Priyanka Pradeep Gupta

Solution Architect & Lead

Consultant
Product Lead for Cloud Platform
Sales & Pre-Sales Experience

Self-Motivated Individual with 10+ years of management consulting experience helping organization define HR Processes via technology
implementation, process analysis, change-management assistance, strategy development, and operational improvement guidance. Extensive
knowledge gathered by deploying HR and Financial Solution for clients with capabilities to play multiple hats from Sales to Solutions to Deployment
to Delivery to Post Delivery Support.

WORK EXPERIENCE SKILLS

Alight Solutions | Solution Architect & Lead
Consultant Consultative Creative Thinking Conflict Handling Negotiation
Mar 2016 - Present
— Workday (HR ERP) Product Lead for Talent &
Problem Solving Emotional Intelligence Think Conceptually
Performance Domain.
— Worked on and successfully managed 40+ HR System Communicate Empathetically
Deployment projects as an architect and lead consultant
primarily for Workday Talent & Performance and
CERTIFICATES
secondarily for Compensation, Adv.
Compensation, Reporting and HCM. The projects span Workday HCM (04/2016 - Present)
WD26
across the globe with majority headquartered in APAC and
spread across several industries of BNFS, manufacturing, Workday Talent and Performance (04/2017 - Present)
WD27
logistics, travel, ecommerce, Retail, Govt. etc.
— Supported more than 20 clients for AMS on Talent, Workday Compensation (04/2019 - Present)
WD31
Performance, Compensation, Advance Compensation,
Reporting & HCM Domains. Workday Advance Compensation (06/2019 - Present)
WD32

Workday Reporting (12/2020 - Present)

WD2020R2

June 2017 - Present Workday Peakon (01/2021 - Present)

— Worked on 16+ prospects as a pre-sale’s consultant for WD2021R1

both Large enterprise and medium enterprise deals. Workday Launch

— Lead sales pitch Presentations & Demonstrations helping
the prospects understand the value of deploying Workday Pre-Sales Certified
Workday with Alight. Oracle Peoplesoft People tools Enterprise Developer
— Prepared Marketing and sales Collaterals like
Brochures, Presentations, Newsletters, Flyers, and
other Promotional materials. EDUCATION
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
Jan 2018 – Present
University of Mumbai
Jun 2009 – Jun 2013
— Worked on 35+ deals ranging from as low as $16k to
$4 million helping solution and effort estimate from the
RFP requirements. HONORS
— Worked collaboratively with the Alight Team and Workday
Team to prepare responses to RFI/EOI/ RFP and Technical Platinum and Gold Awards Winner (back-to-back every year)
Alight Solutions
Proposals.
— Worked with the Sales Team to define the SOW, joined Kudos Award Winner
Syntel LTD.
calls with the prospects answering all product and
solution related queries Syntel Synergy Award
Syntel LTD.

Dec 2013 – Mar 2016

— Peoplesoft Financial Consultant with functional expertise in LANGUAGES
General Ledger and Security Module and technical
Expertise in Application Designer, Application Engine,
Peoplecode, Process, Component interface, XML publisher,
PS Query and PS N- Vision.
— Software Development of
Aug 2013 – Dec 2013
Financial modules like purchase, billing, AP for MSME
clients. English Hindi
Full Professional Proficiency Full Professional Proficiency

Marathi French
Professional Working Proficiency Elementary Proficiency

INTERESTS
Fitness, Business, Travel
 Conglomerate – 6,000+ employees across 17 countries
PROJECT EXPERIENCE Singapore
The Government Transformation Consultant
Singapore Responsibilities:
Talent & Performance Management Architect — Worked closely with the Advisory Lead to harmonize the
Responsibilities: client processes from Recruiting to Hire to Onboarding to
— Solutioned and lead the deployment for Talent and Transfer. Created decks showing variations in above
Performance for the stat boards in the government, processes.
deploying set of stat boards per phase and getting them
onboarded in Workday.
— Solutioned requirements from each stat board to
fit in the harmonized processes within workday.
— Provided consultation to align with across industry best
practices (e.g. Length of the form, rating scale being used,
number of approval steps, Maintenance reduction strategy
etc.). Considering Phase X project, ensured security across
stat boards are not impacted.

