Saarang Agarwal
Head/Director - Finance & Commercial at PT Asian Paints Indonesia- Claim this Profile
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ILLITAM Papi Reddy
I (Wipro SI Team) and Saarang (Coordinated b/w us and business) has worked together in implementing SAP HCM Payroll for Non Officers in Tata Steel. I believe it would be appropriate to mention about the complexity of the project before highlighting the contribution of Saarang in making one of the successful projects for TSL as well as for Wipro within the defined Timelines (Nov 2017 to March 2018) TSL has more than 45 Unions across India and the project scope covered all these union agreements, and more than 15 types of various businesses within TSL. Considering the volume of this project, complexities/variations involved in the business rules, duration of the project, Legacy of TSL in defining the HR policies, and room for errors/miscalculation, execution of this project within the timelines was a daunting task had we not had Saarang around us. Saarang proactively took care of multiple tasks which involved gathering and consolidating requirements from all the business units, helping us in making business understand the limitation system has in meeting certain requirements, playing vital role during UAT and End user Training phases. There is a lot more contribution from him than what is mentioned here. It is because of Saarang's (Guidance from Mr. Qaiser-Head Payroll TSL) proactiveness we had this project started from 20% than 0%. He never took long time to understand the system design for any business processes, and most of the times helped us in simplifying the design since he had good understanding of the way things are done in TSL. Wipro as SI and I as Solution Architect for this project was very fortunate to have Saarang as a Project Team Member. Personally I found a good friend in Saarang as both of our wave length matches in almost all the topics/discussions.
ILLITAM Papi Reddy
I (Wipro SI Team) and Saarang (Coordinated b/w us and business) has worked together in implementing SAP HCM Payroll for Non Officers in Tata Steel. I believe it would be appropriate to mention about the complexity of the project before highlighting the contribution of Saarang in making one of the successful projects for TSL as well as for Wipro within the defined Timelines (Nov 2017 to March 2018) TSL has more than 45 Unions across India and the project scope covered all these union agreements, and more than 15 types of various businesses within TSL. Considering the volume of this project, complexities/variations involved in the business rules, duration of the project, Legacy of TSL in defining the HR policies, and room for errors/miscalculation, execution of this project within the timelines was a daunting task had we not had Saarang around us. Saarang proactively took care of multiple tasks which involved gathering and consolidating requirements from all the business units, helping us in making business understand the limitation system has in meeting certain requirements, playing vital role during UAT and End user Training phases. There is a lot more contribution from him than what is mentioned here. It is because of Saarang's (Guidance from Mr. Qaiser-Head Payroll TSL) proactiveness we had this project started from 20% than 0%. He never took long time to understand the system design for any business processes, and most of the times helped us in simplifying the design since he had good understanding of the way things are done in TSL. Wipro as SI and I as Solution Architect for this project was very fortunate to have Saarang as a Project Team Member. Personally I found a good friend in Saarang as both of our wave length matches in almost all the topics/discussions.
ILLITAM Papi Reddy
I (Wipro SI Team) and Saarang (Coordinated b/w us and business) has worked together in implementing SAP HCM Payroll for Non Officers in Tata Steel. I believe it would be appropriate to mention about the complexity of the project before highlighting the contribution of Saarang in making one of the successful projects for TSL as well as for Wipro within the defined Timelines (Nov 2017 to March 2018) TSL has more than 45 Unions across India and the project scope covered all these union agreements, and more than 15 types of various businesses within TSL. Considering the volume of this project, complexities/variations involved in the business rules, duration of the project, Legacy of TSL in defining the HR policies, and room for errors/miscalculation, execution of this project within the timelines was a daunting task had we not had Saarang around us. Saarang proactively took care of multiple tasks which involved gathering and consolidating requirements from all the business units, helping us in making business understand the limitation system has in meeting certain requirements, playing vital role during UAT and End user Training phases. There is a lot more contribution from him than what is mentioned here. It is because of Saarang's (Guidance from Mr. Qaiser-Head Payroll TSL) proactiveness we had this project started from 20% than 0%. He never took long time to understand the system design for any business processes, and most of the times helped us in simplifying the design since he had good understanding of the way things are done in TSL. Wipro as SI and I as Solution Architect for this project was very fortunate to have Saarang as a Project Team Member. Personally I found a good friend in Saarang as both of our wave length matches in almost all the topics/discussions.
