SUMMARY
Analytical thinker with progressive 6 years of Project Delivery experience, with 4 life cycles implementation projects, execution from Requirements Phase to Technology launch, to ensure that well defined milestones and deliverables are met during the project life cycle

Summary: SAP Project Manager

Profile

• 9 years of strong experience in planning, directing and managing complex SAP technical implementation projects involving multiple cross-organizational teams and challenging technical requirements
• SAP core Project management experience in financial management & reporting, WBS creation & resource assignment, identification of dependencies, scope assessment, proactive change management process/execution, risk identification & mitigation strategies, escalation and project closing activities.
• Experienced in using various SAP tools like Netweaver, LSMW, Solution Manager, HPQC based on ASAP methodology
• Ability to manage group of onsite and offshore Technical and functional consultants
• Ability to perform all facets of the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and My primary responsibility in a SDLC Project
• Requirements gathering and analysis:
• System design:
• Development, Gap analysis and Risk Assessment
• System testing: Operations and maintenance:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential,London (May 2011- November 2012 ) (Full Life Cycle)
Project Manager –PMO
Project : System Integration Project –JDE to SAP Budget : $ 3 Million

Principal Responsibility:

• Plan and direct all aspects of the project including scheduling, resourcing, risk assessment, cost/benefit analysis, establishing milestones/final deliverables and overall costs
• Spearheaded the introduction of SAP best practice and ensure SAP systems set up are following SAP best practices
  

Project Delivery Responsibilities

• JDE /SAP Process summary: Defined Summary of Benefits, Challenges, Cost/benefit Analysis
• Accelerated project plan – Provided guidelines based on proven methodologies
• Project charter – Outlined project overview, scope, high-level risks and costs, and implementation strategy
• Management plan – Defined Integration, human resources, communication, risk, and procurement plans
• Requirements definition – Provided requirements documents, defined training requirements
• Performance Matric Report -To help mitigate financial reporting-related risk for AR and AP transactions
• Communication : Used communication techniques to interconnect Project Sponsors, Program Mangers, Key stakeholders, and Change Control Board

Confidential,Bentonville – AR-USA (December 2008 –May 2011)
Project Manager –Project Management Office ECC 6.0 –Global Rollout- (Full Life Cycle)
Onsite-Offshore Model

Wal-Mart Canada budget of $10 Million

Managed team of 10 Functional External Consultants, and 8 offshore technical consultants from Deloitte Consulting
Led 9 Finance team leaders, and supported 400 end users

Reporting to the Director, Financial Integration I managed the successful delivery of various multi phased projects by estimating, budgeting and controlling costs to complete the project within the approved Wal-Mart Canada budget of $15 Million

• Ensured that services are delivered according to the Service Level Agreements
• Coordinated operation, incident and project activities with the SAP Roll-out teams and SAP Support teams
• Assured SAP Technology Awareness
• Assessed and recommends improvements on SAP operational
  
• Primarily responsibility and achievements

• Instructed clients in selecting SAP suites and implementing SAP Projects – Supported them in technical SAP issues.
• Ensured that SAP projects were as per the requirements and standards mentioned by clients
• Held meetings with different departments and clients to assess their demands and documented them accordingly
• Analyzed the work of other experts and planned each step accordingly following certain protocols and standards
• Assisted other experts in completing the projects by sharing knowledge and experience gained from other projects
• Trained and led a team of technical experts and SAP consultants
• Managed resources and Internal control processes
• RICEF Objects evaluation : Reviewed RICEF objects and assisted to develop customization and provided technical details to tailor the Technical specifications to meet unique customer requirements. Perform Defect analysis for RICEF defects and worked with the development team for defect resolution
• Manage relationship with project stakeholders, including internal and external clients, keeping stakeholders informed of progress and issues in order to manage expectations on all project requirements and deliverables.
• Manage and communicate a clear vision of the project’s objectives, and motivate the project team to achieve them; create a project environment that enables peak performance by team members.
• Analyze risk, establish contingency plans and identify trigger events and responsibilities for initiating mitigating action
• Secure approval and signoff on deliverables.
• Make recommendations for process and technology enhancements to more efficiently meet the needs of the business.
• Creation of the project schedule using MS Project and weekly updates from team inputs
• Creation and weekly updates of the project workbook (team contacts, action register, issue register, risks, dependencies, assumptions, stakeholders, team vacation)
• Manages the delivery process including developing creative/alternative approaches to problem resolution
• Governance Risk compliance and Internal controls : SoD conflict resolution and mitigating controls Establish issue and risk management process for projects. Establish an open culture to problem identification and risk mitigation strategies. Report issues and risks on a regular basis. Track risk mitigation/resolution activities. Escalate issues and risk to appropriate level of the organization and follow up.
• Access Control suite : Independently handled Risk Analysis and Remediation (RAR): Enterprise Role Management (ERM):

