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Chennai, Tn, In

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Leader of Finance Transformation, Invent India • Building Finance Transformation capabilities, from hiring to deployment, for India location • Driving consulting engagements to deliver business outcomes – Design Chart of Accounts, reduction in working capital, process performance, etc., • Design, optimize and Re-engineer processes • Transitioning clients to new business operating models • Developing business case covering people, process, technology, data and governance for enterprise transformations • Leading build out of assets and accelerators • Advising senior client leaders/CFOs on the strategy and roadmap for ERP related transformations • Leading/supporting sales and pre-sales activities including RFx responses, proposal defense, offering creation, both in India and globally

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Leading Finance Transformation engagements for multiple Organisations across the Globe involving various ERP products (Oracle, SAP, MS Dynamics).

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Responsible for end-to-end Presales and Demand Generation functions for Oracle Applications – eBS, JDE, PeopleSoft, Siebel, ERP/SCM/HCM/CX/IAAS & PAAS Cloud, Integration, Primavera and Industrial Solutions. $XYZmn+ Order Booking done and $XBn sales pipeline managed during the period. Building strategy for Order Booking by Geo / Oracle Product /account-wise – Renewal, Mining and Hunting. Qualify RFXs, review and approve responses that includes solution, effort, and price. Build / maintain presales assets repository – templates, case studies, solutions, tools, and accelerators, etc., Drive customer presentations and proposal response defend sessions. Deal win ratio increased by X% and Oracle Cloud Order booking consistently exceeded the target.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Global Competency Head and Chennai Location Head (150+ FTEs) for PeopleSoft. Validate and approve solutions, forming part of RFPs and SOWs. Advise existing & potential customers in Transformation Projects - Technology, Business and Operational Transformation. Conduct workshops to potential customers and recommend solutions, provide ERP roadmap advisory, etc., Responsible for customer relationship building, renewal of contracts, identifying and converting new opportunities. Provided solutions that won many projects across the Globe (US, France, ME, ANZ) including first Oracle RMCS based IFRS 15 solution implementation for VIVA and EBS based IFRS custom solution for Ooredoo.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Global Competency Head and Chennai Location Head (150+ FTEs) for PeopleSoft. Validate and approve solutions, forming part of RFPs and SOWs. Advise existing & potential customers in Transformation Projects - Technology, Business and Operational Transformation. Conduct workshops to potential customers and recommend solutions, provide ERP roadmap advisory, etc., Responsible for customer relationship building, renewal of contracts, identifying and converting new opportunities. Provided solutions that won many projects across the Globe (US, France, ME, ANZ) including first Oracle RMCS based IFRS 15 solution implementation for VIVA and EBS based IFRS custom solution for Ooredoo.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Responsible for PeopleSoft Program of Citibank Inc. and BNYM. Validate and approve solutions, proposed by Pre-Sales team to Customer, forming part of RFPs and SOWs, advising existing / potential customers in Transformation Projects, conducting sessions / workshops to potential clients to recommend solutions and provide ERP roadmap advisory, Periodic review of Project status / deliverables, Competency Building and driving Center of Excellence Initiatives.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Client: AON HewittManaged 4 PeopleSoft FSCM projects for AON Hewit – 2 Upgrades, 1 Support and 1 Integration. Hewitt Internal Business System applications were upgraded on-time with a peak team size of 40 and supported the application after go-live, integrated Hewitt’s application with AON’s application to aid the merger between the 2 entities. Improved financial processes by reducing DSO from 90 to 30 days, reduced monthly closing from 5 to 3 days, reduced monthly billing cycle from 30 days to 8 days and reduced the finance operations cost from 2% to <1% of the revenue.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Client: Pfizer Inc.Project Manager for PeopleSoft HCM Upgrade involving multiple environments in different versions. As part of the Upgrade, modules in multiple instances were merged into single instance, new modules implemented, and few modules re-implemented with a 130-member team during peak. Overall Program Management, Planning & execution, reporting program progress, provided technical / functional solutions for the largest PeopleSoft Program in CSC. Project went live successfully 2 weeks ahead of the schedule. This is the key Program selected for awarding ISO 9001 for Pfizer’s location at Chennai. Recommended for Customer Excellence Award in 2008.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Multiple Projects - Multiple Roles.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Client: Credit SuisseOnsite Team Leader @Zurich for PeopleSoft HCM Upgrade and end-to-end PeopleSoft Payroll Implementation. Requirements gathering, fit-gap analysis, configuration, test planning and execution are the key tasks performed alongside design and development of key customizations.Client: Richardson Electronics Onsite Project Leader @Chicago for PeopleSoft FSCM Upgrade ProjectLeading customer workshops for requirements gathering, performing fit-gap analysis, Prepare / review FDD and TDD, Build / Test / Review customizations, create & execute test strategy and report project progress to senior management. Key achievements include on-time delivery of project and use of latest integration tools / technology to build and deliver complex integrations.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

