Apr 2014 – May 2018 · 4 yrs 1 mo · San Jose, California, United States

• Managed IT portfolio supporting the finance business processes for Finance and Corporate Accounting, Treasury, FP&A, Revenue Recognition, COPA, Tax, Legal Procurement, Governance, and Audit.
• Developed Strategic Partnerships across business leadership to develop and deliver IT Roadmap
• Managed the project prioritization process and set expectations across multiple stakeholders
• Managed high performing global cross-functional teams of 30+ members on multiple projects
• Implemented SAP RAR for successful adoption of the new revenue recognition standard ASC606
• Delivered the cloud transformation for Procurement (P2P) by implementing Ariba and Aravo
• Implemented Anaplan as the new planning and budgeting solution by replacing SAP BPC for the FP&A team
• Managed the entire life cycle of projects from Product Selection (RFP), Budget Management, Business buy-in, Stakeholder and Scope management, Resource and Risk management, Vendor negotiations, Security, and Integration
• Well versed in the Waterfall, Agile or Hybrid methodologies.

Sep 2011 – Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Cupertino, CA

• Responsible for the delivery of SAP solutions supporting FP&A processes. Managed large cross functional teams comprising of consultants and employees both on-site and off-shore in deploying solutions in the areas of Financial Planning and Reporting using cutting edge technologies.
• Architected and deployed global solutions using HANA (Greenfield) for segment reporting for Asia Pacific and aid faster financial close
• Implemented Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC – EPM 10) solution for key planning areas such as Headcount, CapEx and OpEx planning
• Deployed and maintained planning applications using Integrated Planning (BI-IP) for Units, Revenue and Margins (URM) and PNL planning
• Rolled out the global planning platform to integrate geo, retail and iTunes expansion
• Automated and supported the monthly and quarterly forecasting and reporting process

Apr 2009 – Aug 2011 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

• Leading the IT department and responsible for managing company’s IT assets and business applications in support of business strategy.
• Managed a $15+M annual budget for IT Enterprise Applications and Infrastructure
• Defined and managed IT roadmap to support strategic business initiatives
• Applications:
• Managed major applications including ERP (SAP), BI Analytics, Financial Consolidation, CRM, PLM, Supply/Demand Planning, EDI and multiple Middleware applications.
• Led implementation of SAP ERP and supported ecosystem including B2B, Channel Management, Warehouse Management, Middleware and integration with external systems
• Conceived and implemented SAP BI-IP based forecasting and demand planning process.
• Implemented CRM technology (Sugar CRM), providing extended customer care support and increased customer satisfaction.
• Implemented SAAS based expense management solution to reduce footprint and cost.
• Infrastructure:
• Managed the Operations of the IT Infrastructure encompassing Data Centers, Data and Communications Networks, Servers, Desktops, Security, Peripherals and Applications.
• Identified and implemented cost reduction initiatives in the areas of data center operations and applications support, resulting in decrease of IT capital outlay by 50%, and reduction in IT operations and maintenance cost by 50%.
• Implemented Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plan for critical applications
• M&A Integration:
• Integrated newly acquired wireless Design and Development Company with over 200 employees within time and budget constraints in a high profile M&A initiative.
• Award: Recipient of company’s President Award for this well executed strategically important M&A initiative.

Oct 2008 – Mar 2009 · 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Reporting to the Director of IT, my role was to:
• Provide leadership and direction for implementation and support of SAP and integration with external systems
• Implemented SAP to support accurate customer billing, revenue reporting using Profitability Analysis
• Integrated with Aviation and flight tracking system for accurate trip cost and billing customers
• Implemented SaaS based travel and expense management system to reduce expense reporting and reimbursement cycle for flight crew
• Streamlined budgeting and management reporting mechanism
• Supported financial closing and budgeting activities

Oct 2007 – Oct 2008 · 1 yr · Santa Clara, CA

• Coordinated geographically distributed teams (US and Asia Pacific) to complete FI/CO global implementation and supported day-to-day operations.
• Implemented FI/CO (ECC 6.0) modules (FI-GL, AP, AA, SL) across Europe and Asia Pacific countries.
• Managed projects in Product Costing (Actual costing with Material Ledger) and Profitability Analysis (COPA AB and CB) to provide enhanced reporting and analysis.
• Supported consolidations, inter company reconciliation, currency translation, etc.
• Managed on-site and offshore teams for smooth delivery of projects.
• Supported month-end costing and financial closing activities.

Oct 1999 – Sep 2007 · 7 yrs 11 mos

• Multiple clients: GKN Aerospace Services, Sika Automotive, GE Honeywell, TRW Aerospace
• Multiple life-cycle implementations from blueprint to go-live – SAP, SAP BW, Cincom, Coda
• Configured and implemented all modules of SAP.
• Integration with all modules for smooth financial reporting
• Managed process improvements and system enhancements
• Deployed BI with reporting using Cognos Suite
• Partnered with finance teams to design and implement end-to-end financial system.
• Supported year-end financial closing and audits.

Nov 1994 – Aug 1999 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Dubai, UAE

• KPMG, A.F. Ferguson & Co.
• Roles: Assistant Manager Audit, Senior Consultant, Audit Senior.
• Responsibilities included audit planning, coordinate large multi-location audits, liaison with client for timely completion of financial and systems audits, review audit working papers of audit teams.