Sivaramakrishnan Balakrishnan Email & Phone Number

Mendham, Nj, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Consultant at ACA Group, a PE-backed firm that is the leading GRC (Governance, Risk, Compliance) advisor in the financial services space. Focused on improving internal financial processes.

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

Led the Sales and Marketing stream of the carve-out PMO.• $585M sign-to-close sale of Dr. Scholl’s brand to a Private Equity buyer. Successful Day 1 readiness and successful transaction close• Utilized extensive project management experience, executive-level stakeholder management, and broad business acumen to drive program at the senior levels• Collaborated with the PwC deals team and Yellow Wood Partners the private equity buyer

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

Regional Controller responsible for governance, compliance, and accuracy of management reported financial results, cost management, process continuous improvement, and standardization of local policies and procedures across the Middle East for the Bayer enterprise. $400m in revenue across 14 countries with 600 employees.• Dramatically improved forecast accuracy on multi-million-dollar revenues• Led FP&A and analytical decision-making support• Recruited, developed, and mentored a high-performance controlling team of 9 direct reports• Designed and implemented audit proof G2N methodology increasing forecast transparency, reporting, and reconciling G2N accruals critical in a region with multiple countries, distributor agreements, currencies, and evolving credit• Partnered with CFO during large scale transformation to move to automation and shared service models• Pharma Divisional CFO• Designed and led Operations Committee improvement project with Finance, Sales, Supply Chain, and Order to Cash• Developed integrated analytics in PowerBI including S&OP, financial planning, and reporting• Collaborated with local CEO to restructure the organization including re-casting geographies, revising contract and credit terms with customers, large tender strategy, and product launches• Crisis mitigation initiatives included devaluation in Egypt, GCC embargo of Qatar, and credit problems with distributors

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

Led the PMO office for APAC, Middle East, Africa, Latin America through the entire sale of Medical Devices Business Diabetes Care to a private equity buyer• Successful 12-month, $1.2B divestiture project included Day 1 planning and execution, and managing dependencies for the APAC, Middle East, Africa, and Latin America regions• Partnered with EY deals team, KKR PE, and senior external counsel at Hengeler Mueller

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

Regional Controller responsible for governance, compliance, and accuracy of management reported financial results, management of costs, continuous improvement of processes, and standardization of local policies and procedures in Venezuela with $300M in revenue and 500 employees• Selected by Sr. Management to Venezuela to build unique cross-functional team with Finance, Supply Chain, and Foreign Trade• Selected for functional expertise in FP&A, Supply Chain and expertise in architecting cross-functional systems and teams• Successfully met and exceeded budget goals in a challenging economic and infrastructure environment• Led, developed, and mentored a team of 20 professionals with 10 direct reports

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

Selected by Sr. Management to redevelop medical device business in Latin America. Finance, Marketing, and Supply Chain Head for the region. Leading high growth business (3x in 5 years).• Relaunched business in Brazil dramatically increasing revenue• Reduced SKUs from more than 50 to under 10• Improved SLAs to over 95% with near zero obsolescence• Interim Region Head, with full P&L responsibility, from May-Dec 2010

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

First Global Planning Manager in newly formed $1B division. Recruited and led 2 direct reports• Key member of Global Team developing new planning and reporting system

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

First FP&A Sr. Analyst in newly formed $1B division• Key member of Global Team developing new planning and reporting system• Decision support to Sr. Management and external consultants for turnaround and restructuring

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

Sr. Analyst in >$2B division, working on reporting, analytics, forecasting, planning, budgets, and decision support for therapeutic areas

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

Accountant / Cost Accountant

Statutory and Internal Audits

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Aca, Accountancy - Licensed Professional

Bcom (Hons), Accountancy And Economics

Education record

Education record