Financial Management Senior Analyst
Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd
Total years of experience :7 years, 8 Months
As a finance partner, the role involves working closely with Leadership, Delivery Leads, and PMO teams and providing financial insights for decision-making. The role includes supervision of activities performed by junior team members.
➢ Determining and accurately recognizing revenue based on US-GAAP, forecasting payroll and other expenses for Consulting, Outsourcing, Staff Augmentation and Managed Services contracts on the client account.
➢ Building dashboards and reports to facilitate leadership in decision-making. Suggest ways to improve contract margins by using contingencies, eliminating costs that are not associated with the contracts, re-allocating costs for commercial team resources, pyramid refresh, and accurately forecasting resource
hours.
➢ Analyzing variances between actual and forecast and explaining reasons for a variance to leadership. Ensuring that any adjustments from these are being accounted for in the current month’s forecast. As
part of the month-end close process, posting entries for cost allocations, cost movement, sub-contractor costs
➢ Ensuring DSO is at a minimum by tracking receivables and flagging any overdue invoices.
➢ Quarterly review of expected sales, revenue and margins to have correct pipeline and backlog reporting
➢ Pricing of change requests and extensions, reviewing financial and commercial clauses in contracts, and ensuring market unit standard targets are being met.
➢ Ensuring SAP is timely and accurately reflecting sales bookings, combination and separation of change requests and extensions with original contracts, contract closure and termination.
➢ Internal controls, Accounting Treatment memos, updating the cost-sharing and contractual changes and responding to queries found in external and internal audits
➢ Awards:
➢ Received the “Great Start - new joiner” award (Aug 2022)
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Being a part of the internal IT tower finance team, the role involved working closely with IT Leadership
and providing financial insights for cost reduction and capitalization of expenses.
➢ Analysis of P&L with respect to expenses being accounted for, capitalization of costs, and checking on
entries that need to be incorporated in the month’s P&L.
➢ Tracking actuals against forecast and explaining reasons for variances to management. Ensuring any cost
related to non-IT spends are not part of IT costs.
➢ Spend Control Tower- Being the first line of control for approving purchase requisitions. Check if they
pertain to the Line of Business; ensuring cost centres, GL account, and accounting treatment is correct.
➢ Capitalization initiatives- Ensuring to capitalize expenses that are missed to be accounted for.
➢ Time Tracking- Streamlining of time tracking systems and ensuring time was being correctly captured.
➢ Third-party spend tracking per Line of Business.
➢ Vendor accruals analysis per Line of Business.
➢ Transitioned vendor payments tracking process from onshore and transitioned benchmarking and cost
validation process to onshore; and ensured the process is stabilized and improvised.
➢ Awards:
o Awarded Honor Roll (Team Award) for a Six Sigma Green Belt Project (Oct 2021)
o Awarded as the best performer from the FP&A India team (Dec 2019)
➢ Initiatives:
o Costs validation- Initially this was built to create a database so costs could be standardized and
used as a base for validating IT costs in future deals. Currently, the database works as a base for
building budgets/ forecasts; and checking if capitalizable expenses were modelled for.
o Planning and hosting the GFSS Annual Bash 2019.
A commercial and business-facing finance role, supporting the sales team and the wider business in
delivering financial information to submit for new deals and tenders.
➢ Working as part of the UK Sales hub and also as part of the Virtual Deal Analyst team (supporting bids
across North America, APAC and Europe regions)
➢ Engaging in dialogue with the bid community to develop an understanding of the delivery and internal
sign-off processes including populating sign-off material (for delivery and finance sign-offs)
➢ Assessing and contributing to the commercial input arising from service delivery cost driver; attributes
that include forex and inflation impact, credit analysis, and building in contingencies.
➢ Providing details in the Master Service Agreements (MSA) and SOW on financial and commercial issues.
➢ Presenting the commercial framework with deal values, price models, Forecast Income Statements and
Cash Flow Statements to management, in sign-off meetings.
➢ Initiatives:
o Provided training to Pricing and Marketing Assistants and Solution Architects about how to use
(company-specific) pricing tools.
o Provided ongoing communication on process changes to all functional areas involved with the
bid and pricing process.
o Worked with the Infrastructure segment hub leader to populate the Key Pricing Parameters for
the year 2017 to be further used across the organization by Deal Analysts.
o Collated data of must-win deals to create a basis of benchmark for future deals.
o Helped non-finance teams to build a tool that will provide a ready-made comparison of
parameters of past won deals.
o Sent fortnightly reports to hub leads to provide deal flow and status across SBUs and regions.
➢ Accomplishments: Selected to travel to the UK to handle the Deals and Cash Flow issues of a large
account (client). Had to decline due to personal reasons.
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