Rajashree R. Philip

• Management and governance of complex projects focusing on Stakeholder management, Risk Management, Vendor engagement, Change Management, Release Management and coordination with Vendor implementation partners & system integrators. Foster strong relationships with clients and stakeholders for project success and future engagements.
• Irish Life: Successful management and delivery of multiple projects (ranging from 50K to 500K) for CTS (Central Technology Services), IT division within Irish Life Group to deliver on-Premise &/or SaaS solutions.
• Successful rollout of TIS (Treasury Intelligence Solutions) a SaaS based Payment Gateway application for ILGS (Irish Life Group Services), CLE (Canada Life Europe -German Division) and Cornmarket Fin Services to allow payments (AP, HR-payroll, Cash payments and Customer Payments) through automated workflows, multiple banks and approvals therein streamlining their payment process, eliminating manual processes and enabling realisation of the BBI transition to achieve long term benefits.
• Delivery of on-premise ESF(European Sending Framework), a common framework process to facilitate transfer of policy(master & transactional) data files from multiple source systems across EU Line of businesses for loading into Global subledger system for Centralized financial statement reporting.
• Initiation and planning of On-Premise solution integrating SAP HANA BI and Workiva to allow for ILA (Irish Life Assurance), ILH (Irish Life Health), CLRe (Canada Life Re-Insurance) to produce IFRS17 Financial statements and any correspondence notes.
• Initiation and planning for ILIM (Irish Life Investment Management) in coordination with Implementation partner (Codec) to replace existing on-premise application (Essbase) with Oracle EPM Cloud platform. This will eliminate/reduce risks attributed with their current manual process and facilitate timely, efficient reporting to ILIM executive management team.
• Initiation and Planning phase to rollout Fusion Risk Management (Sales Force platform) for Business Continuity Management across EU & UK Line of Divisions to streamline BCM process & planning across organization. Will reduce current inconsistent administrative work, augment department level capabilities to respond to business disruptions, business divisions can access documents from a more secure and robust centralized system than current individual share-points.
• Maintained schedules to meet key milestones at every project phase.
• Adapted quickly to unexpected challenges or obstacles encountered during project execution, devising creative solutions without compromising objectives.

• Managed Program portfolio of (+ 2M) for client HPE to define and deliver solutions supporting HPE Financial services and PointNext business area. Ownership of programs & projects to deliver exemplary client service by meeting tight deadlines, key milestones, driving business opportunity and coordinating with a complex matrix multi geo located team environment. Utilization of either waterfall and Agile scrum methodology to deliver on time & within agreed budget.
• Creation of Project Statement of Work (Fixed cost & Time and Material) by collaborating with Account IT leader, client leader, business stakeholders, procurement to define legal and operational parameters for HPE Financial Services and PointNext business area.
• Negotiated contracts by working closely with HPE client stakeholders and DXC internal contacts to assure best competitive price is agreed for finalized scope of work without compromising on quality and delivery standards. For any requests that has not been fully scoped/defined, negotiated for T&M thereafter worked with client to ensure they are satisfied with the work provided within agreed hours or by the allocated resources.
• Collaborated with cross functional multi geo resource managers to allocate skilled project resources for the committed duration of program/project life cycle.
• Collaborated and interacted with clients and business stakeholders to identify and prioritize requirements, uncover post release issues & their applicable solutions and offer guidance on workarounds(if any).
• Tracked and reported weekly program updates to clients and stakeholders to facilitate change management activities.
• Collaborated with project managers to develop detailed plans, administered and tracked expenses/budget.
• Orchestrated efficient fixed cost programs by successfully managing multiple projects utilizing Agile Scrum Methodology ranging from 100K to 2M to meet design & financial commitments by working closely with client & system integrators.
• Cray-PointNext integration: HPE acquiring Cray company resulted in integration of MADO program to integrate Cray process and systems within HPE landscape impacting 25+ Assets (Applications, interfaces and ERP solution).
• Customer facing innovation against HPEFS partner and Customer Portal application to implement Flexible Billing and eSignature solution with a program budget of 3M and targeted revenue increase of 20M.
• Multiple projects under ‘Run the Business’, ‘Recurring Business Events’, ‘Emergency Releases’ scope which included customer facing innovations, SOX/compliance changes, Database upgrades, 3rd party vendor application upgrades, Hardware upgrades, Application/database password renewals, Test environments Database refresh and business continuity.
• Capabilities to reconcile NA Sales Tax so that the General Ledger data can be tied back to the Taxing Jurisdiction data to eliminate or greatly reduce the manual reconciliation process.
• Upgrade of D&B (Dun & Bradstreet) API to allow match of customer/partner information via customer facing portal applications.
• SalesForce.Com Integration with Financial Services Leasing systems to enable credit requests for increasing sales productivity (+300 users globally) gains by eliminating multiple manual and swivel process for Credit requests.
• Managed cross-functional teams for successful project completion within deadlines and budgets.
• Managed multiple strategic projects with numerous sub-projects or workstreams.

