SAP Certified EPM BPC Senior consultant with **+ years of Techno-Functional experience in SAP BPC/BW environments.

Experience with several functional and technical facets including evaluating Business requirements, Stakeholder management, custom-designing solutions, build and development, Data analysis and Visualization and gain considerable experience in Consulting environment.

Worked on end-to-end SAP EPM BPC and BW implementations including project preparation, Configuration, Testing, Go-Live and support.

Worked in Production Support involving Break-fix resolution, Enhancements, Allocations, Month-end Close, Forecasting and Budgeting, Capex Planning, People/Wages cost planning, Master Data loads, Scheduling Process Chains, and Transports.

Expertise in integrating the BPC with various other systems like BW, R2M to correctly view the data in BW reports.

Expertise (10+ years) in generating Excel Macros/Visual basic code to create a complex reports/Input forms & Automation.

Expertise in Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC Classic/Embedded/Optimised)

Fair knowledge in BPC Embedded system with Aggregation Levels, Planning Functions, Planning Sequences, FOX Formula, HANA Views, Analysis for Office (AO) Workbooks and Custom Planning Functions.

Fair knowledge on ABAP and HANA CDS views.

Expertise in BPC Classic with EPM BPC Environments, Models, Dimensions, Dimension Properties, Reports, Input schedules, DM packages, Security setup, Advanced Script Logic, BAdIs, Currency Conversions, Intercompany Eliminations and Business Rules.

Involved in analysis, design, development, configuration, testing and Production deployment of SAP BPC/ BW data models following sound data warehousing principles.

Expertise in Production support and Issue resolution which includes Month End Close, Forecasting and Budgeting, Process Chains Maintenance and

Excellent knowledge of ECC-BI dataflow and SAP delivered Business Content including ECC Extractors, Info Cubes, Data Store Objects (DSOs).

Knowledge of different forms of BPC logic: Worksheet Logic, Dimension Member Formulae, Script Logic, Business Rules; Reports and Input Schedules, Content Library and Live Reporting; Task Profiles, Member Access Profiles, Users and assignment to Teams; Security, Work Status Codes and Business Process Flows (BPFs).

Client

Role

Duration

TCS

Consultant

Sep 20- Current

MMG Limited

BPC Process Consultant

Sep 13 – Jun 20

IBM Canada

BPC Consultant

Jul 11 – Sep 13

IBM India

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 07 – Jul 11

PATNI India

Software Engineer

Apr 05 – Apr 07

Planning and Consolidation

SAP BPC Embedded/Optimized, SAP BPC NW 10.1 Standard, SAP BPC 7.5 NW/MS, SAP BPC 5.0 MS

Analytics/Visualisation tool

Power BI, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), SQL Analysis Server 2008, Crystal Reports, SQL Report Services 2008

Datawarehouse

SAP BW 7.4 on HANA

Database

MS SQL 2008, Sybase, SQL Integration Services 2008, HANA 2.0

Programming Language

Delphi 5, VB Scripting, ABAP, M language, DAX, Python

C_EPMBPC_11 - SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1 and 11.0

C-SAC-2002 - SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP Analytics Cloud

Attended Expert Guided Implementation on SAP Analytics Cloud

POWER BI – Attended a UDEMY course on POWER BI basics.

1Z0-007 Fundamentals of SQL Certification

Client

- Transport of NSW (TCS)

Sep 20 – Current

Role

- Consultant

Sydney, Australia

Project: BPC Planning and Consolidation (BAU support) (Sep 20 – Current)

Transport for NSW (TfNSW) is the lead agency of the NSW Transport cluster

Responsibility:

Manage engagements with business stakeholders for projects of varying scale and size.

Design and Develop solution options to meet business requirements in co-ordination with the business stakeholders, IT Delivery partner and vendors within agreed timelines.

Coordinate and align Transport design with any integrated systems design along with their IT teams.

Identify solution interdependencies and balance conflicting business requirements to ensure project solution does not undermine the overall Transport cluster design.

Maintain Business Process Flows (BPFs) to cater to workflow requirements, data access profiles and user security.

Develop End-End budget reporting system solution in SAP BPC in conjunction with other SAP Module specialists.

Handle ownership-based consolidation, legal/management consolidation in the BPC model and resolve the Consolidation related issues.

Handle reconciliation, special period financial reporting and other production issues between BPC and other integrated systems also monitoring the ticket queue and issue resolution within the SLAs.

Achievements:

Developed a transition plan and facilitated knowledge transition from contracting resources.

Solutioned long pending tickets (> 6 months) after taking charge of SAP BPC suite.

Designed critical BPC Report and Input schedules for budget forecasting.

Client

- MMG Limited

Sep 13 – Jun 20

Role

- SAP BPC Process Consultant

Melbourne, Australia

MMG Limited is a global resources company that mines, explores and develops metal projects.

Project: BPC Planning and Consolidation (BAU support) (Jan 18 – Current)

This program of work involves day-to-day support, incidents management and work orders. It involves liaising with several key stakeholders in Corporate/Financial Planning team.

Responsibility:

Liaise with key stakeholders - Corporate/ Financial Planning team for gathering requirement and making necessary development/enhancements.

Handle and drive projects in SAP BPC 10 in areas of Planning and Consolidation

Own the design and review process for new solutions as well as administer SAP BPC.

