Vivek Das
Bangalore
Summary
Strategic manager with a strong track record in leading teams to operational excellence and executing projects from inception to completion. Expertise in SAP visualization and planning, resulting in successful project delivery. Proven capability to enhance team performance and optimize processes for improved outcomes.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager
VOIS
08.2024 - Current
- Led a cross-functional team of 20 members in a large-scale digital transformation initiative under the SAP RISE programme for Vodafone.
- Managed end-to-end migration of finance and logistics reports from Celonis to SAP Analytics Cloud, enabling advanced analytics, and reporting capabilities.
- Designed and delivered data models in SAP Datasphere, ensuring seamless integration and optimised performance for reporting layers.
- Executed the migration of over 65 reports across three structured phases, ensuring timely delivery and quality assurance.
- Leveraged SAP Signavio for process mining, analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Developed and managed detailed Milestone Project Plans (MPP) for each phase, tracking progress against timelines and deliverables.
- Conducted daily stand-up meetings to monitor team performance, resolve blockers, and ensure alignment with project goals.
- Provided strategic direction and hands-on support during development phases, proactively addressing risks, and technical challenges.
- Collaborated closely with finance stakeholders to ensure business requirements were accurately translated into scalable reporting solutions.
- Ensured governance, quality control, and adherence to best practices across data modelling, reporting, and migration activities through SAP governance.
- Enabled data-driven decision-making through enhanced visualisation and real-time reporting capabilities.
Assistant Manager
KPMG
04.2019 - 08.2024
- Led the design and delivery of SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Planning solutions and 20+ executive Finance, Manufacturing, Inventory, and Logistics dashboards using S/4HANA as the backend, including interactive landing pages, KPI navigation structures, hierarchies, version-based planning logic, and dynamic cross-calculation features for management reporting.
- Owned SAC Planning components including COGS budgeting, revenue forecasting, financial planning workflows, version seeding, data actions, allocations, datasets, and calendar-driven planning cycles; supported group finance consolidation and reconciliation against imported datasets.
- Coordinated stakeholder discussions, supported UAT cycles, and delivered end-user training sessions to enable adoption of planning dashboards across finance and operations teams.
- Acted as technical lead for enterprise reporting delivery using SAP BO Web Intelligence and Power BI across 22+ plant hierarchy reports.
- Led requirement gathering workshops with business users, managed publishing workflows across multiple output formats, and resolved data mismatches to ensure reporting accuracy and production readiness.
- Coordinated with cross-functional stakeholders to support the rollout and stabilisation of management reporting solutions. Client: Kyndryl.
- Designed and optimised SAC Analytic Applications using live and import models with API-based scripting, rule configuration, data locking strategies, and multi-actions to improve usability and performance of planning and analytics applications.
- Built SAP HANA Calculation Views using projection, aggregation, join, and union nodes; implemented multi-level hierarchies, and managed transport lifecycle supporting Ariba–SAP HANA integration activities.
- Automated manual reporting workflows across SAP Analytics Cloud, Power BI, SAP BW, and MicroStrategy platforms; implemented calculated/restricted columns, variables, hierarchy-based filtering, and FTP-based automated report distribution.
- Provided production support and enhancement delivery by resolving HANA query/report issues, monitoring BW process chains, handling service requests, and coordinating with BASIS teams to ensure SLA compliance, and system stability.
Consultant
Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions
07.2016 - 04.2019
- Designed enterprise dashboards using SAP Lumira Designer and Discovery 2.0, including CFO and Accounts Receivable dashboards enabling credit limit monitoring, receivables tracking, and financial KPI visibility across divisions
- Developed complex SAP BW on HANA queries using CKF and RKF with monthly, weekly, and yearly snapshots; transported BW queries across Dev–QA–Prod environments.
- Migrated legacy Design Studio 1.6 reports to Lumira Designer and performed performance tuning of business-critical Daily Sales reports.
- Developed 40+ analytical reports using SAP BO 4.2 (Web Intelligence), Analysis for Office 2.3, and Design Studio based on BEx queries for global truck sales monitoring
- Built 30+ standard and customized Crystal Reports Enterprise XI reports and implemented advanced reporting features such as master-detail structures, hierarchies, and deviation charts
- Created SAP BODS jobs for extracting historical data from Netezza systems, optimized job performance, handled migrations to production, and resolved job failures through debugging and memory optimization.
- Performed SAP BO administration activities including user provisioning, role assignment, report migrations, and production support; conducted unit testing and created user manuals prior to go-live.
- Worked with SAP BW objects including InfoObjects, InfoCubes, DSOs (Advanced & Classic), Transformations, and DTPs with transport management across system landscapes.
Software Engineer
Wipro
04.2014 - 07.2016
- Managed end-to-end data flow between Informatica workflows, databases, and SAP BusinessObjects (BO) for Pricing (GSE-EO, T&S) reporting applications.
- Administered SAP BO platform via CMC, including user management, security setup, access control for folders, universes, and connections.
- Configured report scheduling, publications, and packages (daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly) based on business requirements.
- Migrated reports and universes across environments; performed BIAR backups and updated universe connections post-migration.
- Enabled Windows AD–based SSO authentication and generated audit reports using Query Builder for monitoring and compliance.
- Provided L2 application support by troubleshooting report failures, resolving incidents within SLA, and performing server housekeeping for performance optimization.
Education
BTECH - CSE
National Institute of Science and Technology
Skills
- SAC Planning
- SAP Analytics Cloud
- Datasphere
- SAP Lumira
- SAP Analysis For Office
- SAP Design Studio
- SAP Crystal Reports
- IDT/UDT
- SAP BO 42
- SAP WEBI
- SAP BW 73
- MS POWER BI
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that the information furnished above is true to the best of my knowledge., Bangalore
Timeline
Manager
VOIS
08.2024 - Current
Assistant Manager
KPMG
04.2019 - 08.2024
Consultant
Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions
07.2016 - 04.2019
Software Engineer
Wipro
04.2014 - 07.2016
BTECH - CSE
National Institute of Science and Technology