PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Experienced and proficient Program / Project Manager with end - to-end Finance, Business Intelligence, Performance Management (Planning, Forecasting and Consolidations), and Supply Chain processes and IT Delivery.
• A “Big Picture” guy with a detailed eye who is strong at turning around projects, managing tough business users and working with cross-cultural development teams.
• Aggressive leader who thrives at tight timelines and near-impossible situations.
• Expert at the Waterfall (SDLC) and Agile PM methods.
• Worked on Change Management, Merger Integration and Corporate Split projects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Program Manager for Reporting and Analytics - (BI, Analytics and Performance Management) track for the global Services delivery transformation program
• Managed the TSA exit and Legacy Application retirements for 40+ apps for migration of those processes to Salesforce and SQL based datawarehouses.
• Project Managed migration of logistics, finance, sales operations from China company code in SAP to Newco China company for HP products. Led the UAT with the Newco and HPE IT and business teams in Shanghai.
• Application Migration Lead for over 30 apps, including mission critical ones. Managed teams from India, Europe and China to accomplish the move to enable corporate split of HP.
• Cloud Migration Lead for migrating mission critical applications within the Enterprise Group space to Cloud. Have successfully migrated over 40 apps by leading Offshore inhouse and Accenture teams within 3 months.
• Successfully Program managed two large programs and project managed 10 projects with on-time and below budget delivery.
• Managing a multi-year multi-million Finance reporting and Business Intelligence program successfully.
• Responsible for BW platform SLAs: managing the issues impacting the SLAs via Development teams spread across Mexico, Shanghai, and Bangalore.
• Led programs from initiation through implementation including phases such as planning, analysis, design development and implementation
• Led cross-functional, multi-cultural, geographically dispersed teams
• Established project requirements, priorities, and deadlines and ensured projects are completed in accordance with all scope, risk mitigation and time constraints
• Managed budget for assigned program, monitor program progress and adjust resources and priorities accordingly
• Managed data migration, system integration and an expert at software development lifecycle
• Oversaw program execution including coordination and managing multiple Project Managers.
• Laid out a holistic view of the overall program to the organization and all stakeholders.
• Actively and deliberately managed expectations of stakeholders to create and maintain consistent alignment to the vision and business objectives.
• Defined program governance outlining roles/ responsibilities, decision rights, and clearly defined escalation path
• Planned and delivered portfolio of projects with strict scope management, take corrective action to bring any variances back in line with the project plan and utilize strict change control procedures to manage any project changes when and as they occur.
• Directly managed program level dependencies, issues, and risks, with effective use of escalation processes when necessary.
• Proactively communicated the program's progress on an on-going basis, ensuring transparency throughout program lifecycle. Provide leadership and key stakeholders with the information and venues to make effective, timely decisions
• Established and executed communication plans to provide internal and external program and project teams and all stakeholders with appropriate status information

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led Process Workshops for Business Intelligence, Planning, Forecasting and Reporting areas for a process and system transformation.
• Advised Sr. VP on the roadmap, options and strategy for the end-to-end (SAP Financials to BI/BPC) process, architecture and implementation.
• Evaluated vendors and the solution options and provided recommendations on the best way forward
• Advised the team in their discussions with the Parent company on overall consolidation, planning/forecasting and reporting processes
• Led workshops for process redesign of SAP Financials to bring about radical change in the efficiencies for the users.
• Trusted advisor to customer executives and SMEs and participate in strategic and roadmap discussions on business transformation, technology
• Articulated the Program charter and strategy in a presentation for overall budget approvals to the CFO.
• Advisor for the Vendor Evaluation for the client for the role of ERP Integrator on the project

Confidential

Director

Responsibilities:

• Developed the initial product and services offerings and designed the Customer interface and sales material
• Worked on getting the start up off the ground.
• Made sales enquiries with customers in Texas and discussed the options for changeover.
• Due to downturn in the market and logistical issues had to abandoning the venture

Confidential

Principal, Strategy and Business Intelligence

Responsibilities:

• BI Project Manager to design the scorecards and dashboards for a Pharma company
• Strategy Component lead for overall Enterprise Performance Management (PB&F, Reporting, KPIs and Dashboard) for a major Airlines company
• Project Manager and Agile Scrum lead for BI transformation at Microsoft’s XBOXLive for Design and Requirements.
• Led Business Case, Design, Requirements, Fit/Gap for BI (Dashboards & Scorecards, KPIs), Planning/Forecasting, Financial Consolidations, Reporting
• Led workshops and interactions with leading executives in the Quote-to-Cash area to evaluate the processes and custom requirements in the Product Configuration, Solution Engineering, Quotation management, Pricing Analytics (using SAP PMM or Vendavo), Catalog Management, Order Management and Invoice Management for Engineer-to-Order, Configure-to-order, and Make-to-Order products.
• Initiated discussions and created a new account for Confidential Consulting. Identified pain-points of an Confidential & Confidential Services company in a meeting with its Director and followed it up with presentation to the VP/CIO and detailed negotiations to create the new account

Confidential

Sr. Manager, Business Intelligence

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple projects, hiring/firing of consultants, pre-sales to clients, and managing projects budgets.
• Led overall design and implementation involving workshops with top executives including CEO, CFO, and VPs for understanding / designing their reporting/dashboard KPIs and scorecards using BI 7.0 / Enterprise Portal to deliver the solution
• Led projects for SAP implementations comprising SEM/BW (CPM - dashboards/Scorecards), SEM/BW (Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting), SEM/BW ( Confidential - Consolidation), BW/Enterprise Portal (Reporting and Web-based Dashboards), FICO/CRM/SD/MM (Quote to Cash & Market to Order - Design, Fit/Gap and Roadmap) Have led delivery for projects worth $2 million
• Turned around a badly scoped, inadequately staffed and failing project by quickly re-scoping and re-designing, changing team, engaging offshore backup resources, and engaging with the client regularly. Led to project to success and converted a dis-enchanted client into a reference client.
• Set up an offshore SAP-BW team and trained them for technical support and technical documentation purpose for US projects

Confidential

Sr. Manager, Business Intelligence

Responsibilities:

• Led the Planning, Forecasting and reporting project at a major electronic company.
• Held workshops with the Corporate Finance staff to design the process
• Contributed to the BI Practice through mentoring and process artifacts

Confidential

Manager, Business Intelligence

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed issues with the prevailing Consolidations ( Confidential ) implementation and worked with the FICO team to research future options for the implementation. The analysis involved complexities with the use of Special Ledger and Profit Center.
• Made the final presentation to Chuck Sledge, the VP-Finance on the go-forward strategies.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed on all phases - Business Case, Design/Blueprinting, Realization, Testing, Cutover and Post production including Change management and communications. Led Process and Requirements workshops
• Financial Modeling for Confidential and Confidential clients to estimate the effect of various consulting initiatives on their Shareholders Value - Used Free Cash Flow Discounting method
• Led the BW data architecture for the Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM) implementation at different clients
• Led the Process Analysis and mapping sessions involving Director of Accounting and Director of Planning and Forecasting and advised and directed the Finance Directors on Business planning system design and capabilities at a major telecom client.
• Led the Controlling team and set the agenda with Project Plans and timeline priorities for the resources at a major Confidential & Confidential implementation. Overall Managed 15 resources (8 FTEs). Later this project involved Merger Integration work when the client merged with another Confidential & Confidential Giant.
• Led the Controlling team for Merger Integration work.

Confidential

Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led the Design for the Finance and Accounting processes and formulate a strategy to map the Non Government Sector for a BPR study at the largest Donor organization in India.
• Led the design of Finance and accounting processes for a Public Medical Supply Organization