Vishwanath Rajashekar

Engagement Director at HCL America Inc. (Axon) at HCL America Inc,(AXON)
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Atlanta, Georgia, United States, GE

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Credentials

  • Diploma in Computer Science and Engineering
    Kartnataka Technical Borad
    Aug, 1991
    - Oct, 2024

Experience

    • India
    • Hospitals and Health Care
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Engagement Director at HCL America Inc. (Axon)
      • Oct 2019 - Present

      Working onsite at The Boeing Company which is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells Airplanes, Rotorcraft, Rockets, and Satellites worldwide. Working as FICO Finance Master Data (FMD) and Configuration Lead SI in Close to Report (C2R) Value stream which is part of 2nd Century Enterprise System (2CES) SAP S4 HANA ( Release 1809 ) of multiple roll outs and Deployments implementation program which is also referred as 1BFOF, One Boeing Finance of the Future. Working onsite at The Boeing Company which is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells Airplanes, Rotorcraft, Rockets, and Satellites worldwide. Working as FICO Finance Master Data (FMD) and Configuration Lead SI in Close to Report (C2R) Value stream which is part of 2nd Century Enterprise System (2CES) SAP S4 HANA ( Release 1809 ) of multiple roll outs and Deployments implementation program which is also referred as 1BFOF, One Boeing Finance of the Future.

    • United Kingdom
    • Business Consulting and Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • SAP FICO CoE / Finance Master Data Lead at Boeing
      • Oct 2017 - Oct 2019

      Working as SAP CoE and FMD Lead to Implement SAP S/4 HANA for Integrated systems and processes to enable 2nd Century Enterprise Systems (2CES) competitiveness by driving enterprise architecture and capabilities, commonality and adopting industry advances in Key Opportunity areas. Working as SAP CoE and FMD Lead to Implement SAP S/4 HANA for Integrated systems and processes to enable 2nd Century Enterprise Systems (2CES) competitiveness by driving enterprise architecture and capabilities, commonality and adopting industry advances in Key Opportunity areas.

    • United States
    • Machinery Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • SAP FICO Global Lead Analyst
      • Mar 2014 - Aug 2017

      Responsibilities: Played key lead role in Multiple SAP European and North American Implementation projects on SAP AP, AR, Banking, Product Costing, SAP SNC, SAP BW and SAP PLC especially in Blueprint & requirement gathering for new company code, House Bank, Treasury, Account Payable configurations for European countries as part of AGCO’s Globe Core IBIS replacement SAP Successful Europe implementations for 24 European and APAC countries.  Managing Business and IT Leadership, Business Solutions & Analytics, Strategic alignment of IT with Business.  Responsibilities including allotting work, monitoring progress and effective delivery of Work to the European Delivery Director.  Interact with Business leadership and understand the requirement & advise the team for development or fixing any objects.  Championed Cost estimation by developing custom program to upload standard cost for Materials for different plants. Improved costing upload efficiency from several days to few hours.  Successfully designed and implemented E-Invoicing solution for Turkey.  Primary responsible person for all Code reviews, unit test and delivery of objects.  Designed multiple RICEFW objects for the projects.  Extensively traveled to European locations for Business meetings with business stake holders, Requirement gathering, Design & Integration testing.  Led Design, Configuration and Testing of SAP SNC Forecast, PO and ASN module.  Played Lead role in Costing migration for standard costing for all European plants including Mass costing views creation for 30 Million Materials and updating costing view fields. Designed and developed custom program for Mass costing views creation and updating multiple Costing view fields.  Played key role on SAP PLC (Product Life Cycle) blue print for Global Cost Roll up Solution for product costing & Simple Finance for Brazil which will be implemented with SAP team & hosting HANA on SAP Cloud.  Designed BW FICO reports for European business Tractors Show less

    • United States
    • Retail
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Lead FICO Consultant
      • Mar 2013 - Mar 2014

      Directly reporting and interacting with SAP Finance Director and Business Mangers for the New GL Implementation, Testing and providing solutions. Involved in End User training for business finance users and Managers.  Played lead role in worked on Design and development of Data conversation, Mass Data Generation, Master Data updates using LSMW.  Championed SAP Solution Manager, HPQC, Remedy, JIRA, Share Point & MS Project for Project management activities.  Leading onsite production and operational support activities for FI and P2P areas.  Played key role on Telephone Expense Project with Vendor Veramark, which includes processing paper invoices and image processing. Show less

    • United States
    • Retail
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • FICO Lead consultant
      • Nov 2009 - Mar 2013

      Responsibilities:  Leading onsite and off shore team for enhancement and production support activities in FICO, PS, FSCM and P2P.  Directly reporting and interacting with SAP Finance Director and Business Mangers for the new enhancement and providing solutions. Involved in End User training for business finance users.  Extensively used SAP Solution Manager, HPQC, Share Point and MS Project for Project management activities.  Responsible for complete Design, development and implementation of new Charge Back functionality for THD Vendors.  Responsible for complete Design, development and implementation of new Invoice Recycling, it allows systems to automatically post invoices if there is 3-way match.  Involved in enhancement of Rebate report, The Unclaimed Property process and Correcting Tax codes in EDI 810/210 Idoc invoices.  Responsible for complete Design, Development and implementation of Account Payable Acorde Workflow enhancement for Merchandise and Freight invoices.  Responsible for complete design of AP Finance Reconciliation BI COM and FSCM reports.  Responsible for mentoring off shore FICO consultant and leading towards the successful implementation of Defects or Production Change Requests.  Involved in Design and Implementation of Audit extracts for 3rd party companies like Connolly & KPMG. Show less

