varsha Shrikhande
Thought Leader in CFO & Enterprise Value Function
Mumbai
Summary
Service Delivery Manager
Competency Leader for CO & SEM
SAP Consultant for FICO, Business Intelligence & SEM
Has proven track record and business experience in the Logistics, Financials & System Integration in implementing & supporting ERP packages like MAPICS on AS/400 & SAP environment
Overview
35
35
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications
1
1
Language
Work History
Portfolio Leader for SAP Finance
Accenture
05.2007 - Current
As a CFO&EV Functions Managing Director for Accenture for last 7 years (out of overall 17 years with Accenture ) :
From 2007 to 2024 I have been creating and growing the various Practices. I envisioned what my clients would want, evaluated gaps, set my own targets, strategized and implemented talent creation plans at tacticle level, typically achieving 1st Ramp Up for each of the below practices within a duration of one year. I then institutionalized the process to scale up is following years :
· S/4HANA Supply Chain and Finance - up-skilled 800 (average increment of 1000 every successive year)
· S/4HANA Central Finance - up-skilled 200 (average increment of 50 every successive year)
· SAP Business Planning & Consolidation - from scratch to 150
· SAP Product costing and COPA from 10 to 100 (average increment of 80 every successive years)
· Sustainability Measurement , Analytics Reporting using a blend of multiple vendors’ solutions - from scratch to 70
· CFO & Enterprise Value Function Process architects - upskilled 25
Practice Builder
Accenture
05.2007 - Current
As a CFO&EV Functions Managing Director for Accenture for last 7 years (out of overall 17 years with Accenture ) :
From 2007 to 2024 I have been creating and growing the various Practices. I envisioned what my clients would want, evaluated gaps, set my own targets, strategized and implemented talent creation plans at tacticle level, typically achieving 1st Ramp Up for each of the below practices within a duration of one year. I then institutionalized the process to scale up is following years :
· S/4HANA Supply Chain and Finance - up-skilled 800 (average increment of 1000 every successive year)
· S/4HANA Central Finance - up-skilled 200 (average increment of 50 every successive year)
· SAP Business Planning & Consolidation - from scratch to 150
· SAP Product costing and COPA from 10 to 100 (average increment of 80 every successive years)
· Sustainability Measurement , Analytics Reporting using a blend of multiple vendors’ solutions - from scratch to 70
· CFO & Enterprise Value Function Process architects - upskilled 25
Senior Service Delivery, Project Manager
Atos Origin Information Technology
06.1999 - 04.2007
During the stint of 7 years with Atos Origin I delivered various SAP Finance based projects , predominantly for Proctor & Gamble, Philips and ASML
·· Delivered special projects in SAP Finance space – an example- Business Consultant for Implementing Inflation Accounting Solution for Assets worked with P&G Turkey local Finance General Manager, Global IT, HP project Management, SAP, Deloitte Tax Consultants, ICC Consultants to implement a high impact solution on SAP to make P&G Turkey’s Asset Accounting System legally compliant as per Turkish Law 5025
· SAP Transition Manager for transitioning the knowledge from Philips as well as P&G Global Support to Atos, India for various projects, led a team and was responsible for day to day deliveries
· Presales & Imparting Training for ASML , P&G
Cost Accountant
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Tractor Division)
12.1989 - 07.1992
- Responsible for Tractor Costing MIS Inventory Accounting Special Project: Cost of (Poor) Quality, Inflation Accounting
Skills
Project Management
Transition Management
Service Management (ITIL)
Pre Sales & Solution Architecting
Catalyst for Process Improvement
Problem solving
Leading and developing skills
Sapexperience
- Atos Origin India Pvt. Ltd, Implemented an integrated BPS with R/3 and CPM for a selected scenario in AOI for piloting. The following features were implemented: Profit Centre Hierarchy and detailed planning on R/3 Extraction of profit centre hierarchies to BPS Data modelling of info cubes Planning layouts, functions & formulae Automated Planning Sequences Balance Score Card Management Cockpit Have been developing SEM competencies and architecting solutions around SEM since July 06 till date
