Shashank Raj
Manager, Management Consulting · KPMG Canada
Management Consultant in KPMG Canada's Finance practice, helping CFOs and their teams transform how finance operates through Target Operating Model design, FP&A, Chart of Accounts, and ERP-enabled transformation. 8+ years across consulting and industry, including multi-vendor insurance technology programmes with 40+ stakeholders.
- Years in consulting & industry
- 8+
- Years in consulting & industry
- Incremental revenue from Gen-AI triage
- $2.3M
- Incremental revenue from Gen-AI triage
- Faster policy processing
- 90%
- Faster policy processing
- Stakeholders across 3 vendors
- 40+
- Stakeholders across 3 vendors
About
From building systems to shaping how finance works
I started my career as a software engineer at Tata Consultancy Services, building enterprise search and asset management platforms. A Post Graduate Program in Management at Great Lakes then pulled me toward the business side, and into consulting.
Over the next few years I moved from business analysis at Virtusa and KPMG to product ownership at LTIMindtree, leading multi-vendor insurance platform programmes in Bangalore and then Toronto, from policy administration to underwriting, reinsurance, and Gen-AI submission triage.
Today I'm a Manager in KPMG Canada's Finance practice, working with CFOs on how the finance function operates: Target Operating Models, FP&A, Chart of Accounts, and ERP-enabled transformation. Having delivered the systems finance teams rely on, I bring a practical, delivery-minded view to operating model design.
- Based in
- Toronto, Canada
- Worked across
- Canada and India
- Background
- Engineering + PGPM
- Languages
- English, Hindi
Experience
8+ years across finance transformation, insurance technology, and strategic consulting
Manager – Management Consulting, Finance
KPMG Canada
Jul 2026 – PresentCurrentToronto, CanadaAdvise CFOs on finance transformation: Target Operating Model design, FP&A, Chart of Accounts, Record to Report, Source to Pay, and ERP-enabled change.
Senior Manager – Insurance Transformation
LTM
Jul 2023 – Jul 2026Toronto, CanadaProduct Owner for Starr Insurance's global policy booking platform and Underwriting Workbench, integrating three policy administration systems across APAC, LATAM, and North America.
Senior Specialist → Senior Manager
LTM
Dec 2021 – Jul 2023Bangalore, IndiaLed product ownership of TRUE Insurance's greenfield Homeowners policy administration system; Insurance SME and Unqork CoE lead across BFSI engagements.
Associate Consultant
KPMG Global Services
Jun 2021 – Dec 2021Bangalore, IndiaBusiness analysis and integration design for an Alternate Investments platform ($50M+ AUM) in KPMG's financial services advisory practice.
Associate Consultant
Virtusa
Oct 2020 – Jun 2021Hyderabad, IndiaDelivered a custom insurance operations and incident management platform for Aon on no-code/low-code.
Assistant System Engineer → System Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
Dec 2016 – Mar 2019Bangalore, IndiaBuilt enterprise search and IT asset management platforms for Qualcomm.
Education & Credentials
Post Graduate Program in Management (PGPM)
Great Lakes Institute of Management
2019 – 2020
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science
Visvesvaraya Technological University
2012 – 2016
What I Do
I help CFOs and their teams transform how the finance function operates, organizes, and delivers value
Finance Target Operating Model
Future-state finance operating models across people, process, technology, data, and governance, with a roadmap to get there.
FP&A
Planning, budgeting, forecasting, and analytics that give finance leaders sharper, faster decision support.
Chart of Accounts & Record to Report
Standardized Chart of Accounts and a faster, controlled close, consolidation, and reporting cycle across GL, AP, and AR.
ERP-enabled Transformation
Technology positioned as an enabler of the operating model, drawing on 8+ years delivering enterprise platform implementations.
Selected Work
Delivering measurable impact through finance and insurance technology transformation
Policy Booking & Reporting Platform
Global policy booking and reporting across APAC, LATAM, and North America, with Salesforce and PAS integration and full reinsurance cession workflows.
Underwriting Workbench (UWB)
One workbench over three policy systems (Insurity, DXC, Sapiens IDIT) with unified Rate-Quote-Bind-Issue and Gen-AI submission triage.
Homeowners Insurance PAS & DMS
Greenfield Homeowners policy administration with a multi-variable rating engine, DocuSign, SmartComm, and document management.
Alternate Investments Platform
Business analysis and integration design for fund administration and investor reporting across private equity and hedge funds.
Insurance Operations Platform
Custom operations and incident management platform automating placement, risk tracking, and escalation workflows.
Enterprise Search & Asset Management
Enterprise search on Apache Solr with custom indexing pipelines, plus an integrated IT asset management platform.
What Colleagues Say
From recommendations on LinkedIn
“I worked with Shashank extensively for 3 years. I really appreciate the expertise he brings from functional and domain perspective. The way he drives discussions, leads client conversations achieves business objective is exemplary. I would strongly recommend Shashank for any role he plays.”
Gouranga Roy Chowdhury
Program & Delivery Manager, P&C Insurance
Managed Shashank directly
“I had the pleasure of working with Shashank in his role as a Senior Business Analyst within our insurance domain project, and I can confidently say that his contributions were instrumental to the success of our transformation initiatives. Shashank brought deep domain knowledge across key P&C insurance functions—including underwriting workflows, policy lifecycle management, and reinsurance integration.”
Rajesh Thurumella
Product Manager, Consulting & Delivery
Managed Shashank directly
“I have worked with Shashank for close to two years. He possesses excellent technical skills and is a master of learning and mastering new technologies. What I liked the best while working with him is his positive attitude, which made him an excellent addition to the team and go to guy even in stress situation. Keep learning!”
Prasanth Thattarath
Senior Director, Software Development, TaskUs
Managed Shashank directly
Writing
Articles on AI, no-code, and business analysis
LinkedIn · Jul 2025
Agentic AI Development, and how the world turned purple
A hands-on guide for CEOs, product managers, and other non-coders to turn an idea into a working MVP with AI agents, without writing a line of code.
Read on LinkedInLinkedIn · Oct 2023
Business Analysis with Unqork
How business analysis works on a no-code platform, and why clients choose Unqork for fast, secure, maintainable digital transformation.
Read on LinkedInLinkedIn · Feb 2023
Part 2 – Is Unqork Leading the No-Code Revolution?
The second part of the series, going further into how no-code delivers enterprise applications end to end in a fraction of the usual time.
Read on LinkedInLinkedIn · Aug 2022
Is Unqork Leading the No-Code Revolution? (Part 1)
An introduction to no-code and Unqork, and how it compares with traditional and low-code development for building applications.
Read on LinkedInSkills & Tools
The methods, domains, and platforms I work with
Finance Transformation
Insurance Domain & Platforms
Delivery & Tools
Let's talk
I'm always glad to connect about finance transformation, operating model design, FP&A, or career conversations. Book a 30-minute call, or reach me by email or LinkedIn.
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shashank.raj2009@gmail.com
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