Kulbir Sandhu

Driving Enterprise Finance Systems Transformation | ERP | Data | AI

• Defined and executed multi-year product roadmaps in collaboration with Finance executives, ensuring delivery of the most impactful projects to Amazon’s Stores Finance organization. • Consolidated fragmented teams into a unified global function of 250, delivering 20% operating expense savings and increasing delivery velocity through improved organizational design and location strategy. • Boosted Finance efficiency by 30–60% by re-architecting enterprise reporting systems, resolving scalability and performance gaps across core processes. • Improved executive alignment by creating governance forums that prioritized high-value enhancements and translated Finance leadership vision into technology outcomes. • Enabled scalable global planning and reporting by integrating Oracle ERP, Cognos TM1, and AWS Data Lake into a single Big Data platform. • Built a high-performing global team, recruiting and developing leaders and engineers while fostering a culture of innovation and accountability. • Developed and launched a fraud detection solution that prevented erroneous transactions and delivered $30M in cost avoidance annually. • Reduced project delivery times by 25% by implementing a standardized intake and prioritization model, increasing throughput of system enhancements.

• Responsible for managing technology and business services portfolio, including development, data management and program/project management execution teams. • Created organizational design and built effective teams; which included creating a global center of excellence to manage ERP/BI applications. • Built an inhouse captive team to deliver financial systems projects, by creating a cost-effective delivery model, which resulted in 30% savings and improved customer satisfaction with improved SLA’s. • Led the integration of acquisitions to Equifax’s ERP and BI environments, ensuring global standards and processes were adhered to. • Led the design and deployment of a tier 2 and 3 support team to manage financial applications, across a global user base. • Built cross-departmental relationships with global finance to manage project objectives, design application solutions, prioritize deliverables, determine implementation strategy and coordinate assignment of resources. • Hired, trained, and supervised a global virtual team of systems analysts and developers

• Led the implementation of a global consolidation and reporting solution. Enabling the CFO organization to gain better insights to business unit and regional financial reporting. • Created a master data management governance model to ensure consistency of reporting across a global organization with matrix reporting lines. • Managed the relationship between corporate finance and IT, provided regular projects updates and developed roadmaps for financial systems. • Created organizational design to support EBS and BI applications; which included building a global center of excellence for report distribution and application management. • Led the creation of an off-shore captive center in Malaysia to support EBS & BI applications, this increased internal customer satisfaction and generated 20% in-annual support cost savings. • Deliver financial systems projects with a mix of onshore and offshore resources, resulting in significant project cost savings e.g. 40% saving for an EBS upgrade project. • Hired, trained, and supervised a global virtual team of systems analysts and developers.

• Project management & delivery of BI solutions across multiple clients • Conduct requirements gathering workshops at client sites. • Develop functional and technical specifications

• Implemented MIS applications for quality and timely management information. • Reviewed financial systems in order to identify improvements. • Prepared forecasts and reforecasts of income and costs based on current performance and external economic indicators.

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