SUMMARY:

• Expertise in developing strategies and transforming business concepts and processes into digital platform. A strong business and SAP landscape knowledge and extensive project management experience. SAP leader with strong business acumen to manage large scale, high risk, strategic projects, portfolios, and engagements. Honored to be a speaker

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

SAP Consultant Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Establish a program for the City Program team for the S/4 HANA Migration Program
• Conduct day - to-day management of the alliance in accordance with city’s governance process
• Lead strategic alliance initiatives with SAP and SAP Strategic Program Partner
• Establish and maintain relationship with the City Program Steering Committee and Joint Steering Committee
• Participate in initial project understanding, effort and cost estimation, and business negotiations
• Successfully implemented SAP Treasury solution
• Project Manager for SAP-Treasury implementation as part of SAP Modernization Program for the City
• Develop objectives, phasing and content of the project/work stream to deliver on the business case benefits, budget and timescales
• Manage and lead with the technical team all offshore decisions with our extended team
• Manage all aspects of the budget including external resources on the project and any CR related change that will impact the budget
• Present weekly project status reports to the team and SAP Treasury Steering Committee
• Manage and coordinate/close all issues related to project delivery and scope/timeline
• Work with the functional and technical teams to confirm the solution architecture
• Identify, track and mitigate all risks
• Manage to the objectives and plan by thorough risk, issue and change management
• Monitor and control the work to ensure that the project/work stream remains on track and in control
• Successfully completed Design phase for the first phase of the project
• Advise the SAP BW/4 HANA Steering Committee on the progress of the project
• Ensure the solutions is aligned with the City’s Modernization program
• Work closely with the SAP Strategic Partner on the project implementation
• Provide quality assurance, work plan monitoring and updates to the project teams
• Providing financial estimates and risk analysis, suggesting contingency plans
• Ensure the solutions meets the City’s requirements and scalable for the future S/4 HANA Implementation

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Leadership team member on ECC to S/4 HANA Migration strategy
• Worked with SAP and Strategic Partners on SAP HANA, SAP Cloud Platform (SCP), SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and ECC Applications
• Led SAP HCP, SCP, SAC Solutions for Member and Customers Hospitals for Ontario
• Managed multiple reporting streams: Legacy(SQL), SAP BW/BI and HANA BI Platform
• SAP subject matter expert regarding SAP ECC to S/4 HANA migration, ECC SPS Upgrades, system integration, ongoing projects, technical review.
• Led ITS Council meeting for SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) solutions and support business decisions for hospitals
• Participated and contributed to strategic and functional excellence initiatives for Plexxus
• Conducted workshops with hospitals to address business challenges with SAP reporting and advise solution
• Provided analytical support for projects and enhancements including initial scoping, planning, scheduling, resource implications, risk assessment, testing, establishing milestones, deliverables
• Managed assigned projects on time and on budget, ensuring that required approvals are obtained
• Led Plexxus, Hospitals, and third-party business and technical teams as required for project delivery
• Facilitated of BI steering committee and co-chair SAP user group meetings
• Successfully rollout a Hospital Analytics Solution for 10 member hospitals across Ontario
• Conducted the project planning activities and manage the execution of large-scale project for 10 member hospitals across Ontario
• Evaluated complex situations accurately and identify viable solutions that create successful outcome for member hospitals
• Evaluated HANA performance and review current licencing structure and negotiate with SAP
• Ensured proper governance is in place to best meet project objectives
• Manage the financial aspects of the project: budgeting and estimate to actual variance

Sr. SAP Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed recent SAP implementation for Yamaha Canada and identify process and system gaps and recommend solution
• Project lead for SAP ERP enhancement, systems integration and BI solution projects
• Communicated with Senior Executive Team to share IT best practices and develop strategy and implementation road map for Yamaha Canada and Yamaha Finance Company
• Collaborated with colleagues both within, and outside the IT organisation and Yamaha USA
• Reviewed current Management Reporting tools SAP BO and Non-SAP platforms and recommend solutions
• Led Management Reporting projects on SAP BW/BI, Legacy mainframe and other reporting systems
• Delivered of projects within timescales and budgets.
• Solved complex business process and system issues
• Led SAP Concur, BW/BO, Siebel enhancement and YDS portal projects
• Collaborated with Corporate Executive Team to implement PMO practice for Canada region
• Collaborated with cross functional teams from Finance, IT&S and Operations to document and analyze current financial systems, processes and data management
• Led project meetings to understand the scope of the project
• Collected, analyzed and documented user requirements in order to improve business operations in SAP ERP and BI solution
• Designed, implemented, and mapped processes, tools and systems necessary to ensure Finance processes are effective, and IT quality service levels are delivered

Financial Systems Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led SAP finance projects to ensure both Finance and business needs are met
• Collaborated with cross functional teams from Finance, IT&S and Operations to document and analyze current financial systems, processes and data management
• Own the program deliverables and manage the day-to-day team activities
• Documented and managed all finance related issues and escalate the strategic issues to the program executives for joint decisions
• Led business requirement gathering for the SAP ERP implementation
• Led the project meetings to understand the scope of the project
• Collected, analyzed and documented user requirements in order to improve business operations in SAP ERP and BI solution
• Provided detail input on processes and projects, and manage the execution of approved initiatives
• Designed, implemented, and mapped processes, tools and systems necessary to ensure Finance processes are effective, and IT quality service levels are delivered
• Facilitated projects, including analyzing requests, preparing & managing schedules, coordinating resources, reporting on project status

