SUMMARY:

• Working expertise in Software Development Life cycle (SDLC), Project Life cycle, Business Process Modeling (BPM), Six Sigma and in Software Development Methodologies including Rational Unified Process (RUP), Waterfall, and Agile (Scrum & XP).
• Strong knowledge in International Financial Reporting Standers IFRS & US GAAP.
• Excellent knowledge in Corporate Finance, Investment Banking, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Derivative products such as Options and Futures, Swaps and Swap Options involving Credit and Interest rate and other OTC derivatives, Fixed Income, Trade Life Cycle, OMS (Order Management Systems), Mortgage, Insurance, Bonds, GAAP
• Experience in process modeling using Use Cases, Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Class Diagrams.
• Extensive experience in producing documents like Business Requirements Documents (BRD), Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS), Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), creating Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Experience in creating High/Low level TDD, Data Flow diagram, data mapping document and ETL specification document.
• Extensive experience in end to end ETL process of data transformation, sourcing, mapping, conversion and loading.
• Strong knowledge in accounting, auditing, payroll, financial analysis and preparation of financial statements. Confident in proposing solutions to complex accounting issues for enhanced accuracy and control.
• Financial accounting expertise in configuring, testing and reporting in SAP FI - CO (AR,AP,AA GL,CCA,PCA, Product Costing, COPA and New GL),SD, and MM in highly Complex Business environment
• Proficient in SAP FICO, Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics and MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Visio and PowerPoint.), MS Project, Windows 2000/XP, Rational Requisite Pro, MS Visio, Rational Suite, Lotus Notes HP QC & SQL servers.
• SQL - basics utilized for data testing between SAP source and Data Warehouse, Mercury Quick Test for SAP tool

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Peoria, IL

SAP FICO Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• SAP FICO Business Analyst worked in Confidential for upgrading implementation.
• Business Analyst for controlling module focused on product costing (CO-PC) application including Production orders for actual cost calculation.
• Calculate cost of inventory based on actual output units produced.
• Check material master and ensure Standard, Planed and actual cost for COGM and COGS.
• Testing and review of the programs for the upload of the master and transaction data from the existing legacy systems using LSMW, for Controlling area and Operating Concern.
• Made assignments Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profitability Analysis and Profit Center Accounting sub-modules in CO
• Provided implementation assessment for Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Rational Unified Process (RUP).
• Followed Six sigma lean methodology.
• Participated Joint Application Development (JAD) Sessions for communicating and managing expectations with Commerce bank whose customers were going to be the final users of the product.
• Principles followed in financial accounting were according to GAAP
• Created forms for dunning balance list and confirmation of balances for period closing Grouping the company’s vendors and customers to define credit control areas and dunning areas
• Support SAP implementation in an ECC 6.0 environment, Prepare functional specifications for reports, interfaces, enhancements, and workflows.
• Configured the settings for Outgoing Payments including Automatic Payment Program

Confidential, Providence, RI

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Played a key role in the development and implementation of numerous enhancements for the Business Control System; Administrative Fee Waiver; Low Net Worth; Electronic Delivery Systems
• Gathered information using SWIFT
• Business analyst worked from start-to-end development from initiation stage to deployment to post production issues.
• Actively participated in the documentations for all new financial process management, accounting policies, audit, regulations, and system procedures.
• Analyzed software requirement specification documents. Created processing model diagrams in UML/Visio using the business process information captured in the business context analysis documents.
• Tracked and documented project timelines, budget, resources and operational impacts through implementation
• Worked with internal and external auditors to meet SOX compliance requirements.
• Processed and reconciled data and generated daily adhoc reports per user requests.
• Managed process performance and quality by analyzing performance metrics that provided data used to determine improvements needed and process measurement
• Improved efficiency and customer satisfaction, by developing new processes for areas identified as inefficient and costly which enabled the team to meet 98% of SLA’s.
• Gathered financial data from Oracle database to address Business requests from management (remaining book value, inventory count, leased assets, and depreciation requests)
• Produced financial reports utilizing Access and Excel to manipulate data with pivot table, pivot charts and macros.
• Collaborated with database administrators to research and resolve issues regarding the integrity of data flow into databases
• Presented high level requirements and interaction diagrams using use cases, to user groups, as well as documenting requirements and getting them reviewed and base lining the same.
• Developed functional requirements and a proposed data warehouse strategy for supporting employee compensation and compliance reporting/analytics.
• Ensured Cost Benefit Analysis, Constraints, Risks, Operational Impacts and Net Changes were accurately represented
• Participated in the corporate wide BPR roadmap process to define the “To be” process based on Design
• Prepared Business Workflow models that cover "How" business processes are accomplished, involved in process modeling, reviewing and writing URS and Functional Requirements.

