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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

APJ & GC Storage Product Marketing org Finance controller • Own and drive the end to end monthly/quarterly sales forecast process (POV) for APJ and GC regions.• AOP/Forecasts –key part of AOP process & conduit between Segment Finance/GBO and the Corporate FP&A teams.• Manage Opex budget on headcount and discretionary spend.• Key part of the weekly BMS financials deep dive –review weekly sales rev, by product and by country performance, Pipeline sufficiency, key large deals, etc with the regional lead.• Track & review effectiveness of programs & plays deployed to achieve sales targets.• Review margins, pricing strategies, sales compensation & modifiers with regional teams.• Provide key insights to executives on business performance- segment/ product LOB/ country etc.

Bengaluru Area, India

Global Financial Controller for Server Product Group Ensured successful transition of 14G platforms through define phase exit by coordinating with core teams, PM, Sales and Pricing teams. Prepared multiyear outlook on Revenue($700M), Units, TRU, GM; track performance and analyze variance. Reported out Executive commentary on Server wide Commodity Attach, Excess & Obsolete material & Cost Reviews. Reviewed business cases for new product introductions; provide key insights on competitor analysis, lifetime units/ revenue/ margins along with market share. Ensured successful completion of Cost Audits for new generation 1 Socket server platforms. Automated commodity-attach analytics to provide insights on commodity cost versus attach trends.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Dell EMC Storage R&D FinanceFinance Controller for Platforms Hardware Engineering (PHE) group : Built, tracked and drove annual budgets($60M) and quarterly forecasts for Expense, HC and Inventory. Partnered with business to secure funding for new initiative; building ROI model, budget, HC forecasting to obtain project acceptance and procure funding ($5M). Provided Finance support for Joint Innovation (JI) funding teams to ensure PoS and milestone completion. Provided insights on program wise spend detail for Material, labor and other expenses. Contributed savings of $2M by working with JDM’s and defining ownership of testing materials. Planned and executed changes in inventory movement between manufacturing plants which led to savings of $600k.

Bengaluru Area, India

 Statutory Audit Lead of EMC COE India; oversee Financial Statements preparation, front end with auditors. Partnered with external consultants on IND-AS impact Analysis and implementation for India COE entities. Led the initiative of Implementing changes in Indian accounting framework; Internal Financial Control framework & revised disclosure requirements in financial statements (schedule III)- IND-AS. Review Monthly Reconciliations and cost variance analysis

Bangalore

Worked as an Executive Financial Analyst (Jan 2013- Mar 2015)• Controllership functions involving closing books of account, ledger reviews and reconciliations (Blackline) for India operations. • Month end activities for India entities include accruals for various facility, HR and technology costs, Capitalisation of assets, Cash and Bank reconciliation, Transfer pricing billing, Intercompany reconciliations, foreign exchange adjustment and in-depth variance analysis and reasoning on monthly PL and BS numbers.• Preparation of senior management report with detailed reasoning on the variance in current month numbers compared to last month numbers as well as comparison with budgeted numbers.• Support Company's other functions within the Finance umbrella- such as Financial Reporting, Tax, Treasury, FP&A, Internal Audit, Corp Strategy, etc.• Designing Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for various processes in India controllership division.• Managing global audit for India operations and addressing audit queries of statutory auditors, internal auditors and SOX auditors.• Liaising with banks for availing Bank Guarantees.• Single handedly carried out Project Capitalisations of all new facilities in Bangalore and Mumbai.

Bengaluru Area, India

Worked as an Associate Consultant in ERP Advisory- Oracle (Feb 2012- Jan 2013)PETROFAC International Ltd:The Client is a Company providing services to customers across the entire spectrum of the Oil and Gas Asset Lifecycle, on either a standalone or an integrated basis. The client is in this service industry over 30 yrs and has their presence in 29 countries.• Was part of the advisory team to assist the client in post implementation support on Oracle Financial and Projects Module (EBS- R12) at Aberdeen (Scotland) and Woking (England), United Kingdom.• Part of a 2 Member team functional team for implementation of CCG module of Oracle GRC at Chennai location.

Chartered Accountant, Chartered Accountant

Bachelor Of Commerce - Bcom, Finance, General