Shishir Agrawal

Key Responsibitlites

• Scrum and Agile Facilitation: Led Scrum activities such as sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives. Enhanced team cohesion by addressing and resolving impediments.
• Process Improvement: Drove the adoption of Continuous Feature Delivery, Automation, GDPR to enhance transparency, team productivity and product standard compliance.
• Collaboration and Team Support: Collaborated with product owners, team members, and technologists to define effective solutions. Provided functional and technical support while managing portfolio planning and task allocation.
• Training and Mentorship: Delivered FI training to new colleagues, especially those with non-financial backgrounds, fostering better understanding and skill development.
• Project and Time Management: Enforced project deadlines, managed task prioritization, and ensured adherence to quality standards.
• Hiring and Talent Development: Actively involved in recruitment, selecting top talent to strengthen team performance.
• Quality Management: Coordinated testing activities and monitored incident queues to ensure prompt issue resolution and maintain product quality.

Highlights

• Analyzed legal requirements around VAT reports of KSA and UAE, proposed solutions, created design and implementation.
• Provided functional and technical support to colleagues, addressing their queries.
• Ensured adherence to S/4 Hana release milestones by regularly following up with team members.
• Maintained quality standards by monitoring key parameters, ensuring a clean desk policy.
• Managed customer incidents and Assisted customers with customization needs through consulting.
• Played a key role in redesigning Expenditure and Payment Orders for the KSA Public Sector, focusing on both design and quality aspects.
• Collaborated with 3P colleagues in the MENA team to ensure seamless operations for customers.

Highlights

• Lead AFLE adaptation for all FI transactions at GS FIN India.
• Conducted planning and effort estimation using the LargeScaleAdaptation approach.
• Managed recruitment and team formation.
• Collaborated with multiple scrum teams in GS FIN India to align timelines and ensure smooth execution.
• Interpreted technical details and communicated them to individual developers.
• Regularly monitored and addressed conflicts within the team.
• Planned and coordinated testing activities as required.
• Worked closely with the GS FIN AFLE Project team for successful coordination.

• Worked in the area of Legal Reporting localization for European countries like FOTV Belgium , Poland.
• Worked In the area of Asset Accounting localization for Slovakia, japan and India with functionalities like Depreciation calculation for Slovakia, Annex 16 Japan, Asset CSMD enhancement for India
• Responsible for Implementing Legal Changes.
• Provide Development Support to customers via incidents
• Help customers with customizing issues by providing consulting