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Certification
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ACHAIAH CC

ACHAIAH CC

Global Process Owner
Bangalore

Summary

Ingenious and determined Accounts Payable Process Owner with proven experience in Business Transformation, process re-engineering , change management and optimization. Grew the revenue by 20% a year and reduced lead times by 12%. Optimized process & saved over 40000$ per year . Innovated and lead new processes and positively impacted profit margins, efficiency and quality. Experienced in leading and managing Global Projects, Transitions and Process deployment

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications

Work History

Global Process Owner

Accenture Solutions Pvt.Ltd
02.2023 - Current
  • Understand the business, priorities and leadership agenda
  • Develop and assess Transformation vision and Identify capability gaps and Plan Journey Management
  • Lead and Deliver Procurement transformation projects such as cost reduction, Sourcing optimization and Procurement transformation
  • Translate market trends into industry competitive advantage and Transform the S2P process to a profitable and sustainable growth
  • Drive Sales, Revenue and Profitability for the practice
  • Align Right teams and capabilities to enable successful transformation
  • Coach team members on activities on as-is process and maturity assessment, opportunity identification, business case and roadmap creation
  • Enhance overall quality by enforcing rigorous quality control procedures
  • Report issues to higher management with great detail

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Assistant Manager (Business Consulting)

EY GDS India LLP
10.2021 - 01.2023

Senior Consultant: Project Management

  • Budget and Actuals Analysis
  • Opportunity and Pipeline Management
  • Create SoW and Managing SoW Amendments
  • Financial summary reporting
  • Performance Dashboards & Margin Analysis
  • Expense Tracking and Invoice reconciliation
  • Investment Tracking and reporting
  • Data Sanitization

India Process Owner

Capgemini India Pvt Ltd
06.2017 - 10.2021

Accounts Payable India Process owner

(Process Standardization & Process Re-Engineering)

  • Directed business process change and Compose process design and improvement plan with co-owners
  • Analyze process model and explore opportunity for process improvements
  • Standardize process steps across countries and same ERP
  • Process mapping and FMEA (Failure Mode & Effect Analysis) activities on the process
  • Conduct thorough current state analysis and future state roadmap of processes/projects and prioritize them based on current business needs
  • Break down work into manageable and measurable task/activity, estimating time and costs appropriately


People Leadership

  • Engaged in on-boarding candidates with right skillset
  • Manage, Train and Develop team (Managed team size of 30)
  • Perform half yearly/yearly appraisals and share the performance feedback with the individuals
  • Develop individuals for their next role by providing timely feedback on performance and supporting in self improvisation


Service Delivery

  • Set and manage realistic , deliverable expectations with clients
  • Assessing operational and financial risks in the process and manage cost and revenue
  • Proactively develop and implement efficiency improvements
  • Ensuring delivery of Quality Process in alignment with client requirement
  • Drive projects from conception through implementation
  • Settle large and complex problems, strengthen relationship with client


Stakeholder Management

  • Proactively act to understand client needs and offer assistance even when not asked
  • Lead client meetings and operational review meeting
  • Maintain issue log , create monthly dashboards and resolve issues in timely manner


Senior Process Lead

Hewlett-Packard Global Soft Pvt Ltd
11.2009 - 06.2017

Process

  • Fostered VMD (Vendor Master Data) process
  • Facilitated Invoice processing process
  • Assisted and lead Procurement process


Performance Optimization

  • Excel in the environments that calls for meeting deadlines and key participation as a Testing Lead in paperless project :Conversion from Paper to E-mail and EDI
  • Deployed ST 162: New status code implementation for all regions in SA.
  • Successfully closed remote transition for VMD and credits with 100 % accuracy.


