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Dhanush Kundapura

Bangalore

Summary

A Finance Professional with well-rounded techno-functional experience in both Banking and Manufacturing Industry. Skilled in identifying, prioritizing, and driving transformation initiatives; thereby, building a culture of innovation, optimization, and efficiency in an organization.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Financial Consultant

Ernst & Young
Bangalore
01.2023 - Current

· Perform scalable and standard methodology to assess a company’s current challenges, design and build processes, policies, enabling technology and operating models to improve the intercompany transactions that are used in other business processes such as statutory reporting, tax provision and compliance.

· Independently managed projects from blueprint to go-live by applying project management techniques, as well as leveraging technical and business knowledge to ensure high-quality results.

· Business writing skills: Writing business requirement document BRD, Use case documents UCD, functional and non-functional specifications and change request documents.

· Prepare user testing plans, testing scripts, and expected results, and conduct testing to validate system functionality and user requirements.

· Engaged with clients such as 3M, DuPont, Nike, Haleon, Ansys, and Federal-Mogul on the implementation of service allocation models, profitability models, pricing simulations, and legal entity reporting models.

· Served as a PMO for various clients, participating in resource planning, budgeting, access management, and real-time tracking of activity progress, while maintaining project management standards to ensure efficient project execution.

Financial Analyst

Wells Fargo
Bangalore
03.2019 - 01.2023

Income Attribution:

· Part of Income attribution team pilot batch and initiated the implementation of an income/revenue-based transfer pricing approach for certain front office services to improve legal entity, management reporting, tax and regulatory reporting.

· Perform monthly income attribution allocation computations using MS access based tactical tools for 22 Line of Business’s using general ledger and supplemental financial information as source and upload the entries in existing billing systems (Apptio)

· Perform consolidated income attribution entries with both the provider and receiver view for all the legal entities and perform month on month variance analysis at various business lines and legal entity level.

· Periodically set up calls with the group controllers and give updates related to monthly computation and provide all the information related to the income attribution transactions to CFO'S controllers or individuals in business finance for the audit purposes.

Transfer Pricing REG-W Certification:

· Perform monthly intercompany accounting and reporting (REG W certification - 23A and 23B) across different regions EMEA, APAC, Canada and LATAM (48 Legal entities) identifying all the TP transactions and flag them as compliant or non- compliant transactions based on the availability of the service level agreements/ TP agreements.

· Developed automated certification process using Power Bi by creating multiple dashboards presented to Global tax.

· Understanding the nature of the Non-compliance transactions and challenges raised by the LE controllers and provide all the information to service governance office helping to build transfer pricing agreements.

· Periodically set up calls with the Legal entity controllers and review all the existing TP agreements based on different parameters like TP methodology, mark up percentages, products and lines of business included in the agreements and recommend any changes if required.

· Postings of manual transfer pricing entries for China (Non-Cas) entities on monthly basis in eagle entry system and postings of quarterly true up for Component provider (CP)-Service provider (SP) transactions

Process Executive

Societe Generale
Bangalore
08.2016 - 02.2019

· Understanding of transfer pricing policies and Development of the framework for calculating the monthly transfer pricing accruals (cost and net banking income) using MS access, excel based tactical tools.

· Presenting of TP cost Vs NBI analysis (MOM & YOY variance analysis) for all LOB's with commentaries to the Entity/Group Partners/CFO's on monthly basis.

· Recharge of central and regional head office cost based on TP methodologies to different legal entities and communicating the accruals and booking the entries in corresponding system.

· Inter entity reconciliation based on accounting and management reporting data and analysing the breaks and perform balance sheet certification for TP related accounts and justify the balances.

· Assisting the regional CFO's and legal entity CFO's with any kind of queries related to TP transactions and also provide the data for internal and external audits

· Assessing the risk related to the process and formalizing controls related to corresponding risks.

Education

MBA - Finance

CMS Business School
Jain University
07-2016

BBA - Finance

Mangalore University
Udupi
06-2014

Skills

  • Financial performance management
  • Cost allocation and reporting
  • Intercompany accounting and reporting
  • Transfer pricing
  • Project management office
  • Budgeting and forecasting
  • PowerQuery & PowerPivot
  • PowerBI
  • Advanced excel and Hyperion
  • Alteryx
  • Business objects SAP
  • SQL

Languages

English
First Language

Process Transformation

  • International costing project Implementation
  • Centralized invoicing team setup Supplemental Report automation (Power Query and Macro) - Annual Savings 1400Hrs
  • SRI database (Alteryx) Spend vs Recover report (Alteryx) - Annual savings 160 Hrs
  • SGO Reports Automation (PowerQuery) - Annual savings168 Hrs
  • Dot Validation report Automation (Power query) - Annual savings 128
    Hrs

ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Received Multiple EY Spot award for different client Engagements
  • Wells Fargo championship award for SGO reporting, supplemental report automation and Dot validation report automation

Timeline

Senior Financial Consultant

Ernst & Young
01.2023 - Current

Financial Analyst

Wells Fargo
03.2019 - 01.2023

Process Executive

Societe Generale
08.2016 - 02.2019

MBA - Finance

CMS Business School

BBA - Finance

Mangalore University
Dhanush Kundapura