Vijjaay G.M
SAP Data Analytics, Solution Architect and Reporting Leader
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · +91-9663314799 · vjymanasi@gmail.com · https://www.linkedin.com/in/vijay-g-m-59342b2a/
Professional summary
I am a Senior SAP Analytics, Solution Architect, and Reporting Professional with 15+ years of experience delivering Enterprise Reporting, Business Intelligence, and Data-Driven Solutions, complemented by strong leadership expertise in driving strategic initiatives, managing cross-functional teams, and overseeing complex enterprise engagements. My expertise spans SAP BW/BI | Business Requirements Analysis | Solution Design | Functional and Technical Specifications | Stakeholder Management | Strategic Leadership & Delivery Governance. I specialize in bridging the gap between business needs and technology execution, simplifying complex reporting requirements, analyzing existing system landscapes, and enabling effective collaboration across business and technical teams. In my leadership capacity, I focus on aligning technology initiatives with organizational objectives, fostering high-performing teams, driving stakeholder engagement, managing delivery commitments, and providing strategic direction to ensure successful business outcomes. With a strong foundation in SAP analytics and a growing focus on modern data platforms and AI-enabled solutions, I am passionate about helping organizations transform enterprise data into reliable insights and measurable business value while driving innovation, operational excellence, and sustainable business transformation.
15+
Years in SAP Data & Analytics
10+
End-to-End Implementation
6
Industry Sector Experience
40+
Consultants Mentored
Key achievements
- Led analytics and reporting agenda across multi-country SAP programmes and Managing multiple global stakeholders in DMS Reporting Solutions (SME Role).
- Led the migration of legacy SAP BW/BI landscapes to HANA-optimized and Datasphere-ready architectures, while serving as the Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for stakeholder coordination, client visits, consulting engagements, and strategic solution direction.
- Built governed KPI catalogues that became the single source of truth for board reporting using SAC platform of dashboards, also Day to day operational reports.
- Mentored 40+ consultants across onsite-offshore delivery models and Assisted the client in achieving a 12% reduction in annual BAU costs, gained client relationship.
- Delivered self-service reporting to 500+ business users, cutting IT ticket backlogs and developed global strategic cost-effective development process, resulting in a notable 70% reduction in repetitive resource effort costs across union markets to the client team.
Experience
Associate Director: SAP Analytics & Enterprise Reporting Leader
JUNE 2017 — TILL-NOW
Deloitte South Asia LLP, Bangalore
Client Name: Ford, Shell India Marketing Pvt Limited. Bangalore (Xenon), PMI, Unilever PLC
Team Size: 12
SAP Environment: cFIN, S/4 HANA On-Premises, Embedded Analytics, CDS views, Dataspheres
Contributions:
- Led business discovery workshops and fit-gap assessments to define reporting and analytics requirements for SAP S/4HANA transformation programs.
- Defined the target-state analytics architecture by assessing SAP BW Extractors, BEx Reports, CDS Views, and SAP Datasphere integration requirements. (Brown-field scope)
- Evaluated standard SAP Fiori analytical applications and designed extension strategies to address complex business finance, AA reporting needs while maximizing SAP standard capabilities.
- Established reporting catalogues, data product frameworks, governance standards, and delivery roadmaps across Finance, Procurement, and Supply Chain functions.
- Provided functional leadership for Embedded Analytics initiatives, driving solution design, stakeholder alignment, requirement sign-off, and successful project delivery.
- Delivered end-to-end SAC dashboard solutions leveraging embedded analytics on Central Finance (cFIN) for Financial KPIs, including standard and custom CDS view development, complex business logics, and reusable reporting templates.
- Implemented Classic Account-Based Modeling in SAC to design CxO-level analytical dashboards and operational reports; successfully achieved Historical Trend analysis by designing a custom Z-table, scheduled through a customer program at higher semantic layers.
- Architected a multi-layered CDS view framework (Base → Composite → Consumption) to optimize SAC integration, enabling advanced blending behavior and interactive features such as radio buttons, dropdown filters, and dark/light mode toggle for improved user experience.
