Project Management Data Analytics

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Sai Prasad has overall **+ years of experience in SAP Reporting and Data analytics. Good Exposer on various SAP projects having experience across multiple industries, including Logistics, Utilities, Manufacturing and Pharmaceutical. Worked and developed a good functional knowledge in SAP Finance, Sales Distribution, Material Management.

Knowledge of SAP Methodologies: Proficiency in and previous use of ASAP, Agile, Activate, or other SAP project management methodologies.

Understanding of Business Processes: Demonstrated ability to align SAP solutions with business process requirements and the ability to advise on process improvements.

Leadership and Communication Skills: Proven experience in leading diverse project teams, including consultants and stakeholders, and strong communication skills to manage expectations and report project status.Worked on Administering data models in SAP HANA, including setting of information validation rules, managing schemas, the importing/exporting and transporting of data models.

Experience with SAP Analytics implementations: Specifically the successful management of full lifecycle SAP Analytics projects, such as SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, Datasphere/SAC

Collaborate with clients to identify and document their business requirements. Conducted workshops to understand the current processes and future objectives.

Developed comprehensive solution designs based on the gathered requirements, considering industry best practices and leveraging the capabilities of SAP Analytics. Defined data integration strategies, data models, and system architecture.

Configured and customized the SAP analytics system to align with the client’s business processes and requirements. Implemented data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) processes. Developed and maintained data integration interfaces with external systems.

Leading and assisting team in the implementation of SAP solutions, ensuring adherence to project timelines and deliverables. Perform system testing, resolve technical issues, and provide support during user acceptance testing (UAT).

Defined and implemented data governance processes, data quality controls, and data security measures within the SAP system. Collaborate with stakeholders to establish data standards and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

Conducted user training sessions to familiarize clients with the SAP products and its functionalities. Created and maintained comprehensive documentation, including system configurations, process flows, and user guides.

Building and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders, including clients, business users, and technical teams.

Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of SAP Datasphere with other systems and processes.

Employment History

Employer : Accenture Pvt Ltd US

Client: Halliburton Start Date: Sep’2023 End Date: Till Date

Role : Delivery Manager for Data and Analytics

Responsibilities:

Directed a full-cycle SAP S/4HANA Analytics implementation for a global retail client, enhancing real-time analytics capabilities and operational efficiency across their divisions.

Spearheaded a cross-functional team of 10+ members of onshore and 20+ofshore team, achieving milestones and deliverables within 10% under budget while maintaining above 95% adherence to the project timeline.

Leveraged Agile project management methodologies to ensure rapid and flexible response to change, increasing project velocity by 15% compared to previous waterfall approaches.

Engage with executive and leadership stakeholders to gain support, influence decision-making and ensure project alignment with organizational priorities.

Build strong relationships with the relevant functional leadership and build in-depth knowledge of the strategic priorities for each functional area and understand how they operate.

Responsible for project management including planning, tracking progress vs. plan, scope management, managing offshore and onshore team

Led a cutover team for various SAP modules and contributed for successful completion.

Responsible for staffing process, including resource need assessment, hiring, training, work allocation, progress reporting

Involved in system architecture and landscape design

Interacts regularly with client team, business team and technical to resolve the roadblocks in delviery

Define Project scope identified through project requirement gathering workshops and FIT GAP workshops in support with technical team

Set deliverable milestones and to ensure they are met without compromising on quality and within the project budget

Conducting status meeting to communicate the stakeholders on the progress made at each step of the project delivery milestones

Performed Admin tasks like Add/Delete/Manage: Users, Roles, assigned System Owners. Import/Export

Extensively worked on security scoped roles and data level security.

Designed naming standards, peer review documents, test scenarios and test cases.

Interact and regular follow up with Project specific SAP team to identify the solutions for the product issues

Employer : Accenture Pvt Ltd US

Client: Clorox Start Date: Sep’2022 End Date: Sep’2023

Role : Delivery Manager Data Analytics

Responsibilities:

Directed a full-cycle SAP S/4HANA Analytics implementation for a global products client, enhancing real-time analytics capabilities and operational efficiency across their divisions.

