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Nirmal K Kumar

Chennai

Summary

Results-driven finance and accounts professional with over 16 years of experience in BPO environments, holding a US visa. Experienced in leading onsite transition teams for process setup in the USA and Romania. Skilled Strategic Sourcing Manager with 7+ years of expertise in global MRO & IT sourcing, direct & indirect purchasing, MDM, contract negotiation, inventory optimization, and new product development. Proven ability in material management, resourcefulness, problem-solving, reasoning, negotiation, and maintaining strong supplier relationships to drive organizational value.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Deputy Manager

Hexaware Technology
01.2022 - 03.2025
  • Leading the Strategic Sourcing Team, driving sourcing initiatives and vendor management strategies.
  • Serving as Sourcing Manager, identifying and onboarding new global suppliers to ensure competitive pricing and support RFx processes (RFI, RFP, RFQ).
  • Creating and managing supplier agreements using Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) tools, including MSA, NDA, SOW, and contract amendments, as well as extending existing contracts.
  • Proficient in contract drafting and redlining, ensuring alignment with business and legal requirements.
  • Reviewing existing contract scopes to ensure full utilization and identifying opportunities for cost savings and optimization.
  • Acting as the primary client liaison, conducting regular meetings to discuss ongoing activities, address challenges, explore new opportunities, and proactively resolve issues.
  • Led process improvement initiatives, including the development of macros and streamlined trackers, resulting in enhanced efficiency and improved client delivery.
  • Managing $50 M annual operating budget, representing New, renewals, maintenance and various support contracts across approximately 250 contracts
  • Track SQA (Supplier Quality Assurance) by reviewing with vendors OTD, Defects %, Quality Ratio and risk management.
  • Demonstrated the ability to understand, Work Orders, Service Level Agreements, Change Requests, and Statements of Work.

Professional 1 (Team Lead)

DXC Technology
04.2014 - 11.2021
  • Handling the 15 member's team with the end to end procurement knowledge includes Strategic sourcing, Purchasing, Spend analysis, vendor master management and Logistics
  • Preferred point of contact for client day-to-day activities
  • Managing Supply Chain Procurement team responsible for driving procurement, and material readiness supporting sustained and new product introduction team
  • Conduct service, product, and/ or vendor sourcing activities leveraging overall Supply chain management practices.
  • Ensure compliance with sourcing and contracting policies and procedures.
  • Conducts RFI/Q/P (Request for Information/Quotation/information/Proposal) and bidding processes, minimizing risk and maximizing value in terms of quality, delivery, and cost.
  • Conduct regular market and spend analysis programs to drive cost savings and supplier /supply improvements.
  • Responsible to executing the RFx process from selection, negotiation, contracting and onboarding to meet business requirements.
  • Collecting data and performing spend analysis and analyzing / reporting data to explain market trends, saving and improvement opportunities
  • Spearheading negotiations; aligning on pricing and business terms with suppliers including but not limited to SLAs, termination clauses, etc.
  • Organizing and leading business reviews with suppliers, including development, performance metrics, preparation and review of supplier scorecards, and resolving major supplier performance issues
  • Closely work with the Peer associates and provide the necessary KT session for the Process improvement
  • Motivate and encourage the team to bring new ideas like automation to streamline the process
  • Scheduling half yearly and Year end performance appraisals of team members
  • Training and orientation of new recruits to the various processes and Cross Training of Associates
  • To conduct monthly one to one meeting with team members and daily meeting to align them towards organizational goal and motivate them.
  • Previous experience in leading cross functional, multi lingual and offshore teams, obtaining consensus in complex activities that crossover departmental, geographic and business entity.

Senior Process Analyst

Renault Nissan Technology Business Centre India Private Ltd
10.2011 - 09.2013
  • Handled AP operations to ensure assigned targets are met within timelines.
  • Work Allocation, Supervision, and Follow up on allocated tasks.
  • Weekly, Monthly & Quarterly MIS reporting to client.
  • Projecting volumes and fixing targets on a daily basis based on the volumes.
  • Ensuring invoices are processed within timelines and payment executed as scheduled.
  • Making a periodic assessment of all internal controls and updating the process documentation with any changes
  • Sharing dashboards on a weekly basis and scheduling conferences to discuss along with metrics.
  • Managing the complete Month end closure and other post close activities.
  • Training and orientation of new recruits to the various processes and Cross Training of Associates
  • Providing coaching and feedback to team members to enable them to improve their performance.

