Sr IT Project Manager
Resume:
Vaquas Saleem
Memphis, TN, USA
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaquas-saleem-b9783748/
Summary
Global Project and Program Manager with international experience of 19 years with Financial, Procurement, Sales, and Other Systems. Lead, plan and implement complex, large sized multi-million dollars systems implementation, and process improvement projects, across multiple regions.
Education
Ph.D. (Doctorate Program) in Project & Program Management, ESC Lille - Paris, France 2003 - 2008
Topic of research: “Financial Systems Projects’ Risk
Holder of French Government Scholarship
MBA (Finance/IT) – Hamdard University, New Delhi, India 2001 – 2003
Internship & Dissertation – Revenue & Collection Process
Crowne Plaza- Hotels & Resorts
Certifications/Trainings
Project Management Certification from International Business Training Association (University of Memphis)
Dale Carnegie “Effective Communication and Leadership” certification (8 weeks course)
SAFe Agile Scrum Master and Product Owner Training
Digital.ai Agility (Version 1) and JIRA - Plan, track, and manage agile and software development projects
Salesforce and MAPS training by certified Salesforce coach
Quality Driven Management (QDM) Training
Advanced MS Excel certification (Macros, Pivot Tables, V Look ups, linking data, working with raw sets of data)
Software
Implementation of SAP S/4 HANA, OpenText VIM, and SAP ARIBA
Implementation of Invoicing applications– Tungsten, Xelix and Iron Mountain
Working knowledge of SAP R2P, O2C, Billing/Invoicing, ECC and S/4 HANA, FI/CO, BI/BPC & BW
User of Salesforce EPM and Maps system
Super-User of Hyperion Planning, Hyperion Financial Management & Essbase
Work with COGNOS, Access, Share-point, JD Edwards, Visio & VBA. Good SQL Query, Power BI dashboard
Exposure to SAP HCM, Workday, People-soft, Legal, Payroll & Corporate communications systems
Project Management tools – SAP Projects, MS Project, Smartsheet and Monday.com
User of Confluence and JIRA
Professional Experience
FedEx (World HQ), Memphis, USA Nov 2019 – Present
Sr Project and Program Manager – SAP S/4 HANA, ARIBA and R2P Invoicing Technology (TPO)
Global implementation lead of R2P Invoicing, SAP ARIBA and SAP S/4 HANA – Canada, LATAM, NA, ASPAC and EMEA
Responsible for the overall planning, direction, management, implementation, execution, control
Completion of project within budget cost from initiation through completion
Leads joint and multiple project teams, by applying project management and Agile principles
Control project schedule, cost, and performance risk to ensure project is completed on time and budget
Single point of contact and demonstrate the leadership in safely managing the project
Replacement of SAP Lynx to SAP S/4 HANA and Invoicing tools (Tungsten, Xelix and Iron Mountain)
Design, Architecture, and data flows of SAP S/4 HANA, ARIBA and Invoicing applications
Integration of invoices apps with SAP S/4 HANA via Middleware
End to End Testing of invoicing apps, Go-live and Hypercare
Serve as Subject Matter Expert for Invoicing, SAP VIM.
