Sailaja PB

Sailaja PB

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Summary

Sailaja holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering from GGSIPU, New Delhi and has worked for three years in Infosys Limited as FI Consultant. She then did her Post Graduation in Management from Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar where she chose subjects from Strategy, Marketing, Operations and IT area. She joined HCL Technologies (EAS – SAP Practice) in July, 2015 as Senior Management Trainee and working in capability development and solutions delivery for SAP World Class Finance.

SAP FICO Senior consultant having around 5 years of SAP FICO module experience in Implementation, Rollout and support projects

M.B.A Operations and Marketing (XIMB), Bachelor of Technology.

Has in-depth knowledge of SAP-FI Module; including GL, AR, AP, Bank accounting, AA, LSMW and Integration of FI with MM, SD and other modules

Has hands-on experience in S/4 HANA Migration Implementation in HCL through various avenues – , Implementations, Projects, POCs, Trainings

Skills

Strategy
Process / Finance
Technology / SAP
SAP / FICO, S/4 HANA Finance, GL, AP,AR, Banking, Assets, SD/MM Integration
People / Interpersonal, Business Communication, Adaptive and Persuasive
Languages / English, Hindi,Telugu.

Selected Project Experience

Responsibilities – Part of SAP WCF Capability Team

  • Fully Configured and designed 1610 S4HANA System – 3 months (Feb –Apr’17) (Green Field)
  • Solution Architect for Pre-migration Understanding of client moving to 1605 S4HANA (Oct – Dec’16) (Migration)
  • Fully Configured and designed 1503 S4HANA System – 3 months (May-July’16) (Green Field)
  • Part of HCL’s first ECC to HANA Migration project to S4HANA 1511 (Feb - Aug’17) (Migration)
  • Development of fully integrated Internal HANA system for POC development and Client level Showcasing - Integration of FI with SD and MM, New Cash Management Accounting, New Asset Accounting, Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM) Accounting, Coordination with IBP experts on its setup and so on
  • Pre-Sales Activities
  • Part of Solutions team for delivering Demonstrations to Clients at HCL Premises and outside
  • Assisting the Sales team in developing HANA Center of Excellence
  • Pitching to existing customers with HANA Story for proactive deal conversion – Disney, Axalta
  • Interaction with various module heads to formulate go-to-market strategy for clientsActivation of Fiori Applications and streaming data and insights out of them
  • Assist in drafting business blueprints as per defined project templates
  • Development of pitch documents and questionnaires for commencement of deals with both new and existing customers
  • Participate in client discussions to understand the gaps and devise solutions on how HANA can be a success story
  • Creation of Assessment tool which shall make the Pre-migration activities automatic and seamless
  • Developed working model for annual HANA Technovation event conducted in Bangalore and Noida
  • Associated in building an internal specialized team by imparting training and KTs – Training a batch in Noida and Chennai during JAS cycle 2016
  • Trained on HANA and S/4 HANA Finance from SAP
  • GST India Core Team Responsibilities -
  • Worked on Responses to GST RFPs
  • Creation of Assessment Report Templates
  • Creation of GST Roadmaps, Risk and Mitigation plans for Client demonstrations
  • Client visits for proposal presentations and value

Company / HCL BPR - S/4 HANA Migration - 1605Finance Version (Pre-Migration Analysis)
Duration / Oct 2016 – Dec 2016
Position / FI External Consultant (Client Side)
Background
HCL Technologies Limitedis an Indian multinational IT services company. It is a subsidiary of HCL Enterprise. Originally aresearch and developmentdivision of HCL, it emerged as an independent company in 1991 when HCL ventured into the software services business.HCL Technologies (the abbreviation of Hindustan Computers Limited) offers services includingIT consulting,enterprise transformation,remote infrastructure management, engineering andR&D, andbusiness process outsourcing(BPO).
Responsibilities
  • Analysis of the source pre migration system
  • Consult Core IT team with functionalities supported and not supported in S4HANA
  • Analyse reconciliation report differences, their sources and resolutions in order to move to S4HANA
  • Help raise issues with SAP either through SAP tickets or SAP Max Attention
  • Coordinate with other module heads in their system understanding and creating a Pre-Migration report
  • Smooth transition from SAP ECC pre-migration to SAP S4 HANA 1605

