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DEEPIKA CHOPRA

adjkp6@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile: 301-***-****

SUMMARY: Extensive Project Management, Functional, Business and Configuration experience in leadership roles. CERTIFICATION: PMP, CSPO

STRENGTHS

● Strong Analytical and Problem Solving and Decision Making skills

● Stakeholder Management

● Collaborative Leader, Consensus and Relationship Building Skills

● Managed Cross Functional and Techno Functional teams, Off and On shore System/Process Skills:

● Over 15 End to End life cycles to Concept, Accept through Release to Production deliver end to end business solutions for Fortune 500 companies

● Agile and Waterfall methodologies, hybrid methodology

● Core Finance & Procurement: Procure to Pay/Accounts Payable, Bank/Cash Reconciliation, Tax.

● Global implementations Experience in ECC 6.0 and S4 HANA

● Implementations of International Localization project

● Integration of FI with CO, SD, SRM, HR, & Purchasing, FICA/RMCA, iRecon, GBI.

● Designing interfaces between systems in diverse industries. INDUSTRIES WORKED IN Media, Fashion & Apparel, Manufacturing, Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, and Government. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

March 2020-Present AFS Project Manager-U.S. Navy Implementation Project: U.S. Federal financial management/Navy ERP Sustainment project involving ongoing enhancements in SAP mature implementations.

● Provide project management and leadership to large teams of functional and technical personnel.

● Facilitate stakeholder management and communication.

● Perform planning and release scheduling.

● Manage the functional and technical teams in ongoing resolution of functional and technical integration issues across SAP modules in a Tier 3 environment.

January 2018-January 2020 Google Project Manager-Treasury implementation (Contract) Project: Implementing SAP S4 Treasury module leveraging a hybrid of Agile and Waterfall methodologies, tailored to the specifics of a large scale ERP/SAP implementation.

● Partnering with IT, PMO, Business to drive cross functional SAP S4 HANA initiatives from end to end to achieve successful outcomes

● Manage strategic relationships with Business to define/manage the requirements, deliverable and scope.

● Own and drive cross-functional business stakeholders, dependencies and timelines.

● Working with the business to document the AS IS and TO BE processes and identify efficiencies and GAPs.

● Leveraging the standard functionality to manage and advise regarding the RICEF prioritization.

● Liaise with IT/SMEs to align business priorities with the functionality being designed and delivered.

● Create and maintain detailed project plan and relevant trackers to manage and drive meetings with business and IT

● Conduct project status meetings, document, publish and track action items and key decisions in the meetings.

● Identify risks that require escalation to senior management for awareness or action/resolution, as needed. Project: Financial Transformation project for S4 HANA. Page 2 of 3

Feb 2017-October 2017 Apple Project Manager-iTunes/iCloud China implementation Project: GEO EXPANSION in CHINA: for Asia Pacific (iTunes)

● Managing delivery of O2C requirements involving high volume credit card processing and integration with Apple's in-house and external acquirers’ payment gateway(s).

● Partnered with IT, PMO, Business to collect requirement & successfully deliver the various payment platforms for iCloud in China: Domestic and International credit and debit cards (MC, Visa, Amex), Alipay, WeChatPay and Store Credit/Top Ups/Gift Cards and Gift Certificate.

● Country specific compliance requirements such as fapiao: Commercial and SVAT

● Designing for inter-company transactions, and P2P integrating with external vendors and onshore partners. Aug 2014-July 2016 Discovery Channel Manager

Project: EUROPE LOCALIZATION : Four End to End Life cycles- Acquisitions in Sweden, Norway, Finland & Sweden to be rolled up in Global Template. SAP-P2P (Procure to Pay) & R2R (Record to Report), Cash and VAT.

● Managed all 4 projects End to End thru Intensive care/ Post Go Live period.

● Led the matrixed team to collect requirements, conduct business workshops and work with IT to prepare a requirements doc. Liaised with the business to obtain sign-off.

● Managed the scope by identifying, escalating and de-scoping superfluous requirements with senior management.

● Worked with IT to identify GAPs and prepare a blueprint for delivery, obtained sign-off from business.

● Managed the hybrid Agile & Waterfall project thru sprints, and test cycles thru Go Live. Project: CONCUR implementation in US, UK & Italy.

● Managed the E2E project. Ran the global process workshops for two distinct localized solutions.

● Integrated Expense reimbursement via HR/Payroll for the US entity and via Procure to Pay, utilizing Employee vendors for the European entities.

