With broad financial and business acumen knowledge and a solid understanding of planning, forecasting, and revenue management concepts and methodologies, the company can leverage its expertise to help businesses maximize their growth potential, achieve their goals, and make sound decisions.
Additionally, strong theoretical and practical skills in addition to an in-depth understanding of various industry-specific strategies, guidelines, tasks, procedures, and approaches, along with the ability to apply these strategies in a wide range of multi-divisional environments, including Corporate Finance, Operations, Business Analytics, Accounting, Senior Management reporting, and Business Development.
Work History
Senior Financial Analyst
FP, Extreme Networks
As Corporate Finance (FP&A) Business Partner at Extreme Networks, I managed OPEX (Operating Expenses), CAPEX (Capital Expenses), and Headcount for Product Organization.
Provided mentorship, coaching, guidance, development, and supervision for a team of FAs; assisted assigned staff in meeting deadlines, processing purchase requisitions, internal company orders, and change approvals
Reorganized and managed change management activities within the departments across various groups and oversaw the processes of budgeting expenses, staffing, spending, and forecasting.
Being a Finance prime, analysed Business Cases and presented profitability (profit and loss) information, and assisted the Management in making financial-based decisions.
Supported month-end closing leader and business partners, including contractor renewals.
Ensure that all expenditures are within budget guidelines
In addition, ensure that the P&L is provided to business partners regularly so that they know how the business is doing financially
Partner with Engineering, Sales, Hardware, PLM, and other departments to understand, analyze, and validate business, organizational, and operational requirements
Provide management and staff with training on financial systems when the company did a new acquisition.
Worked with team members and engineering departments to meet deadlines, process purchase orders, process internal orders, approve laptop compensations rewards, approve changes, and reconcile inventory
In addition to managing billing for Amazon, Google, and Microsoft subscriptions, I was also responsible for contractor renewals
I developed models to improve overall business visibility
Implemented a process document module across the entire finance department for new hires, company audits, and SOX compliance.
Senior Finance Business Analyst
IMAX Technology Group
Routinely extracted, compiled, and updated Technology Finance Cadence from various sources and conducted detailed data analysis to support Supply Chain Operations, Research and Development (R&D), and Sustaining
Successfully developed Management reports, summaries and presented articulating critical business data for calculating hours and dollars to headcount Forecast, Budget, Business overview, and decisions.
Communicate findings and present analyses within the group and to other departments through interactions and sharing data pulled from SAP using Business intelligence (BI) tools like EPM (Enterprise Performance Management) – for analyzing Selling, General, and administrative expenses (SG&A) Dollars / R&D and SAP -Business Objects (BOBJ) for inventory Analysis
Providing input into the development and testing of the current and new system functionality through the testing and implementing an inventory analyzing tool for detecting errors and omissions (E&O) and generating a monthly inventory report
Diligently Prepare reports like – Purchase Order (PO) Commitment reports, Selling, General and Administrative expenses (SG&A) expense reports, Research and Development (R&D) and Sustaining reports, Month-end inventory Reports, Hours Reports, Billable and non-Billable Hours Reports, Cost Role up, Error and Omission (E&O) Technology Mgmt
The report, Work in progress (WIP)Report, TOP 20 Supplier Report, Day Analysis, Forecast- Hours, Vender Spent Reports, etc.
Business Analyst
Apollo Health and Beauty Care
Clients Costco Walmart, Costco, CVS), Canada
Attained the organizational goals and expectations by continual learning, applying procedures and tasks, and meeting or exceeding company needs with genuine passion
Proactively extract and compile data from sales trends of customers against existing inventory levels, Month Over Month (MOM) forecast, and production schedules, as well as by interdepartmental mediating to support operations
Monitor inventory levels (out-of-stock items, urgent items, excess) and guide Account Managers to ensure the timely creation of purchase orders and Tracking- aging and backorders
Produce regular reports, including Inventory risk analysis reports, daily sales reports, processing agent commissions, GAP analysis, cost analysis, profitability analysis, government reporting (excise duty), and open sales order reports (fill rate)
Review current reporting process; recommend and implement improvements in reconciling data points across multiple systems, resulting in effective and consistent reporting across the organization
Prepare for audit and business cases and assist CFO and Controller on the project to reduce inventory above three months from 34% to within 5% and red flag areas of concern and deviation
Successfully reviewed current reporting process; recommended and implemented improvements in reconciling data points across multiple systems, resulting in effective and consistent reporting across the organization.
