Dinesh Mettu

About Dinesh Mettu

I am an extremely driven, collaborative, and result oriented technology transformation leader with expertise in data and financial analysis, cross-functional team management, process improvement, and executive stakeholder management to solve complex business problems. I have leveraged these skills for the last 15+ years leading teams and working closely with client executives to deliver complex technical and mission critical programs.

Experience

1. Senior Manager

   EY

   Jul 2016 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

   Industries / Sectors: Higher Education, Professional Services, Fin Tech, Life Sciencies, Oil & Gas, Advanced Manufacturing and TransportationEY hired me based on my analytical, problem solving and communication skills and strong business acumen along with prior leadership and client experience. I was rewarded with an accelerated promotion based on my proven ability to lead teams in a dynamic, high-pressure environment and effectively collaborate with executive stakeholdersDefined realistic roadmap, quantitative business case and created executive presentations communicating the approach, business value and financials of the program in assisting client’s IT executives in securing approval for an $85M transformation program from the CEO and CFO Led a Transformation Management Office driving cross-functional team collaboration and managing executive relationships to realize transformation goals of $17M in savings and target capability maturity upliftExceeded G&A cost reduction opportunities target by 33% by performing demand vs capacity analysis across IT functions in collaboration with client’s IT, Finance and HR executivesEvaluated client’s IT capabilities against leading practices, defined target operating model and implementation plan that sets up IT to deliver revenue generating products while achieving $180M in savingsSupervised a team of 6 that delivered an RPA solution to increase the effectiveness of the client’s IT financial chargeback process and let 2 FTE to focus on higher value-add activitiesLed the design and implementation of Financial Planning & Reporting processes and tool, improving visibility into client’s $1.8B technology spend and increasing budget to actuals reporting frequency from monthly to dailyIdentified $74M in IT run rate reduction opportunity by baselining IT costs through general ledger data analysis and performing spend benchmarking analysis

Education

• Vellore Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2006 — 2010

• Indiana University - Kelley School of Business

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance and Marketing

  2014 — 2016

Skills

• Java Enterprise Edition
• Software Configuration Management
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Management
• Business Analysis
• Analysis
• Shell Scripting
• Microsoft Word
• Sql
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Microsoft Office
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Release Management
• Information Technology
• Java
• Core Java
• Pl/Sql