Ashish Katyayan

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

KATBOTZ

May 2023 - Current (3 years 5 months)

Founded and lead KATBOTZ, a business consulting and technology firm delivering SAP S/4HANA implementations, finance transformation, and M&A integration advisory for Life Sciences, Hi-Tech, Consumer Goods, Energy & Utilities, and Financial Services clients across the U.S. and India.

Built the firm from the ground up - strategy, offerings, marketing, alliances, and client relationships growing to over 20 engagements and 200 team members within 3 years. Launched a dedicated SAP S/4HA implementation and advisory practice targeting manufacturing companies, including full business plan and delivery framework.

Leading implementation of SAP Grow at KATBOTZ. Lead offerings spanning Business Consulting, SAP Solutions, Education

M&A - ERP Leader & Client Partner (multiple initiatives)

KATBOTZ

Mar 2024 - Mar 2026 (2 years 1 month)

Served as ERP Program Leader for one of the largest M&A integration initiatives in the global chemicals industry, bringing together two multinational organizations with more than $11 billion in combined revenue and operations spanning over 100 legal entities worldwide. Led the overall ERP integration strategy, governance, and execution, aligning business, finance, supply chain, and technology stakeholders across global teams to deliver a seamless post-merger transformation.

Directed cross-functional collaboration across executive leadership, business process owners, SAP workstreams, integration architects, and data migration teams to harmonize operating models, standardize critical business processes, and accelerate synergy reali

Managing Director

KPMG US

Sep 2022 - May 2023 (9 months)

Overview: Life Sciences Finance Transformation leadership team
Role - Managing Director (8 months) Responsible for developing and supporting Life Sciences Finance Transformation sales pipeline at KPMG US advisory practice with a focus on the east region. Supported 3 phase 0 strategy discussions with KPMG and client leaders to identify opportunities for elevating the role of finance. Led restructuring of the Finance Transformation Life Sciences community. Collaborated across the advisory leadership team to develop a network at KPMG to help solve end to end problems. Attended key trainings at KPMG Lakehouse/virtual events.

Senior Manager

Deloitte Consulting

Aug 2018 - Oct 2022 (4 years 3 months)

Overview: S/4HANA project for a large tech company.
Role - Finance Lead (30 months): Issues resolution, Inventory conversion, interco profit elimination, Finance Integration to supply chain, tax, reporting, contract manufacturing, O2C (BRIM) & corp accounting. Component depreciation phase 0 & RAR and product costing (new and sustain phases) assessments.

Firm Initiative: SAP BRIM
Role - Lead & Sponsor (36 months): Global team of over 30 and growing. Defined and executed the strategy to create BRIM Finance market offering. Created the thread structure, recruited team members and drove weekly cadence. Supported sales & project activities, SAP demos, led training sessions (over 100 trainees), preconfigured solution setup &

Manager

Deloitte Consulting

Aug 2014 - Aug 2018 (4 years 1 month)

Overview: S/4HANA project for a Life Sciences leader
Role - Controlling Lead (5 months). Led the Global Controlling team with a 60 countries scope. Subject matter expert: S/4HANA, FI/CO integration with OTC, Customer Service and BI. Led workshop content development and execution. Authored proposals for harmonized processes. Led integration sessions and designed profitability analysis with 170 dimensions.

Overview: Suite on HANA project for a Leading Insurance Company.
Role - Finance Lead (5 months). Led a 10-member team during integration, user acceptance testing, and deployment. Integrated over 120 feeder systems to the General Ledger.

Overview: Impact assessment fiscal year change (4-4-5 to a calendar yea

Author and Speaker

Deloitte Consulting

Jan 2012 - Sep 2022 (10 years 9 months)

PMINJ – Fundamentals of S/4HANA deployment management
SAPinsider - Virtual panel discussion on S/4HANA finance transformation
SAPinsider - How to perform master data conversion for an accurate Product Costing and Management Reporting
SAPinsider - How to accurately perform variance analysis in SAP ERP Financials
SAPinsider - Real-Time Analytics in SAP S/4HANA
SAPinsider and internal - SAP S/4HANA’s intercompany capabilities for integrated finance
SAPinsider - SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA — Changing Your Today for a Better Tomorrow (Authored)
S/4HANA forum - Unveiling the business value of SAP S/4HANA
Internal - Real-time analytics for variance analysis in S/4HANA 1809
Internal - Business case for

Senior Consultant

Deloitte Consulting

Jan 2012 - Aug 2014 (2 years 8 months)

Overview: SAP rollout for a life sciences company
Role - Hypercare & Finance Transformation Lead (9 months). Subject matter expert for FI/CO integration. Led and managed a flawless cutover in a validated environment. System, functional GO-LIVE and hypercare were accomplished with minimal impact to a productive environment. Led FI/CO process design i.e. Customer Down payment, Product Costing, Activity Based Costing, CO-PA, GL, AR, AP and Asset Accounting. Authored product costing data conversion, inventory valuation approach and shared services transition plan. Rolled out the costing solution for successful period end closing. Designed and implemented the approach for period end closing.

Overview: Phase 1 of SAP rollout for

Senior Consultant

IBM

Mar 2008 - Jan 2012 (3 years 11 months)

Overview: SAP implementation for a life sciences company
Role - Techno functional (34 months). FI/CO custom objects, cost roll analytics, integration and defect resolution. Collaborated with SMEs on training, testing and post GO-LIVE support. Authored processes, SOPs in Product Costing, FI-Master Data Process, Period End Closing & interface risk mitigation approach. Collaborated with global cross functional and system teams to deliver custom objects in BI COGNOS and ABAP. Responsible for testing, data conversion, batch jobs, cutover in FI/CO & net margin reporting. Authored approach on data conversion, end to end Inventory load, and GL posting interface.

Overview: SAP Rollout for a worldwide leader in cosmetic product sales

Consultant

IBM

Oct 2006 - Mar 2008 (1 year 6 months)

Overview: SAP implementation for a large consumer products company
Role - Controlling Lead (9 months). Led integration of FI/CO with OTC, SCM and BW. Led workshops on CO-PA, Product Costing and Overhead Management. Designed integrated planning across COPA, S&OP, Cost Center, Product Cost Planning, GL and Profit Center. Authored functional specs, system configuration, testing and cost validation. Designed an innovative solution for dual budgeting.

Overview: SAP implementation for a large life sciences company
Role - Controlling Lead (9 months). Responsible for design and configuration of the Controlling module i.e. CO-PA, Product Costing, Overhead Management. Led business blueprint workshops and documentation of control

IT Associate

ITC Infotech

Mar 2006 - Aug 2006 (6 months)

Overview: SAP rollout for a worldwide leader in Energy and Utilities.
Role - Controlling Lead (6 months). Responsible for design and configuration of the Controlling module, integration with Project Systems and HR (Cross Application Time Sheet). Responsible for preparing and executing test plans, master data creation, and training. Assisted the end users in restructuring period end closing activities.

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Agency Controller

Katyayan Trading

May 2003 - Dec 2005 (2 years 8 months)

Overview: Largest distributor of Nestle products in Himachal Pradesh.
Role - Agency Controller. Responsible for strategy and operations of the business, including overseeing the areas of financial management, inventory management, customer, and vendor management. Led an ERP based business transformation.

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