Confidential, Gainesville, FL

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with business owners to identify business system needs, evaluated solutions or business problems and proposed alternate methods to increase efficiency.
• Analyzed and documented information system requirements and the corresponding impact on business processes.
• Responsible for defining the scope and implementing business rules of the project, gathering business requirements and documentation.
• Communicated frequent reporting results to senior level management to monitor regulatory variances
• Responsible for writing Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and User Requirement Specification (URS).
• Analyzed Business Requirements and segregated them into high level and low level Use Cases, Activity Diagrams using Rational Rose according to UML methodology thus defining the Data Process Models.
• Successfully conducted JAD sessions, which helped synchronize the different stakeholders on their objectives and helped the developers to have a clear-cut picture of the project.
• Responsible for maintaining the minutes of all the requirement gathering sessions.
• Independently manage project scope, risks and manage project meetings as needed to drive projects to completion.
• Successfully implemented all tactical operational monthly releases.
• Supported and enhanced Financial Operating Statements and Reports system used for Revenue increase, analysis, management reporting, inspection & maintenance and audit reconciliation reporting
• Elicited requirements by employing information-gathering techniques (e.g., Interviews, surveys, business process analysis), competitive product analysis, reverse engineering of existing systems, etc.
• Facilitated meetings with client to document requirements, justification, funding and explored potential solutions.
• Involved in defining the scope of the project, gathering business requirements and documenting and managing them.
• Processed accounts payable and accounts receivable using Great Plains software; prepared financial accounting statements using QuickBooks software.
• Posted general ledger and prepared supporting documents in timely manner.
• Suggesting ways to minimize the production cost of the company and maximize the revenue coming from various streams.
• Post manual Journal entries to post transactions to the General Ledger for WIP and Inventory.
• Updated pending accounts and reconciliation of accounts with bank and external party accounts.
• Processed Accounts payable and receivables process.

SAP FICO financial Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Successfully promoted from accountant position to SAP FICO Business Analyst position for SAP implementation within one year for outstanding results.
• Collaborated with functional teams to map business defined processes and SAP-delivered transactions to new and existing roles.
• Responsible for collecting, vetting and documenting available functional requirements and providing support and configuration for following SAP FI processes in GL, AR, AP, & AA.
• Successfully conducted JAD sessions, which helped synchronize the different stakeholders on their objectives and helped the developers to have a clear-cut picture of the project.
• Responsible for defining the scope using project backlogs and sprint backlogs and implementing business rules of the project, gathering business requirements and documenting user stories and personas.
• Gathered User and Business level Requirements from SMEs by conducting JAD sessions.
• Oversaw Process Flow Control and resource allocation. Functioned as one of the primary liaisons between the business line, operations, and the technical areas
• Managed annual inventory count of fixed asset and stock.
• Managed annual and monthly closing procedure, charge annual and monthly Journal Entries, set-up, maintain and generate recurring entries, monthly and annual accrual preparation.
• Performed analysis of interest income/expenses, monthly expenses, overheads and ROI.
• Managed daily cash turnover of AED 350000 to AED 500000; collaborated with employees from four divisions dealing with domestic and international trading.
• Defining specifications for preparing balance sheets at periodic intervals, for valuation of stocks and account balances, for creation of reserve for bad debts and other provisions
• Created Vendor master, Customer master and specified number ranges and screen layouts Ensured that Bank and Correspondence data is created for each vendor and Customer
• Configured credit control area for customers and defined risk categories and reason codes for disputes and configured the settings for Outgoing Payments including Automatic Payment Program (APP).
• Responsible for writing Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and User Requirement Specification (URS).
• Analyzed Business Requirements and segregated them into high level and low level Use Cases, Activity Diagrams using Rational Rose according to UML methodology thus defining the Data Process Models.
• Configured for posting Bills of Exchange Payable, for Security Deposits Configured Lockboxes for the customer Payments
• Extensively interacted with cross functional teams to understand the impacts on finance.
• Coordinated the integration of FICO with SD, MM and PP based on functional requirements, automatic account assignment, maintaining the revenue account determinations & revenue recognition which is useful in integrating AR-SD

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with business owners to identify business system needs, evaluated solutions or business problems and proposed alternate methods to increase efficiency.
• Analyzed and documented information system requirements and the corresponding impact on business processes using Business Process Models.
• Responsible for defining the scope using project backlogs and sprint backlogs and implementing business rules of the project, gathering business requirements and documenting user stories and personas.
• Responsible for writing Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and User Requirement Specification (URS).
• Analyzed Business Requirements and segregated them into high level and low level Use Cases, Activity Diagrams using Rational Rose according to UML methodology thus defining the Data Process Models.
• Successfully conducted JAD sessions, which helped synchronize the different stakeholders on their objectives and helped the developers to have a clear-cut picture of the project.
• Responsible for maintaining the minutes of all the requirement gathering sessions.
• Prepared profit/loss statements, cost of production internal reports and sales tax deeds documentation for exports and imports.
• Audited manufacturing and trading concerns, participating in statutory audit of nationalized banks conducted by Reserve Bank of India
• Performed Gap Analysis to identify the deficiencies of the current system and to identify the requirements for the proposed system.
• Responsible for loan verification and analysis of commercial and personal loan applications for 3 Indian Overseas bank branches.
• Created Process Work Flows, Functional Specifications, and responsible for preparing Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Functional Specification Document (FSD).
• Reconciled daily branch cash transactions of Idea (Escotel) cellular phones, reviewing credibility of Cholamandalm Financial customers; evaluated analysis of sales and expenditures, finalizing accounts.