Partner with Ariba and R2P Business Product Owner to develop and maintain product roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs across R2P
Identify opportunities for automation and process improvement
Manage Ariba per software lifecycle governance and documentation - xDLC requirements
Partner R2P Operations and Business Product/Process owners to ensure Ariba meets business requirements
Leading continuous improvements across the Request to Pay technology product lifecycle while driving engagement with third parties to support the delivery of the objectives
Understanding the latest technology trends in the R2P field to inform technology product roadmap
Prioritizing a backlog, utilizing technical expertise, and understanding of customer needs to translate requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria for R2P technology products/platforms
Working closely with business partners and technology team members, supporting communications and end-user outreach where necessary
Working closely with engineers to balance technical debt with feature delivery and assessing technology elements prior to user testing
Coordinate Genpact resources and internal teams (MW, SAP S/4 HANA, business) to execute the implementation
Managing trainings, training documents and hand-offs from technical to business teams
SDLC and SOX documentation management and sign offs
Design and implement the Daisy – Service NOW Issue management Support model
Define the end to end flow of issue management tickets until the resolution and reporting
Define the Security groups, roles and define the process flow of support model
Ownership of all the changes and issues management
Setting up of End-to-end cutover and implementation plans
Responsible of cutover activities and Go-live
Responsible to sign off all the project documentation – Testing, project/cutover plans, SOX/SDLC
Sr Salesforce Implementation Project/Program Manager
Global Project Manager of FedEx Purple Chip Project (ATLANTIS – Sales Simulations Salesforce system)
ATLANTIS Project Planning and Execution for the 5 continents (USA, Canada, Latin America, EU, and AMEA)
Single point of contact for ATLANTIS Regional engagement activities
Setting up detailed project plans by regions including all the milestones and tasks
Creation of Business requirements and implement them using Agile methodology
Maintains project plan with detailed activity to communicate with core team and leadership
Communicating task deadlines on either side—SALESFORCE and FedEx
Identification of risks and roadblocks and lead the resolution
Responsible for identifying stakeholders and collaborating on scheduling stakeholder interviews
Defines and maintains the list of the business objectives and requirements, to guide the provision of the Professional Services
Responsible for all project-related requests, scheduling, key decisions, communications, deliverable acceptance, and issues
Responsible for publishing deadlines and team awareness of cut-off dates
Supports Product Manager and Product Owner with Project updates and Agile PI Plannings
Attend all meetings and prepares and distributes minutes describing discussion points, outcomes, and action items
Set meeting agendas and drive the meetings with Salesforce, Regions, and Solutions team
Maintains running public documentation of action items and key decisions, tracking the status of them to completion
Maintains RAD (Risks, Actions, and Decisions) jointly with Salesforce for full visibility
Support Product Manager in preparing governance meeting agendas and decks
Completed FedEx internal Project Management and Agile Trainings
Product Owner/Project Manager
Reporting to Director Sales Solutions
Project management of SCORE & Define projects
Product owner of 3 teams – Mission Possible, Awesome Score and CASH
Leading PI Planning for Mission Possible & Awesome SCORE teams
Management & ownerships of Features for the 2 teams
Keeping the 2 teams on track during the sprints, and keep them aligned to Objectives
Manage the Risks and Dependencies for the Project
Working closely with Scrum Master, RTE and Program Manager to keep the project on track
Learned and using Version One system, to keep all the project information at one place and manage it
Providing project updates to VP Sales solutions
Performing bi-weekly sprint demos for Mission Possible & Awesome Score teams
Working with CASH team on defects, new requirements, and enhancements
Key point of contact between CASH and IT team
Sedgwick Claims Management Services (Corporate HQ), Memphis, USA May 2019 – Nov 2019
SAP Business System Analyst
Reporting to SVP Corporate Systems COE
Business systems analysis and maintenance of SAP FICO
Handling of FICO Design and built changes etc., an Agile way of working
SAP FICO end user support, resolution, and management of issues
Project lead for SaaS implementation- SAP Sales & Finance systems
Creation, management, and improvement of SAP Master data
Worked on various CMR’s and assisted with the ECC 6.0 technical upgrade
Requirements gathering & documentation of BRD
Main Liaison between Business & IT developers
PM for transformation of Requisition-to-Pay (RTP), Order to Cash (O2C) & Revenue Management
Part of the Global IT Portfolio Management & COE
Hilton Operations Center, Memphis, USA Feb 2018 – May 2019
Sr Project Manager / Lead Business Analyst
Reporting to Sr Director of Corporate Systems
PM/BA for Property Information Management (PIM), Opportunity to Opening (O2O) & Suppliers Connection (SC)
Implementation of Global Sales Forecasting System (GSFS)
Leading broad, complex, and strategic projects with the ability to execute at project-level activities and tasks
Defining project scope, project planning, creating timelines, team building, integrated project scheduling
Risk and issue management, communication planning, status reporting and tollgate management.
