SUMMARY

• Experienced Professional with 10+ years of experience as a Manager / Analyst involving multiple fast - paced complex projects /products related to industries such as Technology, Finance, and Automotive. Certified PMP professional with a proven track record of working in self-organizing and cross-functional teams.
• Senior Management involved handling multiple Projects/ Products that included Business Case Development, Project Planning, Requirement Analysis, Financial Planning Analysis (FP&A), Budgeting & Governance, Stakeholder Management, Risk Management, and Process Improvement.
• Provided Reporting support to Business Leaders and Senior Management on a weekly/monthly basis that included profitability, feasibility, status reports, and presentations while explaining to clients and stakeholders the current state of affairs via KPI Metrics.
• Accountable for Profit & Loss of individual Projects along with Financial Analysis, Cost Analysis, and Root Cause Analysis with a proven track record for effective decision making & improvement.
• Extensive knowledge and involvement in various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in Waterfall, Scrum, Agile, and Scrum-Waterfall Hybrid software development life cycle environments.
• Strong experience in Migration, Enhancements, Implementation, Integration, and Support related to ERP technologies like SAP, SQL, Oracle, etc.
• Hands-On experience in data-driven scenario planning for Automation/Reporting for management using Database and BI Analytics with large datasets while integrating with Power BI, Tableau & Excel for improvements.
• Work independently in drafting and maintaining insightful PMO documentation, such as Issue, Status, Change Management, and Risk logs.
• Organize cross-functional communications among several teams engaging many on-site & off-shore teams across the globe using meetings and communicating clearly with excellent interpersonal skills & time management skills.
• End-to-end multiple Implementations, Migrations, Upgradations, Resource Allocations, Rollouts, Support, training, and Enhancement projects in a fast-paced environment with a strong work ethic, and collaborative insight to meet deadlines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Executive: Project Management, Financial Analysis, Forecasting & Budgeting, Risk Management, Operation Management, Procurement, Stakeholder Management, Forecasting, Profitability Analysis, Risk Management, Vendor Management, AP, AR, Accrual, GAAP & IFRS

Project Methodologies: PMP, Waterfall, Agile Scrum, Hybrid (Waterfall - Scrum)

Requirement Management: MS Office, JIRA, HP ALM

Documents & Processes: Project Charter, Project Plan, RFP, Business Requirement, FRS, UML, Scenario Analysis, Use Case Type, Testing, Business Process Modelling

Business Skills: Change Management, Impact Analysis, Risk Analysis, Cost-Benefit Analysis, ROI Analysis, JAD Sessions, SWOT analysis, SOW, PWO

Quality & Defect Tracking: HP QC, HP ALM, JIRA, ServiceNow

Data Analysis / BI Reporting: Excel, Power BI, Tableau

Databases / ERP: Oracle Financials, SAP, SQL

Other: MS Project, MS Excel (lookups, Macros, Pivot, Data Analysis), MS Access, Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, PowerPoint), Taulia, Zycus, Hyperion Planner, EPM Clarity, SharePoint, SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Franklin, TN

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Senior Project execution role possesses performing or maintaining Project Scope, Benefits Validation, Cost Plan, Financial Planning & Analysis, Budgeting, Forecasting, Variance Analysis, Vendor Management, Purchasing, Stakeholder Management, CapEx Vs OpEx Management.
• Managed Profit & Lost analysis during Project management in addition to Benefits Validation Strategy, Financial Analysis, Cost Analysis, Favorability, Variance Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, and ROI for effective decision-making and process improvement while assisting the accounting dept.
• Involved in all phases of the SDLC lifecycle (from concept and requirements through launch and support) within an agile development environment. Contributed to the successful closure projects, with applications released on time and under budget.
• Monitored Actual vs Forecasted Variances every month while comparing the initial budget to implement solutions management and mitigation strategy for continuous improvement using Clarity, SAP, and Zycus.
• Validated current processes from projects start/close in line with US GAAP, SOX, Corporate Accounting, Financial Reporting with best practices involving data integrity & confidentiality for Finance and Accounting.
• P2P (Procure to Pay) process for Vendor Payments, Accruals, Duplicate Invoicing, and other Accounting activities using Clarity along with revenue recognition while reconciling the balances between Clarity and SAP.
• Validated Forecasting and Data Modelling while generating monthly /weekly performance reports, Financial Reports using Excel, Tableau, and Clarity.
• Gathered Business Requirements, performed GAP Analysis, and FIT Analysis for client’s requirements, and generated system workflows using Excel.
• Worked with Customers and Product manager to prioritize and validate requirements. Completed plans for long-term goals. Coordinated the work efforts of the team for various projects.
• Maintained internal documentation repository using SharePoint Site designing, maintenance, and data reporting.
• Monitored Manual/Functional Testing results throughout the lifecycle of projects using JIRA influencing necessary Solution Management for increased productivity & financial results.
• Daily collaboration among several teams involving on-site & off-shore teams, while monitoring Revenue, Expenditures & Tracking Invoices during operations with best practices & training

ENVIRONMENT: SAP, Oracle, MS Office, MS SharePoint, MS Visio, JIRA, Clarity, Tableau, Zycus, Taulia, MS Excel.

