Rakesh Saigal Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

• Professional Services Finance and M&A Finance Integration
• Build fiscal year revenue burn and capacity models to support forecast, contractor capacity and cost models for planning and forecasting.
• Responsible for bookings, revenue, expenses and headcount related to Marketo and Magento business lines (~$6B acquisition value)
• Improve revenue margin through expense rationalization and realignment of headcount resources.
• Finance lead to integrate Marketo and Magento in all geographies worldwide.
• Responsible for the evaluation and process implementation of acquired businesses into Adobe’s financial operations and reporting requirements.

Santa Clara, CA

• Global Services Finance
• Managed OPEX for Internet of Things, Global Operations, Executive Team, Customer Success and Global Support.
• Analyzed headcount and expense tracking for forecast versus plan along with variance analysis.
• Finance lead for investment analysis in Global Delivery Center in India for 600+ headcount
• Built SQL and VBA tools to combine and analyze HC and transactional data from multiple sources; Anaplan planning setup for Global Services
• Bonus and Recognition Awards for managing critical activities during reorganization

San Francisco Bay Area

• Worldwide Revenue Group
• Liaison between finance and technical organizations to manage the development and implementation of Intel’s $16B global revenue reporting system for quarter close activities.
• Responsible for system enhancements and its accuracy in revenue reporting, stakeholder management of more than 20+ Finance partners worldwide
• Analyze and deep dive into revenue recognition for direct and disti customers, and implement new ASC-606 revenue guidelines.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Intel Security Group (McAfee)
• Manage OPEX for Engineering, Sales and Marketing groups with a HC of ~1300 and a budget of $200M/year
• Manage Headcount and OPEX plans for new business units and lines of business.
• Perform monthly and quarter analysis of business activities for business partners, forecasting and researching variances, guidance and recommendation on budgeting, expense tracking and goal setting
• Deep dive into procurement processes to reduce tax implication and recover paid taxes of over $150k

Palo Alto

• Investment Banking on the M&A sell-side advisory in the technology sector. Client focus included: SaaS, Big Data, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure.
• Evaluated SaaS metrics (ARR, Churn, CLTV) for revenue valuation and industry trends
• Prepare client presentations, build VBA tools for analysis
• Conduct market research and identify industry trends using Gartner and IDC reports.
• Identify potential buyers and investors, prepare marketing materials, coordinate communications and presentations with Corporate Development teams and Venture Capital Firms.

Oakland, CA

Managed more than 40+ specialized consulting projects with a combined value of more than $100M+ -- Led critical infrastructure design and construction support for California Public Utilities-- Led financial risk evaluation of real estate for US Federal Emergency Management Association; The cost/benefit analysis validated the purchase of $10+M worth of real.

Oakland, CA

-- Advised Sonoma County Agency on their strategy to implement Capital Improvement Program for their water utility system for 600,000 customers-- Assessed potential of Oil and Gas platforms for offshore wind turbines-- Build models for risk assessment of water transmission lines -- Published and presented paper at renewable energy conferences in Houston.

New Delhi Area, India

- Developed India’s 1st hurricane data set which was used to build a vulnerability model to mitigate risk to life and property- Excel VBA code and SQL Access Programming to evaluate risk for insurance portfolios- Led a 10-day Hurricane damage assessment in the State of Orissa, India

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance And Strategy

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.)

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd)