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Yamini Talari

Leander,TX

Summary

Certified Project Management Professional with extensive experience in handling SAP Projects, Business Portfolio as per the Project Life Cycle. Growth-oriented SAP Project Manager with 8 years of experience seamlessly integrating SAP systems into business practices. Detail-oriented Leadership skills with ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy. To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills,excellent time management and problem-solving skills.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate

Work History

Sr. SAP Project Manager

Apple
07.2020 - Current
  • Skills : Project Management, Jira
  • Environment : SAP ECC, , S4 HANA Migration
  • Roles & Responsibilities
  • Updated Charter with the Project Schedule, Budget details on a regular basis
  • Participated in the Steering Committee meetings by discussing the Project phase, tasks, complex issues
  • Lead Request for Proposal (RFP)and assisted in solution finalization
  • Updated the Project Pro as per the revised Project timelines
  • Coordinated closely with the Business team, designed, and developed the business processes as per the BRD
  • Managed the Stakeholders, Business, internal IT team and implementation partners, resources, budgeting, forecast, actuals, etc
  • Worked on multiple interfaces in SAP with the data coming through Web Methods
  • Managed the team on SAP FI/SD/MM integration points starting from the initiation to Project delivery and Project Hand Over
  • Worked on the S4 HANA migration by preparing the risk mitigation plan, backup plan
  • Make sure that the HANA system is ready before moving the changes to Test / Quality Systems
  • Knowledge on data validation, data analytics and developed informative data visualizations for complex projects
  • Managed teams with relevant experience on managing complex projects
  • Working knowledge of Agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks to deliver solutions
  • Training and supporting scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices
  • Experienced Scrum master by implementing Project Management, keeping all the parties tracked, Introduced the Agile practice among the team, removing the roadblocks
  • Documented the Project Status, Change Requests in EPM tool
  • Worked on contractual accounting in SAP ECC 6.0
  • Worked on the Data Encryption, by generating the tokens
  • Guided the team in encrypting the PII data such as Customer bank data in SAP
  • Managed complex projects by preparing the Kick-Off decks, Project Plan, Resource Tracker, Business Process Documents.

Sr. SAP Project Manager

CANTEL, Astir Technologies LLC
12.2019 - 05.2020
  • Skills : Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Excel , EPM, Change Management, Solman
  • Environment : SAP, 1809
  • Roles & Responsibilities
  • Passionate about delivering Business value through software development Life cycle (SDLC)
  • Have been the client engagement manager by providing the business solutions to mitigate the process and provide the stabilized solution
  • Trained the team members in such a way to provide the feasible solution that is re-usable for Rolling out Projects across different countries globally
  • Led projects by hands-on Excel development experience and implementing custom expressions, formulas and developing visuals
  • Ability to demonstrate strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • Proficient and accurate with various software
  • Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment
  • Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization
  • Hands-On in Change Management Process to approve the Change Requests during the regular window
  • Hands on by using the Scrum master methodologies by coaching the team members, assisting the Product owner etc
  • Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
  • Assisted the SAP team to convert the PII data into encrypted fields
  • Streamlined the Business Process by taking good Decision-Making initiatives
  • Documented the to-be process and presented to the business portfolio
  • Extensively worked with SAP-OTC team to build the design for the new business of Revox 2.0
  • Actively involved in the Business requirements gathering with the Client and the Business Portfolio by presenting the relevant Questionnaire to build the Business Process.

Project Manager

Employer, Tech-Net Inc, SAP
05.2017 - 11.2019
  • Skills : Jira
  • Environment : SAP ECC 6
  • S4 HANA
  • Roles & Responsibilities
  • Understood the Business requirement document and interacted with the business on scheduled Workshops and meetings
  • Managed the team of 10 members in the Project since the business requirement gathering
  • Managed both offshore and onshore teams throughout the Project life cycle
  • Worked on Contractual Accounting by generating contracts and web orders
  • Delivering urgent Enhancements that are Business critical for Financial Accounting
  • Performed the Fit-Gap analysis to build the design
  • Prepared the conceptual detailed design decks and presented to the Global design team
  • Prepared the Business Play Back decks and explained the As- IS and the To- Be process
  • Escalated to the Leadership team when and where required
  • Worked on Agile and waterfall methodology
  • Tracked the Project status, maintained the resources tracker and maintained the autonomy of the Project
  • Involved and set up meetings when required as per the Project deadlines
  • Met the deadlines and delivered the Project accordingly
  • Guided to implement a new interface which is inbound from search ads to SAP
  • Prepared the conceptual detailed design decks and presented to the Global design team
  • Worked on IS retail projects by setting up interfaces and IMS pending event jobs