• Technical Program Manager supporting CORE applications within financial services domain to oversee the design, build and delivery of multiple projects within budget. Project ownership for delivery of enhancements to ERP system (MS Dynamics AX) via Agile Scrum Methodologies and delivery of pan HPEFS Master Data.

Program Manager (HPE Financial Services)

• Directed, oversaw delivery of multiple successful projects from concept to closure to cater customer facing innovations, business continuity, compliance requirements, Local GAAP migration, Database upgrades, 3rd party vendor application upgrades, Hardware upgrades, Master Data Migration activities and reporting deployments.
• Interacted with cross functional business teams to identify requirements and prioritize based on cost benefit analysis.
• Timely resource allocation in collaboration with people managers considering global geo locations and project needs.
• Met with business and project stakeholders to communicate and discuss progress, schedule, deliverables and budget.
• Tracked and reported program results to clients and stakeholders to facilitate change management activities.
• Coached and mentored (10+) cross functional resources on Change Management and Release Management process.
• Managed cross-functional teams for successful project completion within deadlines and budgets.
• Managed multiple strategic projects with numerous sub-projects or workstreams.

Senior Project Manager (HPE Financial Services)

• Master Data: Led delivery of Master Data project to support single source for pan-HPEFS product/asset and customer, suppliers and partner data in alignment with HPE master data to improvise accuracy and TAT for reconciliation.
• AX Russia: Managed delivery of enhancements and changes for MS AX ERP solution which was implemented to replace an existing Lease Management manual process therein providing an integrated, standard finance baseline system and functionality for automated local legal compliance reporting to the Russia local controllership team.

• Project ownership for global suite of Financial applications (In-house & 3rd Party) with projects ranging from ‘business as usual’, compliance and regulatory to major infrastructure overhauls and system implementations. Demanded strategic orientation utilizing Waterfall methodology with strong focus on Business Requirements & Solution Analysis, Vendor engagement, Change Management, Release Management and ‘On time Delivery’ within a Financial and SOX regulated environment.
• Data Centre Move (20 applications): Managed major data-centre relocation of HPEFS suite of applications implementing Site to Site, Zone to Zone, Load Balancing and Disaster recovery with failover mechanism. This also included critical upgrades to hardware, operating systems and databases ensuring Business continuity with zero downtime and minimal impacts to critical business process.
• Adaptive Maintenance: Implemented iterative requirements feedback loop with business of ‘show & tell’ ensuring deliverables matched requirements, avoided rework and managed must haves changes via tight Change Management process saving 20% rework in design and development.
• Local GAAP project: Automation of Local Books & accounting rules for countries to remove working around manual interventions & MS Access for reconciliation. Completion benefited in improved productivity of 100+ HPEFS colleagues due to automation & remediated SOX(Sarbanes-Oxley Act) compliance issues highlighted by Auditors.
• Erskine site enablement for Asset Management Life Cycle services: Managing and coordinating of IT tasks with wider business program to oversee closure of Nijmegen site and build out Erskine site to support Value business and select Volume processing (UK & Nordics). This involved coordination of Infrastructure setup, managing changes to Financial Core systems and ensuring Telephony and workspace connectivity.
• 3rd Party Vendor Software upgrades: Managed half-yearly and yearly software upgrades of 3rd party vendor applications impacting Latin America, North America and Europe to ensure alignment with compliance regulatory needs and/or cater for change in market business process.
• Planning, communication, coordination & execution of complex quarterly scheduled releases involving multiple project managers(6+), project resources (25+) and business stakeholders(20+) across global geo locations and time-zones.
• Developed comprehensive project plans, identifying risks and mitigation strategies for timely completion.
• Evaluated vendor proposals, selecting those that provided the best value for cost, quality, and timeliness.

Team Lead, Senior Software Development Engineer.

• Project team lead for multiple projects utilizing Waterfall Methodology around Leasing systems, Customer Invoice Management, Electronic Data Interchange (Inbound & Outbound), Billing Systems, 3rd Party Vendor applications, Supplier payment systems and handling of Direct Debit. Experience across multiple development platforms (Java, C++, C#, .NET, Visual Basic, SQL, Oracle), facilitating application design sessions with stakeholders, coordination of remote teams.