Company / iMRO -S/4 HANA Migration - 1511 Enterprise Version (Implementation)
Duration / Feb 2016 – On Going
Position / S/4 HANA Consultant
Background
Airline Maintenance and Engineering departments, Aerospace After-market Support organizations and third party Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) service providers - as well as any organization which services, repairs and overhaul complex equipment such as used in the power generation, oil and gas, nuclear, transportation, construction, utility and telecommunications industries - perform MRO activities on equipment which requires the asset to be stripped down, and parts removed, inspected, and a decision made about how to repair or replace the removed parts to ensure the asset is returned to service. HCL’s product iMRO provides Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul services to its airline industry partners.
Responsibilities
  • Analysis of the source pre migration system
  • Configure the basic and new configurations (New GL, New AA) in the system
  • Create master data and transaction data on the basis of gaps identified
  • Understand and perform pre Migration tasklist activities
  • Testing the system for selected important scenarios
  • Recording the changes in APSE( Document Portal)
  • Creation of documentslike Migration Test Scenarios, Migration Plan, Solution Design & configuration changes, Test scripts, Knowledge capture template and so on
  • Coordinating with tech & other teams on tech & integrated related issues
  • Perform Post Migration Activities on the HANA system – Migration of elements, Creation of CDC Views, Migration of Data and creation of universal journal, migration of balances and many more
  • Testing the post migration system for completeness and reconciliation with the source system

Company / AstraZeneca (Support)
Duration / Apr 2011– May 2013
Position / FIConsultant
Background
AstraZeneca plc is a British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biologics company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. The company was founded in 1999 through the merger of the Sweden-based Astra AB and the UK-based Zeneca Group (itself formed by the demerger of the pharmaceutical operations of Imperial Chemical Industries in 1993). AstraZeneca has a portfolio of products for major disease areas including cancer, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, infection, neuroscience, respiratory and inflammation.
Responsibilities
  • Analysis and resolution of Production support calls
  • Configuration for New changes
  • Raising Change Request (CR) and writing functional specification for CR
  • Preparing test data for CR testing and End user training
  • On call support to users and handling of user queries and documentation of the issues
  • Coordinating with tech & other teams on tech & integrated related issues
  • Participating in weekly incident status calls
  • Ticket solving and reporting as per SLA
  • Preparing Functional Specifications for new Enhancements and testing the integrations

Company / Clorox (Implementation)
Duration / Sep 2010 – Apr 2011
Position / ABAP Consultant
Background
The Clorox Company, based in Oakland, California, is an American multinational manufacturer and marketer of consumer and professional products with approximately 7,700 employees worldwide as of Dec. 1, 2014. Clorox products are sold primarily through mass merchandisers, retail outlets, e-commerce channels, distributors and medical supply providers. Clorox brands include its namesake bleach and cleaning products, as well as Brita, Burt's Bees, Formula 409, Glad, Hidden Valley, Kitchen Bouquet, KC Masterpiece, Soy Vay, Kingsford, Liquid-Plumr, Mistolin, Pine-Sol, Poett, Tilex, S.O.S., and Fresh Step, Scoop Away and Ever Clean cat litters.
Responsibilities
  • Working on Reports, Smartforms, IDOCS, LSMW and user exits
  • Creation of TS for the objects
  • Coordination with functional teams for support

Date / Company Name / Role
Oct 2016 – Till date / HCL Technologies / Senior Consultant FI
Jul 2015 – Oct 2016 / HCL Technologies / Senior Management Trainee
Jun 2011– May 2013 / Infosys Limited / Associate Business Analyst
Jun 2010 – Jun 2011 / Infosys Limited / ABAP Systems Engineer

Qualifications

Level / Subject / College / University
MBA / Systemand Operations / Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar
Degree / B.Tech (Computer Science) / GTBIT, GGSIPU, New Delhi

Training

Attended
Conducted
Certification /
  • SAP Certified in Simple Finance AC100 and AC110 courses powered by HANA
  • Green Belt in Six Sigma Methodology from Indian Statistical Institute, Mumbai
  • Nominated for next S/4 HANA Finance Certification from HCL

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