Build analytics tools to provide actionable insights into key business performance metrics using Power BI
Experience working with relational databases and query authoring (SQL)
Lead the Quarterly releases- Business Requirements, SIT, UAT & Go-Live
Preparation of formal Business Requirements Documents
Creation of User stories & UAT scenarios
Participate & monitor preparation & testing of Test Cases
Lead & participate in Unit, SIT & UAT
Primary point of contact for Business & IT
Pitney Bowes- World HQ Shelton, USA Aug 2017 – Feb 2018
Project Manager
Reporting to Director/VP of Business & Finance Systems
Project lead to Shorten the Accounting Close Process from 8 to 4 days
Working with VP, Directors & managers to execute the Shorten the Accounting Close Project
Understanding the pain points, limitations & dependencies of 8 Business Units
Capturing the Business Requirements & creation of AS IS & TO BE process maps
Detail analysis of JVs, Time consumption study
Build analytics tools to provide actionable insights into key business performance metrics using Power BI
Development of Power BI dashboards presenting the Analysis & results
Leading the Project Testing & strategizing the Unit, SIT, Regression & UAT of projects
Project Management & Business Analysis of SaaS Billing & Accounting Operations projects
Lead the enhancement & change management of HCM, People-soft, ADP, Legal & Communication Systems
Leading the Credit Cards Acceptance & Standardization Project
BA & PM for Central Finance Project
Stanley Black & Decker- World HQ, New Britain, USA Jan 2017 – Aug 2017
Lead Business Analyst/Project Manager
Reporting to Director of Global IT Corporate Systems
Implementation of Ariba P2P solution
SAP Master data integration and maintenance
Build analytics tools to provide actionable insights into key business performance metrics using Power BI
Business Analysis & Requirements gathering for European Ariba Implementation
Preparation of Formal Business Requirements & Test Plan Documents
Business Partnering for Unit, Regression, SIT & UAT Testing with Business & Technical Teams
Project management, Sizing & Budget Activities for the Project
Partnering with Project manager & IT Delivery Team to complete the Design, Build, Stabilize & Deploy Phases
Implementation of Ariba Light Enablement Project
Lead the Ariba Commodity Codes Enhancement Project
Alexion Pharmaceutical- Global HQ (A Yale Affiliated Company), New Haven, USA Feb 2016 – Dec 2016
Global Finance, Business & Systems Partner
Reporting to the Director of Financial Systems
Driving the Global Change Management
Use Agile methodology & Project Management norms
Enhancement & maintenance of SAP BI/BPC & FICO
SAP Master data creation and maintenance
Integration of master data between SAP and surrounding tools (BW and V-EDR)
Reports Development for Corporate FP&A
Development & Testing of Financial Dashboards
Responsible of Revenue, OPEX, AR & AP Dashboards
Responsible for Requirements Gathering & Development of Dashboards Wireframes
Providing Dashboards Demo to Pilot Users & Super-Users
Driving the Marketing Margin & AR Dashboard development.
