SUMMARY:

• IT professional with 9+ years of experience, 3+ years of extensive experience in full lifecycle system implementations
• Excellent communication and inter personnel skills, with proven ability to work independently and in team environments.
• In - depth knowledge, of Agile, Scrum, ASAP methodologies.
• Experience with rollouts, support, and upgrade projects in blueprinting, planning, configuration, testing, training, documentation, and production support.

TECHNICAL/SOFTWARE SKILLS:

• SAP ECC 6.0, ECC 5.0; SAP Business One
• SQL - Write Queries.
• Jasper Reports.
• Excel - Pivots, Formulas, Charting.
• Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Access, MS Visio, and Outlook
• Oracle, People Soft, Quick books, MS Dynamics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Universal city, CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Agile coach responsible for piloting agile methodology for several projects.
• Responsible for managing a team of 10 resources (onsite/offsite) for Online Video Catalogue (OVC) application enhancement initiative.
• Defined the project roadmap based on the strategy and vision.
• Deployed OVC on time and within budget while increased user adoption from 300 to 500 users.
• Analyzed and communicated risk and dependencies to key stakeholders.
• Managed a team of developers in the UK for the U-Go enhancement release.
• Gathered requirements, lead scrum, and designed QA test strategy for TheBoard initiative.
• Worked with system architect to design and present implementation solution for Primetime Planner to business and IT key stakeholders.
• Reviewed SOW’s and engaged in vendor selection process.
• Managed status reporting, timeliness, budgets, and forecasts.
• Full lifecycle implementation of Salesforce for casting division with 2 resources.
• Created POC for innovative voice BI project using Amazon’s Alexa/Echo device.

Confidential, Century City, CA

Project Manager/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed business process design and configuration.
• Worked with Java developers to modify existing code and develop new code to meet business requirements.
• Analyzed and evaluated business inefficiencies and developed system recommendations to meet requirements.
• Assisted on CMS project with preparing vendor budget cost estimate during and negotiations for reports deployment.
• Managed an offshore team of developers to create and manage a suite of Jasper Reports.
• Wrote report specifications, business rules, and requirements documents.
• Interviewed and communicated with senior upper management end users to obtain the detailed business system requirements.
• Engaged in daily scrum meetings with weekly sprints while implementing the agile methodology.
• Worked with backend SQL developers to construct relational database schema.
• Wrote back end queries to validate system and report data.
• Working with subject matter experts to determine requirement specifications using a variety of document formats, e.g. word docs, flowcharts, swim lanes, wireframes, graphs, etc.
• Translating high-level business requirements into functional specifications for business application development.
• Assisted in data conversion analysis between legacy system and target system.
• Full system reconciliation between sub ledgers and the general ledger.
• Set up and maintained chart of accounts.
• Designed month end procedure and interface to GL (PeopleSoft).
• Resigned cash interface to Hyperion and reconciliation procedure.
• Designed mock-ups, business scenarios, user scenarios, use cases, use case models, user stories, business rules, test plans, and test cases.
• Conducted user application demo’s prior to each major release.
• Created training materials and conducted user training sessions.
• Prepped UAT scripts and conducted UAT sessions.
• Assisted with application testing (smoke, unit, regression).
• Tracked progress of full lifecycle bugs and enhancements per release in Bugzilla.
• Involved in user support phase troubleshooting.

Confidential, City of Commerce, CA

Consultant/BA

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with SAP vendor to negotiate and install licenses for the business.
• Set up inventory warehouse management system and FIFO methodology.
• Created material master and itemized all SKU’s.
• Improved internal reconciliation controls.
• Created custom sales reports and analytics tools.
• Modified invoicing process and updated all invoice report templates.
• Conducted UAT sessions.
• Developed training materials and conducted training sessions.
• Improved general accounting workflow (AP, AR, Recs, Reports)
• Worked with vendor to manage licenses and future system support.

Confidential, City of Industry, CA

SAP FICO Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• SAP implementation using ASAP methodology.
• Responsible for complete study of business processes relating to General Ledger, Accounts receivable, Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting, Banking, Cash Management, Sales tax, Withholding Tax as being practiced at the company’s spheres and preparation of Business Blue Print document based on AS-IS study, recommending TO-BE processes and documentation of functionalities.
• Successfully configured and implemented all the FI sub modules which include Banking, AR, and AP, Asset Accounting, General Ledger Accounting and Cash management and complete FI consolidation.
• Configuring of Controlling sub modules Cost Centre Accounting, Internal Orders, Profit Centre Accounting and Product Costing.
• Strongly worked with cross module integration with MM and SD modules.
• Complete Unit Testing of FI-AP, FI-Accounts Receivable, FI-Asset Accounting, and Banking which includes bank reconciliation.
• Co-ordination with the ABAP team for changes/ Enhancement/ development of existing/ new reports and testing the same in test server.
• Extensive and focused end user training providing key user and end user with detailed training manuals.
• Responsible for data uploading of all FICO modules providing templates for uploading using upload program by ABAP and LSMW.
• Interacting with the end user on regular basis understanding their requirement and initiating configuration changes where necessary support.
• Involved in support environment of FI business flow by handling the requests raised by users, solving the service requests raised by the users within the stipulated timeframe and intimating the users the solution.

Confidential, Rowland Heights, CA

Senior Accountant/Inventory Control Manager

Responsibilities:

• Perform full-cycle accounting in accordance with GAAP to include preparation and appropriate documentation of journal entries, general ledger reconciliations, preparation of sub-ledgers that tie to trial balance, prepare and analyze financial statements relative to budget and monthly forecasting
• Analyze inventory stock, inventory tracking and related journal entries
• Monitors all transactions involving inventory to ensure the perpetual records are updated and maintained properly, inventory is valued correctly and good judgment is used in the evaluation of reserves
• Maintains the accuracy of standard costs, and ensures that the company’s reporting requirements are satisfied
• Perform analysis in areas of manufacturing labor, raw materials and overhead spending
• Provide support to department heads in understanding actual versus budget departmental spend variances.
• Analyze and reconcile monthly revenue
• Review and evaluate Accounts Receivable billings and collections
• Review/post Accounts Payable batches, customer sales orders, and daily deposit
• Maintain vendor master file
• Ensure compliance through review of prepared sales/use tax returns for multiple states
• Assist with yearly Audit preparation - maintain audit readiness in accordance with GAAP and PBC from external auditors
• Assist in the preparation and maintenance of relevant financial reports for internal and external stakeholders
• Monitor and analyze department process flow to develop more efficient procedures and use of resources while maintaining a high level of accuracy
• Engaged in the more critical and confidential aspects of accounting, which require broad conceptual judgment, initiative and ability to deal with complex accounting issues
• Special projects, ad hoc analysis and reporting as needed
• Conform with and abide by all regulations, policies, work procedures, and instructions
• Prepare detailed account analysis and reconcile sales, cost and inventory, liability accounts by customer type by division
• Coordinate with IT department for system issues, maintenance and development such as production, purchasing, import/export, accounts payable, accounts receivable, import/export IT, receiving, shipping, and other.