Vikram Chaudhary

Mergers and Acquisitions.

• Managed large-scale ERP and non-ERP projects as part of the company’s divestment strategy.
• Responsible for planning and executing the As-Is and To-Be state IT workshops for the acquired entity, ensuring seamless integration with the Novartis landscape.
• Define As-Is vs To-Be functional disposition plans for applications, data sources, and infrastructure.
• Responsible for the transfer of application data to active Novartis, as applicable.
• Responsible for data archival (P&O, FRA, Procurement, Treasury, BPA/FP&A, Legal, ERC, Tax, and funds flow), open PO migration (if required), P&O access management, and SAP legal entity set-up.
• Confirm data segregation requirements for structured and unstructured data.
• Leading the projects and large enhancements for the legal entity set-up of the acquired company in ECC or S/4 HANA.

• Managed a large and strategic transformation project in Finance (P2P) including user onboarding, country transitions, operations management etc.
• Responsible for External Capability Integration (ECI) scope, engagement and management – instilling operational improvements through extensive training & user education, feedback loop and identifying optimization areas across processes, demand planning, Super User community setup and management.
• Extensive internal and external stakeholder management through governance model, communication channels set up.
• Monitored IT services and system solutions delivered to business as per the agreed requirement and deadlines.
• IT point of contact for business and external vendors for process specific business requirements, infrastructure operations etc.

• Planned and managed processes for team across inception, estimation, planning & scheduling, execution, monitoring & control, implementation and transition to operations/support teams.
• Provide steer to process and solution design discussions and decisions from to the Global Change Advisory a design box perspective.
• Accountable for ensuring quality execution in the delivery of services and solution to drive satisfaction in the Customer Partner Experience.
• Configuration, customization, implementation and testing of system design in SAP VIM (Vendor Invoice Management) application area.
• Involved in requirements' gathering, preparation of functional specifications, configurations’ document and exhaustive system logic test and regression test scenarios.
• Managed Hypercare period with different stakeholders to ensure steady state system post applications deployment.
• Intrinsically involved in fit-gap capture process, analysis of the captured gaps Infosys for performance to ascertain impacts and exceptions, business process modeling and effort excellence for two estimation.

• Involved from pre-project phase in engagement discussions with country / cluster key users, being the ambassador for introducing the new GSM, the system and adjusted ways of working.
• Led fit-gap workshops with key users in preparation of project implementation while clearly communicating global design principles.
• This role entailed extensive engagement with users, managing local requirements along with ensuring proposed local functional solution and designs are within prescribed governance.
• Built the vision, mission and roadmap for the Application Service Management team as part of team transformation process.
• Formulated Level 1, Level 2 and level 3 milestones and tasks for all streams involved in delivery of the project.
• Managed critical path relevant tasks with 95% success rate of tasks being delivered within stated timelines.
• Managed project delays with in-time cross-functional strategic meetings ensuring no cascading of delay on future goals and milestones.
• Training and mentorship responsibilities for growing expertise within the team in end to end support process project.
• SPOC for end-to-end VIM related enhancements and issues.
• Hands-on experience in preparing and uploading test data/scripts on HPQC followed with execution of the same and managing defects encountered during test phase.
• Led Proposals, New Business Development Opportunities to help grow the account.
• Coordinated between business / client technology users, end business users while managing overall effective work within team members.
• Ambassador for change and solution design, accountable for validating all fit-gap results and change requests, to enable designing clear and specific functional solutions.

• Managed working capital funding product 'Factoring for SME clients' in line with prescribed policies and procedures, while goals and objectives are accomplished efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluated client scoping with desired revenue earning potential and built referral network while adhering to the guidelines and Know Your Client (KYC) requirements.

• Involved in recruitment process from screening to conducting interviews and making selections.
• Expanded company's product reach using extensive research and statistical techniques.
• Involved in the assessment of marketing opportunities, determining target markets, gathering customer as well as competitor's insights, follow up sales activity and formal proposal making.

• Analyzed and planned collections' process of Personal Loans at Jaipur Branch.
• Conducted risk analysis pertaining to existing clients by considering key financial figures.
• Designed and orchestrated trainings to collection agents, agency owners and managers resulting in decreased recovery cycle time while fastening existing collection processes.