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Karthik Dayalan

Karthik Dayalan

Bangalore

Summary

Focused and goal-oriented professional over 18 Years of Comprehensive Experience in Process Transitions, Operations Management, Project Management, Software Implementations, and Leadership in Various Technical Projects. Skilled Developing Digital Strategies, Objectives, Vision & Roadmap to Enable Growth & Business Agility.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Manager

Novo Nordisk Service Centre India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
01.2020 - 01.2024
  • Aligned system strategy with industry digital advancements to overcome ongoing operational difficulties.
  • Conceptualized systems vision and roadmap through comprehensive market research.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional leaders to identify business challenges.
  • Coordinated entire system life cycle from defining strategy through tactical execution to final launch.
  • Oversaw contract management, negotiations, and procurement for software and related services with third-party providers.
  • Established clear targets for teams and individuals based on overarching business goals.
  • Led initiatives on Diversity & Inclusion and Organizational Development Programs to foster team connectivity.
  • Led agile scrum framework activities including backlog grooming, daily scrums, and retrospectives.
  • Adhered to SLAs while setting out high standards and facilitating a superior customer experience through quality system implementation.
  • Integrated advanced AI/ML tools into the Finance ecosystem to drive digital transformation.

Project Manager

Novo Nordisk Service Centre India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
10.2015 - 12.2019
  • Developed system implementation roadmap, planning, budgeting, execution and post implementation support through system management protocols.
  • Directed architectural and design activities to adapt to complex business needs.
  • Successfully implemented SAP Concur expense management system for 54 affiliates and ICE implementation for more than 20 affiliates
  • Performed due diligence with subject matter experts in affiliates to understand the current process and identify process gaps/changes for defining future process
  • Driven onsite workshop with relevant stakeholders to finalise the complete system design requirements (Finance and Accounts, Human Resources, TAX advisory and compliance team
  • Coordinate all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning
  • Identify external/internal project risks, technical challenges and ensure effective mitigation plan is in place
  • Liaising between developers and project stakeholders; fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines

Team Leader

Novo Nordisk Service Centre India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
04.2011 - 09.2015
  • Transitioned and sustained global processes for Accounts Payables and Travel & Expense out in Shared Service Centre
  • Managed Accounts Payables and Travel & Expense Auditing teams on service delivery and quality management
  • Assign daily and monthly activities to the team members and make sure the deliverables are met by each team members
  • Monthly connects with line of business across all regions, reviewing operational status of respective affiliates, collecting feedback and taking corrective actions, where necessary
  • Setting of operational goals, yearly review, monitoring of performance and providing timely feedback/direction to ensure high performance of team members
  • Training, coaching and motivating the Team Members to achieve better standards of work and supporting them to be independent in managing assigned responsibilities
  • Responsible for driving annual internal audit controls for Invoices, vendor master data and travel & reimbursement claims reports to make sure reports are within the company policies and compliance
  • Diliver reports (annual, monthly and weekly standards as well as adhoc) to business and leadership on policy review, issues, delinquencies, fraud, suspect vendors, spend patterns, trends, etc
  • Identified and driven six sigma project and achieved process improvement using DMAIC approach
  • Analysed and cleared long pending open items in GL account and stood at 98% clearance rate
  • Implemented workflow tool for administrating Corporate Card Limit and Currencies for international Travel. This tool benefited around 2000+ shared service centre employees and eliminated manual work for department admins

Process Specialist

Novo Nordisk Service Centre India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
04.2007 - 03.2011
  • Transition of Accounts Payables process from Denmark to India as part of shared service centre set up in 2007. Continued to be part of transition team for North America and Other Europe Regions
  • Vendor master data creation, changes and administration of quality and compliance
  • Timely resolution of customer queries and establish good relationships with line of business and suppliers
  • Providing process induction trainings to new joiners and regular monitoring of process SOP’s and standard documentation practice
  • Managed process improvement awareness initiative across team to cultivate process improvement mindset
  • Identified and driven process improvement project and achieved process efficiency using DMAIC approach to reduce price, quantity and delivery date block volume to reduce manual intervention