Senior Process Associate

Accenture Services Private Limited
04.2008 - 07.2011
  • Two offsite transitions on behalf of Accenture for accounts payable.
  • Clear learning & understanding the process from client and explained about “To be process”.
  • Captured variation and exception between client process and new outsource process.
  • Prepared Tribal Knowledge, desktop procedures, crib sheets & OPEX documents like SIPOC, HLPM & FMEA
  • Reverse KT to offshore team in Chennai and Bucharest
  • Processing Third party invoices in SAP/Lawson and supporting team in processing and self QC to ensure 100% accuracy.
  • Managing workflow by routing the invoices for validation and approval and handled urgent & manual cash off invoices.
  • Have consistently met target with100% accuracy and rewarded with top rating in all the appraisal.
  • Preparation of Daily Status Report and workflow report.
  • Provided training to team members and created back up for all the process.
  • Creating Payment run proposal and processing in ERP.
  • Have taken responsibility to organize meetings at short notice with customers in case of high severity escalations.

Process Associate

RR Donnelley
11.2006 - 04.2008
  • Preparing invoices to customers for sale of goods & processing supplier invoices in ERP to ensure on time payment to suppliers.
  • Posting day to day expense transactions in ERP with supported documents
  • Maintaining cash and distributing cash for day-to-day expenses
  • Regular follow-up with customers for outstanding invoices and tax forms.
  • Preparing bank reconciliation and intercompany reconciliation on monthly basis
  • Posting purchase invoice entries in ERP to ensure it is getting paid on time within TAT
  • Interacting with treasury to forecast and to release payments.
  • Handling customer interactions and mail.

Education

B.Com. -

D.G. Vaishnava College

MBA - Finance and Marketing

Jaya Engineering College

Skills

  • Proficient in accounting software including SAP MM and FICO
  • Proficient in contract life cycle management
  • Proficient in MS Office _ Excel Macros
  • Proficient in reporting tools like Power BI & Tableau
  • Skilled in SQL programming

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

  • ✓ Direct & Indirect purchase
    ✓ Sourcing (Strategic&
    tactical)
    ✓ Spend Analysis (Tail,
    Category)
    ✓ Process Automation (RPA)
    ✓ Transition Management
    ✓ Contract Drafting &
    Redlining
    (MSA,SOW,NDA..
    ✓ Contract Negotiation
    &Management
    ✓ People Management
    ✓ Catalogue Management
    ✓ Vendor Management
    ✓ Reporting
    ✓ Logistics Management
    ✓ Inventory Management
    ✓ Risk Management
    ✓ Master Data Management
    (MDM)

ERp

  • SAP - MM,
  • SAP - FICO,
  • SAP ARIBA , FIELDGLASS
  • ORACLE & LAWSON
  • BLACKLINE

Accomplishments

  • Spearheaded the identification and execution of automation initiatives, resulting in three client-approved projects that enhanced process efficiency.
  • Implemented an automated reporting solution for the Supplier Spend Analysis dashboard, streamlining data visibility and decision-making.

PERSONAL VITAE

Languages Known: English & Tamil

Hobbies and Interests

Listening Music and playing Cricket.

Disclaimer

Date of Birth: 10th October Marital Status: Married Native: Chennai Passport No: X2724372 Date/Place: Signature Nirmal Kumar.K

PROFILE

Diligent and competent professional, offering 16+ years of experience in Finance & Accounts in BPO and US Visa holder. Part of ONSITE transition team travelled USA and Romania to set up the complete process. Strategic Sourcing Manager with 7+ years of experience working in global Strategic Sourcing (MRO&IT), Direct & Indirect purchasing, MDM, Contract Creation/Negotiation, Inventor Optimization and new product development. Material Management, Detailed resourceful, and creative problem solver with strong reasoning, negotiation, and keeping smooth supplier relationships to achieve the best value for the organization.

Timeline

Deputy Manager

Hexaware Technology
01.2022 - 03.2025

Professional 1 (Team Lead)

DXC Technology
04.2014 - 11.2021

Senior Process Analyst

Renault Nissan Technology Business Centre India Private Ltd
10.2011 - 09.2013

Senior Process Associate

Accenture Services Private Limited
04.2008 - 07.2011

Process Associate

RR Donnelley
11.2006 - 04.2008

MBA - Finance and Marketing

Jaya Engineering College

B.Com. -

D.G. Vaishnava College

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