Asad Ahmed

Quality-driven, SAP certified, client facing, hands-on professional with over 15 years of experience in SAP SAC, SAP BPC/EPM & Analytics space. A well-qualified diverse candidate who specializes in understanding client's needs, proposing optimal solutions, and translating designs into efficient systems. Worked on several Implementations / Upgrades / Ongoing support & enhancement projects.

Directly worked with clients, users, and C-Level executives during implementations, support engagements, and as a subject matter expert. Develop hands on and have led teams on multiple projects and support assignments. Have client-facing experience, and worked directly with FP&A/accounting teams including meeting with business / process owners, stakeholders and users, understanding the requirements, guiding the development team about what we are trying to achieve and proposing solutions.

Solution Architect at cBEYONData (2024-01 – 2026-02)

Part of the solutions team (delivery and support), implement, support and enhance SAP BPC and SAP SAC solutions. Initially implemented BPC on BW4HANA and then implemented SAC for spend and workforce planning. Working with FP&A team to gather requirements, understanding pain points and enhancing solutions.

• Worked with technical and functional teams
• Worked on requirements gathering and gap analysis activities
• Worked with the principal architect on finalizing the design
• Worked on creating calculation views in HANA to be consumed as data sources for SAC dimensions and models
• Loaded master and transactional data in SAC dimensions and models
• Worked with SAC transformations at the time of loading transactional and master data
• Loaded master and transactional data for payroll pay tables and grade step GS locality rates from opm's website
• Worked on data actions for salary and benefits projections
• Worked on SAC stories and dashboards
• Worked on calculated measures
• Worked on analytics applications to enhance the user experience using JavaScript
• Created calculated measures at the model level using measures
• Created calculated and restricted measures in stories
• Created calculated dimensions in stories
• Worked on creating and testing data actions and multi actions
• Configured the trigger for data actions in the story and passing of the story filters as dimensions selections for data action
• Developed value driver tree functionality for the maximum work year need what if scenarios
• Worked with the finance team to understand their pain points with the current system and gave demos of the solutions
• Helped in planning activities by seeding the budget and forecast scenarios as a starting point
• Trained the junior staff and organized cross team members knowledge transfers to ensure that the implementation and support activities run smoothly
• Worked on data integration between SAC and sources (HANA, flat files, etc.)
• Worked on data validation between systems

SAP BPC/SAC Architect at Bloomberg LP (2022-02 – 2024-01)

Supporting the FP&A Team. Helping with reports/input templates fixes and development of new reports/input templates. Working on the month end preparation and processes. Loading Master and Transactional data. Training the new users, facilitated FP&A team during forecast and budget cycles. Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held Media, Financial, Software and Data Company.

• Working on several projects within Bloomberg to improve processes, using systems more efficiently and automating where possible
• Supporting month end activities, directly working with FP&A and Accounting teams
• Maintaining and Enhancing EPM Reports and Input Templates
• Development of new reports and templates as per business requirements
• Reconciliation of data between BPC and S4
• Master data load, transactional data load, script logic, business rules, dimension maintenance, dimension formulas, etc.
• Prepare the system for Budget, April, and August forecasts cycles
• Keept track of incidents using Bloomberg's internal software on Terminal
• Creation, maintenance and automation of Data Manager Packages and Package Links
• Importing the contingent workers planning data from flat files and automation for comments import using Power Query
• Validating and testing reports and BPC security after Org-Changes
• Configured Constant Currency to see Actuals at Plan rate
• Built Allocation Templates to allocate expenses
• Writing Script Logic, Configuring Business rules and maintaining dimension member formulas
• Maintenance of custom hierarchies in BPC to accomplish reporting requirements
• Created Calculation Views in HANA to be consumed by SAC live connections
• Created ADSO to summarize Transactional data and build unique combinations of master data
• Created Info Objects including transformation and DTPs for master data load automation
• Configured BPC security (Data access profiles, Task Profiles, Teams)
• Configured Work Status
• Developed comprehensive documentation, including user guides and technical specifications, to support ongoing system maintenance and user training
• Monthly training sessions for new hires
• Delivered Sales Planning POC and final solution using SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)
• Led design discussions and gathered requirements for Sales Planning in SAC
• Created the model in SAC
• Created and maintained public/private dimensions
• Loaded transactional data into the model
• Built reports, dashboards, stories, Grid, Canvas
• Created formula driven members in account dimension
• Created restricted and calculated measures on stories
• Created calculated columns in stories
• Configured buttons and linked analysis
• Configured Value Driver Tree
• Configured currency translation
• Created data actions and integrated them into the stories to be executed directly from the story by clicking a button
• Created data actions using advance formula for calculations and data manipulation
• Created data actions for custom allocation
• Configured allocation using SAC's delivered allocation process
• Configured currency translation in new model
• Configured Calendar in SAC

Advisor at Elanco Animal Health (2021-09 – 2022-02)

Master’s Degree (Management & Administration)