SUMMARY:

• Proactive, performance - driven Project Manager with 18 years of experience in Leadership, Process Improvements, Project Management, Business Analysis and Problem solving across medium to large enterprises in the Financial Services and Logistics industries.
• Specialized in project managing and implementing IT solutions, projects and process improvements in the Business and Finance areas.
• Adept at managing projects by balancing the triple constraints of time, scope and budget.
• Strategic and tactical thinker, excellent presenter and cross-functional communicator and can easily interface with several stakeholders including Management, vendors and customers with expertise in leading behavioral and cultural change.
• Develop and maintain strong relationship with business partners and internal/external team members.
• Self-starter and self -motivator, persistent to achieve win-win solutions.
• Can work independently or with teams. Have excellent oral, written and presentation skills. Experience working with on-shore and off-shore teams in functional and matrix environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• PMI PMBOK, SDLC, PeopleSoft Financials
• SAP, Mainframe Systems
• In-house General Ledger Mapping Tools
• Smart stream TLM, Business Objects
• SUN Financials, Clarity, Vision
• MS Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed, maintained, and tracked project plans including WBS, schedule, scope, risks, and change management throughout the PLC.
• Managed solution scoping for implementing the Reconciliations on one integrated platform and train the users on the new platform in an Agile Project environment.
• Partnered with the Business Users for the requirements management from project initiation through implementation to empower business teams to adapt the new automated process for quality control purposes
• Managed migration of users from manual to automated system.
• Coordinated work of test teams and monitored their performance during performance and integration testing.
• Coordinated the Implementation and the Reporting process.
• Coordinated with external Vendors’ Project and Test teams for the production of required files layouts/formats to complete the automation process
• Compiled test metrics for reporting and optimizing delivery schedule.
• Coordinated with the Enterprise Security & infrastructure Teams for retrieving, testing and implementing the new automated statements from JP Morgan

Environment: - Agile, Clarity, MS Word, MS Visio, Outlook, Smart stream TLM, Oracle PeopleSoft Application, Notepad ++, MS Excel, Lync

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Steering end-to-end migration of data and users on the AMP Commissions platform.
• Developed transition strategies and change management strategies.
• Conducted stakeholder and impact analysis.
• Monitor and track project status and provide periodic status updates to key stakeholders.
• Lead project meetings, identify key risks and take appropriate actions steps to resolve issues.
• Own issue resolution from start to finish by monitoring unresolved issues and ensure prompt resolution with robust and proper escalation.
• Interacting with Architects, Test Lead, Business Analysts and Technology Lead to monitor the overall progress of the projects and planning of various releases.
• Researched existing application, performed GAP and Risk analysis, and evaluated benefits of migration.

Environment: - Agile, MS Project, MS Word, MS Visio, Outlook, Smart stream TLM, PeopleSoft Application, In-house General Ledger Mapping System

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed, maintained, and tracked project plans including WBS, schedule, scope, risks, and change management throughout SDLC.
• Partnered with Information Risk Management team and Business for requirements management from project initiation through implementation to empower technical teams to produce the best possible security solutions.
• Managed migration of users from manual system to the automated system.
• Coordinated work of test teams and monitored their performance during performance and integration testing.
• Coordinated infrastructure deployment.
• Compiled test metrics for reporting and optimizing delivery schedule.
• Created project processes and templates that allowed the project team to operate within the Agile methodologies.
• Managed the work backlog for the Business Analysis and Technical teams.
• Performed requirements auditing with every iteration and created standards and checklists for development team to better understand documentation expectations.

Environment: - Agile, MS Project, MS Word, MS Visio, Outlook, Smart stream TLM, Oracle PeopleSoft Application, In-house General Ledger Mapping System

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and managed project plan and schedules.
• Created and reviewed functional specification document.
• Coordinated with Developers, Business to review customization and testing requirements
• Partnered with the Business Users for the requirements management from project initiation through implementation to empower business teams to adapt the new automated process for quality control purposes
• Managed migration of users from manual process to automated system.
• Coordinated work of test teams and monitored their performance during performance and integration testing and UAT.
• Coordinated the Implementation and the Reporting process.
• Coordinated with external Vendors’ Project and Test teams for the production of required files layouts/formats to complete the automation process
• Coordinated with the Enterprise Security & infrastructure Teams for retrieving, testing and implementing the new automated statements from HSBC.

Environment: Agile, Clarity, MS Word, MS Visio, Outlook, Smart stream TLM, Oracle PeopleSoft Application, MS Access

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Closely interact and provide timely and accurate Financial reports and business performance results to the Trustee Board of Directors as per guidelines
• Act as liaison between the company and service providers and assist in risk management, issue mitigation and resolution
• Review performance against Budgets and prepare Variance and Control Reports
• Develop, manage and coach staff and team members in the finance team
• Liaise with external auditors on accounting procedures and records during Annual Company Audits and KPIs within the company, ensuring that managers receive timely, accurate and relevant information
• Align current practices with Annual Budgets and Forecasts, and collaborate with management on the five-year projection cycle
• Provide meaningful analysis and commentary on Business performance and all variances to Plans, CAPEX Budgets and Operating Budgets, Monthly Reports to the Trustee Management.