Sivashankari Vijay

ESG Application (Deloitte)

• Owned end-to-end product strategy, roadmap, and delivery for ESG reporting solutions enhancing client sustainability initiatives.
• Drove cross-functional collaboration between consulting, engineering, and data teams to deliver innovative carbon and compliance tools.
• Authored product requirement documents, technical guides, and client enablement resources supporting regulatory adoption.

Lodus - Healthcare Application

• Managed product lifecycle and roadmap execution for EMR and workflow platforms, optimizing healthcare delivery.
• Developed user stories and led Agile sprints focused on multisite scheduling, mammogram integration, and system performance.
• Facilitated stakeholder workshops and client communications to ensure alignment and successful onboarding.

Domain – Maritime industry (Marine Application Survey Reporting Tool)
Internal Projects – Smart Workspace, Website development

• Interacting with stakeholders to identify and document business needs through interviews, workshops, surveys, or focus groups.
• Led delivery operations to ensure timely and efficient service execution.
• Breaking down and refining business requirements, ensuring they are specific, measurable, and align with business goals.
• Acting as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring clarity and mutual understanding.
• Optimized a workflow with the dev and testing team that cut down the time required for completing the user stories, enhancing their efficiency.
• Creating clear and concise BRDs, FSD, User Stories/ Use cases that detail the business needs, technical & functional expectations.
• Acting as the primary point of contact between stakeholders (both business and technical) to ensure continuous communication and understanding.
• Ensuring that stakeholder expectations are aligned with project deliverables and realistic goals.
• Acting as an advisor to management, providing insights and data to inform decision-making and strategic planning.
• Identifying potential risks, issues, and challenges early in the project lifecycle, and proposing mitigation strategies.
• Working in an Agile environment, acting as a Product Owner or assisting in Sprint Planning, Backlog grooming and facilitating daily stand-ups.

Domain – Internal Projects (creating a Data Analysis chat platform using python, converting tool)

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, data analysts, and end-users to gather requirements for the reporting and visualization capabilities they need in QuickSight
• Assess existing Tableau dashboards and reports to understand the features and functionalities that need to be replicated or improved in QuickSight.
• Working with both business and IT teams to propose solutions that meet the identified business needs.
• Work with data engineering teams to identify all data sources used
• Ensure that the data access and security requirements are met, particularly if sensitive data is involved.
• Advise on best practices for data visualization to enhance user experience and data interpretation.
• Facilitate UAT sessions with end-users to validate the accuracy and usability of the reports before going live.
• Conversion of formulas from Tableau to Quicksight
• Ensuring that the proposed solution meets business requirements through testing, feedback sessions, and iteration.
• Mediating any disagreements between stakeholders, resolving issues, and ensuring consensus on key decisions

Domain – Banking (Risk assessment, Risk Analysis, Fedex)

• Helping to define the scope of the project and ensuring that project deliverables align with business needs.
• Assisting in defining test cases and scenarios based on the business requirements.
• Analyze, assess the risk for a user in a banking sector with a list of risk analysis questionnaire.
• Develop automated reporting solutions to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of data delivery
• Coordinating and facilitating UAT to ensure that the end product meets user needs.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of data sources, extraction processes, and data transformations for future reference and audits.
• Implement regular data quality checks and monitoring to ensure ongoing accuracy and reliability.
• Foster collaboration between data engineers, analysts, and business users throughout the project lifecycle.
• Design solutions that can scale with the banks growing data needs and changing regulatory requirements.
• Reviewing test outcomes, ensuring issues are addressed, and that the final solution functions as required.
• Post-implementation, ensuring that the solution delivers the intended results and making recommendations for future enhancements.
• Supporting the business in managing the transition, helping to address any resistance or challenges during implementation.
• Improved project efficiency by analyzing business processes and identifying areas for improvement.

Domain – Accounting (Reconciliation tool, QBO)

• Collaborate with finance and accounting teams to understand their needs regarding account reconciliation and reporting.
• Document business requirements, including specific reconciliation processes, reporting needs, and QuickBooks functionalities.
• Identify gaps between current accounting processes and desired outcomes, proposing solutions to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
• Collaborate with IT or data teams to extract financial data from QuickBooks and other accounting systems for analysis.
• Support the reconciliation process by ensuring that all accounts are accurately balanced and discrepancies are investigated and resolved.
• Work with accounting teams to implement and monitor internal controls related to the reconciliation process
• Participate in project management activities related to system upgrades or process changes, ensuring timely delivery of reconciliation-related projects.
• Work closely with the developers to implement RPA bots to automate data extraction from QuickBooks and other accounting systems, ensuring timely availability of financial data for analysis.