- Philips Luminaries, Philips Lamps, Philips DAP, ASML, Delivery Manager, Transition Manager & FICO super consultant Over and above leading the team of 19 consultants for day-to-day operations, achieved the following targets with her innovative approach: Expanded the team with 100% retention Pooled resources to serve 4 customers thru cross training Achieved better utilization of resources Lowered cost of operations without affecting service level by changing K-level and grade mix Reduced hours per ticket from 8 hours to 6 hours Increased knowledge level of the team in critical support areas with continuous learning plan Brought in new dimension skills in the team like CRM, APO, BW and SEM to serve the customers
- Proctor & Gamble COPA- QFAST Enhancement Project, CO-PA consultant SAP CO-PA Consultant for performance tuning in CO-PA & Extending QFAST Business Planning solution to WELLA business in Western Europe worked with P&G, HP, SAP, Rbase consultants and business users and implemented simple solutions which brought about dramatic performance improvement Changed the reporting structure by convincing the business users to see reports with proper selection criteria & navigation Developed most appropriate secondary indices on database tables Trained users to run report with 'frozen data' and run reports in the background Suggested Oracle DBA for partitioning tables, upgrade of Oracle version, increasing roll back segment size Implemented concept of pre summarization for reports
- Whirlpool Transition Management Project
- PSC GAMBA Transition Management Project
- Proctor & Gamble Turkey Inflation Accounting for Legal Compliance, Business Consultant for Implementing Inflation Accounting Solution for Assets worked with P&G Turkey local Finance General Manager, Global IT, HP project Management, SAP, Deloitte Tax Consultants, ICC Consultants to implement a high impact solution on SAP to make P&G Turkey's Asset Accounting System legally compliant as per Turkish Law 5025
- Proctor & Gamble Application Management, Delivery Manager
- Proctor & Gamble COPA- QFAST Application Management, Transition Manager Varsha transitioned the knowledge from P&G Global Support to Atos, India She led a team and was responsible for day to day deliveries Presales & Imparting Training
- Atos Origin India Pvt. Ltd, Project Leader for Web projects Rabo Bank
- Datamatics Ltd., Responsible for Pre- sales for AS400 bespoke projects space
- Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Tractor Division), Cost Accountant for Farm Equipment Sector Responsible for Tractor Costing MIS Inventory Accounting Special Project: Cost of (Poor) Quality, Inflation Accounting
- Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Automotive Division, EDP department), Vendor Aid System Labour & Overhead Calculation System Quantitative Reconciliation of closing inventories & material consumption Bought Out Components costing , Assembly Costing, Finished Product Costing Variances / Reporting, MIS
- National Dairy Development Board, Assistant Manager for Project Accounting for some of Dairy and Operation Golden Flow projects
- Elite Management Constancy, Costing Trainee in Pharmaceutical companies
Certification
SAP R/3 FI/CO 4.6B
Experiencespecialization
- 16+ years in industry
- Business Consulting
- Business Process Mapping
- Functional Design and Technical Specification
- Interface development & Implementation
- Application Implementation & Management
- Training client staff and consultants
Industryexperience
- Pharmaceutical
- Automotive
- FMCG
Personal Qualifications
- Bachelor of Commerce, Bombay University
- Associate Member of Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India
Timeline
Portfolio Leader for SAP Finance
Accenture
05.2007 - Current
Practice Builder
Accenture
05.2007 - Current
Senior Service Delivery, Project Manager
Atos Origin Information Technology
06.1999 - 04.2007
Cost Accountant
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Tractor Division)
12.1989 - 07.1992
SAP R/3 FI/CO 4.6B
SAP Net weaver Business Intelligence
MySAP Financials : (SEM) Strategic Enterprise Management
Exams Held by APICS – CPIM : SCM Master Planning of Resources, Detail Scheduling & Planning, Execution & Control
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