Ashweeny Kandhai

Dynamic Project Manager adept at orchestrating project tasks and optimizing processes to elevate efficiency and profitability. Excels in managing concurrent projects, fostering stakeholder relationships, and thriving autonomously in challenging environments. Eager to contribute to your team's success.

An ambitious and highly motivated Project Manager with the ability to create work breakdown structures, define activities and tasks, streamline processes and provide effective solutions. Capable of managing multiple projects efficiently and developing processes that maximize profit and revenue while keeping within budgetary constraints. Clear, concise communicator with excellent relationship management skills. Proven ability to work proactively and unsupervised in complex and demanding work environments.

Project Management Professional (PMP)

• Project Management Coordinator, AECOM, County Dublin, Ireland, 10/01/17, 05/01/19, 1 year 8 months, Provision of multiple site PM support from creation to completion, including updating of project trackers for up to 100 live projects. Formulate weekly progress reports and deliver to senior management for performance evaluation. Ensure seamless project operations by setting up and coordinating monthly project reviews across all teams. Assess the financial impact of change orders in projects to capture additional revenues and enhance process efficiency. Organize, attend and participate in stakeholder meetings. Maintain and monitor project plans, project schedules, work hours and risk registers. Selected Contributions:
• Simplified an existing, very complex Excel based Billing Schedule, to significantly reduce incidents of crashing and lost data making it easy to sort, collate and analyse the data therein.
• Building rapport with approximately twenty PM's to ensure project progress information is entered and updated in a timely and efficient manner.
• Set up and run monthly project meeting with PM's, Project Approver and Project Accountant to review KPI's and identify required actions.
• Project Coordinator / Document Controller, Linesight, Dublin, 07/01/14, 09/01/17, 3 years 3 months, Processed change requests by organising change review meetings between Linesight and MS. Prepared and submitted EMEA change log as well as change request documents for approval. Optimised project effectiveness by devising and implementing project change control process across several major projects. Created an online change management course for all users of the change management process to ensure company-wide understanding of and adherence to process. Delivered proactive support in gathering project data and production of information for management review. Selected Contributions:
• Creation and delivery of an online change management course for all users with step by step guide.
• Created and implemented a master filing structure and built a SharePoint site for storage of all project files.
• Delivered effective training to support vendors and contractors using MS provided software system.
• Finance Assistant, AvaTrade, County Dublin, Ireland, 04/01/13, 06/01/14, 1 year 3 months, My daily duties included daily transaction reporting, processing and posting of invoices in the ledger system and making online payments to customers and investigating any un-reconciled items between the bank and ledger systems and ensuring everything is in line with Central Bank regulations.
• Accounts and Administrative Officer, Futura Design, Co Dublin, 07/01/08, 03/01/13, 4 years 9 months, My responsibilities included the provision of efficient and professional accounts, payroll and administrative services.
• Maintaining accounts (sales and purchase ledgers, bank accounts, bank reconciliations, period end, monthly management accounts and VAT returns).
• Collecting and processing timesheets and overtime. Verifying taxes and other deductions. Running monthly and weekly payrolls and paying staff. Tracking employee vacation and sick time.
• Secretarial and administrative support including typing, minute taking, travel arrangements, receptionist duties, diary management and dealing with correspondence.
• Clerical Officer, SBM Bank, Mauritius, 08/01/04, 03/01/08, 3 years 8 months, I was responsible for the erasure of liens on full-term mortgages, processing customer mortgage and loan facilities and vetting customer's financial backgrounds prior to mortgage approval.

• E2E Artwork Specialist, Procter & Gamble, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 10/01/19, Present, 4 years 5 months, The Artwork Specialist takes full ownership of AW execution from design to production. As such, I am the single point of accountability for the design intent and on-time delivery of Final Art. Partnering primarily with Initiative Leaders & Brand, I am responsible for technical fit-for-use and print feasibility, design intent implementation, formatting of brand packaging communication, regulatory and other artwork copy requirements, artwork assembly and final art approval. This role requires that I have a deep understanding of the E2E Artwork process, brand identity and design standards/guidelines, standard industry pre-press & printing knowledge, materials & substrates, and artwork file construction/requirements. The role demands strong, proven leadership, communication, collaboration, influencing, and project management skills. Important Responsibilities:
• E2E Artwork execution expertise on multifunctional initiative teams to ensure excellence in execution. Partnering with Brand Management, Design, R&D, Legal, and Regulatory to understand design intent and identify claim & copy requirements.
• Planning and managing artwork execution and critical path schedule.
• Elevating issues to key business partners to enable informed decision-making and effective resolution and controlling the artwork change management process.
• Creating and managing projects on P&G tools and providing support to the multi-functional team.
• Partnering externally with pre-press (PPM) & printers to assess print feasibility of design concepts and to ensure visual consistency is delivered at shelf.
• Attending print trials to troubleshoot and resolve quality issues.
• Independently and collaboratively bringing innovative ideas to drive continual improvements in quality, productivity and efficiency.
• Proactively exploring both cost savings and cost avoidance opportunities.
• Tracking and reporting E2E artwork success measures on a regular basis.

• French, Full Professional
• Hindi, Professional Working
• Mauritian Creole, Native or Bilingual
• English, Full Professional