SUMMARY

• Qualified Chartered Accountant Business Solution - oriented, methodical and analytical,Problem-solver,Excellent team player as well as team leader,higly motivated individual with good interpersonal and 15 years of track record in PeopleSoft Financial Systems Implementation, Rollout, Application Upgrade, Support, Conversion of multi ERP systems and Integration projects
• Treasury and HR systems in diversified businesses also has extensive domain experience in accounting /audit /HR/Tax/ General Management domains. Certified Project Management Professional (Valid PMP certificate) and Certified PeopleSoft Functional Consultant in General Ledger module.
• Played roles of seasoned Business Analyst and project Management skills. Also played roles of Business Analyst /Functional consultant/ Lead / PM / Auditor/Accounting Professional /Program/Solution Architect /Business Process Advisor roles for the successful delivery of various projects and operations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SharePoint
• Knowledge on Oracle ebiz application
• PS configuration manager, Change assistant
• Tracking tools: Remedy
• Microsoft products: Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, mpp etc.
• Excellent Communication and Documentation skills
• Process Reviewer
• Coordinator for HRMS modules during project implementation
• General Management
• Accounting
• Auditing
• SOX controls
• UPK documentation
• Training documentation and rendering training
• PeopleSoft Security Functional Knowledge

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Requirements gatherings, Data mappings and security matrices. Worked on configurations.
• Created functional design documents and testing documents. Created Testing metrics and worked on Conference Room Pilot.
• Involved right from the project initiation phases on the third party integrations and vendors.
• Strategic business analysis and financial application analysis.
• Involved in staffing and resource management activities. Developed Project schedule and project plan.
• Project design and execution, designed the whole conversion strategy of the financial systems.
• Worked on Change management procedures and project scope management, communication plan and escalation matrices and RACIs.Analyzed risks and implemented risk mitigation plans for smooth execution of the project.
• Developed Testing methodology and strategy, Data extraction methods and storage procedures, cutover strategy, Yearend strategy, post conversion strategy, system lock out plans, back up plans, system migration plans, procurement team and Data center migrations.
• Status reports, metrics, defect ratios, defect analysis, control measures.
• Process Improvements and planned phased implementations. Delivery management and Quality standards.
• Team building activities, Team member’s skills development, introspection meetings.
• Provided the necessary trainings to the team on the tools used in the projects.
• Worked on SOW, high level project schedule. Requirements gathered and documented specifications. Involved in Budgeting and estimations, cost benefit analysis, contingency plans and risk analysis.
• Created functional design documents and Business requirement documents.
• Worked in Delta presentations, Requirements gatherings and Fit gap analysis.
• Strategic business analysis and financial application analysis. Worked on conversion Sow, high level project schedule. Worked on the upgrade approach and methodologies.
• Involved in Budgeting and estimations, cost benefit analysis, contingency plans and risk analysis.
• Involved in staffing and resource management activities. Developed Project schedule and project plan.
• Project design and execution, designed the whole upgrade strategy of the financial systems without disrupting ongoing BAU activities and normal productions support. Developed Testing methodology and strategy.
• Worked on Change management procedures and project scope management.
• Analyzed risks and implemented risk mitigation plans for smooth execution of the project.
• Worked with Autosys integration team and tested whole batch processing cycles as part of the upgrading the PeopleSoft applications and Autosys upgrade as well.
• Status reports, metrics, defect ratios, defect analysis, control measures.
• Process Improvements and planned phased implementations. Delivery management and Quality standards.
• Team building activities, Team members’ skills development, introspection meetings.
• As entire system went for upgrade, analyzed and implemented disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
• Provided the trainings to the team on the tools used in the projects.

Confidential

Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Maintained the PSF systems. Performed Change management and worked on Disaster recovery plans.
• Suggested various Process Improvements during the tenure.
• Coordinated with the team on incident requests and change requests and delivered many interfaces and mini projects.
• Reduced Defect ratios and Iterations and maintained good Response times and on-time delivery with quality.
• Worked on business requirements and designs and coordinated with the team regarding development, testing and delivery.
• Provided the trainings to the team on the tools used in the projects. Worked on enhancements module-wise.
• Created design documents and testing documents.

Confidential

Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Documentation of the current state and the requirement gathering documentation
• Preparing the to be state documentation (design documentation and providing solution as per the PeopleSoft delivered solutions
• Configuring of the system
• Understanding of the reporting requirements and providing inputs for the developments of the reports.
• Preparing of the test cases, test scenarios and part of the testing team
• Setting of the automatic processing in banking.
• Cash position planning and scenario analysis