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Balaji Madapusi Ph: (848) 628-4002

Sr. BPC Consultant bmadapusi@gmail.com


Iselin, NJ, 08830

SUMMARY

Balaji is a Senior BPC Consultant with over 25+ years in IT and 10+ years in BPC Implementations.

Has done 10 full implementations in SAP BPC NetWeaver on versions 7.0 thru 11.1
BPC Support and Enhancement Experience
BW Knowledge and Experience related to BPC Objects and data.
Worked on SAP Implementation for Multiple regions like Asia Pacific, Latin America, EMEA, Africa
etc for media and manufacturing clients.
Understanding of BPC on S/4 HANA.
Self-taught SAP Analytics for cloud using SAP’s online learning and tools.
Audit BPC Systems and recommend performance and optimization improvements in various
aspects of BPC. Automation of various BPC process to simplify future enhancements and current
processes bringing (data manager and others) process and VBA code efficiency.
Implemented BPC Solutions for Media, Retail, Engineering, Healthcare insurers, Utilities with
planning solutions for CAPEX, OPEX, Sales & General Expenses, Financial Statements, Driver
Planning, Payroll & Headcount planning etc.
Experience in all aspects of Implementation from Data Gathering Workshops, interviews, gap
analysis, Blue-printing solutions, Data Modelling & Hierarchy Design with Visio based Process
Flows. Functional Specs with Process Flows and Technical Specs development.
Developed BPC Admin functions like Security Design, Work Status, Business Process Flows
(BPFs), Business Rules
Developed Data Transformations & Conversions from BW to BPC using Data Manager Packages
including non-SAP data sources, Script Logics, Currency Translation (both ways)
Designed & Developed EPM Report & Input Template design with VBA and EPM Formatting
sheets, Hierarchy Design, Performance Optimizations, BPC Web portal functions, Book Publishing.
Knowledge of BADI process, BW Architecture – star and snow flake schemas
Implemented third party SAP plugins like Mass user Management, Mass Data upload tools and
determination of various SAP Notes needed for the implementation.
Prior experience include Data Modelling and Data Design, Solution/Application architecture,
Analysis and Programming experience in IBM Mainframes with COBOL,DB2,IDMS,IMS and
VB.NET, e-Commerce systems using SQL Server on Windows Platform.

SKILLS

Area Tools
SAP BPC NW Admin, EPM Reporting, Data Manager, Security, BPF, Work Status,
Script Logic
SAP BW Knowledge of Architecture & BW objects related to BPC,
Transports
Programming COBOL, Visual Basic, VBA, Basic BADI & ABAP
Databases DB2, IDMS, SQL-Server, Oracle
Other Tools MS Office, MS Visio, Platinum, Rational Rose

WORK EXPERIENCE

Tri Tek Consulting Dec ’21 – Present


Sr. BPC Consultant Princeton , NJ

Oversee various SAP BPC Planning and Budgeting Enhancement and maintenance projects and prod
support for various clients of Tri Tek. Oversee and Mentor a group of BPC Developers based in US and
India that work on Tri Tek’s clients. Majority of work is Enhancements to BPC Planning solutions in BPC
10.1 thru 11.1 on standard netweaver. Enhancement include modifying existing architecture , modifying
EPM Reports, Business rules on various models like Opex, Capex, driver based planning, Sales, General,
Admin expense Models etc.

Hexaware Technologies Jun ’21 – Nov ’21


Sr. BPC Consultant Washington DC
Created prototype scenarios in BPC 11.1 for Hexaware’s various inhouse client models for Capital,
Operating, Sales Expense models. Prod support of Existing client models.

A&E Networks Mar ’20 – Apr ‘21


Sr. BPC Consultant New York, NY
Implemented A&E’s planning landscape on BPC for European Contracts business. Majority of the
implementation Models and Business Rules were based on US A&E BPC implementations. Minor variations
include Regional level and state level entity hierarchies and absence of Expense planning for IT and
Payroll.
Supported Production rollout for 3 months.

US Government (CBeyondata) Washington DC


Sr. BPC Consultant Nov ‘19 – Feb ‘20
BPC 11.0 Prototype Demo on BW/4HANA Planning Prototype Development for a US Government
Agency. Prototype included OPEX, CAPEX, Cost Center, Head count planning on Darwin EPM.

