Xavier Mascarenhas

Senior Manager, FP&A (Productivity)

• Job Details:P&L productivity enhancement: partnered with functional leaders to identify and quantify over $500m in productivity improvement opportunities across the P&L through digital and process innovation. Cost optimization & offshoring: enabled cost reduction by identifying offshoring opportunities, improving operational efficiency, and supporting long-term cost transformation goals. Benchmarking & competitive intelligence: built and utilized cost and headcount benchmarks versus industry peers, influencing strategic decisions in annual planning and target setting. AI/ML strategy & implementation: acted as finance partner in driving enterprise-wide productivity gains through Gen AI, computer vision, and other AI/ML technologies, ensuring scalable deployment and value realization. OpenAI capability assessment: led feasibility studies and impact measurement for integrating OpenAI tools at Lowe's, resulting in validated use cases for business transformation.

Senior Manager, Analytics & Digital Transformation (Finance)

• Job Details:Digital transformation leadership: served as solution architect & lead for end-to-end digital transformation of F&A processes across P2P, O2C, and R2R towers, aligning technology with finance strategy. Process optimization & ROI impact: delivered efficiency gains equivalent to 20+ FTEs and effectiveness impact exceeding $6m for global F&A clients through automation and re-engineering. Product innovation in F&A: designed and deployed next-gen digital solutions including smart match, cognitive vendor query management, and spend analytics, enhancing decision-making and productivity. AI/ML integration in finance: pioneered the early adoption of AI/ML algorithms in F&A as early as 2017, enabling intelligent automation and setting benchmarks for cognitive finance operations.

Manager, Analytics & Digital Transformation (Finance)