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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Gb

Serve as business partner for key HR Stakeholders globally and act as a ‘front door’ to IT integrating fully into your functional teams and engaged in strategy and planning efforts. Key Accountabilities :• Build strong strategic relationships with complex customer groups and senior stakeholders across the globe, developing a deep understanding of the short-term and long-term business direction.• Assess and prioritise requirements in line with IT strategy • Develop and maintain the customer account plan, including accurate customer forecasting, demand planning and effective delivery of the plan• Lead high-level investigations on requirements specifications and feasibility studies, developing a range of options aligned to business and IT strategy• Lead business impact assessments, identifying risks and issues that may affect current and future business units and roles, and create business readiness plan• Proactively identify opportunities for IT to deliver innovative technology solutions to provide competitive advantage or • Present and gain commitment to IT initiatives, using specialist knowledge to gain commitment to established or new IT services• Work collaboratively with:1. Customer and stakeholders groups to build their understanding of IT strategy, programmes and challenges, 2. IT Strategy, Architecture, Portfolio Management and Project/Programme Management to agree the future shape of proposed solutions and initiate projects in partnership3. Other customer area Business Relationship Managers to create alignment and identify cross-business innovative opportunities 4. Portfolio Managers and solution delivery leads to initiate projects, to initiate projects, clearly define scope and monitor the delivery of project value compared to the promised benefits5. Customer Service function to ensure the IT services plans are established for the customer group and are operating effectively

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Gb

- Responsible for building the business case to implement a payroll technology solution for AstraZeneca North America - Support the RFP process for technology platform ,service and implementation partner selection• As part of the PMO , served as an IT Lead working closely with the Global HR & Payroll Regional Lead for US sites.• Responsible for the local planning / execution of the Workday solution aligning closely with global template and timelines. • Key Accountabilities includedo Stakeholder Management , Project planning, Gap analysis of the legacy HR process/solution and alignment to the global Workday platformo Managing the Implementation Partner for a successful Project Deliveryo Configuration of Workday Payroll , Time and Absence accommodate the Design aligning to the core business processo Impact assessment of all Integrations (around 70) that had relevance to HR & Payroll functional areas and define a to-be design state acceptable to the HR & PY business functiono E2E Functional and Integration Testing, Deployment Planning , Execution and transition to Hypercare supporto Consumer Engagement of the downstream data recipients internal and externalo Execution of Data Migration Integration Testing, End-to-End testing and Cut-over planning.• Led a team of 10 resources internal and external to support the launch of the platform.

Gaithersburg, Maryland, Us

Responsibilities• As part of the local core team , served as an IT Lead working closely the HR & Payroll Regional Lead for US & EU sites for Workday core HCM rollout• Responsible for the local planning / execution of the Workday solution aligning closely with global template and timelines. • Key Accountabilities includedo Stakeholder Management , Project planning, Gap analysis of the legacy HR process/solution and alignment to the global Workday platformo Impact assessment of all Integrations (around 70) that had relevance to HR & Payroll functional areas and define a to-be design state acceptable to the HR & PY business functiono Configuration of the local SAP Payroll to accommodate the Workday Design aligning to the core HR processo Building a new US Payroll connector between Workday and SAP. Modify several local integration(s) to accommodate the data flow from Workdayo Consumer Engagement of the downstream data recipients internal and externalo Execution of Data Migration Integration Testing, End-to-End testing and Cut-over planning.• Led a team of 10 resources internal and external to support the launch of the platform.

Gaithersburg, Maryland, Us

Responsibilities• Management of the IT group that supports the following MedImmune functions: G&A (HR, Finance, Legal & Corporate Communications) and Commercial (Sales Operations, Marketing , Managed Markets).• Responsible for both application support (40+ applications) and project executions under an in-house design / outsourced development model. • Comprised of more than 20 people based at 4 different sites, supporting four countries / 3 time zones.• Led and supported the launch of MI-MOSAIC ( Veeva cloud based CRM ) to 500 + HQ and field based employees including features like call recording, business planning, FCR , mobility , eMIR, CLM etc.• Led and supported the launch of on premises Healthcare Master in the Informatica platform to provide a 360 degree view of customer accounts integrating with AZ HCM and Veeva CRM • Led the IS work stream for the MedImmune/ AstraZeneca SAP, Travel & Expense and Ariba P2P application and process consolidation project ($32M project budget), project was completed on time (18 months) and on budget. • Application support for: SAP (ECC HR/ Payroll, E-sourcing, BI), Veeva CRM , Informatica Customer Master, Plateau. The team was composed of systems analyst, solution consultants and developers

