Project Management

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April 19, 2017

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OBJECTIVE

Seeking a challenging role in the area of SAP consultancy, project & client management to contribute towards organizational success and grow to a Senior Management level

SYNOPSIS

Experience, energetic, agile & result oriented software professional with 15 years of experience in IT industry .Worked as Individual contributor, as team lead, managed complex project as project manager /delivery manager along Business Analysts roles. Deep understanding of technology with focus on delivering business solutions; Persuasive communicator with exceptional relationship management skills with the ability to relate to people at any level of business and management; Adroit at analyzing the organization requirements; Highly ethical, trustworthy and discreet;

Skilled Team member with proven ability to lead and motivate teams to maximize productivity

Exceptional communication, analytical & inter personal and problem solving skills

Friendly with an upbeat attitude

Excellent decision making skills with a positive approach

Dedicated and highly ambitious to achieve personal as well as the organizational goals

Ability to build new territories and expand opportunities towards the achievement of stated targets

Strong knowledge of SDLC process with project management traits.

Manages small to large scale projects as part of job profile

SAP PROJECT COMPETENCIES

Vivid and enrich experience on various type of SAP project for various multinational organizations

SAP End to end implementation

SAP System landscape optimization [SLO]

SAP Application development, maintenance & support

SAP Audit

SAP Upgrade

Experience of work in heterogeneous environment i.e. SAP interface with various system

Technical knowledge to cater the need of development of objects and its functionalities.

Worked with multilingual SAP instances across globe.

Knowledge of SAP Simple Finance including HANA

SAP Trained Public Sector Collection and Disbursement (PSCD)

SAP FSCM, SAP FSCD knowledge

Extensive experience in SAP General Ledger functionality

Knowledge of IFRS, GAAP, IAS, ASC-606, FASB accounting principles

Revenue recognition and its nuances i.e. decouples operational transactions from accounting so that various operational transactions can be accounted together no matter where the operational data is processed. Differed revenue account and its inter alia relationships with revenue accounting.

AREA OF EXPERTISE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Change management

Staff management

Project planning

Project reporting

Resource management

Risk management

Product development

Contract administration

Process improvement

Supervising Managing project quality

Creating realistic and achievable project plans.

Evaluating risks and developing strategies to overcome project obstacles.

Demonstrate commitment to safety throughout a projects lifespan.

Promoting a company’s image & marketability.

Fully aware of the commercial & contractual aspects of any project.

Managing a diverse team of professionals.

Resolving/escalating issues in a timely fashion.

Ability to lead and develop a team.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Plan the Project

Define the scope of the project in collaboration with senior management

Create a detailed work plan which identifies and sequences the activities needed to successfully complete the project

Determine the resources (time, money, equipment, etc) required to complete the project

Develop a schedule for project completion that effectively allocates the resources to the activities

Review the project schedule with senior management and all other staff that will be affected by the project activities; revise the schedule as required

Determine the objectives and measures upon which the project will be evaluated at its completion

Staff the project

In consultation with the appropriate manager, recruit, interview and select staff and/or volunteers with appropriate skills for the project activities

Manage project staff and/or volunteers according to the established policies and practices of the organization

Ensure that personnel files are properly maintained and kept confidential

Ensure that all project personnel receive an appropriate orientation to the organization and the project

Contract qualified consultants to work on the project as appropriate

Implement the project

Execute the project according to the project plan

Develop forms and records to document project activities

Set up files to ensure that all project information is appropriately documented and secured

Monitor the progress of the project and make adjustments as necessary to ensure the successful completion of the project

Establish a communication schedule to update stakeholders including appropriate staff in the organization on the progress of the project

Review the quality of the work completed with the project team on a regular basis to ensure that it meets the project standards

Control the project

Write reports on the project for management and for funders

Communicate with funders as outlined in funding agreements

Monitor and approve all budgeted project expenditures

Monitor cash flow projections and report actual cash flow and variance to senior management on a regular basis (monthly/bimonthly)

Manage all project funds according to established accounting policies and procedures

Ensure that all financial records for the project are up to date

Prepare financial reports and supporting documentation for funders as outlined in funding agreements

Evaluate the project

Ensure that the project deliverables are on time, within budget and at the required level of quality

Evaluate the outcomes of the project as established during the planning phase

Conducted workshops with business users & IS team to capture functional requirements & to create use cases

Communicated business directives, goals, and needs to the technical team and serving as client interface from managing user expectations and client satisfaction

Experience in analyzing and documenting project scope documents, SOWs, requirement change request forms, Business Requirement Document, Requirement Traceability Matrix, use cases/sequence diagrams,

Prepared & Executed the Test Plans, conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) & Scrum Meetings (Agile) to prioritize and fix the defects & bugs.

