Profile
Offering 10+ years of cross cultural experience in Internal Audits, Financial Analysis, Financial Reporting, Variance Analysis, Financial Planning & Budgeting and Functional Consulting.
Proven ability in analyzing and interpreting unique problems, with a combination of training experience and logical thinking to get the right solutions.
Possesses an innate flair for accepting challenges and ability in getting work done through direct and indirect authority. Has significant leadership experience resulting in better performance of the team.
Effective communicator with strong analytical power & abilities in ensuring compliance to various internal & external rules & regulations.
Significant experience in internal project management to implement tools for analysis and reporting
Business Skills
Preparing MI and Dashboard reports for Management to drive discussions on performance of the organization
Drive annual planning process to assure credible, competitive and affordable Budgets & alignment with relevant stakeholders
Drive development/design of new MI tool and finance support processes/tools. This includes gathering requirements from stakeholders, designing / Mock-up the reports, communicating requirements to development team.
Test the tool, collaborate with development team to get the defect rectified, acquire sign-off from both stakeholders and development team, ensure go-live.
Design end-end project management process flow including plan, stakeholder engagement, providing demo, training stake holders and end users on the tool.
Continuous focus on improvement opportunities in process and identify & action on opportunities to reduce complexity, promote best practice and provide focus on financial issues.
Work on multiple assignments in a fast paced, deadline oriented environment
Professional Experience
Jun’10-Present
With Shell India Markets Pvt. Ltd., Chennai as Manager
Working Knowledge: MS Excel, SAP, ERP, HANA WEBi reports
Job Role
Prepare Dashboard reports for the management to provide information on financials and metrics. Add commentaries for the reports to provide an overview of the spend status and the reasoning behind over/under spend. Have discussions with stake holders to provide insight to the numbers and metrics.
Provide planning support to Leadership Team, participate in challenge sessions to come up with meaningful business plans. Prepare the plan, coordinate and complete the planning process as per timelines.
Provide Critical thinking and valuable analysis, presented to the leadership team resulting in improved business value delivery.
Conduct development and performance reviews for direct reports, identify areas of improvement for individual team members and provide guidance, coaching & support for their development
SUPER USER for GPMR (SAP) and provide functional support to end users world over.
As a Functional consultant drive development / design of new MI tool and finance support processes/tools. This includes gathering requirements from stakeholders, designing / Mock-up the reports, communicating requirements to development team.
Test the tool, collaborate with development team to get the defect rectified, acquire sign-off from both stakeholders and development team, ensure go-live.
Design end-end project management process flow including plan, stakeholder engagement, providing demo, training stake holders and end users on the tool.
Develop strong business relationship with focal points and end users across globe to deliver business outcomes.
Manage projects to ensure the reporting tools are developed according to the requirements of end users, manage stakeholder engagements, train end users on the tool and ensure smooth transition from old reporting tool to the new one.
Highlights
Leading the implementation of a new reporting tool and gained end-to-end project management experience
Involved in implementing a project to convert the budget holder report structure to improve reporting process and ensure consistency & accuracy. Was awarded a Green Belt/Six Sigma certificate for this project.
Implemented a process improvement to reduce preparation of a report from 4 days to 1 day.
Nov’06-Jun‘10
With Ernst & Young GBS Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore as Senior/Lead Financial Analyst
Working Knowledge: MS Excel, Business Objects and Hyperion Essbase.
Job Role
Facilitating the management by preparing management information and reports to enable strategy/decision making process.
Review the reports prepared by team members for data quality before it is shared with management.
Being first point of contact for the Service Line Partners and Leaders for report related queries/escalations and take up additional requests for reports on ad hoc basis.
Preparing annual financial plan & budgeting and half yearly revised financial plan & budgeting to assist the management decide on future course of action.
Involved as part of functional consulting team in bringing in new business objects Xi tool for MI reporting.
Testing, identifying issues, collaborating with development team to get issues / defects rectified and rolling out the tool for MI reporting.
Mentoring a team of 4, managing their work load to maintain smooth functioning of the team.
Assisting the management in performance appraisals by providing input regarding the team members.
Highlights
Completed transition of reports for Transaction Advisory Service Line.
By automating the reporting process improved the accuracy of reports and saved up to 21 hours per month.
Part of training committee to train the new hires & provide them working knowledge on Business Objects and MS Excel.
May’05-Oct’06
With Reuters India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore as Market Analyst
Job Role
Mapping market data into DOPLUS software, particularly specialized in markets for Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, US and Canadian markets covering industrial, utility, banks, insurance and finance industries.
Analyzing the financial statements and interpreting the reasons for the performance of the company, writing brief report based on which the companies will decide to invest or not in the company’s shares.
Updating financial statements of various companies into the Reuters database and coding them to the respective head of accounts, to analyse and interpret the reasons for the performance of the companies based on ratio analysis.
Highlights
Worked on creating profiles for new companies in Reuters Database to widen the market coverage for South Asian and US companies. Handled this project for a month to add new companies to the data base.
As an active member of Business Continuation Process (BCP) helped the organization in meeting client requirements in case of adverse scenarios.
Awarded a certificate for exhibiting committed performance as a BCP Member.
Aug’00-Jun’02
With R. Subramanian & co. (Chartered accountants), Chennai as Trainee
IT Skills
MS Office, SAP, ERP, Business Objects (Xi, 4.0, 4.1 HANA), Hyperion ESSBASE, Cognos
Academia
2005 MBA (Marketing and Finance) from IIPM, New Delhi.
2002 B.Com. from Madras University, Chennai.
