Murali Kodanda

Functions: Core Business Services - Indirect Cost - Finance, BD, Knowledge, AWS EA & Creative Services.

• Budgeting & Forecasting: Lead the creating of annual budget, working closely with teams to set financial targets. Manage the budgeting process, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and efficient allocation of resources. Oversee the preparation of accurate and timely financial forecasts, incorporating inputs from all the teams. Updating the plan numbers in GFP tool.
• Strategic Support: Collaborating with business leaders and functional leaders to provide financial support and guidance, including budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis.
• Financial Analysis: Analyzing financial performance and trends to provide actionable insights to the stakeholders. Analyzing the people cost as well as head count variances and tracking the growth and optimization efficiencies are in line with plan. Collaborate with Business team to make them understand variances and identify risks & opportunities in the due course.
• Financial Reporting: Modelling the data to be suitable for reporting purpose. Preparing financial reports and to communicate financial performance to stakeholders.
• Cross functional Collaboration: Engage with outsourced AP / AR / GL teams to ensure the deliverables completed within the agreed timelines and to address operational issues.
• Continuous Improvement: Identifying the opportunities for process improvement, recommend and working closely with leadership to implement changes to enhance overall service quality and efficiency.
• Ad-hoc Projects: Participating in ad-hoc projects to support senior management and business stakeholders.
• Invoice Summary: Managing the invoice tracker to monitor billing accuracy and identify deviations from the planned budget.

• Managed end-to-end General Ledger accounting including journal entries, accruals, and month-end close activities.
• Reconciled GL accounts monthly to ensure accuracy and compliance with internal controls and accounting standards.
• Analyzed and resolved discrepancies in GL reconciliations (Current account, accrual account, VAT account) by collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure data integrity.
• Supported internal and external audits by providing detailed GL reports, reconciliations and supporting documents.
• Balance confirmation with Asia Pacific, EMEIA and Americas region.
• Preparation of Financial reporting pack.
• Engaged with both the Tax and Sub-ledger teams to identify and resolve open items that were omitted from the tax filing process
• Bringing efficiency, process improvements and control check in operational activities.
• Trained new team members by relaying information on company procedures and safety requirements.
• Monthly discussion with controllers and stake holder in order resolve open items in the reconciliations.
• Promoted a positive work environment by fostering teamwork, open communication.
• Served as a role model for the team by demonstrating commitment to excellence, professionalism, and adherence to company values at all times.

• Balance Sheet reconciliation preparation for Payroll (Salary, Tax & NI, Bank reconciliations,Loan, SIP)
• Journal entries preparation of accruals, reclassification, allocation etc.,
• Preparing the balance sheet or control summary and highlighting the risk to the management for timely resolution.
• Internal audit support.
• Co-ordination with internal teams to resolve the issues arisen from sub-ledger teams.

• Calculating Dividend and gains/losses due to market fluctuations.
• Calculating marked value adjustment of the amount which is missed out in investing in New York Stock Exchange and having a close look of the NAV of the particular investment mixes where in money is supposed to be invested.
• Daily calls with Relationship Managers, Client Service managers and ODL (Operation Delivery Leaders) for the escalated payments.