Super User Privileged Management (SPM): Compliant User Provisioning (CUP):

• Change management : Scrutinized large numbers of change processes to the resulting transports, to monitor the changes to the systems, assigned approved transports to the specific change requests

Confidential, (April 2008 –November 2008)
ERP Program Manager
Project: Canadian financial Integration Project (Oracle Financial to SAP)

• Directed the delivery of process transformation, technology initiatives and change management
• Arranged training programs and workshops for team members facing difficulty in project work
• Introduced Extract Load and Transform (E-LT) technology
• Define the technical solution and work with the pursuit team
• Established Oracle Financial Analytics for SAP a pre-packaged ABAP code compliant adapter to integrate SAP Financial Accounting data directly with the analytic application
• Proactively suggests improvements to optimize SAP infrastructure

Confidential,New Jersey NJ October 2007-April 2008
Asst. Project Manager (PMO) FICO-SOX security SAP R/3 5.0
Project: SOX Audit and Internal controls
Led Team of 4 Consultants

• Studied available system resources as well as structure, volume and distribution of the application data essential for analyzing the financial tables
• Designed and Monitored business case and manage project to meet business case objectives
• Identified ABAP program and customized the program to extract data from multiple tables and views
• In order to comply with section 404 of SOX
• Identify and document processes and SoD controls across key IT Security and financial processes
• Implement SoD and mitigating controls.
• Ensure continuous compliance by monitoring and tracking of controls.
• Discussed with SOX auditors about Setting up an effective Information Lifecycle Management strategy required to achieve remediation of objects

Internal Controls: Ensured End-to-end visibility and established Policies and procedures enforcement

Confidential,Washington D.C (Sept.2006 to Oct.2007)
Project Manager –PMO SAP ECC6.0

Project: SAP EC 6.0 Implementation (Full Life Cycle) Budget: $ 4Million
Led a team of 8 consultants

• Scope Management : Designed Project Charter, and stakeholder register for requirement gathering,
• Defined Scope, Created WBS, optimized benefits ,assessed and monitored throughout the project –
• Defined contingency plans and the risk management process pro-actively and monitored risks throughout the project.
• Encouraged team members and external consultants to communicate potentialissuesfor resolution
• Managed scopeof the project and controlled specific changes to the solution through a management process with appropriate balances and controls
• Controlled versions of all deliverables through aconfiguration managementprocess
• Ensured that adocumentation managementprocess is available to all, and is subject to careful control over authorship, reviews and updates
• Initiated meetings with users to discuss issues, invites suggestions, and gathers planning information
• Provided a business blueprint or requirements document, support planning, and training requirements
• Opted to work on ASAP methodology to help configure R/3 using proven industry-specific business scenarios and processes
• Worked with key business sponsors and IT teams to gather requirements and position best practice solutions and approaches
• Track, monitor and communicate project progress against the project plan, requirements, quality measures, standard processes and milestones.
• Acted as the primary liaison/facilitator between the project team and the business area to ensure business requirements are being met and the current project plan reflects changes to scope, costs, etc

Status Reporting : Maintained global scorecard and testing activity catalogue .Maintained GANTT chart, Project Scorecard Matrix, Project work book and PMR Defined Cost Performance Matrix

Confidential,NY City NY (Feb.2006-Sept.2006)
Project: Feasibility study Role : SAP ERP –Program Manager

Principal Responsibilities

• Project Description– Identified the project purpose. Included details and end results expected.
• Goals– Listed long and short-term goals and what processes will be needed to achieve those goals.
• Timeline– determined the estimated time until project completion
• Costs and Budgeting– Defined Project Performance Metric including all costs incurred for the project
• Resources– Identified all the resources both IT, technical, and human that will be needed to complete the project.
• Project Process– Designed flow charts showing project stages.Manage project quality work-stream to assure the key metrics of the project are met.

