The role involves working on Corporate FP&A CoE function. It includes responsibility for:- WW Sales Bookings, Revenue and Margin reporting, working very closely senior executives and the WW Sales controllers- Internal SSOT Finance Reporting Tool using Micro Strategy platform- Teams managing various FA activities in corporate functions like supply chain, Product Groups- Continuous Control Monitoring for WW P2P process through PO & Accrual testing- Reporting the Cisco Market Share for all the product categories- Support CFO and WW leaders for various ad-hoc reporting and change management- Lead the India Finance Council initiative of talent management and rotation.

- Finance Partner for Americas Region – Software and Recurring Offer Sales – annual $5.6Bn Sales. - Partner closely with Senior Regional Sales leaders on overall strategic planning, performanceappraisal and commercial governance of Software Sales. Provide guidance on accounting aspects. - Facilitate Long Range Planning, annual business review; financial planning & KPIs setting. - Work across Americas theatre to co-ordinate and consolidate financial reporting

- Responsible for India sales segment finance – Products – Annual $800Mn sales- Partner closely with Regional Sales leaders on overall strategic planning, performance appraisal and commercial governance of India P&L- Responsible for deal affordability analysis based on product mix, business criticality and overallumbrella of managing the margins- Participate in annual business strategic review; facilitate financial planning & KPIs setting.- Responsible for business performance monitoring & tracking including weekly, monthly and quarterly forecast variance analysis, KPI reporting and all other ad-hoc business analysis- Responsible for business modelling and governance & cadence of Transformational business and projects in India – like the Country Digitization Acceleration (CDA), India Manufacturing Set-Up

- FP&A Manager for the Globalization IT team of Cisco.- Responsible for developing budgets, plans and forecasts in line with overall objectives of the businessgroup quarterly and annually, to enable exercise financial control over business operations.- Responsible for the International Assignment (IA) Xcharge and Accrual process for whole of Ciscoworldwide- Analyzing the financial trends / variances between forecast and actual, recommending actions basedon analysis, build benchmark and publish MIS reports.- Responsible for IT compliance for India related to all the processes for the legal entities of India.

The role involves working on Financial Planning & Analysis function. It includes: - FP&A lead for four business units-Product Group, Analytics, Global Services and Support Function. - Responsible for developing budgets, plans and forecasts in line with overall objectives of the business group quarterly and annually, to enable exercise financial control over business operations. - Ensure all support costs are liquidated and cash-flow estimations are met on a monthly basis. - Analyzing the financial trends / variances between forecast and actual, recommending actions based on analysis, build benchmark across locations to identify opportunities for improving financial health, publishing MIS reports. - Member of cost-management team, to explore all existing opportunities of cost-control and cost-reduction - Supporting the Accounting team with monthly accruals for payments due to vendors.

The role involves working on Financial Planning & Analysis function. It includes: - Business Finance Manager for three business units - Plastics, C&I and Support Function. - Budgeting & Estimation, Analysis of Actuals versus budgets. Both long-term and short-term. - Ensure actual spend is within budgets, with special focus on business needs. - Responsible for closing month, ensuring all costs are booked, pass revenue entries, send invoices, bill and report the trial balance. - Ensure all support costs are liquidated and cash-flow estimations are met on a monthly basis. - Reporting and preparation of MIS for management to take informed decisions. Also responsible for all corporate reporting - CFOA, SI, SII, DRs etc.

Mumbai The role involves working on Financial Reporting & Analysis function. It includes: - Overall responsibility for preparation of Product Profit & Loss account, Regional Profitability, Office Profitability for the Operating Committee members. - Reporting and analysis of the revenues and costs of the company. - Responsible for Reporting Sales of the company every week for the top management and the sales and marketing personnel for taking informed decision. - Maintenance of the Headcount reports and allocation of the costs based on time utilized by the personnel into various products.

- The role involved Production, Base & Indirect Cost reporting and analysis of variances; - Overall responsibility for preparation of MIS from Sales to Contributory Margins for monthly reviews with the CFO and the top Management. - Responsible for Reporting Production, Sales, Manufacturing Variances and Contribution Margins, Modality and Pole wise to the top management and Global finance team on a monthly basis. - Construction of a base cost apportionment model for the entire legal entity. - Initiated processes in the areas of Return to Vendor, Scrap cycle, automated payment batch processes and Indirect Consumables for better Working Capital Management. - Handled Account Receivables for 8 months, lead to reduction of DF from USD 11 M to USD 4 M. - Handled the Fixed Asset accounting as additional responsibility for 6 months. Developed process for proper accounting, reconciliation and reporting of Fixed Assets.