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Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Software
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BusinessAnalyst

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

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 FICO

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
Sai Akhil GaddamanuguSenior Manager, FP&A