ARCHANA BEMBULGE
Hyderabad
Summary
Accomplished Professional with 11+ years of experience in Global Transition Management and high-impact corporate roles across Project Management, Business Analysis, and Operations. A strategic specialist with a unique background in Healthcare, Banking, and IT, proven in facilitating end-to-end finance process migrations (P2P, R2R, O2C) from multiple global geographies to Hyderabad-based GCC. Results-driven project manager with expertise in Agile and Scrum methodologies. Successfully led transitions across multiple regions, achieving operational excellence and stakeholder satisfaction.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Assistant Manager
Novartis Healthcare Pvt ltd.
09.2013 - 09.2024
- Transition Management: Orchestrates end-to-end transitions and transformations across the USA, Europe, the Nordics, and the Baltics by leading the full project lifecycle—from initial kick-off and activity mapping to FTE calculation and KT planning. Manages the rigorous development of SOP documentation and ensures critical stakeholder sign-offs through all gates to move processes into Hypercare and defined KPI stability. Drives operational excellence by identifying automation opportunities and collaborating with IT teams to develop digital solutions that enhance business efficiency for the Hyderabad GCC.
- Project Management: Developed and implemented effective project management processes and methodologies, Agile and waterfall, to ensure project success. e.g: Study closeout activity. Patient Visits hormonization for Oncology and Pharma Trials. Optional Visits Tool application. SAP – IMPACT comparison report.
- Stakeholder Management: Worked and collaborated with multiple stakeholders (internal & external) from different regions US, Europe, APAC and Nordics countries. Apart from this worked closely with CRAs, CSMs, BPAs, IT, Finance Hub teams.
- Strategic Decision: Achieved zero errors in a previously underperforming process by aligning it with skilled resources, which led to securing another project from the client. Received appreciation for retaining a critical resource during change management.
- People Management: Managed a team of 5 – 12 members, sharing their growth opportunities, appraisals, KPIs and performance management, Business continuity planning.
- Business Analysis and Designing: worked as BA to implement changes as re-engineering and building new features in existing apps and portal, designing the new apps & share point.
Executive Financial Analyst
UBS/CTS/CSC
Hyderabad
10.2009 - 09.2013
- To share the problem statements of the existing tool called TEM and OPTIMA.
- Analyse the business rules and help the IT team to increase the efficiency and accuracy of the process.
- Reviewed and validated the 'To Be' flow as defined by IT team.
- Demo completed work at sprint review and document release details for UAT and production.
Education
Master's Degree - Business Administration
Osmania University
Bachelor's Degree - Commerce & Computers
Osmania University
Skills
- Conflict management
- GAP Analysis
- Change Management
- Agile and Scrum Methodology
- MS Office
- JIRA
- SAP - ACT
- Optima
- ClinAdmin
- IMPACT
Certification
- Google Agile Project Management – Specialization
- Artificial intelligence for everyone - DeepLearning AI Sponsored by Novartis
Projects
Sandoz Division Spin off, 2023, Supported a short stretch assignment for the Sandoz division's separation from Novartis by collecting data from FRA tower heads of P2P, R2R, T&E, OTC for activity mapping. This was completed prior to the knowledge transfer, in line with HUB Transition Guidelines.
SharePoint for Cluster Countries, 2024, Created SharePoint-based solution and implemented for PO and IP processes. Segregated the project into five key phases—Registration, Documentation, Approvals, Accounting, and Release—the initiative addressed critical challenges and achieved its objectives. The result was a more efficient, error-free, and time-saving process, demonstrating the value of systematic business analysis and technological integration in enhancing operational performance.
Overstated ACT POs - System Limitation, 2024, System limitations in SAP Orders (POs). A root cause analysis uncovered the underlying issues and gaps. In response, new checks and controls were introduced to rectify the process. These changes successfully corrected the overstated PO value, reducing it from USD 41 million to USD 10 million.
GRIR Clean-up project - GAP Analysis, 2022, A gap in the Goods Receipt/Invoice Receipt causing discrepancies and leading to a lengthy 2-hour report generation and analysis time. To address this, a project was initiated to clean up GR IR variances. The project successfully resolved account discrepancies, reducing balances to zero in Denmark 30K SAP ACT transaction code could further streamline the reporting process and reduce analysis time.
Timeline
Assistant Manager
Novartis Healthcare Pvt ltd.
09.2013 - 09.2024
Executive Financial Analyst
UBS/CTS/CSC
10.2009 - 09.2013
Master's Degree - Business Administration
Osmania University
Bachelor's Degree - Commerce & Computers
Osmania University