Joyes Saritha Tauro

MBA – Finance [ SAP FICO ]

+965-********

ac17pn@r.postjobfree.com

--- OBJECTIVE ---

To be associated with a progressive, innovative organization which can provide me a dynamic work sphere to extract my inherent skills and make use of my attitude towards the achievement of organizations’ as well as personal objectives.

--- PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE ---

9+ years of IT experience as SAP FICO Consultant

Accenture Malaysia Technology Solution BHD

3rd July 2012 to 29th March 2013 [9 months]

Team Lead (SAP FI Solution Analyst)

Accenture India Pvt. Ltd

3rd June 2010 to 2nd July 2012 [2 Years 1 Months]

Team Lead (SAP FICO Solution Analyst)

IBM India Pvt. Ltd

10th September 2007 to 31st May 2010 [2 years 8.5 months]

Application Consultant

Dyn Pro India Pvt. Ltd - Contract to IBM India Pvt. Ltd

10th January 2007 to 7th September 2007 [8 months]

Software Consultant

Caterpillar India Pvt. Ltd

10th July 2006 to 30th November 2006 [4.5 months]

FICO Consultant

Reuters India Pvt. Ltd.

11th April 2005 to 6th July 2006 [1 year 3 months]

Market Analyst

HSBC Electronic Data processing India Pvt. LTD

30th October 2004 to 31st March 2005 [5 months]

Customer Service executives

Note : Since March 2013 till date I am on maternity break and now looking forward to continue my career.

--- ONSITE EXPERIENCE ---

UK

Participated in Implementation of SAP for Shell GSAP project for Nordics Countries and provided Trainings for users as well as Shell external consultants on the Shell process and Tools.

Malaysia

Worked in Malaysia as SAP FI solution Analyst for BP for Backbone Project handling implementation of SAP for upstream business process.

--- TECHNICAL EXPERTISE ---

SAP FICO

SAP FI – GL, AP,AR,AA FI –HR Integration, FI-BI integration

Knowledge Area – SAP Controlling, PCA, COPA.

EHP 4 Upgrade

SAP FICO - Supporting project experience ECC 6.0

EHP5 upgrade

LSMW upload of Master data. Cutover task.

Testing

SAP BI

Testing of reports developed in BI

Tools

MS Office (Excel, Word and Power Point) and SAP Tools

MQC –Mercury Quality Center

Web Technologies (Client Side)

SharePoint Portal

Consultant

Worked as FICO consultant for Shell Roll out project and handled 11 role outs independently for SAP FI-HR integration process.

Worked as FICO Consultant for Development, Support & EHP 4 upgrade project for the client “SARALEE International”.

Worked as Offshore Coordinator for Global Hotel Reporting project for Starwood Client.

Worked as offshore coordinator for BHP Billiton for FPU Project handling all Finance and PRA deliverables.

Worked for as SAP FI Solution Analyst for BP upstream (Backbone Project).

Achievement/Recognition

Received Accenture Celebrates Excellence Awards - Q2 FY11 for successful project delivery.

Received Star performance award for the month of October 2010 for Outstanding performance.

Received Shell Star Award in recognition of an outstanding performance in project delivery.

--- MANAGERIAL ACTIVITIES ---

Planning, Monitoring and Reporting

Generating and executing efficient resource utilization plan

Generating weekly and monthly status reports and presenting to top management/customer

Configuration Management

Defining the Templates and Review Checklists

Change Management

Analyzing the change

Discretionarily approving the changes that may or may not impact schedule

People Management

Managing a maximum of 12 to 16 resources of FICO expertise

Conducting Performance appraisals

Coordinating Knowledge sessions/Knowledge transfers

Customer Interaction

Interacting with customers from requirements till acceptance

Presenting Project Reports to Customers

Others

Preparing Technical write-up for proposals for Development projects

--- DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITIES ---

Project 1

BP – Backbone

Client

BP

Environment

SAP R/3 ECC 4.7

Responsibility

FI Solution Analyst

Summary

Gathering user requirements and writing functional specifications.

Coordinating with offshore team and supporting the offshore scope of work.

Managing the deliverables from onshore for Backbone Finance team.

Maintaining required configuration in SAP system for BP project.

Preparation for Integration UAT and Cutover.

Participating in all the project relevant meetings and discussions.

Project 2

FPU

Client

BHP Billiton

Environment

SAP R/3 ECC 6.0

Responsibility

Team Lead

Summary

Gathering user requirements and writing functional specifications.

Leading team of 7 & coordinating with Onsite team and supporting the offshore scope of work.

Managing the deliverables from offshore for FPU Finance team

Maintaining required configuration in SAP system for FPU project

Preparation for Integration UAT and Cutover.

Participating in all the project relevant meetings and discussions.

Project 3

Global Hotel Reporting

Client

Starwood

Environment

SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 & BI

Responsibility

Offshore coordinator

Summary

Team size: 13

The product involves gathering user requirements and writing functional specifications.

Coordinating with development team to build reports in BI as per functional specifications.

Worked on Integration testing for BI reports developed as per the client requirement.

Participating in daily status call held with Accenture client team.

Taking care of work statistics and creating daily status report for higher management.

Preparation for UAT and Cutover.

Participating in all the project relevant meetings and discussions.

Project 4

SaraLee International [ Development & Support ]

Client

SARA LEE

Environment

SAP R/3 ECC 6.0

Responsibility

Requirements, Planning, Managing and Monitoring

Analyzing the specifications

Summary

Team size: 9

Gathering user requirements and writing functional specifications from the functional specifications.

