Manager, Process Excellence (India)

Ryan LLC; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Two-Way Transportation

World-Class Benefits

Flexible Work Environment

Generous PTO

Career Growth

Job summary

Ryan, LLC is seeking a Manager of Process Excellence in Hyderabad to lead strategic automation, AI, and transformation efforts across GCC locations. You will translate business problems into practical automation solutions, personally build or direct delivery, and drive improvements in productivity, quality, cycle time, and cost.

You will manage a high-performing team, collaborate with Service Delivery and Technology, and develop adoption plans with stakeholders to ensure sustained impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• At least eight years of experience in automation, digital transformation, AI, technology-enabled operations, consulting, shared services, or related roles.
• Proven track record of building or delivering production automation and AI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI, automation, and transformation initiatives across GCC locations.
• Build and lead a high-performing AI/Automation/Transformation team.
• Partner with GCC and practice leaders to identify high-value automation opportunities and create an outcome-based roadmap.
• Design and deliver solutions using Power Platform, APIs, integrations, and analytics.
• Develop adoption plans, change management, and stakeholder alignment.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Job description

Manager, Process Excellence (India)# Careers## Manager, Process Excellence (India)Apply: Hyderabad Atria: Full time: Posted Today: R0019621**Why Ryan?*** Global Award-Winning Culture* Flexible Work Environment* Generous Paid Time Off* World-Class Benefits and Compensation* Rapid Growth Opportunities* Company Sponsored Two-Way Transportation* Exponential Career GrowthJob Summary The Manager – Process Excellence and Transformation is responsible for leading strategic and operational initiatives including technology enabled solutions that improve operations across GCC locations. This hands-on transformation role requires a leader who can translate business problems into practical automation, artificial intelligence, workflow, integration, and analytics solutions; personally build solutions or direct their delivery; and demonstrate measurable improvements in productivity, quality, cycle time, capacity, cost, risk, client experience, and adoption. The role partners with Service Delivery, Technology and Global Shared Services teams to deliver measurable business outcomes and strengthen GCC capabilities. **Duties and Responsibilities****People:*** Build and lead a high-performing AI, Automation, and Transformation team by fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.* Provide guidance and support to Process Excellence team members on project execution, process analysis, documentation, and continuous improvement methodologies.* Build organizational capability by driving training, knowledge-sharing, and adoption of process, quality, and transformation best practices.* Promote a data-driven mindset and encourage teams to identify opportunities for operational improvement and business transformation.* Establish and reinforce standards for process documentation, quality management, and knowledge management to ensure consistency and compliance across the organization.**Client:*** Partner with GCC and practice leaders to understand business priorities, surface high-value automation opportunities, and build an outcome-based transformation roadmap.* Lead discovery workshops, process walkthroughs, and data analysis to identify manual effort, bottlenecks, rework, control gaps, and customer or team members pain points.* Design, prototype, build, or lead the delivery of solutions using current technologies such as Microsoft Power Platform, AI agents, workflow automation, APIs, integrations, analytics, and low-code or pro-code services.* Translate complex technical possibilities into clear business cases and delivery options and communicate associated risks and decisions to leadership.* Develop and execute adoption and change-management plans, including communications, role-based enablement, stakeholder alignment, and transition to business ownership.* Lead executive stakeholder engagement and communicate progress, decisions, dependencies, risks, and realized benefits with clarity.**Value:*** Lead process excellence projects to deliver measurable improvements in productivity, quality, cycle time, and cost efficiency.* Define, track, and report KPIs to evaluate the effectiveness of process improvements, QMS/DMS, automation, and AI initiatives.* Develop dashboards and reporting mechanisms to monitor performance, trends, and business impact.* Identify risks and implement mitigation strategies to ensure successful project execution and sustained outcomes.* Conduct audits to ensure compliance with quality standards and governance requirements.* Design and manage Process Knowledge Tests (PKTs) to assess capability gaps and drive continuous learning.* Collaborate with technology teams to enhance system integration, governance, and knowledge management.* Partners with technology and business teams to evaluate, implement, and scale AI and automation opportunities while ensuring appropriate governance, adoption, and measurable impact.* Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on quality enhancement, cycle time reduction, and productivity gains.