Managed delivery for a large Legacy to Cloud platform migration program in the Finance portfolio in a multi-vendor environment, collaborated with stakeholders across departments for all phases of the delivery
Created a comprehensive plan for 70+ Legacy applications migrating to Cloud with a definitive schedule and dependencies
Devised weekly and monthly status reports for mid-tier and Executive leadership, acted as liaison between the customer and vendors
Established daily and weekly connects with key stakeholders to track actual progress vs planned, impediments and remediation strategies
Gathered input from various sources on the status of the project, accomplishments, appropriate risk categorization, key issues and closure
Conducted bi-weekly Executive leadership reviews on the health of the program
Tracked resource and cost utilization, highlighted variances on a monthly basis to devise action plans to avoid any cost overruns
Ensure identification of the appropriate resources from both Business and IT for availability during key delivery phases
Setting up a process with the concurrence of the IT Project Lead and the Business, liaise with different stakeholders for appropriate approvals before any system moves into production
Assistant Vice President – HR Operations
Standard Chartered Global Business Solutions
08.2015 - 04.2024
Overseeing multinational operational and advisory teams across India, Thailand, and Indonesia
Hire to Retire process mapping, managed backend operations team which is part of the lifecycle of an employee
Steered a team of Service Desk AskHR Chat advisors who supported global employees 24/7 (India / Thailand and Indonesia)
Achieved 99% SLA for chats within 20 seconds against a target of 30 seconds – using through an effective process analysis and redesign
Managed AskHR service desk for ASEAN and South Asia regions (Ticket Response rate of 98% within 24 hours)
Knowledge and experience in managing employee benefits program for ASEAN region
Preparation of KPI / Metrics for the entire Global Process Services teams which was crucial for reporting the monthly/ quarterly / half yearly & yearly performance to HR Management team
Automation initiatives in relation to the metrics using macros resulted in converting data from 30~ excels into presentation format which led to saving of 6 FTE’s
Played a key role in Design – Release phase of HR wise transition for upgrading from PeopleSoft to Service Now for all the verticals
Conducted retrospective on ‘A3 Improvement’ by leading the team for analysis and new design solutions for process simplification through continuous improvement
Ensured multiple team members are trained and moved up vertically within the organization, building leadership capabilities through training, skills development and understanding the goals of the individuals within the team
Spearheaded Performance Management and My Voice survey efforts
Collaborated with Business Analysts and program teams to define and overseeing the delivery of requirements
Tracked project and team member performance closely to quickly intervene in case of any challenges or delays
Multiple GEM awards
Assistant Manager Technology Operations
Tata Consultancy Services
03.2012 - 08.2014
Managed Telecom project for UK Client, Handled CEO/ Team Manager and High-Level Escalations team with a team strength of 57+ employees
Developed VSM / Project Open Span/ Reduction of escalations using Six Sigma approach
Performance management, through regular feedback and listening from the team to hear about my areas of improvement
Managed the complete backend operations of the telecom client along with the IT counterparts, day to day reporting to clients, daily transactional volume monitoring
Backlog of ~5k accounts when I took over the project worked along with team members, identified bottle necks in process, analyzed and implemented ways to reduce this and got the project to current state within 3 months of time using Six Sigma methodologies
TCS certified Excel Trainer
TalkTalk Hero award for reduction of volume and structuring process workflow
Senior Team Leader Insurance
Royal Sundaram
03.2009 - 11.2011
Handling Inbound / Outbound team for PAN India and consistently delivered high quality of service with Service Levels between 95% - 98% month after month
Conducted leadership trainings cross verticals, managed high-level escalations either on phone or attending to customers in office premises
Regeneration of team from scratch this clearly reflected in the Gallup scores of 4.73 / 5
Completed Six Sigma Project in Customer Complaint with saving for the organization of 15~laks
Won multiple awards MD award (Beaver award), Employee of the year, multiple GEM awards for contributing to Customer Service & Best Employee award in 2005
Started as a trainee in Revenue cycle management operations and managed multiple teams on the Provider side
Experience in both Hospital and Physician billing
Team Leader RCM
Ajuba Solutions
01.2004 - 03.2009
Handling Inbound / Outbound team for PAN India and consistently delivered high quality of service with Service Levels between 95% - 98% month after month
Conducted leadership trainings cross verticals, managed high-level escalations either on phone or attending to customers in office premises
Regeneration of team from scratch this clearly reflected in the Gallup scores of 4.73 / 5
Completed Six Sigma Project in Customer Complaint with saving for the organization of 15~laks
Won multiple awards MD award (Beaver award), Employee of the year, multiple GEM awards for contributing to Customer Service & Best Employee award in 2005
Started as a trainee in Revenue cycle management operations and managed multiple teams on the Provider side
Senior Vice President of Sales at Golfbuddy America /Golfzon, Sparms America, Saintnine /NexenSenior Vice President of Sales at Golfbuddy America /Golfzon, Sparms America, Saintnine /Nexen