SONALI RAY CHAUDHURY

• Experience in managing and leading a team of consultants specializing in Procurement Advisory in my latest role as a Manager in KPMG.
• Experience as a Solution Architect in implementing Coupa across all S2P modules including SIM, RPMA and CLMA.
• Led the end-to-end system configuration for design playbacks and played it back to the client for design sign-off
• Prepared key strategic documents such as the overall Project Plan, Testing Strategy, Cutover Strategy and Hypercare Strategy for an engagement
• Experience in leading the UAT workstream across test scripts development, system build, unit testing and defect management
• Prepared the Cutover Strategy, led the Cutover build and finally the Smoke testing
• Managed and authored key project deliverables - the Business Process Document and Configuration Document
• Experience in leading the Change Management process including the Coupa Admin training and Train the Trainor (TTT).
• Experience in designing and implementing 2 Sirion Labs engagements – one with UK and another with US.
• Experience as a Test Lead for an Ariba engagement in the S2C modules for a global client
• Led Discovery sessions to conduct in-depth analysis of client operations, identifying key challenges, providing strategic insights and tailoring high quality solutions.
• Proficient in Coupa Release Management - perform impact assessment, new features testing, regression testing using both manual and automation approach and finally publishing our recommendations to key stakeholders.

Firm Contributions:

• Collaborated with the Talent Acquisition team to streamline job requisitions, screened and interviewed 100+ candidates, hired and onboarded them in the Procurement Advisory practice. Responsible for their staffing, project allocation/de-allocation, training and development, crosskilling/upskilling, performance management, feedback, compliance and growth.
• Won 2+ projects for the Procurement Advisory Practice, by performing Techno-commercial assessment in Business Proposal (RFP/RFQ) Life Cycle, having Orals with the Clients and preparing the commercial bids to finalize the win. Coordinated with the stakeholders to draft and finalize the SOWs before the Projects started.
• Leading the KPMG Powered Procurement practice (Coupa) as a Coupa SME. Leading the Automation workstream to automate test scripts using Opkey technology for Regression testing. Led the team to develop basic test scripts for new release features testing and impact assessment using KPMG's GenAI tools. Responsible for maintenance of more than 500 global assets which are refreshed thrice a year during each release cycle.

Awards and other achievements:

• 1 time KPMG Above and Beyond Award
• 1 time KPMG Super Employee
• 1 time KPMG Encore Award
• 1 time KPMG Kudos Award

• Worked as a SCM Functional Consultant in multiple functional modules in the Procure-to-Pay track (Direct and Indirect Procurement, Accounts Payables), in the Order-to-Cash track (Order Management, Receivables), and CPQ in Oracle E-business and Oracle ERP Cloud
• Responsible for Leading Workshops and Functional Configurations, Configuring Process Flow Workbooks, providing value based, robust Business Solutions to empowers organizations to drive greater efficiencies, making data-driven decisions, fostering better collaboration with suppliers.
• Facilitated Requirement Gathering phase by streamlining Module specific Project Scope Generation and “As-Is” v/s “To-Be” process analysis.
• Proficient in AIM methodology.

Firm Initiatives:

• As a core member of the LnD (Learning & Development) Team, helped achieve the firm’s goal of achieving 600 Oracle Cloud certified practitioners by incentivizing Cloud Learning and Certifications, brought to fruition by holding a service line wide competition
• Engaged in implementing a POC on RPA (Robotic Process Automation) in the Oracle Cloud Procurement module using the UI Path Automation Tool

Awards and other achievements:

• Received multiple “Applause” and “Spot” awards due to my contribution to projects and firm initiatives
• Achieved Industry Proficiency in Consumer and Industrial Products, Retail, Wholesale and Distribution & Technology

• Worked as a Techno-functional consultant in Oracle Retail Solutions, providing support in Oracle Retail Solutions Packages in Merchandising, Forecasting and Predictive Apps and POS systems
• Transactional data reconciliation & migration from client legacy systems to (Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server) RPAS
• Managed and lead a team of 4 for a Dubai based retailer, helping the client to grow its business by assisting in rollouts in 12 countries
• Process enhancements and automations to increase the efficiency by means of daily and weekly custom reports and email notifications

Awards and other achievements:

• Awarded the “ES Prodigy” and “The Apprentice” award in Retail Enterprises Services for exceptional contribution to towards the Oracle Retail ES Niche Packages
• Learnt basic Mexican Spanish for an engagement