Sreedevi Kolan Ravi Email & Phone Number

Milton Keynes, Gb

Coventry, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for financial controlling of Daimler Buses UK Limited including Variable Cost, Fixed Overheads and Revenue ControllingMonthly financial reporting to management and departmental heads and providing strategic insights to the management for easy decision making.Budgeting and Forecasting of financials on a regular basis in co-ordination with controllers from the head quarters after alignments with department heads and CFOManaging and training a Finance Apprentice to independently work on administrative tasks and regular monthly reports.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Providing income tax consultancy for working professionals, mainly doctors and maintaining their books of accounts

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Team – Retail Sales Division1. Communicated with the Financial Heads, Finance managers, etc. assess their requirements and delivering superior financial performance with the available resources.2. Prepared and submitted Shell’s Retail segment financial statements of Russia and Central European countries, into SAP based Global Performance Management Reporting (GPMR) Tool used for MIS Analysis throughout the Globe from Analyst to CFO levels.3. Performed Trend Analysis, Variance Analysis between Plan, Latest Estimate and Actual numbers, collating information on the variations and presenting to the Financial Controller for further analysis and for action in subsequent months.4. Seamlessly transitioned the reporting structure from Global Performance Management Reporting (GPMR) tool and Business Warehouse (BW) to Business Intelligence (BI) when implemented in phases to the Finance fraternity of the company.5. Provided Continuous Improvement Ideas and initiating improvements in the processes handled within the Retail Sales Team for Shell Group as a whole.6. Conducted trainings for new employees in Retail business around the globe

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Team – Global Key Accounts – Lubricants Division1. Communicated with the Finance Head/ Global Account Managers/ Financial Advisors of the Group Finance, etc., assess their requirements and delivering superior financial performance in terms of apt deliverables.2. Organized and conducted Weekly status calls during the peak schedules and providing inputs in the form of Excel/ PowerPoint files to the Senior Management for Review Calls with the Global Finance Head, Lubricants.3. Performed Trend Analysis, Variance Analysis between Plan, Latest Estimate and Actual numbers, collating information on the variations and presenting to the Global Financial Head for further analysis and action in subsequent months.4. Monitored and aided Controlling of Operating Expenses (OpEx) of Lubricants division and cleansing up of Local and Global Cost Centers (LCC & GCC) being mapped to different cost elements in order to arrive at appropriate Cost Pools.5. Developed good working relationship with colleagues from other teams and with on-shore counterparts to get timely information to be proactive in my role.Quick Wins:1. Appreciated by the Senior Management and Finance Head for absorbing the critical activities within a considerably short span of time.2. Appreciated by the Financial Advisors & Finance Head for developing a standard procedure of collating Latest Estimates from the Global Account Managers and presenting them in a format to enable business decision-making to the Finance Head.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

1. Used systems like Essbase(Hyperion), People Soft General ledger (PSGL, an oracle based OBIEE tool), Sharepoint & CITRIX and tools like MS Excel, MS Powerpoint & MS Access in an efficient manner as to extract, download, modify the financial data, interpret them in a meaningful manner and format them to present as logical and analyzable Reports.2. Communicated with the CFOs/ Financial Heads of the Group/ Regional Financial Heads, etc., assess their requirements and delivering superior financial performance with the available resources3. Took responsibility for work performed by direct reports, training them to perform required tasks, managing time efficiently to prioritize between the jobs undertaken by efficiently distributing the jobs among ourselves, delivering the reports with best quality, etc4. Created PowerPoint presentations for Wealth Management Products in various Consumer Banking Segments for the analysis of Business Heads and assist them in structuring/achieving Targets every month.5. Captured the efforts in improvisations made in reports and reduction in processing time effectively, thus getting involved and helping Managers to make strategic decisions in FTE re-allocation, migration of processes from Onshore Teams, etc.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

1. Gathered detailed product hierarchical knowledge of the Consumer Banking Products in order to provide apt information at minimized timelines.2. Prepared critical and confidential reports like Regional Manager Scorecard Consolidations, Sales Performance Reports, etc., using various inputs like RM Scorecards prepared by countries, RM Master containing Revenue Generation and Salary Package details, etc. These are arrived from multiple sources by interacting with people of various levels within the organization.3. Assisted in the Budgeting processes and liaising with Regional Financial Heads for arriving at the monthly forecasts on a product-level.4. Continuously improved the processes and simplifying the work to the most possible extent using advanced excel and simple vba macros automations.

Chartered Accountant, Accounting And Finance

Professional Accounting Qualification including 3.5 years of Internship/ Articleship Experience with leading Chartered Accountant firms.

Bachelor Of Commerce - Bcom, Accounting And Finance, First Class