PROFILE:

• Accomplished IT Professional with expertise in Quote - to-Cash process.
• Over 13 years of professional experience including 9 years in IT industry.
• Managed multiple large-scale end-to-end global ERP implementations in Media and Information industry.
• Delivered Order-to-Cash solutions for over 180 countries.
• Key expertise in Sales and Finance Processes, including Master D Confidential Management, Pricing, Billing, Invoicing, Revenue Recognition, Accounts Receivables, Banking and Reporting.

SKILLS:

• SAP Finance Certified, SalesForce Administrator, Apttus CPQ Certified
• SAP ECC, SAP Finance, SAP Sales and Distribution, SAP SD Pricing, SAP SD Billing, SAP Revenue Recognition, SAP CRM, Siebel CRM, HPQC, SalesForce.Com, Apttus CPQ, MS Office Suite.
• Completed SAP S/4HANA Courses.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Planned, established and managed multiple strategic projects using ASAP methodology that has high stakeholder visibility.
• Estimated, budgeted and planned for multi-year ERP Projects across various systems landscape (SalesForce, SAP ECC, SAP CRM, Siebel CRM and other third-party providers).
• Developed multi-year multi-phase Project plans, presented and obtained stakeholder approvals.
• Assessed options for S/4HANA implementation and built use case for adoption of S/4HANA as part of Refinitiv Finance strategy.
• Led team to configure Pricing Procedures, Billing Types, Output Types, Account Determination, House Banks, GL accounts, AR /AP, Tax Determination, Revenue Reports.
• Implemented solutions involving EDI, IDoc’s technologies to support B2B processes.
• Successfully managed stakeholder relationships and worked closely with Business partners.
• Prepared and presented multi-year roadmap at Program level for Order Capture Program with an aim to implement CPQ solution in 2019.
• Conducted workshops with Business owners and requirement gathering sessions related to Quote-to-Cash business processes.
• Was responsible for rolling out Global Order-to-Cash process for over 180 countries include United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Greece and Mexico; ensuring regulatory requirements are met.
• Assessed risk, analyzed issues and managed dependencies judiciously; flagged key concerns to leadership ahead of time.
• Managed d Confidential migration activities and cutover tasks for large scale ERP implementations, this included d Confidential reconciliation activities across systems.
• Delivered improved platform for key business process within Quote-to-Cash platform for Confidential with less than 1% d Confidential errors.
• Worked with Environment and Release Management team(s) to ensure availability of environments for the team and successful delivery of Projects, respectively.
• Responsible for preparation and management of SOW and other financial aspects of projects.
• Created project reports, provided weekly statuses and effectively communicated statuses including key risks to leadership team and other stakeholders.
• Ability to work with global team across multiple cultures and time zones.
• Effectively collaborated with business stakeholders, technology, testing and support teams for the success of projects.
• Ensured timely defect resolution and successful go-live(s) for over
• Managed teams with expertise across different systems (3 to 10) and ensured best practices are incorporated.

Order-to-Cash Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented end-to-end solution for key business process for Confidential products (Reuters Pictures). Designed invoice template for Usage products reducing the invoice from 1000+ pages to 4 pages.
• Developed IT strategy for divestiture project on behalf of Confidential while worked with Confidential .
• Designed and implemented various RICEFW SAP objects as part of Order Management, Pricing Enhancements, Billing Management and Revenue Recognition.
• Designed and implemented Banking Interfaces to support Lockbox, ACH and Wire transfers for AR and Electronic Banking Statements. Closely worked with various Banks IT teams to ensure Banking Interfaces are working as expected.
• Managed Customer Master D Confidential (Business Partners), Product Master D Confidential and Asset Master D Confidential solution and migrations.
• Created seamless Order interface (between SalesForce and SAP ECC) and backfill process.
• Managed a team of up to 5 resources.

Order-to-Cash Configurator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated the design discussions around Org structures for the Sales and Distribution area and configured the Sales Areas for the Program.
• Designed and implemented global invoice templates across various countries including Argentina, Greece, Russia, Taiwan and L Confidential M countries.
• Developed functional specifications for order interface, customer master conversions, product and pricing loader and other billing enhancements.
• Planned cutover activities for Sales and Distribution Processes, Accounts Receivable processes and master d Confidential conversions activities. Actively participated in dress rehearsals and project go-liven cutover activities.
• Configured Pricing Procedures, built automatic billing schedules for monthly, quarterly and annual billing cycles.
• Configured text content in 14 different languages, required to be presented on Invoice across various countries.
• Configured SD to FI - CA integration and SD to Finance integration.
• Unit tested configuration and deliverables, assisted with QA and UAT defects.
• Assisted with hyper-care and post go-live tickets and issues.

Accounts Receivable Configurator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Configured Company Codes, Chart of Accounts, House Banks, GL Accounts, Lockboxes, Profit Centers.
• Defined Posting Keys and Posting Rules for incoming payments
• Configured global settings for Electronic Bank Statements.
• Responsible for building Revenue reports, Exit Rate reports and other Statutory reports.
• Configured rules and procedures to comply with revenue recognition rules under SOX and IFRS.
• Identified dependencies in Quote-to-Order process and its impacts on reporting and Accounts Receivables.
• Worked on Accounting Interface for transfer of files to external Finance system for further Reporting and Financial Statements consolidation.
• Worked on FI - AR / AP process to support the purchase of Apps from ‘App Store’ and sharing of revenue with ‘App developers’.
• Configured Automatic Payment Method to ensure payments to the App Developers were made as per corporate agreement.