Value Management Executive
United Arab shipping Company
Total des années d'expérience :13 years, 11 Mois
Employer: United Arab Shipping Company (U.A.S.C)
Unit: Information Technology- Finance
Role: IT-VMO Executive (under VMO- value management office)
Tenor: July 23, 2013 - on going
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Involved in establishing the vendor sourcing strategy and drives the contract
negotiation.
• Responsible for the strategic vendor relationship between the IT and the vendors.
• Explore areas for better vendor performance management and follow-up.
• Discuss objectives and terms of supply (cost, quality, performance, timeframes etc),
develop.
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• Set and execute consistent supplier selection process acceptable to all relevant
stakeholders.
• Manage, negotiate and execute new contracts and changes to existing agreements, with acceptable commercial risks, to drive down price and increase return on investment. Includes extending, renegotiating and terminating contracts.
• Build trusted relationships with suppliers and assess cost/benefit to the organization through a pre-determined assessment method.
• Responsible for maintaining records and documentation related to contracts,
invoices, assets and files for audit.
• Participate in the solution development process and ensure that customer requests and needs are represented within the product.
• Receive, verify and forward invoices for approvals as per IT financial procedures.
• Payment coordination as and when required, with accounts payable department.
• Receive and process bills related to IT admin expenses in coordination with Admin
Department.
ACHIEVMENTS
• Created structured repository for contracts.
• Maintains a tracker of assets purchased, which will help in better asset management.
• Designed workflow with guidance from IT management for manual procurement
process and is under discussion for implementation.
• Designed workflow with guidance from IT management for an automated
procurement process which will be beneficial during tool evaluation.
PROJECTS
• Finacle E- Banking Release 10.x (Versions 10.3.1, 10.3.2, 10.3.3, 10.3.4) -Relationship
management (RM), Trade Finance, Accounts
• Finacle E- Banking Migration from 6.x to 10.3.4 (Versions 10.3.1, 10.3.3, 10.3.4) -
Relationship management (RM), Funds transfer
• Finacle E-Banking Release 11.0x (Versions 11.0.2, 11.0.4) -Relationship
management (RM), Trade Finance
• Finacle E-Banking Maintenance 6.x
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Make sure proper documentation for Software requirement specifications (SRS),
Change request (CR), version description etc.
• Review and understand the module functionality and requirements from the documents.
Modules handled: o Funds Transfer
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o Trade Finance
o Payments
o Accounts
o Relationship Management (RM)
o E-statements
o Retail Banking
o Corporate Banking
o Workflow
o Admin
• Perform sanity test, functional test, unit test, regression test etc.
• Cross check SRS and client requirements with software functionalities. Discuss and suggest changes to related documents based on test results.
• To run batch jobs for uploading trade finance data from core to e-banking database.
• To confirm data reflected in application is in sync with database.
• To make sure application is free from any form of bugs or issues, which hinders its
efficient working, before being delivered to the customer.
• To analyze if the issues found, are because of missing setups or because of faulty
code.
• To analyze error logs and filter out the root cause for the issue.
• To log the defect found with details, after analyzing and pass on to next team for fixing it.
• To check if the fix provided is working fine and has not affected any other
functionality of the application.
• To certify, application is deliverable to the customer.
• To make sure, no data is lost once migration has been done to a higher version.
• To confirm no functionalities are affected during migration.
• To check new database is in sync with older one, and appropriate entries are made in new tables if any.
• To do regression testing, for making sure application is not adversely affected, after all issues found, have been fixed.
• Confirming if the issues logged by the end user/customer is actually present in the application and forward it for appropriate action.
• Making sure upcoming versions of the application is free from issues similar to the ones already logged by the customer.
ACHIEVMENTS
• Recognized as SME for Trade Finance module
• Recognized as one of the best testers within team
• Recognized as mentor through 'Buddy' program for new joiners
• Member of CLOUD9 team, which is responsible for organizing entertainment events within team and unit. Received AWARD of excellence for the input given.
• Member of JAGRUTI team, which helps Infoscions to give back something to the society
that we live in.
• B-Tech Degree with distinction in Civil Engineering - Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Govt. Engineering college- Kottayam, under Mahatma Gandhi University - Kerala during 2005-2009.
• Higher Secondary with distinction - Vimalagiri Public School, Kothamangalam under C.B.S.E. Board during 2003-2005.
• Schooling with distinction - Govt. Girls High School, Perumbavoor - under the S.S.L.C. board during the year 2003