Aditya C Agrawal (formerly known as Aditya Agrawal)

JDE Finance Functional Manager Application Delivery Business Analyst Principal Consultant India Subcontinent

M: +91-852******* E:adshyq@r.postjobfree.com

Experience Summary:

I have 17 years of experience inITas ERP/JDEfinance principal consultantand as Business Analyst/ JDE Finance lead/Manager IT in FMCG/Food chain, real estate, chemicaland Software services companies in various roles. I have been part of high profile small to large scale projects covering global/regional scope and have a proven track record of leading teams to successfully deliver support transition, application upgrade/rollouts, business process transformation rollout in a fast-paced commercial environment having complex integrated application landscape whilst maintaining compliance to IT governance requirements.

I am strong analytical thinker, quick learner, adept and proactive at problem solving and conflict resolution. I hold excellent written and verbal communication skills, leadership qualities and possess professional demeanor. I am a quick learner and work well independently and within the team. I take initiatives and keep the team motivated by skill development.

Specialties:

ERPProject Management, Problem/Incident/Event/Service request Management, People Management, Vendor Management, Stakeholder Management, R2R, P2P Cross Functional Business Process Support, O2C, JDE finance, AP, AR, GL, Business & Systems Support, IT Governance, Change Control, Release and Configuration Management (GlobalERP Rollouts.

Skills:

ERP, JD Edwards (Hands on Finance domain, System configuration, Upgrade), Procure-to-Pay,Order to Cash, JDE Integration,Invoicing Interface Integration, Accounts Payable, Account Receivable, General Ledger, Real Estate Management, India GST Implementation / India localization.TDS.

Education:

Master’s in Computer Applications (MCA), 2003

Sri Guru Ram Rai Institute of Technology and Science, Dehradun (India)

Bachelor of commerce (BCOM), 2000

Allahabad University, Allahabad (India)

Certifications:

Oracle financials Cloud payables 2017 Implementation essentials

Oracle financials Cloud General ledger 2017 Implementation essentials

JD Edwards Enterprise One 9.0 Financial implementation Specialist

Big Data Foundations - Level 1

Data Science Foundations - Level 1

PRINCE2® Practitioner Certificate in Project Management

PRINCE2® Foundation Certificate in Project Management

Oracle Hyperion Financial Mgmt. 11.1.2: Create & Manage Apps Ed 1 LVC

Robotic process Automation Developer Foundation Diploma

Experience Summary:

Senior JD Edwards Manager at JLL

(Jan 2021 – present)

Associate Manager Application Delivery

DXC Red Rock. (November 2015 – 3st Dec 2021)

CurrentResponsibilities:

IT Business Partner for various clients. Responsible for ERP implementation and support to finance and business users for their day to day business operations (excluding infrastructure).Supporting them to do the Record to Report process in ERP – JD Edwards, played the EMEA Regional lead role for the project, giving them training, ERP implementation for US, EMEA region, CRP, ICRP testing along with business users, taking sign off and go -live preparation, as- is analysis and prepared to-be documentation, preparation of Functional design specifications, build financial reports based for the finance stake holders with the help of developer, helping them in moth end, half yearly, and year end closing, reconciliations etc. daily interaction with client stake holders, business users, working agile projects, SOW, CRs preparation. Mentor offshore JDE team and support them. Also implemented GST / India localizations to various global companies who’s presence in India to meet the Indian tax requirements.

[Clients: Treasury Wine Estate, Cleanaway, IMCD, Elementis, Brickworks, AACO]

Manager –JD Edwards

Yum Brands Inc. (November 2014 to November 2015)

Responsible for the support and implementation for Above Stores systems like JD Edwards and others. Responsible for upkeep of the system and manage application level changes and rollouts. Collaborate, follow-up and coordinating with the business teams and getting the job done with great sense of urgency. This role also calls for excellent working relationships with cross-functional teams to ensure that the issues are resolved in a timely manner.

Responsibilities:

●Support Centralized Financial & Supply Chain Systems for Yum! India Sub Con.

●Act as a Single point of contact for JDE/ERP application and its interfaces

●Lead Financial and SCM related system projects.

●Support business teams particularly Finance and SCM on day-to-day JDE work and month-end activities.

●Monitor JD Edwards GL Masters and periodic reconciliations of all accounting masters to adhere with “Segregation of Duties Compliances”.

●Ensure tracking and timely closure of system issues.

●Monitor and mapping of Authority matrix compliance in JD Edwards.

●Support Finance team in DMS – Document Management System, Bank Systems, Cash Management and other systems being used.

●Maintain Strong Documentation & Manuals

●End User Training

●New / Adhoc Request management

●Collaborate with vendors and cross functional teams to assess gaps and improvise the process

●Monthly Financial closing and statutory compliance

●Support Finance team to ensure Timely closer of Accounting period and batch posting reconciliations.

●Generate month end integrity report to align SOD compliance.

●Support business team to meet Statutory and Internal Audit time lines with no significant issues.

ERP Project Lead

KPIT Global Solutions (Feb 2014 to November 2014)

IT Business Partner for KPIT, Responsible for ERP implementation & support to finance and business users for their day to day business operations (excluding infrastructure).

Responsibilities:

●Preparation of Business Analysis of As Is-To be process documentation. Review and discussion with client.

●On Prepared Business Analysis AS IS process and To Be document for sign off.

●Responsible for preparation of weekly Project Status Report (PSR), Issues Tracking Report etc.

