RAMACHANDRARAO BALA

Chartered Accountant & SAP Implementation Expert
BALA RAMACHANDRA RAO (Bala)

Chartered Accountant & SAP Implementation Expert Key Contributor to Operational Excellence and Organizational Objectives, by Developing & Implementing continuous improvement measures. Country Roll-out Manager for SAP S/4H implementation in a highly complex business environment, involving regular interactions with Senior Leadership forums of an Organization of Repute

Profile Summary

  • Certified Activate Project Manager offering 27 year of experience in Project Management, SAP FICO Implementation, Consultancy Services, Solution Architect, Finance, Accounts, Management, Audit, and Taxation
  • Expertise in managing end-to-end implementation of SAP projects; formulated business process scope and objectives for the SAP system; analysed and evaluated existing systems, proposed solutions and procedure changes; steered efforts in driving 8 end-to-end SAP implementations and 5 Production support /Development
  • Exhibited leadership skills in project planning, scheduling, prioritization, contingency, work assignments and definition of scope for enterprise information systems projects; spearheaded large-scale project management worth INR 60 Crores
  • Rich experience in SAP-FICO pre-implementation, implementation and functions right from requirement mapping, documentation, scoping, costing, gap analysis, application development, testing till post implementation support
  • Maintained close coordination with top management/ stakeholders for managing issue resolution, sharing of status reports and ensuring the overall project activities were within set parameters
  • Expert domain knowledge in FI modules such as General Ledger, AP/AR, Asset Management, and Bank Accounting along with CO Modules including CO Overhead Management, Profit Center Accounting, Profitability Analysis, and Product Costing (Including Material Ledger); strong understanding of SAP S/4 HANA Simple Finance
  • Played a key role in the global roll out & implementation of SAP Modules and drove the implementation across South Korea, Iran, and India
  • Streamlined various processes and optimized the processing time resulting in improving the efficiency & productivity by 20-30% along with reducing cost by 30%
  • Impeccable record of leading high-performance team of 120 individuals towards accomplishment of common goals and managing multiple stakeholders across leadership & engagements
Last Resume Update March 20, 2023
Address CHENNAI, India
E-mail brcrao.bala@gmail.com
Phone Number 8056127925

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