JDE Finance Consultant

Extensive experience of * years in JD Edwards Implementation, upgrading and support projects and a thorough knowledge of JD Edwards financial consulting and analysis. Have lead JD Edward's implementations with a strong sense of initiative, planning, evaluating, leading, communication as well as training experience.

Led and supervised team for JD Edward's implementation and completed the same within the allocated budget and time.

Defined and / or improved business processes “Best Practices” for capturing, processing and management of financial transactions in JD Edwards.

Conducted testing in finance modules and also prepared test cases for the same.

Conducted training of the end users and super users of the client's employees and conduct regular tests on their knowledge of JD Edwards

Utilized financial technical expertise to initiate technical system changes and upgrades.

Possess experience of 1 end to end implementation including the last one on Version 9.1

Conducted group training sessions for end users and super users of the clients on a monthly and quarterly basis in order to upgrade/improve the end users/supers user's knowledge about JD Edwards (Enterprise One)

Good exposure with entire phases of Software Development Life Cycle [SDLC].

Experience in Competitive Analysis, Data Analysis, Gap Analysis and understanding of ROI Analysis, P&L Analysis, SWOT Analysis, Impact Analysis and Cost-Benefit Analysis.

EDUCATION

Bachelors in Mathematics 2006 - MUMBAI University, INDIA

Diploma in Finance 2009 - NMIMS University, INDIA

Post Graduate Diploma in Finance 2011 - MANIPAL University, INDIA

Financial Risk MGMT (FRM) -I & II 2016 - GARP, USA (Appeared)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages / GUI: SQL

Databases: Oracle10g

Modeling Tools & Languages: MS Visio

Requirement & Traceability Matrix: MS Office

Banking Protocols: SWIFT, TI Plus

Financial Terminals: Bloomberg, Reuters and Capital IQ

ERP JD Edwards and Timberline

Reporting Tool SAS- VA, Crystal Reports

ROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

NICHESOFT SOLUTIONS LLC. - Houston, TX Sr.Business Analyst (JDE ERP- Finance) Aug 16 – Till Date

Responsibilities:

Contributed actively to the leading and Production support for business solution and improvement of business processes and troubleshooting on JD Edwards (financial) like created revised and installed CAO.

Successfully led the finance modules (AR, AP, GL and FA) upgrade from 7.3.to 9.1.

Conducted extensive testing of all 4 finance modules (i.e. AR, AP, GL and FA), including unit testing, module testing and integration testing.

Responsible to understand the business processes of the client and mapping the same to the JDE 9.1 and give a satisfactory solution to the client like corrected Automatic Accounting Instructions (AAIs and DMAAIs) issues

Lead several profitability analysis for the management and senior management which helped improve decision making through improved management information.

Prepared test cases for all 4 finance modules.

Conducted the planning and execution as per the requirement of the end users within the deadline mentioned by the client.

WIPRO LTD. Mumbai, India

Sr. Business Analyst (Banking Analytics Solutions) Dec15 – Aug 16

Responsibilities:

Generated requirements Trade products - SWIFT processing, Fixed Income Investment Management, and Portfolio Management, corporate actions within the scope of both the Front and Middle Office.

Worked with the SME, Tech Lead and 3rd party vendors in gathering requirements and data transaction information related to International banking domain & to keep in line with to the global specs.

Acquired extensive knowledge of financial products, services & terms during day-to-day tasks, such as - Exchange Traded Derivatives (Futures, Options,

Single Stock Equities, Commodities & FX Currency)

Created UAT plans with several test cases for each project to ensure that the system runs smoothly after the proposed enhancements or changes have been made.

Discussed with SMEs across different businesses units to gain solid knowledge of the existing Credit Risk Calculation System and assisted in preparing an advanced Risk Assessment and ROI Management.

Followed the UML based methods using Microsoft Visio to create: Used Cases Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, State Chart Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and Collaboration Diagrams.

Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, etc. & implemented basic SQL queries for QA Testing and Report / Data Validation

L & T InfoTech Ltd. Mumbai & Farmington, CT

Business Analyst (JDE- Finance: AR, AP, FA, GL, JC and CB) Jan 12 - Sept 15

Responsibilities:

Designed and developed Business ERP architect that supported operational and strategic decisions for Making & Analyzing the recommend the business and IT solutions in ERP-Finance implementation project:

Facilitating client research and gathering requirements

Gathering and understanding the end-user analytics needs

Defining current and future processes and business requirements

System Configuration- System Prototyping

End User Training

Implementation support.

Quality Assurance and System Audit

Created the functional mapped, BRD, FSD and system details to create feasible solutions, proposals and engage in design workshops, etc.

Acted as the Business Analyst ERP- Finance to integrate the GL reconciliation system as per Business requirements.

Interacted with users for verified User Requirements, managed Change Control Process, and updated existed Documentation with version control mechanism.

Created relationships in Requirement Traceability Matrix linked Business Requirements to Functional requirements and Functional Requirements to Systems Requirements.

UAT tested performed along with Global SPOCs to make sure that application meets their requirements.

Prepared graphical depictions of Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, State Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Component Based Diagrams, and Collateral Diagrams and creation of technical design (UI screen) used Microsoft Visio.

Assisted to develop the Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scenarios to be used in testing based on Business Requirements, technical specifications and/or product knowledge.

Conducted User Acceptance Testing, gathered and documented User Manuals and Business Rules

Resolved various issues with regards to JC and CB modules like Job status, WIP accounting, Profit recognition, Billing - Milestone & progressive etc.

Resolved various issues with regards to AR, AP, GL and FA modules like Allocations, Reporting, automatic and manual receipts etc.

ICICI BANK LTD. Mumbai, India

Compliance manager (Trade Finance Banking) Nov 10 - Jan 12

Responsibilities:

Ensured that the financial of the branch are under control and the branch adheres to the Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) norms at all times.

Opening and closing of structured Letters of Credit

Processing Letters of Guarantee / collection

1st and 2nd checking of documentation

Acceptance/payment of documents presented by SWIFT

Ensured all transactions are processed and settled to deadlines

Provided support to relationship managers & product sales managers for servicing corporate clients – addressing customer requirements, coordinating with back office operations, facilitate requirements to transactions for services like trade finance, CMS, Escrow arrangements, TI, Payments etc.

Provided advisory services to corporate & high net-worth customers on funds management while maintaining relationship with Key Accounts.

Acted as a Primary Contact between Advisory, Operations and Finance & Accounts Departments, ensuring seamless service to Internal and External Clients.

Worked with SMEs to understand various assets and security classes, Trade & Treasury Products derivatives (such as futures, options on futures, equity options and index options),

Worked with FAs and RAs to conduct Credit Risk Measurements like calculation of RWA (Risk Weighted Asset).

DDAV Analytics Pvt. Ltd. Mumbai, India

Fund Data Analyst Sept 06 - Nov 10

Responsibilities

Worked in a Mutual Fund Analytics department, generated reports on daily, weekly and monthly basis for Global Mutual Fund Management.

Monitored the funding activities and reporting changes in balance sheet and liquidity and understanding differences between estimated and actual balance sheet and P&L. Running FX-rate conversion, harvesting Global Mutual Fund fact sheets, MIR reporting to Senior Management. Etc.

Experience from Front to back office, worked with fund managers, financial advisors and technical team members.

Work closely with cross- functional teams to proactively create and evangelize data analytics and business intelligence solutions for internal/ external stakeholders.

Worked closely with business owners to distill analytical and decision support requirements.

Designed and build large and complex data sets, while thinking strategically about uses of data and how data use interacts with data design.

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