Vivek Bakliwal

Experience

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  Batliboi & Purohit

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2007

  Article
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  Astral Management Consulting Private Limited

  Jul 2009 - Dec 2013

  Consultant

  Consultant–Corporate Performance Management Astral Management Consulting Pvt Ltd, Mumbai Feb ’13 – Dec ‘13Responsible for consolidation, reconciliation and preparation of consolidated financial statements as per Indian GAAP of an unlisted real estate group comprising 150 companies, providing issue based consulting services on IBM Cognos Controller (a consolidation tool which automates the manual process of consolidation including minority calculations and goodwill accounting), implementing revised schedule VI structure involving changes in account hierarchies, control tables and configurations. This includes creation and modification of account structure, company structure, journals and closing version, data import, control tables. Responsible for version upgrade testing of IBM Cognos Controller and obtaining sign-offs from users of a listed group post resolving their queries.Consultant – ERP Astral Management Consulting Pvt Ltd, Mumbai Jul ’09 – Jan ‘13Responsible for end-to-end implementation of ERP using System Development Life Cycle Methodology, liaising between business users and technical team for implementing and supporting various system interfaces including operational and payroll systems, preparation of statutory & MIS reports including fixed assets schedules, AR & AP reports, reconciliation statements, trial balances etc.Internally responsible for resource training and team building, discovering new features in application, product enhancement, brand creation, business development including proof of concepts and product presentations.Technically responsible for database back-up restore (SQL), configuring automation desk and schedule tasks. Show less

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  IBM

  Dec 2013 - Feb 2018

  Package Solution Consultant

  Responsible as Team member – SAP FICO, AM modules, providing support adopting incident management processes to EMEA, UK and US region using BMC remedy tool, strictly adherence to SOPs and SLAs, handling upstream division of Chemical & Petroleum industry, extensive support for year-end & month end activities for FI, CO & AM modules, identifying enhancements opportunities and determining scope, conducting POCs.Responsible as Team Lead – Infor FMS SunSystems, establishing and leading a team which provides ERP support to Middle East and North African countries using BMC Remedy tool. Responsible for liaison with auditors, product vendors and other stake holders. Providing data to customer required for audit purpose.Change & Release Management – Testing FI and related reporting, Asset Management, and related reporting for the quarterly releases. Raising and following up on RFCs.Internally, responsible for knowledge sharing & team training and KTs, creating and managing the knowledge library.Projects – Lead the server simplification project for simplifying application architecture. Application hosted on multiple servers was combined and now hosted on single set of servers. Huge saving to client in terms of managing and operating various servers. Number of servers reduced to 6 from 28. Other activities include DR Drills and Patch sets installation.Business Development – showcasing IBM’s capabilities in SunSystems to other clients both in implementation as well as support and transition. Show less

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  Accenture

  Feb 2018 - Oct 2018

  Team Lead

  Leading a team which provide support & Enhancement implementation for FI & FSCM area for European countries.• Enhancement implementation adopting SDLC methodologies beginning with requirement gathering, solution designing, preparation of blue prints, system build, unit testing, UAT, deployment to production & post go live support.• Vast experience on Incident, Problem, Change & release management processes• Liaising with auditors, product vendors, third party vendors interfacing with SAP• Assist team members in developing technical & professional competency. Coach, train & support consultants in the team• Process introduction, Ways of Working & team stabilization Show less

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  EY

  Dec 2018 - now

  • Senior Manager

    Oct 2024 - now

  • Manager

    Jul 2021 - now

  • Senior

    Dec 2018 - Jun 2021