Tri Tek Consulting Remote, NJ


Sr. BPC Consultant Apr ‘19 – Oct ‘19
Majority of PreSales and performance and optimization work for various clients by reviewing this
existing BPC Installations and recommending changes to their BPC Data Manager packages and reports
and VBA macros to achieve their Planning cycle and Reporting achieve higher efficiency there by saving

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time on the monthly close process. Tuned up allocation methodologies to simplify and speed up Monthly
allocations.

NBC Universal EnglewoodCliffs,NJ


Sr. BPC Consultant (Performance Tuning & Upgrade) Nov ‘18 – Jan’19
Main role was to automate Corp. FP&A reports and input forms that were notoriously using static
methodologies which hampered upgrades and changes in hierarchies.
Converted static reports to self-maintaining reports for future hierarchy changes. Tuned the
performance of Monthly, Quarterly reports by replacing static reporting set up to dynamic
reporting set up by utilizing EPM formulas in conjunction with master data properties eliminating
frequent needs to update reports when there are hierarchical changes.

LIXIL American Standard (RGP) Piscataway,NJ


Sr. BPC Consultant (BPC Performance Audit) August 18 – September 18
Lixil Americas BPC system was audited for BPC System Health and Performance issues noticed in
monthly close cycle. Overall BPC functional & Technical System study was performed end to end
from R/3 source system to monthly close process and a 27 point recommendation list was
provided to the client.

Morgan Stanley (IBM) New York, NY


Sr. BPC Consultant July 17 – April 18
GL Renovation on Standard BPC 10.1 – Report renovation from HFM to SAP BPC. Converted HFM
reports to EPM in SAP BPC. Converted over 40 reports based on Cost Center / Profit Center based
reporting. Created a new multi-tab Corporate Eliminations report with VB Macros.

Health First New York, NY


Sr. BPC Consultant Jan 16 – June 17
Implementing a SGA, Opex, Payroll Planning solution using SAP 10.1 on HANA.
Responsibilities - Blueprint development, Master Data modelling, legacy solution analysis and gap
reporting, Process flows. Design & Develop of new reports and input templates in EPM for SG&A,
Operating Expenses, Monthly & Annualized Board reports. Revenue & Expense Planning templates,
Budget & Rolling Forecast Input template for different expenses by Cost Center. Setting up data flows
from BW to BPC, business rules, security, Work Status & BPFs based on Cost Center.

BPC Enhancements & Maintenance – Various Clients NY-NJ Tristate


Sr. BPC Consultant Oct 15 – Jan 16
Worked in various clients (Verizon Data Services, Cigna, Emblem Health etc.) in short term contracts for
BPC maintenance activities like post patch upgrade testing. BPC security upgrade. Carried out BPC
application enhancements like creating new planning applications in Expense planning, Sales planning,
Inventory Planning. Some performance tuning, archiving activities.
Helped various clients in BPC Projects pre-sales.
Assisted in preparation of Request for Proposals for potential BPC Projects and help with project
estimates.
Present clients with BPC Capabilities, look and feel of the product. Pros and Cons of various software
and version. Scalability and long term maintenance etc.

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A+E Television Networks New York, NY
BPC Lead Nov 14 – Aug 15
A+E Greenfield Conversion from COMPUTRON software system to SAP ECC-BPC 10.0 to migrate their
Actuals and Planning Data.
Finance and Compensation models were built to accommodate Expense, Revenue, Account based
planning and statistical accounts, payroll planning. Work status and BPFs were used to enable various
departmental budget inputters to enter data and lock them. Security was installed for 150 Netweaver
users for BPC Planning and Report viewing including Budget reviewers and approvers. Designed Process
flows to show various complex planning stages.
Compensation Model planning data was loaded using Flat file from ADP to plan for all employees for
salary, fringe benefits, headcount and other allowances.
Tuned the operation of VBA reports to make VBA code skeletal and more flexibility for user to configure
reports themselves. Automated reverse currency conversion.

