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SREEJA SREEDHARAN

SREEJA SREEDHARAN

Trivandrum

Summary

With a diverse background in underwriting, operations, and project management, I have navigated various roles at Allianz. Starting in underwriting, I honed expertise in policy processing and risk evaluation. Progressing to operations, I focused on enhancing workflows and fostering cross-functional collaborations. Currently, responsible for managing end-to-end project portfolios in the insurance domain, including instituting project frameworks and leading cross-disciplinary teams to ensure successful delivery of insurance products and services. Marked by expanding responsibilities and multifaceted experience in the insurance sector.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lead Project Management Specialist (PMO)

Allianz Technology
01.2022 - Current
  • Project Planning: Developing a detailed project plan, including defining project scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, and resources required
  • Stakeholder Management: Identifying and engaging with key stakeholders, both internal and external, to ensure their expectations are managed and aligned with project goals
  • Team Management: Building and managing a project team, assigning tasks, and ensuring clear communication and coordination among team members
  • Risk Management: Identifying potential risks and developing mitigation strategies to minimize their impact on the project
  • Regularly monitoring and updating the risk register
  • Project Execution: Overseeing the execution of project activities, ensuring adherence to project plan, timelines, and quality standards
  • Monitoring progress and taking corrective actions if required
  • Communication: Facilitating effective communication among project team members, stakeholders, and management
  • Providing regular project status updates and addressing any concerns or issues that arise
  • Change Management: Managing changes in project scope or requirements, assessing their impact, and implementing appropriate change control procedures
  • Quality Assurance: Ensuring that the project deliverables meet the predefined quality standards, conducting quality reviews, and implementing necessary improvements
  • Facilitating Scrum Events: Facilitating the different Scrum events, such as daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
  • Ensuring that these events are conducted effectively, timeboxed, and focused on achieving their objectives
  • Removing Impediments: Identifying and addressing any impediments or obstacles that may hinder the progress of the team
  • Ensuring a smooth flow of work by removing any roadblocks and fostering a productive team environment
  • Team Support: Supporting the development team in achieving their sprint goals and maintaining a sustainable pace
  • Encouraging collaboration, self-organization, and continuous improvement within the team

Underwriting Assistant, GIO Commercial, Allianz UK

Allianz Services India
04.2016 - 12.2021
  • Enhancing Policy Workflow Efficiency: Championed a transformative initiative to streamline and optimize processes by proposing and implementing a strategy for consolidating work items related to specific policies for MT, MF and P&C
  • This innovative approach involved creating a single work item for a policy in both the scheduled list and CAT, eliminating the need to generate a new work item every month
  • The successful execution of this strategy resulted in remarkable monthly time savings of 1600 minutes
  • By instituting a single work item for a policy spanning an entire year, I significantly enhanced workflow efficiency, contributing to streamlined processes and resource optimization
  • New Process Transition: Involved in a new process transition and coordinated with the UK trainer and ensured the training was completed as per plan
  • Innovation: Created a planning and projection tracker to manage the spike in work volumes during the month-end, this supported in managing the peak without any escalation
  • Received accolade from the Process Owner for the same
  • Collaboration: Collaborated with the RPA team whenever there was a failure from the bot and took end-to-end ownership in following up with them and closing the issue
  • Employee Engagement: Active member of the Commercial R&R team for 3 consecutive years and have driven various engagement activities

Senior Financial Associate, US Crump Life Insurance

RR Donnelley Pvt Ltd
02.2012 - 06.2015
  • Commercial Accounts Management: Handling accounts payables and receivables of commercial insurance, creating cash receipts of each transactions and reconciling each receipts to receivables and handling the underwriting NOC and notice function

Education

MBA - Human Resources and Finance

Kerala University
Trivandrum
01.2012

BSc - Zoology

Kerala University
Trivandrum
01.2009

Skills

  • Microsoft Office Suite (PowerPoint, Excel, Word)
  • Digital Documentation
  • Mercury
  • C Mart
  • Salesforce
  • VMware
  • Database management
  • SharePoint
  • Microsoft Teams
  • MS Dynamics
  • JIRA
  • Confluence
  • Power Bi
  • Agile Scrum Methodology
  • ServiceNow

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Master
  • DIFA (Diploma In Foreign Accounting)
  • Certified Penetration Tester (CPT)

Languages

German
Beginner (A1)

Timeline

Lead Project Management Specialist (PMO)

Allianz Technology
01.2022 - Current

Underwriting Assistant, GIO Commercial, Allianz UK

Allianz Services India
04.2016 - 12.2021

Senior Financial Associate, US Crump Life Insurance

RR Donnelley Pvt Ltd
02.2012 - 06.2015

MBA - Human Resources and Finance

Kerala University

BSc - Zoology

Kerala University

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