Finance Manager
Texas Agrilife
Total years of experience :21 years, 6 Months
• Lead the day-to-day financial management with annual budget of $140 million.
• Lead month-end and year-end close activities, revenue recognition, reconciliation, compliance, balance sheet, and allocation of costs across projects, among other financial activities.
• Collaborate with all business units and departments for accounts management, budgeting, cash flow management including managing billing & collections.
• Work with business units in developing annual budget, revenue and expenditure forecasts.
• Manage and provide daily direction to the Finance team consisting of twelve members.
• Support researchers with evaluation of proposals and ensure implementation of best practices.
• Provide leadership on special projects and ad-hoc support to the senior management.
• Perform in-depth financial analysis and track various performance matrices using Business Objects and other business intelligence and data mining tools.
• Conduct Equity Research coverage of Business Services, with focus on the Commercial Printing, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Information Management industries.
• Build financial valuation frameworks and in-depth financial analysis on long term growth potential using bottom-up fundamental analysis.
• Use prior IT, BPO and business experience to design investment and business thesis for coverage group.
• Present and discuss analysis with institutional clients and sales force.
• Advise clients on suite of BPO and IT services that span horizontal business functions as well as vertical industries such as financial services, education, utilities, and manufacturing.
• Perform market research to assess potential for BPO, and IT offshore services in South Central US region.
• Develop new clients and generate business to meet annual revenue and booking quota of $2.5 M.
Perform audit procedures, develop audit programs, review and analyze audit evidence, and draft audit reports.
• Assess risks and determine the effectiveness of internal controls and the potential impact of control failures.
• Identify opportunities for enhancement in policies, procedures and processes to improve internal controls, efficiency or effectiveness of operations. Make recommendations to senior management for improvement.
• Perform Data Analysis and evaluate Continuous Control Monitoring and Auditing for organization.
• Created marketing tool to increase adoption of E-Business solutions in the company.
• Analyze company’s business strategy and business processes to identify key business needs and challenges
for growth.
• Identify gaps and future investment areas for E-Business group to support business growth
Business Development Manager July 2002 - December 2002
• Through leadership, research and targeted marketing increased revenues by 125% for 2002.
• Gained knowledge of finance and banking industry in order to develop specific IT solutions to meet client needs.
• Reviewed growth potential in multiple industries in Pune region and opened new telecommunication market segment for corporate growth by adding 2 new large accounts.
Team leader-West Region, Enterprise Solutions Group January 2001 - June 2002
• Increased revenues by 70% for 2001 by closing 5 new SAP deals.
• Manage a team of three members that marketed SAP R/3 ERP and MySAP.com E-business Solutions.
• Negotiated with SAP, India to open new segment for HCL as Value Added Reseller in Banks, Government Organizations and Public Sector Undertakings.
Account Executive July 2000 - December 2000
• Manage and map key corporate accounts for IT sales in the Mumbai region.
• Created 10 new opportunities for Broadvision E-Commerce product and Virtual Private Network (VPN)
solution in existing as well as new corporate clients.
GPA: 3.79/4.0 Finance GPA: 4.0/4.0 • Awarded Mays Fellow Merit Scholarship for the entire MBA program, 2003 – 2004 • Won Idea Challenge competition award for the Best Business Idea at Texas A&M University, 2004 • Attended “Aggies On Wall Street” program, a course with major investment banks in New York, 2004