ROHINI RELEKAR

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohinirelekar/

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Diligent Project Management Specialist successfully plans, develops and implements large-sized complex projects. Routinely communicates major milestones, identifies potential project risks and provides continued direction to project team. Robust understanding of resource requirements to achieve plans and formulate budgets. Stays on top of demands in fast-paced environments by effectively using slow periods. Maintains organized, clean and safe work areas with attention to important details

EXPERIENCE

Finance Project Manager – Fin Tech – Tax Modernization July 2023 – Sep 2023 Walmart Bentonville, Arkansas

• Worked as Project Manager for Fintech area under Walmart Global Tech solutions, handling Tax Modernization projects for Tier 1 Finance systems

• Conducting requirements gathering sessions, Scrum review meetings, collaborating with cross-functional teams, team delegation and follow up with technical leads and problem-solving

• Demonstrated proficiency in Agile methodology by facilitating all Scrum Ceremonies, promoting cross functional team collaboration, preparing, and prioritizing Epics, Features, for Program Planning, aligning them with organizational long-term vision

• Maintain open channel of communication by delivering regular feedback and progress updated to management on a daily and weekly basis, fostering transparency and informed decision making

• Managed delivery and development of an end-to-end Omni-Channel Tax and Determination Platform, that will replace the ecosystem in Walmart's enterprise tax systems - Incorporates all markets (US and Canada), Channels (Brick and Mortar, eCommerce, Marketplace) and Segments (Walmart, Sam' Club)

• Coordinate with 3rd-party consultants and internal technology teams to iteratively develop and deliver working functionality to Walmart business customers

• Forward-thinking in approach to project and product management; understanding the complexities and risks to communicate with stakeholders

• Seeking product/project management opportunities to deliver informed, strategic, and practical recommendations for business solutions

• Defined and gathered requirements and initiated specification documents

• Coordinating different teams successfully by facilitated weekly team cadence to discuss the progress, issues, roadblocks and retrospectives

Project Manager July 2022 - March 2023

VMWare (Remote) Bentonville, Arkansas

• Facilitating team organization and ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily scrums/stand-ups, sprint/iteration reviews/demos, retrospectives

• Worked with product management, product owners and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment

• Experience in working with tools JIRA and Confluence that accurately reflect daily meeting minutes, progress, knowledge, and the state of efforts of the team

• Conducted Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go review meetings for decision making

• Coaching team members on collaboration, prioritizations, team accountability and transparency

• Identify and remove any impediments/distractions that interfere with the team’s ability to deliver against their commitments

• Facilitating the creation and adoption of working agreements and definitions of done, including use of appropriate tools, standards and best practices

• Experienced in working with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage internal and external impediments

• Drive program-level continuous improvement by tracking and presenting metrics, facilitating retrospectives and assessments, and identifying and tracking specific actions to take based on their results

• Preparation of monthly Accrual report based on SOWs and reversals for different vendors Senior Project Coordinator – Ethics & Compliance – Transportation Dept November 2021 - June 2022 Walmart Bentonville, Arkansas

• Review and internally audit qualification files to assure they are compliant as per guidelines

• Involved in various day to day working on project deliverables that include Scoping Study, Requirements Gathering, Enhancements, Product Migration, for end-to-end IT solution offerings

• Maintained metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on Project release, progress, and quality

• Lead Project status report meetings for identifying significant risks, metrics, and issues

• Facilitated Daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective

• Worked with stake holders / product owners to prioritize the requirements for sprint

• Worked closely with Product owners, Development Team, QA team to manage and monitor the application development and release cycles

• Defined and ensured institutionalization of key processes (Testing Methodologies, Estimation, Risk Management, Peer Review, Configuration Management etc.).

• Audited DQ files to confirm accurate and complete data presentations and offered discussions and stakeholder meetings

• Reduced development and management costs Sustained support to field offices with questions or concerns

• Collected, analyzed, developed, documented, and communicated business strategy requirements using in house BI tools

• Contributed to the business short-and long-term planning sessions and provided input (from a business and IT perspective) to ensure understanding of business goals and direction Project Manager – Finance Department August 2011 - July 2014 Redcentric HYDERABAD, Telangana, India

• Successfully managed Platform Implementation, Application development and Migration projects: Premium billing systems, EDI Integration/Interfaces

• Oversaw Integration of external technology solution by managing the credit quality project

• Identify changes in payment patterns and propose action to avert indebtedness also maintained accurate records of all day-to-day activity

• Managed release windows and cycles across the portfolio

• Managed risks and issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality

• Managed the progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time to meet or exceed expectations

• Coordinate release content and effort based on the service request backlog, pending service requests, third party applications, or operating system updates

• Communicate all key plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, QA plans, schedule, and scope changes

• Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews

• Lead and co-ordinate the Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment Plans and checklists

• Maintain a release repository and manages key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists

• Partnered with business and tech teams to translate product roadmap into actionable delivery timelines and quarterly plans

• Continued to support troubleshooting and resolution of defects post-implementation Finance Executive – Global Finance Operations June 2008 – July 2011 HSBC Electronic Data Processing Pvt. Ltd Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Handled FP&A-Credit Quality Process-Financial modelling, Trend Analysis, Operating Plan, Reporting of Delinquencies and Loss Reserves (Mandatory Reserve Requirements)

• Responsible for preparing the estimates and Rolling Operating Plan (ROP) in the area pertaining to Delinquencies, Charge offs and Loss Reserves, by working on extensive financial models as per the requirements

• Daily reporting of Sales and End of period Sales Reporting of Receivables for North America Region

• Account Analysis which includes number of new accounts, Delinquent and Charged off Accounts and their balances, Average receivable balances and movements from previous months

• Monthly Expense Allocation and analysis, suggesting the Journal Entries to Financial control team to minimize the risk

• Preparation of Corporate Executive Summary Reports for Credits Business, ensuring reasoning for change in the trends by making comparisons between different scenarios

• Close reporting analysis of the Expense and Revenues of Cards business

• Preparation of Income Statement Report and Balance sheet for different portfolios

• Analysis for Revenues of Credit Cards business using IBM Cognos TM1 tool

• Knowledge of preparing General Ledger, Trial Balance and Financial Statements

• Processing A/R and A/P for vendors and personal customers which includes transfer of funds from one account to another taking into consideration, the prevailing exchange rates of the currencies involved and customer accounting details after a comprehensive investigation of the payment scenario

• Investigate A/R and A/P which relates to various departments, identifying the department references and contacting them to claim the funds

• To facilitate a smooth transition of Financial Consolidation close and Reporting for the users EDUCATION

MBA – Finance - Symbiosis University

Bachelors - Accounting and Finance - Osmania University CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) – Scrum Alliance

Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA) - CFI

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