SEEMA CHHOTRAY

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Project Manager/Business Analyst Summary:

Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with over 14+ years’ experience in IT & Telecommunication, Government, Banking and Manufacturing sector. Subject matter expert in Oracle HCM, Workday HCM with hand-on experience in large-scale, global, full life cycle, domestic and international implementations. Excellent functional expertise in business process analysis, mapping solutions to these processes and determining best approaches based upon leading and emerging business practices.

Education:

MBA (Human Resources Management &Information Systems), Xavier’s Institute of Management, Odisha, India (1999 – 2001)

B.E (Electronics & Telecommunications), Utkal University, Odisha, India (1995 – 1999)

Certifications:

Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) (through PMI Institute)

Certified Scrum Master (through Scrum Alliance)

Certified Scrum Product Owner (through Scrum Alliance)

ITIL V3 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management

Core Competencies:

Workday HCM: Core HCM/ Security/ Business Process/ Report Writer/ Calculated fields/ EIB.

Oracle HRMS (11.5.10) Oracle Fusion: Human Resources/ Self Service/ Oracle Payroll/ Oracle iRecruitment/ Oracle Learning Management/ Oracle Time & Labor Management.

Oracle Financials (11.5.10): Oracle iExpense/ Oracle iProcurement.

Project Management: Project Planning/ Resource Management/ Process Improvement and Re-engineering/ Global Team/ Virtual Team Coordination/ Change Management/ Interpersonal Conflict Resolution/ Clear Communications & Reporting/ Quality Assurance.

Others Skills:

Applications: Service Now, Remedy, Rally, SAP GRC, SAP SOLMAN, Team Connect (Enterprise Legal Management System).

Tools/Technology: PL/SQL, MS Project, MS Visio, TOAD, Data Loader.

Professional Experience:

Client: Johnson & Johnson, New Jersey Jun 2018 – Feb 2019

Role: Transition Manager

Team Size: 30

Develop and execute a holistic and comprehensive transition management strategy to enable successful program execution, adoption, and sustainability Coordinate program-wide transition management efforts and work stream to achieve milestones, objectives, and deliverables.

Oversees all transition related activities including monitoring of transition schedules, planning, and coordination of transition status meetings and preparation of transition reports Directs the execution of the master transition plan and reports program management metrics to senior management per departmental standard operating procedure.

Supports pre-sales efforts as needed by advising solution developers to identify all start-up duties, transition tasks, and associated schedule.

Defining acceptance criteria or working with specialists to define acceptance criteria for project deliverables continuously monitors the progress terms of the status of the plan and reports back to the organization via weekly or other progress reporting by organizing and managing status meetings Review the processes, checklists, templates, baselines etc.

Review the Transition approach, methodology, assumptions, solution etc.

Proposed in the RFP by the Sales Support and Sign-off.

Client: Honda Trading North America, Ohio May 2017 – Feb 2018

Role: ITSM Process Consultant

Team Size: 6

Subject Matter Expert (SME) on ITSM best practices

Lead business process definition, re-engineering, improvement and gap analysis of current/to-be processes during workshops with key customer sponsors and stakeholders

Developing required documentation such as workshop agenda, presentations, gap analysis reports, process flow diagrams, roles/responsibilities

Identifying areas of process improvement (efficiency and effectiveness) and recommending solutions that detail pros, cons and risks

Managing and communicating ITSM process and business requirements to the delivery team as a bridge to ensure that the proposed solutions meet the customer's expectations

Drive the customer roadmap discussions and decisions.

Client: American Honda Motors, California Feb 2015 – Apr 2017

Role: Service Delivery Manager

Team Size: 15

Manage a delivery team (onsite & offshore) to ensure timely and accurate customer deliveries.

Oversee daily activities of delivery team and provide direction and guidance as needed.

Perform resource allocations and workload assignments per delivery requirements.

Ensure that team maintains high level of competence and operational excellence.

Evaluate the performance of team members and determine training needs.

Serve as primary contact for customer inquiries and concerns.

