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Prasenjit Dasgupta

Prasenjit Dasgupta

Passionate IT professional
Kolkata

Summary

I'm a passionate IT professional willing to help clients in their digital transformation journey. I have around 20 years of IT experience including around 14 years in SAP FICO. I strongly believe the IT world is extremely progressive and to maintain the pace of our career we continually need to upskill & cross skill our selves along with applying and innovating. Driving on the same path I started with Mainframes, moved to SAP and now gradually entering the realm of Artificial intelligence.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certifications

Work History

Managing Consultant

IBM
Kolkata
08.2021 - Current

Client - Cencora formerly known as Amerisourcebergen Inc.

Skill - SAP FICO, SAP PS, SAP PAPM(up coming)

Roles - Finance portfolio manager

Responsibilities:

  • Provide incident management support for business areas like Corporate Finance, AP, AR, Profitability Analysis.
  • Participate in designing small, medium & large enhancements using standard SAP or custom WRICEF solutions.
  • Taking care of People management responsibility by mentoring and guiding direct reports having mix of different experience level, taking care of their evaluation, career progress and maintaining team performance metrics.
  • Participate in continuous innovation to bring financial or performance improvement for both IBM & clients.
  • Drove revenue growth by identifying new business opportunities and expanding existing client engagements.
  • Managed high-stakes negotiations with stakeholders, securing favorable outcomes for all parties involved.
  • Cultivated strong relationships with clients, earning trust and establishing credibility as strategic partner.
  • Participating in RFPs
  • Co-ordination in readiness and preparation phase for S4 HANA implementation.

Managing Consultant

IBM
Kolkata
10.2021 - 01.2024

Client - IBM Talent Acquisition Team & SAP RTR Service line
Skill - SAP FICO S4 HANA
Roles - Interview panel in both technical & PDM round
Responsibilities:

  • Evaluate external candidates considering their technical capabilities, professional attitude, corporate communication.
  • Making decision on fitment of external candidates in terms of band, project requirement, location.

Managing Consultant

IBM
Kolkata
06.2022 - 04.2023

Client - Alliance Health - a subsidiary of Cencora
Skill - SAP FICO S4 HANA
Roles - Technical transition manager
Responsibilities:

  • SAP S4 HANA was implemented by a competitor company. There were several defects and business discomfort before the go live.
  • We were brought in picture to understand the current situation add value in resolving the defects.
  • I with my team expedited closure of defects and gained tremendous confidence from the client.
  • We also found design gaps and implemented solutions to mitigate those.
  • AMS support was offered to IBM due to our prompt and sound effort in making the go live successful in spite of so many issues.

Senior Advisory Consultant

IBM
Kolkata
07.2015 - 08.2021

Client - Amerisourcebergen Inc.

Skill - SAP FICO

Roles - Team Lead

Responsibilities:

  • Provide incident management support for business areas like Corporate Finance, AP, AR, Profitability Analysis.
  • Participate in designing small, medium & large enhancements using standard SAP or custom WRICEF solutions.
  • Participated from blue print to cut over in implementing SAP ECC 6 for the Big 4 Amerisourcebergen distribution companies.
  • Mentored junior consultants to improve their skills and enhance overall team performance levels within the organization.
  • Built strong relationships with key stakeholders through effective communication and collaboration, fostering trust and confidence in advisory services.

Senior Advisory Consultant

IBM
Kolkata
01.2018 - 03.2020

Client - IBM pre-sales
Skill - SAP FICO S4 HANA
Roles - Solution Architect
Responsibilities:

  • Participating in S4 HANA impact assessment from Finance perspective.
  • Due diligence of solution done by competitors.
  • Understanding business process, proposing SAP products, proposing estimation in terms of band mixture & effort and related documentation.

Senior Advisory Consultant

IBM
Kolkata
01.2018 - 12.2018

Client - IBM US Geo
Skill - Project Management
Roles - Scrum master, Designer
Responsibilities:

  • IBM US Geo funded this project to build a state of the art cloud native project management tool to bring factory like delivery model in IT support service.
  • I have participated in requirement gathering, designing & as a scrum master during the design & development phase.

Senior Advisory Consultant

IBM
Kolkata
01.2016 - 11.2017

Client - Clearwater Seafoods Ltd
Skill - SAP FICO
Roles - Team Lead
Responsibilities:

  • Provide incident management support for business areas like Corporate Finance, AP, AR, Profitability Analysis.
  • Participate in designing small, medium & large enhancements using standard SAP or custom WRICEF solutions.
  • Nurtured long-term relationships with clients, establishing trust through consistent delivery of exceptional results.

Senior Advisory Consultant

IBM
Ahmedabad
02.2015 - 12.2015

Client - Adani.

Skill - SAP Disclosure Management

Roles - Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

Participate from requirement gathering workshop at client location, blue print to realization phase in implementing SAP Disclosure Management to efficiently manage the final step of financial close – from preparing and publishing financial statements and XBRL reports, ensuring compliance reporting as per IGAAP & companies act. standard.

