Vicky Balakrishnan

Experience

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  Sharptech Projects

  Aug 2011 - Feb 2014

  Project Coordinator

  • Assisting and supporting the Project Manager in their daily duties• Responsible for helping manage project finances• Identify, analyse, prioritize, mitigate and communicate project risks• Providing detailed DPR’s.• Acting as a link between the client and the company• Maintaining an organized team• Involved in Coordinating projects from inception to completion• Prompt coordination with suppliers to ensure materials are delivered as per priorities.• Helping prepare purchase order• Preparing Billing reports of the work done in site.• Following up with clients for payments Show less

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  Eduvantage Learning Solutions Pvt.Ltd

  Feb 2014 - Aug 2014

  Deputy Manager projects

  • Detailed Project Planning and control• Project Progress and performance Monitoring • Preparing weekly / monthly Progress reports.• Resolving cross-functional issues at project level• Participating in senior management review meetings and providing updates.• Managing project deliverables in line with the project plan• Close coordination with US clients/universities on a daily basis.• Managing Co-ordination of the Partners and working groups engaged in the Project work.• Inter-department co-ordination to ensure smooth functioning of the project. Show less

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  Accenture

  Aug 2014 - Jul 2016

  Project Management Officer

  • Assessing risk factors and highlighting it to the project stake holders to avoid escalations. • Updating the Project progress and its Tracking.• Helping in ensuring organization compliance by setting up and using correct tools.• Providing support and guidance for projects assigned, to identify, configure and report appropriate metrics depending on project scope (projects following Waterfall, Agile or Staff Augmentation model).• Preparing reports based on the metrics and status reported by the projects and highlighting the critical aspects of the project in the report and publishing the same to the management on a weekly basis.• Ensuring projects prepare and submit appropriate documents as part of process compliance activity. For Ex – Solution Plan, SOW, Contract documents. Also, preparing defaulter list report of projects that have missed out on uploading the required documents.• Providing support and guidance for selecting, configuring and reporting the appropriate metrics.• Ensuring appropriate processes are followed for the deliverable.• Guide Projects to report accurate status in internal tools - DMS (Status Reporting) and CDART (Metrics Reporting).• Resource Management - activities by demand creation, staffing resources from bench list, taking initial interview, raising new joiner’s access request, resource roll-on roll-off, IJP evaluation, updating assets • Project Procurement – raise project assets procurements request, track order & invoice. Show less

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  Capgemini

  Jul 2016 - Aug 2020

  Client – Fiskars Project – Fiskars SAP Deployment “Project Management Officer”CR Manager Roles/ Responsibilities: Applied change management process and tools/tracker to create a strategy to support adoption of the changes required by a project. Developed Quality Gates for managing CR’s, thus reducing Defects identified both internal and external, thereby reducing rework and increasing overall productivity.  Supported the design, development, delivery and management of communications. Conducted impact analyses, assess change readiness and identify key stakeholders. Responsible for Tracking Defects and Documentation of CR’s. Liaising with Customer regularly and Ensures Change status, progress and issues are communicated to the appropriate groups. Defined and measured success metrics and monitor change progress.Project Management Consultant Roles/ Responsibilities: Responsible for producing daily and weekly status reports to Senior Management and client showcasing current health of the project and highlighting blockers if any. Worked as SAP cutover manager, there by coordinating with Customer and Internal stakeholders’ thus ensuring movement of Transport in production and also ensuring manual activities are executed by Functional consultant. Working closely with testing team for follow ups on defect resolution and closure and publishing daily reports to customer. Responsible for all project management reporting like Quality Metrics, Test Metrics and weekly resource activities reports. Responsible for Project finances with key activities like preparing monthly finance reports to Client & Senior management, Invoicing, Forecasting and Budgeting, Variance analysis etc. Responsible for maintaining and following up on Risk and Issue logs and ensuring closure of all open action items by coordinating with Internal and external stakeholders. Show less Client – HSBC Project – Commercial Banking IT Management Services“Project Management Officer”Key Responsibilities - • Assisting senior management in Manpower planning for the year 2017, with regards to report creation, Budget & Financial tracking and reaching out to various Business Managers from various departments for consolidation of Headcount and presenting the same to Senior Management.• Gather data and consolidate from the various stakeholders and analyze the same• Working on automating multiple reports for project using Excel - VBA• Create MIS / Operational Dashboards, Tracking, reporting and maintain Documents for audits and reviews required by senior leadership• Build / maintain knowledge repository of best practices, tools, engagement highlights• Track SOW, PO, Invoicing with Vendor operations and Account / BU finance• Manage resource requisitions, supply tracking and allocations for HSBC’s Commercial Banking IT division• Tailor project resource report (new joiner, roll-off's, open positions, Total FTE vs. Plan FTE)• Work with Project Managers for staffing, finance, on-boarding/off-boarding and infrastructure and logistics requirements• Liaise with BU staffing partner and practices to forecast and fulfil account requirements• Ensure on-boarding (and off-boarding) of resources, adhere to account and organization guidelines for the same• Meet the vendors on monthly basis to discuss on Contractors joining HSBC and coordinating with Project Managers in case of delayed joining or last minute abort cases Show less

  • SAP Change Request Manager and Project Management Consultant

    Nov 2017 - Aug 2020

  • Project Management Officer

    Jul 2016 - Oct 2017
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  Deutsche Bank

  Aug 2020 - now

  Change Analyst