Analyze customer orders, set delivery priorities and make schedule adjustments to meet timely delivery Goals.

Develop process improvements to achieve cost effectiveness and time saving.

Make critical business decisions to meet customer expectations.

Report delivery status to customers and develop required delivery documentations.

Client: Ambarella, California Jul 2014 – Nov 2014

Role: Project Manager

Team Size: 6

Responsible for delivering end to end implementation of Oracle R12 (Core HR, Absence & Benefits module) against agreed scope and schedule and customer expectations

Preparing detailed Project plan, organizing resources, coordinating with business and development team

Monitoring project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and proactively identifying solutions to address them in advance.

Producing Project Plan, Status Reports, Issue Logs, and Requests for Change etc.

Preparing Invoices for customer billing

Preparing metrics report for Senior Management reporting

Client: Yahoo Software Development Center, Bangalore, India Dec 2007 – Oct 2013

Last Role: Module Lead & Senior Business Analyst (Workday HCM)

Team Size: 30

Primary SPOC (Single-Point-of-contact) for Workday HCM support for APAC region

Experience with creating Staffing models for Supervisory Orgs, Reorganizations and business process framework, Organization Types, Organization Hierarchies

Experience with Workday security groups like Role based security, User based Security, Intersection, Segment-based and Job based Security.

Pretty good Understanding and hands on experience in Functional area, Domain and Business Process Security Policies.

Extensively worked on Workday application in creating reports, calculated fields, basic integrations using EIB

Created Position, Jobs, Locations, Cost center and Organizational Hierarchies.

Configured and Tested Business Process and notifications in core HR: Hire, Job Change, Termination, Create Positions, Requisitions, Termination, & Contract Contingent.

Designed and configured workday Security configuration objects like Security groups, Functional area, Domain and Business Process Security Policies and Tenant setup.

Creating Job Profiles, Job Families and Job Family Groups, Compensation grades and profiles for North America and global countries in foreign currencies

Liaise with HR, Payroll, and other internal departments and developed test scenarios for Business Processes like Hire, Job Change, Promote, Transfer, Terminate, Compensation changes, Employee Self Service process, Manager Self-service processes, etc.

Worked on testing the data and security issues with the data from the reporting prospective.

Created calculated fields to be used in custom reports to pull data in to Workday report.

Configured and tested Workday Compensation including Packages, Salary & Hourly Plans, Bonus, merit plan and Commission Plans.

Worked on different data sources to match requirements in Workday Reporting and Analyzed data, develop and generate routine and ad-hoc reports.

Participated in Workday communities to remain connected with Workday and Customers.

Assesses upcoming Workday release functionality and impacts to client business processes Assisted the customers in creating Job Aids on Workday System

Demonstrate extensive knowledge to troubleshoot and fix Workday related issues

Second Role: Project Manager/Scrum Master

Team Size: 6

Managed development and Implementation of in-house tool (Leave Management) using SCRUM Framework

Facilitated scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-up)

Help the team to remove impediments that are keeping them from doing their work and ensure scrum practices are followed assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices and thereby reducing development time.

Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality

Coordinated with the team for product backlog grooming and story estimation.

Worked with Senior Management, Business & Release Management to understand the vision of the product, prioritize and develop software release planning.

Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.

Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, conflict resolution and continual improvement

Provide Development Status update and reporting to stakeholders at end of Sprint

As a Project Manager for implementing in-house applications (Exit Tool) globally at Yahoo! Responsible for delivering projects against agreed scope and schedule and customer expectations.

Preparing detailed Project plan, organizing resources, coordinating with business and development team, Monitoring project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and proactively identifying solutions to address them in advance.

Preparing Project Plan, Status Reports, Issue Logs, and Requests for Change etc.

First Role: Project Lead & Sr. Functional Consultant

Team Size: 40

Implemented and supported Oracle HRMS modules (Core HR, Self-Service, iRecruitment, Learning Management, Payroll, Compensation Workbench, Performance Appraisal) for multiple clients and across industries Leading and executing end to end implementations with responsibilities that varied from Preparing Requirements Scoping, Gap analysis and mapping, Functional Solution design and review, preparing test specification documents, Coordinating Development and testing, Conducting UAT, User Training along with the deliverable documents and support.