* Establishes process excellence dashboards, scorecards, and reporting mechanisms to monitor project progress, efficiency gains, quality trends, adoption levels, and business impact.**Education and Experience:*** Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.* At least eight years of experience in automation, digital transformation, AI, technology-enabled operations, consulting, shared services, or related roles.* A demonstrable track record of personally building, deploying, or leading production automation and AI solutions, supported by examples of the technologies used and business outcomes achieved.* Evidence of measurable transformation outcomes such as productivity or capacity gains, cycle-time reduction, cost avoidance, quality improvement, risk reduction, or improved client and employee experience.**Key Skills and Competencies:*** Hands-on, outcome-oriented approach to AI, automation, digital transformation, and operational problem-solving.* Strong business acumen with the ability to connect technology choices to value, risk, feasibility, and adoption.* Executive communication, influencing, negotiation, and cross-functional stakeholder management.* Structured analytical thinking, data interpretation, business-case development, and KPI design.* Change leadership and adoption discipline, including training, communications, operating-model transition, and reinforcement.* Sound judgment on responsible AI, data governance, security, controls, and human-in-the-loop design.* Lean Six Sigma or continuous-improvement experience is helpful where it supports automation and transformation delivery.**Technical Skills:*** Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Automate, Power Apps, Power BI, and related governance capabilities.* AI agents, prompt and evaluation practices, retrieval or knowledge integrations, and responsible AI controls.* Workflow automation, RPA or task automation, APIs, system integrations, web services, and data pipelines.* Analytics, dashboards, SQL or equivalent data skills, and value tracking.* Solution documentation, source control or release practices, testing, monitoring, support transition, and access management.* Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and collaboration tools. Familiarity with cloud services, low-code and pro-code development patterns is an advantage.**Supervisory Responsibilities:*** Manage and develop Automation, Transformation, or Process Excellence Analysts and project contributors.* Lead cross-functional delivery teams and coordinate business, technology, risk, data, and change stakeholders.* Set clear delivery expectations, review solution quality, and create accountability for adoption and realized business value.**Work Environment:*** Standard 40+ hour workweek in a professional office environment.* Hybrid work model with a minimum of three days per week in the Hyderabad office.### About UsRyan offers outstanding opportunities to work in a dynamic, rapidly expanding tax services firm serving the world’s most respected Global 5000 companies. Our innovative work environment, accelerated growth path for high performers, competitive benefits package, and outstanding earning potential provide the most rewarding career experience available in the industry.Ryan employees are given the freedom to do their best work in the way they work best. With a clear understanding of expectations and accountabilities, our employees are given ownership of their time and flexibility to meet the demands of their professional and personal lives.Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Ryan LLC (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status). Job duties related to this role are to be conducted in a manner that adheres to privacy laws, as well as follows internal governance related to protecting confidential information and trade secrets, and to securing data and company records.**Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Accommodation**Ryan, LLC is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to compliance with all applicable laws prohibiting employment discrimination. It is our policy to take all employment actions and make all employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, sex (including pregnancy), affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, citizenship status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, disability, military status, status as a disabled or other protected veteran or any other protected status under applicable law.It is Ryan's policy to make reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities. Please contact our People Group at 972.934.0022 or [e-mail] if you are interested in applying and need assistance to submit your application, or if you are interested in a position and believe you may require a reasonable accommodation in order for you to perform its essential functions.Click here to view the entire EEO poster and supplement.\\*Notice to Canada Candidates – In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and the Canadian Human Rights Act, Ryan ULC will provide accommodation, accessible formats and communication supports for the interview upon request. Ryan welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities\\*.Please access our Privacy Notice in relation to this at the following link for additional information on how we protect and handle personal information. To change or modify any personal information previously provided, please click here to access our Data Subject Access Request form.