Yogesh Mistry

Experience extends to several P2P lifecycle implementations extending over 20 years. Usage of Ariba integrated into S4Hana cloud using both upstream and downstream. I am self taught in building internal catalogues and have implemented Ariba e sourcing events, Contract Compliance, Supplier Survey and Guided Buying each improving the business process but also making the end user experience more user friendly. 

Also support for Accounts Payable function ensuring invoice queries are resolved and suppliers paid on time minimising any disruption to the supply chain. 

I like doing my own investigation to understand the nuts and bolts of any system and this in term allows me to research and offer better alternative solutions. Having worked on many projects I enjoy working as part of a team and appreciate other peoples requests and viewpoints which is equally important to bare in mind. 

June 2012 to Present: Procure to Pay System Support Analyst 

TSB Bank, Barnwood 2, Barnet Way, Gloucester, GL4 3RL

• Technical lead in Ariba S4Hana implementation project. Engagement with business end users to align current working practices to the new system configuration capabilities and where appropriate offering alternative solutions that were more streamline, cost effective ultimately offering a positive experience to the end user. 
• Business lead in testing of system processes and system interfaces. Delivery of face-to-face training and creation of online user guides. 
• For downstream Ariba I engaged with suppliers enabling Punchout catalogue functionality. I am self-taught in creating internal catalogues that includes configurable items. Delivering of Guided Buying to enable the end user to have a more user-friendly experience in tracking down and channelling them to the right Procurement route minimising maverick spend. Delivered this package of work out to over 8,000 users. 
• Entwined in this area was implementing and enforcing the bank’s delegated authority approval rules on purchase requisitions. This includes additional approvals for asset accounting and specialist commodity codes. Monitoring and correcting any errors associated within the requisition and purchase order transition process between Ariba and S4Hana. 
• For upstream Ariba we enabled Sourcing, Contract Management and Supplier Management modules. Part of my upkeep duties include the maintenance of the templates that sit behind these modules, building tasks, creating approval flows and setting up conditions upon which to instruct the subsequent records created how to function. Over the years these templates have evolved to meet both audit requirements and to facilitate any regulatory control.
• Our sourcing team required some help in executing all their tender exercises within the Ariba solution meeting audit requirements and being totally transparent. To achieve this I researched and tested the Ariba functionality and managed to deliver face to face training sessions as well as a user guide on Ariba RFI, RFP and RFQ events. My service extended to help the sourcing manager plan and design the content of their live event as well as launching and monitoring from a technical perspective. I also managed to gain an insight into the Ariba Auction functionality as viewing suppliers live bids against ceiling priced goods is quite exciting to witness especially when to use the graphs and bar chart display presentation of data. 
• To kickstart our contract management module I also used the Ariba excel import functionality to migrate contract data from a legacy system. This involved a staged import process linking works orders and sub agreements to their respective Master Agreements ensuring they were correctly aligned in their hierarchical order. In addition, we mass uploaded the appropriate contractual documents to sit within the right documents folder. The contract template was further developed to facilitate contract extensions, amendments and renewals that elongated the contract hierarchy providing a clear picture for MI reporting. I managed to teach myself the contract compliance Ariba configuration and the business adopted this to monitor contract spend providing vital alerts to when purchase orders were going to complete and how quickly contract values were being utilised based on forecasted usage.
• Within Supplier Management space our template was configured to automatically populate tasks within a periodic reoccurring phase based on the criticality of the supplier to the bank making it easy for supplier managers to manage their workload and plan their approvals and meetings with their supplier and the business accountable executive. Recently I have configured the supplier survey capability to engage the supplier via their Ariba logon to manage their performance against set milestones throughout the life of their contract. 
• Using Ariba Connect to request changes, fix bugs, and seek solutions from their self-help repository. 
• Daily duties extend to resolving Ariba and SAP queries within SLA getting to the route cause and ensuring any master data is corrected or any configuration is working as expected. The SAP modules queries I address extend to Real Estate, Travel Expenses, Accounts Payable and Procurement.
• SAP and Ariba Role allocation ensuring segregation of duties are upheld via Service Now. 
• Creation and control of transportation changes through the development and UAT environments and presenting at change management team ready to support the approved changes into Production. 
• Recently completed upgrade of S4Hana from On-premise to cloud solution.
• 9 months emergency secondment to manage the Accounts Payable team and ensure timely payments were made to suppliers and employees. This involved the management of 10 people.

July 2011 to May 2012: SAP FI Support

Severn Trent Water Limited, Severn Trent Centre, PO Box 5309, Coventry, CV3 PFH

• 2nd line FI support working in conjunction with the accounts function to embed the new SAP solution into the business.
• Incident and service ownership. Updating calls and detailing information. Noting detail and accurate account of the end users’ issue and actions taken to enable and assist in log audits. Investigation and resolution of the issue and if required call onto relevant teams for update and guidance. 
• Ownership of various system interfaces that feed into the financial module. 
• Be on call for the monitoring and control overnight batch jobs that relate to daily update of company works orders and asset accounting. Here there was an increasing problem with the asset accounting jobs failing as the increasing number of records that needed to be processed did not complete in time hence failing the subsequent job that was dependant on the previous job completing. Rather than having one long continuous job I split the job into several small jobs based on asset class that could all start simultaneously. This resolved the underlying issue and made the extracted MI more transparent. 
• This was in conjunction with external third-party overseas support. 
• Maintenance of cost centres and cost centre hierarchy to reflect changes in the company’s organisational structure. 
• System transport creation, test evidence and migration into various SAP environments once presented and passed at the change approval board. 

2003 to May 2011: SAP Support (Core Competency Team Member)

Forensic Science Service, 2920 Solihull Parkway, Trident Court, Birmingham, B37 7YN

• 2nd line support for ALL issues relating to SRM, MM, FI, Asset Management. Additional knowledge extended to ESS, MSS, Travel Management and HR
• Project member for initial implementation of SAP, SRM and FI modules and for subsequent system upgrade projects. Creation of functional specifications. 
• System testing for patch upgrades and new developments. 
• Detailed knowledge of the SAP landscapes and the integration of SRM into ECC ensuring the correct purchase orders, stock reservations and requisitions are generated by the system.
• Administration and understanding of SRM workflow ensuring that high value and complex authorisations and approvals conform to company guidelines. 
• Understanding the HR organisation structure and links with SRM. Monitor of information changes between ECC and SRM correcting data parcels that may not get through. 
• Ownership and creation of Master Data
• Creation and maintenance of in-house MDM catalogue. 
• Set up the MRP process of creation of MM records, source lists and information records to allow changes to existing stock transports process, introducing shipping points so that cost savings from vendor bulk purchases can be obtained. 

1995 to 2003: Accounts Payable Manager

• Management of accounts payable team 
• Processing over 10,000 invoices and supplier statement reconciliations
• Invoice processing and approvals 
• Payments via BACS, Cheques dependant on daily cashflow.

1991 to 1995: Accounts Payable Manager

1991 BA Honours in Business Studies at Wolverhampton University 

1987 3 “A” Levels passes at Colton Hills School, Wolverhampton

1985 11 “O” Level passes including Mathematics and English Language