Manish Kumar
Warsaw
Summary
MBA - Finance
Currently residing in Warsaw (Poland) and actively looking out for opportunities.
Seasoned Project Program Manager with background in overseeing large-scale projects from inception to completion. Specialize in coordinating cross-functional teams, optimizing resources and driving process improvements to achieve business objectives. Strengths include strategic planning, risk management, and stakeholder communication. Previous work has resulted in improved efficiency, cost reductions, and successful project delivery within set timelines.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Project Program Manager
AXA Global Business Services
03.2023 - Current
- Coordinating with cross-discipline team members to make sure that all parties are on track with project requirements, deadlines, and schedules
- Meeting with project team members to identify and resolve issues
- Submitting project deliverables and ensuring that they adhere to quality standards
- Preparing status reports by gathering, analyzing, and summarizing relevant information
- Establishing effective project communication plans and ensuring their execution
- Facilitating change requests to ensure that all parties are informed of the impacts on schedule and budget
- Coordinating the development of user manuals, training materials, and other documents as needed to enable successful implementation and turnover of the process or system to the clients
- Identifying and developing new opportunities with clients
- Obtaining customer acceptance of project deliverables
- Managing customer satisfaction within the project transition period
- Conducting post-project evaluation and identifying successful and unsuccessful project elements
- Working closely with Treasury Project & Operations Managers for continuous improvement activities
- Working with internal and external Project Managers, Solution Architects, and other key business users (Shared Services, Business Process Owner) to scope integration solutions and conduct technical gap analyses of software environments
- Ensured compliance with company policies, procedures, and regulations throughout the life cycle of a project.
- Conducted regular meetings with stakeholders to ensure alignment of goals and objectives.
- Identified resources, risks, and dependencies needed to complete the project on time.
- Managed budgeting activities for projects including forecasting, tracking, and reporting costs.
- Established relationships with external partners in order to gain access to necessary resources for completing a project.
- Prepared performance reports for management review detailing status of projects and tasks completed.
- Guided the strategic planning and goal-setting process for programs, aligning initiatives with organizational vision and priorities.
Senior Project Manager
British Telecommunications plc.
04.2013 - 03.2023
- Conduct pre-study for new business demands in order to assess feasibility in Treasury Solutions, and prepare project planning according to internal/external stakeholders needs and constraints
- Managing projects related to Treasury Solutions (Payment platform, Treasury Management System, Intercompany netting solution) and ensure smooth roll-out, adoption of the core model along with Finance and SAP ERP Roadmap i.e
- Configuration, end-to-end testing, Cutover activities, Go live preparation, Training Key User and Documentation
- Managing and/or contribute to processes documentation during project execution and initiate enhancements on ways of working
- Managing assessment of editors releases on new features and related action plans
- Contributing to licenses monitoring & optimization by driven action plan
- Maintaining healthy relationship with Business stakeholder (Shared Services, Business Process Owner) and editors and ensuring level of support from them
- Providing timely and regular communication to user on open cases, not letting cases breach SLA without update on cases
- Delivering a high level of customer service to all users and continuous communication
- Preparing and participate to ORM (Operational Review Meeting) with the Operational Manager
- Contributing to root cause analysis for high priority incidents, developing checklist for recurring problem and work with Solution expert on Continuous improvement initiative to improve services
- Contributing to Internal/External Audit with relevant documentation and to be compliant with process
Accounts / Finance Specialist
AXA Business Services Pvt Ltd
08.2009 - 11.2012
- Receive, verify and processing of the invoices and requisitions for goods and services
- Processing of the employee expense sheets in order to ensure staff are paid in an accurate and timely manner
- Preparing Daily Report and analyzing the invoices processed daily, of the team members
- Monitor all vendor calls and address all issues for account payable schedule and appropriate disbursements
- Evaluate all account payable balance and resolve all unpaid invoices issues
- Analyze processes, recommend improvements for same and manage all internal controls on documents
- Involved in the Quality Check of the documents
- Identifying the errors while processing of the invoices, due to German Language barrier
Skills
- Requirements Analysis
- Innovation management
- Project Scheduling
- Scope Management
- Business Analysis
- P&L Management
- Stakeholder Communications
- Program Leadership
Languages
English
First Language
German
Beginner
A1
Certification
- PMP Certified
- Prince2 Certified
Timeline
Senior Project Program Manager
AXA Global Business Services
03.2023 - Current
Senior Project Manager
British Telecommunications plc.
04.2013 - 03.2023
Accounts / Finance Specialist
AXA Business Services Pvt Ltd
08.2009 - 11.2012
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