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Bengaluru, Ka, In

Democratizing Technology thought leadership

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Chennai

Bengaluru Area, India

Executive Leader for Finance, Legal, Global Procurement, Global facilities, Investor relations. Part of the CXO team that transformed the company to deliver YoY Topline growth of ~25% and EBITDA growth of ~35%. Divested Non-core business, spearheaded successful Debt refinancing and delivered great stakeholder returns.

Bengaluru Area, India

Oversaw ISGN's financial, legal and fiscal management departments and provides leadership to the business planning, accounting, planning and strategic efforts of the Company.Executed the strategy to Divest the BPO business in order to focus exclusively on Tech Product businesso Complex deal involving Business split, carve-outs and equitable closeo Involved right from Deal strategy, pre-deal negotiations-both Business and legal, Structuring and guiding the deal through closeo Expense optimization post deal close to align SGA to new company structure. Cost take out -Impact on EBITDA 12%. Moving towards Cash generation.Transformed the Business through • Cost optimization and cash conservation. Managing without Investor funding.• Delivering EBITDA neutral results in spite of business downturn.• Setting up procurement function resulting in savings -5% EBITDA impact annually• Strengthened forecasting and developed CXO Dashboard• Ensured margin accretive Pricing on key deals

Chennai Area, India

Reporting to the Global Applications/India CFO, leading entire Revenue assurance proces,s for CSC India and strategic initiatives including Finance Transformation, M&A, Alliances Supply chain and Key commercial negotiations during high value procurements.Key Achievements include leading the financial due diligence process for $175 M acquisition of Applabs, Post merger Business integration, Financial model for CSC-HCL alliance, Reengineering the revenue process of CSC India, Savings in key procurement initiatives and reducing inefficiencies and enabled just-in-time Resourcing by working with Resource management group.

Chennai Area, India

Responsible for overall finances of the organization and aligning business strategies to financial and Corporate governance. Based out of Chennai, India and managing the entire gamut of Finance, Treasury, Controllership, Legal and FP&A functions. Reported to the Global CEO and the Board of Directors.Key achievements include developing a competent and professional finance team, closing three cross-border acquisitions and integrating them financially, instituting a framework of Compliance/governance in line with SOX, Creating a platform for providing transparent and audited business performance to the Board, Implementing Mid-Size ERP at no additional cost for Global accounting/reporting and cost Savings including a major Real estate rationalization.

Mumbai Area, India

Responsible for Worldwide Accounting/Consolidation as per US GAAP, Revenue assurance, Business combinations/PPA/ESOP accounting, SOX compliance under sec 404/Sec 302, Corporate MIS Reporting, Audit coordination and SEC reporting 6K/20F. Leading a team of over 70 accounting professionals. Reported to Group CFO and Audit committee of the Board of Directors.Achievements including accounting policies standardization/Process improvements by benchmarking with other US listed companies, crashing reporting timelines by almost a month, 100% SOX compliance in first year of SEC reporting and pre-deal diligence and Successful Financial Integration of acquisitions

Chennai, India And Teaneck, Nj

In my 8-year stint with Cognizant, handled various roles including Controllership, Business Finance. Financial systems implementation and Treasury. Also worked in the US for two years directly handling SEC reporting and compliances. Reported to India CFO.Achievements include pre-deal due diligence for acquisitions, handling Business Finance manager role for two of biggest SBUs, working with Global CFO directly to redesign of corporate Accounting and reporting and being part of the team to identify and implement a mid –size ERP.

Kerala, India

Deputed to Kerala to oversee and implement finance systems and processes in upcoming Hotel projects. Reported to Regional CFO.

Executive Leadership

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Management

Cpa, Accounting, Finance And Tax

Aca

Cisa, Information Security And Audit

Cost Accountant, Cost Accountancy/Management Accounting

B.Com, Accounting,Economics

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