Lead the R&D & CAPEX Dashboard design & development in Fusion Apps
Project Lead (Finance) – Global Cloud Migration Project
Key contact between Global Finance teams & IT
Developing the Testing strategies for BI/BPC Reports, Transaction Scripts & Apps
Responsible of Resource planning for the Global Teams including 32 Groups & 125 Testers
Planning of Unit, Regression & Integration testing of 1500 Transaction Codes prior UAT
Development of Global Project Plan with Test Scripts & Dates
Giving Demos & Presentations to all the teams globally to engage in Cloud Project
Collection of Test Scripts & Scheduling the Prep testing & UAT
Ariba P2P Reports, Apps Testing & Move to Cloud
Leading Project Columbus- SAP migration to Cloud
Upgrade of SAP to HANA
Supporting Global Teams with Prep Testing & UAT
Executing UAT with 32 Groups, 125 Testers over 5 Continents
JP Morgan Chase Bank- EMEA HQ, Switzerland Dec 2013 – Jul 2014
Senior Business/MIS Analyst
Reporting to Client Services EMEA Executive Director (London)
Transition of Monthly Reporting Pack & Analysis from Delaware, USA
Lead implementation & Testing of Money Transfer tool
Project Management & Resource Planning
Use Water-fall methodology & Project Management norms
Lead the enhancement of KYC, AML & Client Onboarding systems
Key point of contact between EMEA Business & offshore IT Teams
Controlling & Analysis of 32 EMEA Countries
Reporting, Consolidation & Analysis of P/L, Balance Sheet & Cash Flow
Responsible of EMEA Budget, Forecasts & Plan
Reconciliation & Analysis of Actuals v Budget v Forecasts
Novartis (Alcon Management SA) - EURMEA HQ, Switzerland May 2012 – Oct 2012
Senior Finance Planning Analyst
Reporting to Head Business Planning Analysis
Implementation, Enhancement & maintenance of Hyperion Planning & Essbase
Business Systems analysis & Requirements gathering
Development of Web-forms to load the monthly forecast
Development of automated Finance Analysis Models
Enhancement of Global Budgeting System & Global Sales Forecasting System
Timely Communication & Coordination with 30 EURMEA Countries & Senior Management
Manage Monthly Forecasting Process- determining, analyzing & loading forecasts.
Leading & implementing the Challenges & recognizing the Cost-Cuts on Budget & Forecasts
Responsible for Yearly Budgeting Process- Zero based & Bottom-up budget
Develop realistic Spending Forecasts- Monthly Rolling Forecast, Spot landings & Latest estimates
Medtronic - EMEA HQ, Switzerland Sep 2010 – Apr 2012
Senior Analyst Corporate FP&A - EMEA
Reporting to SVP FP&A - EMEA
Responsible for Forecast Process for all the Back-Office Countries (35)
Project Lead in Testing, Implementation & Application of Hyperion Planning Project.
Requirements gathering & Analysis with 35 EMEA countries
Super-user of Hyperion Planning & Essbase
Lead the Hyperion Planning implementation & UAT
Implementation of automated reporting & financial analysis metrics
FX Analysis & Developing Bridges for Budget & Forecast
Supporting Transfer Pricing Director for Modelling, Reporting & Taxation
Responsible for Bottom-Up & Zero-Based Budget
Develop robust Financial Analysis Models & KPIs
SODEXO Group- Headquarter, Paris, France Oct 2007 – Sep 2009
Manager Financial Reporting, Accounting & Consolidation
Reporting to Senior Director (VP) of Financial Reporting & Consolidation & CFO
Controller of 3 Business Units- AMECAA, Greater China & Holdings
Monthly, Quarterly & Yearly Closings-Actual and Forecasts
Budget & Plan Preparation and Application
Treasury Consolidation and Control
Project Support in Testing, Implementation & Application of the HFM Project.
Business requirements gathering & communication with 3 Business Units
Excellent knowledge of IFRS, US GAAP, SOX, French & International Statutory Reporting Systems
Good hand on Taxes- Local / ETR, French Corporate Income Tax/Indirect Taxes, Transfer Pricing Tax
Key Link between 3 Business Units & CFO, Group Controller & Directors
VALEO Lighting Systems –Branch & Headquarters, Paris, France Aug 2006 – May 2007
Financial Accounting & Reporting (Internship)
Reporting to Financial Controller
Project Support in Testing, Implementation & Application of CARS Project.
Reconciliation & Analysis of P/L, Balance Sheet & Cash Flow
Responsible for Monthly Files- Income from Tooling, Loss Making Products etc.
Controller of 26 Global Legal Entities & Manufacturing Sites
5-Axes Strategy (KPIs) preparation & Analysis, reporting to MD
Collaboration with Sales, Marketing, Pricing, Procurement, HR
Languages
English Fluent
French Intermediate
German Basic
Hindi Native
Other Activities
FedEx PSP Organization (Profit -Service - People) Ambassador. Leading cultural and volunteer activities.
Food drive volunteer at Memphis Mid-South Food Bank.
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