Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Career Interests
Accomplishments
Industries Worked In
Geographies Worked In
Team Size Handled
Applications Tools Known
Key Consultant
Certifications Trainings Attended
Summary
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Affiliations
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Akshay Farde

Akshay Farde

Kalyan

Summary

Senior Account Manager with expertise in stakeholder management and intelligent automation delivery. Proven ability to enhance process efficiency and lead successful project transitions. Proficient in project management and committed to delivering exceptional service through effective collaboration with cross-functional teams. Approachable and outgoing problem-solver with a talent for cultivating successful creative methods of increased profits and efficiency. Proven ready to take on a long-term position with up to several clients accounts in parallel.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. Account Manager (Intelligent Automation)

Percipere Consulting
05.2021 - Current
  • Company Overview: Percipere Consulting India Pvt. Ltd.
  • Develop and foster relationship with top tier accounts and Product AE's.
  • Assisted creative and marketing team in delivering the campaigns for Intelligent Automation and Innovations.
  • Build competency material for the Intelligent Automation, Process Mining and Innovations.
  • Participated in client campaign events and calls to advance the mission to the clients.
  • Collaborated with sales department to understand client objectives, strategies and goals.
  • Co-ordinating for compiling competency decks and modulating as per the client pitch. Being an integral part of the Intelligent Automation competency calls for new clients.
  • Conduct/oversee the RFP cycle, ensuring closure and swift onboarding for the new accounts and customers.
  • Guided product selection, pricing and inventory for client purchases.
  • Support new partners to setup the COE and the Automation pipeline to achieve desired ROI targets.
  • Managing portfolio of existing clients, ensuring closure on the SOWs for new automation pipeline, project effectiveness and smooth delivery of the Intelligent Automation & Process Mining projects.
  • Ensuring the Project Planning, Change control, Financial Management and Program Risks and Issues are managed.
  • Identified new business opportunities within accounts and crafted business plans to address the opportunities.
  • Own and maintain the Program portfolio for existing and new clients.
  • Managed key expenses to establish budgeted targets.
  • Percipere Consulting India Pvt. Ltd.

Sr. Business Analyst (RPA)

Quality Kiosk Technologies
03.2019 - 05.2021
  • Ensuring all governance requirements are met within Programmes / Projects.
  • Co-ordinating compilation of project management reports; developing and maintaining programme and project files from supplied actual and forecast data.
  • Manage the day to day operations of the PMO Delivery team, escalating issues to management when necessary.
  • Liaison with individual project team to gather project status, establish dashboard to track project progress.
  • Collating and quality assuring presentations for Program Status, Board and Steering Committee meetings.
  • Conduct/oversee Project planning with Stakeholders, prioritize new/existing projects and allocate Project Management resources consistent with business strategy and objectives.
  • Support Planning, Change Control and Financial Management processes.
  • Ensuring Programme Risks and Issues are being managed and maintained.
  • Developing, producing and maintaining of time, resource, cost and exception plans.
  • Liaison between the project teams and clients, schedule weekly/monthly meetings with respective stakeholders.
  • Track current and future Program resource assignments and highlight RMG Team with the actions required.
  • Own and maintain the Program Portal and schedule Program communications meetings.
  • Manage Program on and off-boarding process, co-ordinate with the sales for PO expiry and resource requirements.

Senior Analyst / Team Lead (Project & Service Management)

Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd.
05.2016 - 03.2019
  • Working with clients standardize Daily / Weekly / Monthly / Financial reporting / Ad-hoc reports.
  • Performance reporting and analysis, working on SLA designing and reporting for F&A Projects.
  • Liaising with operations and client for migration / mobilization / transition of projects.
  • Monthly Financial review for penalties / earn back based on the performance to align with contractual terms.
  • Preparing Monthly Governance Decks for Clients for Monthly calls and meetings.
  • Scheduling Governance meetings and conducting monthly reviews with clients and operational teams.
  • Liaising with the clients, SDL's, GSDL's, client leadership and stake holders.
  • Performing base-lining review and trend analysis with the clients and stakeholders.
  • Liaising with the Operations team for Process Automation scope and delivering the same.

