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Mckinney, Texas, United States

Plano, Texas, United States

• Responsible for managing worldwide planning and forecasting operations for revenue, cogs and deferred revenue for the company including revenue optimization, and long-range revenue guidance.
• Revamped revenue and cogs planning architecture and improved accuracy of budget and forecast operations to within 1% accuracy.
• Manage quarter end and month end consolidation and financial reporting of P&L activity involving variance analysis, flux commentary and P&L narrative of revenue & cogs.
• Manage cross functional engagement to interlock $3 Billion of sales for portfolio revenue planning.
• Responsible for driving predictive analysis of QTD close period activity to identify risk or upside to gross margin and perform root-cause analysis to quantify potential impact to guidance.

Plano, Texas, United States

• Responsible for managing $2.7 Billion revenue budgeting and forecasting for the company involving annual revenue plan, quarterly revenue forecast, and QTD diagnostics.
• Revenue modelling for forecasting $600 Million of In-Period revenue annually and determining underlying methodology for forecasting $2.1 Billion of Deferred Revenue amortization from Balance Sheet annually.
• Responsible for modelling financial indicators and parameters for forecasting balance sheet deferrals for short term and long term deferred revenue.

Plano, Texas, United States

• Responsible for managing worldwide hardware sales planning and forecasting of $120m across enterprise product portfolio and subsequent modelling of units-based COGS plan for appliances and accessories.
• Responsible for budgeting $100m of COGS (cost of goods sold) annual plan and quarterly forecast, and consolidation of $150m in partner payments and $50m in channel payments.
• Responsible for cross functional engagement with Supply Chain for backlog optimization.
• Responsible for inventory management to reduce exposure of inventory obsolescence and P&L reserve.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Consolidated Financial Reporting of month and quarter close for bookings, revenue, and COGS highlighting performance indicators, trends, KPIs, and outliers.
• Responsible for managing profitability reports and margin dashboards across McAfee product portfolio and highlighting business drives for over & under performance.
• SAP (FISD-COPA) GL Account Reconciling of COGS journals for interface of transactional COGS data to Hyperion end user reporting system for financial reporting and data visualization.
• Responsible for managing product hierarchy architecture, forecast database integrity, and consolidation of forecast inputs for bookings, revenue, and cogs in Hyperion planning system.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Assessment of cisco sales data to identify trends of deviation from standard sales process and identifying anomalies of excessive discounts, unauthorized shipments, suspect configuration, fraudulent locations.
• Responsible for data fulfilment requests of data extraction and data analysis for financial support and business analytics to business unit leadership.
• Analyze and report channel data irregularities of grey market and counterfeit activity of cisco products.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Responsible for auditing and analyzing sales contracts for vendor payment anomalies involving identifying cases of over/under payment.
• Responsible for analyzing contractual pricing terms and quantifying findings and managing cross functional engagement for remedial process initiation.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Accounting And Finance

Bachelor Of Commerce - Bcom, Business/Commerce, General