PAYAL BADANI
Bengaluru
Summary
Dynamic finance professional with proven expertise in P&L tracking and deal structuring honed at UiPath and DXC Technology. Excelled in enhancing sales processes and financial forecasting, achieving significant improvements in deal approval efficiency and revenue forecasting accuracy. Skilled in variance analysis and fostering collaborative team environments, demonstrating both hard and soft skills critical for financial leadership.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Finance operations Manager
UiPath
Bengaluru
08.2021 - Current
- Provide finance, commercial, and accounting expertise and insights to UiPath’s Go-to-Market organization to ensure financially sound deals
- Review and approve commercial constructs of large deals like Enterprise Licensing agreements or high value deals, participate in deal reviews with Top Line Leadership and reviewing all the non-standard terms and conditions in the deals like high discounts, swaps, any non-standard terms and conditions in the contract like material rights, Acceptance clauses, and any other clauses which might impact or delay revenue recognition or which may indicate any financial risks
- Key Contributor for major and minor commercial policy updates - partner with commercial desk writing / reviewing policy changes
- Ensure compliance with UiPath’s commercial policy and Partner program and with relevant accounting and reporting requirements
- Assist FP&A with 'in-quarter' revenue & ARR forecasting – by preparing high-level revenue estimates for all large deals and by validating ARR for all large deals
- Continuously evaluating deal flow – finding ways to simplify quote to booking process (e.g
- Approval streamlining) and finding ways to automate the approval process for deals
Senior Financial Analyst
UiPath
Bengaluru
08.2021 - 03.2023
- Handled FP&A for Go to market function covering EMEA business, and other functions like Strategic Engagement team and Customer Enablement team
- Responsible for Head count and cost forecasting which includes Payroll costs, T&E costs, Software costs etc
- For these functions including variance analysis against actual also ensuring that the headcount and cost for the quarter is in track compared to budget and forecast
- Assisting Sales leadership in ARR and billings forecasting and responsible for monthly ARR close and reconciliation
- Helped in Building and driving Global ARR forecasting template where in ARR as per Run rate was compared with Geo leaders call and any risks were highlighted to higher management
- Responsible for all nonstandard deal approvals and participating in all large deal reviews reviewing all non-standards terms and conditions
Professional Finance 2
DXC Technology
Bengaluru
01.2018 - 07.2021
- Analysis of sales metrics to revenue conversion.
- Pipeline to TCV, ABR to revenue tracking, segregating by deal size, tech stack, and subregions using Salesforce data.
- Drive leakage analysis to provide actionable data on taking preventive actions using Salesforce and forecast/actual data, preparation of monthly scorecards for management to analyze TCV and ABR achieved as compared to forecast and budget, and analyzing the book-to-bill ratio.
- Timely submission of inputs for operational backlog and ASC 606 backlog details for earnings release, including collaboration with account POCs to provide a walkthrough for operational backlog changes and ASC 606 haircut percentage variance.
Professional Finance 1
DXC Technology
Bengaluru
01.2018 - 03.2020
- Partnering with various Regional CFOs and Business groups and helping them to drive their business more smoothly, month end close activities ensuring compliance with GAAP
- Supporting profitability improvement initiatives by identifying cost savings & revenue improvement opportunities
- Responsible for Budgeting and monthly forecast process, doing variance analysis between Actual Vs Forecast Vs Prior forecast, analyzing Gap to Budget and reporting that to senior management, responsible for Cash collection and DSO, giving DSO walks, deferred revenue analysis, Balance sheet Analysis
Senior Executive (Finance)-Pricing Team
Wipro LTD
Bengaluru
03.2016 - 12.2017
- Responding to the Commercial section of Request for Proposals (RFPs).
- Creating Deal P&L based on inputs received from delivery and practice.
- Create and review the commercial construct of the said deals, understand the customer's requirements, and propose win-win deal structuring, including the financial engineering required.
- Identify the commercial risks involved, and propose a risk mitigation framework.
- Interact with sales and delivery teams, and with the customer. Review the commercial terms and conditions in a proposal.
Education
CA -
11.2015
B.Com. -
PRSU
Chhattisgarh01.2014
Higher Secondary -
Central Board of Secondary Education
01.2011
Higher School -
Central Board of Secondary Education
01.2009
Skills
- Sales process development
- P&L tracking
- Deal structuring
- Variance Analysis
- Forecasting & Budgeting
- Contract Review
Languages
- English
- Hindi
Articleship experience
A.C. Surana & Co Chartered Accountants from - Aug-2012 to Aug-2015, Conducted Various Audits like Stat Audits, Revenue Audits, Tax Audits, ISA Audits., Preparations of Income Tax returns, TDS returns, service tax returns.
Personal Information
- Husband's Name: Aman Nagvani
- Date of Birth: 04/03/94
- Marital Status: Married
Timeline
Finance operations Manager
UiPath
08.2021 - Current
Senior Financial Analyst
UiPath
08.2021 - 03.2023
Professional Finance 2
DXC Technology
01.2018 - 07.2021
Professional Finance 1
DXC Technology
01.2018 - 03.2020
Senior Executive (Finance)-Pricing Team
Wipro LTD
03.2016 - 12.2017
CA -
B.Com. -
PRSU
Higher Secondary -
Central Board of Secondary Education
Higher School -
Central Board of Secondary Education
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