Vikram Khullar Email & Phone Number

Zurich, Zh, Ch

Area Controller for Instrumentation Business - United States, Canada and Latin America.

Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Tx, Us

Key Member of the Executive Leadership Team and strategic Finance partner to the Vice President, CFO and Chief Operating Officer for the Digital Automation solutions and services business group (600+ staff). • Managed the budget, growth, business profitability, business planning, and project cost control program.• Team with peers to create a business evaluation framework to evaluate and prioritize new initiatives and business investments.• Help determine and manage strategic KPIs for the Group to contribute to the company's balanced scorecard.• Developed cost savings and revenue-generating ideas that resulted in increased utilization and efficiency.• Reduced inventory by 15% through process standardization, training, and performance audit initiatives

Houston, Tx, Us

Finance Integration Manager for setting up Joint venture between Slb. and Rockwell Automation• Founded legal entities in three jurisdictions for future business growth in the regions. • Ensured consistency and adherence to internal controls by aligning policies and procedures with the parent company.• Created and implemented integration strategies for streamlining financial reporting and consolidation processes.• Optimized the operational and financial resources by 15% following business reorganization. • As the Global Finance Process Owner for Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP design, collaborated with cross-domain process owners to log 70+ process improvement initiatives

Houston, Texas, Us

Strategic Leader of a Global finance deployment organization. Spearheaded all SAP Finance deployments and process improvement initiatives across North America and Canada region. Executed strategic business planning, digital business transformation, training, and stakeholder management. • Leveraged multiple business analysis techniques to develop and implement 120+ high-impact process enhancements, leading to significantly higher business performance and cost-efficiency.• Identified and selected partners for Automated bank reconciliation process (>85% automation with Serralla), cash and credit applications (High Radius), and receivables process (Get Paid) to accomplish the highest efficiency and performance. • Developed and implemented comprehensive training collateral to upskill a large workforce of 1,000+ employees. • Augmented the Accounts payable outsourcing model, including SAP ERP System enhancement, to meet new business demands.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Led Global Finance Organization Design, Change Management, and Training.• Identified and addressed Change Impact within Finance for global SAP deployment.• Connected processes to people for optimum utilization of resources.• Oversaw Global Finance SAP Training strategy, deployment, and delivery.• Deployed a Transformation project in May 2016 in Ecuador and worked on North American and Canada implementations.

Houston, Texas, Us

SAP implementation and IT Transformation project for Global Treasury processes including Accounts Receivables, Credit, Collections, Revenue Recognition and Accounts Payable. In collaboration with third party consultants/partners worked on designing Global Treasury Processes for SAP implementation and during this process worked with company's senior stakeholders at HQ and Regions including VP Treasurer, Hemisphere Treasurer, Shared Services Hub Managers and internal control team.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Founding member of Schlumberger’s first Shared Service center and led the Treasury team of 120 accountants from 2010 to 2013 with the highest approval rating from 50+ countries stakeholders for three consecutive years. Assigned the treasury role of setting up a Shared Services Centre for the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Europe.• Liaised with bank officials and internal business leaders to monitor regulation changes in different territories to ensure strong treasury compliance inside the organization.• Recommended and implemented several process improvement opportunities including Centralizing Global Intercompany, and digital tools to monitor daily cash position across Eastern Hemisphere bank accounts.• Successfully managed a team of 120 accountants with less than 10% attrition in a shared services environment with the highest approval rating from 50+ countries' stakeholders quarterly surveys.

Houston, Texas, Us

Led a team of 40 accountants for the Company's HQ Finance Centre for Middle East and Asia. Reporting to the Area Controller and identified and led several process improvement initiatives. * Centralized inventory management for the Region which saved $1.2m of obsolescence in the first year.* Outsourced Accounts Payable to a third party which was a pilot project for the Region. Set up policies and procedures for the standardized model which was replicated across other countries. Also helped in designing the global process with the Global AP Outsourcing Manager.* Centralized intercompany and employee expense report processing with approx. 30% headcount efficiency and better processing time and standardized controls.

Houston, Texas, Us

Operations Controller for four key business segments which was amongst the fastest growing region in Asia. Led a team of accountants and was responsible for Profit and loss management, Balance Sheet, internal controls and Operations Management. Collaborated with Sales and Operations and won several long-term contracts for future business growth and profitability.

Aca, Finance & Accounting

Delhi University