Education

B.com -

BHS First Grade College Bangalore

Skills

Innovation

  • Proficient in identifying and driving projects to improve cost margins to company and improved process for clients
  • Proven skills in process Standardization and Automation resulted in increased efficiency to clients

Client Management Acquisition and Development

  • Proven experience in transition plan development and project management
  • Experience in developing potential business opportunities and implementing strategic alliances with key business partners

People and Business Leadership

  • Proficient in managing & leading teams to run successful business operations
  • Business presentations and service standards for business excellence
  • Proven abilities in Leadership, Talent Development and Customer Relationship Management

Technical Skills

  • Microsoft Office - Excel and Power Point
  • ERP systems : SAP 74, SAP Hana, Basware, Ariba, IBM MochaNet,
  • Jira and Sharepoint

Projects

Accenture Solutions Private Limited

1.E-invoicing Project - Global Deployment of Ariba Network - Reduced workflow and Digitized Buying - (Resulted in Savings of 11 FTE's) 

  • Integrate supplier internal systems to business network to ease invoicing - End to end auomated flow
  • Flip PO and Punch out catalog deployment to ease buying
  • Align Country specifice rules and create supplier groups to drive automated invoice processing


Capgemini India Private Ltd, 

1.NOPO Coding Automation - Efficient process, reduced workflow - (Resulted in savings of 3 FTE's)

  • Elaborate a NOPO Standard process guideline includes NOPO exception list and pre approved coding list
  • Defined Business and technical requirements to perform automated NOPO exception check and auto coding of NOPO invoices


2.Automatch Project: Improved Auto match rate for top 5 volume countries by 20% (Resulting in Savings of 4 FTE's)

  • Touchless invoice processing Basware and VIM for 5 countries in Europe
  • Discussed and confirmed recommendations to be implemented with Delivery & Client GPO
  • Documented issues and provided mitigation actions, Increased auto match rate


3.Automated Invoice Rejection Process: E-RTV in Basware , SAP & Q2R tool robotization

  • Analyzed data of volume of invoice rejections
  • Finalized invoice rejection guideline across regions
  • Defined business and technical requirements and technical documentation for RPA


Hewlett Packard Global Soft Pvt Ltd

1.Paperless Project: Implementation of Electronic invoicing and Email scanning

  • Testing lead in the project to assist and capture electronic invoices in Kofax
  • Eliminated data entry levels using automatic recognition
  • Automatically trigger electronic invoice scanning and processing approval workflows for on time payment


Accomplishments

Revenue, Sales and Zafiro

  • Achieved a Maximum 4 rating in VOU survey from Onshore Team - within a span of 4 months of tenure in project
  • Cost Savings of 40K $ in 2023 through Transformation and process optimization.
  • Cost Savings of 32K € in 2020 through automation and process optimization.
  • Increased Revenue of 34K € to the company's budget in sales and process automation in 2020.
  • Increased revenue of 77K € in 2021 by influencing client for additional projects & new business opportunities.


Awards and Recognitions

  • Outstanding performer as a PM in 2022
  • Value Creator award in Q2 2021 and in Q4 2020
  • Outstanding team leader in 2018.
  • Champion Leader in Q1 2017.
  • YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE award in Q1 2015 & Q3 2014 under Process Lead category

Certification

Scrum Master

Transition

ONSITE

Italy Basware Implementation

  • Transition to Italy on new ERP implementation & new BU transfer. Formulated and signed off for SOP & DTP.
  • Tracked action log with all issues and resolved open invoices.
  • Excursion to procurement site to showcase how the current ERP set- up is & resolved all open Invoices


VIRTUAL

Latin America Process Transition (15 FTE ,14K Volume, Year 2020-21

  • 6 Countries process transition. Invoice processing ,T&E and Payments processes training and documentation sign off.
  • Shadowing and Reverse shadowing of the processes
  • Go live in 2 Months and in 3 phases.


Timeline

Global Process Owner

Accenture Solutions Pvt.Ltd
02.2023 - Current

Scrum Master

09-2022

Agile Basics

04-2022

Assistant Manager (Business Consulting)

EY GDS India LLP
10.2021 - 01.2023

India Process Owner

Capgemini India Pvt Ltd
06.2017 - 10.2021

Senior Process Lead

Hewlett-Packard Global Soft Pvt Ltd
11.2009 - 06.2017

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BHS First Grade College Bangalore
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