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Senthil Kumar Sundaram

Senthil Kumar Sundaram

Operations Manager
Chennai

Summary

Strong experience in Analytics, Forecasting and Planning, Resourcing, Proof of Concepts, Web extracting tools, and Automate data collection models.

Manage the interface with senior management from the global business, operations and technology stakeholder teams for assigned programs

Comprehensive ability in data collection process and data analysis, organizational and management skills

Sound knowledge of project planning, budgeting, cost control,

Provide management oversight of the Portfolio and Tower finances and highlighting variances as appropriate

Experience in developing and executing plans, meeting deadlines and operating under tight time constraints

Commitment to high quality delivery, including execution and integration focus

Strong client service focus and a willingness to respond to queries and provide deliverables within prompt timeframes

Interpersonal acumen and well-developed planning skills, knowledge and experience and comfortable working in a fast paced and changing environment and contributing to that change

Innovative and strategic HR Executive with 5 years of forward-thinking personnel leadership experience. Personable and perceptive champion of corporate and team member success with proven impeccable ethics and business sense. Recruits and hires top talent, delivers expert staffing support to management and mobilizes engaged and loyal corporate business units.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Executive - Operations

Cognizant Technology Solutions
07.2007 - Current

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Driving appropriate data oriented analysis, adoption of technology solutions and process improvement projects to achieve operational and business goals.
  • Develop new analyses, metrics and reports to provide insightful recommendations for leadership team to take key decisions.
  • Managing critical operational processes with SLA and managing stakeholder communication across multiple lines of business on operational milestones and process changes.
  • Play significant role in planning and initiative geared towards operational excellence. Drive initiatives in management team and organizationally contribute to long-term operational excellence .
  • Planning process uses business cases to ensure that project goals and improvements tie back to business strategy .
  • Improve operational systems, processes and policies in support of organizational goals .
  • Manage and increase effectiveness and efficiency among stake holders in resourcing. Tracks performance against account plan, expected benefits and profitability targets .
  • Monitors resource allocation and utilization to ensure optimal deployment. Maintain EWS (Early warning system) for team and proactively hiring resource to avoid revenue loss to business.
  • Provide analytical support for key business decisions and participate in strategic planning.
  • Tracks performance against account plan, expected benefits and profitability targets; monitors resource allocation and utilization to ensure optimal deployment.
  • Analyze financial activities which provides oversight of completeness and accuracy of underlying management information.
  • Responsible for providing objective and analytical insights on financial impact and soundness of business decisions to top management.
  • Develop systemic framework for proactively identifying, assessing various business and financial risks impacting organization along with mitigation strategy for same.
  • Responsible for preparation of trend analyses/ reports on financial results, costs, revenues, cost income ratio etc. to give lucidity on financial metrics to Executive leadership team .

Automation Tool:

  • Innovate opportunities to automate & reduce manual interventions through Consulting tool.
  • Manual reports and dashboard have been automated through tool, which helps business to reduce dependency.
  • Identify complex reports and provide simple solution through automation.
  • Designing, implementing improvement opportunities and events for highly complex processes that have high cross-functional impact. Eliminate and reduce cycle time and improve business performance by establishing sustainable model for continuous improvement.

Dashboard:

  • Prepare executive summary deck and dashboard on Headcount, Utilization and Talent Pool metrics
  • Prepare Planned vs Actual summary deck on Revenue, Customer Profit%, Practice Profit% and Sales and General Admin
  • Prepare North America prediction Utilization deck and one slider deck for Software Consulting group
  • Prepare decks and special reports for leadership team for Marginal Optimization program
  • Support and handle query on utilization and revenue metrics

Staffing:

  • Responsible for internal and external recruiting activities in support of our strategic business priorities
  • Requirement gathering with Technical Leads on requirement
  • Coordinate between Talent Supply Chain team and Talent Acquisition Group to fulfill demand
  • Onboard resource without any delay to avoid revenue leakage and support business
  • Coordinate with Business Unit and Talent Supply Chain team to maintain clean demand

Others:

  • Initiate Visa and coordinate with immigration team and support associate’s queries
  • Coordinate with Academy team on associates upskill and cross skill technology
  • Track skill set of resource which helps client in advance to plan future assignment

Achievements :

Performed special project withing the Business Unit and retained 35 associates during high attrition

Won Diamond Award worth $500

HR Executive - Analytics

Cognizant Technology Solution
01.2011 - 03.2016

Roles and Responsibilities -

Data Analytics —

  • Strong data and analytical skills, project management skills, and ability to handle multiple projects
  • Executed analysis on Director + Attrition, Competitor Analysis, Infant Attrition, Pre & Post training performance on Academy trained associates, Employment Retention Analysis, Utilization and prediction gap analysis
  • Responsible for publishing people metrics dashboard to Leadership team
  • Support Leadership team to identify business challenges and use data analysis help change in existing process/models
  • Provide in-depth analysis and insights to HR Executive Leadership Team
  • Researched and analyzed human resources trends and best practices and drove corporate policy changes to optimize business performance

