Rahul Kumar Prasad Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Ka, In

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Business partner to the India business process services business delivery lead & member of senior team leadership team, driving strategic planning & implementation to achieve immediate & long-term business goals. Deliver profitable growth, ensure efficient capital allocation for innovation, technology & infrastructure, drive cost optimization, formulate competitive rate card for pricing/solution. Provide intelligent business insights and analytics & action plan to achieve desirable financial outcomes. Additionally, part of the India finance leadership team & responsible for driving various global finance priorities and projects.

Bengaluru Area, India

Supported growth and priorities related to federation of business entities in India. Enabled value added business partnership to drive the company's priorities and key imperatives. Published seat and Corporate function rate card, optimized space solution and cost. NPV analysis of new space options and rate card impact. Capital cost planning and allocation. Reviewed commercials for high value and longer duration contracts on non-payroll costs. Created automated payroll cost simulator which enabled stakeholder to play around with levers impacting payroll cost and asses the gap between targets and projection. Key AchievementsManaged hyper growth, volatility & complexity for the largest delivery center by enabling an agile cost base structure, robust review of commercial contracts related to space & technology costs. Alignment with federation of business on corporate strategy on real estate space. Solved over a decade complex business issue by collaborating with cross functional stakeholders across the internal eco system, globally•Supported various strategic initiatives to drive cost efficiency and solve complex business issues by collaborating with cross functional stakeholders across the internal eco system. Enhanced commercial savviness of the stakeholders and helped them to connect the dots.

Bengaluru Area, India

•Publish seat and Corporate function rate card being. Worked with the real estate team to optimize space solution and negotiate on rent and NPV analysis of new space options.•Reviewed commercials for high value and longer duration contracts on non-payroll costs.

Finance Lead for a major business vertical lead within Accenture’s BPS business. The role required to manage budgets (Over $ 300 Mn$) and drive revenue and profitability for a complex stressed deal under a major vertical. Key Achievement:•Created a profitability road map for a diamond client account, running at 50% loss.Identified levers that caused cost overrun and partnered with the delivery lead to take corrective actions and in due course, restored profitability. Played a pivot role in winning the deal in subsequent RFP’s by building an automated robust costing model

Bengaluru Area, India

Business Finance support & Deal Pricing for Business Transformation unit Was responsible for managing deal financials end to end and pricing of new F&A and voice deals. Deals managed in the range of 500 Mn$ to 600 Mn$. The role required working extensively with the solution architects, delivery leads to ensure competitive pricing and optimized solutionKey Achievement: Ensured that pricing Integration, on a large, acquired business (25 K FTE) by IBM went in accordance with the plan and timelines crafted by the global pricing Lead

Bengaluru Area, India

Supported Global GE Plastic CFO in ensuring compliance and review of internal controls.

Bengaluru Area, India

Started my career with Lovelock & Lewes (Member firm of PwC). The experience consisted of leading statutory audit, internal audit, and special assignments for specific clients such as business plan development and driving profitabilityMajor achievementRolled a 3 year complex business plan for a wholesale and retail giant keeping in mind the FDI restrictions of doing the newly introduced cash and carry business in India

Short Term Leadership Development Course, Strategy And Economics

This was a short term leadership advancement course.

Chartered Accountancy, Accounts, Costing And Tax