ILLITAM Papi Reddy
I (Wipro SI Team) and Saarang (Coordinated b/w us and business) has worked together in implementing SAP HCM Payroll for Non Officers in Tata Steel. I believe it would be appropriate to mention about the complexity of the project before highlighting the contribution of Saarang in making one of the successful projects for TSL as well as for Wipro within the defined Timelines (Nov 2017 to March 2018) TSL has more than 45 Unions across India and the project scope covered all these union agreements, and more than 15 types of various businesses within TSL. Considering the volume of this project, complexities/variations involved in the business rules, duration of the project, Legacy of TSL in defining the HR policies, and room for errors/miscalculation, execution of this project within the timelines was a daunting task had we not had Saarang around us. Saarang proactively took care of multiple tasks which involved gathering and consolidating requirements from all the business units, helping us in making business understand the limitation system has in meeting certain requirements, playing vital role during UAT and End user Training phases. There is a lot more contribution from him than what is mentioned here. It is because of Saarang's (Guidance from Mr. Qaiser-Head Payroll TSL) proactiveness we had this project started from 20% than 0%. He never took long time to understand the system design for any business processes, and most of the times helped us in simplifying the design since he had good understanding of the way things are done in TSL. Wipro as SI and I as Solution Architect for this project was very fortunate to have Saarang as a Project Team Member. Personally I found a good friend in Saarang as both of our wave length matches in almost all the topics/discussions.
Credentials
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100 Hours IT Training
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India -
Advance IT Training
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India -
General Management and Communication Skills
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India -
General Management and Communication Skills - II
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India -
Oreintation Programme
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India -
SAP Basis by EduCBA SAP Academy.
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Experience
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PT Asian Paints Indonesia
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Indonesia
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Consumer Goods
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1 - 100 Employee
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Head/Director - Finance & Commercial
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Mar 2023 - Present
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Asian Paints
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Paint, Coating, and Adhesive Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Manager - Finance & Accounts
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Jul 2019 - Mar 2023
- Managing a team of 2 Asst. Managers and 8 team members. - Heading the payroll and trust fund management for APL; which includes payroll processing, income tax compliance, accounting, MIS for board, data analysis and compliance with various labour laws especially Provident fund. - Responsible for managing Investments of employees' trusts (800 crores+ AUM) in across categories like Fixed Income (Bonds) & Equites. - Managing end to end activities of 4 employee trusts like daily operations, investments, accounting, Financial statement preparation, audit and various allied activities. - Co-ordination with statutory authorities like EPFO, Income Tax dept. etc. - Managing commercial aspects of various Major Capex projects. - Heading various F&A department level projects from time to time. - Review of FS of certain group entities. Show less
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Tata Steel
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India
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Mining
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700 & Above Employee
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Manager - Finance & Accounts
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Mar 2017 - Jul 2019
- User Lead in SAP HR implementation in TSL for 11 different locations and 30 Wage Agreements. - Automation and enhancement of Payroll Processes and Reporting like implementation of Wage cost dashboard, Employee Portal etc. - Implementation of RPA in payroll processing to reduce redundant work and improve efficiency. - Preparation of various MIS & Reports as a part of Payroll Analytics for senior management. - Managed overall Payroll processing and ancillary activities like income tax returns, accounting (incl. Ind AS 19 and co ordination with actuary) and other labour law compliances (PF, ESIC, LWF etc.). - Managed a team of 8 members incl. off roll employees and trainees. Show less
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Birla Corporation Ltd.
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Chemical Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Industrial Trainee - Treasury
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Jul 2015 - Apr 2016
Worked as an Industrial Trainee in Treasury Dept. Majorly worked on analysis of investments like mutual funds, preparing various MIS/Management reports for senior management like CFO, preparing daily funding and investment, Compliance for ECB loans, research and analysis of peer companies. Worked as an Industrial Trainee in Treasury Dept. Majorly worked on analysis of investments like mutual funds, preparing various MIS/Management reports for senior management like CFO, preparing daily funding and investment, Compliance for ECB loans, research and analysis of peer companies.
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Articled Assistant
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Oct 2013 - Jul 2015
Working as full time articled assistant in fields like Auditing, Taxation, Finance, Accounting, Compliance of various laws related to client's organization etc. Working as full time articled assistant in fields like Auditing, Taxation, Finance, Accounting, Compliance of various laws related to client's organization etc.
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N.AGARWALA & ASSOCIATES
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India
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Articled Assistant
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Apr 2013 - Oct 2013
Working as full time articled assistant in fields like Auditing, Taxation, Finance, Accounting, Compliance of various laws related to client's organization etc. Working as full time articled assistant in fields like Auditing, Taxation, Finance, Accounting, Compliance of various laws related to client's organization etc.
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Education
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St. Xavier's College, Kolkata
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) (Hons.), Accounting and Finance -
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
Chartered Accountant, Accounting, Finance, Taxation, Cost, Auditing and Corporate Law -
Institute of Company Secretaries of India
Company Secretary - Executive Level -
Shri Daulatram Nopany Vidyalaya
Commerce