Business Transformation & Development

Carefully evaluated new business & growth opportunities after generating consumer insights & intelligence augmenting business volumes.

Proficient in developing and executing test cases performing functional, usability and stress testing to ensure the product meets the system requirements.

SAP PROJECT CLINETS

Got hands of enrich experience to work with Global Multinational, having pan geographic presence, multicultural organizations.

JOHNSON AND JOHNSON [USA]

CHEP [USA]

THAMES WATER [UK]

UNITED ILLUMINATING [USA]

NORTHERN GAS NETWORK[UK]

PITNEY BOWES [USA-Onsite]

SANYO [JAPAN]

INTEL-[INDIA]

SIEMENS [INDIA]

HONEYWELL[FRANCE]

CADBURY [LEBANON]

ASEA BROWN BOVERI(ABB)

BOCEdwards

GLOBAL EXPERIENCE

Vivid work experience across different geographies, in different continents, countries, culture, & people. Got expose to work in different countries and with client having global presence. Work experience in following countries.

United States of America (Currently in USA) United Kingdom Japan France Lebanon

SAP PROFICIENCY

Financial Accounting: Chart of accounts, Fiscal year, Company Code configuration, Business areas, Functional areas, Intercompany transactions, Validation and Substitution and Open/Close Posting periods

General Ledger: Account Groups, GL Master Records, Sample Accounts, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Automatic Account Determination, Number Ranges, Document Types, Tolerance Groups, Sample & Recurring Documents, Parking Document, Hold Document,

Accounts Payable: Vendor Account Group, Vendor Master Data, Payment Program Configuration, House Bank, Check Lots, Reason Codes, Payment Methods, Recurring Entries, Invoices, Credit Memos, Down Payments, Integration with MM, Closing Procedures

Accounts Receivable: Customer Account Group, Customer Master Data, Credit management, Tolerance groups, Open Item Clearing, Dunning Procedure, Terms of Payment, Outgoing Invoices, Incoming Payments, Integration with SD. Implementation of Credit card functionality, Interface with Paymetric for credit card validation.

Designed and Implemented Special Purpose Ledger according to the management requirements, organizing data in special ledger, Transferring data into FI-SPL from various application areas, creating validation and substitution rules for FI-SPL.

Data Retention Tool (DART):- Configuration and usage of DART functionality for auditing purpose for auditing purpose.

Asset Management: Master Data, Asset Classes, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Areas, Depreciation Keys, Account Determination, Asset Acquisition, Capitalization, Scrapping and Inter Company Asset Transfer

Treasury, Risk & Cash Management. Define BP Roles: Define Number Ranges. Derived Flows Assign Flow Types to Transaction: Define Calculation Procedure for Derived Flows Assign Condition Types to Transaction. Transaction manager, Exposure management, Developing relationship between Hedge management and exposure management. Exposure analysis. Liquidity management. Market risk analyzer, Credit risk analyzer, Portfolio analyzer. Liquidity forecast. IS Banking / Banking, Bank Customer Accounts (SAP BSA), Loans Management (SAP LM), Collateral Management (SAP CM). SAP Cash and Liquidity Management Functional with extensive experience in implementing Liquidity Forecasting and Liquidity Planner.

SAP Bank Communication Management [BCM] configuration for the following functions:● Merge payments● Approve payments ● Payment status monitor ●Bank statement monitor ● Display incoming status messages ● Reservation for cross-payment run payment media ●Status of collector payments ● Define alerts

Cost Center Accounting: Cost Centers, Cost Center Hierarchy, Cost Elements, and Statistical Key Figures, Activity types, Assessments and Distributions.

Set up planning framework in KEPM for multi year, assign characteristic groups to plan cycles, assign receiver plan version, define structure of cost center assessment and process cost assessment.