Financial Analyst - Team Lead

XL Dynamics India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2013 - 04.2016
  • Working on financial analysis and QC of the daily process reporting.
  • Design new process and prepare SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) as per the process requirement.
  • Handling projects and process implementation to comply with the investor / state guidelines.
  • Documentation and regulation of the processes and projects.
  • Transition of Projects, handling end to end projects per the requirements from the stakeholders.
  • Worked on Efficiency improvement of the processes handled.
  • Participating in meetings with senior management and other team leaders, implementation of key matrix to work towards company's goals.

Education

MBA - Project Management

University of Wales
London, UK
01.2011

BHTMS -

University of Mumbai
Navi Mumbai
01.2009

Skills

  • Stakeholder management in account settings
  • Project governance with intelligent automation
  • RPA implementation and design expertise
  • Development with change management skills
  • Service delivery through effective mobilization
  • Transition strategies for successful transformation
  • Quality assurance in operations management
  • People leadership in business development
  • Process efficiency improvements across projects
  • Proficient in Microsoft Project, Office Suite, Adobe, Visio
  • Data visualization with Power BI, UiPath expertise
  • Familiarity with SAP Signavio, ASPNET, DBMS, SQL Server, WCF

Certification

  • PMP
  • Prince 2 Agile (Foundation and Practitioner)
  • Licensed Scrum Master
  • UiPath Certified

Career Interests

  • Account Management
  • Service Delivery Manager
  • Change / Transition Management
  • Process Improvement Specialist / Manager
  • Process Excellence Manager
  • Continuous Improvement Manager
  • Operations Excellence
  • Process Automation Manager
  • Business Consultant

Accomplishments

$1200M+ worth of savings via Intelligent automations, Improved CSAT from 4.1/5 to 4.8/5, GSM score to Excellent, Improved turnaround time by 80-90% through RPA enabled processes - 200+ Bots deployed, Successful mobilization of Go live of client project in 6 Phases

Industries Worked In

  • Banking and Financial Services
  • Technology
  • Service Management

Geographies Worked In

  • APAC (Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan)
  • Europe (London, UK, Bratislava)
  • ANZ (Australia and New Zealand)
  • US (New York, California, Houston)

Team Size Handled

30, 30, 15, 15

Applications Tools Known

  • MS Project
  • MS Office
  • UI Path
  • MS-Visio
  • Power BI
  • Google Analytics
  • SAP Power Automate

Key Consultant

Key Consultant in COE Setup, SLA Base-lining and Governance Framework Designing

Certifications Trainings Attended

  • Prince 2 Agile - Foundation and Practitioner Certified
  • RPA Implementation Manager Foundation
  • Specialized AI
  • AI Powered Automation
  • RPA Business Analyst
  • RPA Pre-Sales
  • RPA Implementation Methodology

Summary

12, RPA-Intelligent Automation, AI, Continuous Improvement, Stakeholder Management, Transition planning, Change Management, Governance, Service Delivery

Dissertation

An analysis of Critical Success Factors for Software Projects, Waterfall v/s Agile SDLC

Affiliations

  • Awarded Outstanding Client Management Award in the Annual R&R 2025
  • Felicitated as Best performer of the Year - Infinity Round of Applause

Websites

Timeline

Sr. Account Manager (Intelligent Automation)

Percipere Consulting
05.2021 - Current

Sr. Business Analyst (RPA)

Quality Kiosk Technologies
03.2019 - 05.2021

Senior Analyst / Team Lead (Project & Service Management)

Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd.
05.2016 - 03.2019

Financial Analyst - Team Lead

XL Dynamics India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2013 - 04.2016

MBA - Project Management

University of Wales

BHTMS -

University of Mumbai

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