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Ranganath M

Ranganath M

Bangalore

Summary

Bringing over 12 years of rich experience in Financial Planning and Analysis, I thrive on navigating the complexities of FP&A across various industries. My passion lies in shaping and fine-tuning models and reports crucial to forecasting and budgeting. I firmly believe in the power of 'owning the data,' ensuring precision and integrity every step of the way. Let's craft success together.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead SCM PMO

Tata Consultancy Services
Bengaluru
01.2023 - 05.2023

After the contractual end of the Refinitiv project, took up the role of Lead SCM PMO Supporting 50 units.

My key deliverables are:

● Weekly, Monthly & Quarterly reporting.

● Follow up on the Projections and updating the tracker

● Sending out the actuals billing details for the accounts on need basis.

● Contract renewal follow up.

● Month end follow up on the unbilled revenue and collating the remarks.

● Post month close analysis and sending out the report to the senior leadership team.

● Follow up and clearing of Unbilled revenue and Unearned Revenue

Assistant Manager – FP&A

Tata Consultancy Services
Bengaluru
07.2021 - 12.2022

Joined Tata Consultancy Services as assistant manager Financial Planning and Analysis for the UK Client “London Stock Exchange” I am responsible for ensuring the smooth operations of the day today activities of the business, I was the point of contact for the facility and Infrastructure PO’s

My key deliverables are:

● Supported the monthly financial forecast processes by analyzing key metrics and inputting finalized data into the tool.

● Financial reporting for the facilities and infrastructure project.

● Developing and publishing Weekly & Periodic Flash Repor

● Accrual entry preparation.

● Month end reclass.

● Monitored Budget vs actual consumption against targets, and presented findings to Seniors.

● First person contacts for PO creation.

Accounts Executive

Collins Aerospace Service
Bengaluru
09.2008 - 12.2020

Started my Career in Collins Aerospace Service Pvt Ltd an American Multinational Company leading in the Manufacturing and Servicing of Aerospace parts. During my 12-year tenure here I have handled multiple roles starting from data cleansing activities for the SAP implementation team, Travel coordinator, project coordinator for the engineering department and later handling the financial planning and analysis for the engineering and the manufacturing divisions.

My key deliverables are:

Financial Planning & Analysis from 2016 to 2020

● Overseeing all aspects of financial controls in the business.

● Preparation of management information report from source data.

● Partner with Corporate and SBU FP&A teams to standardise processes.

● Develop and implement process improvements across the FP&A team

● Financial planning for yearly budget.

● Monthly forecasting of P&L, Balance sheet & Cash flow analysis.

● Monthly closing of books, loading the financials numbers into HFM

● Presenting monthly results, budget variances and ad-hoc P&L analysis.

● Involved in Business Planning, P&L, Balance sheet & liquidity planning.

● Providing the details of overhead cost & material cost increase for cost run.

● Preparation and reporting of income and expense forecasts to senior management.

● Identifying the missing internal/external controls in finance & brought to the attention of the senior managers

● Working with operations to achieve 100% efficiency & best utilization of available resources.

● Helping operations to finalize the required headcount for forecast as well as plan.

● Efforts are made to bring down the excess & obsolete inventory on a quarterly basis.

● Working with operations on the capex requirement to increase the production volume.

● Followed with the Operation team to reduce the aged work order and asked for explanations along with corrective actions on a monthly basis.

● Analyzing monthly COPQ & Non-COPQ items

Project Coordinator Global Engineering Centre (from 2012 to 2016)

● Project creation, maintenance and closure.

● Generate Weekly report and monthly report and share it to the team leaders.

● Raising sales orders and invoices to the SBU.

● Follow up on the receivables

● Utilization reports for the engineering team & develop exception reporting mechanism to track revenue leakages, gaps in chargeback process, etc.

● Intercompany chargebacks (Travel and Material) with balance conformations.

● ITFSS invoicing and Business development debit notes.

Travel Coordinator for India Region (from 2010 to 2012)

● Forex for international travel.

● Travel advance booking, settlements and tracking.

● Travel reports for charge back.

● Petty cash handling and employee’s receipts.

SAP Super User for India Region (from 2008 to 2010)

● Data cleansing activities to ensure all the data is in the preferred format.

● Key support for CRM team and Finance team during the Implementation.

● Testing of scripts and reporting the results.

● Training to the SAP end users of the CRM module.

Education

Bachelor of Commerce - Finance

Kristu Jayanti College
Bengaluru
08-2008

Skills

  • Financial Planning and Budgeting
  • Budgeting and Forecasting
  • Month closure
  • Account reconciliation
  • Employee expense reimbursement
  • Project management reporting
  • Cross functional interaction
  • Root cause analysis
  • Corrective action

IT Skills

  • SAP
  • Hyperion Financial Management
  • MS Excel
  • Ariba

Accomplishments

  • Trained 30 people in Invoicing and debiting process in a short span of 10 days; received Project of the Quarter award for streamlining invoicing and debiting process.
  • Identified gaps in the expenses reimbursement process and escalated to higher-ups, it was immediately fixed to which I was recognized with a spot award.
  • Process improvements in travel & contract invoices and reduced the cycle time.

Personal Information

  • Marital Status: Single
  • Date of Birth: 04/14/1987
  • Notice Period: Ready to Join.
  • References : Will be provided upon request.

Languages

English
First Language
Malayalam
Proficient (C2)
C2
Kannada
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Hindi
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2

Timeline

Lead SCM PMO

Tata Consultancy Services
01.2023 - 05.2023

Assistant Manager – FP&A

Tata Consultancy Services
07.2021 - 12.2022

Accounts Executive

Collins Aerospace Service
09.2008 - 12.2020

Bachelor of Commerce - Finance

Kristu Jayanti College
Ranganath M