Senior Manager
Vodafone India Services
Total years of experience :17 years, 5 Months
• Leading a team of 7 professionals in Revenue and Margin Assurance function for Vodafone Business including and not restricted to monitoring revenue and costs, month end accounting, Balance Sheet reconciliations and handling audits and QA reviews.
• ESG Controls implementation across various markets for reporting KPIs
• Key Controls verification across 20+ markets across Europe and Africa.
• Training and handholding the markets in successful performance of control activities.
• Internal Audit of Property Sales function, inventory management, pricing reviews, scheme validations, Bank Guarantees, project wise receivables and payables.
• Internal Compliances for Accounts Payables, Receivables, Cash management, Treasury.
• Client acceptance and Anti Money Laundering and Cash Collection reviews using a third party management software.
• Monitoring Statutory Compliances across various geographies of the business.
• Debt Compliances for various debt facilities like Sukuk, Term Loans, and Guarantees etc.
• Monitoring Brand Licensing and reporting requirements of various Strategic Brands
• Automation of Compliance Processes in System, to have a one stop list and monitoring of all requirements and its associated Compliance reports, User Acceptance Testing
• Internal Audit of a secondary steel manufacturer, including factory operations audits, financial audits and process reviews. Concise reporting and follow up on action points and reporting to the management and the audit committee.
• Seconded as Finance Controller to a start up in the Food business- Cash flow management by internal and external customer interactions, finance cost review, short term and long term loan book management, ensuring timely receipt of receivables, disbursement monitoring, setting up a Budgeting process and monitoring mechanism.
• Streamlining Banking operations to optimize fund utilization and accounting assignments
• Setting up of Operations for a Buy on Board business of an Airline service provider.
• Internal Audit for a Chemical manufacturing company including factory operations audit, financial audits and process reviews. Concise reporting and follow up on action points and reporting to the management and the audit committee. Awarded the Best Manager for 2011 for successful performance in multiple assignment handling.
SANTOSH PRABHU
• Revenue review for the KPO business.
• Access Controls and Adequacy of Business Continuity and Disaster recovery plans. Password policies and IT General Controls.
• SOX Compliance testing for Process and IT controls.
• Performed following assignments for leading telecom companies in India, Middle East & Africa.
• Revenue Assurance covering areas of Deferred Revenue, Credit Control & Billings.
• SOX Readiness and documentation
• Cost Center restructuring.
• Data Centre Process Documentation
• Capex Budgeting Exercise
• Performed IT Security Assessment of R&D facility of a leading automobile component manufacturer
• IT audit of a leading airport in India
• SOX compliance- IT SOX and Finance SOX
• Review of Global Risk Reporting process (For Citigroup)
• Process Migration of KYC process.
• Training the process team in the subsequent handover of the processes.
• Internal Audit of a multinational chemicals company.