Ferro Corp Cleveland, Ohio


Sr. BPC Consultant Mar 14 – June 14
Ferro moved from BPC 7.0 & Hyperion planning to BPC 10.0.
SG&A, Operating Expenses, CAPEX, Financial Statements were converted to BPC10.0 on Netweaver &
EPM from the legacy reporting and Input Templates in BPC 7.0 & Hyperion. Additional Driver based
planning was installed based on industry drivers received from Oxford Indices for various Ferro’s
businesses spanning all over the world. This driver data was seeded to Driver Planning Model and further
to other models. Delivered model BPFs based on the original process flow for client’s future reference and
new hire training.

Verizon Corp Basking Ridge, NJ


Sr. BPC Consultant Oct 12 – Mar 14
Two separate BPC Netweaver 10 on HANA implementation one for wireless and one for wireline
business. The implementation mainly focused to improve the COPS budgeting and forecasting process
and Inventory Management. It allows management to concentrate on analytics and business plans,
create a uniform budget process across all business units spanning various Marketing Zones and Areas.
Understand the Business requirements from Business Requirement Document and Business Design
Document
Create Data Manager Packages with transformation, conversion and transfer of Multi Client Business
Warehouse Data from the Multi Provider Info cube
Imported Master Data from Cross Platform systems like Mainframe, Oracle etc. to BPC.
Create Environments, Dimensions, Models, Custom Properties based on Business Req. Document.
Created BPFs for monthly and annual Planning/Budgeting areas for various cost centers and profit
centers. And Customer Order Processing Systems and VISION.
Implemented Security and Work Status, Content Management to store documents Store wise in the
BPC Web layer.
Create Inventory, Sales, Planning Reports & Input templates for Monthly, Quarterly & Annual Forecast
Periods. Admin Input forms to adjust data at reviewer level.

Emblem Health New York, NY


Sr. BPC Consultant Nov 11 – Sep 12

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Worked initially on BPC 7.5 solution to enhance and create new models for Patient Enrollment
Planning, Hospital Expenses Planning, and Outpatient Surgery Expense Planning. Later converted the BPC
7.5 solution to BPC 10.0 from EvDre to EPM.
All BPC Model development included Blueprinting and functional specs and Detail Technical Specs. Most
of EvDre conversion to EPM was manual. Separate input templates for various planning items like
Healthcare.gov, individual and institutional coverage planning, Hippa expense planning, and long term
care expense planning, Medicare expense planning & their reporting templates for Monthly and Yearly
reporting. Budget Allocation using allocation script logic.
Mass user management tool was used to initialize BPC security.

General Electric Danbury, CT


Sr. BPC Consultant Jul 11 – Nov 11
SAP BPC ver. 7.5 implementation for General Electric’s Engineering and Manufacturing.
Created various applications for Sales expenses, Operating expenses, Payroll expenses planning,
Revenue planning, CAPEX. Rolling forecast for 5 years was created for all the applications.
Used Allocation scripts to spread budget to different areas of business.
Data load from SAP and non-SAP sources from BW as well as Flat file loading.
BPF designed to show the planning flow and help new hires to get accustomed to BPC based planning.
Work Status was enabled to lock data for review and approval. Security was enabled for Admin level,
Report reader level and budget entry level security. Book publishing templates were developed.

Aetna Blue Bell, PA


BPC Consultant Apr 10 – Jun 11
SAP NW BPC 7.5 Implemented in a large health care insurer based out of PA. The implementation
mainly focused in Integration of Revenue, Finance and Expense planning processes. The applications
were Finance, Payroll, Physicians, and Outpatient Expenses, Dental Surgery, Vision Expenses, long term
care, Rehabilitation expenses.
Gather business requirements to design on Data Model and required dimensions and applications, custom
properties and blueprint solution. Draft Business Requirement Document and Technical Design Document.
Create Dimensions, Custom Properties, Applications and develop reports and input templates.
Set up the Security access for the applications
Develop Input Schedule for the Rolling Forecast which involves locking the actual posting periods and
enable future forecast months for input
Develop Distribute and Collect Input Schedules bringing latest 12 months data from Business user teams.
Develop Reports and Schedules for various statistical accounts and Payroll accounting, Benefits
calculation and Pension schemes using advance Script Logic.
Distribute Budget and Planning reports with advance formatting and sorting.
Used data manager, process chains for extraction from BW Data sources and Flat file
Loaded the Master data from the BW data source such as 0CostCenter, 0Employee
Loaded the three year historical data from non-SAP sources like Hyperion
Configuring BPF for Monthly Forecast projection cycle and Yearly budgeting cycle.

