Supriya Rajagopala
Bangalore
Summary
- Experienced leader managing a Data Engineering portfolio with 14 years of strong experience in Data Engineering, Business Intelligence, Data Analytics Azure Cloud Engineering, Visualizations, ERP integrations, and Data Architecture projects.
- Leading a portfolio of over 50 professionals to provide data extraction and data engineering services for more than 400 KPMG US clients using various cloud applications.
- Responsible for delivering 80K hours from my span each year, maintaining a quality of 98.5%, and bringing a YOY growth of 10% with efficiency of 30% in the process.
- Experience working as Product Owner on Data, AI and ML projects bringing process excellence and efficiency through automations and AI integrations
- Data Analytics platform leader with expertise in building ETL/ELT pipelines, data warehouses, data marts and analytics products on Azure Cloud platform
- Well versed in identifying and adapting latest cloud and AI/ML technologies improving productivity and driving process excellence.
- Deep understanding of data modelling, data computing frameworks, distributed systems, and big data architectures.
- Onshore Experience in US: Served as On-site Manager at KPMG US Philadelphia office for three years (2019-2022), with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to represent the function internally and externally.
- Thrive to bring excellence and efficiency in the process by introducing RPA automations and AI models for processes through Agile projects.
- Enabling data governance in the process through standardization, centralization, master data management and documentation of data lineage.
- Strong collaboration skills with ability to partner across engineering, product, and business functions.
- Good functional knowledge of financial accounting and auditing
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Associate Director
KPMG
06.2021 - Current
- Extensively involved in setting up of IT Technical leads since the inception of the D&A practice for Audit.
- Well-versed in new client onboarding, RFP process, and generating SOWs and budgets for various services. Also, I am involved in discussions for preparing addendums for the proposal of additional services.
- Proficient in setting business goal, KPIs and performance matrices for the team to ensure team growth
- Leading ERP COE teams who prepare Data Extraction Scripts and ETL workflows to connect to various source ERP systems and transform the data as per process requirement (CDM).
- Served as project lead on multiple projects for Data Extraction from various ERPs, data integration, transformation, and reporting using cloud-based tools and technologies, such as Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS), Alteryx, Power BI, etc.
- Reporting and deriving business insights: Overseeing the development of visuals using Power Bi and ensuing reports are delivered with 100% data accuracy and well within the timelines.
- Strong experience in communication with various stakeholders from requirement gathering, design of solution, explanation of proposed solutions, data analysis, data engineering and reporting.
- Served as a Project Manager for automating Data Extraction for over 20 ERP systems using Scripts, IICS and Validis based on type of ERPs.
- Building startegic PPTs, roadmaps, and whitespace analysis for identifying new opportunities to support team growth
- Handling escalation from Audit Sr Managers & Partners for supporting seamless delivery of data analytics reports for KPMG US Audit clients.
Manager Data Analytics
Kpmg US
04.2019 - 05.2021
- Involved in requirement gathering and recommending optimal business usage of automated procedures in audit practice.
- Analysis of client’s financial data by performing Completeness test, data validation, building data warehousing solution and data marts using BI tools.
- Worked on data extraction projects connecting to SAP, Oracle, Peoplesoft and other ERPs. Transformation of raw data through ETL/ELT process.
- Development of Pyspark notebooks for automating data transformation using Unified data models for data from multiple ERP systems bring efficiency in the process
- Identifying and evaluating inefficiencies in the raw data or procedure delivered to the engagement team and enhancing the solutions using SQL and ETL tools
- Develop project plans for delivery of the audit solutions by considering the scope of work, turnaround time (TAT) and priority of deliverables.
- Responsible for new client onboarding and Request for proposal (RFP) process. Generating Statement of work (SOW) & defining budgets for various service offerings to audit teams
- Debugging and fixing of long running spark notebooks or SQL procedures for improving performance
- Serving as a centralized point of reference and information for audit procedures and technical solutions
Senior Associate 2
KPMG
04.2015 - 03.2019
- Responsible for gap analysis, identifying inefficiencies, and bugs in the audit procedures and worked with the KPMG global development team get those addressed for process stabilization. Also, documented and maintained the errors, known issues and resolutions in a central repository.
- Building SQL procedure for analytical audit processes and visualizations for generating reports using Power BI
- Designed a quality framework for generating central information source and evaluating the quality standards of all the documents delivered to clients or audit engagements from Data & Analytics team
- Working closely with client Data Extraction teams of various Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems to help them extract the required data elements (RDEs), created unified data modelling for ingesting into automated audit procedures and audit business processes
- Serving as a centralized source for reference and information related to audit methodologies & solutions documents within the team.
Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
09.2014 - 04.2015
- Analysis of audit procedures by identifying and evaluating inefficiencies in existing procedures and reports to deliver reliable results to the audit engagement teams
- Responsible for analysis of Business requirement and creation of Detail Design Document (DLD) to aid designs and solutioning as per the requirements.
- Development and debugging of SQL stored procedure, create GL data modelling for multiple ERPs and answering any questions from auditors related to lineage of date from audit reports to raw data
- Maintaining the Requirement traceability matrix (RTM) and ensuring business rules are applied correctly and performing gap analysis for any deviation during the development of the process
- Conducted a series of knowledge sharing sessions acting as a primary contact of reference and information source within the team to enable standardization and centralization of the audit data processing methodologies followed.
Software Engineer
HCL Technologies
07.2011 - 08.2014
- Involved in discussions with Onshore engagement managers and sector leads of client- ANZ team for seeking clarifications on business process and updating the progress of development on a periodic basis
- Involved in preparing Object oriented models and used project management methodologies, principles, and techniques in various Business Intelligence projects to extract and transform the data from multiple database sources to feed complex Data-warehouse systems of Institutional and commercial banking sector.
- Periodic generation of insightful reports using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) to show a comprehensive overview of data for monitoring, measuring, and aggregations to support engagement managers' decision-making process.
- Analysis of business reports, and handling data or transformation errors, and monitoring of jobs to ensure smooth operation of the sector's monthly reporting activities.
- Handled change management for codes and applications with complete analysis of implementation and prepared deployment guides to ensure smooth Go-Live
- Handled Go-Live support activities and post deployment Hyper-Care by identifying and evaluating inefficiencies in the business process.
- Mentored and coached new team members and facilitated multiple best practices sessions in data engineering processes and documentations.
- Created central knowledge base on the effective functional usage of various Visualizations and Reports.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering Technology - Electronics & Communication
B.N.M Institute of Technology
Bangalore, India01.2011
Skills
Cloud platforms and programming
- Microsoft Fabric
- Microsoft Azure, Azure Databricks
- Azure Data Lake
- Synapse Analytics
- Data factory
- Python
- Pyspark
- MS SQL
Generative AI and agentic AI
- LLMs (GPT, Co-Pilot)
- RAG and vector DB
- Azure AI Foundry
- Co-pilot studio
Visualization Tools
- Power BI
- QlikView
- SSRS
- Tableau
Project management
- Agile project methodology
- Jira
- Azure DevOps
- GitHub
- MS Vision
- MS PowerPoint
ETL- BI Tools
- Informatica Intelligent Cloud Platform (IICS)
- Alteryx
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Microsoft Integration Services (SSIS 2008/2010)
- Analytical Services (SSAS 2005, 2008, 2010)
- Microsoft Power Apps
ERP
- SAP ECC6 and HANA - FICO and Sales Module
- Oracle R12 and Fusion
- NetSuite
- Peoplesoft
Other tools
- RPA integration using UiPath
- Azure SQL MI
- Data governance tools
Certification
- Microsoft Certified Azure Data Engineer (DP-203)
- Microsoft Fabric Analytics (DP-600)
Timeline
Associate Director
KPMG
06.2021 - Current
Manager Data Analytics
Kpmg US
04.2019 - 05.2021
Senior Associate 2
KPMG
04.2015 - 03.2019
Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
09.2014 - 04.2015
Software Engineer
HCL Technologies
07.2011 - 08.2014
Bachelor of Engineering Technology - Electronics & Communication
B.N.M Institute of Technology
Training Programs
- Successfully completed KPMG Propel 2023 – accelerate learning for leadership journey
- Building agentic AI using Azure AI Foundry
- Dale Carnegie – 'Train the Trainer: Trainer Development Skills'
- Certification on the basics of accounting from Alliance University
Awards
Received Gold awards (first prize) in 11th CII National Competition- Low Cost Automation for my project
Rewards And Recognition
- Associate Director of the QTR MasterBlaStar award in 2025 Q2 at KPMG
- Super Team award for our Data Extraction project in 2025 Q1 at KPMG
- Received client service excellence awards from multiple leading audit clients of KPMG US
- Awarded 'Above & Beyond' on by KPMG for my team handling and management skills
- Lead the rewards and recognition for KPMG GDC LLP, organization level
Personal Information
US Visa: L1A Work Visa (Valid till May, 2025) and B1 Business Visa (Valid till June, 2035)