Senior Finance Manager
Confidential
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :26 years, 5 أشهر
Responsible for Finance of the Group of more than 30 schools, centralising, accounting, budgeting, forecasting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, revenue accounting, operating budget, cash flow, balance sheet, payroll for more than 1600 employees,
Finance Business Partner for the Management team and supporting COO, MD and Chairman for making strategic decisions; Key player in decision making for the Organisation
Managing a compact finance team of 14 members and taking care of their performance
Converted manual payroll to system payroll in Microsoft dynamics and set up finance systems in Microsoft dynamics for group organisations
Leading IT Company in US)
Role: Business Finance Partnering for a large global client
Business finance partnering, acting as consultant to the business, involvement in opportunities tracking, business and strategic meetings;
Consolidation of the results, finance and planning, forecasting, variance analysis, executive presentations for the revenue, cost and GP for the various service lines for a large global client having operations across the globe;
Responsible for Seven region analysts for variance analysis, monthly close cycle, annual target and monthly forecast, including MIS reporting;
Financials of a large global client with TCV more than $100M.
Highlights:
Successfully transitioned and signed off high end consolidator/business unit finance role;
Supported the RFP with various historical trends, highlighting areas of profitability
Financial Planning and Analysis and Finance Controlling
Finance and planning, finance controlling, month end cycle, budget and forecast, variance analysis, executive presentations for the revenue, cost and GP for the various service lines and sectors in Wiliams Lea EMEA Division;
Managing Twenty-Nine team members as a second line manager and enabling them in their work with hands on experience in all their major activities;
Single point of contact for the onsite team for smooth flow of communication, implementation of new processes, expected deliverables, etc.;
Finance controller activities include regular balance sheet consolidation and reviews, asset capitalisation, cost allocation for client view reporting, bonus accruals based on pay out forecasting, Management hierarchy, streamlining the flow of data, rebate calculations and revenue accruals and deferral, 0 revenue leakage, etc.;
Constant focus on improving and establishing processes to tighten financial control in every area;
Interpreting new processes and training the team and encouraging team members to create a continuous improvement mindset to identify and close gaps in processes
Highlights:
Travelled to UK for transitioning management packs;
Streamlined the processes relating to invoicing, bonus, cost allocation, rebate calculations for client reporting and business reporting.
Consolidated the balance sheet for the Division for a Divisional view and this triggered a cleanup activity; Could release 4M GBP from the activity.
Financial presentations to the Williams Lea global CFO
Role: Brand Finance Manager
Brand finance business partner for System X servers and related products, including Pureflex for IBM India - India South Asia Region;
Individual contributory role reporting to x86 systems Business Executive, Pureflex business executive, systems and technology group India CFO and System X Growth Markets CFO;
Finance and Planning, portfolio management, pipeline tracking and forecasting, actuals tracking, variance analysis, executive presentations for the revenue, direct cost, indirect cost and gross profit for x86 servers;
Variance analysis, monthly close activity, annual target and monthly forecast review activities, including MIS reporting;
Handling complex regular and ad hoc activities and queries;
Strategic Analysis including deal mix profitability, product mix profitability and region mix profitability, base material cost trending, non-base material cost trending, inventory control;
Owning the budget and gross profit, cost take out project, preparing, maintaining roadmaps and tracking till execution to improve revenue and GP to meet and exceed expectations;
Highlights:
Completed a Cost Take Out Project and brought savings of 1M USD per annum for the brand;
Pricing review and approval of large deals of more than $20M;
Automated the quarterly rebate calculation and revenue deferral;
Role: Finance Manager - Finance Planning and Analysis
Finance and planning, budgeting, forecasting, monthly close, variance analysis, executive presentations for the revenue, cost and gross profit for the various service lines and sectors for global business services in Canada and US;
Managing Twenty-Three team members and enabling them in their work with hands on experience in all their activities;
Individual contributory role for tracking and reporting the Global Business Service Finance Team financials and reporting to Vice President GBS North America including budget, forecast, actuals, roadmap;
Highlights:
Completed a Process Review Methodology project and implemented for all FLMs across the floor;
Responsible for the sourcing and hiring of candidates for the FP&A process.
Six Sigma Yellow belt achieved along with team for a green belt project idea savings of 2 FTE.
Achieved year on year productivity targets of 10% per annum for several years
Role: Portfolio Finance
Technically understanding the various financial components of each service product offered to clients;
Preparing complex standard rate models for developing and deployment of costs of products in various regions including Canada, Latin America and USA;
Interacting regularly with rate analysts in the US, capability engineers in various regions, sales and portfolio management for finalising the costs;
Independently administered the Portfolio Finance web site of the company including additions, changes and deletions of content, access control, etc. and administration of the rate approval process;
Specializing in networking, communications, security, workplace services products;
Role: Financial Planning and Analysis
Variance analysis, monthly close, annual target and monthly outlook, including MIS reporting;
Highlights:
Taking responsibility for Six other team members and assisting them in their work within four months of joining;
Completed more than Fifty models in Networking and Workplace Services;
Taking responsibility for final submission of figures from lead analyst after one month into the role;
Professional Qualification - CMA
MBA Finance