Karthikeyan Dhanapal
Financial Planning And Analysis
Chennai
Summary
Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills. Motivational leader and organizational problem-solver with advanced supervisory, team building and customer service skills. Experience stepping into roles and quickly making positive changes to drive company success. Focused on using training, monitoring and morale-building techniques to maximize employee engagement and performance.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Assistant Manager
WNS Global Services Pvt Ltd
Chennai
07.2024 - Current
- Responsible for providing monthly management accounts, forecasts, budget preparation, cost analysis, consolidation of reports and general financial advice to the Global Management Team
- Performing Variance analysis with Actual Vs Budget/Forecasting and Actual Vs Previous Year's performance and providing the commentary to top level Management for further proceedings
- Yearly upload of Budget numbers & Quarterly upload of forecast number in the reporting tool
- Proactively produced timely and accurate accounting reports, responsive to a constantly changing organization and customer requirements
- Preparing SLA reports to submit to the management
- Maintained sound record keeping and thorough documentation to facilitate and comply with external year end audits
Team Leader
Infosys BPM Ltd
Chennai
01.2022 - 07.2024
- Handling and analyzing commercials, research and development, supply chain management, and enabling functions related costs.
- Preparing yearly/monthly budget report and sales report.
- Supporting month-end close activities and delivering necessary reports to the client.
- Collaborate with various departments to create annual and quarterly budgets.
- Monitor and update forecasts as needed to reflect changing market conditions and business objectives.
- Investigating and explaining variances between actual financial results and budgets/forecasts.
- Analyzing and controlling costs across the organization to improve efficiency and profitability.
- Monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) to gauge business performance and assess progress toward financial goals.
- Preparing ad hoc financial analysis as per the request of stakeholders.
- Assisting in long-term financial planning and strategic initiatives by providing data-driven insights.
- Received ‘Star Performer’ for ensuring the deliverables are on time, with FTR (first time right), and for taking initiative for continuous improvement across all the processes in FP&A.
- Extensively worked on the development of financial reports by successfully coordinating between the business team and the technical team for the system migration to S4 HANA and SAC (SAP Analytics Cloud).
Lead Associate
WNS Global services Pvt Ltd
Chennai
12.2020 - 01.2022
- Responsible for providing monthly management accounts, forecasts, budget preparation, cost analysis, consolidation of reports and general financial advice to the Global Management Team
- Performing Variance analysis with Actual Vs Budget/Forecasting and Actual Vs Previous Year's performance and providing the commentary to top level Management for further proceedings
- Yearly upload of Budget numbers & Quarterly upload of forecast number in the reporting tool
- Proactively produced timely and accurate accounting reports, responsive to a constantly changing organization and customer requirements
- Preparing SLA reports to submit to the management
- Maintained sound record keeping and thorough documentation to facilitate and comply with external year end audits
- SPOC for the automations in the process and people engagement activities
Assistant Manager
DTCC, US Tech Solutions
Chennai
10.2019 - 03.2020
- Handling Asset maintenance i.e., Creation/ Amendment/ Transfer/ Write off
- Maintaining Fixed Asset Register for IND and US GAAP
- Preparing and publishing various asset reports for top management as well as auditing purposes
- Actioned more than 5K invoices and created as assets in ERP
- Taking care of capital equipment's purchase orders for capitalization as per organization policy
- Project Management (CWIP OR AUC) - New projects, Release & status change
- Post CWIP to Fixed Assets after reviewing respective AP invoices
- Preparing and processing Reclassification Journals
- Reconciling Sub ledger Vs Trial balance post FA ledger close
- Asset tagging and maintaining, generate physical reports for each line of business
- Ensure deliverables during month closures activities to close period
- Review P&L account and balance sheet statement post adjusting entries
Accounting Operation Analyst
GE India Industrial Private Limited
Chennai
01.2018 - 07.2018
