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Hemalatha Swaminathan

Hemalatha Swaminathan

Project & Release Manager
Wiesbaden

Summary

Experienced Project / Release manager, applying creative and analytical approach towards ERP migration projects. Proven execution experience across functional, technical and agile projects involving migrations with Accounts payable and supply chain background across retail & manufacturing and Healthcare & life sciences industries.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications

Work History

Release and Demand Manager

Cognizant
12.2022 - Current
  • Collaborated with key stakeholders in developing accurate product forecasts, contributing to the successful launch of new products in a timely manner.
  • Led collaboration meetings with key stakeholders and Functional leads to discuss prior month's forecast accuracy and asses upcoming forecasts.

Retail and Manufacturing Industry- SAP Release and Demand Manager

  • Led the complex successful migration of systems involving critical business processes- CRM, Sales & Distribution, Inventory, commission, finance, Purchase and logistics for 5 critical countries to SAP S/4HANA Cloud optimizing business processes and reducing operational costs.
  • Managing the monthly and quarterly releases with effectively communicating with the stakeholders.
  • Handling the capacity planning by forecasting accuracy, efforts and utilization for the deployment of the releases.
  • Preparing project and release plan and closely monitoring the team to mitigate any risks.


Project Manager

Cognizant
8 2021 - 12.2022
  • Successfully managed multiple projects by prioritizing tasks according to urgency, resource availability, and alignment with organizational goals.
  • Met project deadlines without sacrificing build quality and customer experience
  • Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.
  • Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments.

Germany Based Pharmaceutical company specializing in Human and Animal healthcare products- PMO

  • LS Industry Cloud Implementation Project. Agile Project management with scrum methodology.
  • Experience working with Global teams which includes coordination with product owners, offshore teams, status reporting for senior management and business stakeholders.
  • Managed the project efficiently by effective stakeholder management, tracking resources, effort, quality and timely deliverable.

US based Healthcare & Medical equipment manufacturer- Financials and supply Chain Management Transformation- Project Manager & Scrum Master

  • Successful stakeholder management across multiple industry. Organize meetings both internally and externally.
  • Preparing onboarding documents, sprint planning, preparation and supporting the team for effective completion of the sprint.
  • Driving the teams to remove blockers, dependencies and resolve them for the planned output.
  • Preparing project status, lessons learned,newsletter, risk log in JIRA.
  • Strategic implementation and roll out project of Oracle fusion cloud in the Functional area


Business Process Analyst

Jeppesan Gmbh by B S Wutow Gmbh
01.2020 - 04.2020
  • Requirement gathering, collaborating with stakeholders, monitoring project performance.
  • Working closely with the management stakeholders to understand the business requirements.


Transition Manager

Accenture
01.2016 - 11.2017
  • Accounts payable process
  • Vendor management
  • Adding supplier details in the oracle systems by validating the details
  • Contacting the suppliers through emails and calls for payments, queries regarding supplier profile and bank details
  • Global Audit
  • Preparing purchase order and purchase requisition by reviewing the required checklists as per process
  • Providing KT for the new joiners

Finance executive

Natural Remedies Private Limited
01.2013 - 11.2014
  • Handling day to day general accounting in ERP
  • Maintenance of customers records includes seeing up and modifying the details
  • Accounting all corporate bills, RND bills and capital bills
  • Accounts payable process
  • Generating and working on reports
  • Item wise sales report, Creditors aging and debtors aging
  • Preparing MIS reports
  • Reconcile vendor account
  • Contacting suppliers through emails and calls for clearing outstandings in AP
  • Stock reconciliation.

Management Trainee

SS Fine Motors private limited
08.2013 - 12.2013
  • Worked as a part of Sourcing team
  • Prepare supplier profile information for negotiation with clients which involves company overview and few other information
  • Prepare contract information of Supplier profile.

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA - Business Administration and Management, General

University of Madras
01.2010 - 04.2012

Bachelor of Computer Application - BCA - Computer Science

Sri Ramakrishna College of Arts and Science for Women
01.2007 - 04.2010

Skills

    Project Management

    Scrum Master

    JIRA

    Oracle Fusion

    Oracle R12

    MsExcel

    Scrum

    Agile Methodologies

    Release Management

Certification

Oracle Financials Cloud: Payables 2021 Certified Implementation Specialist

Accomplishments

    Certifications:

  • Profession Scrum Master 1(PSM1)
  • SAFe Agilist
  • Google Certified Cloud Digital Leader
  • Oracle Financials Cloud: Payables 2021 Certified Implementation Specialist.

Languages

German
Upper intermediate (B2)
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)

Timeline

Release and Demand Manager

Cognizant
12.2022 - Current

Business Process Analyst

Jeppesan Gmbh by B S Wutow Gmbh
01.2020 - 04.2020

Transition Manager

Accenture
01.2016 - 11.2017

Management Trainee

SS Fine Motors private limited
08.2013 - 12.2013

Finance executive

Natural Remedies Private Limited
01.2013 - 11.2014

Master of Business Administration - MBA - Business Administration and Management, General

University of Madras
01.2010 - 04.2012

Bachelor of Computer Application - BCA - Computer Science

Sri Ramakrishna College of Arts and Science for Women
01.2007 - 04.2010

Project Manager

Cognizant
8 2021 - 12.2022
Hemalatha SwaminathanProject & Release Manager