Abhishek Mishra

Strategic, entrepreneurial, and value-driven Finance/IT business partner with diverse and progressive multinational experience including Accenture, IBM & Big-4. Exhibit leadership in the implementation of process, technology, and organizational change management. Demonstrated C-suite whisperer, strong problem solver with design thinking, recognized for stewardship in risk mitigation with ability to lead others through ambiguity and change.
o Strategy & Management Consulting
o Finance Transformation
o Technology & Project/Program Management

Career Summary

Strategic, entrepreneurial, and value-driven Finance/IT business partner with diverse and progressive multinational experience including Accenture, IBM & Big-4. Exhibit leadership in the implementation of process, technology, and organizational change management. Demonstrated C-suite whisperer, strong problem solver with design thinking, recognized for stewardship in risk mitigation with ability to lead others through ambiguity and change.

Strategy & Management Consulting

• Proficient in the entire spectrum of strategic planning, helping organizations drive strategy through execution. Achieve quality, customer satisfaction, and ROI targets by envisioning the complete strategic landscape and aligning operational needs with organizational structure, culture, and business objectives.
• Extensive experience leading and delivering large-scale, complex global transformation programs incorporating business processes and technology (with budgets ranging from $5 million to $0.5 billion) for fortune clientele.
• Catalyst for business transformation across multiple lines of business. Collaborate with clients to develop global business blueprints, roadmaps, create business cases, and offer recommendations for innovative solutions.
• Contribute to Business & Practice Development, Talent Acquisition, Pre-Sales and nurturing client relationships.

Finance Transformation

• Drive finance organization strategy transformation by advocating for changes to support evolving priorities, such as digital initiatives, mergers and acquisitions, business process improvement, or cost optimization.
• Act as a Finance SME, providing expert guidance to CFOs/CIOs in designing and architecting global finance processes across Record-to-Report, Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, Intercompany, Cash Management, and Internal Controls.
• Possess comprehensive experience across accounting, audit, tax, and FP&A (planning, budgeting, forecasting) departments, operating within a multi-GAAP (US GAAP, IFRS) environment.
• Design reporting systems, processes, analytical tools, and key performance indicators (KPIs) aligned with agreed service level agreements (SLAs) and benchmarks.

Technology & Project/Program Management

• Experienced in program/project management for application packaged solutions, utilizing a hybrid methodology (waterfall and agile). Held key leadership positions as Delivery Lead and Program/Project Manager.
• Successfully oversee budget, schedule, and scope of intricate transformation programs encompassing multiple disciplines throughout the project lifecycle.
• Demonstrate adeptness in leading and mentoring diverse, distributed, cross-functional, and virtual teams within global matrix organizations.
• Possess a robust digital acumen with system-agnostic experience with leading ERP systems.

Work Experience

Senior Director-Strategy | Atom | San Francisco | May 2021 – May 2023

• Acted as a subject matter expert (SME) in Strategy, Transformation, Program Management, and Change Management for the client, Achieve, contributing to various strategic initiatives such as Oracle Cloud ERP implementation, Application Managed Services (AMS), Revenue Management, and Talent Acquisition.
• Led Finance Transformation offering development, establishing expertise in Strategy & Transformation.
• Created SMB go-to-market strategy for growth and market penetration.

Director-Finance Transformation | Birlasoft | New Jersey | Nov 2020 – May 2021

• Led the Finance Transformation capability within the Oracle Cloud Practice, overseeing activities related to pre-sales and internal initiative 'Anything as a Service' (XAAS).

Director-Strategy & Operations | Nexelus | New York | Jul 2019 – Nov 2020

• Provided professional services and project management expertise for the implementation of Nexelus in conjunction with leading ERPs such as Oracle and D365.
• Developed and executed the go-to-market strategy for the product, Nexelus, a SAAS-based sub-ledger platform, ensuring its successful market penetration and evolution.

Senior Manager-Finance Transformation | Accenture | New York | Dec 2014 – Jun 2019

• Led the design and implementation of Oracle Financial Accounting Hub (FAH) across all Policy/Claim administration systems as a Finance subject matter expert (SME) at QBE, UK and integration with PeopleSoft 8.9 for North America.
• Contributed to global Business Transformation initiatives as the Finance & Tax Lead at Pearson and played a pivotal role during the business and systems integration at WTW after the Willis and Towers Watson merger (PeopleSoft 8.9).
• Served as Delivery Lead for a Finance Transformation project at ING Bank (IBM BDW, OFSAA & FAH), successfully transforming their Commercial Banking platform from Trading to Reporting. Implemented innovative data concepts of 'Bank in a Box' and 'Finance in a Box' to drive operational efficiency.

Practice Leader-Finance Transformation | TCS | New Jersey | Jan 2011 – Dec 2014

• Delivery Lead at Cigna, overseeing the integration of Private Exchange with Finance and Policy/Claim systems. Previously served as the Finance Lead for Oracle R12 implementations at Cigna (including FAH Integration, Pass-Through, with Policy/Claim systems), McGraw-Hill/S&P, and Genworth.
• Acted as a Program Manager at Ameriprise, leading the finance globalization initiative and integrating an acquisition of Asset Management arm, Threadneedle, into a centralized platform (PeopleSoft 8.9). Also served as a Finance SME at Hilton, contributing to the design of Global Intercompany in and optimizing financial close processes (HFM).

Senior Advisor-Financial Services Organization | Ernst & Young (EY) | New York | Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 

• Assisted financial services clients in aligning architecture, compliance, data strategies, and technology projects with reporting requirements, enhancing transactional processes, and ensuring data integrity.
• Led finance transformation and process improvement initiatives at Bank of America (Enterprise Stress Testing), PNC Bank/National City Mortgage, TIAA-CREF (PMO Office), and Citibank (AML/KYC for OCC Audit).
• Served as the Accounting & Testing Lead for the implementation of Summit Trading System in Fannie Mae's Other Investments Portfolio (OIP).

Managing Consultant-Financial Services | IBM | New York | Jun 2004 – Jan 2010

• Led global Oracle implementations in finance for Merrill Lynch (BoA), SunTrust (Truist Bank), Ricoh, and XL Capital (AXA). Led custom SAP development for Internal Funding (Transfer Pricing) at Deutsche Bank. Production support and testing lead for Oracle Federal Financials at CMS.
• Contributed as a key member to the Intelligent Cost Reduction Framework initiative. 

Prior Roles:

• Toshiba | India & Southeast Asia | Finance Manager
• Polyplex | India | Management Consultant (Finance & Operations)
• CA Internship | India | Audit, Tax at Andersen Consulting; Deloitte (DHS)

Education & Certifications

• MBA, Rutgers Business School, The State University of New Jersey, Sep’18 – May’20 (Summa Cum Laude, GPA 4.0)
• Doctor of Business Administration (DBA), Swiss School of Business & Management, Switzerland, expected Sep’24
• Post Graduate Program (PGP) in Project Management, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Feb’22
• Key Technology certifications
  • Oracle Financials Cloud: Accounting Hub Fundamentals & Sales/Pre-Sales Specialist. 
  • Certified in OFSAA Basel Regulatory Capital & AAI Foundation
  • Master in Oracle Applications - Financials (Re.11i)