ANANT MOHAN GUPTA

Led end-to-end SAP FI/CO integration for 1,020 Carrols BK restaurants into RBI's S/4HANA platform, harmonizing global chart of accounts.

Directed an offshore team of 5 consultants to deliver standardized finance processes across 3 company codes, ensuring minimal RICEFWs and strict IFRS/GAAP & SOX compliance.

Designed complex intercompany structures to support RBI's franchisor/operator model, automating intercompany postings and closing processes.

Integrated First Data gift-card platform with SAP ECC/store systems for inbound GL postings, settlement reconciliation, and daily sales capture, enhancing revenue traceability.

Led blueprint workshops for critical interfaces including franchise-fee processing, bank-clearing automation, and ROU asset migration, producing comprehensive solution design documentation.

Conducted executive-level review of R1 template architecture, ensuring enterprise structure scalability for M&A and divestitures.

Assessed Record-to-Report (R2R) processes against SAP best practices, crafting a reusable template for future rollouts and optimizing financial close cycles.

Authored a detailed solution assessment report with prioritized recommendations and roadmap for Phase II, guiding strategic system enhancements.

Delivered "Train-the-Trainer" sessions, equipping key business users to champion change and ensure smooth adoption of new processes.

Led design workshops mapping Bectran portal payment flows into S/4HANA SD and FI modules, leveraging standard SAP APIs to minimize custom development.

Automated payment-advice transmissions and reconciliation, including partial payments/netting via Fiori and IDoc enhancements, reducing manual effort by 40%.

Defined RICEFW objects in collaboration with leadership, ensuring alignment to enterprise-wide data governance and GRC protocols.

Spearheaded SAP S/4HANA Production Accounting standardization, replacing custom reports with standard PP-PI process orders and automated confirmations to unify accounting.

Eliminated 15+ manual Excel reconciliations and shadow systems by deploying Fiori analytics, reducing month-end close effort by 30%.

Harmonized master data and co-product costing, transitioning from manual spreadsheets to SAP Material Ledger for accurate multi-output cost allocations.

Architected a Fiori-enabled Closing Cockpit, utilizing Manage Process Orders and Material Valuations apps to enable real-time Work-in-Progress (WIP) monitoring.

Orchestrated change management and training, developing role-based process flows and leading virtual workshops to drive sustainable adoption of new SAP systems.

Onboarded drilling, camps, and rentals business into S/4HANA, configuring Production Order settlement in PP-PI and integrating outputs into FI/CO.

Led master- and transactional-data conversions for Business Partners, AP/AR, and GL, achieving 99.5% data accuracy post-go-live.

Developed change requests for GL, Assets, AP, and AR modules to capture attachments and custom-fee structures, reducing post-go-live incidents by 30%.

Conducted status reporting and senior-management escalations, maintaining SLA compliance for critical deliverables.

Spearheaded the successful upgrade from ECC to S4HANA, mitigating impacts on the Finance team during BRIM and FICA transformation.

Managed multi-SI coordination (Accenture, Deloitte, SAP), ensuring timely decisions and risk communication to IT and business stakeholders.

Engineered a redesign of COPA to align seamlessly with BRIM and FICA summarization, ensuring optimal financial processes.

Implemented integration with banks for bank statement (BAI) processing and clearing, enhancing financial reconciliation.

Led resource planning, prioritization, and progress monitoring across the project, ensuring effective communication of risks to senior leadership.

Led phased "Co-Existence" rollout, integrating Nutrien's financial workstreams (GL, AP, AR, Banking, Cash, Lockbox, BPC, CO) with operations across 200+ depots.

Directed a team of 12 consultants (10 onsite, 2 offshore) to standardize procure-to-pay and order-to-cash processes, integrating FI with EWM and SD for end-to-cash visibility.

Co-led end-to-end workshops aligning to SAP Best Practices, effectively communicating risks and mitigation to senior leadership.

Planned resources and monitored progress in a remote model, achieving on-time go-live with less than 2% critical defects.

Led the Finance assessment for S/4HANA implementation, defining technology solutions and required SAP modules.

Facilitated workshops to define the Target Operating Model (TOM) and created a business value case.

Mapped a comprehensive capability roadmap of initiatives to a timeline with prioritization and sequencing.

Accelerated the blueprint phase by documenting key design decisions and pain points/gaps, providing strategy to translate business requirements into technology solutions.

Drove the greenfield implementation from Peoplesoft 9.0 to SAP S/4HANA and FIORI, showcasing key leadership as Solution Architect.

Innovated by implementing automatic payments and bank integration, in-house cash, and netting solutions, significantly optimizing financial operations.

Managed a Finance team of 18 professionals (8 onsite, 10 offshore), guiding the Government of Alberta on new SAP system best practices and reducing customizations.

Implemented 150+ legacy system integrations across 21 different ministries and 2 fiscal years, designing streamlined processes for inter-ministry transactions and legal reports.

Integrated SAP Finance with other systems like PeopleSoft, Concur, Ariba, and Kyriba, and designed data conversion templates for PeopleSoft to SAP Finance data objects.

Drove the implementation of S/4HANA 1605 & FMS 2.2 rollout project, collaborating effectively with cross-functional business and IT teams.

Played a pivotal role in developing Functional Specifications and field mappings, ensuring precise system configuration.

Executed Unit, regression, and System Integration testing scripts, ensuring solution quality and performance.

Conducted comprehensive training sessions for FSCM (CM, DM, & collections management) and supported business during the cutover.

Collaborated with business & IT teams for requirement & impact analysis in SAP, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.

Led the charge on delivering biller direct improvements and integrating SAP with legacy applications, enhancing operational efficiency.

Delivered projects on Agile methodology, writing FSD & configuration documentation, and working with the Technical team to develop reports and interfaces with 3rd party POS solutions.

Served as Lead Solution Architect for finance, recommending and implementing SAP best practices, and integrating SAP with 3rd party and legacy apps.

Successfully convinced customer in a sales meeting, leading to a new client/logo acquisition for the company.

Designed and implemented intercompany STO process to enable shipments from warehouses in US to Canada and vice versa.

Led consulting work across MM, SD, and FI including design, build, test, and cutover, ensuring project success within 3 weeks.

Increased cost savings and improved flexibility by enabling free movement of goods, demonstrating tangible business impact.

Managed business workshops for requirement gathering and conversion of business requirements into SAP design and documentation.

Responsible for implementing SAP for Tommy Hilfiger China, adapting global solutions to local market needs.

Worked with the IT team to understand requirements and map them to US processes, ensuring seamless integration.

Executed Unit testing, regression testing, and System integration testing scripts, ensuring solution quality.

Implemented several new projects for a FMCG client with an annual revenue of over US$ 15 billion, focusing on European trading companies.

Contributed to manufacturing cereals & Pringles projects, enhancing operational efficiency and financial processes.

Worked in a Business Consulting role, improving client business processes and configuring SAP Finance for industry-specific instances based on best practices.

Developed Finance business process maps and established frameworks to quantify transformational benefits to customers.

Prepared Business Blueprints, Realization Documents, and Relevant Configurations, ensuring comprehensive project documentation.

Implemented key SAP ECC 6.0 modules including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Controlling (Cost and Revenue Element, Cost Center, Internal Orders, Profit Center, Profitability Analysis).

Led migration of Master Data and Transactional Data, ensuring seamless integration with other SAP applications and modules (SD, PP, MM).