PUSHPA VISHT

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PROFESSIONAL SNAPSHOT

A Certified SAP (FICO) Functional Professional holding degree in Chartered Accountancy (equivalent to CPA) and Diploma in Information Systems Audit from India.

9 years of SAP experience with 11 years of functional experience in finance and accounting.

Responsible for pre-sales marketing, analyze and recommend business process development, security and audit tools and post-implementation client-support,

Experience in the areas of General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Credit Management, Lockbox Accounting, Dispute Management, Controlling, Product Costing, COPA etc.

Well versed with High Radius application (bolt-on for SAP) for Cash application and dispute management.

Individual with good analytical and organizational skills.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Liaison with client for requirement gathering, mapping client business processes to FICO module in SAP, and recommend process change, security and audit functionalities based on processes and requirements,

Provide real-time solutions for end-user issues and enhance systems and processes.

Provide recommendations for security and audit tools for oversight and monitoring in FICO,

Provide guidance and support for change management controls and assist in testing from time-to-time,

Provide real time solution to process controls, increase efficiency and mitigate risks,

Pre-sale marketing and demonstrations of Financial and Controlling (FICO) module based on client requirements.

EXPERIENCE PROFILE

(March 2006 to Date)

IGATE Global Solutions Ltd. (erstwhile Patni Computer Systems Ltd).

Designation: Manager – Senior Functional Consultant

Projects

Client : Church & Dwight Co., Inc. (Consumer products Industry)

Project : Global Integrated Application Management Systems maintenance

Duration : August 2012 to July 2015

Role : Team Lead FICO

Responsibilities:

Oversee a team on a day-to-day basis for SAP systems specifically related to Financial and controlling module (FICO) throughout the organization.

Analyze system logic/process SAP errors related to various sub-modules of SAP FICO application: Dispute management, Lockbox Accounting, General Ledger Account, Revenue Recognition, Credit Management, Controlling, Product Costing, and Profitability Analysis, etc.

Working with team members for other SAP modules such as GDW, BPC etc. to resolve the interface issues with FICO module.

Design/blue print SAP system processes and functional business operations for company-wide application upgrades and application software configurations.

Resolving SAP application interface issues with High Radius with respect to Cash application and Dispute management.

Identify and analyze root cause of system errors by reviewing coding and configuration.

Oversee timeliness of resolutions of user requests and user issues and provide practical and logical recommendations.

Provide periodical updates to client’s senior management.

Maintaining and Updating documentation - Technical and functional specifications, test cases for minor enhancements/ break-fix incidents as per existing C&D SOPs (.i.e., Standard Operating procedures).

Client : Owens Corning, Ohio (Fiber Glass Manufacturing Industry)

Project : Customer Experience Transformation Implementation Project

Duration : February 2012 to July 2012

Role : Team Lead FICO

Responsibilities:

Manage/lead team for implementing FICO module in company-wide implementation of SAP. Will oversee onsite as well as offshore personnel.

Liaison with senior client management personnel to understand and create financial processes blueprints for SAP configuration.

Provide leadership during design system testing scripts and testing phase for end-to-end completion.

Facilitate system cutover for testing of information prior to migration to production environment.

Overall responsible for providing iGate senior management as well client management team with progress reports, key issues and recommendation of process changes to ensure efficiency and mitigate risks.

Responsible for the timely delivery of key deliverables to client.

Responsible to ensure overall integration of FICO module with other SAP products and interface with other client systems.

Manage resource plan for the deliverables and re-prioritization based on the criticality of the deliverables.

Client : Motorola Solutions, New York (Telecommunications Industry)

Project : Transformation and Client Support

Duration : November 2011 to January 2012

Role : Team Lead - FICO

Responsibilities:

Manage/Lead SAP FICO team for SAP system enhancement and data migration to Oracle application.

Reviewed and analyzed client’s existing business processes and managed team to configure as per client’s requirements;

Manage change management and coordinate business prioritization for enhancements

Mapped the SAP master data to Oracle master data through custom SAP mapping tables.

Provide real time solutions to end users and assisted client’s key personnel in overseeing data migration.

Liaison with executive management and provide periodical status reports.

Managed SAP programmers to customize existing applications as per client requirements.

