The same 23 years, read three ways. Pick whichever is closest to what you're working on.
Enterprise AI Strategy & Transformation Leader
A rare pairing of Chartered Accountant and data scientist, advising C-suite leaders on enterprise reinvention and AI-enabled operating models. I bridge bold AI ambition with concrete financial ROI, architecting machine learning solutions recognized by Microsoft's CEO and translating complex capability into value-driven roadmaps boards can fund.
AI innovation presented to Satya Nadella and his leadership team.
Technology Business Management & Global Operations Leader
I stand up TBM functions from the ground up: cost transparency, vendor governance and IT financial planning that let C-suite leaders steer multi-billion-dollar technology investment. Financial acumen from the audit side, execution muscle from running 500+ person global operations.
Delivery centres under one accountable execution model.
Global Procure-to-Pay & Finance Operations Leader
I owned Microsoft's end-to-end global P2P engine and re-architected it from a transactional function into a standardized, controlled, AI-enabled operating model. Deep AP and procurement-operations expertise, plus the hands-on ability to design workflow orchestration, real-time spend visibility and audit-grade controls.
SOX audit exceptions as Payables Sub-Cycle Location Owner.
90%+
Process standardization across a complex global service-delivery landscape.
50%
Fewer service tickets after retiring 110+ support aliases for 270K+ users.
Experience
Twenty-three years, one throughline.
Where I've worked, what I owned, and what came out of it. Sixteen of these years were at Microsoft, across Singapore and Gurgaon.
2023-present
Senior Management Consultant: IT Vendor Management, TCO & Cloud Economics
First Abu Dhabi BankDubai, UAE
Technology Business Efficiency & Performance, within the Group Chief Technology Office, partnering across Group Technology and Group Finance.
Built real-time spend visibility and a TCO framework across AED 2B+ of annual third-party technology spend, giving the C-suite actionable value modeling and data-driven budget reallocation.
Re-architected the IT vendor operating model, onboarding and risk-assessment governance in line with CBUAE regulatory and internal control standards.
Named brand ambassador for enterprise-wide Microsoft Copilot adoption across the technology organization, running executive briefings and building AI fluency.
Designed AI/ML workflow orchestration for supplier invoices: predictive risk scoring, real-time controls, and automated exception handling with human oversight and audit trails. $18M in annual savings.
Deployed finance digital workers across P2P, retiring 110+ support aliases for 270K+ users and suppliers and cutting service tickets 50%.
Incubated a citizen-developer capability that shipped 18 automation products, lifting productivity 90% and freeing 20% of engineering capacity; commercialized one into Microsoft's external catalogue.
Partnered with sales teams to pitch AI and technology solutions to enterprise clients, contributing to deal origination and commercial pursuit leadership.
Owned the end-to-end global P2P engine: 500+ professionals, 5 delivery centres, 200+ legal entities, $65B payout, 2M+ invoices, consistently meeting KPIs and SLAs.
Redesigned processes and controls to drive $129M+ in annual discount realization, materially improving cash flow and laying the foundation later AI work was built on.
Senior Regional Process Owner › Finance Manager / P&L Controller
MicrosoftSingapore · Gurgaon
Reporting & Service Accounting (2013-2016): standardized FP&A to 90%+; transitioned Commercial Finance, Accounting and Controls & Compliance to shared services across Accenture, PwC and EY delivery relationships, cutting labor cost 30%.
Accounts Payable (2010-2013): as SOX Payables Sub-Cycle Location Owner, ran documentation, testing and remediation to zero audit exceptions.
Finance Manager / P&L Controller, Gurgaon (2007-2010): led the Sales & Marketing P&L and an F&A transition across 5 legal entities with zero leadership escalations.
Led 200+ FTEs on international-subsidiary reporting and continuous book close, at 100% accuracy on close and US filings. Rated Top Talent, 2006 & 2007.
Ran due diligence and F&A solutioning in business development, helping land 5 BPO deals.
200+FTEs led
2002-2003
Executive Officer
ICAIIndia
Revamped the post-qualification course the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India offers to its members.
Selected work
Things I built, and what they returned.
Messy, exception-heavy processes turned into systems people actually use. Adopted and controlled, not demoed.
What
Where
Result
Predictive Invoice Risk Model
2M+ invoices a year made control a reactive, manual problem. I built real-time ML risk scoring to prioritize high-risk transactions and give operations decision support at the point of process.
