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Sadasivam Chinniah

Bengaluru

Summary

Dynamic business professional with robust analytical skills and a proven track record of driving impactful decisions. Strong focus on team collaboration and adaptability to evolving needs, consistently delivering exceptional results. Expertise in data analysis, process improvement, and stakeholder engagement, combined with a keen ability to translate complex data into actionable insights. Reliable and goal-oriented, committed to excellence in every project undertaken.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Associate Business Analyst

Novo Nordisk
09.2023 - Current
  • Responsible for BA East business area FP&A Business Partnering and Operations for 20+ countries which includes Poland, Romania & Ukraine
  • Responsible for Monthly Management Reporting which includes Performance Reporting, P&L reporting, Variance Analysis vs Anchor Budget, Forecasts and Rolling Estimates, PVM (Price, Volume, Mix) analysis, Mid-month estimates and quarterly estimates process and resource allocation through Brand P&L allocations.
  • Monitoring and reporting the currency changes and impact on overall P&L, TR, and Provisions through currency analysis for the major currencies across the business area.
  • Responsible for monthly and YTD SD – PCA reconciliations between different cubes in SAP and post Q&D accruals to fix the differences to ensure accurate BW and statutory reporting.
  • Analyzing the penalties through each period and YTD for tender market revenue.
  • Create LOB cost reports for management office and communicate with different departments.
  • Accountable and ownership of Anchor budget, Forecasting and rolling estimates process to support all Affiliates/Countries with budget templates roll over, P&L, FTE, TR & DSO Analysis files, training affiliate financial controllers on the budget related templates, systems and tools.
  • Ensuring smooth and efficient completion of the budget processes by system uploads in SAP GFP, review these in SAP BW, create check files, Adhoc analysis and budget presentations submissions to corporate/HQ by coordinating with all the Affiliate/Country F&O directors, Finance managers, Controllers, supply chain team, sales and P&O teams.
  • Creating Financial models for P&L simulation, target setting, planning the Sales, Total Operating costs, Operating Profit, Provisions and Trade Receivables based on simulations and consulting with different teams.
  • Training and Onboarding new team members and financial controllers across the business area on overall processes, systems and tools to help them settle in the role for first 6 months.
  • Year-end activities which include Year-end landing process, cost center clean-up activities, FTE benchmarking process, Logbook transfers.
  • Assist F&O heads and management with Adhoc analysis and reporting, help in creating added cost centers, Internal orders and solve business related issues, technical issues by consulting with cross-functional teams.
  • Document and create SOPs for regular and Adhoc activities, streamline the current process through digitalization and automation.

Lead Financial Analyst

Oracle
05.2021 - 08.2023
  • Revenue reconciliation by reviewing actual in system on week on week basic to identify if there are any revenue which is reported incorrectly and work with revenue reporting team to get background of transaction and fixing system for accurate reporting
  • Prepare OPEX & HC forecast and presenting it to management during forecast calls with field partner to highlight anomalies and recommending forecast based on trend and actual to be expected by coordinating with sales.
  • Ad-hoc requests for field partner for any day to day related queries.
  • Preparing variance analysis between Actual vs Forecast vs Budget every month close so that we are forecasting based on present trend to business partner during forecast calls.
  • Bookings reconciliation for over 250 deals per quarter by reviewing booked deals with ordering document, clause mentioned in OD and if deals are being reported accurately
  • Updating changes to management hierarchy and creating cost centers as per business requirement.
  • Standardization of existing reports across various regions which would be sent weekly to field partners and developing of new reports based on business requirements to provide in depth analysis.
  • Partner with regional operations team to maintain accurate pipeline information by checking revenue line probability, expected close date, deal is being followed up by sales rep and updating field partners with detailed analysis on weekly basis.
  • Submission of forecast in FPA on monthly basis based on output from forecast calls for OPEX, HC and Cloud related KPI's.
  • Creating budget models based on historical trends in written and verbal form for presentation to business partners and internal audit staff, maintaining records with risk management strategies.
  • Performing Revenue, OPEX, Budget restatements to fix material changes in org changes or incorrectly reported numbers in CORE.

Financial Executive

Thulasi Pharmacies India Pvt Ltd
06.2017 - 05.2021
  • Lead monthly meetings with directors to analyze spending and
    provide financial recommendations.
  • Identify risks associated with projects, contract approvals and other
    client accounting issues.
  • Review weekly and monthly budget performance reports, ensuring all
    departments and agencies operate within allocated budgets and
    investigate excessive expenses and reporting discrepancies.
  • Consolidate financial data and materials for key leadership
    meetings.
  • Analyze revenues, costs and expenses for operating construction
    projects.
  • Preparing and maintaining petty cash book on monthly basis.
  • Present oral and written reports on general economic trends,
    individual corporations and entire industries.
  • Identify forecast variances and recommend corrective
    actions, avoiding overruns and maintaining positive cash
    position.
  • Review monthly requisitions for accuracy and completeness,
    reconcile transactions and determine payment approval
    statuses.

Education

Bachelors in Commerce - Marketing

Sri Krishna Arts And Science College
Coimbatore
04.2017

High School Diploma -

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Coimbatore
03.2014

Skills

  • Monthly, Quarterly & Yearly Closing Procedures
  • Stakeholder management
  • Problem-solving abilities
  • Project presentation
  • Business Partnering Support
  • SAP
  • Forecasting Trends
  • Workflow optimization
  • Forecasting and planning
  • Budgeting and Variance Analysis
  • Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
  • Business process improvement

Accomplishments

  • Received GBF Vision Award from the Global Business Finance for Business Partnering Support.
  • Received Data Visualization Gold Ninja Badge
  • Received YAR award for best support in the team
  • Received 3 Hi-flier awards in the current role for extra-ordinary performance in stakeholder management
  • Received recognition for streamlining the MMR reporting with the use of power automate and cut down the manual input of data which saved 30% of time taken
  • Collaborated and developed macros in Period Close reporting to automate manual inputs and saved 20% time.
  • Received multiple appreciations on standardizing the reporting process and delivering the reports on time.

Certification

  • Stock Market, Bombay Stock Exchange- May 2015

Languages

English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Tamil
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Beginner (A1)

Timeline

Associate Business Analyst

Novo Nordisk
09.2023 - Current

Lead Financial Analyst

Oracle
05.2021 - 08.2023

Financial Executive

Thulasi Pharmacies India Pvt Ltd
06.2017 - 05.2021

Bachelors in Commerce - Marketing

Sri Krishna Arts And Science College

High School Diploma -

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

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