Dec 2013 -Aug 2014 JPM Chase FI RICEF Project Manager Project: FICO-integration with CONCUR T&E Solution

● Managed the key stakeholders to deliver this end to end interface driven solution leveraging team of off-shore developers and onshore functional designer. Kept the IT stakeholders informed of escalations, potential scope creep and containment.

Feb-Nov 2013 DOW with Accenture FI Manager

Project: PTP/Treasury FICO: Complex interfaces in the areas of tax, payments, workflows, in-house cash (IHC) & banks. Project involved enhancing of the Global Remittance Advice (RA), handling of global returned payments from the partner banks & addressing legal requirements within and outside of EU for Vendor correspondence for Turkey and VAT specific correspondence for Italy namely Autofattura and Intregrazione Payments.

● Managed, led and monitored the E2E Global process involving the interfaces, worked with the Business to facilitate the signoff of the requirements. Led the process of development of the functional and technical specs thru delivery.

● Managed team off and onshore to deliver proteo-types, demos as needed. Facilitated buy-in from stakeholder and managed the scope for on time delivery of a complex, sensitive and compliance driven deliverable. July 2011-Jan 2013 PA DOR with Accenture FI Manager FICA TRM Implementation

Project: Multi Year Project to implement TRM (Tax & Revenue Management) FI-CA, CRM and PSCD modules.

● Created FDs for interfaces, reports and correspondences. Handled end to end implementation of the requirement.

● Designed in/outbound interfaces: with PA State Treasury for processing refunds. This involved designing multiple custom tables and utilizing extensions.

● Other interfaces designed were Outbound Tax Clearance information to an external state agency February-July 2011 AIG with IBM Subject Matter Expert Page 3 of 3

Project: FI-AP, PMW, GL, VIM and IHC were implemented. Multiple interfaces from 45 external systems were developed/deployed.

Key Tasks performed

● Configured 1099 and outgoing payment files via Payment Medium Workbench (PMW).

● Functional support of the custom IDOC Development for VIM. Jan 2010- Feb 2011 Polo Ralph Lauren with Accenture RTR Team Lead-FI-AFS Project: SAP ECC 6.0: AFS implementation FI, CO Procurement, SRM & HR modules. Project utilized Process Integration

(PI), SAP Solution Manager and HP Quality Center (HPQC). Key Tasks performed

● Configured the below areas: FI: AR, AP, Bank/Cash Management, and Electronic Bank Statements using IDOCs & XML.

● Conducted client workshops. Developed Proof of concept and prototype sessions.

● Designed bank interfaces, by customizing the standard IDOC (PEXR 2002). Translated the IDOC to a global file format (GFF), flat file per JPMorgan Chase requirements for global payments.

● Business process re-engineering. Worked with the offshore development team for RICEFs.

● Transport Management, Responsible for test

Oct 1999- Dec 2009 Discovery Channel RTR Team Lead Client: A leading media company with hundred legal entities in the US and thirty in Latin America, Europe and Asia. Client implemented the following modules: FI, CO, FM and HR. Key Tasks performed

● AP: Account Groups, Payment Terms, Outgoing Payment and Remittance Advice, 1099 and 1042.

● AR: customer master data, incoming payments, customer correspondence, dunning, lock boxes, receivable management, collections, etc.

● Cash/Bank Rec.: House Banks, Electronic Bank Statements, using search strings and activating exits to customize as per client requirement and enhance the automatic posting ratio.

● EBS file formats: SWIFT: MT940, MT100, BACS, BAI etc.

● Lockbox BAI2 format.

● Tax: Input/output/Sales/ Use/VAT taxes. 1099 and 1042.

● Shared Service environment involving cross company payments between the legal entities.

● CATTs and LSMW to extend customers, transfer open items and facilitate data conversion.

● Transport management, across the landscape involving log analysis and object analysis within the transport.

● Global: the FI/CO and HR (Europe & Asia implementations): Multi-currency, multi-country, multi- language, and VAT/input/output taxes.

● Interfaces: between External Advertising Sales System (IBMS) & SAP, generation of all client correspondence

(invoices, statements, dunning letters) in SAP using the information received via the interface, Positive pay notification to bank for payee name verification, Enhancement to the Lockbox file for enhanced security and error handling.

Other Finance Positions

PriceWaterhouse Coopers (now IBM), First Union Bank, Chevy Chase Bank, NationsBank EDUCATION MMS (MIS & Accounting), BITS Pilani, India. MBA (Finance) Univ. Of Miami, FL, USA.

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