Javed Kapadia, MBA, MAC

Experience

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  Bayer

  Jan 1991 - Jan 2017

  Steer and direct a team comprising nine direct reports, overseeing and managing a $20M IT project budget. Delivered directional oversight to five contractors. Managed day-to-day operations and overall budget/forecast for Enabling IT team. Led team of resources with diverse background supporting SAP Finance and Hyperion platforms for Monsanto. Owned business planning and management functions for Core Finance. Engaged customers and implemented processes to identify appropriate IT solutions, driving project milestones and solid partnerships. Establish goals and milestones for team.Key Roles and Responsibilities:►Spearheaded Global Planning and Consolidation project, a $13.7M investment focused on standardizing planning and consolidation across Monsanto.►Led BioAg Integration project to deliver SAP standard and custom functionality to calculate, post and report financial transactions. Implemented a Hyperion/Essbase solution to analyze track and report Collaborations R&D spend in compliance with contractual agreements. ►Designed solution to align Mexico’s operations with Monsanto’s global business model and substantially improve the customer experience by having a single channel for all Row Crop and Crop Protection product sales in the region. Received Finance 5 Star Award for the project.►Managed Global Row Crops costing project, $6.7M investment, for globally enhanced reporting, process standardization, and business simplification, increasing gross profit 22% and receiving Finance 5 Star Award and IT Value Award.►Collaborated with cross function IT teams, E&Y and Tax team to deliver EMEA vegetable principle entity consolidation project, capturing $15M annual tax savings and receiving Finance 5 Star Award and IT Above & Beyond Award.►Built and executed Finance Managed Service Partners strategy leveraging agile teams to provide global operation support and engineering/delivery of global finance IT projects. Show less Direct and oversee of eight full time direct reports. Provide coaching and development opportunities to direct reports. Identifying and aligning right resources to support projects and enhancements across the various finance functional areas. Set directions for the team in supporting the ongoing business operations. Team won three Finance Five Star Awards in Fiscal Year 2011, two Awards in Fiscal Year 2010 and one award in Fiscal Year 2009. In FY 2009 Team was nominated for IT Value Award for Treasury project. Build strong partnership and credibility with Global Finance organization. Key Roles and Responsibilities:►Increase business impact through improved knowledge of our business and understanding the challenges in the current economic environment by connecting with key IT and Finance leaders in Crop Protection, Seed & Traits and Vegetable businesses.►Work with business partners to get the true picture and understanding the key business drivers/value for the business process improvement initiatives, like Global Seed Treatment Reporting, Global Crop Protection Profit in Inventory (PII) and Global Vegetable Inventory Obsolescence Analysis.►Developed and structured a framework to continue globalization, standardization and simplification of financial processes. Track all Business Process Improvements and Compliance Projects for Finance and ensure that appropriate prioritization processes are in place.►Developed Enterprise Business Services (EBS) Finance team Roadmap. Roadmap included all the projects aligned to global finance organization’s priorities.►Developed Enterprise Business Services (EBS) Finance team Roadmap. Roadmap included all the projects aligned to global finance organization’s priorities.►Build and presented IT LRP documents for the EBS team to ITLT.►Developed and executed Finance education for IT Professionals (FIT) program for IT teams. Show less Direct and oversee of four full time direct reports. Provide coaching, guidance and development opportunities to the team. Hired and managed contractors for key projects and support. Provide input on staffing and cost estimates for projects. In 2007 received IT Value Award for the ACCORD project.Key Roles and Responsibilities:►Manufacturing coordinator in the Asia ACCORD project ensuring all Manufacturing tasks are communicated effectively and completed on-time. Led Manufacturing & Grower Accounting project activities, from the collection and validation of business requirements on-time, developed blue-print document into solution manager through successful unit testing and integration testing that conformed to a global enterprise design.►Demonstrated key leadership on site during the Pakistan and India cutover of Asia ACCORD project.►Facilitated and led SEMINIS design and scoping assessment sessions for Manufacturing IT team.►Supported and align right resources to successfully complete several SAP projects like Interstate Seed, Mexico Tolling and Stoneville divestitures. ►Demonstrated strong leadership in the US Seed Redesign project to be successful in the final phases. Received recognition award from the US Seed Manufacturing finance team. Show less Led and manage Global Grower Accounting (Production Planning, Purchasing, Finance and Logistics module) implementations for Monsanto seed business.Key Roles and Responsibilities:►Assisted in team effort to improve the business customer’s satisfaction by participation in enhancement prioritization and through timely and thoroughly logging of all major business enhancement requests and of time and effort spent on all support calls.►Worked directly with customers to define and document requirements, redesign processes, define limitations, develop solutions via SAP configuration and implement Ag solutions as part of an integrated global project.►Participated and worked directly with Internal and External auditors in several Sarbanes Oxley audits; ensuring Monsanto’s Sarbanes Oxley compliance►Designed and configured the PP, MM and FI/CO module during solution definition to enable business processes within SAP.►Implemented new Global design that fits Monsanto Global Seed Businesses which resulted in significant user efficiency, greater flexibility in tracking and analyzing inventory and costs. Show less Supervise staff IT auditor and provide coaching and guidance. Prepare Engagement and audit scope documents prior to the start of audit to ensure no confusion in the scope and responsibilities of both parties. Develop audit and resource plan for IT audits.Key Roles and Responsibilities:►Demonstrated strong leadership, good customer focus and team orientation skills by managing several IT and Finance audits, providing customers with best practices, working with team in multiple audits, and helping both IT and Finance auditors resolving business and technical issues.►Led and performed audits for Monsanto locations worldwide to ensure data integrity, IT assets safety, adequacy of IT security and controls in compliance with corporate and legal requirements.►Led and performed financial and internal control audit reviews at various Monsanto locations worldwide ensuring integrity of financial statements, effective systems of internal control exist, compliance with Corporate Policies and US GAAP, safeguarding of assets, and providing recommendations for improvement in key financial areas.►Led and participated in Sarbanes-Oxley internal control assessment validation for Finance and IT General Computer Controls.►Led and performed audits of Monsanto’s worldwide ERP systems including BPCS, SAP Product Costing, Production Planning, Materials Management modules, and deployment of new Ex-US Treasury (CFM) and Human Resources (HR) modules.►Developed budget and forecasting template and analysis covering each audit engagement.►Managed guest auditors and provided formal feedback at the end of the audit.►Communicated with Finance and IT management worldwide, ensuring timely completion and reporting of audit engagements. Show less Implemented and led SAP Manufacturing Finance systems in Antwerp, Fayetteville, Luling and Muscatine plants. Managed and coordinated the Global Finance SAP 4.6 upgrade project.Key Roles and Responsibilities:►Demonstrated strong leadership, technical broad knowledge, functional and team building skills in demanding team environments throughout the multiple SAP implementations.►Co-Lead the Global Finance User Network (FUN) conference.►Designed and configured the FI/CO module during solution definition to enable business processes within SAP.►Integrated MM, PP and FI/CO modules into SAP design at AG manufacturing plants. ►Developed and delivered best practice end-user training for SAP FI/CO modules.►Worked with process leads to provide customer solutions across all Global Financial Systems Team (GFST) systems. Show less