Confidential,Charlotte NC (August 2005 to Feb. 2006 )
Manufacturing Organic Fiber, Noncellulosic, Chemical Preparation
Role: SAP-FI/CO Consultant: Environment: SAP R/3 ECC5.0
Project: Accounts Payable and Lockbox .Industry : Manufacturing

As a team member I was responsible for configuration of entire accounts payable functionality .I worked on following activities:

• Account Clearing, Master Data Outgoing Payment Vendor master data Analysis Vendor Correspondence
• Participated in analyzing the existing system and gathered functional requirements.
• Configured lockbox processing and customized processing of incoming checks. -Used EDI server technology.

Confidential,Greenville NC Dec.2004 –Aug.2005
Industry : Pharmaceuticals Role : SAP FI/CO Consultant Environment: SAP R/3 4.7

• Assisted co-workers to assign Cost Centers to departments and /or Managers responsible for certain areas of the business as well as functional areas
• Participated in setting up the Profit Centers to identify product lines, divisions, and geographical regions
• Supported team members maintaining operating concern, CO versions, planning versions
• Defined Valuation methods for materials
• Defined LIFO and FIFO valuation

Confidential,Philadelphia PA Jan.2004 to Dec.2004 (Full Life Cycle-AR)
Role : SAP FICO consultant
Participated in the configuration of various end to end sub-processes relating to Accounts Receivable

• Centralized accounts receivable into a shared services environment
• Actively pursued customer to pay via EFT. Integrated EFT system to the AR system allowing for automatic update of cash receipts information without manual re-keying

Confidential,Chatsworth CA April 2003 to Dec.2003
Industry : Manufacturing
Role SAP R/3 FICO Consultant Environment: SAP R/3 4.6C

• Configuration of dunning payment processes in AR as per client requirements.
• Determining organizational structures and set up dunning areas based on different dunning policies
• Establish customer credit limits, credit checking policies and monitoring Customers against those criteria
• Configured static, dynamic and automated credit checking features

Confidential,Toronto ON CA (2001-2003 )
Treasury Analyst

• Supervise, review and troubleshoot the daily work of Cash Management staff.
• Research requirements and analyze alternative solutions to provide recommended course of action-
• Develop project plans- Provide regular plan status reports and where necessary, provide alternatives to keep project on target.
• Lead, contribute or participate as required on the implementation, testing, documentation and training on projects
• Settlements: Review and authorize daily cash transfers related to investment activity- Respond to and resolve problems independently-
• Provide recommendations for procedural changes and improvements to the Senior Manager,
• Review and authorize accounts payable functions thru’ bank account transfers, electronic funds transfers and wire payments

Confidential, (1980-2001)

The Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India Limited (ICICI) incorporated at the initiative of the World Bank, the
Government of India and representatives of Indian industry, with the objective of creating a development financial institution for
providing medium-term and long-term project financing to Indian businesses.
ICICI emerges as the major source of foreign currency loans to Indian industry. Besides funding from the World Bank and other multi-
lateral agencies, ICICI was also among the first Indian companies to raise funds from international markets.

Associate Vice President - Foreign Exchange Treasury,
Primarily responsible for daily execution of treasury transactions within an increasingly global, fast-paced environment In addition, I was playing a key role in helping to build an operating structure that is seamless globally and flexible enough to support a business that is quickly growing organically and through acquisitions.

• Take a lead role in delivering and managing consulting services to high growth organizations with a diverse team of Consultants
• Create long term relationships at a senior client level
• Execute a client service plan on complex engagements working closely with Partners
• Identify and lead business development opportunities
• Achieve expertise in a specialization and a strong reputation as a business advisor
• Actively mentor and coach team members to their highest potential
• Create a learning environment through leadership

Training and Education
Bachelor Degree in Commerce (B.com) with Advanced Accounting and auditing
Associate Chartered Secretary (ACS) (Equivalent to CA and CPA)
Certification in SAP FICO 4.7C Enterprise version
Canadian Securities Course
Proficiency in MS office including MS Project 2010