Lakshmana Ponnana Ph# +1-740-***-****

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PeopleSoft FSCM Techno Functional Consultant

SUMMARY:

Over 13+ years of comprehensive experience with Enterprise Applications, Client Sever and Enterprise Technologies in designing and delivering solutions to clients across multiple industries.

Experience in full life cycle PeopleSoft Financials implementations, Upgrade, Rollout, Product Development and providing Technical and Functional Post Implementation and troubleshooting support to renowned PeopleSoft clients.

Extensive level of understanding in PeopleSoft Procure-to-Pay cycle (PO, ePro, AP), T&E and GL.

Excellent skills on Configuring AWE (Approval Workflow Engine) for PO, GL, Supplier, Voucher and TE with multiple levels.

Extensively worked on Configuring Work Center and Dash Board as per the Business Requirement.

Extensively worked on Integration of PeopleSoft AP with 3rd Party Tools like Basware, Tangoe and ONIT.

Good Knowledge on PeopleSoft 9.2 New Features and Images.

Excellent technical skills of People Code, People Tools, Application Engine, SQRs, Crystal

Reports, Component Interface, and Integration broker, Workflows, Application Packages, PS Query, and XML Publisher.

Worked extensively on Interface designing & development and data conversion for PeopleSoft Accounts Payables, General Ledger, Inventory, Purchasing, Vendors.

Excellent hands-on experience in PL /SQL, SQL loader utility and UNIX Shell scripts

Experience in software development methodologies, design and implementations.

Developed many reports using PS/Query, Crystal, XML and SQR, including dynamically changing output generating reports using SQR methods.

Involved in addressing the issues related with PeopleSoft Security related to Users, Roles, Permission Lists, Password related, Object and Query Security.

Worked on various Customizations, Interfaces, and Data Conversions Using SQR.

Core competencies include communication, interpersonal, presentation and client interfacing skills.

Domain experience includes Pharmaceuticals, Electrical, Banking, Financial, and Manufacturing.

Worked on Various File Transfer tools like Secure CRT, Secure FX and WinScp.

Good Knowledge on 9.2 New Concepts like Activity Guide, Archive Manager, Work Center & Dash Board.

PeopleSoft Expertise:

Development Tools: Application Designer, Application Engine, Application Messaging, Component Interfaces, Business Process and AWE.

People Code

Reporting Tools: BI Publisher, Tree Manager, SQR, PS/Query and Crystal Reports.

Data Management Tools: Data Mover, Mass Changer, Process Scheduler and Import Manager.

Administration Tools: Security Administrator, Object Security and People Tools utilities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: PeopleSoft (8.9/9.0/9.1/9.2)

(GL, AP, Purchasing, AR, Treasury and T&E)

Databases: ORACLE (7.X/8.0/8i/9i/10g)

Operating Systems: UNIX, WINDOWS NT/95/98/2000 and MS-DOS.

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, C, C++, HTML.

App Servers: BEA Tuxedo App Server 6.5, Web Logic 5.1.

Reporting Tools: BI Publisher, SQR 3.0/4.x/6. 1, Crystal Reports 5.0/6.0/8.0.

Work Experience

PeopleSoft Techno-Functional Consultant/Basware Consultant

Client: Incyte Corporation, Wilmington, DE May 17 – Current

Environment: Basware Alusta, PeopleSoft FSCM 9.2, People Tools 8.54, General Ledger, Accounts Payables, Purchasing, eProcurement and Travel and Expense.

Project background: Incyte is Biopharmaceutical Company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of proprietary therapeutics.

Working as a Production Support Analyst for AP, ePro, PO, GL, T&E along with Basware.

Plan, develop, test, and document PeopleSoft Programs and apply broad knowledge of Programming techniques and computer systems to evaluate user requests for new or modified programs in Oracle PeopleSoft 9.2 Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables, General Ledger, eProcurement, Purchasing.

Replace, delete and modify codes to correct errors, analyze, review, and alter PeopleSoft programs to increase operating efficiency and adapt the system to new requirements.

Responsible for requirement analysis various application components, writing functional/technical specifications, coding, unit/integration testing etc in PeopleSoft 9.2

Responsible for smooth processing of invoices in Basware, right from scanning till transferring the Invoices into ERP system and also loading the Supplier, Payment and Chart Filed Information into Basware from ERP system.