- Partnered with Finance and Business stakeholders to translate requirements into data models and KPIs, ensuring accuracy, scalability, and alignment with financial reporting standards.
- Optimized performance of SAC dashboards through query tuning, data volume handling, and semantic modeling for real-time financial insights.
- Developed reusable templates and design guidelines for SAC dashboards, reducing future development effort and ensuring consistency across reports.
- Coordinated with cross-functional teams (FI, CO, R&A, IT) to streamline data integration across SAP S/4HANA, CFIN, and SAC ensuring trusted financial insights for decision-making.
- Hands-on expertise in CDS views (annotations, aggregations, associations, and value help) for exposing data to SAC in real-time live connections.
- Designed and implemented security concepts (row-level authorizations) in CDS and SAC to align with client’s compliance requirements.
- Migrated legacy reports from BW/Excel-based solutions to SAC, achieving modernization and faster data-to-decision cycles.
Team Lead: SAP HANA, BW/BI & ABAP Consultant
NOV 2016 — JUNE 2017
Tech Mahindra Limited, Bangalore
Project Name: IBU NESTLE
Team Size: 12
SAP Environment: SAP BI 7.5, BW on Hana Modeling 1.15, BODS
Contribution:
- Worked as part of SAP BW SCM L3 team, involved under many change requests under Water flow Process.
- Handled Service manager and service Center and ticket assignment to team by ensuring the appropriate analysis and validation.
- Precisely worked on SAP BW 7.5 version of Business flow enhancement.
- Co-ordination between L2 and L3 teams, P2 ticket handling activity, helping the team on technical clarification.
- Convert Design into deliverables by applying best practices
- Perform testing, ensure testing standards are followed.
- Support / Facilitate Application Operations.
SAP ERP Application Delivery Analyst-Business Assist
JULY 2016 — NOV 2016
Shell India Marketing Pvt Limited, Bangalore
Project Name: Business One and Planning One
Team Size: 3
SAP Environment: SAP BI 7.4, SAP PPM, BPC 10.1
Contribution:
- My role is responsible for all Business one and Planning User to provide necessary business role authorization and supporting.
- Provide the AMS support on SAP PPM system and BPC system.
Senior Software Engineer: SAP BI Integrated Planning Consultant
SEP 2014 — JULY 2016
MINDTREE Limited, Bangalore
Client Name: Esprit De Corps
Team Size: 2
SAP Environment: SAP BI 7.0, ECC 6.0, Retail, AFS
Contributions:
- Esprit has implemented industry solution component of AFS and IS-Retail system, are integrated with BI system.
- Moreover, BI system act as APO system where all planners will do planning operations on different verticals report. (Like Fashion, Body wear, Licensee, Retail, EShop, PSS, WHS products).
- Most of Assortment and Allocation operation has been implemented through BI_IP application and by customized programs using ABAP OOP's language and Outbound RFC interfaces.
- Worked on Web based Report of Assortment Planning and Allocation Process, and Manual Allocation Release process.
- Ability to Delight the Client by clear Communication and Business process understanding and solution and requirement gathering.
- Handling the BW_IP and OOPS_ABAP Application support and enhancements if required.
- Implemented and supporting customized planning function types, WebDynpro, APD applications.
Associate Consultant: SAP BW/BI & ABAP Consultant
MAR 2011 — SEP 2014
YASH Technologies Pvt Limited
Client Name: Paragon, Hema’s and Base Corporation , Accenture India Private Limited, Hyderabad Industries Limited
Project Name: AMS and Development , Unilever Private Limited (U2K2) –Global Support
Team Size: 27
SAP Environment: SAP BI 7.0, ECC 6.0.
Contributions:
- Ability to handle a pipeline of numerous tickets, in terms of prioritization, categorization between break-fix and enhancements, etc.
- Responsible for the configuration, operations, and business coordination of a large SAP BW system. demonstrated BW expertise related to designing the infrastructure, designing/building/managing info-cubes, daily operations procedures and trouble shooting.