Project Manager

Tata Consultancy Services, SAP
05.2016 - 05.2017
  • Skills : EBS, CATS, SOLUTION MANAGER,SAP S/4 HANA, Vertex
  • Environment : SAP ECC 6.0
  • Roles & Responsibilities
  • Have involved and led the team to solve the issues related to the Idoc, issues related to automatic payment program, according to the client requirement
  • Experienced with External Tax system SABRIX and External tax calculation configuration SAP
  • Review the original business process es in the internal Financial Control especially around the Product controlling by Projects integration with the Investment Management
  • Involved in the Project Management and participated in the initial discussion of the Project preparation
  • Extensively worked on the SAP Solution Manager to create the Transport requests and move the change to the Production system
  • Hands on experience in the CHARM process
  • Managed the SAP upgrade Projects and mitigated the Project plan accordingly for the Go-Live followed by warranty.

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Juniper Networks, Tata Consultancy Services, AP, G/L
09.2014 - 04.2016
  • Roles & Responsibilities
  • Integrated the various business processes for tax (jurisdiction code, tax code, GL Accounts), customs and various other localization forms for Canada & EMEA
  • Developed Custom Programs to upload various master data such as Vendors, Assets and Customers
  • Have involved and solved the issues related to the withholding tax configuration changes, issues related to automatic payment program, according to the client requirement
  • Have involved in the year end activities such as factory calendar change as per the client holiday list
  • Actively participated in user calls to solve the issues
  • Handled IDOCS by triggering them into error status to success status
  • Worked on EBS interfaces for APAC, AMR region and configured the bank master data for different company
  • Analyze and map as per requirements for FI - GL, AP, AR Bank
  • On call support over weekends and Quarter end.

Consutant

Tata Consultancy Services, SAP
01.2014 - 08.2014
  • Skills : Proof Of Concept, Responsible for development, monitoring and resolution of FICO interfaces and reporting solutions
  • Responsible for configuration and daily support of the SAP FI modules to support Finance processes
  • Involved in FI configuration settings/bug fixes on GL, Asset Accounting, AR/AP, Bank Accounting, and Internal Order
  • Also, Prepared the Proof of Concept for the Tender to Cash which involved the configuration of Financial global settings from the scratch
  • Configured the settings from the scratch by maintaining the controlling area and the operating concern
  • Corrected the Idocs that ended in error status and retriggered them again to successfully process
  • Have been a team lead and participated in the client calls regularly to gather the business requirements
  • Conducted the Knowledge transfer sessions to the team members to make them understand the Business Process and involved in managing the team of 7-8 members
  • Approved the time sheets of the team and pro-actively assisted them with in stipulated timelines
  • Conducted meetings regularly and managed the team without escalations
  • Closely interacted with users to gather requirements to understand the workflow of the as-is system
  • Conducted GAP analysis, document the findings, assessed scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customizations
  • Have done the FI configuration from the scratch to run the cycle in the sandbox
  • Have done the CO configuration to set up the profitability segment
  • Created the G/L accounts, reconciliation accounts in order to run the sales order cycle.

FICO Consultant

BMW, Accenture, SAP
08.2011 - 12.2013
  • AP, G/L, AR, Interfaces, Idocs, Internal Orders, Responsible for development, monitoring and resolution of FICO interfaces and reporting solutions
  • Worked on Idoc technology by identifying the Idoc failure and restarting the work items which are in error and finding the cause of the work items which are in red
  • Co-ordinating with the ABAP team as well on the work item for further analysis by giving them inputs from functional perspective
  • Handling with the European Finance Application which comprises of 7 regions including Greece, Portugal, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, CO applications which included the Idoc technology, solving of the workflow tickets, dealing with the interfaces, forwarding of the work items etc
  • Telephonic conversations with the users by explaining them the process of certain business flows, understanding the problem
  • Actively prepared L1 decks and attended the weekly client calls
  • Worked with the ABAP team to map the functional requirements and made them understand the problem as well as the interfaces which we are working on
  • Worked with the Basis team as well, by providing the authorizations to the user in the SAP system
  • Taken up the year-end activities like G/L account balance carry forward, create Factory Calendar for the new year, copy the number ranges for specific company codes and the on-call support by stretching with the extended hours
  • Handling of tickets with the prioritization and solved them within the SLA period.

