Ranganathasa

Bengaluru–560091

Email: [email protected], [email protected] Mobile: +91 99001 46228

Seeking Specialist/Managerial assignments in Core Accounts, Business Finance/Partnering or FP&A.

Skills

 Finance professional with a strong record of contribution in streamlining and transforming the finance
reports/dashboards/models, increasing the team productivity and improve the processes.
 Good exposure in handling System migration (Functional), EPM/Hyperion, ERP, CRM & adoption for reporting.
 Strong Analytical and technical skills with a strong attention to details and excellent command in MS Excel.
 Prioritize and Manage workflow to meet the deadlines, flexible in adjusting to changing demand.

Core Skills

Core Accounts Business Finance Financial Planning Process Improvement

Ops Analysis Finance Modeling Management Reporting Ad-hoc Analysis

Employment Experience

1. Celonis India Private Limited, Bengaluru – working as Strategy & Operation Analyst
Period: 19th April 2022 to Till Date

Key Responsibilities:
 Supporting Japan & India Business Leaders
 Analysis Opportunities in terms of Resource allocation
 Build reports and dashboards in Google sheets and Salesforce for Ops
 Tracking/Governance around IT Assets
 Adhering to Statutory compliance of GST, Income Tax & Customs
 Co-ordinating with Auditors / Tax Audit

Accomplishments / Highlights:
 Successfully completed all the Tax Audit related matters and compliances with the Auditors & Income Tax
department without any complications. Received the “Award” for handling the Audit smoothly.

2. ORACLE India Private Limited, Bengaluru;

 EMEA Consulting from 19th Jun 2006 to Jun 2014.
 Consulting Center of Excellence from Jun 2014 to 11th Mar 2016 and 6th Jun 2016 to 19th Apr 2019
 Latin America Consulting (Night Shift) from 20th Apr 2019 to 15th Apr 2022.

Key Responsibilities in EMEA & LAD Consulting teams:

 Participation in Annual Budgeting and biweekly Forecasting, Providing Trend analysis and KPI reviews.
 Supporting Finance leaders with various reports such as Flash / Month close reports, Contractor FTE &
Cost Accruals, Commission / Bonus Accruals, Functional P&Ls.
 Supporting Business leaders with Dashboards, KPI reports on Pipeline, Bookings, Revenue, Backlog,
Utilization, Work@Risk, Delivery Mix, Inter-Company & Offshore Usage.
  Supporting Operations regional leaders with Accounts Receivable and Unbilled Aging reports along with
other KPI reports.
 Supporting Management reviews with Ad-hoc Reports and Analysis
 Quarterly Variance Analysis - FC vs. Actual, QoQ & YoY
 Liaise with GL, Project Accounting & Finance System Teams to address the issues / bugs
 Standardize/Centralize the process / reports through automation
 Providing weekly revenue forecast (Bottom up) Models
 Maintenance of Cost Center & Manager Hierarchies for proper reporting
 Extensive training to New Joiners to make them productive in short span of time
 Build Reports / Dashboards in Data Visualization.

Accomplishments / Highlights:
 Standardized/Centralized the Month Close Report & Manager Hierarchy processes thru VBA Macros
saving the FTEs.
 Standardized/Centralized the periodic KPI reporting by merging the different Service line reports across
countries.
 Standardized the Functional P&L which provides the margin by functionality of resource like Delivery,
Sales, Operations and Others.
 Standardized the detailed Utilization report providing Quarterly trend, Growth over prior year, budget
achievement and by role of the consultants
 Trained, Encouraged and Motivated the team members to improve their productivity.

Key Responsibilities in Consulting Center of Excellence team:

Worked as a Specialist for Transitioning/Migrating the Tools/Reports from On-premise based systems to Cloud
based systems for Consulting LOB.

My role included:
 Providing requirements of Fields, Measures, logics, calculations for reports.
 Providing Mockup ups / report formats / samples to developers.
 Building Dashboards in Cloud BI (ERP) environment.
 Continuous testing of fields, measures provided by developers and providing feedback to them.
 Attending follow up calls, raising concerns and getting them fixed.
 Giving training to Finance Group on New Cloud BI System.

Accomplishments / Highlights:
 Streamlined the Manager Hierarchy of the all the divisions, this proved to be a vital step in achieving
the Standardization and Automation of the Global Reports.
 Successfully implemented Cloud based Reports and Dashboards in ERP, EPM and Data Visualization.
 Automated close to 200 reports through Excel VBA and Dashboards, saved about 6-8 FTEs per Quarter.

3. Liquidhub India Private Limited, Bengaluru

Period: 14 Mar 2016 to 2 Jun 2016;

Worked about 3 months supporting Sales Operations team, my role was to analyze and reporting of
Opportunities / Sales, Arranging for changes in an engagement in terms of Time or rates of resources,
extension of engagement, removing / adding resources, Tracking actuals and opportunities, sending alerts to
Sales managers on expiration of deals period and getting the updates from them.
4. ITC Limited – worked as an Accounts Officer in the International Business Division
Period: April 2001 to Jun 2006.

Key Responsibilities were:

 MIS Reporting:
 Preparation of Daily P&L Account which shows the position as on the day in terms of Exports,
Domestic Sales, Procurement, Fixed expenses, Interest, Export Incentives, PBT, Net Long and
Short positions for Coffee and Spices Businesses

 Accounting & Finance:

 Preparation of Monthly operational data comprising Total Procurement, Processing, Exports
and Domestic Sales, Brokerage, Inward Freight & other C&F expenses, Provision for TDS to
ensure proper accounting at Head Quarters at Hyderabad.
 Preparation of Third Party Accounts giving details of Total Procurement, Exports & Domestic
Realizations, Expenses related to Export (C&F), Working Capital Interest, Bank Negotiation &
Realization Charges and Final Profit and Loss Balances.
 Reconciliation of accounts, Monthly Statutory Payments like TDS, VAT etc.,

 Statutory Compliance:
 Ensure the filing of Monthly/Annual VAT Returns, TDS & Profession Tax Returns, Coffee/Spice
Board Return etc., and ensuring the payment of dues within due dates.
 Ensuring yearly Assessments in order to comply with the statutory regulations.

5. M/s. L.K.Kathare & Co., Chartered Accountants, Bengaluru - Worked as an Audit & Accounts Assistant
Period: January 1993 to May 1999

Key Responsibilities were:

 Maintaining accounts of Individuals, Partnership Firms, Hospitals and Business Enterprises

 Involving in Various Audits of Banks, Firms, Colleges etc.,
 Preparation of Review Reports, Sales Tax and Income Tax Returns
 Preparation of reply for notices received from the Departments, Attending Assessments.

Educational Qualifications:
Particulars Institute / University Year of Completion
ICWAI-Inter 1st Group Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India June 1999

Bachelor of Commerce Bengaluru University April 1996

Higher Secondary Education United Mission High School, Bengaluru April 1991

Computer literacy:
 Excellent knowledge in Excel (Macros, Index/Match, Lookups, Sumifs, Sumproduct, Indirect, dynamic
dropdowns) and in Google Sheets.
 Good exposure in various Oracle Tools - EPM, ERP, CRM, Data Visualization. Have fair knowledge of
Salesforce.

Ranganathasa.