Ram Sankaran Email & Phone Number

Frisco, Tx, Us

Redwood City, California, Us

United States, Us

Ashburn, Virginia, Us

• Lead the Corporate FP&A function for DXC ꟷ Commercial FP&A which includes budgeting (target setting and plan coordination), forecasting (risk and opportunity tracking), performance measurement, management review cadence for a ꟷ External FP&A which involves working with cross-functional teams including Controllership, Tax, Treasury, Technical Accounting, Investor Relations to interpret and communicate performance and forward-looking guidance to external stakeholders• Maintain the corporate forecast, resulting in twelve consecutive quarters of accurate forecasts that met or beat EPS consensus• Prepare and coordinate presentations made to the Board of Directors• Led various special projects for the CEO / CFO to drive the objectives to the detailed parts of the organization with favorable outcomes to the P&L and cash flow • Lead financial discussions with the separation strategy team, working with the Corp Development, bankers and potential buyers on asset divestitures and run the TSA and Deal financials workstream • Partner with HR to develop the plans and manage the financial forecast / accrual of executive variable compensation and sales incentive compensation plans • Enhance and standardize the corporation’s financial cadence and accuracy by redesigning the internal financial reporting structure and standardizing the monthly analysis packages

Global, Us

• Pricing lead for the Applications business in North America tasked with overseeing, reviewing and managing complex analyses of pricing requirements and creating pricing models in response to RFPsꟷ Successfully closed over $200mn TCV with over 25% EBIT margin – 2 deals were new logos for CSC in 2013 ꟷ Highest value and number of deal closures for 2 years in a row in North Americas. A key partner in the pre-sales process and specifically identified by a Telecom customer on being one of the four key members who made the deal possible• Led commercial negotiation with client contracting officials and interfaced with vendors to determine costs and related information to ensure that all material was obtained in a cost-effective manner• Price to win and Deal shaping to ensure competitiveness of proposals

Global, Us

• Business finance manager for 3 industry verticals contributing about $750M in annual revenue• Managed a team of 30 finance professionals to provide financial planning and analysis support to the Business leads and reported back to Corporate on the business unit performance• Partnered with management by overseeing and conducting financial and business metric reports and analysis

London, Gb

• Led financial due diligence reviews for potential investments / M&A transactions• Advised corporate and private equity clients on the financial potential and value drivers for target companies

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

• Business finance lead for the Telecom business with a revenue base of over $700m• Enabled business & sales leaders to keep track of financial metrics real-time and be agile in business decision making• Drove margin and revenue improvement through structured reporting and reviews • Activities spanned from month end close, MIS reporting, pricing / rate increase discussions, DSO / receivables management

part of the CA curriculum)Preparation and presentation of quarterly accounts and audited annual accounts of the company and consolidated accounts of the company and its subsidiariesTranslation of financial statements of the foreign subsidiaries of the companyTreasury - booking of rates for foreign currency loans and tracking currency movements to strike optimum dealsCorporate planning including preparation of projectionsPresented paper on transfer pricing pronouncements to the business

part of the CA curriculum)Have performed statutory audits, internal audits and concurrent audits of companies in various industries viz. manufacturing (fertilizers, sugar, petrochemicals, pneumatics etc), service (software, banks).

Education record

Ca, Commerce

Bachelor Of Commerce, Commerce

School, Commerce