Advisory Consultant SAP FICO

IBM
Kolkata
07.2010 - 06.2015

Client - Amerisourcebergen Inc.
Skill - SAP FICO
Roles - Team Lead
Responsibilities:

  • Provide incident management support for business areas like Corporate Finance, Profitability Analysis.
  • Participate in designing small, medium & large enhancements using standard SAP or custom WRICEF solutions.
  • Nurtured long-term relationships with clients, establishing trust through consistent delivery of exceptional results.
  • Spearheaded initiatives to improve internal team collaboration, ultimately enhancing overall service quality provided to clients.

Advisory Consultant

IBM
Kolkata
03.2013 - 04.2015

Client - World Courier - Amerisourcebergen Inc.
Skill - SAP FICO
Roles - Team Lead
Responsibilities:

  • Participated in implementing SAP ECC 6 for World Courier specialized in clinical logistics spread across 52 countries.
  • Contributed from blue print phase to cutover phase.
  • Contributed in implementing few localization solutions.

Advisory Consultant

IBM
Kolkata
04.2014 - 03.2015

Client - Cement Roadstone Holdings
Skill - SAP FICO
Roles - Team Lead
Responsibilities:

  • Provide incident management support for business areas like Corporate Finance, AP, AR, Analytics.
  • Participate in designing small, medium & large enhancements using standard SAP or custom WRICEF solutions.
  • Nurtured long-term relationships with clients, establishing trust through consistent delivery of exceptional results.

Senior System Engineer

IBM
Kolkata
09.2009 - 07.2010

Client - Amerisourcebergen Inc
Skill - Mainframe COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, programs
Roles - Module Lead
Responsibilities:

  • Provided technical support by troubleshooting and resolving software-related issues efficiently covering business areas like Customer catalogue management.
  • Participate in design, development & testing activities for creating interface from legacy end during implementation of SAP.
  • Due to good performance I was awarded an opportunity to learn SAP FICO and complete a pilot project IBM SAP Fastrack as a stretch assignment and eventually be part of the SAP FICO support team.

Senior System Engineer

IBM
Kolkata
11.2005 - 07.2009

Client - Danish Supermarket Group(Maersk)
Skill - Mainframe Natural & Adabas programming, Applinix
Roles - Team Lead

Responsibilities:

  • Provided technical support for production issues and small and large enhancements covering business areas - Corporate Finance AR & AP and Retail supply chain.
  • Participate in design, development & testing activities for creating interface from legacy end during implementation of SAP IS Retail.
  • Provide Onsite(Aarhus,Denmark) support as a lead during cut over.
  • Design and build automation process using Applinix to re-use complex retail legacy applications using webservice call from SAP front end.

Application Programmer

Syntel Inc.
Mumbai
12.2003 - 11.2005

Client - Humana Inc.

Skill - Mainframe COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, Easytrieve programs

Roles - Team member

Responsibilities:

  • Provided technical support by troubleshooting and resolving software-related issues efficiently.
  • Conducted thorough testing of developed applications to ensure optimal functionality before deployment.
  • Streamlined application processes for improved user experience and functionality.
  • Delivered training sessions for end-users and colleagues on using newly developed applications effectively maximizing productivity and minimizing downtime.

Education

B. Tech. (Kalyani University) - Electrical Engineering

B.P. Poddar Institute of Management & Technology
Kolkata, India
06.1999 - 05.2003

Skills

SAP FICO

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Certification

SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP Simple Finance On Premise Edition 1503

Timeline

SAP Profitability and Performance Management Cloud

03-2024

Generative AI at SAP

03-2024

IBM watsonx Essentials

02-2024

IBM Watsonx.ai Sales Foundation

02-2024

Managing Consultant

IBM
06.2022 - 04.2023

Managing Consultant

IBM
10.2021 - 01.2024

Managing Consultant

IBM
08.2021 - Current

IBM Consumer Products Insights and Solutions (Silver Badge)

05-2021

Senior Advisory Consultant

IBM
01.2018 - 03.2020

Senior Advisory Consultant

IBM
01.2018 - 12.2018

SAP Certified Application Professional - Financials in SAP S/4HANA for SAP ERP Finance Experts 1610

12-2017

SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP Simple Finance On Premise Edition 1503

12-2016

Senior Advisory Consultant

IBM
01.2016 - 11.2017

Senior Advisory Consultant

IBM
07.2015 - 08.2021

Senior Advisory Consultant

IBM
02.2015 - 12.2015

Advisory Consultant

IBM
04.2014 - 03.2015

Advisory Consultant

IBM
03.2013 - 04.2015

Advisory Consultant SAP FICO

IBM
07.2010 - 06.2015

Senior System Engineer

IBM
09.2009 - 07.2010

Senior System Engineer

IBM
11.2005 - 07.2009

Application Programmer

Syntel Inc.
12.2003 - 11.2005

B. Tech. (Kalyani University) - Electrical Engineering

B.P. Poddar Institute of Management & Technology
06.1999 - 05.2003
Prasenjit DasguptaPassionate IT professional