Virendra Lokhande

Virendra Lokhande is a seasoned professional with over 13 years of experience in leading critical, cross-functional initiatives for accounting and finance organizations. He has a proven track record of successful end-to-end process evaluations and redesigns, technology implementations, operational improvements, and service delivery models. With his deep expertise, Virendra is a trusted advisor to senior leadership on current trends that influence finance organizations, best-in-class processes and technologies, and successful program management practices. His educational background includes a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Finance from Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies and a Master of Computer Applications (MCA) in Computer Science from Bharati Vidyapeeth.

Virendra's leadership skills are apparent in his success in managing large cross-functional teams, organizing and advocating, product management, program management, mentoring, negotiation, influencing, and effective communication. He proactively drives change management activities, engages key leaders, enables impact assessments, training, and communication to ensure wide adoption and acceptance of changes.

Currently, Virendra is the Manager of Global Enterprise Financial Systems at Amazon, where he creates strategies and uses cases that use advanced technologies and automation to improve operations and refine core processes, such as Quotes-to-Growth, order-to-cash, and record-to-report. Before, he worked as a Project Lead at LTI, Business Analyst at Barclays, Software Engineer at Zensar Technologies, and Software Developer at Arun Infotech.