Featured in The Wall Street Journal · presented to Satya Nadella via the Researcher of the Amazing program
A $65B payout portfolio ran through 110+ email aliases. I architected a digital-worker and SME escalation model with standardized intake, structured routing and real issue visibility.
270K+ users served · CRM tickets down 50% · part of $147M+ annual value
Microsoft
270Kusers served
TCO & Technology Efficiency Platform
Cost transparency for AED 2B+ (about $550M) of annual IT spend was manual and slow. AI-assisted reporting and application classification turned it into a live TCO framework the C-suite can act on.
Reporting cycle 7-10 days › 1 day · chargeback and cost-to-serve foundations for AED 2.2bn
First Abu Dhabi Bank
10×reporting speed
Transformation Playbook
A reusable product pattern for exception-heavy processes: standardized intake, workflow automation, embedded controls, dashboard visibility. Scaled across Tax, Treasury, HR, Compliance and Finance.
Productivity up to +90% · 20% of engineering capacity freed · first 100% finance-grown solution in Microsoft's catalogue, sold at $100k per customer
Cross-enterprise
+90%productivity
How I work
Intelligence in the process.Governance around it.Value on the record.
I'm not a model builder. What I'm good at is making AI usable, adopted, controlled and commercially measurable inside large, regulated organisations. Six things have to happen for that to work.
01
Find the problem worth solving
Product discovery first: which business problems and operational inefficiencies actually carry value, and which are noise.
02
Embed intelligence into core processes
Beyond automation: AI/ML, Azure and Power Platform applied as decision intelligence on high-volume, data-driven processes.
03
Design the whole operating model
Intake, workflow, escalation and governance, not just the technology layer. The solution is the business design, not the build.
04
Align the people who can block it
C-suite, business, technology, risk and compliance brought to the same definition of done before anything ships.
05
Build the controls in early
Auditability, control points and risk-tiered governance (CBUAE, SOX) designed in from the start rather than retrofitted.
06
Prove the value in hard numbers
Success measured as financial ROI, productivity gain and risk reduction. Adoption and measured value are the deliverable, not the demo.
Recognition & qualifications
On the record.
What other people have said, and what I'm formally qualified in.
Recognition
Finance BOT rollout and the Invoice Risk prediction model given honorable mention in The Wall Street Journal.5
Invoice Risk Scoring selected for Microsoft's Researcher of the Amazing program and presented to CEO Satya Nadella and his leadership team.5
Recognized by Microsoft CFO Amy Hood for innovation; awarded off-cycle stock in December 2020 for outstanding impact.8
Invited speaker at Microsoft Modern Finance Activate, 1 of 2 employees selected worldwide; the talk was filmed and published on LinkedIn.8
Awarded for exceptional leadership, initiative and teamwork; rated Top Talent at IBM, 2006 and 2007.
Executive Program, AI Strategies & Agentic Intelligence
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern
2026
Microsoft Certified Trainer · Azure Data Scientist Associate · Power Platform App Maker
Microsoft
2023
Postgraduate Program, Data Science & Business Analytics
University of Texas at Austin, McCombs
2021
Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional (CCEP-I)
SCCE, USA
2016
Project Management Professional (PMP)
PMI, USA · Six Sigma Yellow Belt, IBM (2007)
2011
Chartered Accountant
ICAI, India
2002
B.Com (Hons)
University of Delhi, India
2000
Where the numbers come from
The detail behind the figures
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Aggregate annual value: $129M+ in discount realization from the global P2P redesign (2016-2020) and $18M in annual savings from the predictive invoice risk model (2020-2023).
Annual third-party technology spend at First Abu Dhabi Bank, about $550M, brought under a Total Cost of Ownership framework, 2023 to present. Chargeback and cost-to-serve foundations laid for AED 2.2bn.
The invoice risk model was given honorable mention in The Wall Street Journal, selected for Microsoft's Researcher of the Amazing program, and presented to CEO Satya Nadella and his leadership team.
Chartered Accountant (ICAI, 2002) and Postgraduate Program in Data Science & Business Analytics (University of Texas at Austin, McCombs, 2021); Microsoft Certified Azure Data Scientist Associate.
Recognized by Microsoft CFO Amy Hood for innovation, with off-cycle stock awarded December 2020. Invited speaker at Microsoft Modern Finance Activate, one of two employees selected worldwide.
Labour cost cut 30% by transitioning Commercial Finance, Accounting and Controls & Compliance to shared services across Accenture, PwC and EY delivery relationships, alongside 90%+ process standardization.