Responsible for gathering the scanning related issues, matching related issues from users and from Business and coordinate with Basware to get them sorted out on timely manner.

Extensively involved in integration of Tangoe Billing system with PeopleSoft AP.

Responsible for resolving the Punch-out issues, PCARD Transactions Loading & Payment related issues.

Responsible for providing the Training on Basware to AP users on regular basis and gather the pain points and address them accordingly.

Responsible for converting Crystal report to XML Publishers.

Responsible for creating Queries and Reports as per user requirement.

Creative Thinking sessions to the business users about Basware Invoice Processing/Invoice Matching issues/difficulties and new techniques.

Update Ticketing System (Service Now) with up to date information about requests/incidents and Change Requests.

PeopleSoft Techno-Functional Consultant

Client: Incyte Corporation, Wilmington, DE May 16 – May 17

Environment: PeopleSoft FSCM 9.2, People Tools 8.54, General Ledger, Accounts Payables, Purchasing, eProcurement and Travel and Expense.

Project background: Incyte is Biopharmaceutical Company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of proprietary therapeutics.

Implementing Basware Invoice Automation and integration with PeopleSoft Accounts Payables, Purchasing and Vendor Management modules.

Fit Gap analysis between PeopleSoft 9.2 PUM 15 and Basware Alusta (Invoicing System).

Responsible for gathering the requirements from Business and document them in USRS and FDD.

Development of new requirements as per Incyte business requirements.

Responsible for creating interfaces between Basware and PeopleSoft AP to automate the Invoice creation right from Invoice Scanning in Basware to Payment in PeopleSoft.

Supporting Integration, System, performance and user testing.

Performing development and unit test for Accounts payable module.

Coordinating with offshore team to deliver the code on time.

Interacting with other system team members, business, functional, testing and change management team on daily activities.

PeopleSoft Techno-Functional Consultant

Client: Incyte Corporation, Wilmington, DE Jan 16 – May 16

Environment: PeopleSoft FSCM 9.2, People Tools 8.54, General Ledger, Accounts Payables, Purchasing, eProcurement and Travel and Expense.

Project background: Incyte is Biopharmaceutical Company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of proprietary therapeutics.

Upgrade project of PeopleSoft Financials from 9.2 PUM 5 to 9.2 PUM 15 (GL, AP and PO and re-Implementing Delivered PeopleSoft T&E as per the business.

Fit Gap analysis between PeopleSoft 9.2 PUM 5 and PeopleSoft 9.2 PUM 15 system.

Responsible for gathering the requirements from Business and document them in USRS and FDD.

Implemented AWE for Supplier Approval and Invoice Approval with Multiple Levels along with multiple business scenarios for Compliance Approval.

Development of new requirements as per Incyte business requirements.

Researching new version add-on functionality and explain the same to business users.

Responsible for creating interfaces between Basware and PeopleSoft AP to automate the Invoice creation right from Invoice Scanning in Basware to Payment in PeopleSoft.

Developed an Interface between PeopleSoft HR and Finance using IB along with the Transformation Program.

Supporting Integration, System, performance and user testing.

Performing development and unit test for Accounts payable module.

Coordinating with offshore team to deliver the code on time.

Interacting with other system team members, business, functional, testing and change management team on daily activities.

PeopleSoft Functional Consultant

Client: McKesson, The Woodlands, TX Jul 15 – Jan 16

Environment: PeopleSoft FSCM 9.2, People Tools 8.54, General Ledger, Accounts Payables, Purchasing, Procurement Contracts, Asset Management, Travel and Expense, Cash Management and Project Costing.

Project background: McKesson Specialty Health empowers the community patient care delivery system to advance the science, technology and quality of care.

Upgrade project of PeopleSoft Financials from 8.9 to 9.2(GL, AP, PO, AM, PC and Treasury), Involved in Implementing the Travel and Expense Module.

Involved in fit gap analysis between 8.9 and 9.2 that helped client taking decisions with regard to the upgrade in General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Purchasing, Treasury, Project Costing and Asset Management between 8.9 and 9.2.

Implemented AWE for Requisition Approval for 19 levels based on combination of BU, Category, Dept and Operating Unit Route Control Profile.

