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California, United States

San Francisco, CA, US

Santa Clara, CA, US

Managing projects and initiatives in the Finance Integration Management Office to integrate systems and processes post SVB acquisition of Boston Private

Santa Clara, CA, US

• Led brainstorming workshops with SMEs and stakeholders of Corporate Accounting to identify top 20% processes causing 80% inefficiencies and challenges
• Finalized recommendations and reviewed with leadership to obtain approvals for short, medium & long term project efforts
• Managing the short-term projects track, evaluating and rolling out quick solutions to Finance users

San Jose, CA, US

• Led large projects in the rollout of new tools and applications as Business PM. Actively engaged in all project phases from Requirements through Design, Build, Cut-over and Post-Production Support.
• Accomplished improved accuracy in Standard Costs by implementing a new Costing system and improved efficiency in Projection of Costs and Product Pricing for future periods
• Pioneered projects involving automation (RPA) and process improvements that resulted in tighter controls, faster reporting and saving in labor hours
• Achieved real time analysis and reporting to executives by developing Revenue dashboards in OBIEE
• Influenced executive decisions to manage 3-year roadmap of projects and programs for financial applications by best mix of alignment with org objectives and maximum ROI
• Evaluated and managed several finance projects for Xilinx worldwide, resulting in reduction of manual work and improved close timelines, as SME for Oracle R12

Fremont, CA, US

• SME for Oracle Financials for worldwide entities managing rollout of R12 to subsidiaries in Asia and Europe while also supervising offshore Production Support services
• Drove increased accuracy and efficiency while reducing manual effort within the Payables and eBtax modules
• Single-handedly managed and supported the entire Oracle suite including Operations, Financials and System Administration for a few months

• Led Financials R12.1.3 implementation in multi-org, multi-currency model
• Designed and configured GL, AP, FA, CE, eBusiness Tax including authoring user desk procedures, training documentation and end-user training
• Effectively resolved issues in production support phase and guided users through month end close process

San Jose, CA, US

• Led implementation of Employee Credit Card automation in Oracle iExpense
• Developed functional design for customization of Credit Card payments
• Achieved on-time delivery of project by effectively communicating with implementation managers of various banks across geographies

US

As Financials SME, accomplished successful and on-time Go-live in several projects involving Procure to Pay and Order to Cash flows including the modules AP, AR, GL, FA, CE, Costing, eBusiness Tax, Reports Manager, Discoverer, Setup FSG’s, AGIS, Consolidations, MRC

San Jose, California, US

Alexandria, VA, US

Sunnyvale, CA, US

San Jose, California, US

Sunnyvale, CA, US

San Jose, CA, US

Irving, Texas, US

Austin, Texas, US

Norwalk, CT, US

Dallas, TX, US

Aca, Accounting And Finance/ Business Management

Bachelor Of Commerce - Bcom, Commerce & Accounting