KUMAR ABHISHEK Education : PGDM, IMT Ghaziabad (Full Time)

Kumarabhishek047@gmail.com BE (E&C), VTU

+918008511132 Experience : 13+ yrs.

Profile Summary

 MBA from Premier Management Institute (IMT-Ghaziabad) and BE (E&C) from VTU having a total work
experience of 13+ years
 12 years IT consulting experience in finance process inprovements and automation with global clients
 Extensive experience in end to end project delivery and execution (Requirement Gathering, Process
Mapping, Business Blueprint, Configuration, Testing, Cutover, Change Management)
 Experience of managing and working on multiple SAP assignments including S/4 transformation,
Central Finance, Implementations, Rollouts, Enhancements, Upgrades, and Production Support
 Vendor Management, Pre-Sales, Project Management, Business Case Preparation, Team
Management, Knowledge Management and Recruitment activities
 Exposure to tools like Readsoft, Vendor Invoice Management, Vertex Tax Engine, Solman, JIRA
 SAP sub-modules: General ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Tax Accounting, Bank
Accounting, FICO Integration with Sales & Distribution, Material Management and Production Planning,
Product Costing, Asset Accounting, Closing and COPA
 1.5 years experience in Banking domain in the field of Credit Analysis for SME’s and Mid Corporates

Work Experience

HCL Technologies Jan 2023- Till Date

Designation: Solution Architect

Finance Solution Architect for S/4 HANA COE

Roles and Responsibilities:

 Solution design and Presales support
 Fit-gap analysis, stakeholder management, and Business Blueprint diagram
 Functional Module lead responsible for process optimization and project delivery

Accenture Strategy & Consulting Sep 2022- Jan 2023

Designation: Management Consulting Manager

Project Details:
Daiichi Sankyo: Solution architect and delivery lead for S4 HANA Central Finance transformation program

Roles and Responsibilities:

 Conducting business workshops to understand As-Is systems & processes
 Preparation of KDDs, Requirement Traceablity Matrix, and high level solution design
 Fit-gap analysis, stakeholder management, and Business Blueprint diagram

Walmart Global Tech June 2022- Sep 2022

Designation: Senior Solutions Consultant

Project Details:
Solution architect and module lead for S/4 HANA transformation program
Roles and Responsibilities:
 Functional Module lead responsible for process optimization and project delivery
 Own the RICEFWs and configurations done by team members
 Integration with other module owners, technical program managers, third party systems, and
middlewares
 Stakeholder management including leadership, vendor team, and business teams

PwC India Dec 2021- June

2022
Designation: Senior Manager

Project Details:
Imperial Brands
Offshore solution architect and delivery lead for large Central Finance Transformation

Roles and Responsibilities:

 High level design for mapping between central finance S4 Hana system and source systems
including SAP and non-SAP systems
 Preparation of key design decision (KDD), detailed design document (DDD), and system design
document (SDD)
 Stakeholder management including PwC leadership, Client leadership, and other teams including
technical, change management, controls etc.
 Manage offshore functional team of more than ten members

TechnipFMC Sep 2019- Dec

2021
Designation: Principal Consultant

Roles and Responsibilities:

 SAP FICO Consultant: Responsible for end-to-end project delivery from finance & controlling side
including requiement gathering, fit-gap analysis, blueprinting, functional specifications,
configuration, testing, cutover and hypercare.
 Lead- Finance Center of Excellence : Working closely with business stakeholders to discuss on
new enhancements, priority, feasibility and level of efforts
 Module Responsible: Responsible for approving high level design and quality of deliverables for
projects, enhancements and support
 Vendor Management: Working closely with service provider organizations on support and
enhancement activities for quality and timeliness of deliverables

Project Details:
Poland Tax Legal Changes:
 End to end set up for Poland legal changes: Split Payment, SAF-T and Whitelist
 Closely worked with Basis, Integration, and ABAP to set up the connection between SAP ECC
and Cloud based platform
 Assisted in optimizing the transactional process for efficient reporting

