Deepthi V P, ACMA, CGMA

FP&A, Reporting, and Analysis:

• Own end-to-end preparation and review of the company’s monthly P&L with the CFO, including post-book closure cost/revenue validations.
• Lead the preparation and timely circulation of MIS reports to department heads, ensuring clarity and alignment on financial performance.
• Drive the budgeting and forecasting process, ensuring strategic alignment between finance and functional leaders.
• Prepare revenue, margin, and EBITDA walk-throughs, contributing to board-level and executive presentations.

Stakeholder Management and Leadership:

• Act as a key finance business partner, preparing and presenting tailored reports and insights for senior leadership decision-making.
• Build strong working relationships through active participation in leadership meetings, offering financial insight, and risk perspectives.
• Mentor junior finance team members, and conduct cross-functional training to build capability and improve accuracy in financial inputs.

Automation and Strategic Reporting:

• Spearheaded the automation of MIS decks and CFO dashboards using Power BI, in collaboration with the CIS team, reducing manual effort and improving data accuracy.
• Designed and implemented automated reporting models, enabling faster, real-time visibility for decision-makers.
• Serve as the go-to person for ad-hoc financial models, business analysis, and performance forecasting for strategic initiatives.

Pricing and Contract Management:

• Lead pricing reviews for large RFPs, assess financial risks, and develop pricing models in collaboration with sales and delivery teams.
• Present multiple commercial options to leadership, balancing competitiveness with profitability.
• Review MSAs and SOWs from a finance lens, identifying risk and compliance gaps to support deal decisions.

Pricing and Contract Management

• Constructing and pricing small, medium, and large deals from an internal price benchmark and commercial modeling perspective.
• Reviewing bid proposals, along with business finance managers and the pre-sales team, to optimize the numbers.
• Reviewing and approving contracts from a finance standpoint before they are signed by the internal and external signatories to ensure alignment with the company's contract negotiation strategy.

MIS Reporting:

• Responsible for the preparation and review of the MIS, and its presentation to senior management and respective business unit leaders.
• Worked closely with the FPNA for the reconciliation of numbers post-revenue cycle closure, and sharing MIS inputs on a monthly basis.
• Presentation of monthly MIS to senior management, and coordination of follow-up activities wherever necessary.

Revenue - Team Lead.

• Team Lead of Health Business Unit / Americas-1 SMU.
• Handled the role of a revenue checker: approval of contract additions, contract classifications, revenue entries, and other adjustment entries posted by the team.
• Revenue recognition for various contracts that the business unit enters into.
• First-hand interaction with the delivery team regarding the status of projects.

Audit

• Closing audit samples with both internal and external auditors.