Collaborate with different teams to analyse the issue and if required analysed the BW4HANA Queries (BeX) and debugged the ABAP programming wherever required.

Provide Day-to-day support, managing tickets, incidents, work orders.

Achievements

Facilitated requirement gathering workshops to understand planning processes and driver-based planning scenarios. Developed process efficiencies to automate annual budget reports as well as identified areas in BAU process for optimisation.

Designed data interface for SAP modules from (PCP, PPM, ECC, LOIS i.e.) to BPC.

Perform BW, HANA, EPM, Windows 10/Office 365, AO2.5(Analysis for Office) Upgrade testing to ensure that there is no impact on BPC system.

Worked on a complex project of physical alignment of mining and processing physicals entered in iBP all the way to R2M system and to the BW reporting.

Attended hackathon on SAP Analytics cloud to understand business requirements from analytics perspective.

Project: MMG Consolidation (Jan 17 –Dec 17)

This project implemented SAP BPC 10.1 consolidation application which would consolidate plan and actual financial information and replace the existing legacy consolidation solutions comprising of BPC 7.5 for planning consolidation and SAP ERP EC-CS for actuals consolidation.

Responsibility:

Provide input during scoping sessions to explain the legacy system capabilities and provide feedback on capabilities of the new product.

Facilitate sessions for external vendor project team to provide information about the ‘As-Is’ CONSOL system in BPC 7.5 system and helped the team in reconciling data between old and new CONSOL systems.

Provided feedback/help in developing Statutory and Management Financial statements.

Achievements:

Created an input schedule to update monthly journals to a year-to-date consolidation module, this helped users to save cost on calculating the YTD figures separately.

Created a reconciliation report that compared data between source and destination before Consolidation process ran which reduced consolidation turnaround time.

Accommodated organisational structural changes within the Consolidation Model.

Project: Driver Based Planning (Jan 15 –Dec 17)

This project introduced a new BPC 10.1 planning solution in MMG’s enterprise system landscape that would replace the legacy SAP BPC 7.5 planning application. Sites progressively went live with SAP BPC 10.1, with phased decommission of SAP BPC 7.5.

Responsibility:

Gain insights on the new system and provide information about legacy BPC 7.5 system and functionality whenever required.

Achievements:

Volunteered to accompany project teams for UAT at mining site locations.

Implemented end to end Treasury model in BPC 10.1 and created a newly acquired Operating Site in the BPC 10.1 system.

Analysed the BPC 7.5 Operation’s model calcs and built logic to bring data from BPC 10 to BPC 7.5 in the similar format so that legacy EPD Financial reports remain unaffected.

Managed “ZERO” downtime for BPC BAU and iBM application as the site moved to IBP (BPC 10.1) suite.

Project: Cost planning Application (iBM) (Jan 15 – Dec 15)

This was a major project for moving legal entities to Company code on the Profit Center (Line of Business). As a result, Cost Centre by Cost Element based planning (COSTS) application in BPC 7.5 was introduced in addition to existing Operational Planning.

Responsibility:

Understand the new application in iBM space and execute tests to get an verify data flows and user queries.

Demonstrate reliability /dependability and proves as a GO-TO person for any BPC issue.

Achievements:

Lead handover sessions of cost application in BPC from external implementation agency.

Understood the new system better by executing user test cases on the new application to get an idea on the data flows, user queries which also involved testing new Cost model (Site on Site basis) and logging issues in ALM.

Tested integration of SAP BPC with PPM and ensured that the PPM Capex and depreciation results that were captured in BPC post deployment solution were intact and accurate.

Implemented a Change Process for BPC users which helped to simplify engagement process with business leads to clearly identify risks, issues and remediation.

Project: MMG Operational Planning (Sep 13 – Dec 14)

MMG Operational planning has been designed in SAP BPC 7.5 and the calculation logic has been designed in MDX language to integrate the PPM data to BPC, Copy Opening Balance, calculate carry forward etc.

Responsibilities:

Deliver changes in the solution & consider integration with other sap modules such as, Business Warehouse (BW), ECCS, Projects and portfolio management (SAP PPM), and FI/CO

Achievements:

Lead set up of SAP BPC Security and Master data configurations.

Monitored trends in support incidents, working closely with the P2M Lead, to recommend and implement process improvements.

Ensured that system changes resulting from support activities, work orders, and projects were made to adhere to architectural standards and operational guidelines.

Client

- Canadian Pacific Railway (IBM Canada)

Jul 11 – Jun 13

Role

- SAP BPC Consultant

Calgary, Canada

Canadian Pacific is a transcontinental railway in Canada and Unite States with direct link to major ports on the west and west coasts.

Responsibilities:

Understand business requirements and translate that understanding into a form that leads to the creation and or composition of better process and/or technology solutions in the SAP Planning Finance space, including cost benefit analysis and risk impact analysis.

Support and enhance moderately complex information systems as well as develop adequate error management functionality within assigned applications in SAP BPC module. Also review ticket backlog, prioritize issues and solve.

Achievements:

Reduced issue resolution time to 2 days from 4 days by developing a triage framework for SAP BPC application.

Contributed to migration from SAP BPC 7.5 to SAP EPM 10.0.

Bachelors of Electronics and Telecommunication Mumbai University, India

Diploma in Electronics and Video Engineering

Available on request

Zeenat Siddique

SAP BPC Process Consultant

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