Yash Gautam
Technology and product professional with 7+ years of experience helping global FMCG and Oil & Gas clients turn business needs into analytics and ERP solutions. Thrives on untangling ambiguous problems, aligning diverse stakeholders, and finding simpler ways for teams to work. Implemented automated solutions cutting manual effort by 70% and enabling 40% workforce optimization for a $60B+ client.
Work Experience:
7.7 Years
Industry:
Consulting | Technology
Function:
Consulting & Strategy | Product Management | Project & Program Management
Accenture (Global IT services and technology consulting firm) | Bengaluru
Application Development Team Lead
- Spearheaded reporting, analytics, and ERP solutions for a global FMCG client (~$60+ billion revenue), managing cross-functional teams to deliver business-critical solutions.
- Drove the automation of Month-End Closure reporting via SAP HANA and Azure Data Factory, cutting manual effort ~70% and improving reporting efficiency and customer satisfaction.
- Diagnosed inefficiencies across reporting and support processes and led automation, standardisation, and SOP initiatives, lifting productivity and enabling ~40% workforce optimisation while sustaining 99.9% SLA compliance.
- Built and led a 5-member development team across planning, resourcing, hiring, onboarding, mentoring, and performance management, ensuring timely execution of strategic initiatives.
- Partnered with Product, Finance, and Digital Transformation leads to translate business requirements into analytics products; defined project-wide KPIs, delivery metrics, and governance frameworks.
Application Development Senior Analyst
- Led Application Maintenance and Support teams to 99.9% SLA compliance across incidents, service requests, problem tickets, and production support via ServiceNow dashboards enabling data-driven decisions for stakeholders.
- Supported the client’s digital transformation by migrating SAP landscapes from on-premise infrastructure to Azure and contributing to the SAP S/4HANA journey, modernizing legacy ERP processes and reporting.
- Bridged business users, SAP consultants, analytics teams, and developers across Finance, Supply Chain, Commercial, Sales, and Operations to support enterprise reporting, business planning, and performance management.
Application Development Analyst
- Designed and delivered enterprise-scale reporting and analytics solutions using SAP Native HANA, Azure Data Factory, and Power BI, enabling data-driven decisions for business stakeholders.
- Rebuilt the operations and controls reporting function from scratch during a vendor transition, by planning KT and feedback sessions, implementing checks for zero defects and timely delivery of Change Requests for HANA models thereby preserving service quality with zero SLA breach.
Application Development Associate
- Implemented SAP Native HANA solutions for a large Oil & Gas company (~$3.5+ billion revenue), optimizing views improving execution times and building future-ready test scripts.
- Migrated a legacy Teradata reporting solution to SAP BI and instituted peer review into the development cycle, reducing defects and lowering testing effort.
- Promoted three times in a 7-year tenure – Associate to Team Lead – recognized for consistent, high-impact performance.
- Won Accenture’s ACE Award for outstanding contribution to client business outcomes.
- Won Unilever’s Comex Quarterly Star Award for delivering business-critical projects ahead of schedule.
- B.Tech – Mechanical Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, MAHE | Manipal, India
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, KPMG
- Career Accelerator Program: Product Management, Upraised
- Interned at Honda Cars India (2017) and at Leibniz-Institut für Agrartechnik (ATB), Germany (2018), working on mechanical engineering applications in automotive testing and agricultural research.
- Lifelong cricket enthusiast – led the school team and won the Corporate Cricket Cup (Nuance Sports, 2022).
- Secretary, Rotaract Club of Manipal (2017–18): led year-long community service initiatives and organized major charity events.
- Category Head for Hospitality across multiple cultural and technical fests at MIT, Manipal.
- Represented at multiple Model United Nations conferences, including IIM Bangalore, Summit Manipal, and INMUN.