Pritika Patel Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Campbell, CA, US

• Oversee and manage an annual operating expense budget exceeding $125M across R&D, CIO, Operations, and CISO divisions.
• Prepare monthly close reports for the FP&A team to streamline and support their close process and work with accounting to ensure proper booking of entries on a monthly basis.
• Review and approve headcount requisitions and vendor purchase orders, ensuring alignment with budget and forecasted costs.
• Efficiently manage and update monthly close and forecast files to minimize manual intervention, effectively cutting down prep time by over 50%.
• Partner with cross-functional teams, including the CPO, CIO, CISO, VP of Operations, HR, and accounting, as well as their respective team members, to ensure alignment and coordination on key projects and initiatives.
• Developed a reconciliation template for weekly comparison between UltiPro and Adaptive, enhancing accuracy in tracking headcount movements, hires, and terminations, and reducing update times by 75% across all FP&A team.

Redwood City, CA, US

• Managed $85M budget for US facility sites and Global PE, as well as a total rollup consolidation of $118M annually.
• Performed typical FP&A tasks including but not limited to monthly, quarterly, and year-end close processes, booking of accruals and reclasses, quarterly forecasts, headcount tracking, and variance analysis and.
• Created automated monthly vacancy analysis template to assist in tracking savings caused by open roles, reducing file prep time by 90%.
• Consistently worked to automate recurring files to minimize prep time and drive focus to analysis. Leveraging formulas to cut prep time by a minimum of 25%.
• Reviewed and approved PO and job requisitions for both Workplaces and PE and ensure proper account coding was applied. Identified and corrected multiple coding errors which reduced the need for manual corrections.
• Tracked global capital and associated depreciation, working closely with accounting to ensure capitalization policies are met and applied correctly.

San Jose, CA, US

• Assisted with test and implementation of new Oracle Cloud reporting tool.
• Maintained records of all synergies accomplished due to SanDisk merger. Analysis helped to guide direction of business reorg.
• Consolidated data from BPC and Essbase, prepared, analyzed, and presented current plus 2 quarter forecast review to VP of Finance as well as presented monthly actuals to forecast variances analysis to Sr. Director of.
• Worked with Product Management, Technical Marketing, Marketing, Business Operations, Unis Joint Venture, and Customer Support business partners to maintain a running six-quarter forecast on both HGST and SanDisk.
• Prepared consolidated ad hoc forecast analysis of SanDisk and HGST for COO review.

Beverly Hills, California, US

• Assisted with test and implementation of SAP BPC/EPM upgrade.
• Supported the creation of the annual budget, including preparation of budget templates and budget presentation packages.
• Executed month end close process, including the preparation of month end journal entries and variance analysis.
• Provided historical trend analysis on event performance and operational productivity.
• Maintained and monitored consulting, legal, CAPEX, and ancillary files to ensure proper reporting.
• Prepared weekly show P&L and F&B revenue reports and investigated significant variances for incorporation into monthly forecasts.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Participated in SAP conversion and implementation for Head Office territory.
• Prepared quarterly consolidated balance sheet package for presentation to CFO.
• Acted as PHEI liaison with DreamWorks Animation on all P&L issues; compiled P&L invoices for Retail Exclusive title activities, isolated new activities and prepared files for invoicing, ran bad debt analysis report and.
• Compiled quarterly credit review and litigation summary by territory for Corporate, DWA, and external auditors.
• Oversaw month end close activities for Head Office.
• Ran cost reports, prepared cost analysis, and reclassed entry to Head Office entity.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Assisted in creation, conversion, and implementation of new accounting system (PRISM) and maintained, monitored, and reviewed deals within PRISM following execution with special attention to Pay TV deals.
• Prepared reconciliation of commission, foreign exchange, withholding tax, and VAT accounts.
• Maintained entire book of accounts for Paramount Latin America (PLA).
• Applied cash related to Network deals in Mainframe/FIS as well as applied all DreamWorks related cash into Oracle.
• Prepared, consolidated, and submitted related party/investee revenue and A/R for Corporate reporting.
• Researched, analyzed, and responded to all requests from Corporate as well as SOX and audit related questions.