Project Manager

MURALI +1-210-***-****

EMAIL: ******************@*****.***

OVERVIEW:

Over 10+ years of experience in implementing, Analyzing, coordinating, organizing, facilitating and managing small- and large-scale projects with multi-tasking ability for major financial clients

Responsibilities including meeting coordination, developing project strategies, attending and taking minutes on corporate meetings, creating a calendar for the project manager, and administrative duties.

Involved in all phases of the project from Project Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation, Go-Live, to Post Go-Live Support.

Responsible for putting together and documenting the plan for data conversion of the AR and AP open items along with the General Ledger data conversion

Strong working knowledge in Order Types, Settlement Rules, IO Planning, Distribution Cycles, Cost Collector Configuration and Cost Element Planning.

Worked on processes such as Procure to Pay (P2P), Order to Cash (OTC), and Record to Report.

Excellent in working with posting validations, substitution rules, and Reporting tools (Report painter and Report writer)

Excellent Technical, Accounting and Finance knowledge with demonstrated competencies in Financial and Business Analysis

Strong problem solving and analytical skills and abilities to make balanced & independent decisions

Solid understanding of software development life cycle models as well as expert knowledge of both Agile and traditional project management principles and practices and the ability to blend them together in the right proportions to fit a project and business environment

A proven track record of successfully implementing software or web development projects using Agile methodologies including 8+ years of experience as a Project Manager managing large, complex projects in a high-tech development environment with multi-function teams. PMP preferred

Analytical and goal-oriented thinking, highly effective communication/presentation skills with the ability articulate technical concepts in non - technical terms.

Proven ability to handle multiple priorities, including splitting time between business support and specific projects.

Forecast requirements; assisted in preparation of budgets; analyze variances; initiating corrective actions and Examine financial data/statements and use them to improve profitability

Determined, implemented, and evaluated business metrics to meet ongoing organizational or client information needs. Contribute operations information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews

Work closely with Project managers and Practice Management Group to set and/or implement policies, procedures and systems, and to follow through with implementation

Identified client service requirements by talking to Business stake holders; analyzing operations; documenting results and developed solutions by describing requirements in a work-flowchart; studying system capabilities; analyzing alternative solutions

SECTIONS OF EXPERTISE:

Finance

General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Lock Box Configuration, Credit Management, Asset Accounting, reporting Special Ledger, Investment Management, Dispute Management and Banking, IMX, UBS, WSS, CBS, Miser, MS VISIO, Confluence, Solution Manager, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, AR, AP, COUPA, EDW,

Project Administration

Confluence, Info Ed, Microsoft Project, Smart sheet and Monday.com, salesforce

Reporting

Report Painter, Report Writer and ABAP Query, Tableau

Project Management

Project coordination, Business management, Planning, Project administration, schedule management, quality assurance, Financial planning, negotiation skills, Adaptability, Risk management, Procurement, Agile methodologies, Scrum master, share point, management, Pro-active, organizing skills, effective team work, Process oriented, Analytical thinking and ability to communicate effectively

EDUCATION:

Masters in computer science: 2013 Silicon Valley university

Bachelors: 2009, Bangalore, India

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Employer: TCS, Tempe Client: Silicon Valley Bank April 2019 – Current

Industry: SVB Banking

Role: Project Manager

Projects: Company wide accruals via Appian, Corporate paid T&E card, India GDC new vendor payment process, UK tax digital, Accurate and CAT replacement (Recon)

Responsibilities:

Determine, implement, and evaluate business metrics to meet ongoing organizational or client information needs PSGL, AR, AP, COUPA, EDW, SOA

Contributed operations information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews

Worked closely with PMO and Practice Management Group to set and/or implement policies, procedures and systems, and to follow through with implementation

Identified client service requirements by talking to staff; analyzing operations; documenting results and Pro with all phases of the SDLC and the Agile, water flow, Jira process

Writing various requirement documents including FSD, SDD, SRS, ICD, FRS, UAT, and design

Develop solutions by describing requirements in a work-flowchart; studying system capabilities; analyzing alternative solutions

Collaborated with Business Development and operations teams to help find ways to create cost-effective processes with design approach solutions

Provided strategic guidance and influences program direction. Recommends large scale information system solutions and assists with business integration across organizational levels.

Reviewed data and develop and document process flows ensuring continuous process/productivity improvement. Review business requirements and systems specifications to ensure plan milestones and requirements are met

Works as a team member with expertise in a specific domain and advanced, comprehensive knowledge of methodologies, principles and practices related to business or financial management disciplines.

