Geeta Degaonkar

Geeta Degaonkar is currently the Senior Vice President – Shared Services – at Thomas Cook Group of companies. She is responsible to set up the Shared Services for the Thomas Cook Group of Companies. The SSC is over two years old and has successfully consolidated the HR & Finance COEs for the 3 Entities of Thomas Cook, SOTC & SITA. The scope is to Consolidate & Standardize Operations process across the entities under the Shared Service. Thomas Cook Group-SSC is in the process of evaluating various Technology interventions like RPA, Data Analytics to bring the Efficiencies, Accuracy, Nimbleness thus to impact the overall Bottom line & Customer experience.

Geeta has 17 years of experience in Operations/ Finance/ Business Consulting across Insurance & Business Process Management wherein she has worked with Companies like Bajaj Allianz, Principal Global Services, WNS Global Services & Tata Business Support Services.

She has handled Global Finance Business process for Clients like NHS-UK, British Airways, TUI, Expedia, Virgin Australia, Centrica, British Gas along with Tata Capital, Jaguar Land Rover-UK. She is extremely passionate of leveraging innovation & technology solution for building an efficient Operations framework for Finance organizations which deliver scalable operations whilst delivering cost benefits, efficiencies & real time relevant Data for decision making.

Geeta loves to read in her spare time. She loves to explore Art, history, & heritage through her Travel sojourns.