Client : St Jude Medical, Inc., Minnetonka, MN (Medical devices Industry)

Project : S2S Functional Analysis and Support

Duration : May 2009 till Oct 2011

Role : SAP FICO Testing team lead and Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

Oversee and understand client’s financial processes and controls,

Assist and recommend mapping of client’s business with FICO module,

Understanding implementation life cycle of new system releases for client and recommend client for system enhancements and efficiency,

Understanding scope of new /enhanced business process or sites integration,

Liaison with client and implementation team regarding client needs, security requirements, systems tools and testing methodologies,

Working through the Change control process and verification of Change request for new and enhanced functionalities,

Liaison with offshore team for pre-implementation testing,

Resolve client issues on a real-time basis,

Report to client’s executive management periodically regarding project status, issues and process recommendations

Client : Weyerhaeuser Co., Federal Way, WA (Forest Products Industry)

Project : Application & Managed Services Production Support

Duration : April 2008 to April 2009

Role : FICO Team lead and Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

Responsible for supporting users on SAP applications in Accounts Receivables, FI-GLCO and Accounts Payable areas

Part of transition and support team managing a business unit divestiture; activities involved – planning of cutover tasks, Production readiness testing, go live support, supporting new customer vitiated landscape and handover of support to the buying entity

Troubleshooting and enhancements for SAP FI Interfaces such as inbound invoices in SAP, Lockbox payment uploads, customer master download, open item downloads, and Archiving of AR forms to File Net, Credit Agency Download etc.

Dealt with issues relating to SAP Custom tool (File Manager) for automated invoice postings, JVs along with coordinating with the external sales systems & integration support services.

Handled issues relating to SAP Custom tool (GLSU) for collective data upload and processing.

Worked on the configuration changes for closure of company code from AR perspective

Monitoring of the lockbox process, resolving the issues involved including analyzing and correcting the relevant IDOCs to get them reprocessed. (LOCKBX, ZDEBMAS, CREMAS)

Monitoring Batch Jobs (Dunning, customer correspondences, Archival of customer forms, customer master download, customer balance download, Auto clearing etc.)

Month end activities supported: customer balance reconciliation, period opening and closing, internal order settlements, cost center assessment & distribution, uploads through GLSU tool

Enhancements and changes to several standard SAP functionalities, such as addition of new fields to the BSE_CLR table, Adding Fax and Email on the customer statements, addition of document type logic for customer late payments, Auto clearing of customer open items.

Change Request Management – Requirements gathering, Analysis, Submission for approval, Configuration, Functional specs preparation, SolMan updates, design of new programs, Smart forms/Sap scripts and Testing for production migration

Incident Management - Worked on resolution of high and medium impact tickets and incidents ensuring to meet the SLAs (service level agreements)

Testing - Developed Test Plans & subsequent testing in Mercury Quality Center for new functionality and changes moving to production

Coordination – Onsite coordination with offshore team to clarify requirements, specifications and testing, working with Customer focals / key contacts in AR, AP and FI areas along with BI reporting teams

Suggested possible improvements in the existed business process – example: Credit representative group creation/change requests, suggested process improvement to reduce on the time involved in getting the changes moved to Production

Exposed to certain support requirements in SAP-AA module (Asset management) support, around Asset Master, Depreciation areas, Asset explorer, Depreciation Run

Client : Rohm and Haas USA, Philadelphia, PA (Chemical manufacturing Industry)

Project : ROH Production Support and Enhancement Project

Duration : June 2007 to March 2008

Role : SAP FICO support

Responsibilities:

Providing extensive support to the users in AP, AR, GL, CCA, PCA, IO areas & suggesting changes for adapting to their changing functional requirements

Dealt with issues relating to General Ledger, cost element, cost center, profit center, activity type, cost center groups, profit center groups, standard hierarchy, alternate hierarchy creation and change requests

Handled issues relating to customer & vendor payments through Automatic Payment Processing & Manual processing, Dunning notices to customers,

Worked on change requests for configuration changes relating to Bank Accounting, House Banks, Terms of Payments

Resolved issues relating to settlement of internal orders, accounts payable closing

Participated in the implementation of new company code

Implementing Extended Withholding Taxes – TDS certificate & Quarterly Returns with the help of OSS notes and required configurations. This was done to adapt to the changing tax requirements for TDS percentage and return filing process for the Indian branch.

