Sarika Dua
San Ramon,CA
Summary
- 19+ years of experience in implementing business systems and enterprise applications in finance and sales.
- Design, architect, and lead new automated solutions for Quote to Cash, Revenue Recognition, Commission Calculation, Accounting, Integration, Tax, and Collections in different business models.
- Participated in the IPO process, ensuring successful execution.
Ability to manage multiple project tasks for multiple customers, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams with changing priorities and tight deadlines.
- Proficient in SOX compliance standards, techniques, and implementation from scratch with Big 4 auditors.
- Extensive experience in accounting principles for ASC 605, ASC 606, IFRS 15, and Non-GAAP.
- Experience with system and business processes integration of two companies via M&A.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Financial and Business System Director
MasterClass
San Francisco, CA
10.2024 - Current
- Systems and business processes building for marketing, sales, strategy, lead to cash, procure to pay, record to report, tax and treasury, payroll, sales compensation, and FP&A.
- Leading the Finance and Enterprise Sales Systems' teams to prioritize and create the roadmap.
- Working with cross-functional teams such as Legal, Tax, Marketing, Sales, HR, Product, Data Science, and IT.
- Leading AI initiatives across domains, from identifying use cases to exploring tools to implementing them.
- Knowledge sharing across the org on various AI initiatives
Director, Finance Systems/Business Applications
Ping Identity
Denver City, CO
11.2020 - 10.2024
- Implementing and Managing systems and business processes for all Finance modules including Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Record to Report, Tax, Treasury Sales Compensation and FP&A
- Spearheading new business development initiatives that drive revenue growth.
- Vendors and Stakeholders management across domain(s). Laying down the Roadmap and Prioritization.
- Working with cross functional teams to make sure the requirements/system enhancements/bugs for various upstream/downstream processes is met.
- Regular Status updates/communication with executive leadership.
- Foster Process Narratives ownership, Business, ITGC and ITAC SOX Controls for Finance along with leading Walkthrough with External/Internal Auditors.
- Proficient in GTM systems like Salesforce and Middleware systems for Integration as well
Sr Business Analyst/Solutions Architect
SAP
San Ramon, CA
02.2018 - 11.2020
- Empowering Customers across various industries for Revenue Recognition implementation and Maintenance considering a lot of variability and judgment that ASC 606 brings with it.
- Providing suggestions/recommendations to the Customer in such a way that the offered cloud platform delivers excellent return on investment and compliance which is critical for their businesses
- Configuring the system(s) based on requirements and step by step Revenue guidance for different types of implementations (ASC 605, IFRS 15, ASC 606 and FP&A)
- Help in designing Integration with any kind of source and destination system through complex APIs
- Expertise in Data Reconciliation, Month End Close/Quarter End Close/Year End Close Activities and configuring Disclosures for executive team!
- Working from end-to-end implementation right from requirements gathering till Go Live/Hyper Care Phase
Business System Analyst/Solutions Architect
Tavant, National Mortgage Insurance
Emeryville, CA
03.2017 - 02.2018
- Working on implementing IT systems including system integration through various EDI standards for Origination and Servicing of Mortgage Insurances for National MI
- Involved in designing and defining a scalable system integration solution between National MI systems and other loan origination and servicing systems through various EDI transactions
- Working right from Discoveries till the Release in Agile methodology
- Decompose High Level Information into Functional Requirements; define quality attributes, external Interfaces, constraints, and other non-functional requirements
- Performing Fit-Gap Analysis, Process Designing and JAD sessions with Product Owners, Development, UAT and QA teams
Solutions Lead Architect
Infosys Ltd
Saint Louis Park, MN
02.2006 - 07.2014
- Worked for various Customers in both India and US with a span of 2006 to 2009 in India and later MN, US
- Requirement gathering, Analysis, Design, Development Review, Testing and Enhancement
- Acted as the liaison between the Business, User Experience, and Technology teams to ensure the best Technical solution are developed and to achieve on-time project completions
- Performing Fit-Gap Analysis, Process Designing and identifying the business process flows and ways to automate the same
- Managing the onsite and offshore team by monitoring, assigning work to the team members
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communication Engineering
Skills
- Systems Used/Implemented: JIRA, Project Portfolio Management, FreshService, Smartsheet, Gong, Apollo, HubSpot, Salesforce, Oracle NetSuite, Avalara, Zuora, SAP, Coupa, Navan, Navia, Bamboo, ADP, FloQast, StrongPoint, Jitterbit, Celigo, AppZen, Brex, Xactly, Slack, Adaptive, Aleph, Expensify
- Domain skills: Finance, CPQ, Lead to Cash, Revenue Recognition, Sales Compensation, Enterprise Sales, Consumer Sales, FP&A, Close Management
Timeline
Financial and Business System Director
MasterClass
10.2024 - Current
Director, Finance Systems/Business Applications
Ping Identity
11.2020 - 10.2024
Sr Business Analyst/Solutions Architect
SAP
02.2018 - 11.2020
Business System Analyst/Solutions Architect
Tavant, National Mortgage Insurance
03.2017 - 02.2018
Solutions Lead Architect
Infosys Ltd
02.2006 - 07.2014
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communication Engineering
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