$80

Hourly Consulting Rate

Rohan Patil

Independent Consultant

Industry Experience

Information Technology/IT

Location Supported

India

Languages Supported

English

Hindi

Marathi

Skills

  • Functional consultant

Product Specialization

  • SAP S/4HANA
  • SAP ECC

About

I am an MBA-level educated, SAP functional consultant with extensive experience in delivering SAP FI CO and Concur Travel & Expense Implementation, Roll-out and Support projects.

I have worked extensively with senior business stakeholders and am adept at providing expert guidance, leading implementation team(s), formulating communications, delivering training and setting up service model.

Key Competencies:
.Strong technical aptitude
.Fast learner
.Excellent communication
.Teamwork and Leadership
.Process Optimisation
.Work with stakeholders at all levels

Technologies:
.MS (Teams, SharePoint, Office Suite), JIRA, SAP ERP, SAP Concur

Methodologies:
Waterfall, Agile, Scrum

Key Achievements:
.Multiple end-to-end Concur implementations consisting of rollouts to 75+ countries
.Delivered Concur projects using AGILE and in a less time than estimated by Concur
.Implemented global risk assessment solution, using PWC MyTrips, within a span of one year
.Single-handedly compiled a Standard Incident Database, containing 200+ client specific entries
.SAP FI certified and experienced in delivering advanced Concur configuration
.Whilst working on tight timelines, I have managed to deliver quality and same is reflected in my LinkedIn recommendations

Please contact me at patilr1982@gmail.com to find out how I might contribute and add value to your next project.

Top Project Highlights

Global SAP Concur implementation and rollouts

Multiple global, multi-phased SAP Concur implementations where I have worked with client stakeholders on the future state T&E system and policies. Performed advanced configuration in Concur application. Mentored and led teams. Working with Waterfall and Agile methodology and involved in gathering user requirements, creating solution Blueprint, Fit-Gap, Documentation, Configuration, Data migration, Testing, Training, Support and Maintenance.

Employment

SAP Concur and SAP FICO consultant

2017 - 2020
  • Tetra Pak is the world's leading food processing and packaging solutions company. They provide safe, innovative and environmentally sound products in more than 160 countries. They operate in 160+ countries and with over 25,000 employees.

    • Providing advice to the client’s global team on the best practices adopted by other companies. Working to establish a global T&E design template and supporting the client in decision making related to Concur configuration alterntive approaches.
    • Work with individual sites for gathering user requirements related to local legislation and policy. Verifying possibilities in the system and supporting them with submission of exceptions required for deviation from global design.
    • Design custom integration between Concur and SAP. Subsequently replace the same with SAP ICS/Native Integration.
    • Perform advanced SAP Concur product configuration and mentor an internal international team based across the globe.
    • During cutover, work with the business to manually extract master data components, transform and load to Concur.
    • Setup Service Operational Model and Support team providing support to the users for Concur related issues and change requests. Performing impact analysis to support change requests. Stabilize the case flow by setup of service catalogue.
    • Work with Training and Communication teams to design appropriate messaging and training decks for super/end users
    • Support the business team during internal Audits and troubleshoot any issues during reconciliation.
    • Create basic custom reports in Cognos reporting using the professional author role
    • Work with PM to communicate project status updates and risks to the program steering group on a regular basis
    • Conceptualize, design and technically lead the implementation of integration between Concur and MyTrips solution offered by PWC. This is used for tax, social security and immigration compliance assessment.

    Achievements

    • Implement custom Travel Allowance for 74 countries
    • Implement global risk assessment solution, using PWC myTrips, within a span of one year
    • Compiled a Standard Incident database, containing 200+ entries, for operations team

SAP Concur and SAP FI consultant

2015 - 2017
  • AstraZeneca plc is a British–Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical company. It has approximately 80,000 employees in approximately 95 countries.

    • Design system architechture that included a custom integration between Concur and multiple SAP systems used across geographies and ability to fetch real-time data from meeting management (Veeva), SAP and SOA. Stadard data interchange interfaces were also included in this  blueprint.
    • Work with Global Process leads, Group Finance, Local SME’s, Global Finance operations to understand current challenges and also the pertinent local statutory and policy requirements. Use the inputs to propose appropriate global solution and specific local variations. Use these inputs to determine appropriate design for Concur workflow.
    • Participate and contribute to Sprint planning sessions to ensure that technical resources were utilized optimally.
    • Train and lead an internal offshore configuration team to deliver advanced SAP Concur configuration. Establish a BAU team using these resources and cycle resources between the teams to strengthen team knowledge and satisfaction.
    • Work with Training and Communication teams to design appropriate messaging and guidance to super/end users
    • Attend regular meetings with senior stakeholders to report progress and highlight risks using business terminology

    Achievements

    • First Concur deployment within 4 months of kick-off (Concur had indicated we would need 8)
    • Deployed SAP Concur to 84 countries within 18 months using Agile methodology
    • Upscaled a team of 15 offshore consultants who had no prior Concur knowledge

SAP Concur, SAP FSCM and SAP FICO consultant

2008 - 2015
  • Syngenta AG is a global Swiss agribusiness that produces agrochemicals and seeds. It has approximately 29,000 employees in some 90 countries.

    • Conduct workshops to demonstrate solution, elicit business requirements, identify and document GAPS
    • Design solution with the SAP and other technical delivery teams to address technical GAPS
    • Drive process change discussions with business team to close process GAPS
    • Train country key users on usage and support testing. Support during cutover and hypercare
    • Report project status and risks to senior management, other stakeholders
    • Concur configuration (Policies, Localization, Tax configuration, User setup, credit card interface, Concur Intelligence)
    • Support change management and process harmonization initiatives
    • Initial assignments as SAP FICO support team member and subsequently as a Business Process Analyst

    Achievements

    • Design and Implement Purchasing card solution integrating Citibank GBF, SAP ECC and existing Concur setup.
    • Implement Concur in 32 countries across EAME, APAC, NA and LATAM
    • Awarded the Certificate of Recognition for implementation of Concur, Purchasing card and T&E card
    • Founding member of Concur capability Centre of Excellence at Infosys Ltd.

Developer / Configuration Manager

2004 - 2006
  • Siemens Information Systems Limited was the Indian subsidiary of German multinational conglomerate Siemens that focused on IT and management services. In 2011, Atos acquired Siemens IT Solutios, the holding company of all Siemens IT activities.

    • Design, implement and manage a workflow based employee self-service portal.
    • Participate in the project audits with the capacity of a configuration manager for the project.

    Achievements

    • Upskilled on multiple softwares, like Livelink, Oracle, Microsoft Office suite, in a very short span of time

Education

Master of Management Studies (MBA) Finance
2006-2008

Mumbai University, India

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Information Technology
2000-2004

Mumbai University, India

Certification

SAP Financial Accounting with SAP ERP 6.0
2014-2014

SAP Certified associate

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