Client : Gujarat Rubber & Reclaim Products Ltd, India (Reclaim Rubber Industry)

Project : Production Support & Enhancement Project

Duration : December 2006 to March 2007

Role : SAP FICO Support

Uploading legacy data into the Asset Accounting Module through transfer postings.

Reconciling the financial accounting data with asset accounting data.

Resolving the issues faced by the end-users.

Reimplementation of Extended Withholding Taxes in CIN (Country India Version) - Configurations for Tax deducted at Source (TDS) Certificates, TDS forms and Quarterly returns

Client : Jayant Agro Organics Ltd, India (Chemical Industry)

Project : Production Support & Enhancement Project

Duration : December 2006 to March 2007

Role : SAP FICO Support

Responsibilities:

Uploading legacy data into the Asset Accounting Module through transfer postings, and subsequent resolution of issues faced by end users.

Reimplementation of Extended Withholding Taxes in CIN (Country India Version) - Configurations for TDS Certificates, TDS forms and Quarterly return

Post-Implementation Support involved helping the end users in the day-to-day transactions and closely monitoring the system performance.

Reimplementation of Profit Center Accounting- Creating Profit Center Masters, assignment of Cost Centers to the respective Profit Centers, Automatic assignment of Profit Centers, including period end activities carried out for splitting the documents.

Preparation of User documentation and Imparting Extensive Training to the end-users.

Uploading Bank Statement and subsequent processes to generate the Bank Reconciliation Statements.

Client : Procter & Gamble USA (Consumer goods Industry)

Project : Production Support & Enhancement Projects

Duration : June 2006 to November 2006

Role : SAP FICO Support

Responsibilities:

Understanding the FI business processes – AR, Credit Management.

Map the Customer’s business processes on SAP.

Analyzing the data requirements for each transaction code.

Documenting and simulating the processes using RWD Infopak documentation tool.

Communication with the Business Experts located in Austria.

Client : KGK Diamonds

Project : Demo Project

Role : SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

Understand the Prospect Customer’s business processes.

Map the Prospect Customer’s business processes on SAP.

Present the IT-Business solution to the Customer from User-level to Higher Management.

Ensure the quality standards by conducting Internal Review meetings.

Develop the Presentation

July 1995 to February 2006

As an experienced professional, obtained functional experience in accounting and auditing. In a span of approximately 11 years, was employed with national as well as international firms such as Ashco Industries Ltd, A.S. Gujaral & Company, A.C. Shah & Associate and M/s. V.P. Thacker & Co. (A Member Firm of Horwath International of USA).

From Audit Assistant to Senior Auditor, obtained exposure to auditing of private as well public companies, performing internal controls review of various processes and procedures in different industries such as banks, mutual fund, manufacturing, etc., performed accounting functions, worked with various accounting and finance applications. Experience specifically includes;

Perform regulatory (SEBI) audits, annual statutory audits of public limited companies, mutual funds and banks,

Review of various processes such as inventory valuation, payroll, cash disbursements, budgeting processes, etc. for internal controls and identify weaknesses and recommend process improvements,

As senior accountant, maintained books of accounts for companies and high net-worth individuals, prepared quarterly and annual financial statements, prepared corporate and tax regulatory filings, annual tax returns, etc.

Also assisted in preparation of corporate filings such as board minutes, shareholders meeting minutes, etc.

Liaison with tax and other regulatory agencies to ensure timely filing of corporate information and ensure proper compliance.

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS

SAP CERTIFICATION

SAP FICO Solution Professional Certification

APPLICATION KNOWLEDGE

Tools - RWD InfoPak (Documentation), Test Directory, Remedy System, Request Center, Quality center

Caseware/Caseview audit software, Go

EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALS

Chartered Accountant (CA) from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

DISA (Diploma in Information Systems Audit) from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

B.Com from University of Bombay, India.

AMFI - Mutual Fund Certification from National Stock Exchange of India.

PERSONAL DETAILS

Address: 24 Mallard Place, Secaucus, New Jersey, 07094

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