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Archna Monga
Dublin,CA
Summary
Seasoned FP&A / Finance Transformation Leader with rich cross-functional experience in FP&A, Finance Transformation and Financial Systems. Results-oriented professional with a proven track record in driving organizational success through adept process transformation, change management, and stakeholder engagement. Offering a robust background in project management, leading teams to deliver high-impact initiatives.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. Manager Finance Transformation
Uber
04.2022 - Current
- Manage team responsible for the transformation projects with FP&A wide impact
- Liaison between Fintech, Accounting and FP&A teams ensuring the projects are prioritized strategically, well managed and executed meeting success criterions
- Collaborating with Fintech on use-cases to enhance FP&A user experience and productivity with Generative AI
- Directing high impact Finance Modernization program involving the evaluation (RFP for software selection and contract negotiation) and implementation of future-ready Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) tool. This program will yield ~2M+ savings in total cost of ownership and significant productivity gains
- Led end to end transformation of few key financial close and forecast processes, optimizing workflows and enhancing operational efficiency using Agile methodology for adaptive and iterative project management
- Spearheaded a project focused on cost allocation enhancements, resulting in better accuracy, efficiency and transparency, a key pain point in FP&A ecosystem
- Established change champions in FP&A to drive adoption of process and system enhancements and act as advocates for positive changes across FP&A
- Developed a robust metadata governance framework for process stewardship from Data Relationship Management (DRM) to EPM
Finance Manager
PayPal Inc
06.2019 - 03.2022
- Managed Operating and Capital budget of key PayPal business portfolios (Technology, Compliance, Platforms and Facilities)
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams for strategic business planning and growth initiatives.
- Finance Transformation: Led the finance transformation roadmap. Collaborated with FP&A teams in identifying challenges with the current state of finance processes & systems, and designed the future state & transformative initiatives
- Partnered with business in managing their Annual Operating Expense and Capital budget, monthly close/forecast, and headcount planning
- Presented monthly financial results to the business portfolio Senior Leaders (VP/SVP) and corporate FP&A
- Uncovered process issues with capital labor of supporting platform business units, resolving which resulted in reduction of ~$2M in operating expenses annually
- Mentored junior analysts and served as go-to person for coaching on financial models, planning systems, financial decks, and business partner relationships.
Finance Manager
United Airlines
11.2016 - 05.2019
- Managed financial close and planning of five United Kitchens and Shared Services teams. Responsible for $300M operating budget of crew hotels and transportation.
- Spearheaded process improvement initiatives for Catering department
- Collaborated with workforce planning team to perform labor planning and built metric driven model to forecast FTEs and related expenses
- Managed
- Developed financial review packs and metrics dashboards for two groups providing deep insights into financial data
- Increased financial efficiency by streamlining and automating financial reporting processes.
Manager - Finance Systems
United Airlines
01.2012 - 11.2016
- Managed monthly processes in multiple on-premise (Oracle EPM) Hyperion Planning applications and cloud-based applications in Anaplan
- Led full life-cycle implementation of Hyperion Planning to transition excel-based inefficient forecast and budget processes
- Expanded Hyperion Planning footprint into multiple departments using agile methodology
- Developed strong relationships with FP&A teams and gained deeper understanding of their finance process to drive continuous improvement
- Spearheaded implementation of Anaplan cloud application for Airport Operations team enabling detailed monthly financial and workforce planning
- Automated data and metadata upload process from Hyperion Planning using Anaplan REST APIs.
- Facilitated successful cross-functional collaborations for the completion of key projects, fostering strong working relationships with Division Controllers, Corporate Finance, Capital Planning, Financial Reporting and IT teams
IT Management Lead Consultant
Perficient, Inc
02.2009 - 01.2012
- Led United-Continental merger project implementing a single planning system with combined entities, streamlined forecast, and budgeting processes
- Implemented overnight metadata and hourly data update from Oracle ERP and Projects using Oracle Data Integrator
- Built a monthly forecast process, heavily based on calculated drivers and key metrics, in Hyperion Planning for Golden Living (Health Care Industry) and Rackspace (Hi-Tech Industry)
- Developed a custom solution in Financial Data Quality Management (FDM) to handle special requirements at Ashmore Energy International (Energy)
Senior Software Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Inc
11.2001 - 08.2006
- R&D member of Sun Java Communications Suite, a web-based enterprise solution to access email, calendar,contacts and corporate directory
- Participated in full life-cycle development of various versions of the suite
- Architected and prototyped the next generation of web communication client Framed performance and build monitoring processes for the suite to eliminate performance related bottlenecks Collaborated with Product Management team to do feature requirement study of various web-based communication products
Education
MBA - Business Administration
McCombs School Of Business, University of Texas
Austin, TX12.2008
PGD - Information Technology
Indira Gandhi National Open University
New, Delhi07.2005
BSc (Computer Science) -
University of Delhi
New, Delhi07.1996
Skills
Finance Transformation: Process Transformation, Change & Stakeholder Management, Project Management, Team Leadership, Cross-functional Collaboration
Financial Planning and Analysis: Financial Modeling and Reporting, Annual Budgeting, Monthly Close & Forecasting, Business Partnering
Financial Systems/Tools: Oracle EPM Cloud and On-premise (Hyperion Essbase & Planning), DRM, ODI, IBM TM1, SAP (BPC S/4Hana, Fieldglass), Anaplan, ThinkCell
Tools/Programming: SQL, Java, HTML, VBScript/JavaScript, SQL Server, Teradata, Oracle, MS Access, Microsoft Office, gSuite, SharePoint, Confluence, JIRA, Asana, ChatGPT
Certification
Oracle Hyperion Planning 11 Certified Implementation Specialist
Accomplishments
Q2 FP&A Outstanding Achievement (PayPal, 2021)
Q1 Top 100 Employees Award (United, 2016)
Outstanding Performance (Perficient 2010, 2011)
Gold Medalist in Post Graduate Diploma (2005)
Interests
Sci-fi movies / series / reading
Traveling to places rich in history and culture
Timeline
Sr. Manager Finance Transformation
Uber
04.2022 - Current
Finance Manager
PayPal Inc
06.2019 - 03.2022
Finance Manager
United Airlines
11.2016 - 05.2019
Manager - Finance Systems
United Airlines
01.2012 - 11.2016
IT Management Lead Consultant
Perficient, Inc
02.2009 - 01.2012
Senior Software Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Inc
11.2001 - 08.2006
MBA - Business Administration
McCombs School Of Business, University of Texas
PGD - Information Technology
Indira Gandhi National Open University
BSc (Computer Science) -
University of Delhi