Sudharsan Kannan

SAP Successfactor Incentive Management | SAP Analytics Cloud | Oracle to Hana Migration | Performance Optimization | Automation | Incentive Compensation Admin | Building High-Performing Teams

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

About

• Experienced in incentive compensation management, reporting and analytics. Led the development of over 100 custom reports in SAP Analytics and managed Oracle-to-HANA migration projects, supporting business decisions through clear, actionable data. • Known for delivering innovative automation solutions and reusable assets that streamline data migration and accelerate SAP project delivery. Prioritizes improving test coverage, process efficiency, and enabling faster, higher-quality results across teams. • Strong believer in teamwork and stakeholder engagement, regularly mentoring peers and fostering open communication. • Recognized for resolving critical production issues quickly, collaborating effectively with product vendors, and building partnerships that drive reliable project outcomes and lasting business value. Achievements: • USI 36-hour Hackathon (2025): Secured 4th place overall and 1st at the regional level, earning “Innovation Icons” distinction among 200 teams. • Hackslam (2023): Emerged as the top winner, finishing 1st out of 870+ participants. • Deloitte AI-Tech Championship (2023–24): Achieved a top 3 regional finalist position. • Green Hoodie Award (2023): Honored as Innovation Champion. • Customer Operation – Cust Ops All Stars (2022): Recognized for outstanding operational excellence. • Outstanding Performance Award (3x): Awarded multiple times for excellence in project delivery and contributions to AI initiatives. • Applause Award (8x): Acknowledged for project go-lives and milestones, major client deliverables, leadership in SAP Analytics Cloud training, automation initiatives, driving wellbeing programs, event hosting, and as winner of the Fantasy Cricket League. • Spot Award (3x): Recognized for expertly organizing client visits, contributing to AI ideation, and managing campus hire training programs.

Experience

  • Deloitte (4 yrs 9 mos)
    • Senior Consultant
      Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

      Client: U.S. health Insurance Company Tools: SAP Analytics Cloud, HANA XS, Crystal & Webi + Led the Oracle to HANA migration, managing the conversion of over 70 reports, 150 custom data models, accommodating various business groups, advanced report/data-level security requirements. + Stepped in mid-project as Reporting Lead, quickly stabilizing the workstream through a structured short-term recovery plan featuring daily triage sessions, parallel defect & build processes, expedited approvals. + Successfully delivered reports for UAT on schedule, restoring stakeholder confidence, preventing release delays. + Delegated ownership of report bundles empowering team members while ensuring quality controls were maintained. + Developed an automated Oracle-to-HANA row/column comparison tool, expanding test coverage, enhancing accuracy, reducing data migration risk, thereby increasing business trust in the migration process. + Led performance optimization efforts by monitoring front & back-end timings, fine-tuning queries that reduced query execution times from sec to ms and improved report render speeds during peak loads. + Responded rapidly to all prod issues during go-live, minimizing business disruption, maintaining high stakeholder confidence. + Identified & addressed critical SAP product defects by delivering immediate workarounds & collaborating with SAP to implement sustainable fixes, ensuring seamless Oracle-to-HANA report parity. + Implemented standardized RCA templates, checklists, accelerating issue investigation & promoting quality consistency across the reports. + Created comprehensive runbooks, handover guides, training materials to facilitate onboarding, skill-building for client admins. + Provided mentorship to junior and peers during development phases, encouraging shared learning & regular improvement. + Proposed strategic & practical solutions to project challenges, resulting in faster problem resolution, greater team capability, improved project outcomes.

