Srikanth Bangalore

Partnering with companies as a Fractional Controller to strengthen financial accounting, reporting, internal controls, and FP&A processes. Support includes month-end close, management reporting, budgeting, and compliance for growing businesses.

Head of Finance reporting to CEO.
➢ Oversee a comprehensive range of finance activities, including Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), financial reporting, financial planning and analysis (FP&A), Cashflow and compliance across the USA, UK, and India.
➢ Established the finance function from the ground up, implementing processes and systems to enhance operational efficiency.
➢ Drive the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) by coordinating with various CXOs to develop and prepare departmental budgets.
➢ As an Entity Controller, ensure targeted Gross Margin (GM) at both project/resource levels and overall company EBITDA.
➢ Collaborate with vendors, customers, and legal consultants to ensure robust contract management and compliance.
➢ Partner with HR and CXOs to design and implement Variable Pay plans that align with company goals.
➢ Work with various external consultants, auditors to comply with various statutory filings w.r.t VAT, GST tax returns, MCA, Companies House etc.,
➢ Evaluate M&A opportunities and perform initial review of business / finances of the target.

Responsible for the entire finance function of the corporate
entity. Developed a robust month end close and reporting process. Transitioned the process from a 3rd party in CA, USA to shared service center at Bangalore.
➢ Provide detailed analysis and commentary on monthly P&L, Budget vs Actuals with commentary and rolling forecast.
➢ Oversee the processing of Accounts Payable, receivables, payroll, monitor and review supplier/employee expenses and payments.
➢ Review and analyze revenue, expenses, expense allocation and accruals.
➢ Review transfer pricing calculations and allocate charge backs to group companies and intercompany billing and capital reconciliation.
➢ MEC, statutory compliance, TP calculation & charge back invoicing for India shared services center.
➢ Liaising with various department heads to gather information required for department level budget, consolidation of BU budgets and prepare Annual Operating Plan.
➢ Managed consolidated planning & reporting using Oracle PBCS / SmartView interfacing with NetSuite

Led finance for India BPO operations, reporting to the Corporate Controller. Drove annual operating plans, rolling forecasts, and project-level margin analysis to ensure profitability targets were met.
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Managed monthly close activities, including accruals, depreciation, and P&L reviews. Oversaw accounting operations in NetSuite—covering revenue recognition, intercompany chargebacks, fixed assets, banking, and forex.
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Developed transfer pricing models and ensured compliance with statutory requirements (MCA, GST, STPI, TDS, PF). Coordinated audits and finalized financials with external auditors.

Responsible for managing a team of General Accounting & Inter Company accounting for a large US based conglomerate.
➢ Review and approve journals, Review of reconciliations, open items tracking / reduction, Process stabilization, transformation and automation
➢ Resource planning &, work allocation.
➢ Dashboards / MIS /Metrics and Decks for regular business updates to all stakeholders
➢ Stakeholder (client) management, conducting annual performance appraisal of Direct Reports, determining their rating, monitoring their individual Development Plans, with an objective to partner in their professional growth program.

Financial Planning & Analysis - budgeting, monthly forecast and variance analysis for different projects undertaken by Enterprise Services.
➢ Accounting for accruals, deferrals, amortization & revenue recognition.
➢ Analyzing reports and highlighting or flagging off unusual numbers or trends, which are likely to have significant impact on management decisions
➢ Create cost center reports (plan v/s actual) for various contracts.
➢ Co-ordination with onshore Account Executives & Account Business Managers for amendments, renewals and planning purposes and to ensure planned operating profit margin.
➢ Process improvement relating to cost center accounting & reporting to help standardize the processes

Preparing Financial Statements and analysis for Japan real estate portfolio.
➢ Accounting for fixed assets acquisition, depreciation, and disposal.
➢ Providing MIS required for business planning to portfolio managers
➢ Year-end impairment analysis for real estate assets

Treasury - Overall management of funds for Aircel Group companies, providing funds required by different branches.
Investing surplus cash in fixed deposits or mutual funds based on the returns, exposure and timing.
Managing major vendor payments & accounting for treasury transactions in SAP.
Team member for preparation of Long Range Plan (LRP) Annual Operating Plan (AOP).
CMA, MIS reporting to banks for project financing.

Financial Reporting - Quarterly limited review financial statements, annual reporting.
➢ Foreign Revenue - Review agreements, invoicing,
recognition & collection.
➢ Audit co-ordination & SAP Migration

Involved in statutory audit of corporates and accounting
advisory services and tax returns for individuals and
partnership firms