- Ability to work closely with clients to find solutions and identify business process improvements.
- Ability to analyze functional and technical needs and identify gaps and alternative /work around solutions relative to existing design.
- Involved In Extraction of Source System (SAP ECC) of New General Ledger (0FI_GL_10, FI_GL_14), Account Payable (0FI_AP_4), Account Receivable (0FI_AR_4) Records and IM (2LIS_03_BX, 2LIS_03_BF, 2LIS_03_UM) Using SAP Standard Data Sources.
- Installed Standard Business Content Objects as Per Project Requirement. Client Interaction about Report Layout Types.
- Worked Extensively on Data Warehouse Workbench for Modeling Activities and Remodeling.
- Worked on Customized Info Object, Info Cube, DSO, Data Sources, Transformations and Different Types of DTP.
- Enhanced the Data Source as per Client Requirement Using the Enhancement Component RSAP0001 to Fill the Data into Enhanced Fields through lookup Method.
- Created and Developed Multi-Dimensional Reports Based on Info Sets and Multi Provider.
- Involved in Performance Tuning of Queries by Maintaining Aggregates, Compression, Partition, Repartitioning and Indexing of Info Cubes.
SAP ABAP Trainee
SEP 2010 - FEB 2011
JK Info Tech Pvt Limited, Bangalore
Attended the SAP ABAP training classes, Hand's-on Practices from Corporate Trainer who worked in similar technology for extended years.
Quality Assurance Engineer
AUG 2008 - JULY 2010
CENTUM INDUSTRIES PRIVATE LIMITED.
- Worked for ISRO, VSSC clients.
- Responsible for Inspection of military grade DC parameters to be followed on devices and testing method, Master Device, Debugging.
Core capabilities
SAP Analytics & Enterprise Reporting
SAP BW/BI (3.X and 7.X), BW/4HANA, SAP HANA, Bex Reporting, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), AFO, Datasphere and S/4HANA Embedded Analytics.
SAP Transformation & Modernization
Legacy BW landscape modernization, SAP upgrades, Reporting transformation and cloud adoption strategies.
Business & Data Analysis
Business requirement discovery, KPI definition, FS and stakeholder alignment across finance, supply chain and sales departments/product owners.
Data Architecture & Integration
Adopt SAP best practices and methodologies, Enterprise data modelling, ABAP CDS Views for extraction and reporting model , ABAP, cross-platform integration and scalable data solutions.
Delivery & Stakeholder Leadership
Client engagement, solution assessment, technical governance, cross-functional collaboration and global delivery.
Business & Technology Alignment
Translating complex business requirements into practical, sustainable and value-driven technology solutions.
Data Governance & Optimization
Improve reporting efficiency, data quality, transparency and enterprise decision-making.
AI-Ready Enterprise Analytics
Exploring the intersection of SAP, cloud data platforms, automation and AI to enable intelligent, future-ready enterprise solutions.
Technology stack
SAP Core
SAP BW/BI, BW4HANA · SAP HANA · SAP ABAP / OO ABAP · ABAP CDS Views & AMDP · SAP ECC / S/4HANA (On-premises, RISE)
Analytics & Reporting
SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) · BusinessObjects (WebI, Lumira) · Bex Query Designer, · Power BI, Tableau · Excel / Analysis for Office (AFO)
Data & Integration
SLT / BODS replication · SQL & SQL Script · Data modelling (LSA++) · ETL design · Data Quality & Reconciliation
Project Delivery Tools
Agile & Hybrid Delivery · JIRA / Solution Manager · Requirement workshops · Test & Defect Governance · Onsite-Offshore Leadership
Selected case studies
Business domains
Manufacturing (5+ yrs) · IS-Retail & CPG (8+ yrs) · Supply Chain & Logistics (6+ yrs) · FI and Group Reporting (7+ yrs) · Procurement (4+ yrs) · Sales & customer (6+ yrs)