AJAY KULKARNI
*************@*****.*** linkedin.com/in/ajaydkulkarni {C:609-***-**** {Salt Lake City, Utah WORK EXPERIENCE
Vice President-Finance,Accounts & Systems Nov-2011 – Present Nutrisystem at Biovation Labs Salt Lake City, UT
• Set up & head Finance, Costing & FPA Functions for the newly acquired NovaCare business until take over. Increasing revenue by 450% in first 6 years and after takeover by another 230% in next 3 years
• Identified new business opportunity & set up a new business fulfillment division, set it up and took its revneue frm 0 to $15Mn including running its operations
• Implemented Oracle Fusion and WMS Systems, Standard Costing for the manufacturing division
• Key Player & Negotiator in M&A Activity. Done twice!
• Designed & implemented Strategy for NovaGroup and later Biovation Labs, implementing Business Analytics, leading the logistics division, devising cost-effective pricing strategies, and implementing core logistics applications, thereby increasing the company’s net income from 16% to over 30%. Head- Financial Systems July-2006 – Nov-2011
Reliance Capital Mumbai, India
• Headed the Capital Market Financial Systems function for 3 distinct finance divisions, Asset Management, Stock Broking & Insurance Broking
• Brought down new branch set up duration from 3 months to 3 Days
• Brought down the Data Center Operations from 400 servers to 134 by optimizing server spread
• Designed and executed a disaster recovery plan from a risk management perspective and established robust IT security policies
Project Manager Apr 2003 – Jun 2006
3i Infotech Ltd Boston, USA
• Set up the Project Management Office for this IT consulting company and headed the same assisting the CEOin his Project review
• Designed & Implemented DataWarehousing on Business Objects for the largest telecom company in USA
• Implemented ERPs in Indias largest port & a large manufacturing company. Project Manager Dec 2000 – Mar 2003
Corcentric Reading, UK
• On Site project management for world’s largest process control company
• Headed the quality function first by the company for Insurance Vertical for Online Enrollment & Renewals EDUCATION
CMA
Insitute of Management Accountants, USA
CISA
ISACA, USA
ACMA
Insitute of Cost Accountants of India
B.S.
Mumbai University
SKILLS
ERPs: Oracle Fusion, MS Dynamics, Mfg/Pro, Orion, Quickbooks, QBO, ZOHO Data Warehouse Tools: AmazonRedeshift, MS Fabric, Snowflake Data Analysis Tools: Power BI, Tableau, DOMO, PowerQuery,Excel Databases: Oracle, MS SQL, Postgress, MariaDB