Ramesh Gurav

Company Overview: About a Company - A global professional services company that helps businesses, governments, and organizations with strategy, technology, and operations.

• P&L Governance: Oversee and manage the governance of the Profit and Loss statements, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and compliance with accounting standards.
• Budget Management: Develop, monitor, and manage budgets, ensuring alignment with DAIS goals and financial targets.
• Financial Reporting: Prepare and present financial reports for senior management, highlighting key insights, variances, and actionable recommendations.
• Analyze variances between actuals, forecasts, and budgets, identifying key trends and actionable items. Provide detailed explanations of OPEX drivers and variances to support discussion with practice leaders.
• Cost Control: Identify areas for cost optimization, and implement strategies to enhance financial efficiency and reduce unnecessary expenditure.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate with department heads and key stakeholders to provide financial guidance and support, fostering a culture of financial accountability and transparency.
• Cost center creation as per approved BC.
• Financial Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting like 3 + 9, 6 + 6, and 9 + 3: Headcount, Travels, L&D, IT, Finance, and Legal.
• Prepare, review, and analyze financial results, identifying trends, risks, and opportunities, and presenting clear variance analyses to management.
• Prepare month-end accruals, JEs, and reconciliations for operational expenditures across business units.
• Monthly validation of financial reports, reclassify costs if any.
• Travels – Monitor closely on travel budgets and actuals.
• Assist in forecasting to address changes in practice, service line activities, or new initiatives. Input data into forecasting tools and validate system outputs (e.g., BPC, TM1, S4HANA) to ensure accuracy and consistency.
• Maintain and update the tracker for practice-specific OPEX, including vendor spend, project costs, and T&E expenses.
• Work with controllership to resolve discrepancies and ensure financial reporting complies with audit requirements. Act as a finance business partner to practice leaders, providing financial insights that address questions related to OPEX expenditures.
• Support and work collaboratively with a wider FP&A team, as well as Commercial and Operational finance. Interact with colleagues at a global level in respect to spending and associated recharge.
• Ability to prioritize tasks effectively and meet deadlines in a high-pressure environment. Adaptability to shift priorities and multitask as needed.
• Eagerness to grow and develop expertise in finance and analytics roles.

Company Overview: About a Company – A manufactures seeds and crop-protection products. The Company develops new varieties of hybrid seeds for crops such as rice, corn, and vegetables.

• Assist in the preparation and analysis of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports. Ensure the financial statements are accurate, and timely.
• Support the budgeting and forecasting processes by gathering and analyzing data from different business units, helping to create financial projections.
• Perform variance analysis to understand discrepancies between actual financial performance and budgeted or forecasted figures.
• Meet periodically with finance and business stakeholders in different time zones to develop accurate forecasts for operating expenses and capital expenditures, defining depreciation schedules, and reflecting amortization and prepaids accurately in the forecast.
• Actively participate and drive organizational initiatives, both from a functional perspective (e.g. Forecast transformation and business perspective (e.g.) productivity drives).
• Developing strong internal relationships to optimize service delivery and ensure all practices are in line with internal guidelines and statutory requirements.
• Driving accurately and timely for monthly, quarterly, and year-end closing, following the respective IFRS and US GAAP standards. Statutory reporting to ensure precise and compliant financial reporting, aligned with both group and local regulations.
• Ensure compliance with financial regulations and internal company policies, helping to mitigate financial risks.
• Serve as a dedicated point of contact for business countries, facilitating seamless navigation of the ATR process organization to meet all legal entity requirements. Act as a liaison between country teams and process teams.
• Support requests from internal and external auditors.

Company Overview: About a Company - A leading Indian telecommunications company, providing mobile voice and data services across the country.

• Responsible for analyzing, interpreting, and recording financial transactions, as well as reporting this information.
• Take ownership of specific components of the consolidated balance sheet and income statement, review and confirm consolidated balances during month-end closing, and perform ongoing analytical review.
• Complete complex account reconciliations and journal entries in support of the monthly close process.
• Ensure adherence to month-end closing checklists, including the review of balance sheet reconciliations.
• Establish, maintain, and coordinate the implementation of accounting operational procedures, and document such processes and procedures.
• Lead the preparation of management reports that highlight financial performance, variances, and provide insights into key metrics.
• Continuously seek opportunities to streamline and improve the R2R process, identifying areas for automation, error reduction, and reporting enhancements.
• Partner with key stakeholders to resolve queries and issues.

Company Overview: About a Company - A global business advisory firm that provides services to businesses across industries. They offer services such as business consulting, tax guidance, and accounting.

• Responsible for the management of the General Ledger, Fixed Asset Accounting, and operational workflow.
• Creation and capitalization of assets, coordination with other departments for asset transfer and asset disposal information, and accurately posting in systems. Verification of original asset invoices.
• Preparation of the CWIP aging report, fixed assets, CWIP movement, and depreciation run monthly. Execute depreciation runs, WBS settlements, and CO-PA transfers.
• Follow up on Asset Master Changes, and perform Fixed Assets Reconciliations.
• Support auditors and controllers with fixed assets reporting.
• Assist with ad hoc requests to stakeholders and equipment groups for capital projects.

Company Overview: About a Company - A global leader in business process management (BPM) services, providing end-to-end transformative solutions to clients across various industries.