Implemented AWE for Journal Approval for Nine levels (includes direct of 4 levels and sequential 9 levels) based on amount as well Exceptions on Accounts & Operating Units.

Implemented AWE for Chart Field Approval.

Implemented AWE for Expense Report approval with two levels (HR Supervisor and Pre Pay Auditor).

Created test scripts for Unit and Integration tests for various Scenarios within GL, AP, PO, PC, TR and AM modules.

Configured Work Center and Dash Board for GL, AP, PO, TR, PC and AM modules as per the client business.

Involved in providing the security for Work Center & Dash Board, AWE components and for New Features.

Involved in gathering the requirement for Audit Logs and configured it for AP.

Worked as a Functional Analyst in implementing the Expense Module for the whole company; Involved as a Liaison between the users and the Technical Team; Worked with the workday team to get the Employee details from workday and to load in PeopleSoft.

Worked with Workday team to get the Employee Details to load the Employee User Profile Creation.

Provided the security for all the new features in 9.2 to all business users as per the requirement.

Extensively involved in testing the whole application from Purchasing to AP, AM, PC, EX and then to General Ledger from Accounting prospective.

PeopleSoft Techno Functional Consultant

Client: American Honda Motors, Inc. Marysville, OH Aug 13 – Jun 15

Environment: PeopleSoft FSCM 8.9, People Tools 8.48, General Ledger, Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables, Inventory, Purchasing and Billing.

Project background: Honda is committed to addressing the needs and concerns of our customers and making clear that we stand behind the safety and quality of our products. We want to reassure our customers that Honda has an ongoing customer service procedure that addresses each customer’s needs and concerns.

It is a Production Support project along with Enhancements Consists of PeopleSoft modules General Ledger, Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables, Inventory, Purchasing and Billing.

Responsible for the Production Support of primarily PeopleSoft financial and Supply chain modules like General Ledger, Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables, Inventory, Purchasing and Billing.

Involved in gathering the requirement, fit gap analysis, design and development while implementing the new business unit for the modules AP, PO and GL.

Involved in setting up user security for the AP, GL and PO modules and as well as while making the system read only.

Responsible for smooth month end closes includes reconciliation.

Responsible in Gathering the requirements & Data mapping by coordinating with the business users and Functional analysts for client and functional design of the Interfaces and customizations which were identified in PS financial applications during the new plant setup.

Responsible in Creating the Design documents for interfaces and customizations both from the functional and technical aspects for AR, AP, GL, Purchasing, Inventory and Billing modules.

Coordinating with Offshore PeopleSoft Finance team to get issues or fixes they worked during their monitoring time and explains the same to SME/User community in Onsite on business impact.

Analysis of the issue and Communication during resolution process to Finance/Accounting users and providing Work around solution as Temporary counter measure.

Raise Problem Ticket with various interface teams as stakeholders to notify the impact of the problem.

Root Cause Analysis, Resolution of the issue and Closure of the issue.

Update Ticketing Systems (HEAT and Impact log) up to date information about issues or enhancements.

Monitoring the Honda PeopleSoft processes as any failure will affect Production line maintenance activities.

Addressing Account Payables User Requests.

Master Data Maintenance on PeopleSoft Finance Transaction tables for AP, AR, GL and Honda customized interfaces.

Trigger manual process of data correction after getting from SME and users as per SOX policy.

Analyze the requirements from FSD, provide feedback, and prepare Test Plan and Performance Test Plan document based on FSD.

Actively involved in creating a new business Unit for Honda, made all the customizations in the existing Process for the New BU, and created new Interface programs for that Business Unit.

Actively involved in analyzing the user security as a part of new Business unit creation and role changes.

Perform End-to-End Performance and module wise Performance in Honda PeopleSoft Inventory system.

Responsible for helping the Business Users with their daily PO issues by providing the queries to meet their business needs.

Responsible for designing the Third Party Interfaces for loading the invoice information in Payables module and Accounting Entries into PS General Ledger.

Extensively used Secure FX and Secure CRT for FTP for Storing and running scripts etc.

Extensively involved in designing Data Conversion programs from PeopleSoft to SAP.

Extensively involved in Setting up the security the Business users as a part of read only system.

