Jan 2025 – Aug 2025 · 7 mos · Mysuru, Karnataka, India

Jan 2013 – Dec 2024 · 11 yrs 11 mos · India · Hybrid

• Finance & Accounting Execution/Service Delivery
• Lead the Service Delivery/Execution of Finance and Accounting teams
• Support the transformation of the global function and playing an active role in organizational restructuring, change management and deployment of governance frameworks across teams
• Champion in cost leadership and ensured key performance indicators are within agreed service standards
• Led and managed process efficiencies(Quality & Time), span of control(Cost) and deskill roles which would help in overall effectiveness for the organization
• Regular governance calls with customers and partners – process, people, projects & scope of work
• Financial Planning & Analysis
• Oversee Head Count tracking, Budgeting, and Forecasting for Brands and Support Functions for Time Inc.
• Review the submission of functional forecasting, analyze variances to prior reforecast and discuss results with the functional heads
• Business Development and Transitions
• Built Finance and Accounting COE, team of 30 in 2013 and grew to a team of 200 by 2015-‘16
• Developed strong stakeholder relationships and helped ease the pain of transition/facilitated change management and built governance frameworks
• Built and retained trust of partners and proactively identified in conjunction with them processes that can be transitioned to India
• Team Creation & Management
• Built a high performing team and implemented strategies to retain talent
• Guided team members in process excellence, solving problems, application of analytical techniques and frameworks, and creation of financial models
• Major accomplishments
• Key contributor in setting up the Finance and Accounting COE
• Key contributor in the automation of Finance reporting, developed automated reporting capability for key business metrics
• Efficiently managed process migrations
• Leading the CSR team for Time Inc. India

Sep 2003 – Jan 2013 · 9 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Delivery and Operations:
• Perform and Review Financial statements, Loan documentation and audit to ensure compliance with US Acts and Regulations, business policies & guidelines for originations and portfolio management
• Verified risk compliance of commercial lending – loans advanced by GE
• Presented to GE Leadership on deviations from risk compliance which aided in the Sarbanes Oxley Act certification
• Assisted the business in process reviews and providing recommendations
• Analyzed Financial Statements to identify the Source of Funds and Source of Wealth
• Created standard audit metrics and ensured their adherence to various Collections policies and guidelines
• Worked with the Bank Regulatory team to test Credit, Operational and Financial Risk
• Analyzed the defects identified in the Underwriting the deal and assisted in the formulation of new policies for risk mitigation
• Project Management:
• Remotely transitioned 2 new businesses for current engagement
• Led projects in identification of process inconsistencies. These projects led to change in process documents and current policies at business end
• Conducted detailed study to identify and implement steps and making them robust & streamlined
• Customer Management & Business Development:
• Business engagements previous and existing customers, which has resulted in an addition of 4 FTEs
• Governance calls to discuss transitions, process and operational key performance indicators (KPI)
• Provided proactive solutions for the issues / problems faced by customers/partners
• Collaborated with multiple customers to successfully manage audit processes and projects
• Awards & Recognition
• Service Excellence Award – Providing support to the online audit tool and for suggesting pro-active solutions in making this tool efficient
• Customer Impact – Lean Project: Automated various manual steps in the Audit process which saved around 1690 man hours p.a.
• Generated Business Revenue – Mining across various COE’s resulted in growth