Senior SAP FICO/FSCM Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated Business Requirements workshops with client project team using corporate structured Project Management and implementation methodology for business modeling, software development life cycle, documenting process flows and workflow analysis
• Completed the customization, Implementation, and configuration of the FICO and FSCM modules
• Worked closely with SAP project team, business managers and finance leaders, as well as SAP Business Partners to assess and analyze the various needs in all areas of strategic organizational development, effectiveness and financial management
• Developed and maintained the team’s project plan, project scope, budget, and schedules as per approved plans
• Led business process for the organization through the maintenance, enhancement, support and continuous improvement of the SAP system by working in partnership with the business and the external vendors.
• Managed team issues and scope changes and escalate them in a timely manner
• Led CertCapture, and Taxware project implementation for the USA business
• Led FSCM (Collection, Dispute, and Biller Direct) configuration and improvement project including a full-cycle implementation
• Captured lessons learnt at the end of theprojectto save time & cost on futureprojects
• Trained End Users and provided First Level Support to all key Business Users
• Prepared and updated Documents for User Requirements, Business Blueprint, UAT, End User etc.

Senior Financial Systems Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led Business Objects 4.0 project for Confidential
• Owned the Business Objects project deliverables and responsible for the day-to-day project management.
• Worked closely with SAP Business Objects USA project team, business managers and finance leaders, and SAP Business Partners to assess and analyze the various needs in all areas of strategic organizational development, effectiveness, and financial management.
• Anticipated project issues and took immediate corrective action.
• Collaborated with appropriate business units, production support team members and developers in requirements gathering, solution design and creation of production support specifications
• Created MSProjectplan and identified theprojectrisks and milestones to meet the business requirements.
• Conductedprojectkick-off meetings, communicated individual roles andprojectexpectations, and served as a single point of contact forprojects.
• Promoted team building activities such as knowledge transfer and, and mentored new hires on the team.
• Supported SAP FICO and BI/BW applications
• Facilitated and/or participated in functional and technical solution reviews with management, developers, UAT architects, SAP Upgrade, and infrastructure representatives
• Optimized an in-depth business processes analysis, identifying gaps and recommending Leading Practices
• Trained End Users and provided First Level Support to all key Business Users in Canada
• Created and executed appropriate test cases, ensuring the integrity of the solution prior to business unit and user acceptance testing
• Worked with the business to resolve solution defects that are identified
• Communicated the final solution to the business and coordinated the implementation of the solution in the production environment
• Collaborated with other functional engineers, team leads, managers, and business representatives to determine schedules and project timeframes.

SAP FI Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conducted 4 SAP FI sessions in Toronto, Canada. Delivered in: SAP Navigation, Organization Structure, General Ledger, Cash Journal, New GL, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets.
• Analyzed existing SAP Accounts Payable processes and made process improvement
• Analyzed and made recommendations for requests for changes to end user security based knowledge of SAP transactions, separation of duties and general business processes

Solutions Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led the business requirements gathering, system design, configuration and testing
• Interacted with Client Super Users for requirement analysis and testing
• Provided in-depth knowledge of the ERP application and evaluated the customers’ business requirements with the standard SAP and other ERP solutions
• Demonstrated experience in use of the prescribed implementation methodology
• Supported the user acceptance testing and trained customer resources to successfully use and maintain the ERP application and Prophix BI/CPM software
• Provided to business users on system navigation, General Ledger, AR, AP, BR
• Provided support to various Prophix BI/CPM software configurations i.e. Financial, HR, Revenue, Operations and Maintenance and Balance Sheet Cubes and made changes to control procedures
• Provided technical and Go-Live Support through on-site, email, phone and desktop streaming
• Led cross functional team(s) responsible to gather and document system requirements
• Designed, developed, and tested the ERP system modifications and integrations
• Collaborated with the project team to ensure a comprehensive set of requirements, aligned to business objectives, gaining full understanding of current business processes.
• Coordinated with IT on detailed business requirements phases identifying, tracking, escalating and/or resolving business systems issues
• Developed test plans, execute testing and create user manuals
• Maintained strong partnerships and working relationships with cross functional team

Business Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed site installation and system enhancements.
• Developed and maintained tailored solutions, hence, adapting software to customer needs, and business requirements.
• Installed the Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 on MS Server 2003
• Developed the financial statement in FRx for ERP Dynamic Great Plain
• Conducted various SQL queries to analyze financial figures on different patterns

Support Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed business process analysis on various technical issues and implement solutions
• Worked proactively to manage issues and provided the highest levels of customer satisfaction
• Colluded with the Key users to study and understand the existing business procedures and documented the “As-is processes”
• Mapped the processes onto the SAP system and also prepared the “To-be processes” document.
• Configured Financial Accounting and Cost Element Accounting
• Tested the settings on the development server and transported the settings onto the testing server for user testing and confirmation, and transported into the production server after user confirmation.
• Maintained close integration with ABAP team to create custom Reports on AR and AP by giving functional specifications
• Documented the processes using standard templates.
• Imparted User- on AR and AP processes.
• Analyzed the existing legacy system; gathered functional requirements through user meetings, gap analysis, and participation in process improvement teams