Summary:

• Experienced consultant with deep expertise in Commodity Trading and Risk Management (CTRM/ETRM) and SAP modules, including TSW and Pricing. Proven track record in implementing, integrating, and optimizing SAP solutions for trading operations, enhancing efficiency and risk control.

Professional Experience:

Contract assignments

Duration: Since Apr 2021 to Present

Designation: Senior Consultant

Role & Responsibilities:

• Very good knowledge and expertise in CTRM domains, having worked on multiple asset classes/products such as Metals, Energy, and Ags/Softs.
• Ecopetrol for Colombia (project STORM) and Singapore implementations for the SAP Commodity Management solution.
• Understood the client's Business Processes, System Landscape, and specific Business requirements, and completed the As-is/To-Be Business process mapping
• Knowledge and experience in finding enhancement points, good knowledge in BTP
• Worked on CPE (Commodity Pricing Engines) to define Pricing formulas for different conditions and QPs (Quotation Periods), Exchange rates, Absolute or percentage, etc.
• Led multiple Business requirements and Solution workshops with the client users and received sign-offs on the key milestone documents (Solution Design, Functional Specifications document, etc)
• Contributed to the configuration of the SAP CTRM solution on both the Physical (Deals, Contracts, Pricing, Logistics Nominations, TSW, Invoicing, and their complete lifecycle) and Financial side (Futures, Forwards, Swaps, Options, and their complete lifecycle)
• Conducted multiple client workshops, Product demonstrations, and S&T (Show and Tell sessions) with client users for different use-cases/scenarios during project implementation
• Defined UAT scenarios, working with client users, and completed their successful execution, and received Business sign-offs
• Worked collaboratively with team members based out of multiple geographies (LATAM, Europe, Asia) to achieve the planned objectives throughout the project
• UAT scenarios execution covered standard Physical and Risk reports, such as MtM End of Day Query and Commodity Position Report, and development/testing of Custom reports such as Trader’s P&L and WhatIfPnL reports for both Physical and Paper (Financial) Deals
• Testing and verification of UAT scenarios covering Physical lifecycle and Financial/Paper lifecycles (Futures, Forwards, OTC Options, OTC Asian Options, Swaps) for Ecopetrol scenarios.
• Contribution to Hedge Accounting solution (Prospective and Retrospective for both Tactical and Strategic) development and testing.
• Ecopetrol Colombia and Singapore CTRM Go-Lives were completed on time within budget and timelines as planned.
• Very good knowledge of SD, MM, and pricing scenarios.
• Implementation of S4HANA version 1809 and upgrade to version 1909.
• Techno/Functional Senior SAP CTRM Consultant at Alcast for SAP Commodity Management Solution.
• Defined UAT scenarios, working with client users, and completed their successful execution, and received Business sign-offs.
• Testing and verification of UAT scenarios covering Financial/Paper lifecycles (Futures, Forwards, OTC Options, OTC Asian Options, Swaps) for client scenarios.
• Worked on CPE (Commodity Pricing Engines) to define Pricing formulas for different conditions and QPs (Quotation Periods).

Eka Software Solutions (eka1.com)

Duration: Sep 2010 - Apr 2021

Designation: Delivery Manager

Role & Responsibilities:

• Led and managed multiple customer implementations, including Program Management and P&L, ensuring project success and internal project margins are met.
• Key customer implementations at Louis Dreyfus, Boliden, CJ International, GrainCorp, BIV, Sierentz, ArrowMetals, Inashco,etc. for Ags/Metals/Coffee commodities.
• Overall Leadership to different Program and Project Managers on running the programs, and Budget and Operating Margins management. Handling and managing client escalations and turning them into Business opportunities.
• Led and managed End-to-End implementations from Contract Signing to various project activities (Consulting workshops, Master data/Transaction data, User Acceptance Testing, Transaction Data migration) to Go-Live.
• Led and managed multiple Consulting workshops and provided Functional and Technical solutions. Developed End-to-end technical architectures and data/process flows. Led the Technical teams for scoping and solving across different Business units and Functional areas.
• Contributed, managed, and led SIT and UAT Testing for Go-Live, including preparing and agreeing to Go-SIT/UAT entry/exit criteria, preparing test cases, SIT/UAT Execution, triaging and prioritizing reported issues, deploying patches, and getting successful SIT/UAT sign-offs. Provided leadership to the Technical team for UAT Support.
• Go-Live activities include preparing Go-Live checklists, Cutover, and Go-Live. Managed Post Go-Live support Support including Hypercare and KT/Handover of Artifacts.
• Managed Production Support, triaged and prioritized support tickets, and met contractual SLAs. Provided Technical Support, client Security, and monitoring/alert support.
• Worked collaboratively with Leads from other teams to achieve common goals.
• Built deep expertise in Metals domain as part of Product development and SAP implementations.
• Concentrates and E-Scrap: Treatment Charges and Refining Charges with Escalators and De-escalators, Payable quantity computation based on different Assays (Provisional, Self, Final). Assay Management, including Assay finalization rules, Assay Exchange, Umpiring rules, Economic value calculation to decide whether to go for Umpires or not. Fixed/Variable Pricing rules based on different events like MAMA (Month After Month of Arrival), MAMOS (Month After Month of Shipment), etc.
• Base Metals and Precious Metals: Different Pricing and payable rules, premiums, and Discounts.
• Hedge quantity calculation and correction: Based on different assays as part of Assay Management.
• Hedging through multiple Financial instruments such as Forwards, FX Forwards, Futures, Options, Swaps etc.
• Various Month-end reports: Purchase Accruals and Sales Accruals report, Realized P&L report (Physical and Financial), Unrealized P&L reports (Physical and Financial), Assay comparison reports.
• Managed Technical Team tasks and deliverables across multiple Phases for project deliveries for client implementations.
• Led and managed geographically distributed teams from different countries as part of project deliveries.
• Contributed to developing and integrating Middleware between Eka and other third-party systems for Invoice, Prices, Inventories, and other interfaces.