●Finalization of Chart of Accounts, Business Units etc. for the company Configuring the finance set up like, Company, Business Units, Chart of accounts, setting up, Automatic Accounting Instructions. Setting up Supplier, Customer & Employee Address Book and master information.

●Creation of various Menus & versions of applications as per user requirement involved in Test, CRP (Conference Room Pilot) & ICRP environment.

●Coordination with the Technical team for the object development.

●Data migration process.

●Preparation of Set up Manual, User Manuals and User training on various modules of Finance (General Accounting, Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables, Expense Management & Fixed Asset)

Solutions Principal

Oracle Corporation (October 2012 to January 2014)

Responsibilities:

●The responsibility is to provide quality solutions to all the business partners who are implementing JD Edwards ERP system which enables them to make the implementation faster.

●JD Edwards Finance Functional / Oracle Business Accelerators.

●Supporting JDE Financial modules like AR, AP, GL, Real Estate.

●Configuring Oracle Products, ERP, Analytics and applications to suit business needs.

●Create functional specifications, Develop JDE OBA solutions based on setups identified.

●Interacting with Oracle partners globally, certifying them and equipping them ready for JDE OBA]

●[Clients: Jones Lang LaSalle, Lafarge and many other US clients]

IS Business Analyst - Finance

Reckitt Benckiser (November 2011 – September 2012)

CurrentResponsibilities:

Responsible for Application Maintenance and Support (AMS), Program Management for all IT requirements related to Supply Chain, Logistics,Primary Sales, Business Process Management and Finance business processes in South Asia (India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) in JDE and other Applications.

Projects (South Asia):

●JDE Operating System Upgrade project

●JDE – HSBC Two Way interface for Automatic Matching of payments against Invoices in AR

●Automatic Payments to all open AP vouchers in AP

Past Responsibilities:

●Responsible to co-ordinate external audit and manage all audit open items on Change Control, Segregation of Duties, Sensitive User access, Financial Controls etc.

●Project Management, Application Rollouts, Business Process analysis and modelling

●Interact with authorized RB personnel to understand the problem tickets and logging the same in “Remedy” helpdesk tool.

●Initiate corrective actions based on the findings of root cause analysis.

●Suggest workaround or system configuration change or procedural change for resolving the problem instantly.

●Provide Functional support to HFM (Hyperion Financial Management) application.

●Provide Functional support to Cognos reporting tool called “ICE”.

●Act as a POC (Point of Contact) for all Finance Functional related issues.

●Involved in interview process for new hires in RB.

Senior Software Engineer

Oracle Corporation (September 2006 – November 2011)

JDE Edwards. (Production Support across the globe mainly US, UK and Canada)

Responsibilities:

●Various support (Finance Functional issue) issues resolution mainly raised by business users across the globe related to AR, GL, AP and AB modules.

●Interacting with clients and translating business requirements to functionality requirements from the PeopleSoft application.

●Analyzing alternatives for meeting the requirement through the application and explain it effectively to colleagues, whether co-located or at remote locations.

Major Dimensions of work:

●Have been involved in analyzing client's requirements/issues, testing/replicating the same and providing solutions.

●Have been handling different type of issues like data corruption, bugs, enhancements, documentation, informational and functionality specific.

●Have been handling some techno-functional issues involving code comparison, logs analysis and OMW.

●Have written white papers, created several solutions and prepared documents detailing solutions to client's issues which have been approved and now reside in the knowledge garden for future use by clients and analysts at Oracle.

●Have been getting the lot many customer satisfaction surveys in the team, most of them being Exceptional Service Awards.

●Handled maximum number of financial issues within the finance team

Associate Consultant

HCL Technologies (August 2005 – August 2006)

Aditya was working as functional Consultant and handled various support issues resolution mainly raised by business users. The issues are related with the various modules and different technical domains. Issues also included security issues, Fast Security record, Optimization issues, Issues/Discrepancies found in modules functionalities etc. Coordinating with onsite team to analyze the root causes of the various problems and then fixing the cause of the problem. Ensuring that the migration process is followed, and deliveries adhere to the Quality standards followed.

Responsibilities:

●Acquiring application and business process knowledge to be able to handle entire frontline support activities involving all JDE modules and connected systemsand business processes.

●Ramp-up offshore team on business support to cover 24x7 support.

●Deliver support as per agreed SLAs

●Incident Management, Application Fix, User Training, Problem Management

●Support Customer Service, fully automated fast paced manufacturing plants and warehouses, logistics teams, AR, AP and Finance users.

[Client: Thomson Financials, Boston]

Software Engineer

Eastern Software Systems Ltd (Dec 2003 – May 2005)

Aditya was working as a Software Engineer and primarily responsible for various support issues resolution mainly raised by business users. Actively involved in Customization and developing Forms/reports/data conversion scripts Modification & enhancement of existing Reports and Business Process through PL/SQL and Devloper2000 forms and reports.

Responsibilities:

●Analyzing the Functional specifications for IT Requests and provide Technical Solution documents and estimates.

●Involve in coding, testing, application migration & delivering the IT requests from offshore

●Involved in Unit Testing & System Testing

●Designed/Customized the application based on the requirements.

●Implementation which involves coding, testing & delivering from offshore

●Involved in Unit Testing & System Testing and UAT

●Provided the KT document for the new implementation.

[Clients: Anand Nishikawa Co. Ltd, P.N.Writers Corporation,Raj Lubricants (MADRAS) Ltd, India]

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