Conglomerate – 30,000+ employees across 30 countries

Singapore
Talent & Performance Management Architect
Responsibilities:
— Redesigned the Performance Management & Goal
Management design for 24,000 employees in Singapore
across various business units. Harmonized talent
assessment, skills and experience data gathering
processes, talent calibration, succession planning charts
talent dashboards across
— Successful track record of deploying projects completely
virtual.
Managed the project on-premises and virtual as well (due to
COVID- 19) while hosting requirement sessions to UAT
sessions virtually.

Beverage Company – 3200+ employees

Thailand
Total Rewards Principal Consultant
Responsibilities:
— Consulted the client on architecting the Performance review,
Goals, development plans, competency framework, career
profile, 9-box etc.
— Consulted and designed the Manager Facing Compensation
grid which consists of merit increase and bonus increase
together helping the manager analyze the budget
dynamically.
— Helped mapping the Compensation Grades and Grade
Profiles to future state ERP system not impacting the
compensation design of the client.
— Harmonized processes across multiple subsidiaries and 3
countries for factory and white-collar employees spread
across different departments.

Marketplace Company – 1,500 employees

Jakarta, Indonesia
Talent & Performance Management Architect
Responsibilities:
— Designed complex performance evaluation process which
included gathering feedback from peers and calculating
that into quantifiable scores deciding performance rating
for a worker.
— Designed monthly dashboard reports to help the HR Team
minimize the additional effort spent on creating monthly
PPTs for presenting data to leadership
 — Worked closely with the Conversion Principal Consultant to
PROJECT EXPERIENCE identify the issues in Recruiting data and converted 1.5 M
Global Automotive Company – 40,000+ employees across 23 countries data.
Shatin, Hong Kong — Key role in identifying many functional defects before
Total Rewards Architect & Lead smoke and UAT testing reducing defects logged by
Consultant Responsibilities: client.
— Designed and defined Talent Calibration process and
Succession Planning for 7K+ active employees spread
across 23 countries.
— Designed Merit Review, Bonus Review and Stock
Review processes to help easier management of the
compensation review cycles. Consulted on On-Cycle
Promotion vs. Off Cycle Promotion processes helping
the client rectify their current state and easier
transformation to a future state.
— Built various custom reports to meet system gaps
and provided workaround to overcome limitations.
— Designed Performance Evaluation and Calibration
process for employees and leaders spread across 23
countries divided into bue collar and white-collar
employees. Consulted on how cross entity and cross-
country calibrations can take place.

Hospitality Management Company – 400+ employees

Singapore
Core HR Solution Architect
Responsibilities:
— Designed Hire, Local Transfer, global transfer, talent,
performance ad compensation processes for 400+
worker company which included transformation
assistance for Job catalog and Competency
management. Conducted Discovery and design
workshops to provide solution architecture for
identifying requirements including Multiple Jobs, Matrix
Organizations, and compensation visibility to manage
different basis.
— Defined Performance cycle to include Goal setting to
Annual review process. Designed Talent Cycle providing
consulting on Competency Framework, 9-box
assessment and succession planning. Key role in
identifying many functional defects before smoke and
UAT testing reducing defects logged by client.

Construction Company – 7000+ employees across 3

countries Hong Kong
Core HR Reporting Architect
Responsibilities:
— Configured Compensation Package, Grades, Grade
profiles, customized compensation bases to handle
compensation rule across multiple countries. Consulted
the client on 100+ allowances plan which should and
should not be moved in Workday vs. handles in payroll.
— Consulted the clients to scrutinize the compliance
reporting and increase experience on analytics
benefits from Workday enabling management
dashboards (moving from Tableau).