FICO Consultant

SunXchange Management Consultants Ltd, SAP
02.2010 - 07.2011
  • AR,G/L, Roles & Responsibilities
  • Involved in updating Business Blueprint based on changes updated by client
  • Preparing new functional documents and updating old functional document with newly incorporated changes
  • Involved in Test Scripts preparation
  • Actively involved in thorough execution of Test Scripts for functional testing, unit testing and system testing
  • Worked with ABAP team to map the functional requirements and helped them to understand FI functionality

SAP Associate Consultant

SunXchange Management Consultants Ltd
07.2009 - 01.2010
  • In SAP Financial Accounting with the version S/4 HANA 1809
  • Highly experienced Professional in SAP in managing the Complex Projects starting from the preparation of the Charter to Go-Live/ Hyper Care
  • Actively participated in the client meetings by updating the Charter in the shared folders
  • Strong Leader able to visualize the clear picture with business and technical perspective to achieve success
  • Prepared the Business Blueprint Document and presented to the Client for receiving the business sign off
  • Provided hyper care support during the Post go-live
  • Handled SAP S/4 Conversions Project by preparing the risk mitigation plan and back out plan
  • Experienced in Scrum framework values and agile practices, mentoring and motivating the teams to improve processes, facilitating Steering committee meetings and decision-making processes
  • Extensive experience in gathering global and local business requirements
  • Responsible for managing Project Stakeholders and provide regular status updates varying from weekly status meetings to Steer Committee meetings
  • Weekly status reports to bi-weekly Steering/Sponsors Committee Updates
  • Hands on experience in understating the SAP Landscape and methodologies
  • Support budgets build up for the project and management through the delivery including reporting and fore-casting on a monthly-basis
  • Hands-On RICEFW objects process
  • Experience with Solution Manager (CHARM) process to deploy the changes from Development to Production
  • DOMAINS:
  • Worked on the business flows in various industries such as Medical, Manufacturing, Consumer Goods and Products, Financials, Retail Service, Automobile, Telecom etc
  • INCIDENT, DEFECT MANAGEMENT & SUPPORT TOOLS:
  • Solman, JIRA, HPQC/ALM, ITSME, Service Now, Remedy, CHARM Process, EPM Tool

FICO Consultant

SunXchange Management Consultants Ltd, SAP, AP
06.2008 - 06.2009
  • SAP FICO R/3 4.6C
  • Involved in development of functional process design and configured client’s organization structure as specified
  • Configure account determination for SD-FI
  • Involved in configuration, integration, testing and training
  • All customization settings required by the client based on Blueprint
  • Define chart of accounts, account groups and recurring document templates
  • Configured settings for house banks.

Education

Master of Computer Applications - Computer Science

Gitam College
06.2008

Skills

  • ERP Applications : SAP S/4 HANA 1809, 1909,SAP R/3 46, ECC 60
  • SAP R/3 Tools : OTC, MM, FI, SAP Business Suite
  • Project Management
  • Business Technology Platform
  • Change Management Process
  • Client Requirements
  • Onboard Planning
  • Test Plan Creation
  • Meeting Minutes
  • Risk Mitigation Planning
  • SDLC Processes
  • Scrum

Certification

  • Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • SAP Certified in Financial Accounting

Timeline

Sr. SAP Project Manager

Apple
07.2020 - Current

Sr. SAP Project Manager

CANTEL, Astir Technologies LLC
12.2019 - 05.2020

Project Manager

Employer, Tech-Net Inc, SAP
05.2017 - 11.2019

Project Manager

Tata Consultancy Services, SAP
05.2016 - 05.2017

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Juniper Networks, Tata Consultancy Services, AP, G/L
09.2014 - 04.2016

Consutant

Tata Consultancy Services, SAP
01.2014 - 08.2014

FICO Consultant

BMW, Accenture, SAP
08.2011 - 12.2013

FICO Consultant

SunXchange Management Consultants Ltd, SAP
02.2010 - 07.2011

SAP Associate Consultant

SunXchange Management Consultants Ltd
07.2009 - 01.2010

FICO Consultant

SunXchange Management Consultants Ltd, SAP, AP
06.2008 - 06.2009

Master of Computer Applications - Computer Science

Gitam College

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