EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Quality - driven IT professional with 9+ years of experience in Consulting environment with extensive functional experience in Invoice to Cash, Procure to Pay & Record to Report Processes with expertise in project management, business analysis, application support and implementations. Project managed, designed, developed, and implemented a variety of business solutions including: rollout, acquisition integration, migration, off-shoring, vendor management, ERP systems implementations, global financial consolidations, and numerous reporting systems
• Experienced Analyst with 9+ years of experience in Business & System Analysis, Implementation, Production Support and Upgrade
• Extensive functional experience in Finance the domain in areas like (Transfer Pricing/Intercompany, Order to Cash (OTC), Procure to Pay (P2P) and & Record to Report) Processes.
• Industry experience and strong domain knowledge in Finance & supply chain verticals
• Good exposure to environments adhering to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ( Confidential )
• Expertise in Business Process Re-engineering, implementing ERP solutions and familiar with PMI based project management methodologies.
• Involved in multiple life cycle implementations starting from requirements gathering analysis up to go-live (Entire Project Life Cycle).
• Expertise in GAP Analysis, Prototyping, data mapping, writing functional specifications, Workflows, design development, implementation, testing, quality adherence, documentation, troubleshooting and support.
• Good understanding of SOX compliance with relation to Retention of Records relevant to Audits and Reviews
• Experienced in Scrum, Agile, Hybrid and Waterfall best practices
• Plan and manage projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage, and bottom-line gains
• Expert in SAP’s FI modules, with proficiency in FI/SD/MM automatic account determinations, Configuration as well as expertise to interpret user requirements into Functional specifications in the areas of Billing & Invoicing, Credit & Collection management, In-House Cash etc.,
• Proficiency in configuring Multi Currencies & Foreign Currency Valuations processes
• Hands in experience in using third party tax software Vertex etc.,
• Knowledge in using Mercury Interactive Tools (QTP, Test Director/Quality Center)

APPLICATIONS / TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Microsoft Office Suite including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Project, Visio and SharePoint.
• ERP Financial applications include Oracle 11i & R12 & SAP (FI, CO, SD, MM) including reporting applications like SAP Business Objects, Tableau & Micro Strategy.
• Application integration tools include EDI and webMethods.
• Project management/Report generating & Testing & Defect tracking tools include CA Clarity, Rally, Mercury QC/LoadRunner and MS Project, Remedy, Bugzilla, Clearquest, etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on numerous project initiatives (i.e. implementation, rollouts, upgrades etc..) and new development activities that resulted in enhanced processing capabilities and cost savings to the company.
• Utilized Agile/waterfall methodologies and project management protocols to lead the implementation and support of Finance based projects.
• Tracked the project's financials, resources, milestones, and timelines using Clarity.
• Reported directly to the Global Finance PMO and have a familiarity with PMO-related job requirements.
• Authored and presented proposal to executive team to accomplish the BEPS reporting needs through in-house reporting tool rather than sourcing from 3rd party vendors, which resulted in net savings of more than $300K to Transfer Pricing team
• Ran ongoing internal program meetings, including weekly status check-ins. Created process flows and Operating Manual (Processes/System)
• Worked in a hybrid environment where the management attempted to transition from Waterfall to Agile Methodology
• Orchestrate backlog grooming, creating epics and user stories (requirements) with Business & IT partners
• Assisted in entering and updating Issues (Epics, Stories, and Tasks) onto ‘RALLY’ Agile application
• Responsible for analyzing the business processes for creating requirements documents
• Provided expertise in the design, development and testing of new subscription based billing platform (SBP) to support & accommodate different cloud offering like Enterprise License Agreement for (Term & Perpetual), Upsell/Down sell SaaS offers including Pre-payment scenarios for Utility Drawdown models.
• Provide business systems analysis and support to refine the functional requirements in alignment with scope of the project, expected timelines, and quality objectives.
• Coordinated with cross-functional teams on project plan, budget, resources required to successfully deliver high quality products.
• Created and maintained product/project roadmap and design documents.
• Gathered requirements from Stakeholders and created user stories including acceptance criteria in Rally
• Designed and developed project document templates using SDLC methodology.
• Stewarded and delegated action items & change requests to ensure efficient and timely results were achieved

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Confidential (Key Design Decisions) to design, document & follow Industry Best Practices to move away from the current R11i custom solution to future ready state to accommodate Tax and intercompany requirements.
• Collaborated with cross-functional stakeholders to understand and create new rules based engine for supporting Ship Decouple & Revenue Decouple rules
• Drafted As-Is & To-Be Interco Accounting flows based on the Ship Decoupled lanes
• Gathered requirements & designed solutions to address process/system GAPS to ensure Intercompany (Virtual Trader) application to systematically handle, and transact Title Transfer & IC COGS business events independently based on the new milestone messaging events

