Saugata Mukherjee

- Advising NGO’s - around donor based Accounting under FCRA laws, Accounting Manual & Chart of Accounts, Grant Management, Social Sector Funding Guidance under SSE .

- Consulting Services to GCCs on setting up Shared Services and drive Finance Transformation,

- Assisting SME’s/ Start Ups in Fund raise readiness ( Equity-Loan-Preference Shares -Debentures) including IPO / Investor reporting / Investor relations / Capital Allocations

-Advising SME’s-Start ups on Cash Flow Optimization, working capital and profitability

(Reporting to Global CAO and Head of Shared Services, US )
• Built global Finance Shared Services Hub from inception to 220+ FTEs across P2P, T&E, R2R, O2C, FP&A, SOX, Tax.

• Framed framework for monthly reviewance with Global stakeholders-Regional CFOs/ Controllers with business level analysis for 32 regions across Globe spread across Americas-Europe-Africa -APAC and consistently had above 97% VOC scores with just 3%
team attrition;

• Partnered with Regional CFOs to deliver standardized budgets, Financial Planning / Rolling forecasts and executive FP&A packs.

◦ Overseen entire R2R processes - Month-end close, journals, reconciliations, financial reporting including Lease Accounting, audit support;Conversant with US, UK, SA, Canada, India GAAP /INDAS including reviewing GST and MSME reporting etc

• Led initiative to plug duplicate payments through BOT adoption to integrate Peoplesoft with Kyriba saving US$4M.

• Led transformation by cleansing 40, 000+ vendors database to eliminate 376 duplicates.

◦ Improved Issue resolution cycle for 78% cases from 9 days to 1 day in Sales Force for P2P and O2C domains .

◦ Integrated Finance systems across People soft, Oracle Financials, Accumatica, Anaplan platforms

◦ Optimized Cost by releasing $20M trapped in CWIP through accurate and timely Depreciation accounting and improving Capital allocation decisions

CFO advisory for MSMEs for cash-flow forecasting, governance improvement . Assisting SME’s in Fund raise readiness including
IPO / Investor reporting / Investor relations / Capital Allocations.

( Reporting to Head of Shared Services, London )
- Led Controllership and Business Planning/ FP&A COE for 18 Service Cos. for US$15B cost base with 1, 10, 000 FTEs across globe
spread across APAC-Europe-Africa-Americas across two cities in India with 80 + FTE’s .

- Review entire R2R-P2P-O2C processes: month-end close, journals, reconciliations, financial reporting including Lease Accounting, audit support;Worked on with US, Canada, UK, Malaysia, Philippines, India GAAP /INDAS etc

- Coordinated with Treasury for Working Capital and Cash Flow Management for collections across 11 Service and Delivery Centres across Globe

- Led 110 FTE transitions across EMEA & APAC; Received COE Award from MD to ensure timely and flawless transition

- Improved CAPEX governance mechanism by reducing CWIP from $10M to $50K. - Achieved 17% FTE optimisation - BI, productivity programs, work Centralization and reduced redundant reports

- Led Platform integration from Peoplesoft to Oracle Fusion and SAP

- Improved CAPEX governance mechanism by reducing CWIP from $10M to $50K.

- Led and set up structured mechanism for business reviews with actionable insights; Overseen all Compliance adherences including GST.

-Managed A$35M cost base for both Controllership and FP&A roles; Had improved forecast accuracy to 98.9% through better predictive modelling, unlocked A$2.5M cost savings.

- Led statutory reporting, monthly close, tax compliance under IFRS and IND AS

- Integrated Finance systems across Oracle Financials, HFM / HFMR and Peoplesoft platforms specially for Planning and Reporting purpose

- Led FP&A and Forecasting for 3, 500 FTE;Partnered with Leaders across IT and Operations providing Business insights

-Recognized by US Transition Office for M&A finance integration of Legacy Bank, Merrill Lynch and Countrywide.

-Led unified global pricing for 19, 000 FTE as Pricing Head for both IT and Operations.; - Established and operated smoothly first global invoicing COE;improved 60% TAT; Plugged $ 2M revenue leakages against FTE & Managed Services billing; Received Global Silver award from US CFO’s Office for Automating Invoicing Process across 4 Offshore locations ( India, Philippines, Costa Rica, Mexico )from Excel to Dot Net environment

Performed MIS and other Controllership roles in Fidelity Investments, GE Capital, Alghanim and ACC