SUMMARY:

• Around 11.5 years of total experience in the fields of Accounting, Auditing and Information Technology
• Around 9.5 years of experience in Microsoft Dynamics AX Implementation and Consulting (AX 2012, 2009 and 4.0)
• Delivery Anchor handling 10 AX 2012 accounts spread across different geographies/industries
• ERP full cycle implementations from Scoping to post Go Live support for multiple clients across different industries
• Managed a portfolio of AX 2012 implementation and support projects spread across different geographies
• Anchor & participate in presales, manage operational activities, competency anchor Microsoft Dynamics
• Delivery Anchor, Program Management, Project Management, work planning for a multi country implementation
• Client Management, cost and effort analysis, preparation of Statement of Work and Project Plans
• Expertise in analyzing business processes, process re - engineering, business process re-evaluation and recommending solutions and implementing necessary solutions to streamline and standardize business processes
• Requirement Analysis, Requirement Gathering, Feasibility Studies and Gap Analysis
• As -Is & To-Be Process Mapping, COA structuring, Configuration, Testing, Data Migration & User
• Helpdesk, Support Consultant, Adhoc Consultancy, part of Pre Sale team for AX 2012
• Hands on exposure in Finance, T&L, Production and Projects Module in AX 2012, AX 2009 & AX 4.0
• In the accounting role, was responsible for the quarterly audits & preparation of analytical reviews for the auditors
• Directly involved in reporting to both the Audit Committee and Management on the policies, programmes and activities of the department
• Part of the planning and controlling team; involved in MIS reporting, budgeting and audit activities.
• Helping in management and assessment of business risks and implementing internal controls.
• Involved in monitoring processes used to assess the quality of performance over time

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Onsite Business Analyst, Project Manager and AX Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Co-ordinate and monitor project activities and ensure adherence to project timelines and quality of deliverables
• Review Infosys deliverables to check the quality and coverage.
• Regular task allocation and review for offshore and onsite team members.
• Provide oversight to all delivery aspects of the project
• Conduct Requirement Gathering workshop (I have individually gathered and documented more than 1200 requirements for finance, inventory management and warehouse management)
• Preparation of data dictionary for all business required attributes, entities and business rules
• Facilitate design and development
• I am the single point of contact for all vendors and business SMEs
• Lead a team and delivered AX CRP’s (workshops using AX configuration, mock-ups and wireframes) catering 2000+ functional requirements for finance, inventory, warehouse, production, projects & non-functional modules
• Handled multiple projects simultaneously along with the above activities

Confidential

Onsite Program Manager - AX, Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Act as a single point of contact for interactions with Confidential Program Manager, Executives and managers of other important IT initiatives of relevance
• Prepare Project Plan highlighting weekly tasks for the implementation effort and communicate the same to the Infosys team
• Co-ordinate and monitor project activities and ensure adherence to project timelines and quality of deliverables
• Report weekly status to Confidential Program Manager; conduct steering committee and project board meetings
• Escalate issues received from the Project team to Confidential Program Manager and jointly resolve them
• Provide oversight to all delivery aspects of the project
• Developed excel based tool for Confidential resource management to indicate over/under utilization, project prioritization, work planning, etc.
• Managed multiple tracks (AX and non-AX) as a single point of contact for Chobani.
• Handled multiple projects simultaneously along with the above activities

Confidential

Onsite Program Manager & Senior Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Estimations for the proposal and initial discussions with the customer
• Preparation of Statement of Work and Project Estimations for new rollouts and Support Model
• Conducted scoping workshop in UK and Singapore for financials and project operations.
• Team and task management, Project planning, conduct status meetings
• Coordinate implementations of AX and MR across different countries in parallel.
• Providing globally accepted solutions and harmonizing the business processes.
• Pilot implementation of AX financials for 3 companies in 8 weeks only. This included implementation of critical processes like consolidation, elimination, financial statement configuration.
• Conducting scoping workshops for UK and Singapore companies in a record time of 5 days and publishing the commercials, scoping analysis report and implementation approach.
• Coordination of implementation activities for multiple countries individually.
• Implementation of Management Reporter 2012 globally within 5 weeks.

Confidential

Onsite Program Manager & Senior Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Statement of Work, Change Request Document and Project Estimations for new rollouts
• Conducting Delta Requirement Gathering workshop across different locations in UK with the objective of minimal customizations and completion within timelines.
• Project Planning, conduct weekly status meetings, tasks planning for onsite and offshore
• Implementing the shared support model in Clear Channel from the full time support model for long term support engagement with Infosys
• Coordinate and work with multiple AX and other application partners involved in implementation and support.
• Resource planning for internal Infosys team and identifying additional avenues for increasing project margins

Confidential

Onsite & Offshore Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Statement of Work, Change Request Document and Project Estimations.
• Conduct Requirement Gathering workshop, CRP’s and across all Samling group companies.
• Co-ordinate and monitor project activities and ensure adherence to project timelines and quality of deliverables
• Review Infosys deliverables to check the quality and coverage. Also ensure there is no scope creep coming up due to improper documentation
• Regular task allocation and review for offshore and onsite team members.
• Implementation of entire payroll module with .Net E-Leave management solution integration within 8 months.
• The solution was developed from scratch for different business streams with different requirement sets
• Provided a configurable solution to handle all business requirements in order to resell the solution.
• Program management and task planning for onsite and offshore with frequent travel to Malaysia (In spite of being engaged and married during the same time frame, I ensured there is not even a single delay / escalation)
• Reusing the payroll solution to develop a payroll vertical for new and existing clients

Confidential

Offshore Project Manager & Finance Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Project management activities including audit, milestone planning, budgeting, preparation of Statement of Works, Change Request Documents, etc.
• Resource planning with respect to different rollouts in parallel with different tracks in each rollout.
• Daily task allocation and tracking. Handled a team size of 30 members spread across different locations in India and abroad with different time zones.
• Solution design for all finance processes specific to France & Nordic countries involving too many localized requirements

Confidential, New Jersey

Functional Consultant - Finance & Onsite Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Act as a single point of contact for interactions with Kumon Program Manager, Kumon Executives and managers of other important IT initiatives of relevance
• Prepare Project Plan highlighting weekly tasks for the implementation effort and communicate the same to Kumon and Infosys team
• Coordinate activities in the respective regions across different timelines to ensure alignment with the overall project schedule
• Facilitate Process Harmonization and design standardization based on AX capabilities
• Setting up of prototype instance and imparting to key business users across all countries

Confidential

Functional Consultant - Finance / Offshore lead for support track

Responsibilities:

• Managing the role of offshore lead for support track, involving team management and quick issue resolution
• Exploring the viability of ERP and translating client requirement into project objectives
• Gather requirementsand submit Functional Requirements Document, Application Design, Customization, Configuration and Module set up
• Preparation and running of Test Scripts and getting user sign offs for UAT
• Data Migration - Validation of Data Migration and data loading

Confidential

Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in designing the project plan, phases & timelines with logical sign-off & closures.
• Requirement Gathering for Equipment Procurement, Maintenance & Fuel Management and delivering the TO-BE processes with key focus to bring them in line with industry best practices.
• End to end solution for Equipment Management (Projects, AR, AP & IM) & Finance (GL & Bank Module)
• Conducting Conference Room Pilot (CRP) sessions focusing on integrity, usability & enhancement & demonstrating product capabilities for meeting the current business and system requirements.
• Configuration of multiple AX companies & modules and all necessary setups for inter-company transactions.
• Involved in Data Migration for historical and current year transactions spread across different modules.
• Handling post Go Live issues and coordination for deployment of patches on Production Server