Project Management

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

More than Fifteen years of IT experience in Project Management, Product Development, Gap Study and Business Analysis

Proficient in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), implementations, Rollouts, Support and Upgrade projects

Focused trouble-shooter, problem management, incident analysis, root cause analysis (RCA)

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to work cohesively with developers, team members and testers.

Strong experience with Scrum methodology and well versed in writing user stories

Experience in requirement gathering from business users and documentation, preparing use cases and translating requirements into Functional Specifications

Experience in managing project expectations, planning and organizational skills

Vendor Management and experience in working with onshore/offshore teams

Executing projects in dual shore model across different geographies and cultures

Experience in client handing, preparation of RFPs, initiating projects, effort estimates, requirement gathering and project assignments

Experience in project estimates, status reports, project tracking and analysis

Good understanding on different kinds of risks (Credit Risk, Market Risk, Operational Risk and Liquidity Risk to name a few) being worked on banking software products

Experience in preparation of project billing and profitability on monthly basis that includes cost per consultant and profitability of the account

SAP FICO implementation and functional knowledge of SAP SD module

Prior experience of Finance and Accounting including budgeting and preparation of financial statements

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

People 2.0 Inc, Exton, PA

May 2016 – March 2017

Project Manager & Business Analyst

Description:

The project is to integrate different products with Enterprise edition of People2.0 software product.

Projects:

Making the legacy Invoice, POs, and Remittance Advice to the EDI standards of 810, 850 and 820 respectively

TFI Recruiter Application Portal (Cloud>SaaS)

Sales / Mobile Application Portal (Cloud>SaaS)

Call-Em-All Integration (API)

Direct Hire

Combined Invoicing

TFI Other Services

Web Time Entry & Approval

TFI Teaming Portal (SaaS)

New BI Reports

Responsibilities:

Solely responsible for all phases of the Projects – initiation to complete implementation and Go Live

Interaction with the Senior Management and Reporting to Chief Operating Officer (COO)

Vendor Management and team management of different geographical locations – within US and the Offshore team for implementation of SaaS and cloud based projects

Daily scrums using Agile Methodology for all the projects

Demonstrated the value by comparative data analysis and used Agile & Scrum SDLC, MS office & Excel.

Understanding the high level requirements (SRDs) from the Product Owners

Taking the high level notes from the business people and converting them into Functional Specification Design documents

Getting the new BI Reports developed, both standard and ad-hoc ones

ensuring the data correctness of these reports by using the SQL queries to pull data from Database and compare these reports

Day to day operations include tracking, monitoring, mentoring and coordinating within the team and cross functional teams

Overall responsible for the deployment of releases and builds within different environments – ensuring team check-ins (TFS as a tool) along-with the Technical Director

Process improvements for the newly acquired company

Nestle Waters, Stamford, CT

April 2016-May 2016

Senior Business Analyst

Projects:

Vertex O Series Implementation (Upgradation from Q Series to O Series 6.0)

Responsibilities:

The project was to integrate SAP with RMS and Vertex O Series 6.0

Coordinating with Nestle Water Tax Department to understand the day to day issues, analyze them, making the updates to the O Series

One point contact for coordination and discussions with Vertex O Series Consultancy team to trouble shoot the issues

Worked with Business people to generate new BI ad-hoc reports using the O Series Cognos tool

Part of the team to phase out the SQL 2008 and replacing it with 2016 version

Created a through Customized User Guide on the implemented Vertex O Series.

Vertex Inc, Berwyn, PA

Nov 2010 – Dec 2015

Business Analyst and Project Manager

Projects Handled:

Enterprise Tax Management System (ETMS) Vertex Enterprise (VE)

Enterprise Tax Management System (ETMS) Vertex Tax Accounting (VTA)

Responsibilities:

Having worked on the product extensively, having a role of SME to the existing application and Analyst for the new features

Part of the project since the inception stage

Responsible for offshore delivery that includes meeting client expectations, task assignment to the offshore development team and coordination

Understanding the high level requirements (SRDs) from the Product Owners

Converting the user stories to System Requirement Specifications (SRS) for the new features

Writing User stories, creating Use Cases, Use case diagrams, Workflow Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and Class Diagrams

Imparting training to the programmers for software implementation, QA for testing and peers on the existing features and new requirements

Imparting training to the offshore team and guiding them for the implementation

As a tax professional, working with content development on the tax computations in the role of an SME

Ensured all documents created followed standards and uploaded into TFS and SharePoint.

