Trekking & Adventure Sports
Nitesh Uniyal
Finance Services
Bangalore
Summary
Collaborative, curious and result oriented leader dedicated to streamlining operations oversees every facet of production with strong project management and decision-making skills.
With 20+ years of proven history of leading high performing teams in finance operation and executing strategic initiatives dedicated to streamlining operations to decrease cost and promote efficiency in back-office. Focusing on positive Customer and Employee outcomes with rich experience in O2C, Contracting, Billing, Revenue recognition, Intercompany, Credit rebills.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages
Work History
Director Project Accounting
Oracle India Private Ltd.
02.2004 - Current
- Handling the Global Funding team, responsible for booking deals for all Services organizations, managing $2.6 billion yearly.
- Managing cross-functional teams and overseeing processes for project accounting, i.e., responsible for managing the Quote-to-Cash process.
- Responsible for day-to-day operations while focusing on driving strategic initiatives and transitions.
- Fostering changes related to people, processes, customers, and employees.
- Promoted the use of AI by leveraging Agentic AI use cases and Generative AI, Chat GPT.GPT
- Identify, analyze, develop, and execute strategies to improve team health and morale, as indicated by employee feedback, personal observation, or other employee listening systems.
- Involved in proposing and documenting new policy, supporting process simplification.
- Handling operations, managing SLAs, FTE utilizations, process audits, MIS/dashboard creation, appraisals, control and compliance, quality initiatives, BCP, etc.
- Leadership to align priorities, collaborate with cross-functional partners, and manage and optimize critical operations.
- Custom contracts from intake to recognized revenue, ensuring customer satisfaction, mitigating risk, and championing process excellence to maximize revenue, and accelerate scalability.
- Strategic Initiatives: Track strategic plans, develop KPIs, and success metrics where required.
- Mentor and build teams, aligning their ownership areas as best suited to the broader organization.
- Leading global projects to improve the DSO for Oracle consulting.
- Leading AI initiatives: gaining efficiency by enabling team members and processes to be more productive.
- Cross-Functional Projects: Driving Career Development and You Program Across the Global Finance Organization. Supporting employees enhances their competencies and prepares them for next roles.
- Handling resource profiles, hiring, induction, and training modules.
- Reviewing the revenue processed for Fixed Price Projects, and also reviewing the loss-making projects to advise GL to pass the necessary entries.
- Interacting with AR, AP, GL, FP&A, and Revenue Recognition teams in the resolution of process issues, and also interacting with the SOX audit team and E&Y audit teams.
- To ensure that, during the month-end, revenue is generated and interfaced to the GL as per the policies and guidelines.
- Review calls with the Lob's finance VPs on a routine basis.
- Instrumental in transitioning and stabilizing multiple processes to Oracle GFIC.
- Identifying the team member's strengths and development areas, and providing constant feedback on the same.
- Motivate and monitor team performance on a day-to-day basis, and provide feedback to the Consulting Manager on both the team and individual performance.
- Implement changes to policies and procedures for control and efficiency.
- Work with FP&A teams, consulting, and finance directors to ensure the correctness of information and compliance with business practices and local legal requirements upon receipt and validation of the order package.
- Financial reporting on activities, as requested by management.
- Developed high-performing teams by providing mentorship, guidance, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Improved project efficiency with strategic planning, resource allocation, and time management practices.
- Cultivated a positive work environment that fostered employee engagement, increased retention rates, and boosted overall team morale.
- Enhanced team collaboration through regular communication, goal setting, and performance evaluations.
- Implemented innovative solutions to solve complex problems, resulting in increased productivity and streamlined operations.
- Established a culture of continuous improvement by fostering open communication channels and empowering employees to voice their ideas.
- Leveraged data analytics insights for informed decision-making in critical areas such as sales forecasting, budgeting, or personnel management.
BPO Services – Technical Associate
Hughes Software Systems
01.2003 - 02.2004
- Handling transaction processing for Spanish Clients.
- Providing high quality technical support to global customers.
- Handled quality audits related to process.
- Routine calls with client and customers related to process queries and MIS.
- Reward
- 1 ‘Q’ Drive Team Award for excellence in Quality.
- 3 Monthly & 1 EVP Award for being the best performer in the process.
Language Specialist - Spanish
Supersonic Couriers
09.2002 - 01.2003
- Translator/ interpreter- assisting their Spanish counterparts.
Language Specialist - Spanish
Daksh
10.2001 - 04.2002
- Worked as Spanish language specialist.
- Handling transaction processing.
Education
Executive General Management Program (EGMP) - Finance And General Management
Indian Institute of Management (IIMB)
Bangalore 04.2001 -
Post Graduate Program in Management - Finance And Accounting
TA PAI Management Institute
Manipal, India01.2007
M.A - Spanish language & literature
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Delhi, India01.2001
B.A (Hons.) - Spanish language & literature
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi, India01.1999
Intermediate -
Board of High School & Intermediate Education
Uttarakhand01.1996
Secondary School Certificate - undefined
Central Board of Secondary Education
01.1994
Skills
Operations management
Program Management
Team management
Strategic Thinking
Critical Thinking
Revenue Recognition
Innovative Thinking
Attention to Detail
Agile Methodology Expertise
Process Optimization
Organizational Change Management
Employee Talent Development
Audit & Compliance
Risk Mitigation
Accomplishments
- Instrumental in conceptualizing and creating new global templates, which helped to reduce the NVA’s across all regions.
- Implemented new enhancements for global reports to improve the quality of data and reduce average time spent on the activities.
- Led the global Gap analysis drive to reduce the number of country specific exceptions.
- Worked on SIPOC project i.e., (Suppliers, Input, Process, Output and Customers) which was related to the activation of new project during funding process with respect to the values, input/ output quality and volumes of data for all EMEA countries.
- Worked on streamlining the process for tier 1 countries and with the stabilization of the process and fixing the root causes of reporting issues, enabling in reduction of the FTE’s.
- Effectively participated in clearing the inactive backlog and migration data for the acquired companies in PA system.
- 2 YAR Awards for distinguished achievements for streamlining the process, audits and training new joinees.
Interests
Rock climbing
Trekking & Adventure Sports
Basic Mountaineering Course from DMAS Manali
Timeline
Director Project Accounting
Oracle India Private Ltd.
02.2004 - Current
BPO Services – Technical Associate
Hughes Software Systems
01.2003 - 02.2004
Language Specialist - Spanish
Supersonic Couriers
09.2002 - 01.2003
Language Specialist - Spanish
Daksh
10.2001 - 04.2002
Executive General Management Program (EGMP) - Finance And General Management
Indian Institute of Management (IIMB)
04.2001 -
Secondary School Certificate - undefined
Central Board of Secondary Education
Post Graduate Program in Management - Finance And Accounting
TA PAI Management Institute
M.A - Spanish language & literature
Jawaharlal Nehru University
B.A (Hons.) - Spanish language & literature
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Intermediate -
Board of High School & Intermediate Education