My internship at

Swathi Anand

B.S. Information Systems, HCI Minor Carnegie Mellon University

Direct Reports

Hugh Sheridan (VP IT Global Finance)

Patrice Bradley (IT Director)

Mark Craven (IT Global Finance Program Director)

Julian Sazhin (IT Lead for SAP GRC)

❖ Finance solution readiness status report to keep track of Technical Acceptance Test (TAT) results and status of Finance team activities

❖ Re-plan resource load of IT and business activities

SAP Back to Basics (BtB)

❖ The governance, risk and compliance (GRC) module of SAP for IT is responsible for automating risk management, compliance, and monitoring activities across an enterprise.

❖ User acceptance testing (UAT) for unauthorized system access with continuous monitoring of privileges; verify end-to-end access management process

GRC UAT

SDLC

❖ Consolidate hours for all Brazil/Mexico go-live activities for resource cost analysis

❖ Added additional compliance plan deliverables to GRC project plan

❖ Validation of master data

❖ Ownership of UAT tester workbook and aggregation of all required fields for tracking

❖ Creation of test sets

❖ Executed test scripts

❖ Assisted in the management and tracking by sending constant updates, helping testers and attending meetings

❖ Managed defects and lead daily meetings with AS to drive timely resolution

❖ Followed up with testers to update test scripts as per Quality and Compliance reviews

GRC UAT: Responsibilities

HPQC

J&J BtB SAP Portal

Access Request Form

❖ Created a PowerPoint that visualized the process of how directors input cost/hours for employees and projects on the TM1 tool

❖ Financial Transparency Team initiative

TCO Process Map

❖ Initiative by Michael Weinberger to create an app for JNJ employees to reward and recognize each other

Vendor Analysis

❖ Invited VPs to be part of the panel and ITLDPs/young professionals for the networking session of the symposium

❖ Wrote up panelists bios and welcome documents for the event

❖ Drafted follow-up email and helped create follow-up survey to co-ops and interns

❖ Day-of logistics

❖ 250+ interns from NY, NJ, PA attended!

4th Annual Intern/Co-op Symposium Organizing Committee

1:1 Meetings/ICA

❖ Network, network, network!

❖ Follow your passion but always keep a check on it

❖ Building soft skills over technical skills is important, because the only thing that differentiates two really technical people is how well they can work with other people

❖ Further you're passion by doing things to show that you're interested in it

❖ Women in a male-dominated work environment: learn to trust other people and accept the work they have done

❖ Leadership: Surround yourself with strong and talented people

Key Takeaways

❖ Set the cost and timeline of a project first in order to optimize the allocation of resources and hours

❖ When managing in a project:

❖ Take responsibility for tasks assigned to you

❖ Be thorough, detailed and concise in status reports

❖ Importance of networking - learning lessons from leaders

❖ SAP and HPQC knowledge

❖ Importance of SMART Goals!

❖ Increased skills in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Project

❖ Managing people/working in teams