seetaram kota
hyderabad
Summary
Experienced FP&A and Accounting specialist with over 13 years in finance domain. Expertise includes budgeting, forecasting, Record to Report, ERP master data management and strategic business partnering. Having a proven track record of leveraging technology to optimize financial processes and drive actionable insights. Effective leader with skills to sustain growth and momentum and motivate individual performances.
Overview
3
3
Languages
1
1
Certification
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Finance Operations Manager
Connx AI
10.2025 - Current
- Overseeing the budgeting and forecasting process for Expenses & Revenues.
- Cashflow review for various projects.
- P&L reporting for revenues and project performance.
- AOP Plan – Preparation & implementation of AOP.
- Power BI – Implementation of new Power BI report.
- Business Partnering & Collaborated cross-functionally with operations, PMO, and other departments
- Tracking the G&A spend., (new hires, relocation, promotion, Interns & backfill). Quarterly/Annually submitting accruals for executive & premium bonus.
- Tracking the A&M spend., (SOW, Invoices, PO tracking & follow-up, reviewing the line items from ERP).
- Led a 12-member team, overseeing workload management, performance development, and delivering key business outcomes.
Manager
Pepsico Global Business Services India LLP
06.2020 - 10.2025
- Led annual budgeting & forecasting for beverages, delivering financial plans aligned with strategic objectives & enabling proactive resource allocation.
- Conducted variance analysis between actuals and budgeted figures (expenses), uncovering key drivers of deviation and recommending corrective measures to improve financial performance.
- Prepared comprehensive financial statements (monthly, quarterly, annual) in compliance with internal policies and regulatory standards, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery to senior leadership.
- AOP Plan – Preparation and implementation of AOP business plan.
- I managed a cost budget for A&M and SG&A and ensured that financial controls showed productivity.
- Maintained robust internal controls and supported both internal and external audits (KPMG, internal) to safeguard assets and ensure compliance with corporate and regulatory standards.
- Managed a team of 4 to deliver high-quality outputs with consistency and accountability.
- Collaborated cross-functionally, partnering with operations, supply chain, and other departments to integrate financial planning with plant initiatives and ensure cohesive execution.
- Business Partnering / Stakeholder Management to understand the requests and Create reports for their usage.
- Participating in various initiatives such as digitalization, automation and legacy system continuous upgrades. (Oracle, SAP, TPM integrations)
Associate Manager
Sutherland
01.2020 - 06.2020
- Responsible for preparing budgets and forecasts to project & track financial metrics such as revenue & expense.
- Analyze and report on the monthly/quarterly/YTD Cost deviations per function in comparison to AOP (Annual Operating Plan). Detailed reporting at a Market-Function reporting Unit level.
- Analyzing the movements and trends in areas of revenue, cost of sales, income and expenses.
- Connect calls with Finance Business Partners and cost controllers to discuss about the cost variances vs AOP, identifying root causes for the deviations and preparing commentaries for submission to Head of Finance.
- Preparation of month end reports for Managerial review and decision purposes.
- Managing master data in ERP system (Oracle) for GL, Cost centers.
- Liaison with Big4 for audit, legal and tax teams in process of financial statements.
- Performing variance analysis on budget vs actuals.
Consultant
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt Ltd
07.2018 - 01.2020
- Performing financial analysis such as reconciliations and variance analysis.
- Handle various Large & Medium Advisory projects worth up to $50 Million.
- Leverage financial management through pricing models, staffing mix, cost estimation to achieve stipulated project margins, ensuring legal and quality compliance.
- Prepare budgets and forecasts to project & track financial metrics such as revenue & expense.
- Act as financial advisor to project leadership by monitoring project profitability.
- Performing forecast vs. actuals analysis, proactively flagging potential risks & recommending mitigation plans to leadership.
- Interact regularly with various Project Teams to present various financial analysis, discuss recommendations and provide project financial advice as and when required.
- Monitor both unbilled and billed receivables to ensure timely billing and collections, as well as track and monitor the financial impact of AR on financial performance.
- Conduct project / financial closeout activities including preparation & issue of final invoice & processing Revenue unbilled adjustments.
Financial Accountant II
Bank of New York Mellon
05.2014 - 06.2018
- Preparing & sending Journal for proper disclosure of financials to onshore stakeholders.
- Handling execution of offline transition for offshoring activities.
- Preparing revenue schedules between entities for assets under management & booking entries respectively.
- Analysing the adjustment and process the adjustment entries confine to the concerned entity specific regulatory reporting.
- Ensuring all month end adjustment journals has been posted to get the books closed in time.
- Clearance of Suspense balances at individual entity level to ensure the group balance is under the thresh hold.
- Find and clear the Balance sheet & HFM differences.
- Generating the BS break reports and clearing the major breaks to ensure all inter-co balances are under control till the BS been closed on DAY-5.
- Handling weekly calls with onshore Legal entity Controllers for clearing the break and ensuring posting of journal entries.
- Reviewing the AP-Accounts payables & AR Accounts receivables general ledger reconciliations.
Education
M.COM - Finance
Andhra University
B.COM -
Acharya Nagarjuna University
Skills
- Office 365
- Advanced Excel (Basic VBA)
- Oracle
- Hyperion Financial management
- Mosaic TM1 (IBM Planning & Analytic)
- Blackline tool
- Tableau & Power BI
- SAP S4 HANA
- MS Power Apps
- Anaplan
Certification
- PMP Certified
- Power BI Expert (PL 300 Certified)
Languages Known
English
Hindi
Telugu
Custom Section
Yes
Additional information
Passport availability and Willingness to travel : Yes, Resume mentions 'Passport availability and Willingness to travel : Yes' but does not explicitly separate passport availability from travel willingness.
Timeline
Finance Operations Manager
Connx AI
10.2025 - Current
Manager
Pepsico Global Business Services India LLP
06.2020 - 10.2025
Associate Manager
Sutherland
01.2020 - 06.2020
Consultant
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt Ltd
07.2018 - 01.2020
Financial Accountant II
Bank of New York Mellon
05.2014 - 06.2018
M.COM - Finance
Andhra University
B.COM -
Acharya Nagarjuna University