Manager Project

PADMA GANNAVARPU (MIS)

SAP FICO FUNCTIONL CONSULTANT

*********@*****.*** 312-***-**** Chicago, IL

SUMMARY:

Accomplished IT Lead with significant experience in, SAP Implementation, configuration, operations and production support. Highly skilled at SDLC process, configuration, reporting, and problem solving. Composed leader of global team. Known for simplifying processes, under budget and completing projects on time and beyond expectations.

TECHNOLOGY SKILLS

ERP: SAP R3/ERP FICO (GL, AP, AR, OM, TAX & Treasury (FSCM), S4 HANA, simple FI 2.0, CRM; SD, MM, SolMan(Admin, WRICEF, Documentation, CHaRM, RevTrac); Successfactor, ORACLE-HRMS, PeopleSoft 7.5/8.4/8.8 (Finance Grants, HRMS), application development

DB/Reporting Tools: SQL Server, Oracle Programming, RDBMS, Microsoft Access, and SQL; PL/SQL Cognos Decision Stream, Crystal Report

Ticketing Tools: BMC Remedy, IBM Rational Clear Quest, Service Now, MS Solve, HPQC, HP ALMRelease, Change and Defect Meetings: Go/no-go reviews, project plan, analysis, system outage, manage all IT releases independently; co-ordinate with SAP HANA Team on requirements of releases

BA Skills: Collection of requirements, process design, business process analysis, technical design, requirements signon/signoff, expert in UML/RUP

Monitoring Tools: Control M/EM, Autosys

BI: Informatica Power Center, Power Manager and Monitor, and B.O. Data Integrator

Treasury and FiREApps, FxPress, FxAll, BRM Edge, Bloomberg Data License and

Trading Applications: Bloomberg Professional, and SAP Finance (Cash Management)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

THE KRAFT HEINZ COMPANY 2016 – April 2017

SAP FICO FUNCTIONL CONSULTANT– IT CHANGE & RELEASE MANAGEMENT

Led release, change, implementation, and defect management activities. Coordinated with SAP S4 HANA FICO, SD and MM releases and implementation. Requirement gathering, design, testing and deploy.

Worked on documenting the process flow, scope, project timeline and blueprint of implementing FICO taking into consideration the procurement strategy and operating model. Worked closely with developers, provided business requirements, interviews, apply RUP and UML methodologies.

Expert in SAP Basis SolMan, RevTrac, supported Associate Director and Sr. Manager R.M by participating in meetings, training employees on SolMan, RevTrac, CHaRM independently interacting with teams, approving defects based on status and budget. Designed, tested WRICEFs, lead analyzed and fixed technical issues in SolMon and RevTrac administrator. Upgrade of SolMan 7.1 to 7.2. Created and led Project Plans, estimates, and budget. Updated ways to improve SolMan and troubleshot issues. Production Supported on various FICO modules example GL, AP, AR, Tax, OM, profit and cost centers extra

Expert in ticketing systems BMC Remedy, Clear Quest, HP ALM. Ran incident report daily to check status, being gatekeeper assigned tickets to proper gate. Followed ITIL methodologies for Release, Change and Incident management. Expert in analytics report in SAP. Proficient at advanced Excel. As SharePoint Administrator, updated on upcoming releases, created forms based on requirements of Release Management, created forms in Infopath and uploaded to SharePoint.

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICINE 2014 – 2016

SAP FICO FUNCTIONL CONSULTANT SENIOR TECHNICAL ANALYST

The job involved supporting day-to-day operations and special projects. Specific responsibilities included:

Configured settings for Company code, posting period variant, assigned document number ranges, tolerance groups for customers, G/L accounts and users. Verify and provide access to budgets of managers and executives. Create project plans using Microsoft Project. Work on tickets to resolve complex issues. Configure Service Now, run reports on strategic and ad-hoc, weekly, monthly, quarterly basis to present it in the meetings. Prepared study guides, RFPs, new project requests, requirement documents, workflow diagrams, test plans, test scripts, support and training materials. Upgrade SAP FICO.

ACCENTURE Chicago, IL 2005 – 2014

SAP FICO FUNCTIONL CONSULTANT

Client Project (Microsoft): Worked as project manager troubleshooting and resolving issues related to SAP FICO/RMCA.

