Manu Varghese, Assistant Manager Operations

Manu Varghese

Assistant Manager Operations

Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd

Location
India - Kerala
Education
Higher diploma, Finance
Experience
10 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :10 years, 0 Months

Assistant Manager Operations at Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd
  • India - Bengaluru
  • December 2016 to July 2017

Managed P&L for France with avg monthly revenue of €2M
•Preparing ZBB package for all P&L lines with inputs from respective Business Unit Owners and trend analysis.
•Aligning disruptive growth activities with the ZBB to normalize the effect of such on M-M, Q-Q, Y-Y comparisons.
•Variance to Forecast/Budget Analysis and Root Cause research and suggesting adjustments to the ZBB.
•General Ledger to subledger reconciliations.
•Measuring KPIs on performance and profitability of Business unit, Supply Chain, Channel, SKU.
•Month End closing, Flash Reporting, AR Aging Reports, Weekly Sale Pipeline reports as per Manager and SKUs.
•Ad-hoc reporting as required by the BU head for discussion with the regional and zonal teams.
•Managing a team of financial analysts.
•Delegation of work and role rotation to have effective backups for contingencies.


Achievements
•Successful remote transition and fast adoption of the role through voluntary research and collaboration.
•Achieved assigned KPIs on accuracy and timeliness, 2 months into the role

Lead Analyst at Oracle India Pvt Ltd
  • India - Bengaluru
  • December 2014 to December 2016

Role 2: Lead Analyst Global Data Quality
•Ensuring data accuracy and timeliness of Dashboards.
•Creating data validation templates to expedite research of variances in BW and Sales/ Business Intelligence Dashboards.
•Testing of the Dashboards for redundancy/ errors and support technical teams with functional input.
•Track data refreshes from WMS / BW to dashboard and minimize latency through better coded templates.
•Expand validation coverage with minimal increase in resource bandwidth, employing automation tools.
•Manage and guide a team of Data Analysts. Train new talents in the team.

Role 1: Lead Analyst License LOB
•Monthly, Quarterly, Year End reporting of financials for License LOB (Globally)
•Budgeting and Forecasting with inputs from BU owners.
•Variance to forecast, profitability, spend analysis of LOB
•Weekly reporting of Sales Pipeline.
•Monthly reporting of Revenue, Expenses and Headcount.
•Gathering reporting requirements of BUs and simplification of complex reports.
•Global standardization of reports to facilitate automation to Dashboards.
•Assist RPA team with functional inputs on Dashboard requirements.
•Manage and guide a team of Financial Analysts. Train new talents in the team.


Achievements
•100 % Automation of Expenses and Headcount reporting eliminating manual reporting.
•100 % achievement of transition targets of reporting from BPS team to CoE.
•Increased Data Quality coverage from 45% to 80% of dashboards with available bandwidth

Assistant Manager F&A at IBM GPS Pvt Ltd
  • India - Bengaluru
  • December 2010 to November 2014

•Managing Business Units “IBM Cloud” & “IBM Integrated Services” for IBM US with a combined monthly turnover of $ 2M
•Monthly Revenue, Spend, Headcount forecast, considering Targets & management input.
•Providing M-M, Q-Q, Y-Y comparative analysis to BU Owners and suggest forecast adjustments.
•Reporting contractual revenue waterfall explaining future cash inflows and AR Aging.
•Assisting the Accountants in Accrual/ deferral of eligible HW/SW cost items with journal entries and supports
•Preparing flash files, tracking “to go” transactions.
•Maintain CGP through continuous review and suggesting corrective measures for under-performing contracts.
•Weekly/ monthly reporting on Usage of Services and Utilization of resources.
•Investigate any unusual spending/ revenue and advise Line Managers with solutions.
•Review forecast with the US Finance Controller and BUs to modify forecast as required.
•Manage and guide a team of Contract Operations Analysts.

Role 1: Contract Operations Analyst
•End to end Contract Operations for "IBM BCRS" for IBM US
•Coordinate with Sales, Pricing and Finance teams to ensure proper documentation of contracts.
•Validation of contract legality and Term.
•PO review and updating PMs with expiring POs for renewal with the client.
•Ensuring smooth revenue inflow/ timely procurement as required by contract to maintain profitability.
•Reporting contractual revenue waterfall explaining future cash inflows.
•Tracking Contract Gross Profit, highlighting under-performing contracts and suggest corrective measures to the Project Management.

Achievements
•Award 2011, SPOT Award 2012, Blue Thanks Awards from clients
•Introduced simplified processes, accepted as best practice in the associated teams

Analyst at FirstRain Software Centre Pvt Ltd
  • India
  • August 2007 to November 2010

•Market research for corporate clients
•Develop customer / competitor models for clients, considering their product positioning / geography.
•Weekly/ monthly newsletters to clients highlighting macroeconomics and customer / competitor activities.
•Coordinate with Sourcing and IT teams to extract accurate online information.
•Communicate with clients to understand requirements.

Achievements
•Preferred by Client for good understanding of business and quality of deliverables
•Contract renewals and increase in newsletters from 8 to 53 in 3 years

Education

Higher diploma, Finance
  • at AICTE
  • May 2005

Full Time

Higher diploma, International Business
  • at AICTE
  • January 2005

Full time

Bachelor's degree, Management and Commerce
  • at Mahatma Gandhi University
  • May 2003

Full time

Specialties & Skills

Budgeting and Forecasting
Resource Utilization
Microsoft Excel
Variance Analysis
Monthly Close
ANALYSIS
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
FINANCE
MANAGEMENT
QUALITY
REPORTS
VALIDATION

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Native Speaker
Malayalam
Native Speaker