Harit Chawla

APAC - Australia and Philippines IBP, Supply Chain and Commercial Excellence

• Implemented Integrated Business Planning (IBP) strategies to align supply chain operations with business objectives, improving responsiveness to market demands.
• Led the design and delivery of data products and Power BI reports, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Conducted in-depth data analysis to support business decisions for Cargill's agriculture business.
• Enhanced data visualization and reporting capabilities, leading to improved business insights.
• Streamlined data processes, and ensured data accuracy and integrity across multiple projects.
• Acted as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams to gather requirements and deliver actionable insights.
• Managed project timelines and deliverables, ensuring on-time and within-budget completion of data analysis and reporting projects.
• Facilitated workshops and meetings with business users to understand their needs, and provide tailored data solutions.
• Implemented best practices in data visualization and reporting, enhancing the decision-making process for Cargill's agriculture business.
• Provided training and support to business users on Power BI tools and data interpretation.

E2E Supply Chain Optimization - Canada Grains

• Managed cross-functional teams for E2E Canada Grains Supply Chain Optimization encompassing data, applications, and reporting
• Managed data requirements and ensured accuracy, integrity, and accessibility throughout the project lifecycle
• Led the development and maintenance of a comprehensive optimization application, including screens for data adjustments and scenario planning.
• Contributed to the development and maintenance of application infrastructure in collaboration with both backend and frontend teams.
• Managed optimization process, ensuring efficient application performance and delivery of expected results.
• Effectively updated business stakeholders on project progress, challenges, and outcomes.
• Ensured user-friendly application design that met functional requirements for business users.
• Monitored and promptly addressed issues to minimize project disruptions.
• Established Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to evaluate project success.
• Gathered and incorporated continuous customer feedback to enhance optimization solutions
• Implemented measures to reduce expenses while ensuring quality standards were maintained.

NA and LATAM - IBP Implementation, Supply Chain Reporting, Inventory Management Reporting for Crush Plants

• Led a project to identify and address data requirements for Integrated Business Planning(IBP) processes in Canada Grains, US Oil & Seeds, and Brazil Business
• Gathered comprehensive business needs for data products related to Supply Chain Planning and Execution through extensive stakeholder interviews conducted globally
• Converted business requirements into technical specifications and user stories
• Conducted thorough validation of large datasets, ensuring accuracy and identifying valuable data trends.
• Built efficient data models to support smooth integration of data with downstream applications, enhancing analytics and reporting functionalities
• Worked closely with the data engineering team, contributing to the design and implementation of scalable data products.
• Played an instrumental role in working alongside Power BI developers to improve reporting quality, resulting in the provision of clear, accurate, and timely information to support decision-making processes.
• Conducted efficient training sessions to educate users on data product usage.
• Identified areas for improvement by monitoring product performance and analyzing user feedback.

Platform

Managed data integration, developed algorithms, integrated Highcharts for dashboards, and designed user-friendly UX interfaces.

Order Management System (Ongoing Project)

OMS is an integration with TR REDI, which connects to various brokers.

Position and Mark-to-Market:

I was involved in a couple of implementations with an understanding of the client’s business, and I worked on setting up the app, the daily EOD run, and the P&L reports.

Plan vs. Actual:

The Plan vs. Actual application was built specifically for companies that handle mining operations. The app's aim was to give the deviation between planned and actual activities.

Trade Finance.

The Trade Finance application was built specifically for loans and letters of credit. The app's aim was to provide the best option to the organization with the least cost associated when applying for loans and letters of credit.

Responsibilities:

• Suggested multiple enhancements for the platform, addressing various areas.
• Prepared functional specifications by understanding client requirements.
• Interacted with TR REDI to gain a comprehensive understanding of their model and business flow.
• Met product deliverables as per requirements.
• Utilized Agile methodology extensively.
• Engaged in regular communication with the DEV, QA, and Product Group to enhance clarity and capture accurate requirements.
• Completed a wide range of software testing activities, such as Sanity, Functional, Integration, Regression, Exploratory, UI, Browser Compatibility Testing, and UAT testing.
• Managed the timely delivery of scheduled activities and technical deliverables to meet specified quality standards.

KNOEMA.COM

Description:

Knoema is a public and open data platform that allows users to access, analyze, and visualize data. It utilizes a data-driven cycle by collecting indicators from different sources, creating visualizations, and dashboards, and presenting the results. The platform also offers user-friendly tools, such as a forecast tracking tool, and products like the World 2020 app for Android and iOS.

Knoema Mobile Apps.

Data Terminal is an app built for data collectors, where they go to specific markets weekly and collect data on food prices for about 25 items, and submit them into our application.

World Data Finder is an app that helps to find data and statistics for your research and other needs. It can be used for fact-checking, data discovery, and analysis by anyone, such as analysts, journalists, students, and teachers.

Responsibilities:

• Validated multiple new functionalities for Knoema.com.
• Successfully applied Agile methodology principles to enhance productivity.
• Contributed to the testing process for Knoema.com across different mobile platforms and tablets.
• Performed tests without the internet to ensure functionality and reliability.
• Evaluated the application's performance on different networks and Internet speeds.
• Extensively worked on regression testing.
• Maintaining regression test suites.
• Liaised with the DEV team and the BA to establish concise requirements in the specification documents for major tasks.
• Successfully deployed and maintained builds in QA environments.
• Participated in the development of use cases/scenarios for newly introduced application functionalities.
• I served as a peer reviewer for test scenarios.
• Performed various types of testing, including Sanity, Functional, Integration, Regression, Exploratory, UI, Browser Compatibility, and UAT.
• Contributed to routine production and patch release testing, alongside various tasks.

# CITI EQUITIES

Program Trading Engine (PTE) and ARES in the front office to efficiently book bulk orders for equity products across multiple markets, specifically for a targeted index/exchange. Managed modifications, cancellations, and identification of rejected orders within the applications.

# CITI BROADRIDGE and GPDW

Broad-ridge is third party system for Citi bank North America which is involved in settlement of trades.

GPDW stands out for Global Position Data Warehouse where every day for different securities position gets updated. According to different user requirements, there are various feeds which are sent to downstream with being validated in SIT and UAT.

Responsibilities

• Participated in the implementation of various releases for Citi Equities.
• Checked end to end flows for booking trades across various scenarios and destinations.
• Coordinated with Middle Office applications to validate trades.
• Effectively performed regression tests based on functional requirements.
• Developed new Test Scripts to align with updated business requirements.
• Coordinated with 7 teams at a glance to deliver the Feeds within the Service Level Agreement (SLA)
• Validated feed data against DB using basic SQL queries
• Ensured prompt delivery of feeds within SLA by closely monitoring and managing batches across multiple environments (SIT/UAT).
• Checked and debugged logs to efficiently escalate issues
• Logged defects in JIRA or QC based on project needs

Project Undertaken

• Functioning of Treasury in a brokerage firm

Project Learning’s

• Payout operations to different clients and stock exchange like BSE and NSE
• Order Executing Operations like stop payments, cheque returns etc.
• Monitoring investments and other inflows and outflows of other departments.
• Processing of receipts and payments with validations