Hariraam Thyagarajan

Heads Finance for Global growth markets (Europe, APAC). Oversee commercial negotiations, financial reporting, and governance, margin improvement, and change management initiatives, working closely with CXOs.

Finance head of the Trianz platform and IP-led digital transformation vertical. Supported the capital raising process including financial planning, due diligence, and stakeholder communications, contributing to financial strategy. Engineered platform feasibility. Streamlined order-to-cash process, pricing, and customer contracts. Responsible for P&L and cost optimizations. Managed cash, vendor management, and the procurement process.

Region COO for the US East of Brillio: Develop and implement operational strategies, review forecast from respective region heads, analysis of monthly profitability, account reviews with CXO, sales pipeline analysis and resource planning, contract commercial review, and new client deal structuring.

Region CFO of Cognizant's $300M+ Business Unit in Australia and New Zealand. Solely responsible for the financial health and strategy of the region by developing long term and annual plan for Aus & NZ business unit aligned with company objectives, Led analysis of monthly profitability, review of financials with Business heads. Supported business for all commercial and transformational initiatives, policy changes. Closely worked with 4 Business Heads, helped in achieving 3x growth by providing financial insights. Handled 3 successful acquisitions & integrations.

As part of Cognizant Change management team, conceptualized and implemented new dashboard application that analyses the deviation in key profitable levers against Bid/ pricing assumptions. Worked in Corporate P&L forecasting for Cognizant global

Finance Controller of Olam's IT captive operations in Chennai. Handled Statutory compliances of direct & indirect taxes, auditing & regulatory filings, working with business leaders in determining the budgets for the captive center, analysis and review of financial performance of Captive center with respect to budgets & forecasting, transfer of costs in accordance with transfer pricing requirements, tracking of project/ CWIP expenses and analysis of reasons for project overruns, Cost optimization initiatives

Analysis of monthly Financial and review of profitability that include variance analysis , identification and implementation of cost optimization initiatives by working closely with delivery and account leadership, supporting revenue assurance team for US GAAP compliance, managing unbilled revenue and DSO

As internal auditor, provided independent assurance on Financial Processes & controls, Key Policy compliance & controls, Information systems control, SOX testing. Was part of first Wipro Finance Cohorts Program which involved two years of academic training and job rotation within Wipro finance