Associate Resume
SUMMARY:
- Over 8.3 years of experience on JD Edwards ERP functional including hands on experience in the areas of Consultancy, Technical consulting in Finance
- Excellent working knowledge of JD Edwards World and Enterprise - One ERP Software
- Played Major role in JD Edwards practice building, which includes:
- Team building of functional resources through KT
- Formulating standards
- Processes and future growth plan
- Improvising business process
- Adapting new modules as desired
- Experience in requirements definition, design, analysis, development of technical specifications, custom reports, programming, documentation, testing, post-production support in different environments
- Expertise in Finance modules of AR, AP, GL, Job Costing and FA and interfaces with Inventory, Sales and Purchase modules. Also has the working knowledge on SQL, RPG/400, CL/400, QUERY/400, DB2/400, OS/400 including Mainframe systems
- Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills, having dealt with diverse professionals, clients & team members at various locations
- Highly self-motivated and able to set effective priorities to achieve immediate & long-term goals and meet project & operational deadlines
- Vibrant team player with belief in taking positive approach towards issue resolution
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Databases: SQL, Access
ERP: JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.11, 9.0, 9.1,9.2 and World 7.3, 9.1, 9.2
Other Software: MS-Office, MS Project, Investran, Hubble
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential
Associate
Environment: Platform: JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.1
Responsibilities:
- Provide solutions in JDE for the end process changes for the controllers
- Leading and delivering projects and enhancements
- Gathering requirements, Scope Management, Design the specifications for the scalability and flexibility on global environment, testing including functional, regression, UATs, Zero, production parallel, etc.
- Providing support for JDE productions in all regions
- Work on controllers system process improvements and automations
- Ensuring and improving data quality in upstream and downstream applications
Confidential
JD Edwards Sr Business Analyst
Environment: Platform: JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.1 and 9.2
Responsibilities:
- Provide solution for the end to end process flow and accounting details for inter-company sales order and cycle billing combined, which includes the inter company sales accounting and customer facing orders along differed accounting post shipment confirmation and their reversals at Sales Order update.
- Establish system to process credit card authorization on the order subtotal and markup to cover taxes, freights and other fees. We faced critical challenges including back-orders, standing orders, hold to complete orders, tax free items at the branch level controls, etc. Another important aspect was to cover the rebates and calculate the amount to authorize along with the applicable markups.
- Design to meet expectation of reversal of same accounting with credit amounts. Business debit the items with related Purchase Orders. There are further cases of unannounced returns, inventory mismatch through cycle counts, etc.
- Flex accounting setup at default company level to keep their format intact. Enabling the pilot phase with the current custom process and the proposed inter-company solution.
- Remap custom accounting reports and replace with possible standard reporting. Mapping downstream applications to new set of accounting and migrated chart of accounts.
- Mapping detailed distribution centers to specific virtual distribution centers without using Preferences.
- Setting up process drop-ship orders without creating items on branch and items on the fly.
- Credit card processing through JDE via middle-tier interfaced to Paypal which includes authorization at the time of order entry and delayed capture post end-day process. System was required to follow PCI compliance and all protocols.
- Setting up process for re-authorization of the credit card based on the original authorization for the multiple shipment sales orders
Confidential
JD Edwards SME
Environment: Platform: JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.1
Responsibilities:
- Understanding detailed business requirements for accounting, reporting, business planning, budgeting, etc
- Reviewing existing setup as per prior implementation.
- Studying the existing issues and limitations and finding out the root causes, resolving the issues and designing the future plans to overcome the limitations
- Functional specs preparation to cater the customizing requirements which are not possible to address by standard applications.
- Discussing with the interface teams on the design and providing analytical inputs to improve the features and enhance efficiency of business processes.
- Establishing cross-reference for chart of accounts for General Ledger balance, fixed assets balance, AAIs, bank accounts, etc
- Working with Finance Managers and department Subject Matter Experts to gather the day to day operational requirements, periodical reporting, quarterly business and budget planning.
- Switchover planning for phase 1, phase 2 and final phase of implementations.
Confidential
Senior Finance Consultant
Environment: Platform: JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.1
Responsibilities:
- Understanding business requirements on North American affiliates tax and capital system requirements .
- Detailed study on the impacts of Fixed Assets changes on JDE accounting of companies at USA, Canada, Puerto Rico, etc
- Configuring Fixed Assets module and related areas of General ledger module for all types of ledgers.
- Functional specs preparation to upload the audited information in the Fixed Asset tables for the cost information and depreciation calculations.
- Providing analytical inputs to programmers to design the taxation reports
- Mass changes the Fixed Asset data to reflect the correct data for bonus and regular depreciation for the years applicable.
- Go live preparations, assistance to business in tallying the figures in order to make effective decisions for regular and bonus depreciations.