Confidential, Cheyenne, WY

Junior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Acting as the point of contact to multiple projects, ensuring drivers for performance are communicated and insight provided to Managers.
• Executive Leadership included developing and maintaining documents such as Project Plan, Budgeting & Planning, Risk Management Plan, BRD, FRD, and Change Management while using SDLC methodologies for project governing such as Agile Scrum, and Waterfall.
• Generated monthly Actual vs Budget variances while contributing to monthly processes, including long-range planning, monthly budget, forecasting, and financial modeling skills.
• Analyzed and documented Business Requirements and detailed design of the software to fully understand the business architecture to services to meet changing requirements for scaling, reliability, performance, manageability, and price.
• Led Analytics and Data Modelling to develop reports using Microsoft Access, and Power BI from SQL.
• Monthly reporting of project status and financial implications with business leaders, stakeholders, and other team members. Additionally helped PO and PM in ROI Analysis and SWOT analysis to be prepared for potential business and technical risks to the system.
• Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirement Document and helped transform them into user stories.
• Assisted Manager to track efficiency and Team Velocity using Sprint Burn-Down Chart and Product Burn-Down Chart.
• Analyzed, modified, and documented Functional and Non-Functional requirements. Identified project requirements, processes, and data dependencies.
• Monitored Payment, Invoicing, and other Accounting activities using QuickBooks along with Reconciliation of Accounts for Accounting dept.

ENVIRONMENT: Hybrid (Waterfall- Scrum), SAP, MS Office, MS SharePoint, MS Visio, MS Project, JIRA, HP ALM, MS SQL Server, Power BI.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing multiple projects - Planning, Scheduling, Budgeting, Execution, Monitoring, and Controlling using SDLC.
• Creating Project Plans using MS Project, Risk Plans, Delivery milestones for projects in addition to forecasting selection, Budgeting, Resource Effort Estimation.
• Data Warehouse builds relevant to reporting, Benchmarking, and reporting to top US Banks, Australian Banks Credit Card payment study program.
• Program Manager for Card Analytics operational projects for TD Bank, Citi, Confidential, HSBC, Citi, CBA, AMEX, GE, RBS, Visa, etc along with metric dashboards with executive management.
• Program Manager for entire Card and Non-Card Santander bank Data sourcing, onboarding, and Data Warehouse build relevant to Reporting, Risk Data Management.
• Responsible for managing Data Ops team - Data Loading, Cleansing Validation, Benchmarking, and Client delivery reporting.
• Arranging Steering committee meetings for project approvals from all stakeholders and sponsors.
• Coordinate with IT systems, networking, and DBA teams for Datacenter server migration, development, and testing post-migration and legacy server shutdown and decommission planning post-Data Center Migration.
• Database reorganization and server cleanup for effective storage planning
• Coordinate with Data Ops team for Data loading, data cleansing, and normalization, data Validation, Benchmarking, reporting, and client delivery.
• Align with Release management ITSM and Business change management process along with WBS, RACI charts, Earn/burn analysis, Milestone charts, and Review deliverables.
• Improve Service levels, performance, productivity, and efficiency through automation.
• Preparation of presentation decks related to business and project management with timely Status Reports, Dashboards / Metrics, with Red, Amber, and Green status charts.

ENVIRONMENT: SAP, Oracle, Waterfall, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio), MS Project Wireframes, Mock-Up Screens, Rational Requisite Pro, UML, UAT testing, MS SharePoint, Tableau.

