Gopika Mohanan

• Manage Weekly position Tables to understand the discrepancy in the sales from the budget & forecast on a business, pole, regional & Managerial level.
• Assisting Sector Finance Leaders in financial reporting and communication of business results including Board Review.
• Lead and chaired bi-weekly meetings with Operations Finance Leaders, providing platform to address urgent matters and streamline simple reporting needs efficiently.
• Manage & analyze monthly Plant P&L to drive efficiency in the operations Estimates & Budget.
• Assisted Global Financial Leaders in the Budget & Forecast Related Activities for estimation of Sales and COGS, Working Capital & uploading them in the ERP.
• Business Partner for monitoring Profitability metrics at both Plant & Account extent.
• Lead projects to understand the drawback in the existing process & went on to design, test & execute new process to support process simplicity & precise analysis
• Estimation of the Monthly , Quarterly & Yearly Actual Sales to support the Sector Finance Leaders for the financially-driven business presentations including monthly results reviews, divisional reviews, budget reviews and other ad hoc business presentations.
• Initiated and spearheaded optimization of existing processes related to Capitalized Variances analysis, driving efficiency and accuracy in financial reporting. Introduced streamlined methodologies and enhanced data visualization techniques to facilitate a more intuitive interpretation of financial trends.
• Collaborated seamlessly with IT teams to implement critical system logic modifications, providing invaluable functional support throughout the testing phases. Played a pivotal role in ensuring the seamless integration of new functionalities, meticulously validating outcomes, and granting final approval. Sensitivity: Internal & Restricted
• Initiated and drove creation of 'Connecting the Dots' sessions which focused on bringing together various cross functional and understand various concepts and interpretation to move beyond analytics to analysis.
• Enhance operational efficiency by elevating proficiency in tools like Power BI and initiate and implement impactful projects aimed at achieving substantial time and resource savings.
• Provided hands-on mentorship to interns, guiding them through real-world projects that involved identifying process bottlenecks, implementing efficiency improvements, and fostering collaboration among teams. Demonstrated importance of data-driven decision-making and encouraged interns to develop problem-solving skills.
• Increased efficiency in financial planning processes through adoption of automation tools and software solutions.
• Enhanced accuracy of financial forecasts through implementation of advanced modeling techniques.
• Reduced financial risks by implementing robust internal controls and compliance measures.
• Developed customized financial reports, enabling stakeholders to make data-driven decisions effectively.

Financial Planning & Analysis

• Monitored KPI to identify cause of unexpected variances.

• Analysis of under-run and over-run of each fixed price contract at company level to understand current status of deviation from monthly and quarterly targets.

• Estimation and analysis of impact on entire expected revenue, cost and margins due to under-run and over-run of contracts under fixed price projects.

• Weekly estimation of Visa costs incurred and its comparison to allocated budget to have better control at travel cost and logically come up with solutions to optimize it.

• Preparation of monthly and quarterly P/L for various data centers to estimate revenue, cost and margins at which these centers are maintained to execute deliverable.

• Scrutinizing of the People cost data and its contribution to the overall revenue in order to keep a check on the basic costs.

• Preparation of the localization deck in that will in turn help in maintaining local onsite resources at a country level and to understand the impact of these costs at the company P/L due to the localizations of these resources.

• Prepared financial reports by collecting, formatting, analyzing and explaining information.

• Business Finance Manager for the approval of budget for travel and support for multiple functions.

• Computation of the top gear initiative impact on the overall cost of the project and helping the variance analysis.

• Contributed to transformation initiative of organization by assisting in implementation of various automation activities and variance analysis between t new and existing structure.

Pricing

• Computation of pricing of multiple RFPs for both India and Global businesses and strategize the price into the customer desired formats for a better optical and justifiable view.

• Part of the large deals team with experience in handling and winning RFPs of worth between 50Mm-1 billion $ and significant complexities.

• Utilized cost estimation systems to document project information, create estimates and revise project costs to reflect current data.

• Delivered comprehensive pricing for bid proposals for fixed price & Time-material projects and gained client approval on costs.

• Creation of various models in pricing to estimate price for various fluctuations in volumes of client resource units. • Preparation of complex model pricing like site wise rates and fluctuation in rates with change of priority in each site.

• Complete analysis of finance clauses in RFPs to ensure that financial risk for company is mitigated to maximum extent by highlighting same to leadership before bidding for any RFP.

• Closure of proposal won by completing Order Booking process for respective contracts in system by ensuring all contracts, financial clauses and purchase orders are in place