Shoeb Kanpurwala

With over 23 years of extensive functional experience in SAP FI/CO best practices encompassing multiple projects, SIX of which are full S/4 Hana life cycle implementation from initiate, global design, execute, close, and post-implementation. Responsible for integrating Finance with FSCM, Ariba, Concur, Success Factor, Field Glass, Coupa, Blackline, High Radius, Quantum and VIM by open Text. Lead hands-on configuration and migration of SAP ECC Finance to SAP S/4HANA.

Provided extended SAP FI/CO support to several clients remotely on an ongoing basis after going live.

FTM Lead (Manager) - SAP S/4 HANA at Capgemini (2022-05 – Present)

Industries: Food Services & Facilities Management (Global Implementation)

SAP S4 HANA Upgrade Lead at Capgemini (2025-10 – Present)

• Facilitated end-to-end SIPOC and scoping workshops with key business stakeholders to define process boundaries, inputs, and outputs for the Record -to Report (R2R),Order-to-Cash (O2C) / Procure-to-Pay (P2P) workstreams.
• Translated business requirements gathered from SIPOC sessions into detailed SAP Business Blueprints and functional specifications, ensuring alignment with global template designs.
• Maintained documentation of configurations, processes, and change management, using Signavio and similar tools
• Resolved inconsistencies on readiness check for S/4 HANA Conversion
• Participated Data Management activities: Data Extraction, Cleansing, Mapping, Migration, and Reconciliation.
• Define enterprise-wide finance architecture covering General Ledger, Asset Accounting, Accounts Payable/Receivable, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis and Profit & Cost Centers.
• Authored detailed Functional Specification Documents (FSDs) for ABAP developers to enhance custom financial transaction codes and excel-based remittance programs.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams (CO, MM, SD, PP) to ensure seamless end-to-end Processes integration.
• Orchestrated multi-phase testing schedules (UAT, Regression, Integration) using HPQC, ensuring zero major defects during production deployments.

SAP S4 HANA Global Template Lead - U.S. Acquisition at Capgemini (2024-11 – 2025-10)

Industries: Automotive Market Unit. Lead the analysis, design, and implementation of SAP FI/CO solutions tailored to the Auto industry.

• Gather and analyse detailed requirements for SAP FI/CO modules, ensuring alignment with industry-specific needs and best practices.
• Demonstrate SAP S4 HANA for FTM/RTR area as well as cross-function modules.
• Customize SAP and test to ensure that the solution is worked as per agreement with the customer.
• Design functional specification to technical level as well as explanation session with developers.
• Configured Material Cost Estimate, WIP Calculation, Costing run, Overhead Rate, Setting default value for order type, template allocation, Settlements (Settlement profile Allocation Structure)
• Configured Cost Center splitting structure, splitting rules and calculation of actual labor rate.
• Implemented Material Ledger distribution of usage variance to assign scrap costs back to the production process.
• Developed the enterprise costing strategies to pick up standard price from non SAP 3rd party tool thus eliminating the need to manually populate the PPI field in the material master.
• Design & Conduct Unit Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Worked on Test Director and QC for Defect Tracking. Organizing, managing, planning and executing the test.

Greenfield S/4 HANA Implementation Lead at Capgemini (2024-01 – 2024-10)

Industries: Pharmaceutical Industries. Build SAP solutions that transform clients' Finance functions.

• Loaded Aset Master required data element, Create assets classes, depreciation areas, and depreciation keys required for plant and corporate assets
• Mapped GL accounts to be used for deprecation, accumulated depreciation and reserves.
• Performed mass retirements, write-ups, changes in useful life and changes in depreciation keys
• Coordinate requirement gathering, fit/gap analysis and design, Functional specs preparation, Testing, and support users during UAT.
• Design, set up, test, and deploy prototype and production Finance solutions and ensure that all the pieces work together seamlessly.
• Analyze key business drivers, then translate the findings into insights and actions, and their implications in the overall business.
• Assist the project team, key stakeholders, and management in prioritizing business requirements and developing and maintaining detailed project plans using standard tools.
• Work with the project team, team leaders, project delivery leads, and client stakeholders to create stand-out Finance solutions powered by SAP S/4HANA and FI/CO (Finance and Controlling)

CFIN Functional Lead at Capgemini (2023-07 – 2024-03)

Industries: Glass & Clay. Member of core design and end-to-end implementation team concerning SAP FICO configuration in the central finance system.

• Conduct client demo, Blueprint and requirement gathering process flow workshops
• Configuration fixing/Error analysis in the central finance concerning transactional posting from the source system.
• Worked on initial load and transactional load and fix the mapping issue between source and target system.
• Showed Central finance AIF error clearing and monitoring process
• Worked on New mapping upload and master Data and reconciliation data between source and target system

Production Support at Capgemini (2023-02 – 2023-10)

Industries: Food Industries. As part of the production Support team worked closely with technical and functional team members for other modules to resolve the issue based on priorities.

• Business/End Users FTM (Finance) related trouble tickets and change requests, discussed with Business/End Users, determined the root causes, and resolved promptly.
• Configuration of new Supplier/Vendor master data, business transactions, tolerance parameters, and payment terms.
• Created information management system interface with accounts payable Open item.
• Involved in enhancement for Inventory dump and write-off process.
• Initiated an Assessment cycle for the monthly closing process.

Production Support at Capgemini (2023-11 – 2024-01)

Industries: Fashion Industries.

• Coordinating and supporting change period end date in fiscal year variant (shortened first period and Extended next period) related to the acquisition by another company.
• Customizing Asset Accounting, 6 Period Depreciation or 12 Period Depreciation Action by Business User, Define Reduction Rule for Shortened FY, Maintain Depreciation key AFAMA if no Reduction to FY, Program ZRUMPF from SAP No