Macy’s New York, NY

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BPC Consultant Jul 09 – Mar 10
Macy’s is a large retailer with 1000+ stores headquartered in Ohio. Finance planning, Budget and Head
Count Management, are implemented for planning operational expenses, headcount related expenses
and planning detailed capital expenses. The finance application enables view data by company and by
departments.
The Head Count Management application used to plan their expenses by role and cost
center. Following are the task involved during the development
Creating Dimensions and Custom properties and configuring applications Capital expenses
Developed Input schedule for comparing actual and plan data using EVDRE functions
Involved in creating report for Trend Analysis FTE using simple and conditional formatting
Involved in creating VBA macros in the Input schedule and reports to overcome some of the limitations of
BPC
Define process chains to load the transaction data from the BW Data sources.
Involved in developing script logic functions to populate various statistical accounts and calculations such
as Payroll tax, Benefits and Pension

Macy’s New York, NY


Sr. Business Analyst – Data Warehouse Apr 09 – Jul 09
Helped to expand Data warehouse to extract and load data from Mainframe databases containing Sales
Performance data for various legacy products. This would help in understanding sales pattern in the
legacy system.

Citi Warren, NJ
Sr. Mainframe BA Jan 08 – Mar 09
The project aims to build an Entitlement Review System for 37 applications of Citi’s businesses to enable
Managers to review the Entitlements available for different users. The software development for
gathering entitlement information from different Mainframe applications was converted from VSAM to
DB2 backend. The entitlements can be viewed and updated from online CICS BMS screens while a Daily
Batch report would fetch the latest entitlements from VSAM file and compare against DB2 tables and
produce a daily report NDM-ed to UNIX. Environment: COBOL, DB2, CICS, DFSort.

Broadridge Jersey City, NJ


Sr. Mainframe Analyst Oct 05 – Dec 07
Broadridge is a financial solutions company providing securities clearing for Major financial institutions all
over the world. This project is development of real time network of sending information about Receipt
and Delivery of securities purchased and sold, to DTC.
Develop new programs in COBOL/CICS-DB2 and replicate the logic from CICS-IDMS. Enhance
COBOL/CICS-IDMS programs to be compatible with regulatory changes. Develop and Test Client Specific
reports using TRAC system. Develop TO and FRO Messaging to DTC in SWIFT Message format using MQ-
Series. Unit Test and Regression Testing of Software. Develop ETL Jobs for Internal Data Warehouse for
various clients

Fannie Mae Herndon, VA


Lead Programmer Analyst Jan 02 – Sep 05
Project: Falcon Enhancements

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Redesign of Db2 tables that needed to be modified for Grant project. Redesign of Batch COBOL programs
that needed to be modified. Redesign of Jobs, Job flows and scheduling and tape backups. Gap Analysis
of cross functional IDMS subsystems. Code development, Unit testing and Integration Testing. Design
Conversion unload and load jobs using BMC and sync sort. Code deployment to System Test using with
Endevor. Extract Transform and Load (ETL) Convert data from Old tables to New Tables. Extract Date for
Data Warehouse in various supporting systems including forecasting system in PeopleSoft.

State of NJ Judiciary Trenton, NJ


Lead Programmer Analyst Feb 01 – Dec 01
Worked on TRO, FRO Development on Word VBA scripting as well as in IDMS ADSO Screens on the
Mainframe and various other development, enhancement projects on the Mainframe.

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GE Capital CEF Danbury, CT
Lead Programmer Analyst Mar 98 – Jan 01
Worked on various acquisitions and developed My Account ecommerce website using SQL Server fed from
the Mainframe Application.

Warburg Dillon Read Bangalore, India


Programmer Analyst Aug 96 – Feb 98

Worked on ICL Mainframe to IBM Mainframe conversion on COBOL, IDMS, DB2 of WDR’s legacy trading
platform.

REFERENCES

Available Upon Request.

E D U C AT I O N

Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Bharathiyar University – Graduated April 1996

C O N TA C T I N F O R M AT I O N

(848) 628 4002


bmadapusi@gmail.com
US Citizen from Iselin, New Jersey , 08830

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