Naresh Challa
Bridgeport,CT
Summary
Multi-Spectral exposure into areas of Source to Pay (S-P), Procurement to Pay (P-P) and Finance Analytics. Worked on Procurement Business Management engagements over the past years. Exceptional technical and Functional knowledge in Sourcing, Finance analytics and Business Intelligence. Ability to identify, analyze business and technical requirements and translate needs into workflows. A creative Business Consultant with extensive hands-on experience in driving Procurement initiatives and recommendations for operational and strategic decision-making, results in cost savings and improved working capital. Highly proficient with Python , PL/SQL database, ETL, OBIEE, Alteryx, Power BI and SAP Ariba.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Asst Manager Procurement Analytics
CTRLS DATA CENTERS LTD
08.2024 - 08.2025
- Spend Analytics Identify sourcing opportunities and areas for improvements in the Sourcing process, through analysis of historical performance and trends
- Spend dashboard and Insights for strategic sourcing decisions and sustainable procurement
- Leading supplier negotiations ensuring a framework for a strategic contractual relationship with limited risk
- Providing subject matter expertise on complex purchasing, technical, legal & contractual issues
- SAP ARIBA — sourcing, supplier management, contract management, and procure-to-pay operations
- Analyzed and interpreted complex data to support business decision-making
- Developed savings opportunity assessments for all primary spend categories
- Implemented Pay term Rationalization project part of continued improvements initiatives, results in savings opportunities
- Managed a spend of $10 million for 3 projects
Senior Business Analyst
DATA INTENSITY INDIA PVT LTD
03.2018 - 08.2023
- Served as business analyst to clients, managing an over $100M spend of different corporate clients from Finance-insurance to retail across the globe
- Spend analytics collecting supplier data and cleansing the data and classifying the suppliers and analyzing the expenditure on the dashboard with insights
- Increasing the Supplier Diversity spend and sustainable business spend
- Enhance an integrated reporting data structure to provide information to support business decisions
- Manage and execute projects independently from end-to-end; work with cross-functional and cross-cultural teams to deliver results
Materials executive
ATRIA CONVERGENCE TECHNOLOGIES
06.2015 - 05.2017
- Procurement of Telecom and IT equipment’s (Servers/Storage Switches & IT Devices)
- Network security solutions and Network items Fiber/CAT5/Cables/transceivers etc.
- Executed weighted average payment terms across various categories to identify and execute the savings opportunities
- Automated the savings tracker project and helps the category manager to track the savings on weekly basis
- Works with CPO team and stakeholders across different regions and generate Bi-weekly on-boarding client report
Analyst
WIPRO LIMITED
06.2012 - 05.2015
- Cleanse and Classify Data – Enable efficient, accurate, and preferably automated rationalization and classification of data elements and attributes
- Eliminate discrepancies between incorrect naming conventions and maps spend data to industry-standard classification systems
- Leverage tools to reduce timelines for data analysis, show opportunities for cost savings through payment term harmonization, reduce maverick spend, P-Card optimization, supplier normalization, identify price variation and category management, tail spend management
- Involved in Crosswalks mapping between various schemas like UNSPSC, eClass, NAICS, SIC etc
- Showing Saving Opportunities and Purchase Price Variance (PPV) reports based on their classified report
- Spend Analysis dash board and reporting
- Classifying suppliers & Analyzing data for diversity
- Streamlined the Spend analytics project which helped company to increase savings by 25%
Education
MS - Business Analytics
Sacred Heart University AVANTI DEGREE & PG COLLEGE
USA12.2025
MBA - Finance & Marketing
VIVEKANANDHA SCHOOL OF PG STUDIES
Hyderabad, India06.2012
Bachelor of Arts - Finance/SCM/Computers
AVANTI DEGREE & PG COLLEGE
Hyderabad, India05.2010
Skills
- Proficient in Python, SQL, Dash boards Tableau & Power BI with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Data Analysis, SAP ARIBA, Oracle SCM, Jira, Project Management, BRDS and FRDS
- Mind Mapping tools Lucid chart, Miro
- N8N Automation, SWOT, CANVA, Figma, Cursor AI, Trello
- VSKILLS certified Supply Chain Management Professional
Timeline
Asst Manager Procurement Analytics
CTRLS DATA CENTERS LTD
08.2024 - 08.2025
Senior Business Analyst
DATA INTENSITY INDIA PVT LTD
03.2018 - 08.2023
Materials executive
ATRIA CONVERGENCE TECHNOLOGIES
06.2015 - 05.2017
Analyst
WIPRO LIMITED
06.2012 - 05.2015
MBA - Finance & Marketing
VIVEKANANDHA SCHOOL OF PG STUDIES
MS - Business Analytics
Sacred Heart University AVANTI DEGREE & PG COLLEGE
Bachelor of Arts - Finance/SCM/Computers
AVANTI DEGREE & PG COLLEGE