Sr. PeopleSoft Consultant

Client: Scope International, Chennai, India Jun 12 – Aug 13

Environment: PeopleSoft Financials 9.1, People Tools 8.51, AP, AM, GL, e-Pro, s-Pro, T&E, BI and some bolt-on modules like Group Delegation Authority Management (GDAM) and Financial Control System (FCS).

Project Background: Scope International Pvt. Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) has implemented PeopleSoft Financials to automate their backend operations. So far they have successfully implemented PeopleSoft Financials for AP, AM, GL, e-Pro, s-Pro, T&E, BI and some bolt-on modules like Group Delegation Authority Management (GDAM) and Financial Control System (FCS) modules in 40 countries all over the world, the base being Chennai. I was involved in the support-related activities.

Responsibilities:

Debugging the reported issues by the user and resolving the tickets with in SLA.

Responsible for resolving the Job failures and Control–M Batch Monitoring.

Involved in resolving the Closing the remedy tickets.

Responsible for helping team members in understanding the issues or user requests while assigning them.

Responsible for providing the Root Cause Analysis to the functional team on the issues raised by the users.

Responsible for providing the RCA for the long running jobs in Production to fine-tune them.

Fixing the Code issue through CSR’s by analysing them.

Customised the HR Interface to modify the user defaults and custom roles as per the requirement.

Customized the AP & AM transactions report(Which will interface to PSGL) to provide the correct signage for FOREIGN_AMOUNT

Responsible in Gathering the requirements by coordinating with the business users and analysts for client and functional design of the enhancements which were identified in supporting few of the PS financial applications.

Responsible for designing the Third Party Interfaces for loading the invoice information in Payables module and Accounting Entries into PS General Ledger.

Responsible in supporting the daily end user Production support issues related to Peoplesoft Financial applications like GL, AR & AP.

PeopleSoft Functional Consultant

Client: CW Financials, Boston, MA Mar 12 – May 12

Environment: PeopleSoft Financials & Supply Chain Management (9.1), People Tools 8.51, AP, AR & AM.

Project Background: CW Financial Services (CW) is a unique, vertically integrated commercial real estate finance and investment management company focused on multifamily and healthcare lending, primary servicing, special servicing, investment management, and research and consulting services. The CW group has grown to comprise approximately 460 employees in 17 offices across the US.

CW is currently undertaking financial transformation and implementing PeopleSoft Financials v9.1 modules for covering various business functional requirements

Responsibilities:

Responsible in Gathering the requirements primarily for Accounts Payable, Asset Management and Account Receivables.

Responsible for analysis, design functional requirements after discussing with core users.

Responsible for Performing FIT Gap analysis for the specific changes required by CW with primary objective to keeping the customizations to minimum

Responsible for Preparation and initial walk through of core PeopleSoft Financial modules to core users of CW team

Detailed discussion of possible scenarios and workarounds where ever direct fit not available

Involved in creating Documents as per the Corporate Process Library.

Planning for initial setup requirements and getting the relevant inputs from CW team.

Planning for the Technical design and preparation of test scenarios.

Responsible in Creating the Design documents for all the below interfaces and customizations both from the functional and technical aspects.

PeopleSoft Techno Functional Consultant

Client: USAA, San Antonio, TX June 10 – Mar 12

Environment: PeopleSoft Financials & Supply Chain Management (8.9), People Tools 8.48, GL, AP, AR & AM.

Project Background: a group of U.S. Army officers to self-insure each other when they were unable to secure auto insurance due to the perception that they were a high-risk group founded USAA in 1922. USAA has since expanded to serve all members of the Armed Forces and all who served honorably in the US Armed Forces, as well as their families with property & casualty insurance, banking, life insurance, investment and financial planning products and services.

Responsibilities:

As an offshore coordinator closely worked with the Business Users for requirement gathering and involved in the Project Plan preparation.

Responsible for analysis, design and development of Service Requests & Change Requests

Created an Integration Broker to Integrate (send files) between PeopleSoft Financials and Documentum and to receive the acknowledgement and store it in PeopleSoft.

Responsible for creating New SQR’s for OFAC match Process.

Involved in creating Documents as per the Corporate Process Library.

Involved in Testing and Code review and make sure all the deliverables from offshore are delivering on time with good quality.

Involved in estimating the efforts (SR/CR’s).

Solved the various error flags set by the AR update on Pending Items.

