Ifty Mahmood

GSK are one of the world's leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies. Headquartered in the UK, a global organization with offices in over 100 countries and major research centres in the UK, USA, Belgium and China. Our business employs 96,500 people in over 100 countries with a share of around 5% of the world's pharmaceutical market. I lead a project which is implementing a cloud based (SaaS) application that will allow GSK’s 23 European markets to build plans and forecasts.

Nationwide is one of the rare SAP IS Banking 7.0 Implementation project around anywhere in the world. Nationwide is implementing this leading edge SAP IS Banking Deposit Management Solution across the whole of the bank. The solution components also include Savings and Loans Management and ECC6 General Ledger, SAP BI and CRM. This is a multi year project with estimated budget of £400m and around 650 people involved including Implementation partners like SAP, Axxiome, IBM and Accenture and Nationwide staff.

I am working for UK Retail Banking as a Project Manager for a Management Information project. The aim of the project is to bring together all the relevant finance data from retail banking around the globe into one data warehouse in a consistent and controlled fashion so that senior management can make meaningful business decisions. More explicitly the role involves: 1-Regular weekly PMO / Project Management status updates reporting including RAID review and updating project plans for the Essbase (Hyperion)

BP is of one of the world's largest Oil and Gas companies with 100,000 people working together in 100 countries across six continents with revenue of $239 billion. BP is currently implementing SAP BPC v7.5 globally as a standard solution for business planning and forecasting. My role working for project management function is to: 1-Prepare detailed project plan, roadmap for SAP BPC development and deployment across the globe 2-Prepare business case and benefits realization plans

Shell is officially one of the world's largest company in 2009. I am working on their global SAP closing cockpit project, which is the biggest project of its kind in the world. I am leading their proof of concept project from start to finish. Shell is attempting to manage its global financial closing process by using a standard process and standard tool i,e SAP Closing Cockpit with CPS by Redwood.

Johnsons & Johnsons is a ‘Top 5’global US pharmaceuticals, medical devices, consumer packaged goods manufacturer with presence in 57 countries and listed in fortune 500 firms having turnover $68bn and a history spanning back 120 yrs and ranked as the world’s most respected company in 2008. Working on their multi country SAP roll out (Austria, Switzerland, UK, Germany & UK) the role includes: 1.Project manage 4 countries SAP roll out simultaneously to tight timelines working in a complex and fast moving e

Transport & Logistics firm, 3 billion Euro turnover, 30,000 employees in 14 countries across EU currently implementing Greenfield SAP ECC6 / BI 7.0 systems in UK. 1.Plan the SAP Project for UK from scratch including scope, budget, internal business resources and project governance model 2.Prepare and circulate ITT/RFP for SAP Project to various big 5 SAP consultancies and lead the process of selecting a consultancy 3.Prepare full lifecycle project costs & ensure funding is secured from SAP Project board

1. Provide guidance and quality assurance on (FICO/BI) best practises to various SAP projects 2. Architectural support to various projects SAP BPC (Outlook soft), In house Cash, Group Reporting, Inter group Billing, MDM. 3. Conduct Pre & Post implementation SAP Reviews to ensure projects are on track and delivering benefits 4. Assist in MI strategy for Finance, Look for MI solutions, Issuing RFP and assessing vendor response, proof of concept etc 5. Advising in the package selection and implementation

E.on is the world’s largest privately held energy group with turnover over 50 Billion euros and over 6 million UK customer for gas, electricity implementing ECC6/BI 7.0. 1. Advice senior business managers on SAP scope and implementation strategy and planning of the project 2. Prepare the business readiness / impact assessment / change management plans and business case for SAP 3. Act a Finance lead during blueprint and realisation stage ensuring design meets business requirements

1. Team Lead during Blue Printing sessions with the end users gathering ‘As Is’ business Requirements 2. Leading the BW Reporting / SEM BPS sessions and recommending best options for client’s needs 3. Utilising FICO (GL,AP,AR, CCA,PCA,COPA) plus new GL and newer MySAP ERP 2005 features 4. Designing a prototype My SAP ERP 2005 system for demo purposes to the business for their buy-in. 5. Highlighting business impact and the required training and changes in business processes

1. Senior Finance consultant assisting the local business in FICO, BW/SEM based system enhancements 2. Helping in global SHELL roll out of Reporting solutions utilising BW/SEM, FICO functionality 3. Managing activities between in - house, 3rd Parties & developers to improve systems / processes 4. Leading Blueprint activities for newer functionality followed by UAT, Training & Documentation.

1. Senior consultant on advising senior management on best strategy to upgrade existing 4.6b SAP system 2. Build a business case for upgrade to MySAP 2004 and highlight key risks, challenges and advantages 3. Overseeing the requirements gathering and building up a benefit realisation case for upgrade to MYSAP 2004 4. Highlighting any savings, process improvements, new functionality and gaps resolved by upgrade project

1. Set up PMO function to provide project plans, deliverables and milestones and report to project board on project issues 2. Team leader (from end user perspective) for SAP BW/FICO upgrade from 2.1C to 3.3 3. Perform Blueprint sessions with the end users capturing business requirements 4. Perform Gap analysis and assist in establishment of shard service center for Europe in UK. 5. Configure the development systems for FI-GL, AA,AR,AP,SPL,CO-CCA,CO-PCA,CO-PA 6. Resolve Gaps either via configuration

Barclays Bank SAP Project was one of the largest in financial Services in Europe. Barclays is the one of UK's largest bank with a banking history of 300 years. 1. Team leader for leveraging value from Sap by simplifying, automating and standardising finance processes. 2. Engage stakeholders, build relationships and ensure best practices are followed during project lifecycle 3. Act as a Change agent to simplify, automate, standardise and simplify key finance (FICO, MI Reporting) processes

Alstom (Anglo-French ) is a global conglomerate trading in Power, Transport, Marine and Energy sectors with turnover around £15 Billion and over 200,000 employees world wide. 1. Engage stakeholders, build relationships and ensure best practices are followed during project lifecycle 2. Set up PMO function to provide project plans, deliverables and milestones and report to project board 3. Perform fundamental business process review and suggest improvements and tighter control. 4. Review of the Busines

Rolls-Royce is one of the world’s leading Aerospace and Defence company making engines for the Civil Airlines and European Military Defence markets with the turnover around £4 Billion. 1. Advising on the full life cycle SAP implementation including designing, configuring, integration, data transfer, interfaces, training & checklists for pre & post go live. 2. Advising the finance committee on the best implementation strategy, project structure, team composition, that will result in best integration

Bristol Myers Squibb is the largest ( $17 Billion ) US pharmaceuticals company (Top 5 global) 1. Implementing FI (GL,AP,AR ) CO (CCA,PCA,COPA,PA) integrating with MM, SD, PP. 2. Managing the full System implementation cycle of the project ( six months ) from start to finish. 3. Conducting ‘AS IS’ analysis ( Process Mapping ) by producing detailed flow charts. 4. Doing ‘Fit Analysis’ i.e. does the standard SAP design offers the full functionality required 5. Designing & Configuring, Testing the SAP sy

Astra Zeneca is a fast growing ‘Top 10’ FTSE-100 Plc with £27Billion market value , currently in the process of implementing ‘SAP R3’ as part of BPR across all its operations globally. 1 - Monthly Variance analysis and financial reporting to local management using SAP FI/CO. 2 - Product and Margin Reports on various best selling drugs using pivot tables and SAP. 3 - Analysing / simplifying current IBM mainframe operating systems and making improvements. 4 - Take part in SAP Business Process Reviews