Meghana Kulkarni
Parsippany,NJ
Summary
Professional Project Management Specialist with 15+ years experience working with teams to accomplish short- and long-term project goals. Focused and adept at planning, directing and maintaining continuous operations in various departments. Experienced in directing employees and keeping efficiency in accordance with quality standards. Applying creative and analytical approach to operations for continuous process improvement. Skilled at identifying or anticipating problems and providing solutions. Excels through mentoring, training and empowering team to excel in performance. Experience in full SDLC processes (Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, and Kanban) from project initiation to delivery and support using the industry standard project management techniques. Currently work as a Transformation Projects Lead for Reckitt Benckiser Inc., a CPG company
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Transformation Manager - Finance Projects; BRM
Reckitt Benckiser Inc.
Parsippany, NJ
04.2019 - Current
- Create Entity Relationship Diagrams and process flows using Visio.
- Managed projects from procurement to commission.
- In-depth experience in requirement analysis, system design, Data Flow Designs, support, development, testing, documentation and design reviews.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and criteria
- Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
- Advised IT team to resolve critical and complex ticketing issues quickly and in efficient manner.
- Achieved project deadlines by coordinating with contractors to manage performance.
- Developed and documented process flows and requirements for functional improvements and enhancements.
- Extensive technical and functional experience in Record to Report, supply chain and Order management (Sales, Credit, Collections)
- Project governance, budgetary control, and portfolio management - Track status of in-flight projects and deliverables, manage demand process and portfolio governance
- Establishing and maintaining effective communication strategy and approach across regional, BU and global stakeholders
- Establish & drive demand & business relationship management process
- Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement. Manual reduction and documentation accuracy increased by 60%
- 100% track record of delivering projects in time and on budget
Senior Project Manager; M&A; Finance Analyst
Conduent Business Services
Florham Park, NJ
08.2017 - 04.2019
- SME for multiple business systems analysis disciplines (reporting, operations, data).
- Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address problems.
- Monitored contracts and service level agreements to identify potential risks and implement mitigation actions to protect development process from unforeseen delays and costs.
- Developed “As-Is” and “To-Be" process after requirement analysis and identified existing gaps in business processes and participated in business processes review.
- Ensure user stories are well-defined and ready to be worked on by team.
- Develop and document Detailed Plans
- Met project deadlines without sacrificing build quality or workplace safety.
- Analyzed requirements and created use cases, Process flow diagrams & Design documents.
- Led 3 divestitures as IT Finance Lead
- Performance reporting for leadership team
Sr Business Analyst
Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide
Parsippany, NJ
08.2014 - 08.2017
- Collected and documented project requirements.
- Created surveys to gather data to understand target audience and present most relevant data for leadership team to make decisions.
- Supported leadership team with reporting, analysis, and business presentations to inform divisional strategies.
- Tracked data problems and analyzed information find root causes.
- Assisted VP of System of business to identify challenges and devise data driven solutions to improve month end performance
- Worked as SME in ERP systems and let upgrades and rollouts of ERP processes within sister concerns.
- Created Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to track deliverables of team members resulting in increased efficiency.
- Creating Testing Plans and executing UAT
- Creating documentations such as BRD, system documentation on different user levels
- Created mapping for Integration with between systems for media and HCP related data
- Managed team of 2 BAs
- Added customer feedback process to handle requests.
Business Analyst
Circular Edge
Parsippany, NJ
10.2011 - 05.2014
- ERP Implementation Consultant with various clients
- 3 successful implementations completed
Business Analyst
Otis Elevator Company
Pune, MH
05.2008 - 11.2010
- ERP Implementation, Upgrades, Support for Otis Elevator Asia Pacific regions
- End to End Business Analyst in implementing supply chain and order management and finance processes
- Implemented lean and wastage reduction process such as RCA, fishbone as part of process improvement DMAIC
Analyst
Oracle
Hyderabad, India
07.2006 - 04.2008
- Performed system analysis, documentation, testing, implementation, and user support for platform transitions.
- Optimized core processes to improve business performance and operational agility.
- Customer User Experience
- Average of 25 customer support per month for resolving issues reported for Oracle systems
Education
MBA - Finance
Symbiosis Institute
Pune, India04.2012
Bachelors of Accounting - Commerce (Accounting & Economics)
University of Mumbai
Mumbai, IN05.2003
Skills
- Project methodologies : Agile (Scrum, Kanban); Waterfall; Hybrid
- Project Management: Smartsheet, MS Project, Jira, Asana, Mondaycom; Excel Worksheets
- Business process mapping; Process re-engineering projects
- Business Requirements
- Project Finance
- ERP Implementation - Oracle JD Edwards Suite (R2R, P2P, OTC); SAP (R2R), Oracle R12 (R2R)
- SAAS - Allocadia Up-tempo (Marketing), Blackline (R2R), Salesforce, HR benefits systems
- Data Visualization (BI) - Power BI, Tableau, Domo, Insight Bubble, Essbase
- Data Collection & Reporting
- MS Office - Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio, MS Project
- Problem Solving
- Collaborative
- Effective Communication
- Reporting
- Negotiation
Timeline
Transformation Manager - Finance Projects; BRM
Reckitt Benckiser Inc.
04.2019 - Current
Senior Project Manager; M&A; Finance Analyst
Conduent Business Services
08.2017 - 04.2019
Sr Business Analyst
Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide
08.2014 - 08.2017
Business Analyst
Circular Edge
10.2011 - 05.2014
Business Analyst
Otis Elevator Company
05.2008 - 11.2010
Analyst
Oracle
07.2006 - 04.2008
MBA - Finance
Symbiosis Institute
Bachelors of Accounting - Commerce (Accounting & Economics)
University of Mumbai