Managed internal global team; created project plans, estimates and implemented budget savings; provided access to internal applications for Microsoft employees.

Developed process flows, wireframes, and training materials for new and upgraded applications; prepared user manuals and training; implemented and documented SAP RMCA; FICO, FSCM, CHaRM, SD prepared user manual and training guide for SAP RMCA for internal use. Worked on organizational Units, cost centers, profit centers etc.Upgrade SAP HANA tables

Implemented and configured MS Solve and supported 24x7; documented RCAs; trained Microsoft team and Manila team. Tested TFS 2010 upgrade; created and presented TFS training guide for the team.

Internal Project: Led SAP FI as SAP Operations Lead. Full life cycle implementation of SAP FICO. Supported multiple landscapes with ongoing production support.

Troubleshot functional defects, assigned incidents via BMC Remedy to appropriate teams, configured SAP CRM/FI/HCM/SD,CHaRM troubleshot complex issues in ABAP, assigned tasks to team members. Served as liaison between frontend and backend teams on upgrades, communicated to stakeholders regarding requirements/changes/signoffs, developed functional and technical design on upgrades, and updated project details in SharePoint. Received “Peers Award for Best Team Player.”

Internal Project: IT Global SAP FI/FSCM Lead. Full life cycle implementation of FICO/FSCM. Provided technical support to frontend customers based on ITIL methodology. Led Global FICO Department located in Chicago, supported Sydney, Dublin, and Buenos Aires.

Implemented, upgraded, SAP FICO, informed customers of any updates to packages and patches Requirement gathering, design, testing and deploy; performed and documented root cause analysis on problems. Provided second and third level support to the global team and worked on tech bridges to resolve high level issues.

Implemented and upgraded several applications SAP FICO, CHaRM Weiland BRM Edge, Smart Poll, FXAll, and FiREApps; met customers every month to discuss issues and solutions. Complete backend/frontend support; coordinated with auditors; monitored jobs on scheduler. Expert in Control M/EM & Autosys

Won “Appreciation Award” from Lead and Sr. Manager more than five times for job well done.

Client Project (CNA Insurance): Worked as data warehousing production support specialist and deployment lead primarily responsible for migration of code from development to production.

Expert in Informatica, Control M/EM. Developed, supported, and monitored jobs via Control M/EM. In case of failures, conducted RCA; documented project activities and the results; communicated with various developers, DBAs, ETL administrators, and end users.

Architected and upgraded the views/tables/indexes/analyzes/SQL statements/dblinks, built the database models, and documented flow of the source. Won “Appreciation Award” from the client and the project manager.

Client Project (Reliant Energy): Worked as production support analyst for Power Generation & Supply Department of Reliant Energy in Houston, TX. Installed and configured Business Objects Data Integrator 11.0 at the client site; upgraded and provided production support.

Developed objects in Data Integrator, pushing jobs in Lotus Notes and Control EM. Responsible for troubleshooting issues related to Informatica, BO data integrator, Control M/EM. Managed ad hoc support requests for CognosDS. Project being outsourced to India, managed all the KT sessions and processes. Received “Peers Award for Best Team Player.”

Client Project (PepsiCo): Gathered requirements, documented and reviewed functional design, performed system integration, and developed technical design for interface between DB2 and Oracle.

Responsible for the installation of Informatica, Teradata, Star Team, Caliber, and Oracle.

Liaison between client and offshore team that was responsible for development work.

DEPAUL UNIVERSITY Chicago, IL 2000 – 2005

Analyst

Worked with Informatica 6.2 Power Center, Informatica, PeopleSoft 8.0/8.4, and Oracle 9i. Upgraded PeopleSoft Finance/HRMS Query Manager, FI Grants from version 7.5 to 8.8

EDUCATION

Masters in Information Systems, DePaul University, Chicago, IL

Specialization in data warehouse and data mining

B.A., Economics, Kanpur University, Kanpur, India

Continuing Education: ITIL V3, Project Management: Estimating, SAP FICO, SAP FIORI, SAP S/4 HANA,SAP PI/PO

Contact this candidate