Arun Agarwal

About Arun Agarwal

Information Technology Professional with extensive IT industry experience in area of IT Management, Project Management, SDLC, Financial Management, IT Security, IT Support Management, IT Procurement & IT Audits. Over 20 years of total experience including 19 years of IT experience in SAP project implementation, rollouts, maintenance & Support. IT experience includes four successful go-lives and three successful upgrade/support projects. As business application architect my main focus and achievement has been successfully implementing Integrated SAP Financial Platforms. As Sr. SAP consultant or Project Manager on project I have been associated with configuration and deployment of SAP, in complex projects with corporations located in the US & Asia Pacific region. I have experience across diversified industries which include Life sciences, pharmaceuticals, hi-tech, food and manufacturing. Areas of experience include design and configuration of FI/CO modules including GL, AP, AR, FA, Banking, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, product costing, Taxations, Idocs, COPA, Inventory management, Purchasing, and Sales & Distribution and their integration with FI/CO. Experience in new SAP products like New GL, FSCM, BPC, PLM, GRC 10, SAP security. Proven key resource with clients in defining systems strategy, developing systems requirements, designing and prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures, and implementing practical business solutions under multiple deadlines Worked on various project either as Project Manager/Team lead/Team member with excellent impact and successful results. Specialties: Strong Finance domain Project Management SAP Solution Architect Business Analysis SAP Implementation SAP BPC Solution Architect. SAP Configuration in area of GL, AR, AP, FA, CCA, PCA, New GL, Project System, COPA, Product Costing SAP FICO Integration with PP, SD, MM, HR SAP emerging product like FSCM, BPC, PLM implementation of SAP GRC 10

Experience

1. SAP Solution Architect Project Manager

   NVIDIA

   Dec 2011 — Present · CA

   BPC Solution Architect for Nvidia supporting financial planning & Forecasting business group. FP & A IT application lead for system design and roll outs working closely with business leaders. • Act as Solutions Architect to implement additional FI/CO/AM/BW functionality. • Lead projects to implement new and enhance existing functionalities including defining requirements and translating them into effective solutions. • Review, Suggested and maintains Risk, Functions and Actions under GRC 10. to help implement effective controls at application and process level in SAP across roles used by Finance. • Develop & Design test approaches and plans related to FI/CO changes. Lead and participate in testing a wide range of system changes, from small production support through large integrated projects. • Lead, participate and support projects, improvement areas and production support for all SAP Systems that support Finance and Administration or interface to other systems that do.

Education

• Bottega University

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General

• Indira Gandhi National Open University

  Master of Commerce, Accounting and Business/Management

  2013 — 2015

• University of Pune

  Masters in Commerce, Finance and Accounts

  1998 — 2001

• The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

  Master's Degree, Accounting, Tax, Audit, Assurance, Corporate Governance

  1998 — 2002

• The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

  Chartered Accountant, Accounting and Finance

  1999 — 2002