Global Bank – 300,000 employees across 40 countries

Charlotte, North Carolina
Data Conversion Consultant
Responsibilities:
— Conversion Consultant for Phase 2 implementation
deploying Payroll and Recruiting for over 300,000
employees spread across 40 countries.
PRE-SALES EXPERIENCE SOLUTIONING EXPERIENCE
Universal Bank Infrastructure Consultancy Company
Pre-Sales Consultant (Pre-Sales) Solution Architect
Responsibilities: Responsibilities:
— Delivered product demonstration to not only meet the — Converted the RFP which consisted of various on-premise
RFP requirements but also wow the prospect on the system (SAP) spread across 9 entities across 55 countries
various features of the product. into a cloud solution (Workday).
— Worked with the sales team to highlight the pain — Created a solution which comprised based on client budget
points of the customer to help them create a better dividing the deployment into two phases of HR, Recruiting
sales pitch. and Talent Skills & Experience, Competencies, and 60+
— Compared competitive products to specify the most integrations inbound and outbound.
advantageous solutions for customers (e.g. by integrating — Coordinated the RFP Responses with Workday Product
with certain 3rd party software’s) Team, Client Team, and Internal Team to finalize the
responses and workarounds if a requirement isn’t
Global Airlines Company feasible.
Pre-Sales Consultant — Reviewed the SOW and Deck defined by the Sales Team.
Responsibilities:
— Estimated the Effort and Pricing and coordinated with the
— Helped in defining the presentation flow for the various Sales Team to ensure we are providing a winning yet
rounds of the vendor selection process which include competitive solution and price to the prospect.
coordinating and presenting solutions for Core HR,
Absence, Recruiting, Talent, Performance, Learning, Data Universal Bank
Conversion. Additionally, also coordinated the presentations Solution Consultant
with the Technical Pre-Sales Consultant for integrations Responsibilities:
with 3rd party. — Designed a solution for a bank with population of 44000+
— Actively participated in conversations with the 3rd party spread across 16 countries looking to deploy Core HR,
vendor to collaborate with the company for the solution Recruitment, Absence, Talent & Performance, Benefits,
being pitched. Expense, Learning, Time Tracking, Advance Compensation,
— Actively participated in defining the SOW and proposal Payroll integrations, Reporting, Data Conversion and
decks.
Change Management.
— The solution consisted of four option solution to meet the
Technology Company pricing point and workaround the optics the prospect was
Pre-Sales Consultant looking for. The prospect could pick and choose based on
Responsibilities: which option fits them the best. The Options were designed
— Created demonstrations to pitch the usage of catering not only the needs of the client but also keeping in
additional functionalities for this client who is mind the HR Team strength not impacting the day-today
already live. operations.
— Actively participated in conversation with the client to — Coordinated the compliance responses with the
explain the forward journey to deploy other modules for Workday Team and Internal Delivery and Sales Team
Talent, Performance and Compensation. both to ensure we are can deliver what we are
committing.
SALES EXPERIENCE — Lead conversations with the prospect asking questions
on their RFP. Participated in conversations with
Port Management Company
prospects answering prospect questions on the
Account Executive
solutions proposed.
Responsibilities:
— Managing USD 1M+ deal to convert the prospect to
Government Project
customer leading from sales, pre-sales and solution front.
Solution Consultant
— Lead proposal presentations talking about the
Responsibilities:
organization and showcasing how we can help the
— Unique experience working on the Government Prospect
prospect with their requirements.
where the information of government HR Processes were
extracted by sitting, analyzing, and creating the solution in
the government premise.
**Vast experience on sales & pre-sales gathered from not only working on new
— Responsible for gathering all the compliance responses by
prospect but also upselling and pitching the existing clients to buy the existing
clearly evaluating what we would be signing up for. The
services, new offering and packages, expansion of modules and usage of newly
responses came in from not only internal sales and delivery
released functionalities.
heads but also from a
third-party partner.
— Worked closed with the Workday Team to finalize the
responses to the RFP so that there aren’t discrepancies
between Workday and Partner responses.
 Experience also gathered from by creating new solutions and offerings for
**Vast solutioning and pricing experience gathered from various other new existing customers
LE, ME prospects spread across various industries. Solutioning e.g. Reporting Package Offering.