ARUNIMA SATHI
Noida
Summary
Results-driven Senior Business Analyst & Product Owner with 9 years leading enterprise HR compliance platform delivery for over 50K users. Liaises effectively with stakeholders throughout requirement elicitation, UAT, Go-live, and hyper-care. Specializes in client management, cross-functional team leadership, and Agile/Waterfall methodologies, translating complex business needs into impactful solutions and driving transformation roadmaps to enhance operational efficiency.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Deputy Manager
Deloitte
Gurgaon, India
04.2022 - Current
- Collaborated with Executive Leadership and Stakeholders to define business requirements, objectives, deliverables, clearly to minimise scope creep, and requirement ambiguity. Captured and translated business requirements into features, epics and user stories and managed product backlog in collaboration with clients and stakeholders.
- Led sprint planning and backlog management to improve Agile delivery velocity by 25%. Conducted stakeholder engagement and UAT testing to ensure requirement alignment.
- Developed roadmaps for implementing project management, organisational change management, and design thinking initiatives, aligning stakeholder expectations with project goals.
- Facilitated requirement workshops, engaged stakeholders, tracked risks, conducted UAT, and supported change adoption, monitoring project progress and implementing mitigation strategies for identified risks.
- Collaborative Delivery: led cross-functional teams through requirements, gathering development, and operational stages; Managed planning, text, execution, defect trial, and business sign-off for HR systems. Increasing efficiency by 85%.
- Designed launched and scaled a power BI dashboard generating 123+ unique LU reports for 1000+ employees saving 92+ man hours and driving adoption among 38 plus executive partners and senior stakeholders in four months of launch.
- Prepared business requirement documents (BRDs), software requirement specifications (SRSs), functional requirement documents (FRDs), and process flow documentation; collaborated with business and IT stakeholders to redesign processes and conduct feasibility analysis.
- Experience in various Workday domains such as HCM, Time tracking, Talent management, and Compensation.
- Conducting change impact analysis and Gap Assessment and giving recommendations that are actionable on immediate and long term basis supporting organisation transformation initiatives.
Deputy Manager
Accenture
Gurgaon, India
03.2017 - 04.2022
- Architected scalable, configuration-driven solutions that minimized customisations and technical debt, reducing maintenance overhead by 20% and accelerating implementation timelines by 30%.
- Led Agile delivery using the SAFe methodology, managing product backlogs, prioritising high-impact features, and facilitating sprint ceremonies across cross-functional teams, contributing to 95%+ sprint delivery predictability.
- Conducted end-to-end As-Is/To-Be process analysis and translated business requirements into epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria for technical delivery teams, improving requirement clarity and reducing development rework by 25%. Leveraged AI-powered tools to accelerate documentation, business analysis, and test scenario creation, cutting analysis effort by 40%.
- Partnered with business and IT stakeholders to redesign enterprise processes aligned with industry best practices, facilitating solution workshops and feasibility assessments that accelerated platform decision-making and reduced process inefficiencies by 30% while fostering change adoption through a strong change network and stakeholder management.
- Served as primary client-facing consultant, gathering requirements and managing stakeholders, presenting solution designs to senior leadership, and leading requirements workshops to enhance stakeholder alignment and streamline approval processes.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to support User Acceptance Testing (UAT), sprint planning, backlog refinement, and implementation readiness, helping ensure successful releases, minimal post-production defects, and improved deployment efficiency by 85%.
- Mentored and coached junior consultants, providing targeted guidance and support to enhance their professional development.
Education
BTech - Electronics & Communication
GL Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management
01-2016
Skills
- Business Process Consulting
- Business Analysis
- Solution Blueprinting, Gap Assessment
- Workday HCM, Time Tracking, Talent Management and Compensation
- Requirements Gathering
- Stakeholder and Client Management
- Product Ownership & Backlog Management
- Agile and Waterfall Methodology
- SAFe Delivery
- Wireframes
- BRD/FRD and Process Workflows
- Dashboard creation
- Process Mapping
- User Acceptance Testing , BVT (Build Verification Testing)
- Physical Identity & Access Management
- E-invoicing, GST
- Solution Workshops
Certification
- Workday certified HCM applied concepts
- Workday Talent and Performance certified
- Managing an agile team
- Agile and scrum ceremonies - Accenture
Custom
- Excellence Award by the client
- Ace Award at Accenture
- Star of the Month award at Deloitte
- Multiple recognitions from Global Workplace Leadership
Timeline
Deputy Manager
Deloitte
04.2022 - Current
Deputy Manager
Accenture
03.2017 - 04.2022
BTech - Electronics & Communication
GL Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management