Abhishek Mani
Greater Noida
Summary
Results-driven Senior Product and Data Analytics Leader with over 12 years of experience in delivering digital products and analytics platforms across Finance & Accounting, insurance, and infrastructure. Expertise in product discovery, roadmap execution, and stakeholder management, translating business needs into scalable solutions. Led cross-functional teams to achieve outcomes in reporting automation, audit transformation, and finance governance, leveraging AI solutions and modern technology stacks.
Overview
2
2
Languages
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Manager - Digital Transformation & Analytics
EXL Service
11.2024 - Current
- Drove global reporting transformation, converting manual reporting into automated, self-service analytics products, improving accessibility and insights.
- Led product and analytics strategy for enterprise F&A solutions, enhancing decision-making through embedded BI capabilities.
- Partnered with business and technical stakeholders to identify product opportunities, prioritise initiatives, and deliver scalable enterprise solutions that meet organisational needs.
Manager - Product & Insights
EXL Service
01.2023 - 10.2024
- Facilitated product decisions on automation, adoption, and reporting efficiency, contributing to strategic objectives and improved outcomes.
- Designed interactive analytics dashboards that improved forecasting accuracy by 18%.
- Led solution discovery, requirement analysis, and stakeholder discussions for new digital products in F&A workflows, ensuring alignment with business needs.
Lead Assistant Manager - Digital Transformation
EXL Services
10.2021 - 12.2022
- Revamped legacy BI solutions, increasing user adoption by 35%.
- Directed AP/AR analytics initiatives, reducing reconciliation time by 20%.
- Collaborated with Fortune 500 clients including Amex, KPMG, Hexagon, and Apple Green to create tailored Power BI solutions.
Business Operations Analyst III - Global Migration Projects
Rackspace Technologies
12.2020 - 10.2021
- Migrated critical Excel-based reports to Power BI, reducing manual effort by 40%.
- Created KPI models for monitoring churn, resource availability, and revenue performance, enabling data-driven decision-making.
- Collaborated with EMEA leadership on workload migration and infrastructure modernisation to enhance operational efficiency.
Team Leader - Data & Analytics
MetLife GOSC
01.2019 - 12.2020
- Served as Product Owner for internal data and analytics platforms, enabling real-time monitoring of 145 global servers.
- Streamlined SQL-based workflows into BI dashboards, removing reliance on manual query runs.
- Developed a patch forecasting module, enhancing security compliance timelines.
Project Coordinator Specialist
MetLife GOSC
01.2018 - 12.2018
- Managed multi-regional projects across IT, operations, and product teams, ensuring alignment and communication across all stakeholders.
- Developed centralized utilization tracking tools, enhancing visibility into team capacity and enabling more informed project planning.
Sr. Associate & Associate - Finance Quality Operations
MetLife GOSC
06.2013 - 12.2017
- Delivered AP/AR operational reports and generated insights to enhance payment issuance accuracy.
- Developed SOPs for payment processes, ensuring compliance and streamlining training for new staff.
- Trained junior associates in proper procedures, team policies and strategies for success.
- Reviewed work of junior associates, identified knowledge gaps, corrected mistakes and recommended changes to prevent future mistakes and improve performance.
- Managed data collection, visualisation and reporting for projects of different scale and applications.
Education
MBA - AI & ML
DPU Pune
Maharashtra07-2026
Skills
- Product strategy
- Product discovery
- Product Roadmap
- AI leadership
- AI decision support
- Business intelligence
- Data analysis
- Azure AI Foundry
- Microsoft Copilot
- Data visualisation
- Microsoft Power Platforms
- Microsoft Fabric
- Power BI
- Tableau
- AWS QuickSight
- SQL
- Advanced Excel
- Power Query
- AP/AR analytics
- Reconciliation
- Workflow orchestration
- Automation solutions
- Requirement analysis
- Solution design
- Enterprise analytics
- Cross-functional execution
- Agile delivery
- Process improvement
- Change Management
- Project management
- Stakeholder management
- Stakeholder engagement
- Interdepartmental Collaboration
- Agentic AI and Automation
- Enterprise integration exposure
- Regulatory Compliance Oversight
- Data decision-making
- Process optimisation
Languages
English
Hindi
Custom
- Finance Control Tower, Designed and led productionization of an AI-powered analytics product for real-time financial monitoring and governance.
- Contract Lifecycle Management Tool, Built an automated solution that streamlined contract drafting, execution, and compliance tracking, reducing cycle time by 30%.
- T&E Audit Automation Platform, Delivered an analytics-driven product using agentic AI to improve fraud detection accuracy by 25% and accelerate validation.
- Agentic AI Product Portfolio, Led development of agentic AI solutions using LangGraph and CrewAI across finance and compliance domains.
- Enterprise BI Transformation, Migrated manual and legacy reporting to modern BI dashboards, reducing turnaround time by over 40% and increasing business adoption.
Hobbies and interests
Outdoor sports, especially cricket and football.
Reading thought pieces and research papers on complex topics.
Visiting museums and exploring forest reserves and wildlife safaris.
Timeline
Senior Manager - Digital Transformation & Analytics
EXL Service
11.2024 - Current
Manager - Product & Insights
EXL Service
01.2023 - 10.2024
Lead Assistant Manager - Digital Transformation
EXL Services
10.2021 - 12.2022
Business Operations Analyst III - Global Migration Projects
Rackspace Technologies
12.2020 - 10.2021
Team Leader - Data & Analytics
MetLife GOSC
01.2019 - 12.2020
Project Coordinator Specialist
MetLife GOSC
01.2018 - 12.2018
Sr. Associate & Associate - Finance Quality Operations
MetLife GOSC
06.2013 - 12.2017
MBA - AI & ML
DPU Pune