Venugopal Nair
Pune
Summary
Seasoned Sr Platform Product Owner with a proven track record at Maersk Global Service Centres, specializing in S4 HANA Finance and Business Leadership. Excelled in transforming finance and tax processes, enhancing stakeholder relationships, and leading data migration with a focus on efficiency and innovation. Demonstrates exceptional problem-solving and product backlog management skills.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr Platform Product Owner, Order to Cash and Data Migration Lead
Maersk Global Service Centres (India) Pvt. Ltd.
01.2023 - Current
- As a part of enterprise wide finance transformation, deploy best in breed finance and tax solutions for order to cash processes powered by S4 HANA capabilties
- Enable the migration from legacy environments and processes to S4 HANA
Platform Product Owner - Accounting to Reporting
Maersk Global Service Centres (India) Pvt. Ltd.
09.2020 - 01.2023
- Implementation of S4 HANA as a part of enterprise wide transformation of finance and tax processes with a specific focus on Accounting and Reporting taxonomies incl revenue recognition
HQ Accounting & Controlling Lead
A.P. Moller - Maersk
10.2014 - 09.2020
- Accounting and Controlling of Fixed and SGA costs for Ocean Segment within Maersk Group
- Enabling transformation of the function via digital initiatives
Senior Process Manager
A.P. Moller - Maersk
01.2013 - 10.2014
- Define & implement New General Ledger aimed at ensuring financial transparency
- Ensure compliance to a 6 working day closing process
- Separate local GAP and APMM GAP reporting
- Enable an organizational structure to support implementation of access and process controls
- Implement, govern and stabilize the process of financial sign off in the principal entity
Senior Process Manager
Maersk Line A/S
07.2009 - 12.2012
- Business Process Owner for Accounting to Reporting processes that included Financial Accounting, Reporting, Controlling, Travel Expense Management, Budgeting and Consolidation
- Process Audits and Business process reviews via remote checks etc
- Formulated the key control elements and measures leading to a control dashboard
- Assessment studies with SAP and other external vendors towards performance benchmarks on finance metrics
Process and Business Development Manager
Maersk Line A/S
09.2006 - 06.2009
- Business Blueprinting, GAP Analysis and sign off on the to-be process in relation to global deployment of SAP
- Ensuring organization readiness namely service centers readiness towards adapting SAP
- Single Point of Contact between local, center and back office users for escalations, improvements etc
Team Leader
A.P. Moller - Maersk
01.2005 - 08.2006
- Transition, execute and stabilize accounts payable, accounts receivables, bank and balance sheet reconciliation processes
- Rundown of P&O Nedlloyd Financials for North America
Process Specialist
P & O Nedlloyd It Services Private Limited
Pune
09.2002 - 12.2004
- Finance operational activities incl processing of Accounts Payables and document archival
Education
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) - Business Administration and Management, General
Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce
01.2001
B Com - Commerce
Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce
01.2001
Bachelors in Commerce -
Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce
01.2001
Skills
- Business Leadership
- ECC & S4 HANA Finance
- Roadmap development
- Data-driven decision making
- Product backlog management
- Stakeholder relationship management
- Product issue resolution
- Design thinking
- Problem resolutions
- Feature prioritization
- IFRS Accounting and Reporting
- Cost and Revenue Controlling
Accomplishments
- STAR AWARDS recognising various deliverables in Maersk
Timeline
Sr Platform Product Owner, Order to Cash and Data Migration Lead
Maersk Global Service Centres (India) Pvt. Ltd.
01.2023 - Current
Platform Product Owner - Accounting to Reporting
Maersk Global Service Centres (India) Pvt. Ltd.
09.2020 - 01.2023
HQ Accounting & Controlling Lead
A.P. Moller - Maersk
10.2014 - 09.2020
Senior Process Manager
A.P. Moller - Maersk
01.2013 - 10.2014
Senior Process Manager
Maersk Line A/S
07.2009 - 12.2012
Process and Business Development Manager
Maersk Line A/S
09.2006 - 06.2009
Team Leader
A.P. Moller - Maersk
01.2005 - 08.2006
Process Specialist
P & O Nedlloyd It Services Private Limited
09.2002 - 12.2004
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) - Business Administration and Management, General
Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce
B Com - Commerce
Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce
Bachelors in Commerce -
Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce
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