  • Director of Commercial Finance IT Lead & Global Functional Strategy Lead

    Jan 2011 - Jan 2017

  • Operations Lead – Enterprise Business Services

    Jan 2007 - Jan 2011

  • Global ERP Production Planning & Scheduling Team Lead

    Jan 2005 - Jan 2007

  • Global ERP Production Planning & Grower Accounting Business Analyst

    Jan 2004 - Jan 2005

  • Senior IT Auditor

    Jan 2002 - Jan 2004

  • Internal ERP SAP Consultant

    Jan 1998 - Jan 2002

  • Senior Systems Analyst – Muscatine Plant

    Jan 1992 - Jan 1998

  • Cost Analyst

    Jan 1991 - Jan 1992
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  Bayer

  Feb 2017 - now

  ► Building the global knowledge management strategy for GBS Financial Accounting & Taxes (FA&T), impacting 700+ employees and Accounting colleagues on the Platforms.► Developed a framework that defines required skills for professionals today and tomorrow► Global Stakeholder Management & Communication in multiple GBS locations.► Enable operational excellence by providing the right training at the right time to become & maintain world-class FA&T organization► Function as global change management agent to prepare GBS FA&T organization► Coach and guide global project resources and be a catalyzer to their development by making them and their functional supervisors aware about their strengths and development needs Show less ► Direct and oversee of two full-time direct reports charged with managing US Accounting platform projects & transitions. ► Drive the integration & transformation of U.S. Accounting organization by creating effective transition plans, building trust, effectively collaborating, strategic thought and effectively managing change & risk.► Proactively drive change management (CM) and communication activities to prepare / inform the impacted organization(s) and function(s) about the upcoming changes► US Country Platform to Global Business Services (GBS) and other Accounting Platforms► Pittsburgh Accounting Platform to St. Louis Accounting Platform Show less Direct and oversee of six full-time direct reports including one team lead in Bangalore, India charged with managing training in U.S. and India sites. Hire, coach, train and develop staff and managing disciplinary action and annual performance reviews. Establish goals and milestones for team.Key Roles and Responsibilities:►Steer development and deployment of organizational training vision, strategy and plans to meet training and development needs.►Design, develop, gain alignment and execute end to end finance Global Shared Services (GSS) comprehensive training strategy for Record to Report, Source to Pay, Order to Cash, Inventory & Costing & Hire to Retire training programs.►Manage comprehensive training delivery, measurement and follow-up.►Conduct and lead seminars, workshops and classroom training sessions of six to 20+ finance professionals and accountants at a time on systems training and processes, communicating cross-functionally on training issues and concerns.►Implement enterprise Learning Management System (LMS) to enable administration, scheduling and surveys (Feedback) for all five GSS (Global Shared Service) comprehensive training programs.►Establish vision and strategy of Finance continuous process improvement (CPI) efforts; including the development of CPI capabilities and culture within the organization.►Oversee Robotic Process Automation (RPA) project for Monsanto Asset Management team.►Conduct evaluations and testing to measure training, identify areas of improvement and create action plans to address.►Drive the integration & transformation of U.S. Accounting organization by creating effective transition plans, building trust, effectively collaborating, strategic thought and effectively managing change & risk.►Build and execute transition project plans including infrastructure/application support models, change management, learning & communication deliverables. Show less

  • Global Project Lead, Financial Accounting Tax Excellence Project

    Nov 2021 - now

  • Change and Transition Manager (Program Manager)

    Feb 2020 - Oct 2021

  • Global Finance Training, Projects, Communications & Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) Lead

    Feb 2017 - Jan 2020