Support Internal System Operations Metrics –

  • Publish Asia Pacific workforce management metrics on Utilization, Headcount, Demand and Supply and Revenue Gap analysis
  • Support Delivery Assurance Group team in MR (Manager Review model) and BIC (Best in class model)
  • Manager Review metrics helps to identify best performance team within organization
  • Automation of project deliverables through tools
  • Assess and build tools to automate manual reports/processes

Achievements :

Executed D+ Attrition analysis which helps Senior Leadership HR Team to take swift decision in existing business model

Won Global Workforce Management Award

Junior Research Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
07.2007 - 01.2010

Roles and Responsibilities -

Data Analysis –

  • Create Proof of concept and develop project models to aid in forecasting business decisions
  • Advance Data Analysis and Interpretation driven towards solving business problem
  • Work across business scenarios and industry in collaboration with client
  • Responsible for project delivery within Service Level Agreement time without any glitches

Automation –

  • Facilitate process improvement through technical tools (SQL)
  • Coordination with development team to design and develop automated data collection models
  • Involved in test case design, test execution, defect logging and tracking, metrics and status reporting.
  • Ensured successful delivery of complex projects through automation using advanced web extract tool

Achievements:

Won Opel and WOW awards for executing multiple projects with 100% accuracy within the stipulated time

Processing Officer

Maersk Global Services
11.2006 - 07.2007

Roles and Responsibilities -

  • Handle Bill of Lading amendment request from customers
  • Prepare amendment reports for management decision making
  • Monitor and assist team for quality Process of Bill of Lading
  • Handle queries and offer solutions for onsite team
  • Scrutinize Bill of Lading and responsible to issue verified copy to customers
  • Prioritized and organized workload based on risk and severity to meet deadlines.
  • Checked documentation for accuracy and validity on updated systems
  • Collaborated with Consignee to orchestrate efficient shipments of Bill of Lading to more than 100 customers on weekly basis

Associate

HTC Global Services
07.2003 - 11.2006

Roles and Responsibilities -

  • Train new team members - Digital Imaging (Microfilm/ Micro Fiche)
  • Responsibility to ensure quality in executing project
  • Kaizen across all process in project deliverables
  • Responsible for client queries and enhance process as per requirement
  • Prepare status report on production and publish to leadership team
  • Developed training program to educate new hires on company policies and procedures
  • Collaborated with vendors to orchestrate efficient shipments of 150 books to more than 10000 pages weekly
  • Kept detailed records of daily progress to identify and correct areas needing improvement
  • Streamlined office operations by effectively monitoring and addressing client correspondence and data communications
  • Volunteered to help with special projects of varying degrees of complexity

Cashier

Success Chemical Company
07.2001 - 07.2003
  • Reconciled cash drawer at start and end of each shift, accounting for errors and resolving discrepancies.
  • Reviewed new promotions and monitored price changes.
  • Operated cash register for cash, check and credit card transactions with excellent accuracy levels.
  • Addressed customer needs and made product recommendations to increase sales.
  • Operated cash register to record transactions accurately and efficiently.
  • Responsible for end-to-end cash related operations
  • Managed over 50 customers call per day and increased sales by 10%

Education

MBA - Human Resource & Market Research

National Institute of Business Management
Chennai
09.2013 - 10.2014

Bachelor of Arts - Commerce

Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Viswa Mahavidyal
Chennai
06.1998 - 05.2001

High School Diploma -

Devanathan Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Chennai
06.1997 - 06.1998

Skills

    Business Models

Proof of Concepts

Data Collection Models/Web Extracting Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PPT

Tableau

SQL

R Tool

Timeline

MBA - Human Resource & Market Research

National Institute of Business Management
09.2013 - 10.2014

HR Executive - Analytics

Cognizant Technology Solution
01.2011 - 03.2016

Senior Executive - Operations

Cognizant Technology Solutions
07.2007 - Current

Junior Research Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
07.2007 - 01.2010

Processing Officer

Maersk Global Services
11.2006 - 07.2007

Associate

HTC Global Services
07.2003 - 11.2006

Cashier

Success Chemical Company
07.2001 - 07.2003

Bachelor of Arts - Commerce

Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Viswa Mahavidyal
06.1998 - 05.2001

High School Diploma -

Devanathan Matriculation Higher Secondary School
06.1997 - 06.1998
Senthil Kumar SundaramOperations Manager