Financial Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Total years of experience :17 years, 3 Months
Cognizant Technology Solutions Since Apr 2011
Financial Analyst
Job profile
Financial Planning and Analysis for the organization
• Execution of the Annual Planning/Budgeting process, including preparation of reports for the board.
• Lead the preparation of Monthly/Quarterly Financial Performance Presentations for the CxO team.
• Serve as a liaison to the Corporate Strategy, Enterprise Transformation Group to help identify and analyse companywide financial metrics
• Forecast P&L of the firm
• Provide ad-hoc Analysis support to the Senior Management team.
Financial Planning and Analysis for a Business Unit
• Analyse the monthly/quarterly forecast process of the company at a global level; Present insights and commentaries to the senior management after extensive analysis on client level performance
• Interact with business partners to understand growth drivers, identify future trends and present analytics to the senior management for the monthly management pack to facilitate executive level decision making
• Play a key role in the annual financial planning cycle involving budgeting, forecasting and target setting at a global level; Liaised across all Business units to reach a consensus on their division's Revenue targets and OPEX requirements as per the management guidelines
• Analysis of cost and profitability of Business Unit and do monthly and quarterly presentations to BU leadership with actionable insights
• Ensure reporting accuracy for the Business Unit
Mckinsey & Co Jul 2009 - Apr 2011
Jr.Analyst
Global Reporting & Analysis
• Create Monthly standard reports for various offices in EMEA, Asia and America's
• Handling Adhoc request from offices on office metrics and KPI's
• Develop new reports for offices with various KPI's and performance Metrics
• Taking up of transition activities of various office reports into GRT
• Create quality assurance methods to ensure accuracy and error free reporting
• Review reports created by team members to ensure on accuracy
• Has worked extensively on Standardization efforts in reporting
• Re-engineering and automation of existing set of reports to reduce Turn around time's
• Training team members on Reporting and Report tools
• SPOC for stakeholders of various offices to handle their request/queries
• Prepared Knowledge object and report repository to manage the knowledge within the Team
• Recognized as a Subject Matter Expert on Functional aspects
• Supporting datawarehouse users on functional queries related to RDW.
Special Projects & Initiatives:
• Re-Forecast Tool: Created a 100 % automated tool that enables offices to create forecast reports.
• Carbon Abatement Program: Has extensively worked on the Carbon Abatement Project, which focuses on reduction of firm's carbon footprint.
Achievements
• Was awarded the Kaizen Award for developing an automated template for a standard report which reduced the processing time from 24 man hours to 15 minutes
bRisk Corporate Services Pvt Ltd, Chennai. Mar 2008 - Jul 2009
Senior Associate
Business Process consulting
• Data analysis to identify the problems that are been faced by departments of the organisation
• Identifying the gaps in the process through a gap analysis
• Brainstorming with the team and process owners for evolving apt process for the department
• Process Mapping and drafting of Standard Operating Procedures
• Interaction with Top, Middle and low level management staffs for implementation of the evolved processes
• Preparing presentation for presenting the deliverables to the Management
• Managed scope, schedule, specification changes, issue discovery and resolution for various departments
• Developing Management Information System (MIS) for Reporting performance of a Department to the management
• Developed excel tool for Accurate Pricing and effective Procurement management with Inventory Standards
• Preparing manuals and reports for excel tools and risk assessment
• Positioning Project Leader and support Project Manager in all aspects such as administration and work related activities for a team size of about six members
Projects Worked on
• Standard Operating Procedure Development for Purchase Department, Project Management, Inventory Management, Finance Department, HR Department and Marketing Department
• Corporate Turnaround - Treasury Management Improvement and Finance Department Re-engineering
• Organization structure development - Proposed a new organization structure with roles and responsibility for all the positions and delegation of authority
• Risk Assessment - Identifying the risks, which could affect the continuity of the business
Achievements
• Promoted to the position of Senior Associate from an Associate within the first 3 months
Zenta Knowledge Servicing Pvt Ltd, Chennai. Jan 2007 - Feb 2008
Analyst
Capital markets group
• Performing debt-sizing and due diligence underwriting of commercial real estate mortgage loans
• Reviewing and reconciling third party reports
• Analyzing financial statements, property leases, commitment letters and other real estate and credit documents
• Performing market analysis for various property types and locations
• Cataloguing property specific analysis, including property and market conditions
• Creating cash flow spreadsheets detailing historical and projected property performance
Master of Business Management (MBA), May 2007 SRM School of Management, SRM University, Chennai; CGPA: 8.2/10.0
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com), April 2004 RKM Vivekananda College, University of Madras, Chennai; Percentage: 73.9%