Venkat Viswanathan Email & Phone Number

Los Gatos, Ca, Us

1. Provide financial leadership related to budgets, forecasting and long-range planning.2. Managing global quarterly forecasting cycles across the company3. Developing insightful management reporting, BoD reporting and other ad hoc analysis4. Leading strategic partnerships across decentralized financial planning teams, technology partners and other stakeholders5. Developing global workforce strategy frameworks and headcount planning programs spanning the enterprise 6. Leading systems enhancements to streamline financial planning and management reporting7. Supervise, train and mentor leaders as well as junior team members.

1. Delivering a simple and transparent workforce management process by providing reliable headcount data, tooling enhancements, and insightful analysis; helping the enterprise achieve its headcount strategy. 2. Developing accurate and insightful analytics to inform business leaders on the health of their workforce streategy. 3. Developing predictive analytics (headcount, attrition and broader employee movement forecasts) and scenario based models to infrom long term decision making. 4. Develop, execute, and manage yearly headcount planning cycle as well as end-to-end project plans and ensure on-time delivery.5. Drive key projects geared towards continuous process improvement, stakeholder education and accountability and team branding / communications.

Leading and managing the annual and quarterly budgetDeveloping and implementing headcount planning modelsMonitoring and reporting on team goalsProviding strategic analytics to guide team strategyServe as expert on all internal financial policies and provide guidance as needed for an organization of 1,000+ people.

Mclean, Va, Us

•Lead the development of the quarterly G&A expense forecast for the IT division. •Lead the development of the annual G&A expense budget for the IT division. •Analyze monthly and quarterly G&A expense results to identify significant cost drivers. •Developing and supporting meaningful reporting materials for IT division senior management. •Serve as expert on all internal financial policies procedures and provide guidance as needed to various internal departments.•Supervise, train and mentor junior staff members.•Provide ongoing adhoc and project related support to IT division management.

Washington, Dc, Us

•Planning and managing the migration of historical and current accounting records to a new firm wide ERP system. •Coordinating project related tasks and deliverables across the organization to ensure that deadlines are met consistently.•Ensuring complex partnership and corporate organizational structures are set up accurately in the financial system. •Reviewing and validating historical cash flow data for accuracy and completeness. •Ensuring all capital activity and other fund related transactions are recorded accurately and in a timely manner. •Reviewing and researching balance sheet reconciling items and proposing adjusting entries. •Reviewing and preparing balance sheet reconciliations for un-reconciled accounts. •Reviewing and validating un-reconciled intercompany balances.

Mclean, Va, Us

•Leading the month-end financial close for USA Today’s Digital Sports business. •Managing all areas of accounting operations including revenues, expenses, payables and receivables. •Lead the development of annual budgets and monthly flash projections.•Preparing and presenting monthly analytics package to explain financial results and provide insights into the state of the business. •Performing profitability analysis to determine which affiliate relationships are the most and least valuable to the business. •Provide ongoing financial support and ad hoc analysis to the General Manager of USA Today’s Digital Sports Properties as well as the SVP of Sports Operations. •Serve as expert on all internal financial policies procedures and provide guidance as needed to various internal departments.

New York, Ny, Us

• Ensuring appropriate accounting treatment of complex accounting transactions such as options and stock based compensation.• Managing the accrual process for other areas of personnel accounting such as prepaid compensation, commissions and bonuses.• Preparing and reviewing balance sheet reconciliations to ensure accurate and timely accruals for compensation related liabilities. • Preparing a monthly analytics package that summarizes and explains month end financial results for upper management.• Performing analysis to ensure reasonableness in relation to historical results and budget expectations. • Supporting ad hoc requests from various department leads related to personnel expenses and liabilities. • Responsible for several key SOX controls that contribute significantly to company’s overall compliance and control environment.

New York, Ny, Us

• Ensuring proper revenue recognition and reporting for complex advertising contracts.• Accounting for foreign currency advertising transactions with international customers. • Building and maintaining financial models to determine earned revenue and associated liabilities. • Reviewing complex advertising agreements to identify communicate and document revenue recognition issues. • Researching technical accounting literature to determine appropriate accounting treatment for multilateral revenue arrangements.• Preparing consolidated revenue summaries to ensure appropriate revenue recognition for cross divisional advertising agreements.• Serve as liaison to Time Warner on intercompany transaction reporting and revenue recognition issues

New York, Ny, Us

• Performing detailed analysis of usage statistics obtained from third party sources to determine advertising revenue.• Reviewing revenue reports created by peers to ensure integrity and accuracy of all usage and revenue metrics.• Managing relationships with multiple advertising partners in order to customize reporting process. • Supporting Ad hoc requests from sales support personnel to strengthen AOL’s client relationships. • Supporting collections team with analyzing and resolving reporting discrepancies between AOL and advertising clients.

New York, Ny, Us

• Preparing annual budgets for the various technology development organizations within AOL.• Adjusting budgeted financials to reflect current spend rate and changes in operating activities. • Reporting cost center level financials on a monthly basis.• Performing detailed analysis to determine the source and cause of variances between budgeted and actuals.• Presenting financial results to cost center owners on a monthly basis.• Reviewing budget constraints and forecasts to approve shopping carts.

B.S, Accounting

B.S, Finance