Krishna Varahan, Ctp, Aca Email & Phone Number

Geneva, Switzerland

Head Financial reporting, Accounts Payables.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

• Head of Financial Control & Procurement Unit, responsible for 53 Member States• Responsible for Accounting, Assurance, Procurement and consolidation of European Regional office.• CRC secretary for the region.• Review of donor agreements and final reports to ensure that implementation is carried as agreed in the agreements.• Handling internal and external audits• Assisting WHO hosted partnership in preparation of their financial statements under IPSAS.• Provide regular policy related inputs and review of various financial and procurement policies of the organization to take into consideration all the three levels before its implementation.• Conducting regular workshops on financial and procurement matters to the staff in the region to ensure that data quality is improved.Key Achievements:• Establishment of a new fund for accounting common cost incurred for the regional office and country office• Creation of “Country Snapshot” report for the Head of Country to have a complete picture of the various risks in Finance, Procurement and Reporting.• Increased process efficiency by reducing additional layers of approval in routine financial processes. • Reduction of turnaround time in CRC cases by introducing e-workflow to track the information flow.• Preparation of position paper for routine CRC cases and other process documents for new business areas like Intern Management, Staff Association.• Created a champions unit where all the staff in FCP will be trained on cross functional areas. This helps the unit to stay together also helps for job rotation.• Developed monitoring reports using Power BI and Power Pivot and trained the team to prepare reports using these tools.• Key member is European Regional transformation change supporters team. The members were chosen by other staff via poll indicating the trust and confidence staff has on the other person.

Geneva Area, Switzerland

• Responsible for handling Treasury operations for the organization including Cash Management, Cash Insurance, Foreign Exchange Management (approx. USD 1 billion), Balance Sheet Hedging to protect accounts receivables (approx. USD 500 million per month), expenditure hedging to protect salary costs (approx. USD 400 million per annum) and Portfolio Management (approx. USD 1.5 billion).• Relationship management with bankers to drive down the banking costs and SPOC for any escalations.• Preparation of month end, yearend analytical report for treasury in line with IPSAS using PowerPivot.• Participation in common UN working group for Treasury to discuss best practices.• Regular review of Regional and Country Bank balances and reduce the balances where they are more than reasonable operational needs for better cash management.• Early adaption of XML payment format for the organization to process payments.• Liaising with System Integrators for enhancements of Oracle Applications.Key Achievements:• Saved the organization USD 5 million by centralization of FX for regions and country offices.• Saved USD 2.2 million to the organization by implementing ebanking payments in 17 countries.• Earned additional income of USD 1 million per year on overnight swaps and reducing bank balances at regional and country offices.• Preparation of white paper on hedging mechanism for non-USD based voluntary contributions and member state assessment in CHF.• Identifying new mechanisms of payment processing to save cost for the organization.

• Business Analyst for WHO (Lead a team of 7) - As a business support, handled treasury operations of WHO.- Responsible for Period Closure of Treasury and AR modules.- Handling Payments system (CPP) and resolving business/ technical issues during payment processing.• Functional Consultant for WHO (Lead a team of 3) - Implementation of Oracle at WHO in accordance with IPSAS.- SPOC for Data Extraction from legacy systems and converting into Oracle as part of Finance.- Conversion Objects (Allotments, AFI Balances, Awards).- Integration architecture across Grants, Payroll, Labour Distribution and General Ledger.• Reengineering and Development of Oracle iSetup at Oracle India Pvt Ltd (Lead a team of 3)- Project Lead for Reengineering, development, testing and release of Oracle iSetup for AR, FA and CM modules to use it more effectively.- Identifying Key Business Areas (KBA) facilitated by iSetup.- Review of iSetup User Guide prepared by Oracle and incorporating changes as and when required.Key Achievements:• Successful implementation of Oracle for WHO including various customization.• Designed a custom module (CPP) to handle payments for the organization.• Even during the first year of implementation, I helped to close the books within the stipulated time.• Change management of users during ERP implementation.

Chennai

• Lead a team of 15 members and in charge of generating additional income for the firm in its various branches.• Business Process Documentation: Assignments for leading corporate in the areas of Accounting and Cost system implementation, Process Manuals and standard Costing.• Internal and Management Audits: The reported suggestions were relating to assurance on the procedures being followed, internal control and structure, statutory compliance, improvement of process efficiencies and easy and simplified record retentions in diversified industry like Manufacturing, Hospitality services, Telecommunications, NBFC and Power Plants based on its Process and Risk Associated with it.• Implementation of Management Information System (MIS) for liquor factory and service industry.Key Achievements:• Generation of additional revenue for the firm (approx USD 15,000) in its various branches by engagement with new clients as well as additional assignments with existing clients.

Chennai Area, India

- Internal and Management Audits: The reported suggestions were relating to assurance on the procedures being followed, internal control and structure, statutory compliance, improvement of process efficiencies and easy and simplified record retentions in diversified industry like Manufacturing, Hospitality services, Telecommunications, NBFC and Power Plants based on its Process and Risk Associated with it

Certified Treasury Professional, Treasury, Financial Management

Ca, Accounts, Financial Management, Auditing

Mfm, Financial Management

B. Com, Commerce, Accounts