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Manish Shrivastava

Simsbury,CT
Manish Shrivastava

Summary

Director with over 15 years of experience in financial consulting and operations transformation, emphasizing strategic planning, business case development, and team leadership. Track record of delivering complex fintech transformation projects on time and within budget. Strong decision-making and communication skills, effectively driving stakeholder engagement and support.

Overview

20
years of professional experience
1
Certificate

Work History

KPMG
Hartford, CT

Director
10.2021 - Current

Job overview

  • Operation Transformation: Leading operation transformation case development in partnership with technology and business leaders, utilizing standard architecture, resource fungibility, infrastructure, and throughput tracking methods to achieve a 20% efficiency in the target state.
  • Program Leadership – FP&A Transformation: Partnered with project leads and business stakeholders to manage multiple strategic workstreams—Process Orchestration, Data Enablement, and Test Data Curation—as part of a multi-year, enterprise-wide FP&A transformation initiative, aligning finance operations with future-state cloud architecture.
  • Data Strategy & Cloud Conversion Excellence:
    Spearheaded the redesign of a high-risk, defect-prone data conversion process during an on-prem to cloud migration, achieving a seamless production cutover and the successful conversion of ~40 billion data points tied to $4 trillion in mortgage assets—significantly improving data integrity and auditability.
  • Operational Readiness – Loan Accounting Migration: Directed end-to-end operational readiness for the cloud migration of a core Loan Accounting platform, ensuring an on-time go-live. Oversight included cross-functional coordination, training of production support teams, runbook and reporting updates, and stakeholder engagement across integration partners.
  • Testing Strategy for Fintech Modernization:
    Defined and executed the business and end-user testing strategy for a major payment processing platform transformation, enhancing quality assurance, traceability, and user acceptance across product and operations teams in a high-regulatory-impact environment.

KPMG
Hartford, CT

Manager
10.2018 - 09.2021

Job overview

  • Developed General Ledger ERP Transformation (GLT) business proposal and implementation plan accepted by stakeholders
  • Facilitated General Ledger Transformation design workshops covering key design decisions, i.e., GL code blocks, tax sensitization, and account rationalization.
  • Reduced monthly accounting close cycle time by 2 business days through the digitalization of approximately 150 manual processes, saving approximately 2,700 hours annually.
  • Led a team of nine resources to design and implement approximately thirty business and management Tableau dashboards and reports.
  • Conducted thorough assessments of reconciliation tools (Blackline, Workday, Finserv) and managed vendor relations.

KPMG

Associate & Sr. Associate
08.2013 - 09.2018

Job overview

  • Delivered executive-ready insights using Alteryx, SQL, and Tableau to uncover trends in large datasets.
  • Defined business requirements and technical specifications for mortgage accounting systems.
  • Conducted agile sprint-based and UAT testing for accounting and management control functions.

Webster Bank

Investment Analyst
06.2012 - 05.2013

Job overview

  • Authored counter-party credit opinions and recommendations based on market information, CAMELS approach, SWOT analysis and historical data analysis for $5B portfolio
  • Assigned and presented counterparties and securities credit ratings to management team
  • Developed automated excel based model to perform counterparty peer group analysis

Indorama Ventures

Engineering Manager
01.2007 - 08.2011

Job overview

  • Re-establish non-functional propylene production plant to 100% production capacity with series of upgrade projects resulting firm's annual revenue increase by $70 million
  • Developed standard operating procedures and trained team members on safety, reliability and efficiency procedures that supported organization effort to earn ISO certifications
  • Awarded excellent rating for leading $5M security project using advanced technology

Reliance Industries

Engineer
09.2005 - 12.2006

Job overview

  • Planned and managed electrical engineering function of polyethylene production unit

Education

University of Connecticut
Hartford, USA

MBA from Finance
05-2013

University Overview

3.9 GPA

Samrat Ashok Technological Institute
Bhopal, India

Bachelor of Engineering from Electrical Engineering
06-2005

University Overview

3.7 GPA

Skills

  • Program leadership and change management
  • Business strategy development
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Budget oversight and financial planning
  • Cloud migration expertise
  • Data strategy implementation

Certification

Certified Scrum Master, CSM

Timeline

Director

KPMG
10.2021 - Current

Manager

KPMG
10.2018 - 09.2021

Associate & Sr. Associate

KPMG
08.2013 - 09.2018

Investment Analyst

Webster Bank
06.2012 - 05.2013

Engineering Manager

Indorama Ventures
01.2007 - 08.2011

Engineer

Reliance Industries
09.2005 - 12.2006

University of Connecticut

MBA from Finance

Samrat Ashok Technological Institute

Bachelor of Engineering from Electrical Engineering