Managing offshore development where responsibilities varied from Conceptualization and preparing Proof of Concept, Assisting Pre-Sales team with configuring and conducting Demos to clients, Preparing Requirements Scoping and translating them to functional Specs, preparing test cases and testing, Leading development of Legislation Specific Customization, Conducted trainings for Oracle Partner on behalf of Oracle University

Implemented Oracle iExpense and iProcurement at Yahoo! for Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia and China

Coordinating Technical Walkthrough and Organizing, planning and prioritizing the various tasks.

Creation of test plan that includes Unit testing, SIT and UAT.

Client: Oracle Solution Services, Bangalore, India Apr 2004 – Dec 2007

Client: Student Loans Company Ltd, UK/ Government of Western Australia/ Bank of Zambia, Zambia/ Bharti Airtel, India/ Genpact, India/

Role: Onsite Functional Lead

HCM Consultant

Leading and executing end to end implementations for Core HR, Payroll, iRecruitment and Learning Management with responsibilities that varied from preparing Requirements Scoping, gap analysis, mapping, Functional Solution design and review, Configuration Setup, Conference room Pilot, preparing test specification documents, Coordinating Development and testing, Conducting UAT, User Training along with the deliverable documents and support.

Experienced in design of RICE (Reports, Interfaces, Customizations and Extensions) objects to as per the custom business process within Oracle HRMS implementation.

Setting up complete Recruitment cycle from creating Vacancies to making offers to candidates

Setting up End to end process from Hire to Retire

Configuring Learning management from creating Courses, Learning Paths to tracking and managing enrollments, managing online content, creating and managing tests

Expertise in Oracle Payroll compensation management, Salary review, designing of especial earning rules using Fast formulas.

Client: Environment Agency, UK/ Network Rails, UK/ API Group PLC, UK/ French Public Sector, France/ Westpac, Australia/ Smith’s Medical, UK/ Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, UK/ Norfolk County Council, UK/ 7-11, US/ Siam Commercial Bank, Malaysia/ Pelabuhan Tanjung Pelepas, Malaysia/ Sapient Corporation, India.

Role: Offshore Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

Leading offshore development where responsibilities varied from Conceptualization, preparing Proof of Concept, assisting Pre-Sales team with configuring and conducting Demos to clients, scoping Requirements, translating them to functional Specs, preparing test cases and testing to ensure the functionality and release of the modules (Core HR, Payroll, Compensation & Benefits, and OTL). Also involved in leading development of Legislation Specific Customization

Expertise in payroll balance configuration and conversion, year-end and mid-year balance adjustment, execution of payroll processes, generation of Pay slip, W2 and government reports for Oracle Payroll

Expertise in designing of payroll inbound and outbound interfaces for 3rd party Vendor like ADP

Was responsible in defining Advanced Benefits, Eligibility Factors, Eligibility Profiles, Programs, Plan types, Plans and Options, Enrollment Requirements, Flex credits, Benefit Pools, and Standard Rate Calculation.

Was involved in setting up OTLR by defining Holiday Calendar, Shifts, Work plans, Rotation plans, Element Time Information, Shift Differential Policy, Hours Deduction Policy, Premium Eligibility Policy, Earnings Policy, Assignment Time Information, Automatic Timecard Generation, Transfer to BEE.

Was responsible in defining recurring periods, Alternate names, Flex field Mapping, element sets, Approval periods, Approval rules, Preferences, Eligibility criteria, Timecard Layouts, Time Entry rules and transferring timecards from OTL self-service to BEE.

Client: BSystems, Ghana

Role: Functional Trainer

Responsibilities:

Conducted a full-fledged training on Oracle HRMS, Payroll, and Compensation & Benefits for an Oracle Partner on behalf of Oracle University. The training was spread over 4 weeks and involved extensive theory and practical session.

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