Effectively handling client change requests by proposing and supporting the design, development and testing of solutions.

Worked closely with Development team to develop new Interfaces on FICO module to support Tax legal requirement.

Worked closely with Development team to create HUBWOO specific interfaces to support the posting in SAP.

Working on the enhancement activities on the object which supports the FICO module.

Participating in all the project relevant meetings and discussions.

Project 5

SaraLee International – EHP 4 Upgrade

Client

SARA LEE

Environment

SAP R/3 ECC 6.0

Responsibility

Requirements, Planning, Managing and Monitoring

Analyzing the specifications

Summary

Team size: 4

Working on the enhancement activities on the object which supports the FICO module.

Worked on EHP 4 Upgrade project. Testing all the integration and End to End scenarios for the Patch upgrades.

Participating in all the project relevant meetings and discussions.

Project 6

GSAP

Client

Shell International

Environment

SAP R/3 4.7

Responsibility

Requirements, Planning, Managing and Monitoring

Analyzing the specifications

Summary

Team size: 9

Worked an onsite-offshore business model in a very large engagement in implementation of all SAP rollouts scheduled to be completed in 2010. Leading a team of 9 FICO consultants. This project handles all the SAP rollouts of Shell from offshore. Implementing Customized procedures as per guidelines of Shell consulting Team, Requirement gathering from the local teams. (Country of rollout)

The key areas of responsibility were FI-GL, AR, AP, Asset Accounting, Tax, CCA, FI-HR Integration, Product Costing, and Internal Orders.

Documentation of business process and Configuration guidelines.

Worked on requirements gathering (Country Roll Out), business requirement analysis, writing documentation on the business process involved and customization activities for new business scenarios.

Traveled to Onsite to support the implementation project and Train the Shell process to the shell new joiners.

Creating the new company codes & their related configuration as per the global template.

Working on projects for developing the custom reports as per client specifications.

Co-ordination with the FICO team and other modules during regression testing, integration testing unit testing as per the testing plan.

Worked on building interfaces to process the employee payroll and Credit card expenses.

Broadly worked in GL, HR to FI integration.

Writing the Functional Specifications of enhancements & new requirements for country requirements and supporting the Technical build to fetch the new requirements as per country local requirement.

FI with Materials Management (MM) & Sales Distribution (SD) modules

User exit requirements preparation and validation.

Working on projects for developing the custom reports as per client specifications.

Co-ordination with the FICO team and other modules during regression testing, integration testing unit testing as per the testing plan.

Worked on building interfaces to process the employee payroll and Credit card expenses.

The key areas of responsibility were FI-GL, AR, AP, Asset Accounting, Tax, CCA, FI-HR Integration, Product Costing, and Internal Orders.

Also had to closely work with the BW team for designing reports.

Project 7

Australia Rollout

Client

Caterpillar India Pvt. Ltd.

Environment

SAP R/3 4.7

Responsibility

Requirements, Planning, Managing and Monitoring

Analyzing the specifications

Summary

Team size: 6

Part of the SAP implementation team Offshore (Caterpillar of Australia & Singapore)

Played important role in the preparation of Chart of Accounts.

Co-coordinating between the external configuration team & the local general ledger team.

Assisted in the configuration for Automatic Payment Run Program.

Ensured that Foreign currency revaluation is configured as per the corporate guide lines.

In charge of the data interface between the SAP system and the legacy system.

Ensure that all the customized reports (corporate specific) are correctly configured to match legacy reports.

Assisting in postproduction support for the FI team at Caterpillar

FI End User Training.

Project 8

Support Project - Internal

Client

Reuters India Pvt. Ltd.

Environment

SAP R/3 4.7

Responsibility

Supporting issues of Post go live.

Summary

Team size: 6

Worked on Creation of GL of Master Record.

Account Receivable and account Payable – Configuration of customer and vendor master data in FI, Number Ranges, and Posting Keys and Document types for posting.

Creating the new company codes & their related configuration as per the template.

Configuration of new company codes as per the solution specification of the subsequent releases.

Working on projects for developing the custom reports as per client specifications.

Ensure that bank and correspondence data is created for each vendor and customers.

Creation of house banks by using bank key with bank master key and country key.

--- DOMAIN EXPERIENCE ---

Employer

HSBC Electronic Data processing India Pvt. LTD

Job Activities

Handled credit management for the Customers

Worked on allowing credit for the Premium customers based on banking terms and Conditions

Was also supporting on call support for the UK credit Card Holders

Supported verifying accounts which are in Out of Order State

--- PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION ---

Post Graduation (2002 – 2004)

Master of Business Administration [MBA – FINANCE]

Manipal Institute of Management, MAHE University, Manipal, Karnataka.

Graduation (1999 - 2002)

Bachelor of Business Management

SDM Business Management College, Mangalore University, Mangalore, Karnataka.

Schooling

PUC (1999) – [Commerce]

St. Mary’s P U College - Shirva, Mangalore, Karnataka Board.

SSLC (1997)

Little Flower High School – Kinnigoli, Mangalore, Karnataka Board.

--- PERSONAL DETAILS ---

Date of Birth

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15th November, 1980

Sex

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Female

Marital status

:

Married

Nationality

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Indian

Languages Known

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English, Hindi & Kannada

Passport

Number

Valid till

Visa Status

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L1169457

20th July, 2023

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Hobbies

Listening to Indian Music

Long Highway drives

Cooking

--- GENERAL PREFERENCES AND CONSTRAINTS ---

Workplace Preferences

Willing to Travel abroad on long term basis.

(JOYES SARITHA TAURO)

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