Pushkar Gaikwad

Experienced Senior Manager adept at managing multiple clients and collaborating closely with stakeholders on Accounts Payable and Procurement Operations, Business Partners, and Business Owners to decipher business needs into clear and concise business requirements. Skilled in designing processes tailored to client specifications, reengineering existing processes, and ensuring a smooth transition into steady state operations within a 3-4 month timeframe. Proficient in defining escalation and RACI metrics, stabilizing SLA and KPI reporting, upselling business offerings to clients, managing a spend of $40 billion per year, driving process improvements, delivering cost savings, and overseeing contract management and amendments. As a seasoned Manager, successfully worked with project stakeholders and business owners to translate business needs into actionable requirements, reengineer processes, plan and execute end-to-end projects, handle transitions for North America and EMEA regions, and implement transition rigor effectively. In the role of Team Lead, executed offshore transitions for Procurements and Project Accounting in the United States, as well as implemented new technology for Finance within the group. With a background as a Process Specialist, brings hands-on expertise in Procurement, Accounts Payable (processing and payments), general ledger management, and project accounting. As a Process Executive, contributed as a collaborative team player within the accounts payable team to streamline invoice processing efficiently.

• Six Sigma Green Belt, 2017
• Train the Trainer, 2021

• Transition Methodology
• Project Management