CHIRANJIT DUTTA
Financial Planning and Analysis
Bangalore
Summary
Experienced Financial Planning & Analysis professional with over 10 years of expertise. Proven track record in driving financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting processes to support strategic decision-making. Skilled in data analysis, business operations analysis, and cost optimization. Adept at building strong relationships with stakeholders through excellent interpersonal skills. Proficient in utilizing business reporting tools such as SAP BPC and Oracle tools.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages
Work History
Assistant Manager
Dentsu Group Inc.
12.2017 - Current
- Overall ownership of month-end cycle and financial reporting related to actual and forecasts.
- Providing insights to the CFO on group-wide overall monthly and quarterly results, and P&L numbers by coordinating with all three regions.
- Deep dive revenue forecasting to influence strategic decision through accurate financial planning and insightful data-driven analytics.
- Analyzing variance and writing commentaries for our monthly financial reports used by the senior executives for evaluating future plans and decisions moving forward.
- Cost optimization reporting by focusing on margin improvements.
- Recommending various ways to regions that assist them in achieving the target of forecasting accuracy in every forecasting cycle.
- Introduced Monthly Flash Forecasting, which helped to improve the quality of revenue and cost forecasting at a group level.
- Presenting group financials on a monthly basis to other teams for a better understanding of organizational performance.
- Supervised day-to-day operations to meet performance, quality and service expectations.
- Developed strong working relationships with staff, fostering a positive work environment.
- Promoted teamwork within the workplace by encouraging collaboration among staff members on various projectstasks.
Senior Financial Analyst
Ameriprise Financial
12.2015 - 12.2017
- Working with the US business partners on finalizing the annual operation plan for marketing expenses for various business units.
- Performing variance analysis vs. Budgets/Forecasts and providing variance commentaries to share with the business partners for their expense meeting.
- Quarterly 'Cost-Benefit Analysis' to analyze the performance of various program expenses and also to evaluate the feasibility of performing these programs for client acquisition.
- Supporting business partners in the 6+6 forecasting cycle.
- Analysis of headcount and staff cost associated with each and every business units.
- Publishing client acquisition report to identify the most revenue-generating program, which is also doing well in acquiring new clients.
- Pulling out invoices from 'Ariba' if there is any requirement from the business partners for vendor expenses.
Associate Consultant
Capgemini
03.2014 - 08.2015
- Financial controlling and reporting process in GFS (Global Financial System), an Oracle App R12, for the clients of North America.
- Verification, validation, and audit of the expense reports as per company guidelines and invoice processing in GFS.
- Resolving the ad hoc requests from business partners.
- Publishing Contract management report to calculate variance and prepare a variance analysis report of contracts.
- Publishing cash report for a respective business unit under NATS to interpret Actual vs. Budget of cash receivables.
- Create and analyze spreadsheets of monthly expenses and hours report.
Education
MBA - Finance
Bengal Institute of Business Studies
Kolkata, India 05.2012 - 04.2014
Bachelor of Commerce - Financial Analysis
Delhi University
New Delhi 03.2006 - 04.2009
Senior School Certificate Examination -
Kendriya Vidyalaya
Guwahati 06.2004 - 06.2006
Skills
Financial Reporting
Financial Planning and Analysis
Budgeting & Forecasting
Good team player
Business Strategies
Microsoft PowerPoint
Operations Management
Product and service knowledge
Accomplishments
- Documented and resolved several operation related issues which led to expected results.
- Supervised team of 10 staff members.
- Collaborated with various stake holders in the development of a forecasting model.
- Achieved forecasting accuracy by introducing SAP tool and integration tasks.
Locations
- Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka
- Gurgaon, Gurgaon, Haryana
- Kolkata, Kolkata, West Bengal
- New Delhi, New Delhi, Delhi
- Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam
Timeline
Assistant Manager
Dentsu Group Inc.
12.2017 - Current
Senior Financial Analyst
Ameriprise Financial
12.2015 - 12.2017
Associate Consultant
Capgemini
03.2014 - 08.2015
MBA - Finance
Bengal Institute of Business Studies
05.2012 - 04.2014
Bachelor of Commerce - Financial Analysis
Delhi University
03.2006 - 04.2009
Senior School Certificate Examination -
Kendriya Vidyalaya
06.2004 - 06.2006
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