Test cases and execution based on the subject knowledge (Content) and helping the testing team while preparing Requirement Traceability Matrices

VTA product development based with features of USGAAP, FIN48 and ASC740

Working on connectors to connect VE with different ERP systems such as SAP (FI and SD modules)

Working on continuous integration of VE with these ERP systems

Fair knowledge of SAP HANA, SAP BODS and SAP BOBJ

Creation of new reports along with BI (Cognos) Develop team

Data Analysis and visualization (forecast and Predictive Analysis) connecting Tableau with the existing database

Create SQL queries to validate the data in MS Access intermediate table.

Successfully used Agile/Scrum Method for gathering requirements and facilitated user stories workshop. Documented User Stories and facilitated Story Point discussions to analyse the level of effort on project specifications

Developed UI Wireframes and Mock-ups using Microsoft Visio

Reporting using MS Office Tools and SharePoint.

Created and maintained data mapping documents

Functioned as the primary liaison between the business, operations and technical groups throughout the project cycle

Follow up with the end users and developers for user satisfaction and change management if necessary

Assisted and adhered to project work flow process

Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives, resolve issues, and reach agreements

Involved in weekly meetings with the development team to resolve technical issues

Participated in creating User manuals.

Infogain India Pvt Ltd, Noida

Feb 2008 - Oct 2010

Client: Vertex Inc, Berwyn, PA (Offshore Project)

Senior Business Analyst and Project / Delivery Manager

Projects Handled:

Global Tax Office 2.0 Levyti

Enterprise Tax Management System (ETMS) Vertex Enterprise (VE)

Enterprise Tax Management System (ETMS) Vertex Tax Accounting (VTA)

Responsibilities:

The project was to enhance the existing GTO Product. It is a Corporate Tax Software Product conforming to Deferred Tax standards and US GAAP.

Delivery Management that includes meeting client expectations, task assignment to the team and ensuring quality and timely delivery to the client

Lead cross-functional development teams of complex initiatives, coordinating external and internal resources to support on-time delivery

Proven record of Team Management and Leadership skills. Excellent Presentation skills in regards to communicating with both business and technical teams

Trouble-shooter and responsible for problem management that includes root cause analysis (RCA), reporting and resolving them

Primary liaison between the end user, onshore development team and offshore teams throughout the project cycle

Project Estimates, track projects' performance against baseline plan

Preparation of Project Billing and Project Profitability Statements on monthly basis

Interaction with the client on the new projects, release priority and roadmap

Followed agile scrum methodology throughout the project.

Tracking and Managing the Requirements using Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) that controls numerous artifacts produced by the teams across the deliverables for a project

Achievement of doubling the project revenue within the span of six months of joining the project

Converting the high level requirements into formal ‘Functional Requirement Specifications

Making of GUI prototypes using MS Visio

Imparting training to the development team on the existing Product and future enhancements

Quality assurance by final verification before releasing the builds to the client

Organized and managed all phases of the software testing process, including planning tests, writing test cases, executing tests, traceability matrices and tracking defects

Worked extensively with the QA team for designing Test Plan and Test Cases for the User Acceptance testing (UAT) and validation.

Fiserv (formerly Open Solutions) IDC, Gurgaon India Nov 2006 - Jan 2008

Senior Business Analyst

Projects Handled:

The Complete Banking Solution (TCBS) – Retail Banking Enterprise Software

The Complete Credit Union Solutions (TCCUS) – Retail Credit Union Enterprise Software

Responsibilities:

Requirement Gathering and analysis for developing a new module as HSA into the existing Core Product TCBS and TCCUS

Knowledge acquisition on HSA subject

Data Modelling for the new HSA Project

Functional Specifications

Impart training to team on functionality and the new data model

Quality assurance of the HSA Module

Coordination with 3rd party vendor for smooth implementation of HSA product

Enhancement of Lien requirements for the Mortgage module of TCBS

Requirement study and gap analysis of different markets (Canada, UK & India) for LOS project.