Solved the Issues arising Maintenance and Payment Worksheets.

Resolved Accounting Issues in Items and payments.

Worked on Journal Issues for AR Accounting Entries.

Developed complex reports like Aging reports in AR.

Customized the Application Engine (UAP_OFAC) process to include the SDN Number and to improve the performance.

Customized the ETL Job (Reins Life) to include the new fields and reformulate the existing formulas.

Extensively used Budget & Commitment Control in AP.

PeopleSoft Techno Functional Consultant

Client: Polycom, San Jose, CA (PeopleSoft Upgrade v8.0 to 9.0) Dec 09 – May 10

Environment: PeopleSoft Financials 8.0/9.0, People Tools 8.49, GL, AP, AR, OM, PO.

Project Background: Polycom provides the most life-like experience for communication and remote meetings from anywhere to anywhere, instantly. Today, Polycom is the sole provider of integrated, end-to-end unified collaboration solutions that help organizations meet both productivity and cost containment challenges.

By leveraging leadership in all aspects of a face-to-face meeting that include hearing each other (audio), seeing each other (immersive telepresence and video) and showing each other things (content), Polycom solutions have become critical to companies and organizations trying to win in today's increasingly competitive world. This covers General Ledger, Account payables, Account Receivables, Order Management, Purchase Order Financial Modules.

Responsibilities:

Actively involved in End-to-End Activates like Fit Gap Analysis, Reviewing Compare Reports, and Updating of user security, since new pages, menus are being created, security must be granted to the PeopleSoft userid, which will be performing the upgrade.

Actively involved in analyzing the data conversion scripts and made suggestions to PSADMIN.

Worked with business users and functional team in understanding the requirement.

Created and reviewed Compare Reports, Identifying customizations, fit/gap areas where customizations could be removed, and ways to enhance customizations using latest People Tools release (8.49).

Actively involved in analyzing the Audit (DDD Audit and SYS Audit) Reports and worked on the Errors found in the Report like View/Table has been defined but not been Created for some reason.

Actively involved in defect resolving raised in System testing, regression testing and UAT of each passes.

Worked on retrofitting the customization for PeopleSoft Finance application upgrade from 8.0 to 9.0

Retrofitted People Code, Application Engines, SQR’s and Crystal Reports in the upgraded version as per the Client requirement.

Retrofitted Records, Pages, Components and People Code to Tag Israeli Vendors for easy search, maintenance and for Semi Manual Reconciliation page as well.

Retrofitted PS Queries as a part of up gradation.

Actively involved in SQL Tuning, Performance issues, Security issues raised during Upgrade.

Extracted Scheduled jobs from PROD and compared the time taken on each schedule ran in QA during UAT and provided the difference in minutes to the relevant Team for justification.

Performance issue process list are then sent to DBA for tuning.

PeopleSoft Technical Consultant

Client: Duke Energy, Charlotte, NC Nov 06 – Jan 09

Environment: PeopleSoft Finance v8.9, People Tools v8.48, GL, AP, AR, Billing and PC.

Project Background: Duke Energy, a leading energy company focused on electric power and gas distribution operations in the Americas. Duke Energy energizes their communities and enhances the quality of life for the people who live in Americas. Duke Energy purpose is to create superior and sustainable value for our customers, employees, communities and investors through the production, delivery and sale of energy and energy services. Which Covers General Ledger, Account Payables, Account Receivables, Billing and Project Costing.

Responsibilities:

Customized Application Engine processes for processing of vendor information from an input file created from subsystems.

Customized Records, Pages and People Code to meet the Business requirement.

Customized PS Queries and Crystal reports to retrieve data form PS tables to meet the requirement specified by users.

Modified Crystal reports as per the Business Needs.

Prepared the impact Analysis Document as per the Analysis and Design.

Monitoring of PeopleSoft jobs using Cybermation tool.

Modified Custom AE’s, SQR’s and SQC’s by changing the record fields and the logic related to the fields that have been changed in the latest version of application as part of Patches and Fixes.

Involved in Creation and Reviewing of TSDs, UTPs.

Involved in Creation of ABEND aid documents and Trend Trackers.

Modified the Billing related Crystal Reports to keep the Address section in a proper order if some lines are blank.

Customized Application Engine processes for processing of vendor information from an input file created from subsystems.

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