Sareeka Kuntey
Program Management, DEI Champion, Global Women's Network -Finance Chair & Women's Network India -Chairperson
Bengaluru,KA
Summary
Experienced Senior Project Manager with a strong background in project management and team leadership. Known for making decisive and persistent decisions while remaining responsive to changing business needs. Committed to ensuring adherence to deployment schedules, risk identification, thorough analysis, and targeted solution provision. Demonstrated leadership skills, strategic planning abilities, and exceptional stakeholder management capabilities.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
24
24
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Fin Project PM, Chairperson -Women Network
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
2023.05 - Current
- Currently handling complex projects and programs benefitting finance as an organization and the company
- Currently lead for Cutover and migration for a large finance transformation program
- Collaborated with cross-departmental teams to develop comprehensive plans addressing all aspects of the project lifecycle from inception to closeout.
- Leveraged industry expertise to provide valuable insights during the planning phase, contributing significantly towards optimal decision-making processes.
- Elected to lead India Women’s Network due to the passion towards Diversity and Inclusions now being added with Equity
- Mentored junior team members, fostering a positive work environment and promoting professional growth opportunities.
- Managed cross-functional teams for successful project completion within budget and timeline constraints.
- Lead IWD programs at Site level for strength of 15k employees successfully
- Lead the first Women in Tech Event 2023 and received a 4.62/5 rating as feedback FY24
- Strategically planned and successfully implemented initiatives that are well received and recognized at HPE Leadership, won the best RG award for DEI
- Women RG has been the benchmark for other RG and DEI Council to begin their activities, planning and execution
- Selected for being the finance chair this year and successfully delivered the budget plan for Global Women Network for FY24/FY25 for all ~50 Chapters (Country wise)
- Rewards and Recognition: She Inspires -Award -2025 , India RG Award (2024), India DEI Champion Award (2024, 2023, 2022 & 2021), NGIT Beacons Award (2021), Superwoman (2018, 2019), Top performer (2019, 2021), NGIT Hero (2022) and many more appreciations have come through for the day job
Fin Project Manager
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
2016.11 - 2023.05
- Successfully lead critical programs for HPE in diverse roles, delivering efficiency with zeal and living unto HPE values
- As a FIN PMO lead for NGIT successfully established governance, strategies, and process for the FIN teams to meet the program expectations
- Ensured finance business requirements for NGIT were agreed between FIN, BU's, HPE IT and System Integrators and signed off within timelines
- This helped stabilize and remove ambiguity for design and testing
- ~1300 FDS docs signed off for all releases
- Demonstrated great collaboration and leadership skills with stakeholders internal or external successfully (IT, BU's, System Integrators, Partners) and won accolades
- Successfully handled all changes expected at short notices across the programs, also keeping it minimum to save program costs
- Great planning, communications and documentation skills is an essential requisite and was well displayed
- Possess ability to mentor team or program members successfully to achieve the program vision
- Successfully led other roles for finance for workstreams namely Business Owned Assets, Integration, Cutover and Hypercare for divestiture programs of HPE
- Currently as NGIT test lead for FIN, successfully completed execution of ~6000 + Test cases with 95% pass rate and closure of ~500 defects
Junior Project Manager
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
2014.11 - 2016.10
- Successfully lead IT POA projects as finance project manager to achieve set project objectives within project timelines, thus ensuring flash accuracy always with no escalations
- Global Lead for Project Methodology, introduced learning tools, feedback mechanism and leveraging historical experience for effective project management
- Simplified the project management process with learning guides and introduction of steps to be followed in each phase of a project
- Developed One Central repository for APJ PM thus saving efficiency of 0.10 FTE per PM per project
- This also ensured business continuity in absence or movement of a PM and enabled better transition
- Collaborated with all stakeholders and strategy team successfully
Marketing Budget Manager
Hewlett Packard
2010.02 - 2014.10
- As a budget manager lead, was responsible for 5 budget managers success to meet 99% of spend against the forecasted budget up to $60m per year
- This was for the HP Enterprise Marketing Group
- Developed a spend analysis report that showed various categories of marketing spend QoQ or YoY that was leveraged by the business for critical decisions on spend and planning
- Budget Management – Handle a budget of $16m for a fiscal year for an integrated marketing team a part of ESSN Business Unit
- (Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking)
- Successfully conducted Internal Audit across for Global Analytics - Q212 and participated in the external ISO audit
- As part of employee engagement activity for Global analytics, led my team to victory during Esprit 2012, demonstrating successful leadership, collaboration and communication skills
Operations Manager
TutorVista Global Pvt Ltd
2007.01 - 2008.07
- Monitored customer feedback to devise business strategies and determine process improvements for better customer experiences
- Collaborated with internal team members to resolve customer concerns and deliver enhanced customer experiences
- Developed and submitted strategy and initiative reports to highlight current actions and proposed changes to corporate committee
- Utilized telephone, online chat and email platforms to deliver outstanding customer service
Assistant Manager
First Source, BPO
2002.08 - 2007.01
- Handled varied UK customer service projects in my tenure with First Source
- Got exposed to experience of building and leading a retention team for a telecom provider
- Successfully played the shift manager role handling 150+ headcount at different levels including 5 team leads as direct reportees
- Conducted weekly staff meetings to motivate staff members, address concerns and questions, plan improvements, and evaluate progress toward goals
- Planned team-building exercises, incentive program to increase employee performance and job satisfaction
Education
Bachelor of Commerce -
MLA College
TLPWE - Senior Leadership Exec Program - Senior Leadership
Indian Institute of Management
Calcutta 2001.04 - Current
Skills
Project Management-PMO
Leadership
Microsoft Office
Communication
Time Management
Strategic Planning
Software development life cycle
Program management
Cross-functional team leadership
Diversity Champion
Women's Network -Chairperson (India & Global)
Accomplishments
- Leading the HPE India Women Network and Global Women Network.
- Received excellent stakeholder feedback and numerous awards.
- Successfully led completion of ~6000 Test cases with a 95% pass rate.
Timeline
Senior Fin Project PM, Chairperson -Women Network
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
2023.05 - Current
Fin Project Manager
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
2016.11 - 2023.05
Junior Project Manager
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
2014.11 - 2016.10
Marketing Budget Manager
Hewlett Packard
2010.02 - 2014.10
Operations Manager
TutorVista Global Pvt Ltd
2007.01 - 2008.07
Assistant Manager
First Source, BPO
2002.08 - 2007.01
TLPWE - Senior Leadership Exec Program - Senior Leadership
Indian Institute of Management
2001.04 - Current
Bachelor of Commerce -
MLA College