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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Partnering with the senior leaders of the organisation within the Chancellery to manage management accounting, financial and business planning, forecasting and reporting.

Melbourne, Australia

A role with the Group Finance division is responsible for developing budgets and forecasts for various faculties and reporting to the Manager– Budgets and Business Planning. Key Responsibilities:• Co-ordinate financial planning and prepare budgets for the University’s Administrative divisions (including infrastructure projects).• Develop and maintaining business funding and expenditure models using Activity Based costing methods• Support the preparation of the annual budget book publication for finance committee and council approval.• Analyse monthly results and provide meaningful commentary & analysis for decision making purposes and enable appropriate forecasting.• Improve efficiency and effectiveness of reporting through the develop new reports through Oracle Reporting Tool (GL Wand) and Management Information Library (crystal reporting)• Advise and recommend development and improvement of new or existing financial practices in line with the financial policies of the organisation.• Prepare models to support financial decision making and non-financial decision making.Achievements:-• Lead the reporting review project to provide customised reports for 52 departments using crystal reporting (Management information Library), resulting in significant time savings during month end (equivalent to 4 man days per month).• Received appreciation from the Executive Director –Melbourne Research for providing exceptional support in managing the division’s forecast in 2010 (no variance against Strategic Initiatives Forecast).• Developed strong relationship and communication with the divisional stakeholders while supporting the forecasting and budgeting process.• Acting Finance Manager at the Business Centre, during an extended leave period.

Melbourne, Australia

Team Lead – Accounting Operations and Financial Analyst• Resolve operational issues by working with the Global Shared Services organisation in Bangalore and Singapore (E.g. Pending reconciliation issues).• Improve KPI’s and liaise with stakeholders to resolve systemic issues to further improvements and efficiency• Co-ordinate resolution of various Service requests and development of reports with the SAP Support team for measuring operational performance.• Reviewing Monthly Reconciliations for Australia and NZ to ensure compliance to Accounting and Financial Policies of HP.• Negotiating Service Level Agreement with relevant areas• Reviewing Monthly KPIs of the Business Centre to identify current Business problems and suggest appropriate course of action.• Generating, qualitative analysis (Using Six Sigma Tools) and reporting on Operational Performance to the Senior Leadership Team. Follow Up and holding meetings with the Operational team to ensure better performance on a monthly basis. • Monthly Cost Statement generation, consolidation and Analysis for the Finance and Payroll dept, comparing them with the budgets for reporting to the Regional Controllers.• Quarterly forecasting, monthly business reporting of performance for the team and Half yearly and Annual Balance Sheet review of AP accounts.• Experience in SAP systems integration through identifying business controls and reporting.Achievements:- Received cash Award for improving the net debit balance from customers, improving Accounts Payable metrics and the ageing of outstanding open items of goods against invoice from the Director and Chief Financial Officer. Improvement in key metrics was achieved due to effective monitoring of the business process.• Leading the ISO Certification initiative by co-ordinating with different accounting teams for the documentation of various processes.

Bengaluru Area, India

 Managed a very large team (32 FTE’s) with a monthly volumes of 58,000 invoices (USD 827m) across Europe, Middle East and Africa in SAP systems Successfully transitioned 4 Integration projects of Pre Merger Compaq entities Implemented tighter internal controls and established new policies for clearance of suspense and Price Variance accounts. Actively participated in cost-benefit/productivity improvement projects. Actively involved in process engineering workshops (e.g. Discrepancy and Operations Management Web Tool) Developed new and effective KPI monitoring methodology by creating new Input, Process and Output Metrics. Actively participated in a project for fully automating reconciliation and reporting process Ensured that the Service Level Agreements are negotiated with internal customers Coordinating with the Auditors on the documentation and implementation of controls as part of the Sarbanes Oxley Act. Achievements:- Received Star Award which included Employee Stock Options and Letter of Appreciation. Achieved the highest Grade of service provided to internal clients measure through organisation wide customer survey (score of 4.3 against the target of 3.8). Achieved Green Belt Certification for project managing the rectification of wrong financial reporting (9 times improvement in Defects per Million Opportunities (DPMO).

Hyderabad Area, India

 Analysed complex customer escalations  Conducted compliance reviews of all AP processes Analysed causes for duplicate payments and developed technical specifications for reporting enhancements. Review and Input on Training Modules. Hands on with new Initiatives Process Developer- Accounts Payable Operations Managed a 30 member team processing invoices for all GE businesses across US. Monitor and track performance of the team to ensure compliance to the Service Level Agreements and securing maximum discounts Prepare management reports to highlight issues and analyse variance to plans. Ensuring compliance to standard operating procedures. Forecast FTE requirement for the team and its impact on productivity and operating costs. Identifying/tracking systems downtime and calculating Man-hours lost for calculating loss of productivity Participated in work group of Six Sigma Quality Green Belt Project on reducing invoice rejections (approx. saving of US$ 53,000 pa). Participate in work group of a Six-Sigma Quality Black Belt Project on improving overall productivity.Process Associate- Accounts Payable Operations Involved in the transition project (transition of functions from USA to India) Trained temporary staff in USA to enable timely completion of project Prepare flowcharts , Training Manual and the Standard Operating Procedure for transition Handled direct Vendor Queries and GE Buyers Queries taking responsibility for end to end resolution.Achievements:- Received Star of the Month Award from the CEO of GECIS for Individual Performance. Received Certificate of Accomplishment from the Team Leader of GE CBSI at Fort Myers in Florida. Received appreciation from CEO of GE at Fort Myers, FL, USA

Chennai Area, India

 Handled Statutory Audits, Internal Audits, Concurrent Audits, Tax audits.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Management

Completed MBA with a Distinction average, specialising in Finance, Operations and Financial Valuation.

Cpa, Accounting And Business/Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Commerce And Statistics