Rakesh Agarwal

Rakesh Agarwal

Partner

KPMG in Singapore

Rakesh has over 25 years of experience in the consulting industry with a strong expertise on Digital Transformation, leveraging his business acumen and leadership capabilities within the Technology and Consulting sectors. His experience encompasses large digital transformation initiatives, operational strategy, business process analysis and improvement, as well as project, change, and risk management. At KPMG, Rakesh has successfully collaborated with a diverse clientele across various industries, including real estate, consumer goods, industrial manufacturing, agriculture, automotive, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices.

Rakesh is the lead IT Partner for the Enterprise Architecture Project in one of banking regulator agent in ASEAN. He has deep ASEAN experience as he has 15 years experience of working with Clients in ASEAN primarily in SAP space. He has spent more than 14 years in Singapore and has worked with various local and MNC clients. He has detailed knowledge of SAP finance and processes round finance including end to end Financial Asset Management . He has extensive knowledge of challenges involved in  Asset Management processes in different industries and how an ERP can be leveraged to eliminate these challenges and automate overall AM process.

  1. Areas of expertise
    • Adept at practice building including Delivery and Business Development.
    • Focused on value added delivery for clients by weaving in innovative services and technology solutions around Big Data, Mobility, Analytics and Cloud.
    • Managing relationship with SAP Ecosystem in ASEAN.
    • Performed strategic assessment and construct business cases on instances consolidation and ERP system upgrade across Asia for a global healthcare company. The review identified opportunities for improving data consistency and harmonisation, functionality enhancements and business process improvements for Record-to-Report, Procure-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash.
  2. Education & qualification
    • Chartered Accountant
    • Bachelor of Commerce
    • Cost and Management Accountant