Confidential
Senior Finance Consultant
Environment: Platform: JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.11
Responsibilities:
- Understanding business requirements on early year close, parent company accounting standards, Fixed Assets detailed revaluation and update of various parameters to change the Depreciation rules and setup as per parent company.
- Detailed study on the impacts of Short year close and FA changes on JDE accounting of companies at USA, Canada, Mexico, PR, etc
- Functional specs preparation and detailed clarification to regional application development teams.
- Providing analytical inputs to programmers to design the UBEs with enhanced efficiency and accuracy due to extremely large volumes of data and many complicated situations.
- Designed reports to confirm the summary level balances against expectations and tally the GL adjustments to net off balance sheet adjustments made earlier.
- Working with Finance Managers and accounting supervisors to finalize the minutes and exact timings of various activities for smooth year close and switchover.
- Go live preparations, assistance to business in tallying the figures in order to make effective decisions.
- Go live support for a week to resolve minor asset level issues.
Confidential
Consultant
Environment: Platform: JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.1
Responsibilities:
- Understanding advanced functionalities, requirements and simplifying complexities involved to prepare specifications and plan the development across different countries.
- Functional specs preparation and detailed clarification to regional application development teams.
- Working with Banking team for host to host bank payments setups based on the banking standards of different countries
- Auto-receipting based on the automatic statement processing and automatic reconciliation following the BAI2/Swift standards from bank statement and appropriate field mapping in JDE E1 ERP.
- End to end testing at various levels to check the various outputs and inputs at Bank’s test environment for automatic payments, Oracle middleware and JDE modules of AP, GL and AR.
- Successful Go-live preparation, primary and secondary support for few weeks.
Confidential
Consultant
Environment: Platform: JD Edwards World 9.2 / AS400
Responsibilities:
- Understanding advanced functionalities requirements from clients and clarifying the JDE architect and processes to client.
- Functional specs preparation and analysis for "to be" or new processes and clarification to the technical team.
- Normal reports creation to cater accounting requirements and their analysis.
- Complex report creations to facilitate additional business planning activities.
- Production support in modules comprising of Accounts payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Fixed Asset, Budgeting, Reconciliation, Purchase, Inventory and Sales.
- Coordinating with Oracle for bug fixings
- Electronic Data Delivery setup to generate reports automatically from JDE to employees, HODs, departments or as desired.
Confidential
Consultant
Environment: Platform: JD Edwards World 9.2 / AS400
Responsibilities:
- In-depth analysis of the current end-to-end business process of the business to understand and document the same which will serve as foundations for the proposed system.
- Discussion with the management to understand their expectations from the proposed system like quality enhancements, simplification and automation of processes, reducing operational times, etc
- Understanding the issues faced by respective process owners and business end-users and suggesting proactive solutions or workarounds using functional expertise.
- Deriving the areas or processes where manual work should be reduced by establishing automatic processes or applications thus increasing the accuracy of the output.
- Providing the functional inputs to the technical team in retrofitting the new version based on the existing version operational.
- End to end testing for all the different types of business processes including most complicated transactions with the complex currency equations at multiple intervals and having vast variety of taxations.
- Training the end users on the enhanced steps, new flexibilities provided and making them understand the change points and their respective impacts.
- Detailed documentations and designing manuals for the independent operations by the clients.
Confidential
Consultant
Environment: Platform: JD Edwards World 9.2 / AS400
Responsibilities:
- Working closely with the customer in the stabilization phase
- Functional specs preparation and analysis for further modification feasability
- Production support in modules comprising of Accounts payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Fixed Asset, Budgeting, Reconciliation, Purchase, Inventory and Sales.
- Involved in preparation and presentation of the service Reports to the client.
- Involved in defining the deadlines for various IT activities of the project and in measuring the issues / Risks involved in the same.
- Coordinating with Oracle for bug fixings
- Reports creation to cater accounting requirements and their analysis.
- Complex report creations to facilitate tax e-filings and other business planning activities.
- Electronic Data Delivery setup to generate reports automatically from JDE to employees, HODs, departments or as desired.
Confidential
Consultant
Environment: Platform: JD Edwards World 9.2 / AS400
Responsibilities:
- Prepared requirement analysis based on the studying existing business processes and client expectations
- Constant interaction with the customer to minimize the gap and maximize the output from implementation and the proposed the system
- Business Mapping from the existing processes, created Chart of Accounts and configuring the JD Edwards system constants and setups in AR, AP, GL and FA.
- Providing functional inputs for customizations in Travel processing, Advance uploads, Automatic Reconciliation, Payment Advices, Cheque Printing, EFT processing and Receipts upload.
- Budgeting setups and Allocations formula creation based on business requirement.
- Assistance to clients for master data preparation and management
- Providing inputs at CRP and integrated CRP and successful completion of scripts
- Providing training to super-users and end-users and preparing manual for the system
- Arranged system walk across different teams of client
- Open balances upload and trial balance matching to verify
- Go-live activities facilitation along with technical team
