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Savitha Sukumar

Resource Manager
Liberty Hill,TX

Summary

Resource Management professional, experienced in Resource Planning and management for Global Service Firm, working with consultants and key stakeholders across Asia Pacific region. Expert in Resource allocation, Project Pipeline planning and Resource forcasting. Skilled in working with various tools for Resource Monitoring and Reporting.


Overview

2020
2020
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Resource Management Specialist

RoseRyan
1 2022 - 7 2022
  • Company Overview: Accounting firm
  • Managing resources including assigning consultants to appropriate projects, allocate resources to available work based on demand, capacity, skill set and experience
  • Managing end to end project resourcing process, pipeline monitoring, effective and timely project assignment
  • Responsible for monitoring project activities and resourcing, identifying potential instances of under and over utilization and actively work with the service managers to address and solve those issues
  • Working with the leadership, sales and talent teams to gather internal and external feedback to ensure client satisfaction with consultants
  • Collaborate with the VP of Operations and leadership team to set priorities and deliverables for Resource Management and talent development
  • Run weekly resource meetings and facilitate resourcing issues/conflicts resolution with project managers and department heads
  • Managing overall hiring recommendations and forecasts, allowing for onboarding and ramp up time based on forecasted resource needs and assist with recruiting
  • Brainstorm ideas for creative resource management, set goals, and execute initiatives to continually improve the company capabilities through the employees
  • Liaise with external vendors to manage resources
  • Accounting firm

Resource Manager - APAC

KornFerry
04.2019 - 11.2019
  • Responsible for Developing and managing resource planning based on business needs, develop workforce planning tools to support governance processes, forecasting, modeling, and operational action planning, including strategies to resolve staffing conflicts
  • Primary source of contact for all resource needs, allocations and resource conflicts, ensuring staffing requests are fulfilled in an efficient and cost-effective manner
  • Responsible for gather approvals from Leadership, validating billable rates, margin and revenue details and securing contractor agreements for subcontractor/Freelance contractors
  • Conducting forecast review meetings with respective leaders on a regular basis, to plan resource assignments and resolve resource conflicts
  • Create and manage resourcing utilization and forecasts for all staff based on input from leads and managers
  • Work with Resource management colleagues to match demand with capacity planning and staffing on high challenging engagements
  • Responsible for training and educating the regional team to better understand demand planning and implications for staffing
  • Partner with country leaders, consulting leaders, and team leaders to infuse productive resourcing practices into sales and delivery processes
  • Partner with solution and market leaders to understand the composition of the regional talent pool and identify opportunities to optimize resourcing
  • Onboarding new consultants and educating them on how to partner with RM effectively
  • Maintaining constant knowledge of the resource skills, experience and innate talents of the resources to put them in the right project based on their skill sets
  • Track and monitor resources current and pipeline projects, and advertise their availability to make sure they are not in bench