Work closely with IT business users, where applicable, to define business requirements of related business

Work closely with business team, business analyst(s), configuration analyst(s), client team, and other related. Provide subject matter expertise to assist developers and testers during the technical design, implementation and testing phases, unit, QA, UAT testing.

Identify the project dependencies and threats, and ensure they are documented and communicated to project management/project team(s) as needed

Ensure that clear and concise information about the as-is and target business processes are communicated, consult the business regarding potential process changes, and foster productive client relationships Coordinate professional delivery of services to the client

- Gather requirements using elicitation techniques like brainstorming, requirement workshops, focus groups and others.

Document requirements by crafting use cases, functional and requirement specifications documents. Categorize requirements as functional (contains the features required by the end-users), non-functional (requirements for the performance and usability of the project) operational (operations that are carried out in the background) and technical and accordingly segregate them in different types of documents.

Gain requirements sign-off from the key stakeholders by making sure all of them are on the same level of understanding against the requirements and obtain written approval on the requirements to be developed. Most SVB projects follow a traditional lifecycle and the Business Analyst may be tasked with building business, stakeholder and / or system requirements as well as business and / or system use cases.

Serve as the Requirement Gatekeeper and validate any new requirement for their effect and impact on the existing requirement set of the project.

Client: CTCA, CA MAR 2017 – MAR 2019

Industry: Health Care

Role: Project Manager/Sr. Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

Maintaining and monitoring project plans, project schedules, work hours, budgets and expenditures. Organizing, attending and participating in stakeholder meetings. Documenting and following up on important actions and decisions from meeting.

Prepare necessary presentation materials for meetings, recoding meeting minutes, project status and keeping the project team updated on the status and ensuring project deadlines are met.

Providing administrative support as needed and understanding project tasks as required.

Developing project strategies and ensuring projects adhere to frameworks and all documentation is maintained appropriately for each project.

Assess project risks and issues and provide solutions where applicable.

Ensure stakeholder views are managed towards the best solution.

Chair and facilitate meetings where appropriate and distribute minutes to all project team members.

Create a project management calendar for fulfilling each goal and objective.

Act as the point of contact and communicate project status to all participants

Work with the Project Manager to eliminate blockers. Use tools to monitor working hours, plans and expenditures

Issue all appropriate legal paperwork (e.g. contracts and terms of agreement)

Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation, plans and reports

Ensure standards and requirements are met through conducting quality assurance tests

Employer: Diversant Employer Client: WELLS FARGO, PHOENIX 2015 NOV – Feb 2017

Role: Sr. Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

Proficient in preparation of Business Blue Print (As-Is, To-Be, and Fit-Gap Analysis).

Configured Enterprise Structure, implementations and Company codes including Chart of Accounts.

Creating a project schedule, with milestones, due dates and estimates for those materials that are required and other resources, such as team members, which will then be submitted to management for approval.

Making sure that the team has the tools they need to execute the project.

Helping with the documentation of each phase of the project, as well as making summary reports that will be presented to the organization’s management team.

Working with team members in the field or on site who have project issues.

Keep up the morale of team members and build relationships with them to develop a strong working unit and supporting their impact on the success of a project.

Verify reporting and recordings.

Verify audit reports and monthly recording.

Acquires and maintains thorough knowledge of NACHA rules and annual updates

Updates procedures to ensure compliance for all ACH rule changes and processes

Responsible for ACH and Check Disputes

Assigned POs and verified budgets for purchasing.

Assisted with budgeting, approvals and any rollovers.

Wrote GL accounting operations procedures.

Assist Chief Accountant recording fixed assets and assigning asset tag numbers

Responsible for entire balance sheet reconciliation.

Verify payroll, payments and expenses went to the correct department.

Trained other sites in GL accounting policies and procedures.

Worked in uploading of plan data from External data system into COUPA.

Training programs for end-users, supervisors, and managers on the client site.

ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES, VERNON HILLS OCT 2014 – NOV 2015

Role: Project Administrator

Responsibilities:

Identified actual user requirement through Brainstorming Sessions

Involved in all phases of the project life cycle including Requirements Gathering, Blue Printing, Development implementation, Unit & Integration Testing, Go Live and Post Production Support

Identified Gaps in the system, based on user and policy requirements and prioritize the requirements of the users

Work closely with project manager planning projects and preparing documents

Prepare financial and progress reports and communicate information about these to relevant staff

Communicate requirements to relevant departments and employees to keep progress on track

Created PowerPoint presentations for project meetings

Created monthly progress reports and communicated results to appropriate staff

Performed general office support and administrative tasks as requested, including answering and directing phone calls

System configuration in the areas of GL transactions, balance sheet reports, profit and loss, inter-company transactions, consolidation, automatic posting GL master records, Account Group and Document Number Ranges, Tolerance Groups, Reversing Documents, Automatic Account Determination, Sales/Use Tax Assignment, Multi-Currency configuration.