Gaithersburg, Maryland, Us

Responsible for the System Analysis, Application Development , Information management, Data integration and System administration of the Enterprise and non enterprise systems ( SAP ECC 6.0 , BI 7.0, GENTRAN , NW2004s Portal, PI 7.0 , SRM 5.0 ) , systems which is crucial for the company to run the day to day business operations to achieve financial objectives, commercial deadlines and manufacture to target, complying with Federal regulations.o Liaise with IT and the following business groups specifically Finance, Commercial Ops, Supply Chain, Human Resources, Regulatory, QA/Validation in implementation of variety of solutions in the enterprise as well as non enterprise systemso Primary responsibility for Business requirements, Operational support, Configuration management, Development and administration. Interact with IT department on Database maintenance, upgrades and troubleshootingo Identify problems and provides solutions for complex system data issues created by evolving internal and external (regulatory) requirementso Lead development teams in projects constituting contractors and consultants and provided guidance to them to adhere high quality coding standardso Authored the coding standards, documentation templates for Application development and maintain Operational Procedures and Work Instruction documentso Evaluate and recommend new solutions ( based on business requirements ) modules and software upgrades, assess the impact on system validation, the user community and standardized operational processeso Performed major system upgrades for SAP Application and Business Intelligence systems o Develop and implement plans for electronic migration of data from non SAP systems into SAP / BIo Provided architectural design on the data integration between systems to senior management for strategic purposes

Gaithersburg, Maryland, Us

SAP Solution Development and Delivery• Led and drove the technical direction for the development, design, and systems integration ( within the broad SAP Landscape ) from definition phase through implementation. • Applied significant knowledge of industry trends and developments to improve service to clients. • Reviewed work of development team. • Easily recognised system deficiencies, and implement effective solutions. Technical Effort Management• Creates and executes development plans and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements. • Served as a Technical Project manager responsible for the status of development effort and served as liaison between development staff and Program Lead . • Ensured technical teams are contributing to the code library. • Owned the development lifecycle and is responsible for managing technical risks throughout the project. • Communicated and enforced coding standards • Performed code reviews and mentors junior developers. • Managed technical resources within budget and project schedule. • Consistently delivered high-quality services to clients.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Lead the efforts of a team of SAP specialists involved in bringing reasonable and measurable consistency standards to the work of SAP Application development and solution design for clients in different business areas. Assess, streamline and optimize existing organization to improve development and performance for both colleagues and business. Assist clients in gathering functional requirements and translating them into effective solutions ensuring cost-effective utilization of resource and budgetary compliance. Lead important and effective change. Ensure coherent product and technology architecture in alignment with clients vision.o Program Manager for the SAP Application development @ Word Bank Group as a client partner.o Executive member of the Corporate Information Protection Plano Member, Disaster Recovery Plan teamProjectsDesign and Develop Trust Fund Data Warehouse for World Bank’s Funds Management group. The TF Data Warehouse project was initiated to address World Bank’s requirements for a robust environment for reporting and analysis tools to access funds disbursement & expense information.Design and Implement an extranet Web Application Portal World Bank group’s Donors across the globe. The main objective of this Donor Center web based application, was to provide easy access and transparency of the data to the Donors across the world . This Portal has been a single window for the Donors to log in to view the Financial statements and analyze their Portfolio of Trust Funds contributed to the World Bank

Responsible for development and design of complex ERP & non ERP applications and executive management systems for retail and pharmaceutical clients world wide . These systems were to be utilized as an integral part of daily operations in manufacturing , sales , personnel management and financial operations. Served as a primary liaison with the user community to identify their needs and translate them into a finished product. Directed programming group in the design methods and software to be utilized in the application development process.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Information Systems & Management

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