Deepika Parashar

• Mentorship & Team Leadership: Mentored and led junior team members, ensuring best practices in automation and compliance with global risk standards.
• PwC Digital Community Accelerator: Delivered training on Data Wrangling and Automation Tools, identifying automation opportunities to boost efficiency.
• PwC People Committee Representative: Provided a confidential platform for team members to address concerns, ensuring anonymous communication with leadership.
• Women in Tech (WIT) Program: Engaged in training programs to empower women in tech, promoting knowledge sharing and continuous learning.

Manager (Advisory) | PricewaterhouseCoopers India Acceleration Centre 

June 2024 – Present (4 months)

• Leading a team of 5 automation specialists, delivering impactful solutions using Power Automate, UiPath, Blue Prism, Power BI, and Alteryx, improving process efficiency and saving over 1,000 hours annually.
• Spearheading automation initiatives that have reduced manual processes by 70%, driving significant productivity gains.
• Leveraging 6+ years of RPA expertise to manage the full lifecycle of automation projects, from development to deployment. Demonstrated proficiency in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including requirement gathering, scope analysis, solution design, documentation, testing, and post-deployment maintenance for seamless project execution.

Senior Associate 2 (Advisory) | PricewaterhouseCoopers India Acceleration Centre

January 2022 – June 2024 (2 years 6 months)

• Led a team of 3, successfully delivering over 10 RPA projects (Uipath and Power Automate), cutting processing times by 30% and enhancing data processing speed by 50%.
• Transformed Excel formulas into VBA code, automating workflows and reducing manual work across several processes.
• Applied Alteryx for data preparation and custom macro building, with 4+ years of hands-on experience in analytics and data automation.
• Delivered optimized Tableau dashboards, ensuring performance monitoring and fine-tuning, improving data visualization effectiveness.

Senior Associate (Advisory) | PricewaterhouseCoopers India Acceleration Centre

July 2020 – December 2021 (1 year 6 months)

• Developed and deployed 12+ automation workflows for external clients in finance, healthcare, and education, boosting operational efficiency and cutting error rates by 25%.
• Trained and mentored junior team members, enhancing automation skills and overall team performance.
• Worked on pilot projects using UiPath Process Mining and Abbyy Flexicapture, successfully deploying document automation and classification solutions.
• Led automation projects within a fast-paced Agile environment, enhancing flexibility and collaboration throughout project delivery.
• Managed the creation of Process Definition Documents (PDD), Solution Design Documents (SDD), test cases, change logs, and technical documentation post-UAT. Conducted code reviews for external teams to ensure adherence to quality standards.

Associate 2 (Assurance) | PricewaterhouseCoopers India Acceleration Centre 

July 2018 – June 2020 (2 years)

• Drove automation initiatives using UiPath and Excel VBA, reducing manual effort and shortening turnaround times by 30%.
• Delivered 5+ automation projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure successful integration and seamless execution.

Associate (Assurance) | PricewaterhouseCoopers India Acceleration Centre

October 2016 – June 2018 (1 year 9 months)

• Performed Pre-Audit risk assessments and conducted large-scale data transformations using ACL/Galvanize and SQL, improving data accuracy by 20%.
• Worked extensively with ERP systems including SAP, Oracle, and JD Edwards, ensuring high data integrity and streamlined reporting.

Airline Domain:

• Project Overview: Automated critical processes for managing No Show and Downline Cancellations using UiPath, improving operational efficiency in the airline industry.
• Contribution: Developed automation to handle the fees of no-show passengers, with 30 UiPath robots running daily to process transactions. Also automated the downline cancellation process for passengers whose outbound flight was canceled, ensuring timely adjustments to inbound bookings. This resulted in a 50% reduction in processing time and significantly improved customer experience by reducing manual errors.

Media Domain: 

• Project Overview: Automated the weekly DFP Forecasts upload for an ad operations team, reducing manual effort and error rates in the data extraction and processing workflow.
• Contribution: Automated the extraction, collation, and processing of data from 14 different reports in Google Ad Manager, saving 50 minutes per week. Built and tested an RPA solution that allowed business users to extract data into a standardized template in Google Sheets, automatically updating Tableau dashboards through BigQuery for further insights. This released capacity for teams to focus on insights, improved data quality, and enabled scalability across regions.

Food Delivery Domain:

• Project Overview: Led multiple automation projects for a food delivery client using UiPath, Alteryx and SQL to streamline ERP processes and save hundreds of manual work hours.
• Key Contributions: NetSuite Upload Bot: Developed an unattended UiPath bot that uploads hundreds of files to the client’s ERP, saving 40+ hours of manual work monthly. The automation scales as the company grows, ensuring continual time savings.
  NetSuite Item Set-Up Bot (3 iterations): Led the development of an unattended UiPath bot to upload inventory items per country daily. Enhanced it into 3 country-specific bots, saving the client 1 hour of manual work daily and ensuring real-time ERP updates.
  Physical Inventory Count (PI Count) Process: Designed and built 7 Alteryx workflows and 1 UiPath bot to automate the PI count process. This end-to-end solution improved ERP data accuracy and efficiency, significantly reducing manual labor.

 Landscape Services Domain: 

• Project Overview: Automated fixed asset transfers and disposals for the accounting team, handling the movement of owned and leased assets between branches in CoStar and EOne.
• Contribution: Developed a bot that automates asset transfers and updates between CoStar and EOne, reducing processing time from 12 minutes to 3 minutes per transfer. This automation saves 15 hours monthly (360 hours annually) and an additional 35 hours per bulk upload. During the annual fixed asset audit, the bot saved 105 hours by processing 700 transfers. The automation ensured data alignment between systems, reduced errors, and allowed the team to focus on higher-value tasks like resolving exceptions.

Finance Domain:

• Project Overview: Led automation efforts for various reconciliations and IT General Controls (ITGC) in the finance sector using Alteryx, UiPath, and Power Automate, significantly reducing manual labor.
• Contribution: Automated reconciliations and control processes, ensuring accurate results with minimal human intervention. The ITGC Control Automation saved approximately 800 hours per control, dramatically reducing the time spent on manual audits and improving compliance. The automation streamlined multiple financial processes, enabling teams to focus on higher-value tasks and decision-making.