Merlyn Puneeth

Heading the Resource function for India Professional Services Org overseeing Skills inventory, Staffing, Resource planning, Utilization & Forecasting Capacity planning. Partnering with the India Senior Management to staff 200 Full-Time Equivalent (FTEs) high profiled consultants across 5 specialty delivery practices

• Capacity sourcing and development
• Staffing & forecasting for upcoming projects to be aligned with the strategical plan with senior leadership team
• Prioritize the deployment of available resources driven by customer obsession and ensure least impact to delivery challenges.
• Conduct weekly staffing calls with Practice managers & Sales team to collaborate and facilitate ongoing demand & supply.
• Opportunity & Pipeline Management in Salesforce
• Facilitate Cross Border engagements while staying compliant with Tax & legal guidelines
• Reporting and data analysis of resource utilization including forecasting, variance & time to productivity.

Leading a team of business intelligence professionals who provides analytical and business intelligence support to WW Enterprise Sales Operations

• Responsible for managing team that delivers ad-hoc data and report requests for client group
• Led projects and analyzed data to identify opportunities for improvement, shared recommendations to senior leadership and executives
• Managing the hiring, staffing and maintaining of a diverse and effective workforce
• Responsible for career development/planning, performance and pay discussions of team members

• Built a team of Data Engineers to cater to reporting needs of APJC Sales Operations org.
• Managing projects, or specific activities related to projects within given constraints of time, budget, and quality
• Worked with customers to understand needs and provide excellent service.
• Created spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel for daily, weekly and monthly reporting.

• Supported Global Account Sales Reps on data governance, analytics, score carding and insights for RTB & Programs
• Weekly/Monthly/quarterly reports for review meetings: Actuals vs Plan, Key initiatives tracking, pipeline sufficiency analysis and conversion improvement opportunities
• Delivered adhoc requests for data & insights with quick turnaround
• Partnered with program leads to set up a program monitoring mechanism and review cadence that delivers desired results
• Developed and used sales measurement models and diagnostic tools to help identify sales performance indicators, key areas of opportunity and delivers actionable insights

• Involved in consolidating the summaries of all the reconciliation areas and reporting to Finance Directors in a format that helps them understand and foresee any financial risk for Tesco
• Engaged in audit and control related project on Balance sheet reporting for UK business.
• Designed and built automated reports on a periodic basis that were used for review calls by Finance Directors

Perform quality check on a random basis on all invoice payments made by the Processing team.

Clear and make invoice payments to vendors manually that cannot be screened by the system due to discrepancy in invoice details