Vidya Bandgar
Project And Change Lead
Navi Mumbai
Summary
Senior management professional, bringing strategic leadership and operational excellence to drive organizational success. Skilled in project management, strategic planning, team collaboration and process optimization with keen focus on achieving results. Adept at navigating complex challenges, fostering culture of accountability, and adapting to evolving business needs. Known for strong decision-making, effective communication and building high-performing teams.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
1
1
Language
Work History
Assistant Vice President (AVP)
Deutsche Bank India Pvt. Ltd
03.2025 - Current
- Orchestrated cross-functional teams of 20-30 members to deliver critical regulatory projects on time and under budget, minimizing financial risks and improving overall operational efficiency by 20%.
- Directed business transformation initiatives leveraging automation and lean methodologies, releasing 5 FTE and accelerating month-end closing by 3 days, improving reporting turnaround.
- Led and managed a team of 8-10 members directly.
- Experience of working with senior stakeholders and obtaining the stakeholder buy-in.
- Established a transparent reporting system that tracked key performance indicators and provided stakeholders with realtime visibility into project status, mitigating risks and improving decision-making speed by 15%.
- Responsible for end-to-end delivery of a project including understanding of the business requirement, brainstorming solutions and working with the delivery team to make sure the project is on track.
- Responsible for maintaining of project artifacts like Risk registers, RAID logs and keeping them updated.
- Analyzed data to identify areas of improvement, implementing changes that resulted in greater operational efficiency.
Assistant Manager
KPMG India Services LLP
09.2022 - 03.2025
- Spearheaded and executed cornerstone projects (from initiation to closure) to digitize client's operations spanning of project value of approximately 880K USD.
- Led and managed medium to large scale projects.
- Managed team, setting goals and delegating tasks to ensure that deadlines were met.
- Created effective risk management plan that identified, assessed, and mitigated risks for project.
- Managed client expectations to ensure stakeholders were kept informed and up-to-date with project progress.
- Secured and managed project funding, ensuring resources were allocated efficiently and effectively.
- Conducted gap analysis to identify and document process inefficiencies and recommend solutions to improve client experience.
- Implemented transformative digitization project to streamline processes and enhance efficiency of assets for clients (approximately 30 million USD) of estimated project contract value.
- Collaborated with senior stakeholders.
- Formulate business and technical requirements based on inputs from key stakeholders through requirement gathering sessions.
- Monitor and track progress of multiple projects against defined milestones and timelines.
- Liaison between Development team and Client to understand progress of project, resolve issues (if any).
- Creating user documentation, preparation of monthly progress reports, MIS reports, RFP, BRD, FRS, DPR etc.
- Appropriately communicating project status using RAID log, escalating critical issues and managing timelines for action.
- Apply design thinking approach to proposals for delivering innovative solutions for client.
- Supervised day-to-day operations to meet performance, quality and service expectations.
- Promoted teamwork within the workplace by encouraging collaboration among staff members on various project tasks.
- Developed strong working relationships with staff, fostering a positive work environment.
Senior Associate
PwC Private Ltd.
04.2021 - 09.2022
- Implemented project involving digitization of supply chain (approximately 1k-2k Cr) of estimated project contract value.
- Strategized IT roadmap to include business transformation and value to be achieved.
- Devised and formulated project plan to help achieve incremental savings and reduce leakages by approximately 4%.
- Benchmarking of process efficiency.
- Formulate business and technical requirements based on inputs from key stakeholders through requirement gathering sessions.
- Monitor and track progress of multiple projects.
- Liaison between Development team and Client to understand progress of project, resolve issues (if any).
Exempt Non Officer
Credit Suisse Services (India) Pvt. Ltd
10.2012 - 04.2021
- Work stream lead - Project Management /Digital Transformation.
- Led Work stream for Global project spanning 42K users.
- Chair and conduct recurring meetings with stakeholders to discuss RAID logs, Project status reports.
- Depict clear milestones on Project status reports with risk status.
- Co-ordinate closely with IT team and implementation partner to receive a sign-off on Business requirement design (BRD).
- Created test scripts and performed extensive Integration testing, UAT, Regression testing.
- Logged defects in HP ALM according to their criticality and tracked their status until closure.
- Resolving cross-program issues and strategic issues with senior stakeholders.
- Managing risks and issues and taking corrective measures.
- Manage stakeholder expectations for their alignment and satisfaction.
Education
M.M.S (M.B.A) - Operations Management
Mumbai University
01.2012
B.E. - Electronics/Telecommunication
Mumbai University
01.2008
Skills
Project & Change Management
Certification
Project Management Professional
Timeline
Project Management for Gen AI
11-2025
Assistant Vice President (AVP)
Deutsche Bank India Pvt. Ltd
03.2025 - Current
Project Management Professional
01-2025
Assistant Manager
KPMG India Services LLP
09.2022 - 03.2025
Senior Associate
PwC Private Ltd.
04.2021 - 09.2022
Exempt Non Officer
Credit Suisse Services (India) Pvt. Ltd
10.2012 - 04.2021
B.E. - Electronics/Telecommunication
Mumbai University
M.M.S (M.B.A) - Operations Management
Mumbai University