ANKIT KUMAR LAL
Senior Consultant & Project Manager
Bangalore
Summary
Multi-faceted & accomplished professional with a soundtrack record of achievements in the field of data analysis, financial operations, strategy, Operations Management, targeting challenging assignments. To seek a challenging assignment in any Industry with a progressive organization that will fully utilize my skills, knowledge and professional experience and help me reach higher echelons.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Consultant & Project Manager- Unit planning & Management
Infosys Ltd
01.2022 - Current
- Reduced subcontractor costs by 18% through in-house training programs.”
- “Forecasted growth trajectories that improved planning accuracy by 15%.”
- Improving the unit margins and aligning it to the targets set at the company levels.
- Forecasting the growth & preparing the trajectories to provide the insights of performance at different levels.
- Capabilities in ensuring smooth functioning of Business operations, enhancing operational efficiency & resource utilization, adhering to SLAs and revenue tracking.
- Interact with client stakeholders to understand their problems, define the problem statement . Understanding the scope of the engagement and drive projects to deliver value to the client.
- Coordinating with higher management and all stakeholders by preparing the plans to achieve the targets.
- Able to analyze data and identify patterns, actions for management attention.
- Designed business plans for the unit and helped in increase of both top line and bottom line.
- Ensuring to improve the profitability by minimizing the cost centers.
- Work with process owners and users of the process to ensure that the process metrics are met in respective units.
Senior Associate Consultant – Strategic Planning & Assurance
Infosys Ltd
05.2018 - 12.2021
- Consolidate and prepare trends of various operational and financial information to develop quarterly plans across units. Identify opportunities wherein margin can be improved.
- Understanding of key operational and financial levers of the units and how they impact unit performance.
- Work On cost Optimization tracks for enhancing margins.
- Minimizing the subcontractor’s cost by training & engaging more inhouse employees.
- Monitor, track, and report individual operational & financial metrics to ensure minimum gap between goals and actuals.
- Analyze MIS reports to come up with past trends and other key insights.
- Create trend charts and other visualization to ensure maximum insights from the dashboards.
- Track and report various revenue and AR related parameters.
- Follow up with sales to minimize revenue leakage by quarter end.
- Projections for coming quarters to visualize the trends on margins, revenue, cost & manpower.
- Work in various process adherence tracks to achieve Business assurance within the units.
Summer Intern
Aditya Birla Retail Limited
04.2017 - 05.2017
- Used different process improvement methods to identify & reduce damage & also increase the efficiency of the process.
- Given recommendations for the scope of improvement.
- Implemented 2 recommendations
- Title: Merchandise damage to reduce to 0.1% of total sales
- Duration: 2 months
Production Coordinator
VBL Innovations Pvt Ltd
11.2014 - 05.2016
- Planning the production process with the allocated resources to meet the daily target through resource & capacity planning.
- Ensuring timely delivery and quality products to the customers.
- Working closely with quality assurance to achieve best quality.
- Prepare and analyze various reports to come up with past trends and other key insights.
- Achieving operational excellence using various tools like 5S, TPM.
- Working with various teams like new product development, HR and Sales to minimize the demand supply gap.
- Performance management of all supervisors and workers to enhance their ability & capacity to improve the production.
- Implementation of preventive maintenance to reduce the downtime.
Education
PGDM - Operations & Supply chain
Balaji Institute of modern management
01.2018
B. Tech - Mechanical Engineering
Visvesvaraya Technological University
01.2013
XII - Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
CBSE
01.2009
X - General
ICSE
01.2007
Skills
Data-driven business insights
Budgeting and forecasting
Process optimization
Strategic corporate planning
Subcontractors management
Expense tracking and analysis
Project management
Teamwork mindset
Financial management
Power BI
Accolades/Co-curricular Activities
- Best Business enabler function at Infosys for 2020 & 2022.
- President of Student Council in PGDM course.
- Bagged 1st position in Inter college group dance competition held at Pune, Maharashtra.
- Served as sports captain of my engineering college and represented college at various levels.
Timeline
Senior Consultant & Project Manager- Unit planning & Management
Infosys Ltd
01.2022 - Current
Senior Associate Consultant – Strategic Planning & Assurance
Infosys Ltd
05.2018 - 12.2021
Summer Intern
Aditya Birla Retail Limited
04.2017 - 05.2017
Production Coordinator
VBL Innovations Pvt Ltd
11.2014 - 05.2016
B. Tech - Mechanical Engineering
Visvesvaraya Technological University
XII - Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
CBSE
X - General
ICSE
PGDM - Operations & Supply chain
Balaji Institute of modern management