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SUMMARY
. A lead senior SAP Banking & Treasury functional consultant with over 8
years of treasury, corporate finance and ERP experience in implementing,
customizing, configuring and integrating SAP R/3 Treasury, Risk, Cash
Management General ledger (GL), Accounts Receivables (A/R), Accounts
Payables (A/P), Automatic Payments, Banking Interfaces and customized
reports for FI & treasury
. Effectively manage people and IT - Finance projects with Fortune 100
companies like JPMorgan Chase and BIG 4 consulting firms such as Deloitte
consulting, Accenture LLP, BearingPoint Inc and SAP America
. Solid experience in designing the SAP IT projects in Finance & Treasury
area
. Hands on project lead experience in a financial environment with a solid
business education background. Diversified experience in corporate
treasury (Cash Management, Portfolio Investment & Debt Management),
financial analysis, cash flow analysis, risk assessment and performance
reporting.
. MBA-Finance from University of Houston & Masters in International
Business from Australia
. Effectively managed business processes in Financial Service Industry,
Energy, Service sector pharmaceutical and manufacturing industries.
MANAGED BANKING PROJECTS WITH JP MORGAN CHASE
. Managed a team of multiple financial analysts in the conversion of JP
Morgan's Madrid
Branch's international loans portfolio on US JMP Chase's single
technology loan platform (ACBS) including development of front end
capabilities
. Project lead for consolidation of Bank One's international loans on JP
Morgan Chase's platform
EDUCATION
Masters in Business Administration
Dec 2003
Area of Concentration: Finance
University of Houston - Clear Lake, Houston, Texas
Masters in International Business
July 1999
Area of Concentration: International Business & Finance
Swinburne university of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Bachelor of Science April
1993
Area of Concentration: Chemistry
St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad, India
TECHNICAL SKILLS
ERP: SAP R/3 FI (Treasury-FSCM, Cash Mgmt & Liquidity
Forecasting,
Bank Accounting), G/L, A/P, A/R
Operating systems: Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP
Database: Oracle, MS Access
Software: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project
Certifications: Microsoft certified Systems Engineer for Win NT 4.0
(MCSE)
SAP SKILLS SYNOPSIS
SAP Banking
Transactional Banking (Loans Management, Deposit Management, Collateral
Management), Analytical Banking (Bank analyzer)
Financial Supply Chain & Cash Management
Commercial Paper, Fixed Term Deposit, Interest Rate instruments, Credit
Facilities, Bond issuance, various Bonds Investments, Hedge Management,
Foreign Exchange, Derivatives Business Partner, liquidity forecasting and
Cash Management, Customized treasury reports
Bank Accounting
House banks, bank accounts, electronic bank statement, manual bank
statements, Interfaces with Banks
Financial Accounting General Ledger
GL account master records, chart of accounts, bank accounts, cross company
transactions, foreign currency valuation, validations and substitutions
Accounts Receivable
Customer groups, customer master data, billing, payment terms, interest
calculations, incoming payments, lockbox configuration and Cash Management
integration with SD
Accounts Payable
Vendor groups, vendor master data, house banks, bank accounts, positive
pay, automatic payments, recurring entries, invoices and Cash Management
integration with MM
EXPERIENCE
SAP America September 2008 - Present
Sr. Consultant - Treasury & Financial Services
Recent Project - Green Energy Company - Treasury, Risk, Cash & Electronic
Banking
. Mapped client's various business processes of treasury operations, Cash
Management and Risk Management (FX, Derivatives & Hedging) into SAP
during the Work-shops. Blueprint & requirement gathering phase of the
project
. Knowledge transfer to the client of SAP's best practice in the area of
Treasury & Risk Management
. Implemented and configured FSCM's core modules such as Money Market, FX,
Derivatives, Hedging and Securities
. Implemented and configured Cash Management & Liquidity Forecasting based
on the business requirements
. Designed the entire Electronic Banking process, configuration, bank
reconciliation and Cash Management reporting for a global roll-out for
US, Germany, France and Malaysia
. Worked with multiple banks to design the bank architecture in order to
achieve the maximum optimization within SAP
. Participated on weekly calls with multiple banks and driven the various
testing cycles in order to test the validity of the bank interfaces
. Defined the functional specifications for the various inbound and
outbound bank interfaces and to communicate with the respective bank's
technical team
. Identified and rectified the key issues related to bank Routing numbers,
Swift codes and IBAN numbers related to the various inbound and outbound
bank files to and from to the banks
BearingPoint Inc, Houston, TX Oct. 2007 -
September 2008
Treasury Lead (ERP - SAP) - Service Sector
. Analyzed the existing treasury structure in SAP including Portfolio
Management (short term Investment), Debt Management and Cash management
to provide value added and cost effective SAP solutions
. Led the team of consultants in the area of Cash Management, Banking &
Treasury to define the scope, deliver the configuration and supervise the
user/integration testing
. Designed various treasury reports such as Monthly Security Holding,
Interest Income, Realized & Unrealized gain/loss of Investments,
Investment Performance (nominal vs. purchase value), Short Term/Long Term
Debt reports etc.
