Overall 13 years of experience combined with Data Steward - Data Governance (Collibra Techno-Functional Specialist), Data Management (Customer, Vendor & Finance Master Data-Specialist), and excellent interpersonal skills and effective communication, capable of conveying master data information to all levels of staff and leadership. Identifies risks in advance and provides effective mitigation plans. A skilled team leader who can manage multiple tasks effectively and at the same time master automation in macro and VBA scripting
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Data Governance Consultant
Sigmasoft
Bangalore
01.2022 - 02.2023
Manage Collibra across the enterprise, driving governance activities for all participating business units and ensuring all work activity is completed on time and to standards while mitigating risks as needed.
Responsible for the intake process, ensuring all requests or issues are handled on time and assigned to appropriate parties for review, resolution, and escalation.
Accountable to make final decisions and recommendations to ensure quality, delivery, and documentation of business process and system improvement deliverables.
Mapped current business and operational processes and recommended areas for improvement.
Identified and resolved problems through root cause analysis and research.
Identified and documented detailed business rules and use cases based on requirements analysis.
Participated in requirements meetings and data mapping sessions to understand business needs.
Documented business workflows for stakeholder review.
Coordinate with Domain, Business Stewards, and Data Analysts to review the standards and their roles and provide insight into maintaining Governance Standards inside Collibra including workflow process, logging issues, and data quality.
Capture and maintain attribute metadata such as data glossary, data catalog, and data lineage for the source data within the data governance tools like Collibra (Enterprise Data Governance Tool).
Coordinate with the data quality team for building and implementing the new data quality rule and with data remediation for fixing the data quality errors.
Process Lead
Volvo Group India Pvt Ltd..,
Bangalore
07.2012 - 01.2022
Data Governance Team:From Apr 2017 to Jan 2022
Work closely with relevant governance boards to support and develop functionalities for Master data across line functions.
Acts as process owner for Master Data to identify and lead initiatives for improvement and simplification to define processes and deliver key functional excellence ensuring quality management for Master Data.
Identified and resolved problems through root cause analysis and research.
Collaborate with business stakeholders to develop and document policies and procedures surrounding Data Governance.
Develop best practices, standards, and methodologies to assist in the implementation and execution of Data Governance.
Coordinate with the data quality team for building and implementing the new data quality rule and with data remediation for fixing the data quality errors.
Master Data Management Team:From Jul 2012 to Mar 2017
Leading a team of 3 Senior Associates & 5 Associates.
Worked with global project teams using an automation tool to bring the data as per the global requirements in relevant SAP systems.
Managing customer, vendor, and finance master data requests queue - creation of vendors and customer's general data in a Unique system (Parma) and company code data in SAP.
Work as SAP Superuser for the generation of training materials on Master Data (MDM) and provide input for process and system optimization.
Blocking & Unblocking of Suppliers/Customers in SAP on the Company Code level.
Mass uploads of the customer, and vendor data in Parma and SAP.
Handled internal and external audits for the department and was successful.
Unauthorized changes are also a monthly activity where we check whether anyone has changed any data in SAP without proper updating/authorization.
Creating Weekly, Monthly quality, and KPI reports and presenting during the call with Market. Initiating daily team meetings and resource allocation based on the volumes.
Creation, modification/deletion of pricing, listing rebate and exclusion in SAP also freight and cost calculation for customer portfolio.
Senior Associate
Hewlett Packard
Bangalore
02.2010 - 07.2012
Vendor Master Data Team:
Responsible for doing the Internal Quality check for the P&G posting team
Creation of new vendors in SAP.
Adding bank details, change and activation of partner bank type, and creation of bank key in the Vendor Master Data.
Change of name, address, and VAT ID wherever there is a mismatch in the invoice and the vendor Master Data.
Blocking and unblocking vendors for payment and posting.
Creation of alternate payee for the vendor and link to the particular vendor.
Take approval from RDA and BDV team for the changes requested and assist.
Other Managerial/General activities:
Verifying documents that are greater than 10000 USD
Capturing errors made by the posting team and blocking vendors to avoid incorrect payment
Defective payment analysis
Reversing the original document where it is posted incorrectly and posting with correct details as per requestor confirmation.
Consolidating those reversals & posting data and sending reports to governance on a daily basis.
Executive Assistant Business Partner– Senior Specialist at Intuit India – Product Development Centre Pvt. Ltd.Executive Assistant Business Partner– Senior Specialist at Intuit India – Product Development Centre Pvt. Ltd.