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Rahul Chopra

Philadelphia,PA

Summary

Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.

MBA (Finance) from Boston College & Simple Finance Certified Associate - SAP S/4 HANA 1610 for Fin Accounting Associate.

Consultant with 15+ years of experience in Treasury and Risk Management, Cash & In-house cash Management Consulting. E

Experienced in scoping, project preparation, resource & effort estimation and planning for Treasury implementation and upgrades.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

SAP Manager

EY
Philadelphia, PA
04.2021 - Current
  • Recognized by management for providing exceptional customer service.
  • Completed 4 SAP S/4 HANA implementation projects, with implementation spread across multiple countries. Multiple currencies and ledgers.
  • Expert in Configuration, Custom development, Master Data Preparation, Data conversion, and Cross-Module Integration.
  • Led big teams spread across geographies to conduct Fit and Gap study, prototyping, and hands-on configuration of all Finance modules.
  • Worked with executives at the C-Level (Treasurer, CFO) to help them identify the best way to structure their project teams, engage key stakeholders and resolve critical business issues uncovered in all phases of the project lifecycle to realize maximum benefit from their investment in SAP and ensure minimal disruption to business operations.

SAP Senior Associate

American Water
Camden, NJ
08.2018 - 03.2021
  • Designed and implemented a solution for Liability/Debt Management using the SAP standard 'Market Risk Analyzer' module.
  • The Liability/Debt Management solution enabled auto-calculation of NPV of existing debt, comparison with refinancing cost, and assisted in redemption/refinancing decision making.
  • Utilizing the SAP cash management module, I designed a cash flow reporting and forecasting solution for the treasury office. The solution enabled auto-generation of a cash flow report, increased confidence in the company's cash picture, provided up-to-date and near-time insights into positions across banks, accounts, entities, and regions, and reduced borrowing cost.
  • Designed solution, delivered minor enhancements to optimize the SAP treasury architecture, thereby reducing compliance risk, automating postings, reducing manual efforts in corrections, and improving accuracy of financial reporting.
    • Re-Configured SAP processes ( FI, AP, AR, Treasury, In-house cash) to facilitate divestiture of a state specific business.
    Designed utility rate-making solution by significantly reducing the time and effort required in preparing 'rate case'.

SAP RTR Consultant

American Water
Cherry Hill, NJ
11.2016 - 11.2019
  • Provided functional support and interacted with the SAP team to resolve post-HANA upgrade issues.
  • Developed functional designs, Executed and Reviewed software testing scripts concurrently for multiple complex projects in SAP RTR domain (FI, CO, AP, AR, Treasury, In-House Cash Management etc.).
    •Developed functional design, Executed, and Reviewed technical specs for projects involved in the integration between ECC and 3rd party auxiliary applications (SAP- Hyperion / Sabrix / Trintech, and SAP-Banking Interfaces etc.).

RTR Functional Lead

Cognizant Technologies
Camden, NJ
11.2016 - 08.2018
  • Led RTR tower, adhered to 100 % SLAs for over an year, delivered Minor Enhancement (ME) work beyond the allocated capacity with zero defects or any subsequent incident.
    •Provided solution to critical issues that had remained un-resolved even with active assistance from SAP.
    •RTR brought to steady state with resolution of all pending legacy issues, Incident log rate was at its historical lowest.
    •Through put of Production Support tickets across RTR tower(9 Dept.) has increased with turnaround just one working day.
    •Effort put in to streamline processes in Treasury domain has been especially appreciated, resolved legacy design issues, delivered enhancements and addressed incidents.
    •Designed innovative configuration techniques to reduce time and effort needed to meet business requirements eg. effort required to map Bank statement reduced by a factor of 10, leading to saving of cost, quicker resolution and faster turnaround time to business.
    •Worked with other functional and technical teams such as CIS, PTP, EAM, HTR to ensure systems are integrated together to meet operational, quality objectives simultaneously ensuring integrity of financial data.
    •Lead complex business requirement discussion on multiple Projects, designed solutions, documented business needs / requirements in to functional specifications and performed cross functional configurations.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Civil Engineering

Thapar Institute of Enginering & Technology
India
05-2005

MBA - Finance

Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA
05-2005

Certification

  • MBA (Finance) from Boston College & Simple Finance Certified Associate - SAP S/4 HANA 1610 for Fin Accounting Associate.

Timeline

SAP Manager

EY
04.2021 - Current

SAP Senior Associate

American Water
08.2018 - 03.2021

SAP RTR Consultant

American Water
11.2016 - 11.2019

RTR Functional Lead

Cognizant Technologies
11.2016 - 08.2018

Bachelor of Science - Civil Engineering

Thapar Institute of Enginering & Technology

MBA - Finance

Boston College
  • MBA (Finance) from Boston College & Simple Finance Certified Associate - SAP S/4 HANA 1610 for Fin Accounting Associate.

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