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Neeraj R

Neeraj R

Program Manager

Summary

Manager in Ernst and Young with11+ years of project management consulting experience. Expertise in Program level- Management and service delivery. Part of organizational leadership for building new strategies into existing Programs. Experience in managing and guiding teams through demanding deadlines. A future thinking person who comes with significant experience in leading transformation / strategic initiatives, leveraging Consulting skills, Project and Change Management. Exposure of working as a functional lead with Global teams. Leading centralalised PMO team across workstreams. Experience in working with senior executive Team at COO Level.

Program management & Governance ~Strategic planning~ Capacity Management ~ Process Operations.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Program Manager - PMO

Ernst & Young
02.2023 - Current
  • Conducted comprehensive program evaluations, identifying areas for improvement and recommending actionable solutions.
  • Implemented risk management strategies to mitigate potential barriers to portfolio success.
  • Implement leadership reviews into actionable process for all Programs.
  • Planning, directing, and co-ordinating activities to deliver projects from mobilisation through to implementation by leading and overseeing medium to large sized teams of project resources working across multiple workstreams.
  • Leveraged technology tools for enhanced project tracking, reporting, and information sharing among team members.
  • Managed cross-functional teams for successful project completion within deadlines and budgets.
  • Increased client satisfaction through effective communication of program goals and expectations.
  • Established strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring support for program initiatives.
  • Managing team performance, conducting performance reviews.

Project Manager

Ernst and Young
5 2022 - 02.2023

Northern Trust – TLM Reconciliation Project & HeroMotocorp Project

  • Responsible for effective communication between the project team and the Client. Provide day to day direction to the project team and regular project status to the Client.
  • To understand and interpret stakeholder’s high-level requirements and translate into scoping documents that can be used by design teams for BOD and design development. Able to identify, articulate, and drive decisions if scope changes are made. Preparing and presenting analysis, insights and recommendations to senior client stakeholders for decision making.
  • Incidents Tracking and providing Insights to Leadership.
  • Responsible for managing projects execution and implementation Ensure Projects Revenue is on track and forecasting.
  • Generating and circulating timely reports (Daily to Yearly Reports) among various stakeholders & attending status meetings with Org Leadership.
  • Maintaining an objective, fact-based perspective and encouraging teams to display transparency on status and recommend opportunities to improve.

Project Manager

Virtusa - APAC
06.2020 - 04.2022
  • Managing APAC BU Projects 35+ clients, 700+ headcount across 10+ countries.
  • Facilitated seamless transitions between project phases by coordinating activities among various functional groups effectively.
  • Coordinating with CSMs (Country Sales Manager) on weekly basis to check on Pipeline Deals and prepare the Revenue Walk.
  • Resource Management (Allocation/Releases/Attrition/New Hiring) & timely onboarding of new joiners to projects.
  • Ensuring 100% Timesheet Compliance and Invoicing every month to achieve the monthly/quarterly Revenue/Margin targets.
  • Tracking Outstanding Payments and following up with respective CSM to ensure we receive the payment as per due date.
  • Maintaining the list of Missing Work Orders/SOWs and following up with Delivery Leads to make sure we receive all Signed SOWs/POs before quarter end for a risk-free revenue recognition.
  • Driven continuous improvement in project deliveries, measured and analyzed deliveries and performance across project.
  • Managing a team of PMO's and ensuring BU metrics & exceptions are accomplished by our team.


Senior PMO

Virtusa - Global Capabilities
04.2019 - 06.2020
  • Actively played the role of a PM for Central Capability team by managing a pool of 100+ resource, which involved activities like - hiring (onsite/offshore), managing a core & flexi pool.
  • Maintaining the project budget, master schedules, aggregation and summarization of data, on monthly and half yearly status,reporting to DU Head & leadership.
  • Program and project management with detailed project planning, tracking and execution for quality deliverables.
  • Managing Risk & Issues - Risk Analysis, Project Implementation.
  • Responsible for establishing PMO best practices for locations in India.
  • Proficient in supervising & controlling process parameters to ensure compliance is met with the given standards.
  • Organizing training & development programs for new & existing employees for improving the productivity & skillset.
  • Responsible for heading multiple Delivery teams across org.
  • Handling Procurement process for internal & external Clients. Patent filling for new solutions.

PMO

HP Inc
12.2016 - 03.2019
  • Collaborating with other department leaders to define, prioritize, and develop projects.
  • Planning project management, including setting deadlines, prioritizing tasks, and assigning team members to various deliverables.
  • Supports the PMO with preparation of the Weekly Status Reports by ensuring updates are received and reported timely and assisting to QA information.
  • Partners with Project Managers to ensure key documents such as Project Plans, Stakeholder list, RAID and Resource Allocation documents are current.
  • Provided oversight and direction to the employees in the operating process in accordance with the organization's policies and procedures.
  • Achieved recognition from B2B team and internal teams for exceptional performance on yearly goals in 2013,2015 and 2016.


Project Analyst

HP Inc
08.2013 - 12.2016
  • Reports and sales Keeping a track on large Data of warranties of products.
  • Checking clients service level and ensuring output is 100% from the team.
  • Responsible for scoping the business requirements and preparing the Business Requirement document.
  • Baking the productivity report of revenue generated on monthly basis.
  • Collecting, constructing & summarizing data for case specific needs.

Education

MBA - Project Management

Sikkim Manipal University

Skills

Program Management

Career Highlights

  • Data Driven Governance -Spearheaded Data Driven project in governing and successfully establishing one Platform dashboard for Senior Leadership.
  • PMO's Regulation -Lead of a High Performance Team to regulate a set procedure for PMO's across India - Directly approved by Executive Vice President.
  • Received numerous appreciations from internal and external stakeholders for my proactive initiatives, timely support and excellent follow up on project activities

Courses

  • Project Management Development
  • Managing International Projects
  • Fundamentals of Agile Project Management
  • Project Management Foundation

Timeline

Program Manager - PMO

Ernst & Young
02.2023 - Current

Project Manager

Virtusa - APAC
06.2020 - 04.2022

Senior PMO

Virtusa - Global Capabilities
04.2019 - 06.2020

PMO

HP Inc
12.2016 - 03.2019

Project Analyst

HP Inc
08.2013 - 12.2016

Project Manager

Ernst and Young
5 2022 - 02.2023

MBA - Project Management

Sikkim Manipal University
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