    • Consultant
      Nov 2021 - Jun 2025 · 3 yrs 8 mos

      Client: Global Technology Conglomerate (Germany) - [HANA Implementation Project] Tools: SAP IM, Analytics Cloud, Crystal Reports, HANA XS, Workflow, Salesforce. + Supported SIT Team by leading tool navigation sessions & functional KT, test cases prep. + Transitioned to a full-time developer role, collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, develop, implement key features across SAP IM, Analytics Cloud (SAC), Crystal Reports, Dashboards, Workflow, HANA XS (DI). + Designed and delivered critical system functionalities, including unique KPI rollover, participant/position versioning, advanced proration logic, revenue recognition, outbound/accrual processing, capping logic, TIA adjustments post-fiscal year, dynamic payment and payroll features, trailing crediting, currency conversion, payout curve configuration, automation logic for variable assignments. + Developed Target Letters with custom HTML, CSS, advanced page break controls, enhancing the end-user experience & documentation quality. + Drove process improvements through data integration, leveraging the OData Adapter and advanced modeling techniques for efficient data staging & transfer. + Led comprehensive error handling, pipeline optimization, implemented alternative functions to drive system reliability and accuracy. + Facilitated client workshops & demonstrations to present key deliverables, promote user adoption, and ensure alignment among diverse stakeholders. + Played a versatile role across SDI, Comp & Reporting workstreams documenting technical designs, supporting sprint activities, improving collaboration to ensure timely project delivery. + Provided robust support during UAT & PROD phases by resolving defects, assisting with migrations, account setups, triaging issues, enabling efficient test execution, delivering system extracts with rapid turnaround. + Supported AMC by resolving tickets, refining CRs, renaming rules, facilitating seamless transitions through effective handoffs.

    • Consultant
      Nov 2024 - Dec 2024 · 2 mos

      Client: Global Commercial Real Estate Service firm Tools: SAP Crystal Report This short-term parallel project focused on building several SAP Crystal Reports from scratch. + Requirements were thoroughly reviewed and multiple solution approaches were evaluated in consultation with SAP on feasibility (including embedding crystal reports as an attachment in email). + Multi-page reports were developed by installing required software, configuring connections, setting up sample table structures and BO groups, and ensuring report alignment in portrait mode. + Unit testing was conducted with sample data, PDF and Excel exports were validated, and code was deployed to the TST environment to ensure successful report publication. + Knowledge was shared with stakeholders, process documentation was reviewed and updated, project updates were provided, and all work was handed over smoothly.

  • Senior Associate Consultant at Infosys
    Apr 2021 - Nov 2021 · 8 mos

    Client: Global animal health company TOOLS USED: SAP Commissions, SAP T&Q, Informatica IICS, SAP BO, Workflow + Took Individual responsibility of various Business Units / markets which has monthly/quarterly/Annual Payout. + Understanding the requirement provided by Client/Customer. + Design, Build and Testing of Commissions Plans and Rules. + Data exchange using ODI framework and Informatica. + Extensively worked with Callidus ODI process and resolved the all ODI errors. + Troubleshooting pipeline logs and issues. + Worked on CRs on Crystal Reports and migrated them to Production Environment. + Incentive mismatch analysis and resolution. + Analyzed the Oracle Packages/Procedures to identify various Root Cause on various issues. + Territory Program creation with territory organized in hierarchy + Creation of Position alignments to Territory and Accounts Alignment to Territory + Created Geography rules to use for account allocation process for auto alignment + Project delivery in terms of daily work, managing SLA and KPI, status reporting to clients and internal stakeholders. + Created Various Asset related to SAP Commissions related Tasks using Excel Macros & Informatica Mappings. + Trained multiple Junior Resources on Informatica IICS and SAP Commissions.

  • Accenture ()
    • Software Engineer
      Oct 2019 - Apr 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

