Raj Kumar Jayaratnam

Raj kumar jayaratnam

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Fin Credit S/4 Hana Data Expert at Shell

  • Education

    • Training

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    • Universiti tenaga nasional

      2004 - 2008
      Bsc computer science software engineering
    • Methodist acs, ipoh

      1993 - 2003
  • Experience

    • Hewlett-packard

      Jan 2009 - Jan 2010
      Technical analyst
    • Atos

      Jan 2010 - Jan 2012
      Support analyst
    • Shell

      Jun 2012 - Feb 2019

      • Providing support for almost 3000 Finance users across Group Reporting globally including operations and maintenance activities.• Handling 6 business critical applications running on SAP platform that are Most Confidential and SoX controlled.• Active involvement in build activities for SAP BOFC based on change requests and business requirement for monthly and quarterly financial submission. Builds include in Financial Consolidation area such as Consolidation rules, Master Reference Data, validation and controls, Account dimensionality, category scenario, environment setup to facilitate testing.• Translate user requirement into business solution by using change management process: - build, transport, prepare test plan and environment. Manage incoming changes by delegating builds to peers, act as a single point of contact (Subject Matter Expert) and ensure deliverables are met within timeline.• Monitor data extraction loads via BW and Control M and fix them in case of failures.• Managing User Access Management (UAM) activities on the landscape and executing SoX controls including performing trace log checks for application/server usage and user activity to ensure secure and compliant business critical landscape.• Handle and manage communications to ensure that all critical updates are cascaded timely to all wide stakeholders.• Incident & Problem Management Focal for process review & enhancements, and then conducting training and sharing with the team. • Key participation in continuous improvement and transition projects, process improvements and methods simplification, providing training and mentoring as part of transition activity.• Part of internal and external audit connecting interaction with internal auditors, working closely, ensuring deliverables are guaranteed within the agreed period.• Involvement in project deliverables such as Master Data builds, Unit Testing, User Acceptance Testing, make certain that requirements are met. Show less

      • IT Functional Consultant (Group Reporting)

        Jan 2014 - Feb 2019
      • Application Analyst

        Jun 2012 - Dec 2013
    • Shell

      May 2019 - now

      Support design and ensure integrity of a data model for the entire end to end Customer process within which the Credit Process is embedded and work with various other data experts and design solutions under challenges imposed by early-stage maturity of the S4 next generation ERP.Responsibilities as per below :1) Actively analyze and update the current data model (how information flows across various parts of the customer process and specifically through the credit process) in preparation for the Credit S4 journey.2) Maintain data definition documents on how data objects and fields are currently utilized. 3) Assess whether usage of certain fields are redundant; how to standardize usage of fields across Shell; and whether custom fields can be eliminated.4) Collaborate with data experts in the other processes ; Customer fulfillment process; Central I&I experts in CoE, Process Experts and Process Integration Team to develop the end to end To Be Data Model in S4. 5) Understand the information and insights needed for Global Finance Credit per business by understanding business value levels, strategies, pain points. 6) Deliver relevant and actionable insight solutions through the new data model in S4 with the support of IT and central Finance experts.7) Identify the root cause of data quality issues and work with the business to drive the resolution of these issues.8) Act as a knowledge bank for what information/data in available, how it got there, how to extract it and how it is being used in the business.9) Keep track on current available MI tools, new technology and which portfolio of tools to adopt to deliver reporting solutions.10) Play a key role by working closely with the Credit Operations to drive efficiency in the Credit MI processes through automation of manually produced reports. 11) Validate new reporting requests to see how this would impact the new data model in S4 and whether this requires calibration to the data model. Show less • Data expert for Global Finance Credit and expertise follows in data framework and design of E2E credit data structure from ERPs to reporting & insights, advocating data quality and accuracy to drive insights to business.• Lead projects specifically in SAP BI for Credit space advocating automation that has saved enormous manual effort and costs. Here are the activities carried out:a) Develop and delegate dashboard development across peers, act as an SME when comes to challenges and provide solutions.b) Manage post deployment testing to ensure smooth go-live and further conduct training activities with end users as an introduction to the product.c) Adapt to Agile methodology and handling an additional Scrum Master role during the project and testing phase.• As an SME, frequently tapped into various project discussions and proposals from business and operations to perform impact assessment from data and system perspective and then provide best solution for the business case• Continuous drive in solving problem, hence frequently be innovative by exploring new reporting technologies available in Shell such as SAP Analytics Cloud, Spotfire, Power BI and share knowledge with the rest of the team• Co-lead all run & maintain activities with MI team such as enhancements, master data management to ensure system, data availability and stability that helps enabling reporting and insights during month end closing.• As a process and data expert focal, handling of escalations from operations, infrastructure and data warehousing issues, therefore, closely collaborate with super users and IT to identify root cause and drive resolution.• Successfully crafted the ISM model and rolled out to current team, ensuring the ITIL support framework process is underpinned during incidents, user access management, compliance and change management.• Deliver training to more than 400 BI reporting end users and super user during go-live of new solutions and dashboards. Show less

      • Finance Credit S/4 Hana Data Expert

        Aug 2022 - now
      • Credit Data Expert (Business Intelligence)

        May 2019 - Jul 2022
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Leveraging generative ai in finance and accounting

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      Mar 2024
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    • What is microsoft copilot? an overview of microsoft’s ai tools

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      Nov 2025
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    • Excel: power query for beginners

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      Mar 2024
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    • Prince2® foundation certification training

      Axelos global best practice
      Sept 2019
    • Learning microsoft 365 copilot for work (2024)

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      Nov 2025
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    • Data visualization: storytelling

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      Mar 2024
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    • The cybersecurity threat landscape

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      Mar 2024
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    • Power bi: dashboards for beginners

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      Mar 2024
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    • Microsoft azure fundamentals (az-900) cert prep: 1 cloud concepts

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      Mar 2024
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    • Business analysis foundations: business process modeling

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      Jun 2025
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