Internal Orders: Order Types, Settlement Rules, IO Planning, Distribution Cycles, Cost Collector Configuration and Cost Element Planning.

Profit Center Accounting: Configuration of the Basic Settings, Profit Center Hierarchy, Assignments, CO-objects to Profit Centers, Reports

Profitability Analysis: Operating Concern, Characteristics, Value fields, Derivation Rules and Structures, Valuation Strategies, Derivation Tables, Planning Versions, Layouts & Profiles, Drilldown Reports. . includes setting up of reporting Operating Concern, characteristics and value fields, Activating and generating CO-PA Tables, creating characteristic derivation and derivation rules, Defined PA settlement structure, Both cost based and account based analysis were used. In CO-PA, maintaining Realignments, Summarization Levels, Valuation using material cost estimates and conditions.

Product Costing: Material Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure, Bill of Materials, Routings, Settlement Structures, Variance and WIP Calculations, Costing Variants, Valuation Variants, Integration with SD, MM, PP and COPA.

Credit management: - Static credit, dynamic credit, Dynamic credit determination, risk category creation.

Deep understanding of heterogeneous system working environment with various system and its integration with SAP thorough middleware technologies. Worked on file transfer, idoc etc. for SAP system inbound and outbound interface.

Strong technical skill to guide the technical consultant for development of the abap objects along with writing of the functional specifications guiding to write technical specifications etc.

Revenue recognition functionality implementation and its nuances for service sector industries per se.

Very good understanding of all phases of SDLC. Involved in all phases of implementation like Business blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation, Go Live and post go live support. Experience in working with business team to analyze complex business requirements in accordance with gap analysis. Experience in Conversion process design, training and coordination between process owners and team members.

Experience in SAP new general ledger system configuration.

SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY

Client interaction for system study, requirements gathering and analysis

11 years of experience in SAP R/3 as FI/CO Consultant on a Variety of projects, like end to end implementation, System landscape optimisation, testing automation, process enhancement SAP support & SAP Audit.

Around Nine various type of SAP R/3 projects experience.

Around Six years of Finance Functional Experience in various capacities.

Total over 16 years of experience.

Good understanding of business processes in Finance and Controlling.

Good team player, Strong team orientation & leadership qualities, hard working and enthusiastic.

Very good logical skills suitable for process design, development & implementation.

Excellent communication and presentation skills and Customer Oriented attitude.

Team Member for Implementing BS7799 Security Certification

Given Training on BS7799 Security Certification to employees.

Software testing and product development cycle, Debugging and troubleshooting

Manage smooth implementation and testing of the application at client location

Actively involved in preparing of Test Plans & test cases, test life cycle, bug reports, Traceability matrices.

Exposure to Integration, System, retesting and Regression Testing concepts

Project Experience

Johnson and Johnson – USA: - Organization uses SAP system for its day to day operations. This SAP system required support & maintenance, and new configuration of the SAP system to adapt to the changing need of the business processes. So there is new implementation & enhancements as per the changing business process requirements. Support to SAP user community and help them to resolve their day to day issues, fixing of bugs, and change of configuration and maintain of the SAP on regular basis. There are new requirements which need to be configured in SAP system as per changed business scenarios. Standardized procedures that leverage the experience of the organization and the software supplier are a key prerequisite for the optimization of application management. As SAP is the main business process software for various customer it is very critical activity to support & maintain and do the changes to SAP system as per the new business requirements on day to day basis.

Roles & Responsibilities Activities performed

Provides input to support the “go live” and “post go live” activities, including training, testing, troubleshooting, data validation, and issue resolution.

Identify issues relating to missing or misinterpreted business requirements. Lead and contribute to the problem solving of solution gaps and implementation issues complex and objective in nature requiring broad perspective and interpretation so that corrective actions can be developed and applied accordingly.

Advocate quality of solutions that meet or exceed defined business requirements for one or more specialized areas and may require additional research and interpretation to create innovative solutions.

Lead teams and guide, explain, and clarify solution options and influence business partner decision making to minimize the amount of project investment divergence from target architecture.

Persuade senior internal and external stakeholders to accept new ideas, approaches, and concepts as required within a region.