. Developed various technical interfaces such as electronic bank statements
and outgoing payment files (EDI, IDOC, Positive Pay, Lockbox) with Citi
Bank and JPMorgan Chase and lead the communication behalf of client
. Defined the cost effective outgoing payment program by converting Fed
Wires and Checks to ACH payments
. Prepared configured and delivered a solution to implement Cash Management
and Liquidity Forecasting in SAP by analyzing the existing process in
place
Accenture LLP, Houston, TX
July 2007 - Oct. 2007
Sr. Consultant - System Integration, SAP Banking
Industry - Manufacturing
. Analyzed the existing banking structure in SAP and suggested changes for
the improvement of the bank reconciliation process.
. Configured the suggested changes in existing banking design in SAP so
that bank reconciliation process with G/L and sub ledger accounts can be
automated
. Configured and tested various clearing accounts for Outgoing payments
based on the payment methods
. Provided guidance and support to the junior associates for the day to day
activities of the electronic bank statement and their reconciliation in
SAP
. Defined design structure for the new bank accounts that are being created
in SAP due to the additional units are coming on SAP for the client
through different waves of SAP implementation
Deloitte Consulting, Houston, TX
Consultant - Treasury SAP Practice July 2006
- July 2007
Industry - Energy Sector
. Mapped the processes in Treasury & Cash Management operations in
Utilities and Energy companies for integration and adoption of SAP
processes
. Analysis & documentation of existing processes/ practices legacy systems
for defining the implementation plans
. Advised clients on critical Risk management issues such as Foreign
Exchange and Interest Rate Exposure and suggested appropriate SAP
solutions
. Formulated complex business design for FI-Treasury implementation
incorporating gaps, interfaces, reports, enhancements and data conversion
from the legacy system
. Prepared and presented various Workshops (presentation) to demonstrate
SAP's Treasury module components such as Money Market, Securities,
Foreign Exchange, Derivatives and Hedge Management to the Deloitte's
client to gather the master data in order to implement and configure SAP
system
. Gathered business requirements in order to structure various debt
contracts for Bonds, Credit facilities, Money Market instruments and
Investments.
. Configured and documented various SAP configurations for Bank Accounting
(House Banks, Bank determination for outgoing payments, Manual bank
statement, and Electronic bank statement), Cash Management and Liquidity
Forecast.
. Configured and documented various activities for SAP - Financial Supply
Chain Management (Treasury & Risk Management) such as Business Partner,
Money Market, Securities, Credit Facilities and Investments
. Created test plans of various SAP transactions for Treasury & Cash
Management modules to upload in Mercury testing tool for unit testing.
JP Morgan Chase, Houston, TX
Team Lead -Financial Consultant - Debt Capital Market July 2002 -
July 2006
. Supervised and managed a team of 4 financial analysts responsible for
performing financial valuation and quantitative analyses of JPM Chase's
debt capital market (credit Facilities, international loans, letter of
credit, domestic loans and corporate mortgage warehouse loans)
. Managed a team of analysts, who supported JPM Chase's investment bankers,
middle offices and various external agent bank
. Helped senior management in forecasting the revenues and expenses for
JPMC's Debt Capital Market on a monthly basis
. Participated in department's budget on a quarterly basis
. Designed and developed ad-hoc queries, forms and reports using SQL & MS
Access for various subsidiaries of JPM Chase and to report to the senior
management
. Extensive use of Excel's spread-sheets and data analysis using pivots
. Maintain secondary loan trading and make necessary income adjustments in
accordance with JP Morgan Chase's accounting policy to support senior
management's decision process
. Check and validate financial data including credit and documentation
control in accordance with JP Morgan Chase's policy and procedures
. Actively maintain high service levels with regard to client satisfaction
by reaching out and maintaining contact with JPM Chase's internal and
external clients
. Establish risk indicators by performing various financial models on all
the debt instruments so that the potential risk of those instruments can
be minimized
. Reconcile various income accounts, account payables and account
receivables for Chase's Commercial Loan division
BCM Corporation, India July 2000 -
July 2001
SAP Functional Financial Consultant
SAP FI/CO Modules: GL, AP, AR
General Ledger
. System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL, balance sheet and
P&L statements for inter company transactions
. Defined global parameters for company codes, fiscal year variants,
business areas
. Defined and configured document types, document posting periods, number
ranges and tolerance groups
. Created and maintained chart of accounts as per the client's business
requirements
. Configured account groups and field status groups after analyzing the
business processes for pharmaceutical industry
. Created GL master records and reconciliation accounts for sub-ledgers
Accounts Payable/Receivable
. Defined House banks, bank accounts, reason codes and check lots
. Defined customer/vendor account groups and assigned number ranges to the
groups
. Created the customer/vendor master data as per the data given by the
client
. Created different clearing accounts (GL accounts) required for outgoing
payments
. Configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments such as Fed
wires, ACH and EDI for company codes in account payable (AP)
. Configured dunning program, dunning levels, dunning areas and dunning
forms for each company (subsidiary) at company code level
. Configured payment terms for dunning for over-due interest calculations,
for principal payments