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Defining project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with relevant GFSSC stakeholders.Developing comprehensive project plans and schedule timelines using appropriate tools.Delivering a project portfolio as per pre-defined milestones, leading timely completion of all deliverables whilst managing resources, deadlines and budgetary requirements.Effectively communicating and managing project expectations in a timely and clear fashion.Reviewing the work packages for each workstream owner. Validating scheduling, dependencies, and resource utilisation across work plans.Owning management of stakeholder expectation alignment gaps and/or gaps in meeting client expectationsEstablishing project governance including all GFSSC stakeholders and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations.Ensuring all projects are maintained in the central project portfolio management tool. Maintain rigor as per the predefined program/project governance and ensure project reporting is accurate and concise.Identifing and resolving project risks/issues and potential conflicts within the project team - oversee the implementation of corrective actions and review current mitigation and recovery activities.Identifing and managing project dependencies and critical path.Building developing and growing any business relationships vital to the success of the project.Continually analysing lessons learned and create a recommendations report to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.Compling withproject management standards and register mandatory project deliverables for quality assurance purposes.

India

Responsible for End to End Transition planning right from Inception phase till Go Live. Owning planning and development of detailed territory transition plans and work shadowing schedules, synchronize with Program Tower Leads for integration with Transformation as neededKick off Meeting with Key stakeholders.Govern transition is complete in.line with approved process and organization design, escalate and budget approvals/change ,ECT.Setting up Governance mechanism. PresentingTransition updates to Governance, Ke external and internal stakeholders.Facilitating standardization of process and processes across towers, PTP, RTR, OTC.optimization and creating continuous improvement mindset among ops Leads and Managers.Facilitating SOP, Global DPM's.incorporating Transition framework in place.Securing Communication in place.Preparing Transition Readiness for upcoming Transition.Setting up SCE/CCRP wherever applicable.Harmonization and Socialization of Key activities.Facilitation of Observatiion meetings internally after Work Shadowing.Identifying roadmap revisions( including accelerations, delays, optimization) ,communicate to leadershipResponsible for setting up Global Financial Shared Services.Updating and communicating key updates to all key stakeholders across the Geographies.

India

Expertise in handling Transition right from the planning stage till Go Live. hands on experience in planning right from the inception phase to Go Live Opetation in F&A Domain across the Towers. Accountable for RFP/RFIResponsible for Stakeholder, Risk Management, Governance Mechanism and alloverseeing the Knowledge Transfer, budget management.

Bangalore

Greensboro, US and Volvo Austria and Germany; Project : Transitioned Complete Accounts Payable End to End Process in SAP platform, from US, Germany and Austria to Global Delivery Center i.e Bangalore: Major Achievements – Incorporated VPS tools like Kaizen, QRQC-Quick Respons and Quick check approach, Visual Stream Mapping.: Initiated the Key Process Indicators, Dashboard and presenting the same to the Business Units.: Worked Closely with End users, Business Technologies and others to understand and priortize business objective goals related to the project.; SAP Finance ModuleRole : Worked as part of the Solutions team to complete the Transition of the Accounts Payable Process.

Responsibility for complete Intercompany process from end-to-end for 19 entities spreading across Europe, US and Asia/Pacific region.: Handled a team of 6 Members – Monitoring Inter-Company as well as Accounts Receivable activities.: Handling performance appraisal for the team as per the HR policy of IBM.: Involved in Month-End, Quarterly and yearly closing activities for the General Ledger on timely and accurate basis without any issues.: Monitoring the Inter-company activities on a regular basis and held meetings/discussions with the client on a weekly basis.: Downloading the Bank statement through web and posting the transactions to SAP.: Extracting Un-applied Cash and analyzing them, and reporting to client. : Working closely with the client for Open Items and reducing as much as possible.: Responsible for month-end activities for A/R application

Worked on client projects at:American Standard, Nashville USDell Global Financial Services Permanent Employee - BangaloreWorked on Accounts Receivable Accounting Cash and Credit Verification for:Benelux RegionNordic Region