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Vinod Kalakoti

Irvine,CA

Summary

Vinod Kalakoti is a member of SAP Business Planning & Consolidation Practice within Capgemini. I am a SAP BPC Consultant with extensive IT development and delivery experience. My expertise includes technical, functional, and managerial practices. I have 15 years of experience and 4 years of SAP BPC implementation expertise in SAP EPM BPC 10.1, 10.0 and 7.5. As a SAP BPC consultant, I successfully designed and implemented projects on time within budget. Vinod has successfully held different positions such as Project Manager, lead Functional and Technical Consultant.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

BPC Planning Lead at Capgemini, Houston, TX

Capgemini
03.2021 - Current
  • Engaged as a Project Manager and Technology Architect for the implementation of the Profit Optimization Planning module
  • Responsible for running Blue Print wok shops for requirements gathering with the Revenue Growth Management Team
  • Developed and managed project plan with resource allocation, scheduling, Coordination and costing
  • Responsible for the delivery of functional and technical design documents using Agile Methodology
  • Managed 2 onshore and 2 offshore resources for the implementation of trade planning system

BPC Planning Lead at Deloitte, San Diego, CA

Deloitte
08.2019 - 03.2021
  • Full lifecycle implementation of SAP BPC 10.1 NW Planning Applications such as CAPEX and OPEX, Revenue and Project Planning
  • Engaged as a Project Manager and Technology Architect for the implementation and performed detailed analysis of future state business operating approaches with multiple Currency
  • Developed project plan, resource allocation, scheduling, Coordination and costing
  • Responsible for the delivery of functional and technical design documents using Agile Methodology
  • Collaborated with Finance and Accounting teams to gather requirements and conducted BPC Training of 10 -15 users from Financial planning teams and User acceptances testing
  • 100%hands on with the BPC functionalities such as Script logic, business rules, Work Status, BPC, Security configuration, allocation, Currency conversion, Optimization and Data Manager Packages

SAP BPC Consolidation and Planning Lead at Google

Accenture
03.2019 - 08.2019
  • Full life cycle implementation of SAP BPC 10.1 NW Consolidation and Planning Applications.
  • Responsible for the delivery of functional and technical design documents.
  • Collaborated with Finance and Accounting teams to gather requirements, BPC Training of 10 -15 users from Consolidation & Financial planning teams and User acceptance testing.
  • Managed the development of Financial Statement reports including USGAAP and IFRS reporting, Consolidated Balance Sheet, Consolidated Cash Flow, Consolidated Income Statement, and Trail Balance Reports.
  • Used BPF functionalities, Drill through Work Status, Member Formulas, Security and logic scripts.
  • Configured consolidation on Investment, Intercompany Eliminations, and Equity in subsidiaries and Minority Interest Calculations using business rules.
  • Designed and developed Headcount Planning, CAPEX Planning and Expense Planning applications.
  • Managed 5 offshore resources in the development and support of the consolidation processes.

SAP FICO BPC Consolidation Lead at Meijer, MI

Meijer
02.2016 - 03.2019
  • Full life cycle implementation of Hyperion conversion to SAP BPC 10.1 NW Consolidation and Planning project.
  • Used Accelerated Solution Methodology for blueprinting the consolidation needs of the 600+ Entities for this Global Company.
  • Collaborated with Finance and Accounting teams to gather requirements, lead white board sessions, carry out prototypes, develop functional specifications, and Technical Specifications.
  • Managed the development of complex Input Templates, Consolidated Balance Sheet, Consolidated Cash Flow, Consolidated Income Statement, and Trail Balance Reports.
  • Used complex BPF functionalities, Work Status, Member Formulas, Security and logic scripts.
  • Guided customers through SAP Best Practice approaches to Automate BPC data loads from EDM/BW using Data Manager Packages, Transformation Files, and Package Links.
  • Managed 7 offshore resources in the development and support of the consolidation processes.

SAP FICO Manager at AIG, CA

SoftHQ
01.2011 - 03.2019
  • Designed, developed legal consolidation Model, reports, controller’s package and various other financial reports like Cash flow reports and Balance sheet and P & L statements.
  • Performed Integration Testing, UAT, User Training and established Production support team.
  • This application was built to replace an existing Planning Application which is built on an Excel and Access platform.
  • Enables the planning team to compare and analyze forecast data across multiple years and versions.
  • Minimal use of Script Logics and BADIs, to make the application IT support independent.
  • Developed Complex Planning applications at a very high level of granularity.
  • Managed 3 offshore resources in the development and support of the consolidation processes.
  • Responsible for the configuration of asset master records, subclasses, various depreciation area calculations, capitalizations and acquisitions, upload of legacy assets to SAP, calculations of depreciation and corresponding postings in finance and controlling modules.
  • Reviewed the Business process, Industry Solution (IS) and compatibility of the SAP system with the present business as a part of SAP Implementation Scoping.
  • Conducted Knowledge transfer, interviews with Super users, Business Blueprint design, realization and Go-Live.
  • Responsible for extending Treasury and Risk management setting for new company code and testing using HPQC. Fixing all issues related to EBS, Payment iDocs, TRM-Money market area

Education

MBA - Finance

San Diego State University
San Diego, CA
12.2014

Bachelor of Science - Accounting And Finance

Osmania University
Hyderabad, Telangana
04.2009

Skills

  • SAP BPC 101
  • SAP S/4 HANA
  • SAP FICO
  • HANA Data Modeling
  • Currently working on PMP Certification
  • Project Management
  • Consulting/Client Facing

Accomplishments

Increased core system availability to 30% by developing standards and architectural governance and implementing best practices. Reduced the incidence of IT issues by 25% globally by leading a testing initiative improvement program. Led the development of more than 30 new financial reporting methods to measure productivity and efficiency. Increased cost-effectiveness by 30% through compliance enforcement and implementation of a new quality control system.

Timeline

BPC Planning Lead at Capgemini, Houston, TX

Capgemini
03.2021 - Current

BPC Planning Lead at Deloitte, San Diego, CA

Deloitte
08.2019 - 03.2021

SAP BPC Consolidation and Planning Lead at Google

Accenture
03.2019 - 08.2019

SAP FICO BPC Consolidation Lead at Meijer, MI

Meijer
02.2016 - 03.2019

SAP FICO Manager at AIG, CA

SoftHQ
01.2011 - 03.2019

MBA - Finance

San Diego State University

Bachelor of Science - Accounting And Finance

Osmania University
Vinod Kalakoti