Sunny Sarphare

About Sunny Sarphare

Business school graduate with majors in accounting; finance, and human resource management. Operational and consulting experience with top tier firms (Accenture, Booz, Unisys) delivering digital transformation engagements. Certified AI Strategist (MIT Sloan); RPA solution architect (UiPath); certified LEAN Six Sigma, SAFe Agile and ITIL. Proven digital transformation leader leveraging case appropriate AI/ML/RPA solutions to deliver improved financial performance and customer experience through spend management, IT optimization and operational streamlining • Established COE and evangelized digital transformation; collaborated with business stakeholders to develop AI/ML/RPA opportunity pipelines for finance, HR and supply chain functions• Managed delivery of AI/RPA initiatives worth projected annualized saving of $1.5M (healthcare) and $1.75M (utilities) operations• Collaborated with global business and IT leadership to develop a 3-year IT roadmap, streamlining and modernizing technology stack, projecting 20% reduction in spend: aligning CapEx/OpEx with EBITDA• Developed and executed data strategy in Google cloud rendering data pipelines via VDMs (virtual data model) for business users with effective governance to protect enterprise data

Experience

1. Senior Manager, Architect- Digital Finance

   AES

   Apr 2024 — Present · Arlington, VA, US

   Leading COE for Digital Finance comprising of stakeholders from all business units and corporate finance to drive digitization of finance with long term EBITDA objectives. Key Accomplishments- Conducted in-depth gap analysis of finance capabilities of all global business units and corporate functions such as controllership, treasury, internal audit and tax; delivered a transformation technology investment request (CAPEX $15.75M) for 2025- Led RFI/RFP to replace current business planning and consolidation system, potentially optimizing multiple systems in the finance eco-system - Initiatives leveraging process automation and artificial intelligence to digitize MD & A; margin, cashflow and T/B variance analysis; delivered prototype and MVP for Panama-hydro business segmentDelivered- AI agent to perform variance analysis for MD & A MVP- Panama hydro line of business- Chat-BOT to manage customer invoice inquiries- AI agent to detect anomalies in invoice processingIn progress- design of AI agent/micro services to digitize financial close and consolidation processes- scale design of MD & A MVP for margin variance; cashflow and trial balance variances- VDM/SLM to execute ai agents to optimize segments of P2P; MVP- invoice processing- Optimization of Treasury operations to improve working capital (DPO)- leading RFI/RFP to replace current business planning and consolidation system, potentially optimizing multiple systems in the finance eco-system- developed strategy to optimize Order2Cash and Record2Report global operations; currently working on POC at the service center in Argentina.

Education

• The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business

  MLHR, Labor & Human Resources

  1990 — 1993

• HR College of Commerce & Economics

  Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Accounting & Economics

• Institute of Labor Studies, University of Bombay

  Master's degree, HR and Labor Relations

Skills

• Governance
• Business Process Improvement
• Business Process Design
• Business Intelligence
• Management Consulting
• Consulting
• Business Transformation
• Professional Services
• Process Improvement
• Outsourcing
• Program Management
• IT Strategy
• Process Engineering
• Business Analysis
• Business Development
• Management
• Integration
• Project Portfolio Management
• Organizational Design
• Sharepoint
• Soa
• Erp
• Agile Project Management
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• IT Management
• Team Management
• Strategy
• Project Management
• Software Development
• Proposal Writing
• Software Project Management
• Itil
• Pmo
• Pmp
• Change Management