Migration strategy and implementation for legacy to SAP migration for legal entities created as a result of
organization split:
 Carving out legal entities from legacy systems and migrating to SAP for Indian entity
 Changes in SAP for GST complaince for newly added business places
 Custom program for Sales and Purchase Register for GST reporting
  Impact assessment from finance perspective in terms of organization structure, transactional data,
master data, reporting, interface with upstream and downstream systems
 Configuration, RICEFW objects, Unit testing and User Acceptance testing

Host to host set up between SAP and Banks for multiple legal entities:
 Host to Host set up for outgoing payments for legal entities in India and Australia with Bank of
America, BNP Baripas and ANZ Bank (Formats: Pain.001.001.03, BECS, Idoc)
 Host to Host set up for electronic bank statement (formats: BAI, MT940)
 Integration with stakeholders like Bank, Biztalk (Interface) and Network team

Finance set up of new manufacturing plant:

 Account determination for FI-PP, FI-MM and FI-SD integration
 Set up process for standard cost estimate (cost component structure, costing variant, valuation
variant, overhead)
 Set up process for month end process (WIP, variance calculation, settlement)

UK- Make Tax Digital:

 Integration of SAP with Sovos- third party solution provider for tax reporting
 Custom development to report data in format required by Sovos
 Integration with different stakeholders- Business, Sovos team, PI, ABAP etc.

SAP rollout for Mozambique:

 Detailed requirement gathering especially local requirements from FICO perspective
 Fit-gap analysis and identification of requirements not in-line with standard SAP roll out template
 Preparation of requirement document, business blueprint, functional specification etc.
 Corodinating for training documents, training and testing
 Configuration, unit testing and hypercare support

Accenture Dec 2017- Sep

2019
Designation: Management Consultant

Project Details:
Philips Healthcare:
Managing Tax process improvement and automation related projects. Details of the projects as under:
- Automation of Legal Reporting (SAF-T) for Portugal, (FEC) for France and (JPK) for Poland:

 Project planning including statement of work (SoW), timelines and staffing

 Requirement gathering with legal and local team to understand the country specific requirements
 Fit-gap analysis to identify the standard and customizing requirements
 Analysis of solution alternatives and preparation of solution design document (business blueprint,
functional specification)
 Co-ordination with required stakeholders (Client COE, Business Process Owners, Business
Users, Legal, ABAP, Security, Configuration and testing teams)

-Process Improvement & Automation of Withholding Tax processes :

 Requirement gathering with local team to understand the country specific withhodling tax
requirements
 Preparation of withholding tax template for both Procure to Pay and Order to Cash side for
European and APAC countries
  Co-ordination with all the required teams viz. Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Tax, Market Owners,
Master Data

-Indirect Tax Transformation for Philips Thailand:

 Requirement gathering with local team to understand the country specific requirements (business
place, branch code, reporting and reconciliation processes etc.)
 Mapping the business requirements within SAP and Vertex Tax Engine
 Coordination with LCR Dixon team to implement reporting and reconciliation requirements

Cigna Healthcare:
Assessment of finance department (Tax) structure and processes:
 High level process area maturity assessment
 Current state summary in terms of people, processes and technology
 Recommendations for standardized practices, processes & tools, i.e. “One Cigna way of working”
and eliminate fragmented duplicative functions
 Identifying opportunities for application of Robotic Process Automation
 Proposed initiatives to shift tax function from low value to high value activities

Deloitte Aug 2017- Dec 2017

Designation: Senior Consultant

Project Details:
Sargento Foods Inc.
 Tax process automation on S/4 HANA platform
 Requirement gathering and fit-gap analysis of P2P, O2C, Tax and Master Data processes
 Preparation of Business Blueprint, RICEFW objects
 Solution design and knowledge transfer to the implementation team