JUL-02 TO OCT-03TECHNICAL / FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT•Analyzing and simulating the business cases for problems reported in PeopleSoft Product by customers of PeopleSoft Inc.•Functional Lead for PeopleSoft Financials, Distribution, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain Management modules.•Giving configuration support and resolving implementation issues reported by PeopleSoft customers in various modules.•Offering fixes and workaround for problems reported by the PeopleSoft.•Coding, Reviewing and Testing of fixes.•Conducting User Acceptance Test and Quality Assurance Tests on fixes delivered to the PeopleSoft Customers.•Application of PeopleSoft Patches.•Testing of PeopleSoft Financials 8.8 at PeopleSoft India Service Center, Bangalore.OCT-03 TO MAR-04TECHNICAL / FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT•Providing Production support for PeopleSoft AP, AR, GL, PO, EX and BI modules.•Preparing technical designs and unit test plans.•Customize PeopleSoft objects to apply customizations in PeopleSoft 8.x after upgrade from 7.x.•Performing Integration and User Acceptance Testing.•Analyzing compare reports to find impacted objects for retrofitting after tools upgrade.•Applying PeopleSoft patches and fixes.•Preparation of Table Loading Sequence for various modules of PeopleSoft Financials, Distribution, Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management considering the customization done by the clients.

Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

•Head of Invoicing / Accounting team – Rs.500+ Crores ($ 75 million) billing a year out of a total of Rs.1000+ Crores at Unit Level.•Reconciliation and Closure of books of accounts – Monthly, quarterly and Yearly.•Interacting with Bankers for Bills of Discounts, L/C and Foreign exchange transactions.•Excise Duty and Sales-Tax return preparation for the Invoicing and Accounting Group.•Front-ending Invoicing and Accounting group in Internal, Statutory and Government Audits.•Support for preparation of P & L and Balance Sheet at Unit level.•Automation of Invoicing processes oRequirements gathering oInvolved in design, development and testing of various applications around Manufacturing, Inventory, Billing and Sales oSystem design, Data modeling, and Solutions systems architecture oPreparation of functional specifications and technical specifications oPreparation of test plans and test criteria. oUnit, Integration and Systems testing.Key Achievements:•Managed a team that was responsible for Billing and maintaining Accounts receivables with Sales turnover of 500 Crores rupees ($ 75 million).•Cost savings by negotiating L/C, Bills of discount terms with bankers.•Automating the Sales Tax returns preparation process.•Automating the invoice generation process for Scrap sales group.•Introduced checks and controls to ease the accounting reconciliation processes.•Played vital role in automating printing of invoices and capturing related accounting information.•Continuous improvements to invoice printing lead to reduction of invoice printing time to 1/10th of the original time.•Designed and implemented system to link invoice transactions to excise ledgers•Introduced Flat file transfer of Invoice information to Insurance providers through emails, eliminating manual ledger. Effort & Time saved – around 90%.•Replaced manual ledgers (such as dispatch advice notes register) with computerized systems.•Trained end-users in new applications.

Icwa, Cost Accounting, Corporate Law, Financial Accounting

Company Secretary, Company Secretary

Master Of Science, Psychology

Master Of Arts - Ma, Yoga For Human Excellence

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Corporate Secretaryship

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