Production Analyst
CRH Canada
Cement Manufacturing), Canada
Coordinated and monitored processes, tasks, and functional procedures diligently by following organizational protocols as needed
Contributed to long-term Forecasting and Budgeting process by reviewing historical key metric trends
Monitored vital performance indicators (KPIs) of production by refreshing reports (BW-SAP), comparing actual vs
Budget and previous year, and finding reasons for any abnormal trends due to changes, including currency
Reported financial cost analysis through 15A and 15M reports for Senior Management review; handled all inquiries and concerns regarding the report, ensuring there were no misinterpretations
Prepared detailed reports and recommended abnormal inventory movement to Production Manager and Controller, improving operational efficiency
SAP - Module Testing, Integration, and process standardization (Various Plants)
Month-end closing, internal and external Audits, inventory count process wherein physical verification of Finished, semi-finished, and raw material silos along Vs
SAP data and working on the variances above 5 % with explanations
Project - ‘Brown paper exercise' for continuous improvement (Process Flow and Data Flow wherein the PO flow in the system was monitored, and custodians were nominated to ensure 100% PO data was captured and reported in the system to help in the current assessment of the ground level situation and take decision wherever needed.
Business Planning Analyst
Hewlett Packard
Coordinated and monitored processes, tasks, and functional procedures diligently by following organizational protocols as needed
Summarising complex data & updating Cadence Deck / Dashboards on a weekly & bi-weekly basis
Providing support to the Country Manager (Sales) in Quota allocation, yearly Budgeting, managing Salesforce / My Comp reporting /SAP
Working with cross-functional teams to facilitate the data collection for analyzing business requirements, planning, and operating forecast
Assisting on a project to re-create Cadence Deck
Proactively managed processes, meetings, and calendars to ensure timeliness of budget/month-end close process
Improved Salesforce reporting from 80% to 100% in 8 weeks, led to alignment in reporting/backup.
Financial Analyst
Bell Technical Solutions
Compile and analyze month-end reporting with Variance analysis (SAP) - Plan VS
Actual
Update Dashboard, flash M-Form, Regional scorecard, and Headcount Deck based on (Full-time Equivalent) FTE movement with detail and accuracy while maintaining all timeframes
Conduct Headcount Budgeting and Latest Estimates (LE)/Forecasting based on the span of control and hiring plan
Forecasted Work Force Management (WFM) by conducting analytics based on statistical information, wherein historical trends of Load and seasonality are measured to forecast future requirements
Auditing Expense Reports Travel, meal, and Expenses (TME Billing) to ensure corporate policies were being followed regarding reimbursed expenses
Prepared monthly KPI reports and scorecards; researched and analyzed trends and made recommendations for process improvement initiatives and best practices
Collaborated on a project implementing a company travel policy that improved travel billing patterns by 98% in 3 months, leading to more than $200K in savings.
Education
MASTERS BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA) - With Finance
ITM Business School
BACHELOR OF COMMERCE (B.COM) - With Accounting
University of Delhi
Skills
SKILLS SUMMARY
MBA with 10 years of progressive experience in Operational and Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis
Highly skilled in using Financial Modelling / Forecasting to track performance against targets,
Quantify the impact of new strategic initiatives, identify key trends and future risks and opportunities, and guide the team and senior leaders
Strong interpersonal skills and customer service focus; able to build consensus and establish effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders,
Exceptional oral & written communication skills; able to present executive-level reporting, translate complex financial information into clear messages, and prepare to report packages and presentation decks
Superior research, critical thinking, and analytical skills; adept at analyzing business requirements, developing data-informed answers to complex problems, and translating data into actionable insights
Project Management expertise; analyzing the technical, human, financial, and business impact of operations and finance projects; evaluating performance, identifying and mitigating risks, and ensuring optimum utilization of resources
The ability to coach, train, develop, support, and supervise employees to achieve strategic goals Strong financial acumen with knowledge of planning, forecasting, and revenue management concepts and methodologies
Able to take the initiative and work well with minimal supervision and work cross-functionally with team members