      American telecommunications company [Implementation Project]: ETL Data Warehouse / Functional Tester TOOLS USED: SAP HANA XS Advanced, SAP Commissions [Callidus Cloud], SAP BO, JIRA, MS Excel. +Working directly with the business analysts / subject matter experts to translate business requirements to functional testing scripts. +Develop Test strategy, test plan/design , execute test cases and defect management for the ETL, SAP Commissions, Crystal Reports (SAP BO) & Workflows. +Develop and execute detailed ETL related functional, performance, integration and regression test cases, and documentation. +Reviewed the Test Cases Written by peers against the Requirement Documents. +Identified prerequisites and the entry and exit criteria of a test module. Analyze and understand the ETL Views & Stored Procedures developed. +Validation of data transformations and perform End-to-End data validation for ETL & BI systems. +Validation / Reconciliation of Transaction, Credit, Incentive and Deposit Flow for Millions of records. +Continually adapted the enhancements and change requests CRs to redefine the testing scope. +Supported/worked Development Team on Build and UT of various CR's. +Triage the Exact problem of the defect and highlighted the same which helped the developers to fix the issue in short time. +Team Player - Working Closely with peers and help them out whenever required. Shared ideas and techniques to make the task Simpler and Easier to do. +Report the status of test planning, defects and execution activities, including regular status updates to the project team using quality metrics

    • Software Engineer
      Jul 2019 - Oct 2019 · 4 mos

      Multinational conglomerate company [Implementation Project] - SAP Commission Developer / Functional Tester TOOLS USED: SAP Commissions [Callidus Cloud], MS Excel. +Built the Rules & Compensation Elements to meet the requirement based on the Technical Design Documents. +In short period of time got various inputs from the Team and involved in Individual Testing Activities. +Supported both Development & Testing Team in parallel. +Analyzed the Credit Matrix & compared against various inputs/requirement from business. +Reviewed the Transaction Mapping to ensure all the mandatory fields are mapped accurately even for different data source. +Reviewed the Test scenarios with Onshore counterparts to ensure nothing has been missed out. +Created the ERC (Expected Results Calculator) using Excel Formulas and Macros, which helped to speed up the execution. +Reviewed the Execution results with the Seniors as a last phase of SIT to get a Second eye onto the Validation result. +Explained the Exact defect with more detailed explanation to Onshore Callidus Development Person whenever needed. +Supported COE UAT Testers whenever required on Creating Organizational, Transactional Data, validating the results in UAT phase. +Supported the Team by working more than the Daily working hours for Execution, Defects Re-Testing, helping the development team and Executing the Scenarios in Tight Schedule. +Prepared the complete migration checklist to migrate all the rules and compensation elements to PRD Environment. +Reviewed peer created Deployment plan and updated them accordingly to ensure all the dependencies are accurately aligned. +Took Migration responsibilities and completed the migration without any dependency on time with no/minimal errors.

    • Associate Software Engineer
      Nov 2018 - Jun 2019 · 8 mos

      Enterprise Software company [Implementation project] TOOLS USED: SAP Commissions [Callidus Cloud], Informatica Cloud, SAP BO, JIRA, MS Excel. +Collaboratively supported/worked with the team to complete build for Plan components. +Worked on various change Request/Enhancement. Completed the Build/UT on the CR’s and migrated on time. +Prepared the complete migration checklist to migrate all the rules and compensation elements to PRD Environment. Migrated all the required includes Classifiers, rules, Elements, Plan and variable assignment. Completed the migration without any dependency on time with minimal errors. Worked with reporting team closely on the mapping and configured them as needed. +Analyzed the Credits, measurement for almost 6 lacs of Transaction. +Daily & weekly updates on the progress of test items handled. +Created Test Scenarios, Test Data preparation for multiple iterative Releases. +Created component wise ERC for quick analysis of data. +Performed repeated tests on some cases and executed all the Test script with the mindset in every minute to find a bug in the application and logged the Defects in JIRA against Test Scenarios. +Documented and analyzed all test results and made recommendations. Published test summary reports in periodical time frame. +Coordinated with Team Leads / project managers to ensure time management for both Development and Testing Activities. +Analyzed results and documented findings for presentation at project team meetings. +Approached applications from a client and end-user perspective and recommended changes to make applications more efficient and intuitive wherever possible. +Updated the Defect Tracker Reports and shared it across the Workstream every day.

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    Jul 2016 - Jul 2016 · 1 mo

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