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Soma Bose
Project Manager
Summary
- Experienced Project Manager with 16+ years of expertise in business operations with specific focus on Delivery, Managed services, Operation support, Demand Management, Presales, Practice establishment and strategy for large and established account
- Attentive to detail with experience in coordinating projects, programs and improvements
- Successful at building and maintaining open communication between team members, clients and leadership
- Was out of the corporate radar from 2011-2019 on account of motherhood
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages
Work History
Project Manager
HCL Technologies
Pune
03.2019 - Current
- Currently handling multiple projects in different financial areas including wealth management, treasury management, capital markets, investment banking for well known European banks
- Championed Graduate Management Program for multiple clients where we promote New Talent through Hire Train and Deploy Model
- Handle a large team of 10-12 directs and 140+ professionals across geographic locations
- Manage and monitor roles/responsibilities and goals for team members.
- Managing existing and new assignments to generate increasing revenue year-on-year.
- Manage a portfolio of 2-3 MN USD
- Oversee the complete PMO Functions of the project and ensure timelines are met
- Maintain the compliance risk-based framework by assessing the effectiveness of controls in place and, where necessary, develop implement actions plans to address control deficiencies or gaps identified
- Ensure that the business requirements required for continued business growth and success are aligned to corporate and client regulatory requirements
Manager
WNS
Pune
07.2007 - 07.2011
- Delivery Management and Transition Management- Seamless transfer of processes from Onshore facility and stabilizing them in offshore environment and attain BAU
- Initiating Six Sigma projects for Quality improvements -Drove Process Standardization based on SLA parameters effecting significant time reduction in invoice processing and timeliness of payments and Reduction of FTE counts by way of Process Improvements and automation of various manual processes
- Team Management - Handled a large team of 80+ FTEs
- Training and Content Development of Financial modules, preparing business case for deployment of best practices, process base lining as per request
- Integration of system application according to customer and SLA requirements
- SLA Management, People handling, Seeding & Succession Planning, Attrition & P/L Management,
- Successful strategic relationship with various stakeholders and Customer relationship Management
- Driving Process Standardization based on SLA Parameters and Process improvement
- Exposure to SAP, J D Edwards, IBM Mainframe, Cognos, Visio, Sage
Assistant Manager
IBM
Bangalore
08.2006 - 07.2007
- Was involved in end to end management of AP Process for one of the biggest Restaurant Chain of US.
- Have Hands on experience on ERP packages along with experienced implementation of the ERP systems- Seamless migration from Oracle 10.7 to 11i database
- Exposure to Remote transition and towards the end reverse Transition back to base
- Month end closure activities
- Handling a team of 30 under tight schedule/guidelines
- Established and enforced internal controls, workflows and policies for tracking, reconciling and reporting on accounting activities
- Identified improvement changes regarding key processes for internal controls and accounting procedures
Team Leader
Outsource Partners International
Bangalore
07.2003 - 08.2006
- Built strong relationships with customers through positive attitude and attentive response. Played a pivotal role onsite for process migration from Onshore to Offsite
- Worked on Accounts Receivables / Account Receivable & Payroll/General ledger Reconciliation and Financial Reporting/ MIS generation
- Mentored and trained colleagues to foster proper completion of assigned duties
- Led a team of 10 members
- Implemented new working processes to deliver multiple improvements
- Cross-trained and provided backup support for organizational leadership
Management Trainee
Dun & Bradstreet
Mumbai
04.2002 - 07.2003
- Was involved in Business research and Content Writing- Assisted in preparing an in depth report for Council for Leather Exports of India (CLE) to promote Indian leather in the international markets
- Financial Analysis- Assisted in the analysis of companies which featured in Corporate Compendium 2001 and 2002 and India's Top 500 Companies 2003
- Various other project reports and weekly/daily newsletters related to banking and economic sectors
Education
Masters of Commerce - Accounting And Finance
University of Mumbai
Mumbai 04.2000 - 05.2002
Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism & Mass Comm - Mass Communication
K J Somaiya Institute of Mgmt Studies & Research
Mumbai 06.2000 - 05.2001
CA Intermediate - Accounting
ICAI
India 04.1999 - 05.2000
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting
University of Mumbai
Mumbai 04.1995 - 04.1998
Skills
Project Management
Program Management
Vendor Management
Contract Management
Operations Management
Demand Management
Resource Management
Risk & Issue Management
Compliance & Audit Management
Stake Holder Management
Financial Management
Interests
Travelling
Cooking and Baking
Networking
Accomplishments
Top performer for 2 consecutive years
Spot Award
Timeline
Project Manager
HCL Technologies
03.2019 - Current
Manager
WNS
07.2007 - 07.2011
Assistant Manager
IBM
08.2006 - 07.2007
Team Leader
Outsource Partners International
07.2003 - 08.2006
Management Trainee
Dun & Bradstreet
04.2002 - 07.2003
Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism & Mass Comm - Mass Communication
K J Somaiya Institute of Mgmt Studies & Research
06.2000 - 05.2001
Masters of Commerce - Accounting And Finance
University of Mumbai
04.2000 - 05.2002
CA Intermediate - Accounting
ICAI
04.1999 - 05.2000
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting
University of Mumbai
04.1995 - 04.1998