Ashish Kumar
Summary
Driven and detail-oriented resource management specialist with a proven track record in optimizing efficiency, reducing costs, and ensuring the effective allocation of resources. Adept at analyzing operational needs, developing strategic plans, and implementing data-driven solutions to maximize productivity. Skilled in stakeholder communication, risk assessment, and process improvement to support organizational growth and sustainability.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Consultant 2
EY GDS
08.2022 - Current
- Leading Digital Risk consulting function.
- Analyze the demand pipeline and make proactive decisions to scale capacity effectively.
- Optimize resource allocation using repeat client trends to enhance account continuity.
- Improve resource utilization by mitigating staffing shortages, lowering non-billable hours, and adjusting staffing for peak workloads.
- Program Management Governance – Create, update, review, improve, and track compliance to program /project management standards.
- Meticulously developed reports that provide insightful and actionable data, highlighting key performance indicators, trends, and opportunities (Capacity Analysis, Repeat Client Analysis, Pyramid Mix, Integration Report, Sector Reporting, Variance Report, Fragmented & Consistent Availability and many more.)
- Strategic planning and resource allocation.
- Define standards for adoption by organization, assess gaps and implement the standard.
- Executing system enhancements with requirement capturing and deployment for addition features along with development teams.
- Leading internal improvement initiatives identified time to time for bring in efficiency to the existing system.
- Coordinate with onshore to capture demand pipeline projections, understand demands heuristics and identify actionable demands.
- Governance and continuous improvement of Third-Party Onboarding process along with provisioning and deprovisioning.
- Ensure compliance to WFM business rules, deployment policies, talent policies and regulatory requirements.
- Budget management and cost control.
- Perform demand – supply searches and share best-fit staffing options from internal resource pool/individuals on bench.
- Responsible to meet assigned KPIs such as employee utilization, time to fulfil demand, unfulfilled demand % and bench aging.
- Reporting and analytics on business and Operational KPIs.
PMO
KPMG in India
08.2021 - 08.2022
- Driving Weekly / Monthly Governance review meetings with the stakeholders with defined.
- Analyzing complete project cost, utilization, and its reconciliation.
- Implementing and maintaining a centralized document management system to ensuring common document repository.
- Stakeholder management. Dealing with different stakeholders, from higher KPMG management to vendor management.
- Developing standards and processes for Project Management Office, and track adherence across projects / teams.
- Experience in handling project and resource management system for creating projects, assigning resources and resource onboarding/ offboarding activities, executing billing and charge back mechanism to business.
- Resource budgeting and forecasting based on stakeholder’s requirements.
- Demand Management.
- Job code creation pertaining to resource job profiles.
- Resource Onboarding, offboarding, conversion to payroll (FTE & FTS).
- Collating resource documents for BGV initiation.
- Asset allotment for work from home enablement.
- Resource project allocation for effective timesheet management.
- Reshuffling of resources on projects and service lines.
- Defining onboarding approach for better control and coordination.
- Rate Card preparation for resource cross-charge on monthly, quarterly and yearly basis.
- Maintaining central repository for resource documents.
- Defining onboarding and offboarding processes for resources.
- Catering to project budgets pertaining to resource requirements, development cost, testing etc.
- Operating Rekonnect (Budget Based Oracle Module) to cross-charge consecutively for 5 business functions.
- Facilitating rate-card for resource cost calculation and cross-charge with other business functions.
Order Fulfillment Executive
General Electric (GEPIL)
10.2020 - 08.2021
- Managing and facilitating the NTPC government procurement projects to ensure on-time delivery.
- Ensuring that all goods and services purchased comply with the company’s social sustainability policies.
- Preparation of a sourcing bowler for keeping track of KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators).
- Obtaining quotes from the vendors.
- Negotiation and preparation of a comparison sheet based on L1.
- Revenue Forecasting for FGD Projects (flue gas desulfurization).
- Material tracking with the help of MTA.
- Generating and implementing purchasing strategies.
- Managing purchase requisitions and orders.
- Preparing purchase orders on SAP.
- Managing existing vendor and supplier relationships.
- Responding to internal and external supplier inquiries.
SAP Trainee
VariMile Technologies
10.2019 - 10.2020
- Setting up Enterprise structure in SAP S4 Hana.
- P2P.
- Vendor Onboarding.
- Material Management.
- Process Flow: OTC cycle, from quotation to final invoice.
Education
MBA - Marketing & Operations
Jaipuria Institute of Management
01.2020
B.Sc. - PCM
L.R.P.G College
01.2015
Skills
- Project Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Resource Management
- Vendor Management
- MIS
- Budget Analysis
- Data Analysis
- SAP
- SharePoint
- Power BI
- Resource allocation
- Capacity analysis
- Process optimization
- Compliance management
- Strategic planning
- Financial management
- Performance benchmarking
Accomplishments
- Recognized with '6 SPOT' awards, 1 Pursuing Innovation award, 1 GDS User Recognition, 2 Achiever Extraordinaire & '2 Highest Performing Team' awards in EY GDS.
- Recognized with 'Difference Maker' award for implementing PRMS in KPMG.
Timeline
Senior Consultant 2
EY GDS
08.2022 - Current
PMO
KPMG in India
08.2021 - 08.2022
Order Fulfillment Executive
General Electric (GEPIL)
10.2020 - 08.2021
SAP Trainee
VariMile Technologies
10.2019 - 10.2020
MBA - Marketing & Operations
Jaipuria Institute of Management
B.Sc. - PCM
L.R.P.G College