  • HD Supply
    • Atlanta, GA
    • SAP Lead FICO consultant
      • Oct 2008 - Oct 2009

      Responsibilities:  Leading onsite and off shore team for enhancement and production support activities in FICO, FSCM & P2P.  Led team with complete Design, development and implementation of new Auto Lockbox Multi-Touch Configurations in BAI2 format.  Developed LSMW to update all customer banking details like Account no, Routing no, name etc.  Played key role in design and implementation of credit management and Dunning configuration activities.  Extensively involved in Credit Card payment processing configurations for Builders who are HD Supply customers.  Championed in continuous improvement projects related to Sub-contractor payables and Procure to pay enhancement defects.  Designed and implemented Custom reports related to Labor Vendor deductions related to Retention, General Liabilities, Workman’s Compensation and Garnishment.  Created and configured new document type for vendor write offs.  Redesigned complete AP remittance output for automatic payment processing using custom table. This will display RGA number, Vendor License information etc.  Played key role for FI configuration and lead consultant for production support activities. Show less

  • CPKelco
    • Atlanta, GA
    • Lead SAP FICO consultant
      • Mar 2006 - Oct 2008

       Leading onsite and off shore team for enhancement and production support activities.  Directly interacting with Business Managers and Sr. Managers for the new enhancement requirement and solution.  Championed in Re-Engineering & Redesign of Business process & Configurations, complete production support & enhancement activities.  Played key role in New Brazil implementation including company code configuration setup, Taxware configuration testing, and security setup for end users and FI data reports.  Designed and developed new EDI IDoc Interface and ACH payment run for CPK vendors for Treasury.  As a team lead I championed SAP Solution Manager to define processes and control configurations.  Solution Manager is used for Business Process Monitoring, Test management and configuration AR, GL & AP and also used for Support Call Management between Customer and SAP.  Played key role in Cash management, Lockbox and automatic payment processing, Electronic Bank Payment (EBS), IDocs and Cash positioning report.  Led team in complete Dunning configuration for European customers, developed and designed five levels of dunning letters. Also have Eu GAAP Knowledge.  Analyze enhancements and modifications of FI business process. Completed designed, documented and suggested business process improvement for Logistic Invoice Verification (LIV). Also prepared training material documentation using INFO PAK and trained End Users.  Proficient in developing and using LSMW, CATT and SCAT and used frequently for data loading into SAP system.  Involved in EDI interface development for CPK Banks and users.  Resolved issues related CO-PC & Order summarization hierarchy in CO.  Worked on basis of production tickets and frequently interacted with End users and Super users and fixed production issues. Prepared End User training materials and trained them in a group. Used Clarify & Track IT tool for accepting and resolving production tickets. Show less

    • SAP FICO Functional Consultant
      • Jul 2004 - Mar 2006

       Upgradation and Migration from the version 4.0B to 4.7  Worked in FI/CO testing team for validation process in GL, AP and AR. Participated in the several Market Integration testing meetings and suggested suitable Test scenarios managing the Team well.  Extensively used SAP Solution Manager to define processes and control configurations.  I have involved in LIV and with SAP Service Management.  Solution Manager is used for Business Process Monitoring, Test management and configuration AR, GL & AP and also used for Support Call Management between Customer and SAP.  Automatic determination of G/L accounts, mapping valuation classes to G/L account and mapping G/L accounts to Material groups.  Involved in Cut-Over Tasks and Post Go-Live Support. Show less

  • Joann Stores Inc
    • Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area
    • SAP FICO Functional Consultant / Analyst
      • Mar 2003 - Jun 2004

       Analyze and propose flow to-be process (based on industry best practices), customer conformance on to-be process.  Process Design: As is process mapping for extensive mapping of the existing financial business process chains in six representative locations through out the country. Details of FI processes were captured for all the organizational units of the company and were classified in business scenarios.  Gap analysis: Each process scenario was linked to a set of SAP standard processes at this stage. Gaps were identified between SAP standard processes and desired process scenarios and process changes and/or workarounds were suggested.  Solution Manger is used for Project management and IT technical reporting.  Extensively involved in PS, IM & AM production support activities.  Took care of daily HPQC support tickets.  Migrated Legacy system into SAP and Reviewed documentation.  FI-Archiving: Worked in Archiving Financial G/L documents, Customers and Vendors.  Communicated with onsite managers and gathered requirements.  Supported user community for all finance related modules. Maintained Master Data and structures for Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, General Ledger, Internal Orders, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable modules.  Responsible for full production support of CCA, PCA, GL, FI -CO, AP, and AR modules.  Defined templates for configuring recurring entries in GL postings.  Post implementation support and Offsite Production support. Show less

Education

  • University of Mysore
    Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics & Communication Engg
    1991 - 1995
  • S.J.Polytechnic, Bangalore
    Diploma Degree, Computer Science

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