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated workshops & meetings ( Confidential sessions) with Stake holders to understand business processes and document any GAPS in the Invoice to Cash area which included areas (Invoicing/Billing, Credit, Collection & Dispute Management, and Receipt) applications
• Created Business Requirements Document based on end-user requirements and drafted As Is & To Be process flows and other design deliverables.
• Worked with Business Owners/Users & other IT Team members to analyze, design, document, test, and implement SAP solutions to meet business requirements.
• Worked with Technical team to design and integrate GVAT (Tax Interface) with SAP system & ensured Invoices were successfully uploaded and downloaded to & from SAP system to GVAT for generating Tax invoices.
• Worked on testing the respective EDI partner functions, IDOC types and Workflow processes.
• Developed testing Strategy and created test plans and mapped Test cases to Test Scenarios
• Communicated system changes and coordinated and performed testing of system modifications
• Provided inputs into test plans and scripts for the testing of these system processes during different Test cycles and assisting users in their BAT & UAT test phases
• Provided extensive support to the business users regarding business issues arising out of SAP
• Prepared End-user training manuals and developed Go/No-Go Documents
• Was part of a wider team that defined the best practices to analyze, design & Implement key functional areas like Billing, AR, FI and Cash Management
• Participated in business modelling review sessions to document business requirements.
• Identified gaps in the business process procedures and documented As-Is & To-Be processes leading to the development of the Business Process master list.
• Worked with IT to maintain SAP configurations for creating NLE’s (New Legal Entities) and to ensure company’s business processes are aligned with the new functionalities
• Responsible to Document, Design, Test and arrange release of developments of SAP FI modules with focus on (Accounts Payable, Banking & Cash Mgmt. activities).
• Involved in the Legacy Customer Master data upload through LSMW and eCATT scripts
• In Treasury module, worked with IT to the design, configure and test both Manual and Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) for Bank reconciliation
• Created test plans, Test Scenarios and Test scripts for testing of these system processes during different Test cycles and assisting users in their BAT & UAT test phases
• Participated in Unit, Integration & BAT testing and coordinated with business users for UAT & End to End testing
• Worked extensively on testing the EDI interfaces (850 - Purchase order, 810 - Invoice, 210 - Freight invoice and 820 - Check/ RA) with SAP subsystem ( Confidential /Mercator).
• Prepared Cutover plan & Cutover activities and supported business user during Post go live support

Environment: s: Oracle/SAP/ Rally, Clarity/ MS Project, MS Excel

Confidential

SAP FI Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Primarily responsible for Problem / Incident Management (i.e. resolving Application Management & Service Request tickets) and Change Management (Change Requests) to ensure existing functionality within Production environment
• Worked in the FI team providing around the clock support to global users in the AR, AP, GL and AA areas.
• Provided support on various issues in Fixed Assets in the areas of settlement of WBS to AuC, depreciation in multiple currencies
• Extensively involved in the month end closing activities including Foreign currency valuation, accruals, depreciation run
• Monitor queue as per SLC agreements during month-end, quarter end and year end support.
• Involved in building Invoice interface with 3rd party in SAP Accounts Payables module
• Involved in setting up configuration in Accounts payable as part of setting up new company code in SAP
• Involved in resolving issues / clarifications related to Invoice tolerances set up in Accounts Payable / Material Management interface
• Supporting and resolving the Month end closing issues
• Responsible for system configuration and for any tasks that arise within application projects
• Worked on support issues in AR relating to billing, payment processing, account clearing, GL account assignments from SD, payment terms, Credit Management, dunning and customer statements.
• Coordinating with the user during UAT
• Coordination and status details and reports between team members both onsite and offsite.

Confidential, CA

FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Working as a business analyst, was effectively Confidential ’s ‘Oronite’ project & was responsible for gathering Business requirements and preparing functional specifications.
• Was actively involved in configuring various components of the SAP R/3 system like FI-GL, FI-SL, AA, AP, TM modules
• Designed and configured several Custom Reports (Trial Balance, Detailed Income Statement & Operating Expense Statements) as per the Confidential requirement (Form 6) using SAP Report Writer/Painter and SAP Query reports.
• Interacted with business users to analyze the requirements and technical designs of the RICEF objects
• In Treasury worked on Lockbox configuration, Lockbox Processing setting up house banks, defining lockbox accounts at House banks, Lockbox Posting data, testing the lockbox functionality, treasury groupings, bank statement processing
• Assisted in Asset Management implementation and configured Asset Classes, Master data, addition, retirement, transfer and other business transactions
• Provided support on various issues in Fixed Assets in the areas of settlement of WBS to AuC, depreciation in multiple currencies
• Designed and Customized new PL Ledger by augmenting the standard general ledger for regulatory account processing & reporting with the SAP’s IS Utilities Confidential solution.
• Designed and configured several Custom Reports (Trial Balance, Detailed Income Statement & Operating Expense Statements) as per the Confidential requirement (Form 6) using SAP Report Writer/Painter and SAP Query reports.
• Was involved in carrying out the preliminary evaluations for comparing SAPs New GL to Confidential ’s legacy system

Confidential, San Carlos, CA

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Business requirements and prepared functional specifications for two of its global new entities
• Participated in workshops to define requirements and develop to-be processes for customization of intercompany transactions across multiple global entities.
• Extensively involved in the month end closing activities including Foreign currency valuation, accruals, depreciation run
• Worked on resolving Check Printing and Payment Advice issues in Accounts Payable.
• Scheduled weekly batch jobs for automatic reconciliation of Bank statements by posting to the respective Bank Clearing Accounts.