SUPRAJA DHULIPUDI
Metuchen
Summary
Over 19 years of experience in Project Management, Strategic Planning, Financial Management, Business Analysis and PMO Support. Utilize leadership skills to drive team performance and operational excellence. Track record of delivering high-impact results through innovative problem-solving and effective communication.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Director - IT Project Portfolio Management
Church Pension Group
03.2015 - Current
- Manage the annual budget and resource planning in collaboration with IT Senior Management to ensure that the department has an efficient and effective process for planning and monitoring the allocation of human and financial resources
- Own resource/capacity planning, headcount analysis and augmentation needs for IT department. Present scenarios to influence prioritization decisions based on additional budget requirements and value proposition
- Engage and align with ITS and BU/CU leaders during the selection and curation process of requests as part of annual planning, ensure that prioritized projects are aligned to the individual BU/CU goals that ladder up to the corporate goals
- Liaise with PMO and Finance in getting all tasks and activities completed in a timely manner leading up to annual budgeting deadlines and lead the annual planning/budgeting process for ITS
- Work closely with Corporate Finance and external vendors in the design, framework, prototype and UAT for Planning and Profitability modules with focus on improvising/automating current ITS allocation of costs to products and business lines across CPG
- Manage dashboards and performance metrics reporting for ITS portfolio via variance analysis (planned vs. actual)
- Work closely with the Finance and PMO for forecasting and managing project budgets, financial reporting and accruals
- Oversee and track project and program milestones, timelines, budgets, resource utilization, risks and stakeholder communication for ITS portfolio of projects.
- Coach ITS groups on quality of requests during annual planning and assist PMO with project intake process and governance
- Document and socialize templates, processes and methodologies to support all aspects of resource planning, forecasting, budgeting and maintain toolset and configuration aspects to support the same
Consultant – IT Portfolio Operations
Pacific Gas and Electric
01.2014 - 07.2014
- Work with IT Portfolio leads and Sourcing to review expiring contracts, ensure forecasts are captured, and facilitate Strategic Review sessions with VP/CIO
- Gather metrics information across all IT areas and report against monthly actuals to the VP of IT Operations
- Evaluate forecast cycles with the IT leads in partnership with Business Finance to qualify new initiatives
- Work closely with IT asset management team to streamline procurement and contract renewal processes in SAP/SRM
Sr. Financial Analyst, PMO – Global Data and Information Services
VISA
01.2013 - 01.2014
- Assist senior management with headcount planning, budget review presentations, qualifying/prioritizing projects for AOP (Annual Operating Plan) and developing Budgets
- Act as the Finance Business Partner for GDIS and partner with Corporate Finance in everyday operations
- Develop business case templates to assist the PMO team with presenting project charters, summarizing direct/indirect benefits and obtain funding approval from GCP (Global Capital Planning)
- Work closely with leadership and stakeholders to gather documentation to address FFIEC audit committee requests
- Work with all IT cost center managers with their monthly and quarterly forecasting and planning, own month end close, accrual processes and variance analysis
- Establish processes for improving forecasting accuracy and conduct training sessions for project managers to mitigate challenges around month end and quarter end close
IT Finance – Program Budget Manager
NYU Langone Medical Center
04.2011 - 06.2012
- Worked closely with leadership and managed program capital budget of $45 million for the Data Center Program
- Assist with forecasting across IT groups and worked with the leads to ensure they are on track with planned spend and escalate financial impact arising from scope changes
- Assisted in the preparation of budgets, identified risks from key vendor contracts, impact to CAPEX and OPEX and perform budget reconciliation
- Produced ROI, TCO models and cost avoidance analysis in partnership with Strategic Sourcing to identify opportunity areas for savings in negotiating contracts
- Researched and identified metrics to implement chargeback model between different entities within NYU
- Oversee, plan and track project resources, against project timelines and budget including FTE(s) salary capitalization and staff augmentation needs
- Reviewed all capital projects and analyzed redirect dollars between capital projects to assist budget modification
Project Manager/Sr. Implementation Analyst
City of New York
10.2006 - 03.2011
- Implemented CityTime (Payroll/ERP application) to 15 mayoral agencies, approximately 15,000 end users
- Facilitated workshops to gather requirements and presented to clients on configurable options within the application
- Worked with clients on the implementation timeline, UAT phase and monitored cutover and data migration activities for a successful roll out
- Managed multiple implementations simultaneously and facilitated weekly status meetings.
- Monitored application development needs and work with senior management on prioritization and patch releases
- Participated in business rules, functional review sessions and cross-train other team members on new releases
- Tracked the project plan at different phases of the project lifecycle, identify risks, key challenges and come up with recommendations to address and/mitigate risks
- Interacted with support teams (Testing, QA, Development, Training, Requirements and Helpdesk) to make sure their tasks at different phases of deployment are being accomplished in a timely manner
Financial Analyst, Benefits Accounting Division
DuPont
06.2005 - 12.2005
- Reconcile employees’ medical and dental benefits with the insurance carriers’ month end claim reports
- Perform reconciliation of deductible tax dollars on stock options and their treatment in the cost distribution system
- Analysis of amortization dollars on stock options (external segment reporting purposes)
- Involved in data modeling and analysis for transitioning the HR Benefits Accounting data to SAP
Education
Master of Business Administration - Finance
La Salle University
Philadelphia, PA05.2006
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting
Osmania University
05.2004
CA Foundation Course - undefined
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)
05.2002
Skills
- Relationship building
- Strategic planning
- Verbal and written communication
- Decision-making
Certification
- Project Management Professional (PMP), 2016 - Present
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM), 2016 - Present
- ITIL Foundation certificate in IT Service Management, 2015 – Present
Timeline
Director - IT Project Portfolio Management
Church Pension Group
03.2015 - Current
Consultant – IT Portfolio Operations
Pacific Gas and Electric
01.2014 - 07.2014
Sr. Financial Analyst, PMO – Global Data and Information Services
VISA
01.2013 - 01.2014
IT Finance – Program Budget Manager
NYU Langone Medical Center
04.2011 - 06.2012
Project Manager/Sr. Implementation Analyst
City of New York
10.2006 - 03.2011
Financial Analyst, Benefits Accounting Division
DuPont
06.2005 - 12.2005
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting
Osmania University
CA Foundation Course - undefined
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)
Master of Business Administration - Finance
La Salle University
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