Evaluate multiple process solutions to business scenarios and form recommendations based on cost/benefit analysis, taking into account industry best practice and leveraging in-depth and broad knowledge over several business process areas in one or more countries.

Manage workload and priorities to deliver agreed upon project milestones and objectives set by the business unit or function.

SAP Finance Configuration for allocation structures, Activity bases Costing, COPA rules, Costing Sheet, General ledger Clearing, Asset Class creation and extension, Asset upload from legacy, SAP lockbox configuration, Finance and MM/SD integration etc.

Responsible for enabling integration of a subset of complex process areas, including data, education and security across a limited subset of the organization.

Provides technical insight to the analysis of data for groups looking to upload their records into complex solutions, and advises on the best method for transition and archival.

Requirements Gathering - Assess Business Unit/Function needs, clearly eliciting, translating, and documenting business and functional requirements across multiple process areas and communicating with influence and persuasion as necessary to reach agreement.

Prepare high and detailed estimations of effort in order to achieve a preferred solution.

Process and System Analysis - Lead requirements discussions with key senior stakeholders.

Risk and Issue Assessment –Identify, assess, and develop mitigation plans for highly complex risks and issues within a broadly defined and complex environment and escalate as appropriate.

Collaborate with the BU/Function and key project SMEs to identify, analyze, interpret, and prioritize business requirements ensuring alignment with one or more process advisors and BU/Functions.

Identify and actively influence to accept new concepts and the change management, communication, and training needs.

Translate specialized or ambiguous business requirements for medium to high complexity design specifications for one or more process, data, or technology areas in one or more countries.

Create and maintain long-term working relationships with senior internal and external stakeholders, including technology teams, functional counterparts, vendors, developers, and business partners.

Engage and influence business sponsors and users and contribute value to their targeted business outcomes. Indirectly and at times directly influence objectives and goals for a business unit or geography.

Champion collaboration and facilitate coordination with all involved that enable delivery in team environment.

Engage and influence developers to ensure efficiency and solution quality.

Collaborate, lead and champion change with key internal and external senior stakeholders, peers, and senior leadership members to ensure complex solutions are implemented successfully.

Collaborate and support other team members during requirements, design, build, and test phases.

Provides input to staffing plans at the project-level to identify key / required skills.

Holds project team resources accountable to their deliverables and ensures project execution.

Lead and mentor less experienced staff.

Report any functional gaps in existing SAP applications and suggest business process improvements

Preparing and Presenting High Level to-be in accordance with the Best Practices of the industry;

Mapping the business process requirements with SAP functionality and identifying the gap if any in the processes and suggesting business process improvements;

Reconfigurations/customizations in SAP to suit the requirements, categorizing them into hard and soft controls;

Test plan preparation, Review of test plans, unit & integration testing, Compilation of the User Manual and hands on training to the user.

Work with the on-site technical and off-shore team for functional enhancements & application interface development and delivery;

Documents the settings and prepares proper guidelines that allow other consultants to do further changes or repairs with due efforts.

Work with incumbent SI partners to report and resolve any in-scope development related errors with the SAP FICO processes.

Work with SAP FICO, Supply Chain and Finance data owners to fix data issues or to re-assign responsibilities

Lead functional/technical architecture in complex SAP and non-SAP environments.

Manages design workshops on multiple area of expertise

Identifying and raising issues to local Business Owners or management to achieve resolution for FICO development tasks

Contribute input and coordination to training documentation for FICO development tasks

Thames Water Location, United Kingdom [2014 to 2016] :- Thames Water Utilities Ltd, known as Thames Water is the private utility company responsible for the public water supply and waste treatment in large parts of Greater London, the Thames Valley, Surrey, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Kent, and some other areas of the United Kingdom. Thames Water is the UK's largest water and wastewater services company, and supplies 2.6gigalitres of drinking water per day, and treats 4.4 giga liters of wastewater per day. Thames Water's 15 million customers comprise 27% of the UK population. Thames Water is responsible for a range of water management infrastructure projects including: the Main around London; Europe's largest wastewater treatment works for and the UK's first large-scale desalination plant. Infrastructure proposals by the company include the proposed £4.2 billion London Tideway Tunnels, and the proposed reservoir at Abingdon, Oxfordshire, which would be the largest enclosed or reservoir in the UK.