Resource Manager - APAC

Finastra
01.2017 - 02.2019
  • Responsible to deliver qualified resources to projects, identify the best available resource based on the resource skills matrix, availability, and resource cost profile
  • Conducts regular reviews with regional teams (project managers, team leads, and regional heads of services) to plan consultant assignments, review bookings, work through conflicts, and identify opportunities for consultants
  • Work with project managers and practice leads to review and design work packages and resourcing plans to deliver against project deliverables while leveraging the best available staffing from internal regional resources, center of excellence staff, and third party contractors
  • Working with the Global Resourcing team engaging with other Resource Managers to leverage the global pool of resources maximizing utilization globally while reducing use and reliance on contractors
  • Proactively spot forecasted bench time for consultants and work PS regional and sales teams to identify new opportunities, preparation of capacity planning
  • Partners with Operations to ensure resource revenue forecasting is accurate (up to date bookings with correct rate assignments)
  • Conduct practice reviews providing regional teams with recommendations and actions to improve the health, performance, and delivery of projects by aligning the right staff to project deliverable to increase utilization, improve margin by assigning work to lower cost resources, and driving better forward planning
  • Advertises and promotes the availability of consultants globally to encourage sharing of resources across regions and increase utilization
  • Optimizing the billable utilization of all PS staff in the region, minimizing non-billable activities and gaps in billable workload
  • Participate in the development of resourcing strategies and plans with a view to achieving financial targets (including utilization and cost, Participating in the development of resourcing strategies and plans and the maintenance of accurate job descriptions
  • Plan and analyze work for the PS workforce developing staffing plans factoring increases or decreases in demand for resources based on the Risk and Opportunity (R&O), current sales forecast from SalesForce, and input from the regional leadership teams
  • Maintaining up-to-date profiles of skills, knowledge, and competencies for a centralized pool of resources
  • Constantly monitors resources assignments and timesheet data to ensure accuracy of bookings
  • Allocate all PS staff, contractors, partners, and outsourced staff to PS projects, Managing the availability of resources by maintaining up-to-date assignment information
  • Maintain and report on headcount movement including open requisitions, new hires and resignations
  • Develop & support orientation activities for new, promoted, and transferred employees, Co-ordinate planned developmental opportunities through the implementation and execution of training plans
  • Create and manage Purchase Requests for all sub-contracted resources through NetSuite
  • Preparation of Pipeline Vs revenue forecast report to align the pipeline bookings against the forecast

Process Lead – Accounts Payable and Receivable

CGI
05.2011 - 01.2017
  • Handling the team of 12 and monitoring on the SLA’S
  • Preparation of monthly deck for the billing process in order to discuss and review the process with clients
  • Preparation of monthly billing MBR deck to discuss and review the team performance
  • Guiding the team on process and educating on the errors
  • Updating the Issue log reports
  • Raising queries for the incomplete billing Requests & proactive follow up with Client to resolve the queries
  • Creating the VB Proforma invoices in PSA
  • Raising the Credit Memo’s
  • Approving supplier invoices for making payment
  • Frequent follow-up with the requestor for required information in order to post the invoices into supplier account
  • Preparation of process documents and updating the new procedures
  • Conducting weekly hurdles in order to update the team on the new process updates and reiterating on the errors

Senior process associate- Accounts Payable

Capgemini Business Services
08.2008 - 04.2011
  • Reviewing Invoices and responsible for Accounting the Bills of the vendor and processing 3-way invoices for the payments
  • Having a check on various control aspects to avoid duplicate and excess payments to the vendor
  • Processing overseas invoices and Interacting with clients on overseas invoices and resolving the Issues
  • Working on all aged queries raised by the processors
  • Working on high value queries to ensure that overall query value is always low
  • Root cause analysis with action points-Analysis of reason behind the query & what action can be taken to overcome so that invoice will not fall under query in future
  • Responsible for training new associates on process
  • Educating the processing team to avoid the error

Education

Bachelor of Commerce -

Bangalore University
05.2001 - 06.2008

Skills

  • Resource Allocation
  • Capacity Planning
  • Cross-functional coordination
  • Teamwork and Collaboration
  • Cross-Functional Team Leadership
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Project Lifecycle Management
  • Agile and Waterfall Methodologies
  • Risk Mitigation
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Talent Development
  • Performance Optimization
  • Budget Management
  • Strategic Planning
  • Process Improvement
  • Project Scheduling
  • Workforce Forecasting
  • Communication and Collaboration
  • Client Relationship Management
  • Decision-Making
  • Budget Forecasting
  • Project Management Tools: MS Project, JIRA, Smartsheet

Certification

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Timeline

Project Management Professional (PMP)

10-2024

Resource Manager - APAC

KornFerry
04.2019 - 11.2019

Resource Manager - APAC

Finastra
01.2017 - 02.2019

Process Lead – Accounts Payable and Receivable

CGI
05.2011 - 01.2017

Senior process associate- Accounts Payable

Capgemini Business Services
08.2008 - 04.2011

Bachelor of Commerce -

Bangalore University
05.2001 - 06.2008

Resource Management Specialist

RoseRyan
1 2022 - 7 2022

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