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Sherry Thakur

Irvine,California

Summary

18+ Years of overall ERP experience with all project stages including development, project estimation, requirement determination, project management, gap analysis, business process reengineering, issue resolution, priority setting, configuration, custom code specifications, testing, training, go live and release assistance and post implementation support. 13 years of strong ERP Lead and Management experience in Finance, Human Resources/Payroll and Procurement/Sales and worked with larger global teams through complex project planning, staffing, budgeting, timeline and roadmap building, scope management and delivery. Supported in house Sage product built on the Sales Force logic and worked with interfacing all payroll functions to the individual countries supporting the local applications. Resourceful problem solver with an excellent ability to understand the shortcomings of SAP business processes, capture justified user requirements, and manage these through to completion within a structured development cycle using ASAP/Agile methodology. Innovative manager with an understanding of the marketplace and helping the business launch new technology, services or processes that benefit the company/customers and taking raw ideas and managing them through success. Result oriented, because sometimes it's not all about the time you put into making a solution a success but what you achieved as an end result and if it was delivered on time, under budget and justified ROI. Change Management savvy while dealing with ambiguity and making decisions with what little information I have from my peers so that my team feels involved and stays motivated. Authorized to work in the US for any employer

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Manager IT HR/Payroll/Finance/Procurement

Sage Software Inc
08.2010 - Current
  • Strategic Business Partner and trusted advisor
  • Understand key drivers and challenges of the business to provide specific system solutions
  • Use business knowledge, trend reporting and data to provide effective solutions which align with business goals using system resources.
  • Partner with the HR process owners to understand key performance issues, objectives and drivers and align them with existing defect resolution process.
  • Influence and effectively convey messages through clear and consistent communication with the business process owners in all areas that I support with HR/Payroll, Finance and Sourcing.
  • Prioritize work and respond to changing business needs, while managing third party support with SAP/ Rimini and manage release tasks every week.
  • Utilize available resources and best practices to get things done
  • Provide leadership and foster constructive cross functional/technical working relationships
  • Change Champion
  • Challenge the status quo, champion new initiatives and act as a catalyst for change that drives continuous improvement in business performance by highlighting new technologies and functionalities within the existing ERP system that can be leveraged to help the business.
  • Work with the process owners to present appropriate business cases to the CRB and Technical Review Boards for necessary approvals and present estimations on the work effort and optimal solution.
  • Capability Builder
  • Select, retain and develop the right talent within the team to support the business initiatives and hold the team responsible for their actions.
  • Diagnose and analyze organizational capabilities to proactively develop and implement individual, team and organizational improvements to support delivery of the business strategy
  • Coach, challenge and support managers in their role on people development and organizational related processes
  • Support the development and execution of technology to make HR/Finance and Sourcing processes more efficient and effective in supporting the business
  • Understand and leverage appropriate technologies to connect people and collaborate with identified target groups
  • Leadership values and not just a manager
  • I'm an active listener for both my team mates and the business partners so that at the end of the day, what's delivered is what was requested.
  • I make sure that I'm hands deep in the system resolution at times and am helping the team out wherever possible, since we support three business pillars with a very limited but highly skilled team.
  • To keep them motivated itself is a challenge and I make sure they receive the accolades and recognition they deserve with the higher management.
  • Operating with impeccable integrity and trust, especially since I work around HR and PCI compliance related work.
  • Strong business acumen. I understand the business processes in SAGE in my work areas extremely well while having spent 6 years with the organization and abiding with all of Sage's core values.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

Team Lead-Finance

Capgemini
08.2009 - 07.2010
  • Business Process Analysis and Re-engineering
  • Assisted the team in preparation of blue print document.
  • Interviewed end users to gather requirements and to understand the workflow of the as-is system.
  • Analyzed workflow to design solutions and designed the To-Be solution.
  • Conducted GAAP analysis.
  • And project Performed assessment of business requirements, mapping with SAP R/3 functionality plan.
  • Configuration
  • GL and AA
  • Ensured Asset Accounting system is in compliance with company's policies and procedures and GAAP.
  • Defined asset class, asset numbers and grouped them into asset groups.
  • Defined chart of depreciation and depreciation areas.
  • Maintain fixed asset subsidiary ledger and responsible for the physical tagging of assets.
  • Maintained Asset Explorer report.
  • Customized screens for asset acquisition, asset under construction and asset retirement (scrapping) and capitalization of assets.
  • Integrated Asset management with General Ledger.
  • Performed ongoing validation of depreciation calculations and Gain/Loss calculations-Book and Tax.
  • AR & AP
  • Created vendor master, customer master data and specified number ranges and screens layout.
  • Configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments for company codes in AP.
  • Configured overpayments and underpayments and dunning notices, partial and residual payments, down payments and credit management.
  • Activated the Reconciliation Ledger & maintained the accounts for automatic reconciliation posting.
  • Integrated AP with MM.
  • Bank Accounting
  • Maintained bank directory, bank data, and defined relationship of G/L accounts to the bank accounts.
  • Configured house banks, manual bank statement, & cash journal and lockbox.
  • Customized processing of incoming checks.
  • CCA & PCA
  • Actively participated in the CCA and PCA planning phases.
  • Defined and configured controlling area.
  • Assigned company codes to the controlling areas.
  • Defined and configured cost elements, cost centers, revenue elements and profit center.
  • Defined cost center and profit center hierarchy, statistical keys, activities assessment and distribution.
  • Integrated CO with FI and SD.
  • Testing
  • Developed test plans, created test scripts for testing asset accounting transactions.
  • Technologies used: SAP R/3 4.6c.

Education

Masters in Business Administration - Finance

Newport University
Newport, CA

Skills

  • Business analysis
  • Jira
  • IT project management
  • Supervising experience
  • Scrum/ Agile methodology
  • ServiceNow
  • IT Delivery and Resource Management

Certification

ITIL Certification

Timeline

Manager IT HR/Payroll/Finance/Procurement

Sage Software Inc
08.2010 - Current

Team Lead-Finance

Capgemini
08.2009 - 07.2010

Masters in Business Administration - Finance

Newport University