Aayu Sharma
Senior Consultant
Toronto,ON
Summary
Driven Senior Consultant with ~8 years' experience in the Supply Chain and Procurement consulting field. Adept in collaborative problem solving, process alignment and creative solutions. Passionate about preempting implementation and operational challenges with systems as well as processes.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Consultant
KPMG Canada
08.2022 - Current
- Lead Procure to Pay workstream of large scale SAP implementation for flagship Canadian Airlines involving SAP Ariba integrating with S4/HANA along with process definition for handling of feeder systems.
- Performed Spend Segmentation and Target Operating Model in order to provide clients visibility to their future buying channel distribution and aligning their processes to standard best practices in industry.
- Spearheaded multiple Coupa Source to Pay implementation involving system design, validation as well as production deployment and delivering on integration with multiple systems with Coupa in both sFTP and XML format.
Consultant
KPMG Global Services
09.2019 - 07.2022
- Started off as an Associate, implemented Coupa Source to Pay as well as Expense Management implementations followed by supporting Supplier Enablement roll out, including both US and global deployments
- Collaborated in creating Spend Cubes for Global company with spend >$5B as well as Supplier Normalization and Category Normalization for 10K+ unique supplier data along with creation of 10+ Category Knowledge Packs for holistic supplier view effective in category sourcing
- Involved in Coupa integration project which included field mapping, field conceptualization, sample files creation along with testing and supporting ERP team in integration build
Consultant
Zycus
04.2018 - 09.2019
- Started off as Senior Procurement Analyst post another promotion spearheading Source to Pay implementations playing dual role of Specialist and Consultant
- Enhanced product knowledge becoming complete Source to Pay specialist implementing 6+ projects while being involved in Project Plan baseline and achieving faster delivery
- Presented 20+ Key Performance Indicators and implementation best practices to identify important tracking matrices to ensure project success
- Consistent customer contact with onsite presence to help them achieve implementation requirements
- Performance resulted in promotion to Consultant in next cycle being one of the youngest Consultants in the organization
Procurement Analyst
Zycus
06.2016 - 04.2018
- Started off as Associate Procurement Analyst specialized in Customer Focus and Customer Operations in Procure to Pay
- Increased customer adoption for 3+ customers by 200% while providing dynamic ways to enhance roll outs resulting in 2 upsell opportunities
- Got promoted to Procurement analyst wherein presented customers current Procurement trends, Vendor management best practices and AP automation capabilities based on their current data analysis
- Implemented 2 of fastest Procure to Pay implementations in organization reducing TAT by 30-35%
Education
Post Graduate Diploma - Management
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
Mumbai, MH 07.2017 - 07.2019
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) - Electronics
University of Mumbai
Mumbai, MH 06.2012 - 06.2016
Skills
Procurement Transformation
Supply Chain Management
Source To Pay
System Implementation
System Integrations
Timeline
Senior Consultant
KPMG Canada
08.2022 - Current
Consultant
KPMG Global Services
09.2019 - 07.2022
Consultant
Zycus
04.2018 - 09.2019
Post Graduate Diploma - Management
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
07.2017 - 07.2019
Procurement Analyst
Zycus
06.2016 - 04.2018
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) - Electronics
University of Mumbai
06.2012 - 06.2016