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Sushil Nimkar

NJ

Summary

ENTERPRISE BUSINESS & DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION LEADER

Accomplished, hands-on, creative executive with 20+ years of global experience in strategic business transformation with digital narrative targeting cost efficiency, revenue streams and customer experience


ABOUT ME: Enthusiastic problem solver transforming business with digital operating models and innovation. Avid learner, and trusted advisor on achieving tangible business outcome. Managed execution through global delivery teams


EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT & HANDS-ON LEADERSHIP:
Driving Transformation Strategy in Business with Purpose led Objectives: 18+ years
Leading Solution Advisory & Consulting: 17+ years
Practice Management & Business Development: 15+ years
P&L Management: 13+ years
Digital Supply Chain Transformation: 13+ years
Digital Customer Experience Strategy: 13+ years
Digital Finance Transformation: 15+ years
CoE Strategy for Digital Adoption: 10+ years

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

AVP: Business Transformation Partner

Hexaware Technologies Inc
02.2015 - Current

Drive year-over-year customer success and business transformation while leading client digital partnership with P&L responsibility, Realizing strategic vision, and long-range planning with full responsibility for bottom-line factors, global technology & automation strategy, and partner relationships. Direct cross-functional global CoE team

Notable Engagements/ Highlights

  • Led mandate of setting up global transformation practice targeting enterprise operations, decision science for driving cost efficiencies, with automation and continual process improvements achieving over 4M+ annual hours of savings
  • Evangelized Digital process assessment strategic framework to execution roadmaps with short, medium, and long-term committed business benefits driving resilience and pro-active decision capability
  • Collaborated closely with CFO's team of global fortune heavy engineering & electrical conglomerate giant to mine Sourcing, P2P, and O2C operations across NA & Europe and implemented process & vendor optimization and customer-facing processes with intelligent automation that unlocked opportunity of $100 Mn+ USD annual cash flow
  • Championed platform-based F&A transformation for US-based leading CPG covering 3 independent plants covering Procure to Pay and delivered 55% savings upfront with a unique digital managed services model
  • Shaped digital operating model and roadmap creation for automation & ML based decision management for a leading Auto Part retail company covering 500+ FTEs in F&A, Order Mgmt. shared services, and automated 200+ processes with standardization to deliver 60% effort efficiency
  • Championed technology-driven transformation and process excellence initiative for a US-based global industrial manufacturing company covering P2P, andO2C, delivered 40% efficiency
  • Advised on a global tech-led digital finance transformation for Europe-based organization with FO-BO model for AP, AR, and R2R delivered 80 M Euro savings across 5 years

Finance & SCM Transformation Leader

Datamatics Global Services Ltd
01.2011 - 01.2015

Notable Engagements / Highlights:

  • Shaped digital operating model for large commercial shared services O2C, warranty management, IOT-based predictive maintenance, and fleet management) for a leading global B2B HVAC company and led technology-led transformation team to deliver overall impact of 57% of cost efficiencies
  • Established center of excellence to drive ML-based analytics for automated capacity designing based on real-time inputs
  • Directed global R-to-R transformation (Record to Report operations and reconciliations) covering Europe & NA and enabled reduction of closure cycle from 14 to 9 days and yielded cost savings of 40%
  • Consulted on data integration program for supply chain for aleading global engineering company to intelligently predict order status across key product lines
  • Directed digital platform product team of 20 functional and technical professionals and executed plan of re-architecting Finance BPM platform resulting in rapid deployment and improved capacity by 25% improving revenue by 12

Solutions Leader, Digital Finance Transformation

Zensar Technologies Ltd
01.2009 - 01.2011

Notable Engagements/ Highlights:

  • Founding member of Platform-based Finance transformation unit and grew team to twenty-five consultants across onsite and offshore locations
  • Guided omnichannel transformation for P2P and Order management operations for leading global paints company resulting in 12% increase in order volumes and improvement in customer satisfaction scores by 15% in first 3 months
  • Managed global automation program for leading global US-based Japanese conglomerate of power tool company for O2C Operations with 250+ FTE’s
  • Customer journey mapping and dealer web app increased channel sales by 10% and DSO improved by 4

Business Solution Architect

TATA Consultancy Services (TCS)
01.2006 - 01.2009

Notable Engagements/ Highlights:

  • Led global program management for SAP-based P2P transformation for over ten countries for leading chemical company
  • Led process harmonization for over 120 processes which resulted in 30% efficiency post stabilization
  • Advised global UK retailer and led team for technology led transformation for 200 FTE operations supporting supply chain export back office in India delivering over 50% efficiency and improving transaction cycle time by 25

Sales Leader and Consultant

TSR Darashaw, A Former TATA Group Company
01.2002 - 01.2006
  • Executed strategy for technology led HR Process transformation for nation-wide customers resulting in 25% more efficiency in transitions and change management
  • Led growth strategy for business development and achieved growth by 122% over 3 years and recipient of 3 promotions

Technical Consultant

Fact Software International
01.2001 - 01.2002
  • Managed 15+ successful implementations and rollout of Payroll Software for multi-location global Fortune 500 CPG company
  • Improvised strategic product roadmap with technical team ensuring zero fallout

Education

MBA - Business Management

University of Mumbai
2005

Bachelor of Chemical Engineering -

Shivaji University
1998

Post-Graduate Diploma - Innovation and Design Thinking

Emeritus
2021

Post Graduate Diploma - Advanced Computing

CDAC
2001

Executive Program in Machine Learning Implementation in Business -

MIT Sloan School of Management
2020

Skills

  • Strategic Planning & Change Management
  • Digital Process Transformation
  • Technology Decision Leadership
  • Global Team Leadership & Cross-functional Collaboration (Agile teams)
  • C-Suite Relationship
  • Enterprise Program Agile Leadership
  • Value Prioritization Frameworks
  • Business Process Re-imagination, Standardization & Harmonization
  • SLA/ KPI Improvisation
  • Lean Six Sigma
  • Conflict Resolution & Analytical mindset
  • Outcome driven Partnership Strategy

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY & HYPER AUTOMATION EXPERIENCE

Focused on blending business with modern, emerging technologies: AI/ Automated ML (Rapidminer, DataRobot), Process Mining - Celonis, Fortress, Soroco, RPA (UI Path, Automation Anywhere), Conversational AI, Low Code (Appian, Mendix, Workato), CX (Genesys, Twilio) Self Service, Kinaxis, Pega, Guideware, BPM, Alteryx, Anaplan, Esker, Coupa, High Radius, Blackline, Trintech, Ephesoft, iOCR, IDP, Smart data intake, etc among leading disruptive technologies, Key Environments: SAP, Oracle

Additional Information

Major: Manufacturing, Telecom, CPG, Retail, Distribution, Life Science

Key Domains: Finance and Accounting (P2P, O2C, R2R) & Supply Chain, HR,


Accomplishments

  • Spearheaded several process mining and discovery assessment to drive data driven transformation, road-map creation with clear cut defined outcomes impacting cash flow opportunities of $ 100M+ for large global operations across NA, Europe and APAC
  • Led global COE teams to drive enterprise agenda on digital process transformation for Fortune 500/1000 companies targeting 100 to 1200+ FTE operations achieving average 42% cost efficiency
  • One of three founding member team to drive Brain Box initiative with bottom up innovation with participation of employees idea creation impacting value of $139M
  • Created ecosystem of emerging technology partners weaved and developed framework for appropriate technology selection impacting both short term and long-term business resilience

Timeline

AVP: Business Transformation Partner

Hexaware Technologies Inc
02.2015 - Current

Finance & SCM Transformation Leader

Datamatics Global Services Ltd
01.2011 - 01.2015

Solutions Leader, Digital Finance Transformation

Zensar Technologies Ltd
01.2009 - 01.2011

Business Solution Architect

TATA Consultancy Services (TCS)
01.2006 - 01.2009

Sales Leader and Consultant

TSR Darashaw, A Former TATA Group Company
01.2002 - 01.2006

Technical Consultant

Fact Software International
01.2001 - 01.2002

MBA - Business Management

University of Mumbai

Bachelor of Chemical Engineering -

Shivaji University

Post-Graduate Diploma - Innovation and Design Thinking

Emeritus

Post Graduate Diploma - Advanced Computing

CDAC

Executive Program in Machine Learning Implementation in Business -

MIT Sloan School of Management
Sushil Nimkar