RAMESH G
PMO
Bengaluru
Summary
Professional with 10+ years of experience in managing diverse roles within finance function in Big4, Consulting Service, Banking industry, Audit. Extensive working knowledge in Project Management, PMO, Project Accounting, MIS reporting financial reporting, governance, Financial Planning & Analysis and Compliance. Have proven ability to work with stakeholders at all levels of the organization, and strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build a network of contacts and form strong working relationship. Working experience on Oracle 11i/R12 Application, JIRA, SAP S4 HANA, SWIFT & Analysis of Office, Clarizen, Planview E1, PPMC Tool, PowerBi, Confluence, Clarity & ADO.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
PMO Manager
Standard Chartered Global Business Services Private Limited
Bangalore
07.2023 - Current
- Provide support to Risk & Compliance PMO refinement forum leads, product owners
- Help update of Epics into ADO
- Ensures Customer Go-live/User milestones are updated in Clarity
- Ensure documentation requirements met at releases/go-lives and saved in share-point
- Follow-up on Delivery Risk Assessment (DRA), Go live milestones, Attestation requirements by PO, etc
- Ensure Risk and Issues are updated timely in Clarity and follow-up for upcoming and overdue RAID
- Proactively closing data quality gaps for the Initiatives and Epics in Clarity and ADO
- Follow up on Initiative closures, ensures all relevant documentation is available & all milestones are closed, etc
- Ensure RAID reporting, Financial Reporting, DRA (Go-live reporting), Squad and Resource reporting are provided timely and accurately
- Provides accurate cost and resource information to Hive Leads, Central PMO, Refinement Forum/QPR
- Maintains budget plans and ensures all budgets are correctly set in Clarity
- Assists in updates on monthly costs plans, re-forecasting activities & variance analysis and reporting
- Collaborates with Technology team for inputs
- Facilitate Capitalization of Project costs
- Maintains overall team resource plan, Squad updates and ensures all business resources are captured in relevant systems
- Maintain Hive hiring plan, ensures hires are realistic to aid in forecast accuracy
- Produces monthly timesheet reporting and highlights key variances to RF Leads
- Maintain and communicates timesheet reminder to Project teams
- Maintain Invoice and Accrual tracker to ensure booking of accruals in timely manner
- Maintains standardized Invoice and Accrual tracker and other relevant financial files
- Collates and coordinates accruals and recharges from Project Managers and validates successful booking
Senior Associate 1
KPMG Global Delivery Center Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
04.2021 - 07.2023
- Provide support and analysis for end-to-end program and projects
- Conduct working sessions with relevant program and project managers to familiarize them with the processes supporting PMO and finance activities
- Execution of PMO activities for medium to large programs and projects, setting up programs and projects in Clarizen
- Successfully transitioned the finance process from onshore to offshore and solely managed the end-to-end finance process from offshore
- Key point of contact for program finance activity which includes month end financial reporting for all the active projects and validate the actuals are up to date
- As the projects are approved my role is to work with the project owners and setup kick off meeting
- Understand the scope, timelines, resources, approved budget for the project and prepare the project plan with the resource and setup milestones and tasks
- Create Jira board and update the tasks and make sure the team members update the Jira board on timely manner
- Prepare project charter, communication plan, RACI metrics, Stakeholder document
- Validates financial forecasts and provides on-going reconciliation of resources and other related project expenditures
- Defines and tracks project milestones while developing, maintaining and reporting on overall integrated plan
PMO Analyst
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Bangalore
02.2019 - 04.2021
- Provide guidance and training to projects managers on project management methodologies, processes, tools and templates
- Guiding / Supporting Project and Program Manager in daily project administrative tasks
- Maintaining Financial summary, budgeting, creating cost plan and updating the project financials time to time
- Performing month end financials which includes updating the actuals to programs and projects
- Supporting Project and Program managers in setting up their projects and programs in PPMC tool
- Updating the Plan, tracking milestones and dependencies in PPMC tool
- Resolving the support request submitted by PM community within 2 working days
- Trained and mentored two junior analyst who supports in the PMO activities and driven their career graph positively
- Part of migration team and tested the new application Planview E1 in the initial phase of the product
- Provided PPMC release support by executing UAT
Project Analyst
Deloitte Consulting India Private Limited
Bangalore
11.2015 - 01.2019
- Assisting the execution of project management office (PMO) functional tasks and support the production of a variety of management reports as per the requirement of Leadership and Project Managers
- Sole responsibility of Project financials, Invoicing and collections for the Project owned and delivering financial reports (Revenue, Expense, and Receivables) to track the financial metrics
- Managed time & expense compliance, invoicing & collection, budget vs actual reconciliation
- Talent Reporting to ascertain utilization of nearly 8K practitioners and managed revenue/hours of 20+ senior leadership which helped to optimize their metrics goal in the organization
- Publishing Weekly, Periodic service line metrics reports such as Utilization, Revenue, Dashboards to stakeholders
- Executing biweekly Periodical OPEX analysis to keep the cost center budget in control
Project Accounting Analyst
Oracle India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
02.2014 - 10.2015
- Revenue recognition on Oracle projects & assigning Cost- rates and Bill-rates for the resources to accrue revenue on the project
- Manually updating the timecard for the resource and processing Time-Expense in case of any wrong entries
- Analyzing the interphase process where Revenue and Invoice are interphase, so that they hit the right GL and AR Accounts
- Transfer of funds from one project to another or within the Projects
Education
Master of Business Administration - Finance
St Joseph Evening College
Bengaluru, KA 06.2014 - 06.2016
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting
Kristu Jayanti College
Bengaluru, KA 06.2010 - 06.2013
Skills
- PMO/Project Management
- Financial analysis/MIS reporting
- Budgeting and Forecasting
- Resource Management
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Sprint Planning
- Time Management and Quality
- Ability to operate across multiple programs, business areas, and portfolios
- Strong Interpersonal and Communication Skills
- MS Office
- Stakeholder Management
Certification
PMP-Project Management Institute
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that the information provided here is true to the best of my knowledge.
Career Achievements
- Oracle: Received YAR (You Are Recognized) Award: for Processing highest number of requests with 100% TAT.
- Deloitte: Spot award: for completing and submitting the utilization reports for two portfolios before the deadline while maintaining a positive attitude.
- CBA: Prime Player Award: for supporting and guiding project managers in comprehending the project management process, financial updates and estimations, and assisting them in establishing projects in the PPMC tool.
- KPMG: Encore Award: Quickly grasping the PMO processes, assisting the onshore team in transitioning the month end financial process, and setup project budget templates.
Timeline
PMP-Project Management Institute
09-2023
PMO Manager
Standard Chartered Global Business Services Private Limited
07.2023 - Current
Senior Associate 1
KPMG Global Delivery Center Pvt Ltd
04.2021 - 07.2023
PMO Analyst
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
02.2019 - 04.2021
Project Analyst
Deloitte Consulting India Private Limited
11.2015 - 01.2019
Master of Business Administration - Finance
St Joseph Evening College
06.2014 - 06.2016
Project Accounting Analyst
Oracle India Pvt Ltd
02.2014 - 10.2015
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting
Kristu Jayanti College
06.2010 - 06.2013
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