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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bengaluru Area, India

Gurgaon, India

• Lleading large and complex programs related to business transformation and providing exhaustive business diagnostics to the executive leadership team.
• Drive reengineering and operational efficiency using optimization techniques and tools like process reengineering, value sourcing, offshoring, demand management and activity based costing
• Partner with cross-functional teams to help facilitate, co-ordinate and deliver re-engineering improvements within business functions and implementation of strategic projects
• Create and manage financial and other data models for business diagnostic project
• Provide analytics and financial data to assist in executive decision making

Gurgaon, India

• Played pivotal role in setting up the domestic financial planning & distribution business for Ameriprise Financial in three locations - Gurgaon, Noida & Mumbai and expanding it to Bengaluru and Pune
• Preparation of financial model for evaluating the viability of the project and presenting it to the global leadership, setting up the commercial/ legal entity. Liasioning with consultant/ statutory & government.
• Conducting market survey to gauge product need and customer requirements
• Creation of operational plan and technology road map, working to technology partners to set-up infrastructure for the operations
• Engaged in selection & recruitment process of the leadership team comprising of Distribution Head, Operations Head, Marketing Head and Legal Head amongst others
• Received Chairman’s Award for Excellence for contribution in launch of Indian business in 2012

Gurgaon, India

• Acquisition Integration
• Deputed to Minneapolis, USA in Feb 2010; tasked with working on the integration project post company’s acquisition of Columbia (asset management arm of Bank of America)
• Led the procurement, Ariba, Travel & Expense Vouchers, aXiom, Corporate Cards and Accounts Payable systems integration
• Managed 100+ vendors each for each separate company; monitored and assessed all the vendor contracts which was due for renewal/expiry in partnership with procurement/legal teams Process excellence
• Technology Vendor Spend Project: Resolve issues of excess payments made to technology vendors due to process flaws:
• Performed root cause analysis and recommended remedial measures; proposed changes in the process and creation of an integrated process flow for tech vendor resource billing

Gurgaon, India

• Managed budgeting, planning and forecasting activities for the entire organization as part of the BP&A team; annual spending of approx. USD 8 billion
• Consolidated and created comprehensive business plans for submission to senior management created and managed financial and other data models for business diagnostics
• Tracked the budgets/business plans and evaluated the performance through various types of analysis; automated all manual reporting processes of planning and forecasting

Noida Area, India

• Responsible for making schedules taking into account the capacity, budget and contents as required by the clients.
• Review Project Description before starting a Project regarding the Purpose, Project Guidelines, its time frame and Quality requirements etc.
• Responsible for strategic planning, risk analysis and client management.
• Integrate all the project plan across organization to ensure optimum utilization of resources and maximization of profits.
• Trouble-shooting and corrective measures where needed, to ensure Planning and production roll-out smoothly. Conduct CAPA (Corrective actions and preventive measures) in order to reduce the rework resulting in more.

Noida Area, India

• Applying Six Sigma Practices to increase the Dataset Acceptance rate to 100% and reduce the Dataset Delivery Delay to 0 days
• Monitor and analyse current processes and define improvement actions to increase production efficiency.
• Develop process flows, methods and procedures, training-packages suitable for the defined target groups to ensure thorough knowledge transfer from the technical to the operational departments
• Organize, co-ordinate, train, follow-up, support on aftercare and report on Project implementation to ensure smooth process integration on the production floor.
• Risk Management and Root Cause Analysis with project team.

Noida Area, India

• Managing a group of 14-15 Peoples, 1st Line support to team. Annual Appraisals and Monthly review/feedback of their performances.
• Ensuring team motivation, discipline and building team spirit.
• Project management and co-ordination, Planning and Resource allocations for the concerned Production Line, in order to ensure project milestones dates and releases
• Resource planning for the Quarter and further on weekly basis.
• Task scheduling and follow-up of assigned project in order to ensure timely and Quality Product.
• Trouble shooting on assigned Project. Weekly meeting with Quality Controller(s) on evaluating individuals and team quality results, assessing training needs.

Mba, Hr & Operations

Bachelor'S Degree, B.Com(Hons)

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