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Surya Gudala

Independent Consultant

Industry Experience

Accounting

E-Learning

Human Resources/HR

Information Technology/IT

Management Consulting

Outsourcing/Offshoring

+ 2 More

Location Supported

Worldwide

Languages Supported

English

Hindi

Telugu

Skills

  • Technical consultant
  • Functional consultant
  • Project management
  • Managed services
  • HRIS
  • HRMS
  • HCM
    • +3 more

Product Specialization

  • Salesforce CRM
  • Workday Human Capital
  • ADP Workforce Now
  • ADP Vantage HCM
  • SAP CRM
    • +1 more

About

Expertise in ADP products and projects. Has 16 years of consulting and projects experience. Available for freelance roles.

Top Project Highlights

Payroll Implementation Projects

Worked on numerous Payroll and HR implementation projects. Transformation, Data migration projects on ADP products.

  • Managed team of 24 project consultants (UK and The Netherlands), oversee multiple project and programs, escalations, and risk management.
  • End to End Payroll/HR Implementation project management on requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, and support of monthly $110k revenue  
  • Steered consulting team to transition and operate from onshore to offshore. Built project delivery team from scratch to fully operational.
  • Achieved $.8 million revenue for fiscal year, turned negative NPS/CSAT to promotors.
  • Achieved $2 million revenue for fiscal year via upsell and cross sell of HCM solutions.
  • Managed and delivered several large implantation projects from on-site (UK), received many appreciations on successful go live as per cost, time, and scope.
  • Participated in major process re-engineering Kaizen workshops to identify waste and improve processes.
  • Maintained strong internal and external stakeholder management.
  • Managed end to end implementations of consulting projects as a consultant.

 

Project Oak - United Technologies Corp. (UTC)

Manage project and support the transition of ADP GlobalView application and payroll processing as per UTC expectations for APAC countries.

  • Align with the APAC Global Project Manager relating to payroll applications implementation to the new Otis and Carrier entities.
  • Deliver UTC’s payroll processing activities globally with emphasis on APAC GlobalView application
  • Support development of project plans with the global PMO APAC/ project managers for the respective regional payroll transition.
  • Lead all aspects of the regional project activities working with the respective regional business analysts and providing project updates to the Global PMO.
  • Manage business consultants and support in executing test scenarios, compare test results to expected outcomes from the test scenarios. Manage multiple ongoing project activities from initiation through delivery utilizing Microsoft Project and other applications
  • Facilitate collaboration with the global payroll operations teams and project Oak shared services team, travel as per business need to ensure payroll applications transition in region to Otis and Carrier is successful.
  • Manage dry run and cut over activities with critical timeline
  • Ensure successful integrations with Workday connectors, technical support to BA’s on GlobalView SAP

Employment

Sr Project Manager

2017 - Present
    • Manage multiple ongoing projects from initiation through delivery utilizing Microsoft Project and other project management software.
    • Manage and build client relationships with key decision makers from project inception to post-implementation; ensure customer satisfaction.
    • Facilitate on-site client meetings; deliver on-site discovery workshops to articulate business requirements and functional specifications clearly and succinctly. 
    • Oversee installation and client acceptance of SumTotal HCM product suites.
    • Monitor on-site and remote day-to-day activities between client and SumTotal teams.
    • Interact with sales, systems engineering, and product development to ensure continuity between the organizations.
    • Plan and manage service schedules, project resources, budgets, and revenue.
    • Achieve FY revenue $ target with high CSAT
    • To organise, chair and act as the SumTotal representative in regular customer project meetings.  To produce minutes from these meetings and ensure actions are completed as agreed.
    • To provide management information on the project to the customer in line with SumTotal governance standards.   This will include financial reports, status reports, work plans, issue lists, agreed actions, risk notification, impact resolution plans, lessons learned reports, follow on action recommendations and end project report.
    • To define and own corrective action plans and escalations in the event of any deviation from the project plan.
    • To manage the project deliverables to ensure that they remain in scope of the statement of work, and where deliverables fall out of scope to use the agreed change control procedures.
    • To escalate issues to appropriate levels of management within SumTotal and customer
    • The establishment and maintenance of a project repository and all associated documentation and deliverables
    • To maintain a reasonable knowledge of the markets the company services and a specific knowledge of the SumTotal service offerings.
    • Engage in pre-sales scoping and budgeting for potential leads

Assistant Manager

2005 - 2017
    • Manage and deliver Enterprise, medium and large HCM projects
    • End to end project management and delivery of HR & Payroll projects by adhering to Project Management process defined
    • Manages project delivery by creating and exceeding project baseline and managing risks & client issues
    • Lead the team in initiating, planning, controlling, executing, closing & transition to support team
    • Drive the team to deliver superior level of service by an error free output, meeting turnaround and volume demands
    • Responsible for functional and technical requirement documents
    • Provide direction, motivation, coaching and training to team members enabling them to manage the respective tasks independently
    • Coordinate with product team on resolution of product/connector issues, data integrations etc.
    • Create and drive communication plans for timelines and change management activities related to enterprise projects
    • Provide project status updates to Stakeholders on a regular basis
    • Providing delivery advice (configuration, interfaces, reporting) to partners/clients/configuration teams and ensuring technical integrity of the delivered solution
    • Achieve the required standard of quality, ensuring business success and managing stakeholder expectations
    • Root Cause Analysis of errors & taking corrective action to ensuring error free deliverables
    • End – to – End Payroll/HR Implementations with consultancy support project activities post live
    • Represent Payroll cross-functional teams, by providing functional assistance for ongoing administration of Payroll
    • Achieve FY $ revenue target with positive NPS
    • On-site working experience of 1.5years in UK & US.

Education

Project Management
2011-2012

Post Graduate diploma in Project Management from University of Hyderabad

PMP (Project Management Professional)
2019-2020

Certified Project Management Professional from PMI.

Bachelor in Commerce
1999-2002

Graduate degree in Commerce

Certification

PMP
2019-2019

PMP certification 

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