Senior AP Analyst

Flextronics Technologies India Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore
03.2005 - 12.2006
  • Handled daily operations, including Vendor Invoice Processing and PO/non-PO invoices in BAAN ERP system.
  • Ensured Internal & External customer query handling and maintain good relationships with suppliers to resolve issue
  • Acted as SPOC and actively initiate and participate in improvements to sustain a highly effective and efficient process
  • Proactively challenged the Status Quo, making fact-based recommendations, identify and suggest process improvements

Education

MBA - Accounting And Finance

Sikkim Manipal University (SMU)
Bangalore
03-2013

B.Com - Accounting And Finance

Bangalore University
Bangalore
04-2004

Skills

  • Project Management
  • Program Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Service Delivery Management
  • Change Management
  • Operations Management
  • People Management
  • Product Management
  • Digital Transformation
  • Transition Management

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Master ®
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner ®
  • Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
  • Pursuing – SAP HANA FICO

Projects Delivered

SAP Concur: Travel and Expense Management System Implementation

Objective: To streamlines the capturing, submitting, and approval of employee expenses, resulting in reduced time and effort spent on expense management and minimizing manual errors. It increases visibility into spending patterns, empowering organizations to make informed and strategic decisions. Additionally, to provides improved control over employee expenses, ensuring compliance with company policies and regulations. The user-friendly interface simplifies expense reporting and approval, and users can conveniently manage expenses on-the-go with the system's mobile accessibility. 

Highlight: Global implementation across North America, Europe and APAC and reduced dependency on administrative tasks and 100% digitalization

AppZen: AI powered Travel and Expense Auditing System Implementation

Objective: The primary objective of the implementation is to integrate SAP Concur system to AppZen expense audit system to perform automatic audit to detect any fraudulent or non-compliant expense claims submitted by employees. The system uses AI and machine learning to identify anomalies in expense reports, ensuring that all expenses claimed by employees are genuine and accurately represented. Secondly using AI and machine learning to automate the expense auditing process, save valuable time spent manually reviewing thousands of expense reports.

Highlight: Global implementation across North America, Europe and APAC, efficiency and 100% audit compliance

Salesforce CRM and Chat bot Implementation

Objective: CRM ticketing tool and chatbot project is to enhance customer service and support by implementing a virtual assistant or chatbot. The chatbot is designed to communicate with customers and provide assistance for their queries and concerns. The goal is to create a ticketing solution that offers immediate support for customer inquiries and helps to reduce customer service response time while improving the customer experience. 

Highlight: Transparency to end users, reduced support team workload, improved analytics, and reporting’s

SAP Workflow Automation: Journal Entry Workflow

Objective: The main goal of the Promenta JE workflow tool is to automate the journal entry creation process, resulting in reduced time and effort required for this task. The tool also establishes a clear and consistent workflow to standardize journal entry creation, leading to enhanced accuracy and efficiency. Moreover, it provides better visibility into journal entries, empowering finance teams to monitor progress and make informed decisions. Additionally, the tool offers improved control over journal entries, ensuring compliance with both company policies and regulatory requirements. 

Highlight: Reduced manual work for end users, approvers, and accounting teams

Timeline

Manager

Novo Nordisk Service Centre India Pvt Ltd
01.2020 - 01.2024

Project Manager

Novo Nordisk Service Centre India Pvt Ltd
10.2015 - 12.2019

Team Leader

Novo Nordisk Service Centre India Pvt Ltd
04.2011 - 09.2015

Process Specialist

Novo Nordisk Service Centre India Pvt Ltd
04.2007 - 03.2011

Senior AP Analyst

Flextronics Technologies India Pvt. Ltd
03.2005 - 12.2006
  • Certified Scrum Master ®
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner ®
  • Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
  • Pursuing – SAP HANA FICO

MBA - Accounting And Finance

Sikkim Manipal University (SMU)

B.Com - Accounting And Finance

Bangalore University
Karthik Dayalan