Confidential, NC

Project Manager

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Led multiple projects involving developing and maintaining Project plans, Financial Analysis, Forecasting & Budgeting, Variance Analysis, BRD, FRD, TSD, Resource/Cost/Time Management, Process Improvement, Testing in line with management consulting.
• SAP Finance hands-on experience in General Ledger (GL), Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), Bank Accounting (BA), and Asset Accounting (AA), including new GL accounting, automatic payment programs, and data migration from ERP to S/4 HANA.
• Monitored the budget and developed governance surrounding feasibility, demand, business planning, release, and predictive analysis relevant to SAP/SQL and Finance custom products.
• Customizing & ConfiguringChart of Accounts, Account Groups, Assigning Chart of Accounts to Company Codes, Templates for Configuring Recurring Entries in GL Postings, Document Types, Number Ranges, Tolerance Groups, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Document Reversals, Invoices & Payments,Defining Account assignment models Integration with Materials Management (MM) and Sales & Distribution (SD).
• Researched and got an extensive knowledge of the AR/AP/GL process that was in process in the organization.
• Facilitated JAD sessions with users, developers, and the database design team to deal with backend synchronization issues accompanied by interviews and document analysis.
• Identified the requirements of the stakeholders and created Business Requirement Document (BRD) and Functional Requirement Document (FRD). Involved in Business Process Re-engineering through workflow diagrams and other methods.
• Had several meetings with the SMEs to gather information about the business logic behind auto-match functionalities and how to deal with unidentified payments.
• Managed product backlog and product roadmap and prioritized the work, analyzed data for all stages of execution (from ideation to delivery), and validated with UAT testing.
• Maintained Sprint Burndown chart, Product burn down chart, Time boxed the Sprints and Daily Scrum meetings for the record.
• Actively participated in the testing of the system during UAT, Regression Testing, and Black box Testing. Created Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to perform Root Cause Analysis, and sustainability study and accomplished a 40% improvement in the performance of the overall project through SAP optimization that increased revenue.

ENVIRONMENT: SAP, Oracle, Hybrid (Waterfall - Scrum), JIRA, MS Project 2013, SharePoint (2013), MS Project, Web Services, MS Outlook, MS Project, MS SQL Server 2012, HP QC 10.0, Tableau 8.2.

Confidential

Sr Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Budget Control System (BCS), Setting up Budget Profiles, GL Accounts, Accounts Receivable / Payable Accounts, Primary/Secondary Cost Elements, and Month-End/Year-End closing procedures.
• Generated finance reports and performed forecasting to monitor the SAP finance module's functionality and feasibility of potential performance to make necessary modifications.
• Implemented Accounts Payable - Creation of Vendor Master Data, Invoices, Outgoing Payments, and Partial payments.
• Performed the Requirement analysis, and Impact analysis and documented Business Requirements Document (BRD) and Functional Specification Document (FSD) using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Prioritized deliverables, identified gaps, tracked defects, defined software requirements, and created artifacts for testing and development.
• Worked on user experience by designing new web features using MVC Framework. Participated in preparing the basis for Project Vision documentation.
• Created Use Case Scenarios and documents workflow and business process.
• Designed Non-PO and PO invoice approval process flow in line with compliance, and policy and reviewed it with different departments. Managed Data Transfer from Legacy to SAP by using LSMW, EDI, and IDoc.
• Collaborated efforts with technical staff and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision of the product and analyze triple constraint tradeoffs.
• Worked with the QA team for designing Test Plan, Test Cases, and Requirement Traceability Matrix for the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Regression Testing Analyzed, maintained, and updated FAQ knowledge base in SharePoint for better data accuracy and better timely data availability
• Managed Change Requests by doing Impact Analysis on the business and technology front and submitted the same to the Change Request Board (CAB) for further approvals.

ENVIRONMENT: SAP, Waterfall, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio), MS Project Wireframes, Mock-Up Screens, Rational Requisite Pro, UML, UAT testing, SAP, MS SharePoint.

Confidential

Analyst / Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and improved multiple operational upgrades with a focus on IT systems and ERP technology
• Assisted in the timely distribution of workload to achieve 90% KPI among the team.
• Reviewed firm’s excel models on financial management activities and successfully identified several macros to automate the process.
• Produce models, finance forecast reports, and predict trends to assist senior management and the accounting department.
• Alignment of scope, processes, skills set, and KPI with management expectations.
• Custom developments for Data extraction, manipulation, and reporting using SAP ABAP
• Created Use cases, reports, and deployment views to extract business process flows and workflows involved in the project.
• Automated monthly/quarterly Financial Reporting, Direct preparation of cash flow reports for accounting, auditing using Tableau, Power BI through integration with SAP DB.
• Recommended process updates and enhancement priorities to clients following Financial Risk analysis and segmentation of problems into the business versus technical issues.

ENVIRONMENT: SAP, Agile Scrum, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Office Suite, JIRA, Change Management, MS PowerPoint, Tableau, MS Excel.