Accounts Payable (FI-AP): Vendor Master Data, Automatic Payment Transaction, Recurring Entries, Invoice posting, Bank Master Data, House Banks, Check Management: Check voiding with Reason Codes.

Accounts Receivable (FI-AR): Customer Master Data, Customer Tolerance Groups, Customer Down Payments, Customer invoice posting and clearing (open item management), Transaction types: Invoice, Credit Memos; AR Reconciliation, Payment Terms, Interest Calculation (Invoice Statement pay), Partial and Residual Payments, ACH/EFT Payment Formats; OTC Cycle components

Setup the Gain/Loss accounts for exchange rate differences in vendor and customer payments and testing different production scenarios

Defined the balance sheet adjustment accounts and exchange rate Gain/Loss accounts for Goods Receipt (GR), Invoice Receipt (IR) and Goods Issued (GI).

Configured credit control area and assigned number ranges for Customer Master Data for A/R.

Configured Special G/L Accounts for down payment with down payments indicator

Configured Cost Center Accounting / Cost element, maintained standard hierarchy, cost center categories, distribution and assessment.

Configured Profit Center master data, standard hierarchy, dummy profit center, profit center groups, distribution and assessments in CO-PCA.

SIGNATURE TECHNOLOGY GROUP, PHOENIX. JUNE 2013 – SEP 2014

Industry: Hardware and Shipping

Role: Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

Designed Functional Specifications and developed process flow of the system to convert existing system into new system including defining the roadmap

Configured settings for Company Code, Currency and Parallel Currency, Posting Period Variant, Assigned Document Ranges, and Defined Tolerance Groups for Employees

Implemented, Configured and customized General Ledger accounting – Creation of G/L accounts, automatic account assignments and financial statement version

Configured Automatic Payment Program for Outgoing Payments which included Payment Methods, House Bank accounts, Ranking Order of Bank Accounts, and Lockbox

Creation of asset classes, asset groups, maintenance of sub-assets, legacy reference data.

Defining Chart of Depreciation, real and derived depreciation areas, Depreciation keys definition for assigning calculation method and depreciation schedule.

Configuration of account assignments, integration of AA with FI.

Customizing screen layouts for asset master data, asset sub ledgers and asset depreciation areas.

Settlement of asset accounting with internal orders, maintaining settlement profiles for internal orders, configuring capitalization of assets under construction, assigning cost elements.

Testing different asset transactions like posting depreciations, manual capitalization of fixed assets, post capitalization, reverse asset transaction, disposition and assisted in asset retirements, asset scrap.

Generating Asset reports using Asset explorer and Asset history sheets, used Report painter, performed Unit testing and Negative testing.

Involved in training of key business users and coordinated with various teams and ensured that project deadlines are met.

KRONSYS INC, JAN 2010 – APRIL 2013

Industry: Recreation and Entertainment

Role: Project Support Analyst

Involved in training of key business users and coordinated with various teams and ensured that project deadlines are met.

General Ledger Accounting - Company Code Global Parameters, Chart of Accounts, Number Ranges

Foreign Currency Revaluation, Sale and Purchase Tax, Withholding Taxes, Inter Company Postings, Document Types.

Fixed Assets Management (New Asset Management) - Maintaining Chart of Depreciation and Depreciation Areas for various Accounting principles and currencies, Asset Classes, Account Determination and Screen Layouts. Configuring Depreciation Calculation Methods and Depreciation Keys.

General Controlling - Maintaining and Activating Controlling Area components, Maintaining Versions and Number Ranges.

Cost Center Accounting - Defining Planning Layouts and Profiles, Creating Assessment and Distribution Cycles.

Profit Center - Defining Standard Hierarchy, Dummy Profit Center, Versions, Planning Layouts and Profiles, Creating Assessment and Distribution Cycles.

Project Systems - Creating Project Profiles, WBS Elements and Settlement Profiles. Creating Allocation and Source Structures, Defining Coding Mask and Project Structures for Opex and Capex Projects.

Creating Validation and Substitution rules for PS master data based on Project Profile.

Performing and Validating PS Master Data and Balances data conversion.

Prepared Accounts Receivable ageing reports, CO Planning Reports and Fixed Asset Reports using Report Painter and Report Writer

Performed Cut-Over and provided Post Go-live warranty support.

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