1. Rahul Sharma
Email: sharmarahul1984@gmail.com
Mobile No.: +1 210-315-2786
RESUME TITLE: PeopleSoft Techno Functional Consultant
Professional Profile
Seasoned professional with a 9+ years of strong experience in implementation of ERP
applications for worldwide organizations. Global thinker with ability to understand
strategic business issues and craft solutions utilizing sound technology and
functional background. Have depth of knowledge with PeopleSoft Financials and
experience managing client over various project category proved a valued asset to any
organization having a requirement for selection, implementation, upgrade ,re-
engineering or support.
Skills Summary
PeopleSoft General Ledger
PeopleSoft Accounts
Payable
PeopleSoft Account
Receivables
PeopleSoft Purchasing PeopleSoft Billing PeopleSoft Customer
Contracts
People tools SQR PeopleSoft eprocurement
FAH (Fusion Accounting Hub) Application Engine (AE) Application Designer (AD)
People code Integration Broker (IB) SQR
nVisions PSQuery Component Interface
PUM (PeopleSoft Update Manager)
PeopleSoft 9.2
Certifications
People tools 8 Application Developer Certified Expert
PeopleSoft Enterprise 9: Financial Management, Certified Expert Consultant, General Ledger
2. Skills
Profile:
• Currently leading project for PeopleSoft GL multicurrency implementation
Versions Worked PeopleSoft Financials 8.4, 8.9, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2
People Tools 8.49, 8.50. 8.51, 8.53
Domain Knowledge Sound Hands On Modules: PeopleSoft Billing(BI), PeopleSoft
Account PeopleSoft Receivables(AR), PeopleSoft Account
Payables (AP), PeopleSoft Purchase Order (PO) , PeopleSoft
Customer Contracts (CA) , PeopleSoft General Ledger (GL),
PeopleSoft eprocurement (ePro)
Business Flow Knowledge: Order Management(OM), Inventory
(IN), Supplier Contract (CS), Asset Management (AM)
Issue Resolution Know How: Banking, Book To Bank
Reconciliation, Cash Management(CM), PeopleSoft Project
Costing (PC)
Training Knowledge: Enterprise Performance Management
Suite (EPM)
Oracle Fusion Accounting Hub (FAH)
Tools Worked SES Search Engine, Application Designer, Application
Engine, SQR, PSQuery, Data Mover, SP SQR Debugger ,
Peoplecode , Component Interface
Reporting Tools BI publisher,SQR,PSQUERY, N-Vision
Migration Tools STAT 5.4, PHIRE
3. • Worked as technical lead for Oracle FAH (Fusion Accounting Hub) implementation with
PS general ledger integration.
• Worked as technical and delivery lead for complex PeopleSoft financials 9.0 to 9.2
tools (8.51 to 8.53) and application upgrade.
• Planned and executed successfully all upgrade passes right from inception, did fit-gap
analysis, and executed cut overs efficiently with in restricted planned window.
• Helped business during requirement gathering and understood helped and resolved business SME’s
issues throughout project phase from through UAT , business validation till post upgrade validation.
• Extensively experience in working with product vendor and latest PeopleSoft financials 9.2 version for
resolving delivered product issues.
• Functional knowledge and expertise in PeopleSoft Billing(BI), Account Receivables(AR), Account
Payables (AP), Purchase Order (PO) , Customer Contracts (CA) , General Ledger (GL), esettlements (EM)
• Business Flow with upgrade hands on Knowledge Inventory (IN), Supplier Contract (CS),
and Asset Management (AM).
• Extensive experience in working in support project on handling and solving tickets with varying
complexity and criticality from P1-P4.
• Interaction with the business users for troubleshooting the issues and if needed identifying the root
cause of the issue
• Designing test cases and functional testing of the PeopleSoft application.
• Carrying technical development and enhancements. Extensive experience on PeopleSoft
tools like Application Designer, People Code, Application Engine, SQR, Efficient
SQL writing and tuning, File Layouts, Workflows and PSQuery.
• Handling SDLC stages viz. Requirement gathering, Understanding Business Logic, Detailed
Analysis of Requirements, Functional Specification, Documentation.
• Handling Bug fixes and Production issues.
• Documentation of Test cases, sign off documents and BRD’s (Business Requirement
Documents).
• Extensive experience in successful global implementation project of ESA Suite
(PeopleSoft AR, Contracts, Billing and Project Costing) organization wide as
PeopleSoft Technical developer which in return impact 60,000+ employees.
• Extensive experience in ESA AVM project as Techno Functional Analyst handling enhancements,
production issues, resolving remedy tickets within SLA, GSC and process improvement which mainly
constitutes performance tuning of application.
• Proven ability to understand and translate client’s business needs into technology
requirements and implementing those requirements hence supporting client and
organization to attain their business objectives.
4. USAA PeopleSoft GL multicurrency implementation
Project Implementing PeopleSoft multicurrency functionalities like
revaluation,translation,consolidation,eliminations .
Role Onsite delivery lead for Tchnical impact of implementation
Duration May’16 - Current
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Working on impact resolution on feeds and external system which will occur due to ledger structure change dur
implementing multicurrency in PeopleSoft GL.
• Working with other systems to define scope of project by identifying impact in corresponding systems.
• Working with business to help them identify business requirement by identifying As-Is scenarios.
• Following agile methodology, maintaining task in RTC for offshore and onsite, working on prioritizing stories,task
Iteration demos etc.
