities.

•Creation of test data so that the team can proceed with the testing once the development is completed.

16.Marketing Expenditure Management (Mar 2008 – Jul 2008)

Client: Coca Cola, Atlanta

Role: SAP SEM Consultant

Organization: Satyam Computers Services Ltd., India

Location: Hyderabad

Implementation of Marketing Expenditure Management

MEM is the system that uses SAP for keeping track of different marketing expenditures. The focus here is to capture the expenses on the different campaigns. This project involved the design of SAP BPS system for the same and its maintenance.

Contribution

As a SEM/BW consultant, was responsible for

•Leading the team to achieve business targets.

•Involved mainly in the functional aspect of the incoming development work.

•Understanding of existing ABAP functions, matching them with the required functionalities and changing them as and when required.

•Coordinating with the Onsite counterparts. Giving them all the requirements from Offshore.

•Coordinating with ABAP developer (both Onsite and Offshore), providing all the requirements and providing the logic to be implemented.

•Creation of test data so that the team can proceed with the testing once the development is completed.

•Conducting sessions for Knowledge Transfer as and when required.

17.Global Planning System (Nov 2007 – Feb 2008)

Client: Coca Cola, Atlanta

Role: SAP SEM Consultant

Organization: Satyam Computers Services Ltd., India

Location: Hyderabad

Implementation of SAP BPS within the Global Planning System-GPS

GPS is an integrated system that uses SAP SEM BPS for Integrated Financial Planning. This project involved the design of SAP BPS system for the same and its maintenance.

Contribution

As a SEM/BW consultant, was responsible for

•Understanding of the entire business functionality.

•Understanding of existing ABAP functions, matching them with the required functionalities and changing them as and when required.

•Coordinating with the Onsite counterparts. Giving them all the requirements from Offshore.

•Coordinating with ABAP developer (both Onsite and Offshore), providing all the requirements and providing the logic to be implemented.

•Conducting sessions for Knowledge Transfer as and when required.

•Creation of test data so that the team can proceed with the testing once the development is completed.

•Modelling of Infocubes and BEx query design.

•Identification of enhancements required for BW info-objects and info-cubes

•Modification of planning application involving planning folders, Planning areas, multi planning area, planning levels, packages, functions, parameter groups, characteristics relationships.

•Configured the InfoCubes, InfoObjects, InfoSources; created reports using BEx analyser

Trainings Conducted

Institute

Client

Course Code

Duration

Siemens

IBM

SEM215

5 Days

Capgemini

Capgemini

BW370

5 Days

Siemens

HP

BW370

5 Days

Siemens

HP

SEM215

5 Days

Genovate

TCS

SEM215

5 Days

Siemens

Wipro

BW370

5 Days

Siemens

PWC

CPM310

5 Days

Siemens

PWC

CPM320

5 Days

SAP

Mixed

BPC430

5 Days

SAP

Mixed

BPC440

5 Days

Educational Qualification

Degree

University

Percentage

Year of passing

Major Subjects

MBA (Finance) (Attended the 2 - year Program, couldn’t complete the Thesis for the Degree)

Indian Institute of Planning and Management

69%

2007

Finance

B.E.

Visvesvaraya Technological University

71%

2004

Information Science

XIIth

C.B.S.E

83%

2000

Science

Xth

C.B.S.E

77%

1998

Strengths

A positive attitude, team spirit and an intrinsic sense of time have always been to me; my greatest strengths at work

A friendly, professional demeanour is something I have been credited with, by my colleagues over the years

Excellent communication and presentation skills

Willingness to accept responsibility and the determination to excel at the tasks undertaken

A good sense of direction, along with sincerity in approach.

Have been able to motivate and lead while working in a team

Ability to work with people, and harness organizational skills to achieve the pre-set goals

Ability to quickly understand and grasp the different process across various industries

Hobbies

Music, Playing Keyboard, Playing Basketball

Linguistic Proficiency

English, Hindi, Bengali

Personal Information

Gender

: Male

DOB

: 18th Oct, 1982

Marital Status

: Married

Location

: Singapore

Contact Details

: +65 86795057

Email ID

: acta85@r.postjobfree.com

Declaration-

I solemnly declare that all the above information is true as per my knowledge and understanding.

Place: Singapore

Nilanjan Chatterjee

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