Kushanu Kirthi
IBM
London
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Work Type
Full TimeLocation Preference
HybridLocation:
London, United KingdomOpen to relocation:
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Career advancementCompany CultureWork from home optionSummary
Relationship-driven CGMA-qualified Consulting and AI Leader with excellent track record of helping organisations define, and deliver complex digital transformations across the retail, consumer products, and electronics sectors.
Experienced in creating innovative and industry-leading solutions, roadmaps and designing operating models across processes, technology and associated change management. Skilled at orchestrating cross-functional teams within complex global matrix structures, translating business priorities into practical technology solutions, strengthen governance, and deliver business value.
Breadth of expertise across domains, including Finance, Supply Chain, Commercial and Contractual Governance, Innovation, Technology and AI, with a proven ability to build trusted relationships at all levels of an organisation. Leverage strong listening skills, industry experience, and commercial insight to establish connection and empathy, and then seek to develop trusted advisor status through transparency, knowledge, and value delivered.
3
Languages
1
Certification
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Manager
1 Year 1 Month- Led workforce planning and governance across a global transformation programme comprising 265+ resources, driving delivery efficiency, resource optimisation, and programme continuity.
- Developed a structured and scalable GenAI adoption model and delivered lifecycle specific GenAI asset. Increased AI adoption from 20% to >70%, positioning the account within the top 10 IBM's highest-performing global AI adoption programmes.
- Led remediation of scope creep and backlog challenges within the Americas SAP S/4HANA deployment by designing and executing a KPI-led recovery plan. Achieved all Design, Build and FUT milestones, and restored delivery to the original contracted timeline while rebuilding client confidence.
- Led global teams across five supply chain workstreams to deliver SIT1/2 readiness and execution for a complex SAP S/4HANA transformation, introducing a consolidated testing governance framework covering 300+ scenarios and 4,000+ test cases, enabling on-schedule stage gate approval and mitigating significant delivery risk.
- Consistently identifying new ways to use technology to unlock business value, and to address either strategic or operational needs, including 3rd party spoke reverse code engineering and code remediation using IBM's AI-Powered Development Partner - Bob.
- Managed project schedules, risks, and dependencies to maintain consistent execution across workstreams.
Commercial Manager
1 Year 6 Months- Commercial Manager for LME - Commercial ownership and accountability for a £3+ million contract encompassing maintaining internal stakeholder relationships, updates to the Gameplan with forecasts and actuals, submitting IBP and IPPF reports, managing invoicing processes, & overseeing month-end activities in a timely manner.
- CLS Commercial Manager - Led commercial governance transformation across a $200M+ Finance Transformation programme. Accurate forecasting, Invoicing, and Month End Activities; improving visibility into revenue and pipeline commitments.
- Strengthened client relationships through successfully transforming a siloed commercial “Work Request (WR) Tracker” into a unified central repository of all engagements/contracts, enhancing accessibility and usability across delivery, commercial, and change landscapes
- Dynamic Contract Manager with hands-on expertise in commercial process management, contract loading (ES, ORM, Conga, Greenstar), and commercial checkpoint leadership. Recognized for managing new opportunities from draft to signature, coordinating stakeholders, and ensuring contractual precision across engagements exceeding $1M in revenue.
- Analyzed pricing structures, supporting competitive proposals and margin protection.
- Coordinated deal approvals across legal, finance, and sales stakeholders.
SAP S/4HANA Finance Functional Consultant
10 Months- RTR lead for transformation across General Ledger, Asset Accounting, Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payables, and Treasury within a global SAP S/4HANA programme, delivering requirements definition and finalisation, solution design, and future-state process transformation.
- Designed and implemented a standard SAP S/4HANA Flexible Workflow solution for four-eye journal approvals, eliminating the need for custom development, reducing implementation cost and delivery risk, and creating a reusable accelerator adopted across future IBM transformation programmes.
- Appointed Document and Reporting Compliance (DRC) Solution Lead, leading requirement gathering workshops, showcasing standard DRC capabilities to meet local, fiscal and regulatory requirements, solution design, stakeholder alignment, and secured timely BPDD sign‑off, to ensure compliance with local statutory obligations.
SAP Project Manager
7 Months- Led SAP project planning, aligning scope, milestones, and deliverables with business requirements.
- Established and led programme governance, risk, and issue-management processes, proactively resolving cross-workstream dependencies, accelerating stakeholder decision-making, and maintaining delivery momentum against critical programme milestones.
- Drove Agile adoption across client and IBM teams through targeted enablement on Jira, Mural and digital collaboration tools, improving delivery effectiveness and embedding consistent ways of working across the programme.
- Supported technical delivery assessments, solution planning and risk reviews that contributed to the successful award of a $65M+ transformation programme across multiple regional deployment options.
Education
Chartered Global Management Accountant - Accounting
Bachelor of Science With Honours - Accounting And Financial Management
High School Diploma
- Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Extended Project Qualification
Skills
AI-Led Operating Model Transformation;
Digital Transformation;
Enterprise Transformation Leadership;
Agile project management
Programme Recovery Management;
Commercial & Financial Governance;
Stakeholder Management;
Change Management Orchestration;
Certification
- BSc (Hons) Accounting and Financial Management
- CGMA - Chartered Global Management Accountant
- Discovering SAP Activate - Implementation Tools and Methodology Certificate
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Hindi
Professional Working
Telugu
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Project Manager
IBM
09.2025 - Current
Commercial Manager
IBM
03.2024 - 09.2025
SAP S/4HANA Finance Functional Consultant
IBM
05.2023 - 03.2024
SAP Project Manager
IBM
10.2022 - 05.2023
CGMA
Chartered Global Management Accountant from Accounting
Loughborough University
Bachelor of Science With Honours from Accounting And Financial Management
Rochester Grammar School
High School Diploma