SAP FICO
Sai Akhil Gaddamanugu
Senior Manager, FP&A
Hyderabad
Summary
Experienced, self-motivated senior level finance professional with global exposure, qualified Certified Management Accountant (CMA, USA) with 9+ years of impactful experience in Financial Planning & Analysis and Corporate Finance domains across industries. Proficient in business finance partnering, client financial management, project management, forecasting & budgeting, variance analysis, and other typical FP&A functions. Adept at increasing work process efficiency and profitability through functional and detailed business and financial analysis.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
Genpact
Noida
04.2023 - Current
- Leads the COE team of 3 resources and responsible for the consolidated reporting of $18 billion at the segment level.
- Prepares monthly financial reporting including variance analysis at a segment level that includes five business units. Also, owns the reporting for the admin cost centers that rolls into the consolidated segment results.
- Leads the Monthly Financial Review (MFR) call with business SVPs & finance VP and able to clearly communicate a cohesive and concise story around business drivers behind financial data and potential implications on future results.
- Handles annual budget processes, incorporating business initiatives, economic trends and operational efficiency. Aligns budget to business strategies and gains alignment from BU leadership and business partners.
- Lead various transformation projects with multiple lean tools like Tableau, VBA etc. eliminating the redundancies and streamlining the processes thereby saving over 2.5 FTE in a span of 8 months.
- Drafts the monthly calendar for the entire segment to align on the reporting timelines and acts as a POC for ad-hoc requests from the business units.
- Systems in use are SAP HANA, SAP TPM, Tableau, Anaplan, Business Objects, MS Office suite.
Lead - Corporate Finance
Oaktree Capital Management / CES Limited
Hyderabad
01.2022 - 04.2023
- Handling the Budgeting activity for all the 36 non-investment departments of the firm.
- Providing quarterly budget vs actual variance analysis reports to the department heads and aligning the forecasts.
- Leading the quarterly results call with CFO and other senior leadership to communicate departmental performances with detailed insights into actuals vs forecast.
- Coordinating and collaborating with various departments for the timely information flow to carry out the budgeting, Budget vs Actual analysis and other ad-hoc activities.
- Works closely with VP & SVP in order to ensure the quality of the financials.
- Carries out the Headcount analysis along with analysis of diverse expense categories of the firm i.e., Travel & Entertainment, Occupancy, Search Fees, Consulting etc.
- Involvement in highly confidential projects like Peer Analysis, Compensation Analytics & Profit-sharing calculations.
- Systems/Applications typically used are Power BI, SAP-BPC, Workiva & MS Office suite.
Financial Analyst
Hewlett Packard Enterprise / DXC Technology
Bengaluru
11.2017 - 10.2019
- Handling a portfolio of $45 million within UK&I region.
- Preparation of the P&L & carries out Month End Close Activities.
- Balance Sheet & Variance Analysis, Forecasting and Budgeting activities.
- Establishes and maintains relationships with business leaders to actively ensure basic financial analysis needs are met.
- Collaborating between Business, Delivery & Finance Leaders (typically L3 & L4) to ensure the quality of the Financials.
- Interacting with diversified teams to exchange information for various ad-hoc requests.
- Provides analytical support to business initiatives.
- Supports statutory audit queries directly with auditors.
- Ability to influence a particular cost center within a business, typically interacting with account managers (AGMs).
- Develops a deeper understanding of the company's financial processes and a detailed knowledge of the business.
Senior Process Executive
AON
Bengaluru
08.2016 - 11.2017
- Been part of the Aon Captive & Insurance Managers (ACIM) team.
- The Job profile majorly includes preparation of Management Service Accounts (end to end accounting including Balance Sheet, P&L, Cash Flow statement etc.), Audit GAAPs, Variance Analysis, Board books, Manager's Report etc., for the Captive Insurance Entities located offshore.
Education
CMA - Accounting And Finance
Institute of Management Accountants (IMA)
Bengaluru 10.2015 - 02.2016
B.com - Accounting and Finance
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Open University
Hyderabad 06.2013 - 06.2016
CA - CPT -
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)
Hyderabad 01.2013 - 06.2013
Intermediate - MEC
Board of Intermediate Education
Hyderabad 06.2011 - 03.2013
Class 10th -
Board of Secondary Education
Hyderabad 06.2010 - 03.2011
Skills
Financial Planning & Analysis
Financial Reporting
Variance Analysis
Financial Forecasting
Budgeting
Financial Modeling
MS office suite
Stakeholder Management
Business Partnering
Decision support
Finance Transformation
People Management
Accomplishments
- At Genpact - achieved platinum recognition for demonstrating business continuity.
- At Oaktree/CES Ltd - awarded as the employee of the year for operational excellence.
- At HPE/DXC - involved in significant cost savings to the organization.
- Played as a vice captain for district level Under - 17 Cricket championship.
- Won various Badminton tournaments.
- Cleared both parts of CMA(US) exam in first attempt in 2015-16.
- Actively pursuing CPA, USA.
Software
SAP HANA
SAP Business Objects
Anaplan
Tableau
PowerBI
Workiva
Timeline
Senior Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
Genpact
04.2023 - Current
Lead - Corporate Finance
Oaktree Capital Management / CES Limited
01.2022 - 04.2023
Financial Analyst
Hewlett Packard Enterprise / DXC Technology
11.2017 - 10.2019
Senior Process Executive
AON
08.2016 - 11.2017
CMA - Accounting And Finance
Institute of Management Accountants (IMA)
10.2015 - 02.2016
B.com - Accounting and Finance
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Open University
06.2013 - 06.2016
CA - CPT -
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)
01.2013 - 06.2013
Intermediate - MEC
Board of Intermediate Education
06.2011 - 03.2013
Class 10th -
Board of Secondary Education
06.2010 - 03.2011