Played cutover lead role for Analytics

Responsible for project management including planning, tracking progress vs. plan, scope management, managing offshore and onshore team

Directs the staffing process, including resource need assessment, hiring, training, work allocation, progress reporting, career mentorship, and promotion and firing recommendations

Participates in standups, iteration planning sessions, product demos and retrospectives

Translates business goals and end user needs into product strategy; communicates direction and product priorities to the development team, other matrixed teams, and third-party partners

Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met

Conduct various workshops and discussions with the business operators or key stakeholders regarding the current business process and elicits future requirements

Employer : Accenture Pvt Ltd US

Client : STERICYCLE, INC Start Date: Dec’2019 End Date: Aug’2022

Role : Delivery Manager SAP Projects

Responsibilities:

Establish the Project objectives & Delivery, Team Management, Skill Management, Stakeholder Management, Quality Management, Budget Management and Performance feedback.

Participated in project roadmap and project estimation

Manage various process streams/deparments such as Enterprise Data Platform, Master Data Governance, Data services and Reporting & Analytices and provide periodic updates to the leadership team and Client Manager

Led the transition role from Deloitte to Accenture when moving from Development to AMS project

Participated in estimating the efforts and resources in taking over the deployments from prime vendor to Accenture

Conduct various workshops and discussions with the business operators or key stakeholders regarding the current business process and elicits future requirements

Facilitates the preparation of functional and configuration documentations to support enhancement or configuration requests including the documentation of business processes

Directs the staffing process, including resource need assessment, hiring, training, work allocation, progress reporting, career mentorship, and promotion and firing recommendations

Coordinates with the business client to document the complete steps to reproduce the issue and works with the client Solution Architects and directors to identify the further steps

Oversees the preparation of periodic metric reports in EDP service delivery area and presents such reports to the senior management

Attends important meetings on behalf of the service delivery resources or appoints representatives, and makes recommendations for policy or technological change

Leverage authority over Service Management setups, which includes SLA and status reporting, KPI incident management, problem management and enhancements

Ensures client acceptance and approval on knowledge transfer and service transition as part of the service delivery. Also provides solutions in several process areas or departments in SAP, includes Order to cash, supply chain management and Finance management to rollout projects, and serves as a subject matter expert from EDP for the automated testing resources for the regression testing

Provides guidance and direction in identifying the solutions and then directs the appropriate resources to apply OSS note to fix the isolated system problems

Educates the service delivery team reportees on new policy plans and implications on service delivery

Worked with project sponsors and provided the key project updates on a timely basis

Conducts various workshops and discussions with the business operators or key stakeholders regarding the current business process and elicits future requirements

Preparation of technical specification document, estimates and schedule

Provided Go-live and hyper care support

Ensured Knowledge transfer to the support team and client acceptance and approval on knowledge transfer and service transition as part of the service delivery.

Provided guidance and direction in identifying the solutions and then directs the appropriate resources to apply OSS note to fix the isolated system problems

Employer : Accenture Pvt Ltd US

Project Name: 3M Polaris Start Date: Feb’2013 End Date: Nov’2019

Role : Team lead at offshore and Project at onshore

Responsibilities:

Managed a critical delivery manager role in 3M for various initiactives and process areas such as day to day deliverables, KPI dashboards,Customer scorecard reporting and Cloud reporting

Lead and Managed Conversion of Bex reports(120 Reports) to HANA and Fed to BOBJ reports

Managed and been primary contact for “Release Management” activities and been Integral part of the team to collaborate with vendors, internal support and testing teams and client to ensure smooth migration and upgrades for major and minor releases. Managed and communicated the release activities with all the leads of respective 3M

Managed a portfolio of SAP upgrade projects, maintaining rigorous quality standards that resulted in a 99% system uptime and enhanced performance.

Gathered HANA view requirement from Business SME’s and functional and Translated the functional specification to technical specifications

Interacting with functional team to understand the business requirement and performed GAP analysis

Additional Client Experiece at a High Level : (Details can be provided on request)

Project Name: Campari Start Date: Nov’2011 End Date: Feb’2013

Role : Sr.BW Developer

Project Name: Carlsberg BSP Start Date: Feb’2010 End Date: Oct’2011

Role : BW Developer

Educational Qualification:

Masters in Computer Science

Masters Diploma in Management Information Systems and Computer Applications

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