• Working with QA team to help them test and compare from As-Is scenarios
• Working and coordinating with offshore for day 2 day development.
• Conducting design reviews , code walk through and M&P transition planning.
USAA FAH (Fusion Accounting Hub) Implementation
Project FAH (Fusion Accounting Hub) Implementation with PeopleSoft GL
FAH is replacing PeopleSoft Bolton Integration Module to GL
Role Onsite delivery lead for FAH and PS integration
Duration Oct’14 – May’16
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Working with business to help them write business requirement by identifying As-Is scenarios.
• Following agile methodology, maintaining task in RTC for offshore and onsite, working on prioritizing stories,task
Iteration demos etc.
• Working with Oracle consulting to help them integrate FAH with PeopleSoft GL
• Working with architects to plan road map flow of data integrations from legacy systems via FAH to PS GL.
• Working with Ops team to setup unix server structure similar to PS so controm M can be used for job scheduling
• Working with QA team to help them test and compare from As-Is scenarios
• Working with offshore and consulting team for Knowledge transfer
• Working with business and help oracle to structure and develop recon reports, R2R controls.
• Involved in design reviews , code walk , M&P transition planning.
5. USAA PeopleSoft Financial 9.0-9.2 Upgrade
Project PeopleSoft Financials 9.0 - 9.2 Tools and Application Upgrade [ General Ledger, urchasing,
Account Payables, Purchasing, Asset Management, Inventory,
Supplier Contracts, Project Costing, eprocurement, esettlements ]
Role Onsite technical and delivery lead
Duration Jul’13 – Oct’14
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Gathering requirement from various lines of business SME’s.
• Worked with upgrade specialist towards planning and execution of various passes.
• Worked and co-ordinated with different operations and database teams towards laying ground work in
terms of infrastructure required for upgrade.
• Worked as technical leads for offshore team based in Chennai.
• Worked with QA team and single point of contact from onsite during system testing phase.
• Single point of contact at onsite for business SME during UAT phase handling 19 businesses
SME from different LOB.
• Planned and executed final cutover along with upgrade specialist well in the downtime window.
• Single point of contact for SME’s during 5 hr business validation window during final cutover.
• Single point of contact at onsite for post upgrade warranty effort for 2 months handling all issues efficiently.
Inter-Continental Hotels PeopleSoft Financials 9.1 Support
Project PeopleSoft Financials 9.0 Support [Billing, Account Receivables, General Ledger, Purchasing,
Account Payables, Cash Management, Daily Revenue System(Bolt On),Growth Interface,
Oracle IPM, Magic Interface, Concur Interface]
Role Functional Consultant with Technical Responsibilities
Duration Jun’10 – Jul’13
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Handling and solving critical production issues and rescue tickets within SLA.
• Handling support tickets with varying nature from P1-P4 in Account Receivables,
Billing and Franchise Billing Modules.
• Troubleshooting of support tickets dealing with Accounts Payable, Daily Revenue
System and General Ledger Modules.
• Interaction with the business users for troubleshooting the cases and to identify the
root cause of the issue.
• Performing month end activities for General Ledger, Billing and Account Receivables
and resolving issues which occur during month end close at IHG.
• Performing Root Cause Analysis on reoccurring issue tickets and providing possible
solutions to client to stop these types of issues in future.
6. • Involved with users for requirement gathering on new enhancements and developments
in the scope of Support Project.
• Involved in creation and customization of Components, Pages and Records.
• Designing test cases and functional testing of the PeopleSoft application.
Cognizant Compass ESA 8.9 Application Maintenance
Project Enterprise Service Automation 8.9 support
Role Techno Functional Consultant
Duration Oct’08 – May’10
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Handled critical enhancements, production issues and remedy tickets within SLA.
• Responsible for handling Oracle GSC cases for issues encountered in PS ESA application. Reported
bugs and issues in Contract, Billing and AR modules to Oracle GSC and got successful resolution
after regular follow up.
• Worked on Keep Drop analysis during Bundles application for Contracts module.
• Handled SOX audit for project modules.
• POC and coordinator between various teams during tools upgrade.
• Worked on improving quality aspect of project by maintaining document and trackers.
Cognizant Compass ESA Implementation
Project Enterprise Service Automation (ESA) Implementation [Contracts, Billing, Account
Receivables and Budgets]
Role Technical Analyst
Duration May’07 – Oct’08
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Primary developer of Budgets which is a complete bolt on functionality specific to organization and
helps in effective forecasting and revenue recognization for organization.
• Primary developer of many customized contracts reports for providing cost and revenue details to
users.
• Developed enhancements for billing of fixed bid contracts so as to ensure proper approval cycle, easy
and smooth billing in month end.
• Developed AM, PM dashboards one place for viewing and navigating all approvals or submissions
pending.
• Handled training for the new business users on the functionality and flow.
• Worked in developing interfaces for providing data from PeopleSoft to third party system.
• Handling business user and client queries and resolved them within timeline.
7. • Developed and maintain Flash consolidate report from all subsystem (Billing, Contracts etc.) which is
distributed to senior management every month.
Additional Details:
Current Working Location : San Antonio, Texas
Current Work Authorization : H1B Visa
Education : Bachelor of Engineering in Computer
science and Engineering
University : Sathyabama University (2003-2007)
Past Employers : Cognizant Technologies Solution (2007-2010)
Current Employer : HCL Technologies Ltd. (2010 – Current)