Sumit Bhardwaj

Director - Finance Governance & Portfolio Management | Global Finance Services | Global Process Transformation Lead at AstraZeneca - P2P

United Kingdom

About

• Own, lead and drive end-to-end transformation programs within P2P & T&E for a defined portfolio • Build and maintain communication network between Internal and External Users, Service Providers and all other parties and organization involved • Act as a Process Expert on the process to allow the effective delivery of the programs and continuous improvement initiatives • Ensure program supports business needs & allow execution of company strategies • Managing the performance of Project resources – Internal & External

Experience

  • AstraZeneca ()
    • Director - Finance Governance & Portfolio Management
      May 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

      - Drive the governance of all projects impacting Finance enabling effective decision-making through the Finance Architecture Board. - Partner with key Finance and Technology stakeholders, taking responsibility for Finance portfolio management and providing insights to prioritize projects that affect Finance operation - To ensure that processes, information, and data are appropriately governed and consistently controlled. - Drive clear accountabilities, reinforcing common ways of working for all programs impacting Finance. - Chair the X-GPO forum and ensure that decisions regarding projects, resources and funding are approved and tracked.

    • Interim Finance Governance Director
      Mar 2025 - Jun 2025 · 4 mos

      Finance Portfolio Management

    • Global Process Transformation Lead - P2P
      Jun 2023 - Feb 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos

      • Managed Purchase to Pay / Travel and expense program delivery for a defined portfolio of initiatives agreed with the Global Process Owner, Finance and Procurement leadership. Key Programme includes Coupa Deployment in over 100 entities, KoFax OCR Deployment, Supply Chain Financing, Virtual Cards, Eliminating Paper and ERP Harmonization • Created playbook for New Legal Entities adoption for P2P Processes and systems • Communication networks between internal and external users and service providers, and all other parties and organizations involved. • Acted as a process expert on the process to allow the effective delivery of programs and continuous improvement initiatives. • Ensured programs support AstraZeneca business needs and allow execution of company strategies

  • Genpact (15 yrs 4 mos)
    • Assistant Vice President
      Jan 2017 - May 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      Lead Subject Matter Expert, Finance Transformation

    • Assistant Vice President Operations
      Jan 2016 - Dec 2016 · 1 yr

      Service Delivery Lead & P2P Relationship Manager

    • Assistant Vice President
      Dec 2014 - Jan 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Service Delivery Lead - Accounts Payables