Suma Somepalli Nittala

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) - Senior Financial Controller

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority(ADIA) is globally well diversified investment institution and one of the world's largest & most respectable Sovereign Wealth Fund.

Since joining ADIA as an Accountant in 2006, I have grown professionally within the organization over last 15 years and currently at a managerial level and Reporting to CFO directly. I am leading a team of 6 to 8 comprising of Associates, Senior Associates and Assistant Financial Controllers.

Role & Responsibilities include:

•Overlooking finance operations of Asia region with a multibillion dollar AUM
•Co-ordinating with our associated companies and JV partners in Asia with respect to real estate investments.
•Financial Planning and analysis
•Budgeting
•Cashflow reporting and forecasting for efficient management of cash across the subsidiaries
•Preparing several MIS Reports relating to Real estate investments
•Review of quarterly management accounts and presentation to Board/Senior Executives
•Coordinating the external audit for the assigned portfolio and underlying entities

IBM Global services (India) is IBM's main outsourcing office in India, located in Bangalore. Major IT outsourcing projects for all prestigious clients are being handled from this office.

I was working as a Sr. Consultant for implementation of SAP projects for British Petroleum, working alongside other Sr. Consultants.


Responsibilities:

As a member of the team, I was handling the data loads and involved in resolving the user problems and implementing new system changes. The detailed responsibilities include:

•To interact with the Client to understand their specific requirements
•To translate the requirements into SAP solutions
•To configure the solutions in the system and carry out integrated testing
•To assist the client in Testing and verification of the changes
•To carry out and maintain detailed documentation of the changes for future reference and use
•To provide the status of the progress of work in several internal and client meetings.

•Responsible for maintaining the Inter company accounts relating to Product Exchange transactions
•Analyze and settle the monthly transactions in a timely manner
•Preparing several MIS Reports relating to Inter Oil Company Transactions
•Coordinating with Treasury Department to effectively manage cash inflow and outflow resulting from Inter Oil company transactions
•Getting the Inter company accounts audited by various auditors
•Consolidating the cost Budgets at HQ level for several locations and making cost comparisons at All India Level