Roles &Responsibilities Activities Performed

Identifying, costing and processing any contract variations.

Tracking activities against the detailed project plans.

Updating project plans to include agreed changes.

Producing accurate financial reports.

Monitoring actual expenditure figures against project budgets.

Organizing and facilitating Project Steering / Operating Committees meetings.

Preparing Project Initiation documentation

Responsible for ensuring best value is obtained for the project including supplier base, use of internal and external resources.

Practiced Global SDLC model of Requirement Analysis, Detailed design, offshore communication, deliverable review, integration testing and implementation of major enhancements spanning 6-12 months achieving100% SLA targets

Implemented multiple projects to improve automation of crew calling from 82% to 94% and positively reduced manual intervention of help

Managing the revenue project, making provisions, maintaining the margin along with Profit and Loss for the account.

Managing the offshore onshore mix for maximum resource utilization with optimum mix

Development of offshore strength with seamless integration with onsite requirement..

Managing the revenue forecasting and increasing the top line growth with innovative solutions and proposals.

Project mining for getting new proposal and its prospects.

New SAP application design, development and implementation;

Based on the SLA (Service Level Agreement) supporting will be provide to the client's SAP system, Problem solving time & Response time each and every thing as per the defined and agreed time lines within service level agreement

Report any functional gaps in existing SAP applications and suggest business process improvements

Preparing and Presenting High Level to-be in accordance with the Best Practices of the industry;

Mapping the business process requirements with SAP functionality and identifying the gap if any in the processes and suggesting business process improvements;

Tailoring SAP to redefined policies and procedures through workarounds;

Reconfigurations/customizations in SAP to suit the requirements, categorizing them into hard and soft controls;

Test plan preparation, Review of test plans, unit & integration testing

Work with the on-site technical and off-shore team for functional enhancements & application interface development and delivery;

Customizing the respective business area and making sure the system reacts in the manner according to the constraints of the requested use case.

Compilation of the User Manual and hands on training to the user.

Documents the settings and prepares proper guidelines that allow other consultants to do further changes or repairs with due efforts.

Pioneered the planning, design and implementation of modernization project

Provided process redesign solutions to improve business value up to 388K$per year garnering appreciations from business AVP

Effectively lead 17-member team of analysts and developers. Improved productivity of team from 34% to 41% by conducting periodic defect prevention sessions to analyze historical defect data and documenting best practices to prevent similar defects and rework

Some of the bigger changes /project which are implemented are mentioned as follows: -

IFRS/ Revenue Recognition: - IFRS accounting process implementation for the organization. As per the UK statue guidelines all the organization must have to follow the IFRS defined guidelines for reporting going forward. So lots of process pertaining to Asset, Investment, revenue recognition, expense reporting got change to meet the IFRS guidelines. This entails huge change in current system settings pertaining to SAP Finance to implement the IFRS related changes in day to day operations through SAP system. Revenue recognition functionality involving CAPEX and OPEX cost and then its treatment interalia for the reporting profit and loss account.

New General ledger configuration. Maintaining of deferred revenue account, down payment accounts. New General ledger configuration. Implemented the revenue recognition functionality with new accounting standards as per the prescribed guidelines for the sector.

Northern Gas Network United Kingdom [October 2013 Till April 2014]

Northern Gas Network is the company responsible for distributing gas to homes and businesses across the north of England, an area covering West, East & North Yorkshire, the North East and northern Cumbria. Its network comprises of 37,000km of gas pipes, that’s enough to travel from Leeds to Sydney, Australia, and back again.it do not own the gas; we transport it on behalf of the companies who do, delivering it to users 24 hours every day. Northern Gas Networks is an essential element in the daily heartbeat of the region.

Northern Gas Network has implemented the SAP system for its business process. This SAP system required support & maintenance, and new configuration of the SAP system to adapt to the changing need of the business processes. So there is new implementation & enhancements as per the changing business process requirements. Support to SAP user community and help them to resolve their day to day issues, fixing of bugs, and change of configuration and maintain of the SAP on regular basis. There are new requirements which need to be configured in SAP system as per changed business scenarios. As SAP is the main business process software for it is very critical activity to support & maintain and do the changes to SAP system as per the new business requirements on day to day basis.