Neru Kothari Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL, US

Responsible for overall Deployment & Operations project management efforts regarding new cell sites and/or the modification of existing sites. Manage project control team closely with internal and external team members to achieve yearend operational objectives. Manage financial cost controls and document control for the team. Provide leadership, direction.

Chicago, IL, US

• Serves as the first point of contact for project control, scheduling and planning, subcontracts, billing and reporting, Analyze and manages Sprint 3G & 4G upgrade projects over 2000 sites in Chicago, Ft Wayne and.
• Lead the project Change Management Program, regional Scheduling/Planning, assists in preparation of L2 plan. Prepares and maintains baseline schedule and forecasting.
• Lead in coordinating aspects of the budget and forecast processes including timelines and the rollup of assumptions form other analysts and business partners.
• Prepares and maintains cash flow, cost reports and forecasts. Prepares PES man-hour reporting. Maintains budgets and produces EAC.
• Develop budget, supporting models, collaborating with business partners to develop assumptions, and driving to targets in order to provide direction and support to key business partners.
• Prepare weekly, monthly, quarterly and ad-hoc forecasts to provide direction and insight to leaders in order to support decision making.

• Developed management tools to measure and analyze financial and operational information e.g. sales forecasting platform, integrated budget model, product pricing and management reports.
• Preparation, reporting and analytical reconciliation of monthly actual results as compared to plan, forecasts and prior year for operations and supply chain.
• Lead the Annual AOP and quarterly Forecast process for Operations, Supply Chain, Inventory and Cost Center. Providing data analytics and recommendations as needed to understand the Plan and Forecast requests. Provides.
• Provide financial support for forecasts, analyze key performance indicators to identify underlying business issues, and provide input for operational decisions and provide daily and weekly cash flow analysis
• Develop robust timelines and calendars for forecasting and planning cycles, including early communication to all stakeholders, delineation of dependencies, and ensuring timelines are adhered to
• Provide financial analysis and modeling expertise for operational results, field and corporate forecasts and annual business plans

Chantilly, Virginia, US

• Analyze pre-award and post-award functions involving highly specialized procurements, serve as advisor to program officials in procurement planning and serve as lead negotiator, advisor to the organizations’ management.
• Prepare management reports, Assist with maintenance of customer database, Assist with audits and special projects. Approve invoices and back-up to ensure contract compliance and proper SOX accounting treatment, Assist.
• Analyze variant and issues with each group and project. Reconcile cost and revenue for Labor, Over head, G&A, Material, Travel and ODCs. Reconciled balances to the General Ledger each month. Maintain and prepare.
• Analyze monthly cost incurred and compare general ledger entry with projects and incorporate budget and forecast change into control system. Request action from the appropriate individual or group to maintain contract.
• Analyze unbilled balances that remain after the current month’s bill. Provide daily financial support to resolve issues and input to weekly and monthly financial reporting to upper level management
• Assist with contract shutdown activities, prepare final bill. Analyze AR data to track and report costs of revenues. Discuss contract status with CAO, Contract Manager and Support Team members to resolve outstanding.

• Maintained Project and contract billing, Time, and Material, Fix Price, Milestone, Cost Plus billing in SAP system.
• Prepare management reports, Assist with maintenance of database and create report for Budget and Forecast
• Creating new customer numbers update changes in customer master, Ad hoc customer sites in Sims, Create site-on-the-fly and create Embargo Notice list.
• Make check deposit via CashPro* application, maintain and research files for collection and legal department.
• Process credit memo, returns and adjustments. Review the list of return orders, determine proper approvals and following guideline.
• Monitor Blocked billing documents in SAP, resolve issue to ensure invoices reach the A/R. analyze and work with IS and Order Entry department to resolve the issues.