Infosys Limited Nov 2010 –Aug 2017

Designation: Senior Consultant

Project Details:
Vovlo Cars Corporation August 2012- August 2017
I was involved in multiple projects during this tenure including Implementations, Rollouts and enhancements.
The details are as under:

 Project Management:
Statement of Work
Timelines
Effort Estimation
Reporting to Internal and Client stakeholders
 Team Management:
Managing team of SAP consultants
Integration with other stakeholers like business, client IT team, module owners etc.
 Implementations:
Legacy to SAP migration for legal entities
E-commerce flow for accessories business
End to end set up of engine manufacturing plant (Repetitive & Discrete)
GST India Implementation
Malaysia GST implementation
Vendor Invoice Management
 Roll Outs:
Template Order to Cash roll out project in countries like Australia, China, Taiwan.
Market specific requirements based on countries requirements,
COPA reporting (Profitability Analysis, Contribution Margin)
 Enhancements:
Dashboard for Used Car
Accrual Offsetting
Legal reports like Malaysia GAF report etc.

The main activities performed in the projects are as under:

 Project Management activities
 Team Management for FICO consultants and coordination with other stakeholders
 Requirement Gathering to understand business requirements
 Mapping of business processes to SAP (As Is-To Be analysis)
 Preparation of Fit Gap Document, Feasibility Analysis etc.
 Preparation of Functional Specifications Document to implement the business processes
 Cordination with legacy system owners to prepare the Interface Design Document with SAP
 Configuration and testing related to FICO related processes
 Performance of CutOver Activities, Master data, Migration and Post Go Live Support
 Preparation of Business Blueprint, System Overview Document, Handover Document etc.

Chrysler Automobiles February 2012- July 2012

 Single Point of Contact for all Offshore functional activities
 Handling all levels of FICO support tickets and provide support in month and year end activities
 Implmenting all FICO related Changes Requests/ Enhancements

Nissan Automobiles June 2011- January 2012

The scope of the project was upgrade from SAP 4.6C to ECC 6 Ehp 4. The main activities performed are
as under:

 Preparation of Functional Test Cases in HP Quality Centre

 Testing of all FICO related scenarios in Development and Quality system
 Preparation of Delta Document for System Upgrade
 Support/ Coordination with other vendors to do the Impact Analysis of Interfaces on the system

SAP Upgrade COE November 2010- June 2011

The SAP Upgrade COE was responsible for responding to all upgrade related RFPs. As a part of the team,
the main activities performed are as under:

 Understanding the clients present SAP Landscape

 Assessing the Upgrade Requirements
 Preperation of response to Request for Proposals
 Preparing the Roadmap of SAP Upgrade
 Planning of activities like Scope, Effort Estimation, Timelines and Costing for the project

Bank of Maharashta July 2009 – November 2010

Designation: Manager- Finance

Key Initiatives/Assignments

 Sourcing business (credit proposals) from SME’s and Mid Corporates clients after understandig their
financial requirements
  Analyzing the Financial, Technical and Managerial perspective of the project and estimating the Overall
Risk associated with the project
 Preparing Detailed Project Report and performing credit rating of the clients
 Preparation of Asset Performance Review document

Education

Post Graduate Diploma in Management 2007–2009

Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication 2003–2007

Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore

Other Professional Qualification

 Pursuing executive Fellow in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Rohtak

Achievements and Awards:

 Winner for SAP ACE award for extra-ordinary individual contribution at SAP practice level at Infosys
 First prize in Battlefield- Case Study Competition in MEGABUCKS’08 at IIT Kanpur
 First prize in An Hour Till Nirvana- Case Study Competition in PASSION’08 at IMT, Ghaziabad
 Second prize in SAMKHYA- Project Management Case Study Competition on Renewable Energy
Project Implementation in NEEV’08 at SCMHRD, Pune
 Third prize in SAMADHAN’08- Social Entrepreneurship Business Plan Competition at IIT Roorkee