Senior Project Manager with over 16 years of experience in Strategy, Transformation, Project Management & Operations in Financial Services and Retail. Skilled in leading cross-functional teams to deliver projects on time and within budget. Adept and building strong relationships with stakeholders, notifying and mitigating project risks and optimising processes to achieve business objectives. Strong leadership, communication and problem-solving skills. Certified Prince2 Practitioner with a track record of successfully delivering digital transformation, organisational restructuring and process optimisation projects.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
5
5
Certifications
Work History
Senior Manager
EY GDS
06.2020 - Current
Program & Delivery Lead at EY GDS, Engagement Management Services & Future of Work program within the Tax Service Line
The role focused on enabling EY’s clients to transform their business processes across a range of tax domains (direct, indirect & product tax) through the effective usage of tax technologies, data strategies and automation capabilities and support the delivery of Tax engagements to some of the largest global institutions across the Financial Services industry(including many FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 organisations) aligning to the strategies of the Sub Service Lines - Global Compliance and Reporting (US FSO & US BTC) and Tax Technology & Transformation
Manager
Amazon Development Center India
07.2017 - 06.2020
Led strategic game changer transformational functions; championing these initiatives in collaboration with various teams / stakeholders
Established roadmap for enhancing operations to achieve global service standards
Identified & replicated best practices across all functions for inculcating learning & sharing approach among all employees
Delivered process breakthrough improvements towards business excellence by adopting business process improvement techniques and ensuring quality compliance
Initiated & managed complex, departmental work by building governance model and driving continuous improvement in metrics, SLA and automation
Interacted & communicated with end clients for determining specific requirements and expectations; managed client expectations as an indicator of quality
Completed projects with competent cross-functional skills and ensured on-time deliverables within pre-set cost and durability parameters
Established project baselines; monitored & controlled projects with respect to cost, resource deployment, time over-runs & quality compliance to ensure satisfactory execution
Headed cross-functional projects through discovery and implementation of technology led solutions to lower costs and improve services
Strategically established & improved policies in line with the best practices
Drove the Quality Lead / Subject Matter Experts to achieve quality, improve process efficiency & minimize variation
Created the SOPs, process controls, recommend revisions and ensure alignment with risk and regulatory requirements
Assessed key metrics, process or control risk to inform product and program level risk assessment.
Assistant Manager
EY India LLP
04.2016 - 06.2017
Global compliance reporting is an integrated suit of Tax and Accounting services we provide to multinational clients managing their compliance and regulatory filings
Taking care of the complexity of regulatory affairs across multiple jurisdictions
Centrally managing the global compliance and reporting activities
Controlling the cost managing compliance across various countries
Supporting client facing teams in APAC in providing timely and accurate information of the engagement to the client headquarters
Monitor and control activities leading up to fulfilment of compliance and regulatory obligations of the clients by GCR professionals across countries
Monitor engagement status, issues and potential risks that can impact engagement
Provide situational analysis and solutions for mitigating issues & risks in an engagement.
Assistant Manager
TESCO HINDUSTAN SERVICE CENTRE
06.2014 - 03.2016
Lead a team of 50+ employees & 3 Team Leads to queries for Distribution Centers across Tesco UK
Establish Key Performance Indicators(KPI) in line with company goals
Drive continuous improvement to ensure processes are streamlined and leakages are fixed
Conduct regular business reviews with stakeholders
Responsible for business flow process improvement and implementation
Responsible for hiring and maintaining seat capacity
Conduct continual analysis and evaluation of strategic information (revenue, performance metric, productivity, talent planning across the team)
Effective collaboration with APAC counterpart to achieve our common goals
Enable training and development program to improve growth opportunities and build team capability
Responsible to maintain quality and customer service standards.
Lead Analyst
TESCO HINDUSTAN SERVICE CENTRE
02.2010 - 05.2014
Review performance on a weekly basis and help derive necessary action plans to improve / sustain performance
Coach and mentor staff and provide relevant feedback required
Support developing individual specific PDP aimed at providing the staff with the necessary learning to achieve their aspirational roles
Interacting with stakeholders on a daily basis to increase the efficiency of service
Spot opportunities to eliminate manual intervention and improve over ways of working
Ensure systems and processes are set up before depot goes live with transport management system.
Sr Officer Contact Centre
TESCO HINDUSTAN SERVICE CENTRE
11.2010 - 01.2012
Provide product related training to new hires & production agents
Manage the process updates and have a robust structure to keep the team updated
Reporting SLA's, analysis on deliverables such as the Turn Around Time, Customer Satisfaction.
Officer Contact Centre
TESCO HINDUSTAN SERVICE CENTRE
10.2008 - 10.2010
Supported new hires
Take high-end escalations, and make and receive outgoing and incoming calls
Monitor calls and handle feedback to the team.
Team Manager
JUMPSTART CONSULTANTS PVT LTD
03.2007 - 09.2008
Responsible to meet the monthly sales target
Handled a team of 10 Field officers
Meeting HNI customer and provide suitable Investment plans.