Senthil Sivaganesan
Director, Technology at Walgreens
- Role
- Director, Technology at Walgreens
- Location
- Chicago, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Senthil Sivaganesan
Senthil Sivaganesan is an effective, result oriented, People leader with proven record of adding business values through both build and support operations efficiently. With around 25+ years of hands on IT experience and through MBA, he has acquired the functional, technical, and the leadership skills. Has extensive experience in Retail, HR, Business Process Outsourcing, Finance, and Engineering domains with Citibank, GE, IBM, and Walgreens. Expertise in implementing major ERP programs (Oracle EBS, SAP Success Factors), Robotics Automation, and Azure Cloud migration. Besides, he has created a roadmap for a key Pharmacy Receivable heritage system and delivered the modernization road map that yields a recurring ROI of $15million. Currently, leading the Finance & Accounting IT department with multiple global teams delivering values worth over $20 million per fiscal year. He has extensive delivery skills with project/program management experience to deliver major programs on-time, under budget.Senthil has acquired expertise by working with multiple cross functional/technical domains such as data governance, IT security, IT security architecture, PCI compliance, Sox/Internal audits, data retention, infrastructure, data recovery, business continuity, support, help desk, Citrix, VDI, M&A, incident management, and disaster recovery. Senthil has many Customer recognition certificates and Foundation award from business; Employee All Star awards. Recently received the Champion Of Champions awards from the CIO and CFO leadership award from the CFO.Key Roles:• Successfully implemented SAP Success Factor to replace our 35+ years legacy Mainframe Payroll system involving 100+interfaces, 350 mappings, 17+vendors, and huge payroll population.• Created and executed the roadmap for the critical Accounts receivable system. Increased the online availability from 12 hours to round the clock in just 2 years and scaled up the application by 40%. These business values contribute to a recurring annual savings of around $15 million per year.• As integration and Program manager for the Oracle Finance ERP implementation collaborated with 40+ systems for the end to end delivery of the interfaces with the GL• As a co-lead implemented the Hyperion Financial Management Tool for the financial consolidation of the global acquisition.• Lead the business process outsourcing of the finance and accounting business process (AP,HAR,R2R) for various business units.
Experience
Director, Technology
Jun 2025 — Present · Deerfield, IL, US
As a Director of Technology for Corporate Systems, I lead the HR Systems and Payroll Department, with delivery responsibilities for both build work and day-to-day operations. Glad to be part of the team member experience, from being an applicant all the way to retirement. My department has a broader spectrum of technologies from legacy Mainframe to SAP SuccessFactors and AI tools. I partner with business stakeholders from the Talend acquisition, HR, Time & Attendance, Learning, Benefits, and Payroll.
Education
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance, General
2012 — 2015
National Engineering College
Bachelor in Engineering, Electronics and Communicaiton Engineering
1992 — 1997
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