RANGARAJAN V
CHENNAI
Summary
Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Head - Finance Transformation Excellence
Shell Technology Centre
BENGALURU
05.2023 - Current
- Developed critical digital and process transformation strategies pivotal for achieving Shell's business objectives.
- Created Artificial Intelligence solutions to various business challenges.
- Utilized Lean Six Sigma, Data Science, and process mining techniques to construct a Digital Process twin for Finance Organization, resulting in improved efficiency and effectiveness.
- Highly tuned commercial acumen and curiosity, with demonstrated ability, and deliver value from Transformation projects through commercial insights and automation.
- Established a great presence of transformation capability and expanded the footprint in new process areas.
- Engage and inspire people to accelerate learning, delivery, and relationship through training, innovation, and collaboration.
- Built purple people, ensuring program has right capabilities and behavior to excel in roles and deliver digital process transformation.
- Collaborate closely with our partners to build digital and innovation, and deliver new technologies for our organization.
- Strategic and thought leadership.
- Leading the Shell Finance Process portfolio with a team of data scientists, Transformation lead, and BI Lead, and delivered optimal solutions to the tune of $75mln working capital impact.
- Leveraging and integrating technology to solve business problems.
Senior Digital Transformation Manager - Fin & SC
Shell India Markets Private Limited
Chennai
02.2020 - 04.2023
- Developed and implemented transformation strategies to improve organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
- Analyzed current processes, procedures, and systems to identify areas of improvement.
- Facilitated workshops with cross-functional teams to define scope of projects and develop implementation plans.
- Created project charters, work breakdown structures, timelines, budget estimates, resource plans, risk management plans, quality assurance plans, and other project documents.
- Managed the development of project deliverables within established time frames and budgets.
- Communicated project status updates regularly to stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- Identified opportunities for process optimization through data analysis techniques such as root cause analysis or gap analysis.
- Recommended innovative solutions based on best practices in order to streamline operations and reduce costs while maintaining a high level of customer service.
- Led change management initiatives by educating team members on new processes or technologies being implemented in the organization.
- Coached senior leaders on how to effectively manage transition periods during organizational transformations.
- Implemented tracking mechanisms for monitoring performance metrics associated with transformation efforts.
- Evaluated results from transformation projects to determine their impact on overall business objectives.
- Documented lessons learned from previous transformation initiatives for use in future projects.
- Saved company over $2 million by restructuring Finance Group service recoveries processes.
- Recruited and trained new employees to meet job requirements.
- Provided leadership, insight and mentoring to newly hired employees to supply knowledge of various company programs.
- Reviewed employee performance and provided ongoing feedback and coaching to drive performance improvement.
- Interviewed prospective employees and provided input to HR on hiring decisions.
- Held regular one-on-one meetings with employees to review performance and priorities and provide feedback.
- Mediated conflicts between employees and facilitated effective resolutions to disputes.
- Planned and delivered training sessions to improve employee effectiveness and address areas of weakness.
- Organized team activities to build camaraderie and foster pleasant workplace culture.
- Created and managed budgets for travel, training and teambuilding activities.
Digital Transformation Excellence Lead
Shell India Markets private Limited
Chennai
05.2016 - 02.2020
- Managed multiple cross-functional teams in the successful delivery of complex transformation initiatives.
- Facilitated workshops to ensure that all stakeholders were aligned with the transformation strategy.
- Created an environment conducive to innovation by encouraging collaboration between various departments.
- Rich experience in leading a team varied from 2 to 40 and driving the team towards success across geographies.
- Change and Engage Lead - Project Cumulus (Bigger E2E Transformational Project, connecting across 1000+ people in business and Finance operations).
- Explore, establish, and develop process mining capabilities into our organization.
- Established a Celonis Tool and embedded process mining, imparting various business value insights to the process.
Manager - Accounts Payable
Shell India Markets Private Limited
Chennai
03.2012 - 04.2016
- Manage Shell Legal Entities' accounts payable process to ensure the global performance metrics related to AP controls and payment process were achieved.
- Assisting in the design and operation of internal controls that support the control environment and delivery of operational excellence.
- Create the SOP and ensure staff understanding of and compliance with identified SOX and internal business controls.
- Built and maintained positive working relationships with relevant stakeholders.
- Managed various personnel functions, including but not limited to recruitment, training, performance appraisals, promotions, transfers, and succession planning.
- Established continuous improvement projects geared towards optimizing processes, increasing effectiveness and efficiency, and implementing best practices.
- Ensure a robust business continuity plan and execution capabilities are in place at all times for the delivery operations.
- Ensure BCP and interoperability are in place for my process.
- Ensure to Manage the External statutory Audit, Internal Audit and CSA
Assistant Manager - Accounts Payable
Shell India Markets Private Limited
Chennai
04.2008 - 02.2012
- Handled process migration from different countries: Asia PAC, Middle East, US, and Europe.
- Establish and maintain consistent key strategic metrics in green.
- Managed a team of 10+ performing the process of Invoice Processing, Disbursement Audit, Accounts Reconciliation, Payment Process, and Treasury Process.
- Involved in recruitment and staff training.
- Drive the team towards Process excellence and digital transformation
Process Analyst - Accounts Payable
Accenture India Private Limited
Chennai
12.2004 - 12.2007
- Processing of invoices from various countries.
- Generating payments and following up with signatories and the bank for payment.
- Managed vendor queries and acted as a help desk for the Accounts Payable team.
- Creation of Vendor Master and updating of Vendor accounts.
- Major Creditors Reconciliation and reporting.
- Metrics reporting.
- Doing internal audit check before payments.
- Executing knowledge transfer to newcomers in my team.
Junior Accounts Executive
International Clearing and shipping Agency
Chennai
11.2003 - 12.2004
- E2E Customized ERP Implementation for Finance and Accounts.
- Executed Finance Planning and Analysis.
- Preparation of Profit and Loss account, Balance Sheet Finalization, and preparation of Tax statement.
- Execution of Budget and Variance Analysis.
- TDS analysis and accounting.
- Payroll Accounting.
- Managed Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable.
- Ensure to post the Journal Entry and accrual Posting.
Education
Black Belt Professional - Lean Six Sigma
Six Sigma Academy
Chennai06-2019
MBA - Finance
Periyar University
Chennai05-2006
Skills
- Thought Leadership
- Stakeholder Management
- Six Sigma thinking
- Project Management
- Analytical Thinking
- Finance and Process expert
- Multitasking
- Social Perceptiveness
Timeline
Head - Finance Transformation Excellence
Shell Technology Centre
05.2023 - Current
Senior Digital Transformation Manager - Fin & SC
Shell India Markets Private Limited
02.2020 - 04.2023
Digital Transformation Excellence Lead
Shell India Markets private Limited
05.2016 - 02.2020
Manager - Accounts Payable
Shell India Markets Private Limited
03.2012 - 04.2016
Assistant Manager - Accounts Payable
Shell India Markets Private Limited
04.2008 - 02.2012
Process Analyst - Accounts Payable
Accenture India Private Limited
12.2004 - 12.2007
Junior Accounts Executive
International Clearing and shipping Agency
11.2003 - 12.2004
Black Belt Professional - Lean Six Sigma
Six Sigma Academy
MBA - Finance
Periyar University
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