Ketan Kale
Director - Finance IT
Pune
Summary
Over 17 years of experience in enterprise applications (PeopleSoft & currently SAP) mainly in procure to pay (P2P), accounts payable (AP) and general ledger space. Extensive experience in Finance IT consulting, driving IT transformations, leading design, development, and delivery of high-quality, user-centric solutions.
Detailed know-how of AP sub processes like invoice data extraction from PDF and ingestion to ERP, payment integrations with payment engines and external banks, book to bank reconciliation.
Expertise in vendor product selection for AP and P2P process through RFP, RFI. Expertise in integrating on-premise IT systems with cloud apps.
Passionate about creating business value through technology.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages
Work History
Director
UBS
04.2025 - Current
- IT owner responsibility of 7 applications in AP space including the main AP system (PeopleSoft), Invoice data extraction app, OBIEE reporting platform, 4 banking portals.
- Cross skill in SAP Finance.
- Support entity migrations.
- Create app decommissioning strategy.
VP Information Technology
Credit Suisse
04.2024 - 03.2025
- Access enablement for CS AP app and banking portals on the new infrastructure.
- IT asset deflation, TCO Optimization.
- Led successful end-to-end application migration from one data center to another, ensuring minimal downtime, data integrity.
- Leading & mentoring team.
AVP (IT Business Analyst)
Credit Suisse
07.2017 - 03.2024
- Accounts payable process transformation.
- Implementing timesheet based invoicing system.
- Implementing employee expense payment process.
- Develop Pain.001 file based interface with external bank.
- Develop a real time payment integration via IBM MQ using Pain.001 format.
- Develop ERP integration with Invoice data extraction cloud app, requisition management cloud app, entitlement store, downstream reporting data hubs.
- Migration of payment messages from MT103 to ISO20022 Pacs.008.
- Supporting internal & external audits.
- IT vendor governance.
Team Lead
Accenture
06.2016 - 06.2017
- Support PeopleSoft FSCM system involving AP, Travel & Expenses, GL modules.
- Leading 7–8 member team. Task allocation and reporting.
- Incident management and app enhancements.
- Coordinate Month/Quarter financial closing activities.
- Support SOX audits.
Sr. Consultant - ERP
Cognizant
02.2011 - 06.2016
- Develop real time integrations between PS FSCM and PS HR.
- SLA based support to the PS FSCM app involving Purchasing, Accounts Payable, Inventory, Project Costing, Treasury and Expense modules.
- PeopleSoft FSCM upgrades.
Senior Software Engineer
Hexaware Technologies
09.2007 - 01.2011
- Extensive experience in supporting and enhancing PeopleSoft CRM, Campus Solutions and Finance applications.
- Onsite-offshore co-ordination to build and support quality products.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Telecommunications
University of Mumbai
New Mumbai 09.2003 - 06.2007
Skills
- Accounts Payable
- Purchasing
- Supplier Data Management
- General Ledger
- Travel & Expense
- Inventory Management
- Asset Management
- PeopleTools
- Cloud Integration
- Power BI
- Power Automate
- Power App
Accomplishments
- ERP integration with invoice data extraction, requisition management cloud apps.
- Implement timesheet based self-invoicing system.
- Drive large scale business process transformations.
- Building trust, stakeholder management and business collaboration.
Hobbies & Interests
- Learn and play Sitar
- Badminton, running, sports
Timeline
Director
UBS
04.2025 - Current
VP Information Technology
Credit Suisse
04.2024 - 03.2025
AVP (IT Business Analyst)
Credit Suisse
07.2017 - 03.2024
Team Lead
Accenture
06.2016 - 06.2017
Sr. Consultant - ERP
Cognizant
02.2011 - 06.2016
Senior Software Engineer
Hexaware Technologies
09.2007 - 01.2011
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Telecommunications
University of Mumbai
09.2003 - 06.2007
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