Kishore Kumar Jayaraj

Combines Workday Financial Management functional experience with extensive PeopleSoft Financials expertise in General Ledger, Asset Management, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Billing. Leads solution architecture, end-to-end implementation lifecycles, complex data integrations, and enterprise operational governance. Proven track record of defining enterprise architecture standards, accelerating proposal closures, and cutting audit discrepancies through strict regulatory alignment.

Experienced in Agile delivery, stakeholder engagement and coordination across Finance, data, security and Technology teams.

Senior Business Technology Lead; Technology Lead; Technology Analyst; Systems Engineer at Infosys Limited | Toyota client engagements (2010-06 – Present)

Progression: Senior Business Technology Lead (2021–Present) • Technology Lead (2019–2021) • Technology Analyst (2014–2019) • Systems Engineer (2010–2014)

• Accelerated enterprise deal closures and scoping accuracy by 35% by designing complex hybrid-cloud proofs of concept (POCs) and authoring high-stakes technical proposals for Business.
• Mitigated compliance and security risks for core financial data by aligning ERP architecture with strict regulatory frameworks, reducing audit finding discrepancies by 40%.
• Elevated team technical capability and delivery speed by establishing enterprise-wide design standards, reducing legacy system processing latency by 28%, and mentoring 6 senior-level engineers into leadership positions.
• Future-proofed the technology stack by continuously evaluating emerging technologies and introducing innovative tools to optimize performance and efficiency.
• Authored and reviewed comprehensive High-Level Design documents and Architectural Decision Records, ensuring absolute transparency, traceability, and architectural integrity across multi-team engineering programs.
• Collaborated seamlessly with cross-functional stakeholders at all levels from development teams to executive leadership to promote high-impact technology strategies and accelerate digital innovation.
• Monitored operational workloads and emerging trends to proactively optimize resource allocation, resulting in significantly faster response times and higher end-user satisfaction.
• Lead Financial data ingestion and transformation from WMS, GAP, Safeguard Insurance, Shaw, Lemans and Chrome River into the Enterprise Data Platform, spanning raw, operational and consumption layers.
• Partnered with stakeholders across Toyota, Mazda and BassPro to define Requirements, confirm scope and coordinate delivery across Business and Technology teams.
• Lead Agile delivery, backlog planning and release coordination; introduce qTest practices, coach colleagues and work with governance and SOX teams on data validation and audit evidence.
• Automated month-end reconciliation between Journal and General Ledger postings, accelerating close timelines and eliminating 30% of manual effort.
• Worked with data governance teams to validate loaded data against defined rules and supported SOX audit activities across database layers.
• Coordinated release activities with the Change Advisory Board and maintained implementation and knowledge-transfer documentation.
• Gathered functional and non-functional Requirements with SAP Business stakeholders and coordinated UAT to validate solutions against agreed Business needs.
• Documented end-to-end data flows between legacy systems and SAP, including mappings and interface dependencies, to support design decisions and traceability.
• Established rigorous operational discipline by tracking key performance metrics, generating insightful reporting on recurring issues, and maintaining up-to-date system documentation.
• Provided Workday functional and technical support across Business processes, configuration, custom validations, security, reporting and integrations; coordinate change management and process improvements.
• Helped establish supplier management and AP invoice automation controls through source-system API integrations with Workday, including VAT accounting Requirements.
• Designed and automated bank-statement integration into Workday and configured rules to support automated reconciliation.
• Deliver PeopleSoft business-unit conversion through the CSAP initiative, mapping dependencies and adapting SQR, COBOL, reports and interfaces while preserving existing financial processing.
• Support Finance migration to SAP through fixed-asset extraction and reconciliation, resolve reporting inconsistencies affecting more than 200 retired assets and enable timely month-end completion.

Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology – Coimbatore Institute of Technology (Anna University), India (2010)