I have over 5 years of experience in financial analysis, budgeting and forecasting with a strong foundation in accounting and finance. My expertise lies in managing multimillion dollar budgets, providing actionable insights and collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize costs and ensure compliance.In my most recent role as an Analyst at Cisco, I managed a $20M portfolio leveraging tools like Hyperion, Essbase, SAP & Excel to deliver accurate forecasts and streamline cost reporting processes. My work directly impacted financial transparency & operational efficiency. I am passionate about driving business performances through data-driven decision making and am eager to bring this mindset to a dynamic organization.
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AnalystCisco Mar 2024 - Oct 20241) Responsible for budget management worth $20 Million for Supply Chain Cogs department and Product Lifecycle Cogs department.2) Conduct Bi-weekly review meeting with business leaders to appraise them regarding the spend and available funds. 3) Provide insights to the leaders regarding risks and opportunities.4) Collect future business projections from the leaders for forecasting.5) Ensure adherence to accounting policies and procedures.6) Process vendor contracts, validate and approve.7) Process cross functional charges to other departments.8) Collaborate with Finance leaders to keep them informed regarding the business projections.9) Posting monthly accruals and provide commentary on aged items to compliance team 10) Monthly accounting close activities and reconciliation of books.11) Provide hands on support to the business leaders. -
Project ManagerUnum Aug 2022 - Dec 20221)Managing the Opex cost budgeting, forecasting and cost optimization for a 50M portfolio by constantly monitoring the spend against the budget and reporting metrics.2) Work with all the infrastructure leaders ( Storage, Server, Security, EE HW/SW, Media, Cloud, Data Center and Network ) to show the results and gather forecast projections as a monthly cadence.3) Reponsible for providing insights on the risk/opportunuties for each infrastructure group for the leaders to take informed decisions.4) Work with the finance team for proper allocation of the cost to the cost centers and chargebacks.5) Capture all accruals for the month/year and ensure appropriately posted for compliance.6) Capture all prepaid expenses and report them accurately in the books.7) Overseeing vendor invoices for all infrastructure leaders, review and pass them through the appropriate approval channel.8) Responsible for reviewing the AWS consumption for all leaders and prepare consumption report as a monthly cadence.9) Instrumental in building the AWS dashboard for leaders to show the usage charges for all AWS accounts leading to cost optimization. -
Senior Financial AnalystHcltech Oct 2021 - Aug 2022Plano, Texas, United States• Forecasting the project financials for Third Party and Data Analytics team – Portfolio of 30M.• Presenting the Weekly Financials deck to the leadership.• Tracking vendor invoices and projecting accruals every month.• Allocation of invoices to the proper project code based on the budget.• Routing the invoices through AP process.• Tracking the resources cost and internal movements.• Reconciliation of project fixed cost with the allocated budget. • Reconciliation of the project governance budget vs the planned demand for each project every week.• Providing proper justification for variance over 10% in each project code. -
Financial AnalystCisco Nov 2015 - Dec 2020Richardson, Texas, United States• Manage Quarterly/Monthly/Weekly bookings forecast for US Commercial Service areas by providing relevant decision support data to Finance and Sales Leadership and verifying accuracy of forecast.• Provide business support to stakeholders through reporting & analytics.• Ensure booking policy adherence by Sales team.• Analyze pipeline metrics and provide detailed analysis on the future business outlook.• Quarterly business review with stake holders.• Send out operation expenses(opex) communication and review opex with stake holders on quarterly basis.• Assist with annual planning and goal setting cycle.• Analyze booking trends to provide visibility into key operational metrics, performance statistics, and goal attainment.• Work actively with peer FA’s and controllers to make process improvements.• Optimized Area level deal tracking process by developing and implementing standardized model in Smartsheet providing detailed visibility to leadership.• Provide flash updates on Actuals Vs Forecast and the projected close weekly to the leadership.• Developed reports for tracking the incentive program for US Commercial Services Sales organization. • Involved in system enhancement testing process and provided feedback.• Tracking and managing bonuses and spiffs for teams on incentive compensation plans on quarterly basis. -
Accounting AnalystPepsico Jan 2015 - Oct 2015Plano, Texas, United States• Responsible for accurately maintaining ten project forecasting model for EDWS with total budget allocation of $ 25M.• Maintain HW/SW budget for EDWS worth $ 5M.• Prepare Annual Operating Plan (AOP) for all EDW projects.• Ensure variance of >5% between AOP and actuals.• Liaise between Central Planning team and EDW team for forecasting and analysis.• Maintain projects resource allocation and ensure being accounted in the right project/cost center.• Maintain the projects funding (cross charges from other business) and ensure being accounted in SAP accurately.• Perform reconciliation of project income and expenses for each period and pass any corrective/reclass journal entries.• Maintain accruals for all project resources and pass the accrual JE in SAP for every period.• Responsible for project review meeting every period to call out the risks/opportunities.• Ensure proper documentation/approvals for CAPEX projects.• Closely track/monitor CAPEX projects to stay within the allocated budget. -
Financial Reporting AnalystCognizant Oct 2010 - Oct 2012New Jersey, United States -
Financial AnalystHp Mar 2009 - Mar 2010Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IndiaFinancial Analyst for APJ (Asia Pacific and Japan) Region with responsibility in Pricing and Gross margin reporting function. -
Team Leader - Travel & Business ExpenseFord Motor Company Oct 2005 - Feb 2009IndiaWorked as a team leader handling 8 team members for North American Travel & Business Expense Operations with 3 ½ years of experience in Business Process Outsourcing accounting.
Priya G. Education Details
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Accounting And Finance -
Accounting And Finance -
Accounting And Finance -
Master Of Business Administration - Mba -
Master Of Business Administration - Mba
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Priya G. attended Bharathiar University, Annamalai University, Avinashilingam Institute For Home Science And Higher Education For Women, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore.
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