Summary

• Analytical and Performance driven Techno Finance professional with experience of 10 years in Transitions, Project Management, Relationship Management, Integration Simplification, and Financial Accounting R2R, OTC, P2P, FP A
• 10 years' experience in SAP ERP Implementation, Optimization Enhancement Projects
• Experience across Media, Theme Parks, and Power Water verticals.
• Experience in building account strategies, driving P L goals and exploring new business opportunities.
• Experience with 2 Full Cycle SAP ERP Implementation as a Business Project Manager Finance Accounting
• Green Belt Certified
• Expertise in Simplification and workflow solutions
• Gold Medalist Management Graduate at University Level
• Excellent communication, negotiation and relationship management skills.

Experience Summary

• Engaged and built long term valued relationship with client excutives - CXOs/ VP/ Director/ Sr Managers/Vendor and Procurement Managers. Has primary responsibility of an onsite Project Manager also establishing and managing client relationship with key decision makers by establishing and building trust and by understanding client's overall business goals.
• Experience in leading multiple projects and cross functional teams i.e Logistics, Accounts Payable, Accounts receivable, Finance, Contracts, Production, Sourcing Sales.
• Experience in driving Green Field and Upgrade Projects, Business Process Re-engineering, Blue Printing requirement, Configuration, Testing

Role Description

Organization: - GENPACT

Current Designation: - Business Project Manager Jan 2011 to Oct 2014

Role Description: - Worked with General Electric as a Project Manager. GE Power Water underwent a major ERP migration across different regions and product lines. Supported business as a Business Project Manager during transition focussing on Transition Integration across various product lines and plants and locations.

Experience

Confidential

SAP ERP Business Project Manager

• Participating in planning, analyzing, documenting and testing programs, writing functional specifications, process models, test strategies, test cases, system requirement specifications, documentations and flow charts according to the client demands for complex business policies and procedures in diversified SAP FICO-AR, AP GL, SD-Orders, Deliveries and Invoicing
• Expertise management skills in the field of Gathering Business Requirements and translating them into robust IT Reporting solutions. Conducted Gap analysis and Impact analysis of the to-be model.
• Worked on a Statement of Work analysis with the Vendor selections for IT Project relating to SAP
• Participated with the executive team for Budget Planning for implementation of project deliverables.
• Involved with the management of Blueprint Analysis for the project kick off.
• Worked on the end user presentation for the project kick off. Involved with the testing analysis for the project kick off to production.
• Enhanced expertise SAP Aging, AR, AP GL Accounting, Open Item and Invoicing in SAP FICO with standard and Custom Objects.
• Taking daily SCRUM and progress meetings with all the teams and update the MS Projects.
• Direct and manage project development from beginning to end.
• Define project scope time to time, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.
• translated business requirements into functional requirements and worked with business users on the proposed solutions
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion
• Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis.
• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
• Draft and submit budget proposals, and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary.
• Determine and assess need for additional staff and/or consultants and make the appropriate recruitments if necessary during project cycle.
• Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate team members.
• Standardization of the business processes across different poles product lines
• Testing Signoff of the process flows and legacy system transition
• User Training on the processes and assistance in developing End User Document
• Assisted in defining Cost Center and profit center Hierarchy for Canada in conjunction with the business users.
• Participated in year end activities related to costing and monitoring of year end jobs.
• Lead off shore of team of 6 consultants including ABAP'ers and FICO functional consultants
• Developer reports for Sales, Orders, Billing Past due from SAP partnered with BASIS team
• Digitization of the customer contracts invoicing process.
• Established the T L Process Integrating with AMEX Card Interface.

Confidential

• Analyzed current-state business process analysis, gap analysis, and business process re-engineering to improve data processing and analysis within SAP. Analyzed and reviewed all processes, user procedures and system requirements
• Conducted meetings with users to understand the workflow of the As-Is system.
• Consulted the business partners to understand the requirements and work towards IT based solution
• Analyzed workflow to design the To-Be solution documented the same in the Business Blueprint Phase.
• Created a template and trained users on using it in order to post costs with in controlling Cost center to internal order .
• Configured G/L Master records, document number ranges, posting period variants, reversal of documents, opening and closing of posting periods, field status variants, document types, posting keys
• Map Product Cost process flows to depict actual flow of costs into the different GL Accounts.
• Testing the FI module GL, AP, AR.
• Provide ongoing support and training
• Standardized the billing process for Process, Products and Service
• Customer Vendor master standardization
• Working with business users on training and fixing the process issues.

Confidential

Client: GE Power Water Caribbean Entities

• Participate in business analysis, process mapping, business risk assessment.
• Transition the offline books of accounts to the Solomon Platform.
• Setup Chart of Accounts in Solomon MS Dynamics
• Transition setup of the vendors, customers for the Caribbean entities
• Setup the reconciliation process for the balance sheet accounts
• Standardize the billing process for the Caribbean entities
• Documentation of the as-is business process.
• Reengineered the credit memo and ELTO Spend workflow process.

Confidential

Assistant Manager Operations

• Supporting business on requirement gathering, as-is process mapping
• Validating of the GL balances and the accounts
• Accounting for Joint ventures for Media client
• Preparation of the operating plans for the joint ventures in Brazil, Australia.
• Prepare monthly and quarterly formal financial reports and variance analysis
• Performing the account reconciliations for balance sheet accounts on monthly and quarterly basis
• Leading teams comprising multiple processes- Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Reconciliations, Treasury, Financial Planning Analysis
• Peer review of the account reconciliations on a monthly and quarterly basis
• Monitoring the overall functioning of processes, identifying improvement areas and implementing adequate measures to optimize the process.
• Managing operations for rendering and achieving quality services providing first line customer support by answering queries and resolving their issues and ensuring minimum TAT.
• Assessing customer feedback and providing critical feedback to the associates on improvements and achieving higher customer satisfaction metrics.

IT Skills

• MS Office MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power point and MS Access
• SAP FI CO, Tableau
• Exposure to PeopleSoft, Business Ware House, Cognos Reporting.