- Preparing and posting required Journal Entries before book closure
- Managing inventories for reporting
- Preparation, consolidation and analyze financial statement for publishing to top management
- Tracking project level profitability and associated cost for reporting
- Maintaining AUC in template and update new projects, release, status change and close as per budgeting
- Ensuring all reports are ready to perform reconciliation
- Generate various reports that would be back up for Balance Sheet GL reconciliations
- Preparation and Review of Balance sheet reconciliation in ARM tool
- Creating new asset and schedule for depreciation in ERP
Process Officer
Sopra Steria India Ltd
Chennai
11.2013 - 11.2017
- Accountable for preparation of monthly P&L reports for various sites and reporting to respective stake holders
- Responsible for performing variance analysis and provided reason thereof
- Generating reports for SL Vs GL reconciliations
- Involving in daily cash pool activity
- Actioned and cleared open items from accounting books
- Responsible for preparing Prepaid, Accrual & Stock journal
- Inventory Reconciliation - GL module into Inventory module
- Updating process documentation up to date
- Validation and preparation of VAT reconciliations
- Perform analysis on VAT variance between quarters and provide commentary on variance to Group VAT manager for further analysis
- Generating various reports that helps to have back up for Balance Sheet GL reconciliations
- Raising query with various stake holder on clearing open items in reconciliations
- Ensuring all necessary JVs are posted before book closure
Financial Analyst
IRIS KPO Resourcing India Pvt Limited
Chennai
02.2012 - 11.2013
- Performing Trend Analysis and Ratios analysis
- Calculating Revenue and Cost for segmental, Geographical wise reporting
- Calculating EBITDA based on financial statement and providing same to internal stakeholders
- Comparing Actual cost/Revenue with Annual Operating Plan, monthly and quarterly Forecasting numbers
- Analyzing financial & segmental data and tracking the historical performance
- Interpreting and suggesting provided Forecasting numbers based on previous trend analysis
- Highlighting abnormal P&L trends to Divisional/Product line to the stakeholders
- Interacting with controller on regular basis
- Preparing various types of reporting for Auditing purposes
Accountant
Eureka Forbes Limited
Chennai
09.2010 - 01.2012
- Issuing Order Forms and Goods to employees according to their eligibility
- Creating Customer details to map Order form and respective stock
- Receiving payment from customer
- Making sure all cash received are deposited in Bank
- Making of invoice to service customers through CRM module
- Making entries for receipts and payment
- Maintaining cashbook and bank passbook
- Preparing journals to amortize prepaid expenses
- Maintaining Payroll records
- Person in charge for branch stock preparation of purchase orders, goods issue note, goods receipt note for branch
- Issue of stock to business partners
- Preparation of stock reconciliation for every month end
- Maintaining Petty cash for Branch
Operation Executive
VKC Credit and Forex Services Pvt Ltd
Chennai
06.2009 - 07.2010
- Quoting price for buying and selling foreign currencies and earned margin
- Solving customer Queries in terms of currencies
- Foreign exchange billing for buying and selling to corporate
- Maintaining of Forex Ledger Management
- Handling cash and Cheque for buy and sale of Forex transactions
- Involving in Bulk Purchase and Sale of Foreign Currencies
- Load foreign currencies into international card and activation
Education
Bachelor of Commerce - Corporate Secretaryship
Dhanraj Baid Jain College, University of Madras
Chennai, Tamilnadu, India11.2007
Skills
- Budget preparation
- Forecasting
- Variance analysis
- Cost control
Certification
Business Continuity Management, 06/2015
Languages
- English, Advanced
- Tamil, Advanced
Timeline
Assistant Manager
WNS Global Services Pvt Ltd
07.2024 - Current
Team Leader
Infosys BPM Ltd
01.2022 - 07.2024
Lead Associate
WNS Global services Pvt Ltd
12.2020 - 01.2022
Assistant Manager
DTCC, US Tech Solutions
10.2019 - 03.2020
Accounting Operation Analyst
GE India Industrial Private Limited
01.2018 - 07.2018
Process Officer
Sopra Steria India Ltd
11.2013 - 11.2017
Financial Analyst
IRIS KPO Resourcing India Pvt Limited
02.2012 - 11.2013
Accountant
Eureka Forbes Limited
09.2010 - 01.2012
Operation Executive
VKC Credit and Forex Services Pvt Ltd
06.2009 - 07.2010
Bachelor of Commerce - Corporate Secretaryship
Dhanraj Baid Jain College, University of Madras
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