Puneet Thakkar

Finance Process Transformation Manager Google Inc

Puneet Thakkar is a globally recognized authority in Digital Finance Transformation and Enterprise Cloud Modernization, known for architecting intelligent, AI-enabled financial systems and developing the influential “Process-First” framework for FP&A. Currently a Senior Program Manager at Google, Puneet spearheads the multi-year transformation of multi-billion-dollar Procure-to-Pay (P2P) and Record-to-Report (R2R) operations. He drives executive governance forums and re-engineers foundational workflows to enable scalable AI adoption. His reputation for building resilient, unified architectures was cemented at Western Digital, where he directed the complex finance integration of three Fortune 500 entities—a modernization effort cited by IDC as a model for the "Live Enterprise." Previously, at Visa, he engineered advanced data models that fortified revenue compliance and data integrity for North American operations. Puneet actively shapes industry standards through his service on invitation-only advisory bodies, including the Executive Council for Leading Change (ECLC), the PEX Network Executive Board, and the IA Forum. A widely cited researcher, his work on AI-driven financial optimization—including "AI Driven Close Process Optimization"—has been featured in IEEE conference proceedings and his authored chapter in the book AI in Financial Services. He frequently serves as a judge for premier innovation challenges, including HackTX and HackUTD.