Recommendation to Senior Management on the required enhancements to launch the LOS product globally

Nucleus Software, Noida, India

Nov 2000 - Oct 2006

Business Analyst

Projects Handled:

Loan Management System (LMS) – Retail Banking Enterprise Software Module

Taxation module enhancement

NPA Module enhancement

Lien handling on the mortgaged property

Deferral Handling

Excess Money Handling

Fund Transfer

Bonus Repayment Schedule

Loan Origination System (LOS) – Retail Banking Enterprise Software Module

Creation of MIS & Reports as an enhancement for LOS Module

Got Application converted to Java from VB

Loan Calculator

Fraud Management System (FMS)

Creation of rule alerts for Credit Card transactions

Requirement gathering based on feedback from the clients and extensive research

Converting the next day alert to real time alert

General Ledger (GL):

GL Implementation at 34 subsidiaries of Shinsei Bank, Japan

Gap analysis and Requirement gathering

Coordination between the client and the technical team for the development of the application

Training to the developers on the functionality

Functional testing of the product before delivering to the client

Parallel run of legacy application (Tally) and Nucleus GL and analysis of the data and reports

New Reports development

MIS Codes for Project wise profitability

SAP FICO In house Implementation (Environment: SAP R/3 4.6b, FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, CO-CCA, CO-PCA:

Carried out current business process study and Preparation of AS~IS document

Carried GAP study and prepared GAP analysis report

Prepared TO~BE and Business Blue Print Document

Business data preparation & Management related to FICO Module

Defining Vendor master data. Configuring down payments, Payment methods, and automatic Payment program

Invoice verification, GL account assignments, Accounts for auto-posting

Creation of customer account groups, number range group and numbers, customer masters creation and terms of payment

Configuring advances from parties

Configuring dunning program. Incoming payments, partial payments. Writing specifications for customer reports

Defining vendor master data. Invoice verification. Configuring automatic payment program, check management, GL account assignments, Accounts for auto-posting, GRIR and vendor down payment

Configuration for General Controlling, Cost Center Accounting and Profit Center Accounting

In Controlling defined the Master Records like Cost Elements (primary and secondary)

Cost Element Groups, Cost Centers, Cost Center Groups and Standard Hierarchy

Defined Profit Center and Profit Center Groups

Preparation of User Manual Document

Responsibilities:

As Business Analyst:

Functional specification document for new enhancements/features of the existing products

Imparting Product and Functional training to programmers, QA and BA team

Preparation of Request for Proposal (RFP)

Product Demo to prospective clients

Creation of new client specific customized BI reports for the FinnOne product

Demo set up on the basis of use cases for various prospective clients

Contribute to definition of roadmap of the Core Product (Gather, distil, prioritize, and document product requirements from prospects, evaluators, customers and internal sources. collaborate within Marketing and with Development to prioritize and trade off user requirements and features to create Product Requirements Document (PRD)

As Senior Executive Finance:

Preparation of Monthly Consolidated Profit & Loss Account and Balance sheet

Accountable for preparation of project wise & profit center-wise profitability and variance analysis

Component wise cost of the project expense, allocation of corporate overhead to the projects

Preparation of business and geographical segment wise revenue on monthly basis

Directly responsible for the design and creation of profit center and project accounting in the organization

Part of Six Sigma team for the improving the travel expense reimbursement process, expense reimbursement process improvement and vendor management process improvement (all payable process improvements)

Received recognition for the outstanding contribution in preparation of Accounting Manual by Ernst & Young

Non-IT Experience:

ScottWilson India, Delhi, India

May 1998 - Oct 2000

Finance Executive

Primary Responsibilities:

Integration of finance and forecasting requirements

Routine accounting responsibilities in computerized environment.

Regular interaction with the top management and project managers

Budgeting and forecasting aspect

Preparation of Business Action Plan for every financial year

Estimates of profitability on projects short-listed in addition to the jobs in

Compilation of site returns from all existing projects, consolidation of figures to arrive at the overall position of the firm

Liaison with the UK office on a regular basis.

Audit firms, India

Oct 1989 - May 1998

Audit Assistant

Description:

As a team lead, audit assistant and intern, completed various projects and assignments that includes process improvements and internal control, tax audits, bank audits, internal and external audits.

CERTIFICATIONS:

Certified Scrum Master (International Scrum Institute)

Microsoft Project 2013 (Udemy, CA)

Advanced SQL (Udemy, CA)

Introduction to Big Data (University of California, CA)

SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence (SAP BO / BI) from Udemy, CA

SAP S/4 HANA (Udemy, CA)

SAP SD Training (Udemy, CA)

Tableau Data Analytics (Udemy, CA)

Product Management (Udemy, CA)

Principles of Banking (Centre for Financial Training, Atlantic States, USA)

SAP FICO training (CDAC, Noida, India)

Education:

Masters (CA Intermediate) from ICAI, India - 1994

Bachelors from Berhampur University, India – 1989

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