Sambasivam Ramamurthy

• Strategic Leadership & P&L Ownership
• Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement (CI): KPIs, SLAs, dashboards; embed continuous improvement, and leverage automation.
• Leadership & Talent Development: Build a high-performing leadership team; act as a coach and mentor; foster a Great Place to Work culture, with strong engagement and capability development
• EY GDS Stakeholder Management and Corporate Governance

Accomplishments:

• Reduction in vendor invoice processing costs by 64%.
• Business process re-engineering: country-wise delivery model to a process-wise delivery model. Seven countries, 1,000-odd entities
• System transformation: Nomentia for Treasury, Yooz for accounts payable, Yardi for general ledger, inter-company, fixed assets, loans, etc.

• Running and delivering large F&A operations. Led a team of over 800 Accenture professionals across geographies: EMEA, APAC, and Americas.
• Solution design, delivery, and business impact projects.
• Led the knowledge transfer, transition, UAT, and successful go-live from China to India, Manila, and Mauritius.
• Business partnering with client CFOs.
• Leverage big data analytics to add value to business

Accomplishments:

• Accelerate standardization and drive operational excellence - 22% efficiency gained

• I, along with my wife, CA Gayathri N, mentored XII grade students for CPT entrance examinations in May 2014, November 2014, and May 2015.
• Six of my CPT entrance students are now qualified Chartered Accountants.
• This is a non-profit educational institution primarily focused on rural kids who are deprived of structured CPT coaching centers.
• Give back to society.

• Developed and implemented financial policies, procedures, controls, and reporting systems to ensure compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

Accomplishments:

• Buy back of Cracknell from HSBC PE.
• Negotiation with EMAAR resulted in a decrease in accounts receivable aging days and efficient working capital management.

• ME regional board member – ownership for EBITDA, budgets, CAPEX, project bidding, execution, and delivery. Acquisition of companies.
• Custodian for Middle East regional finance, account, costing, regional consolidation, MIS, budgets, variance analysis and commentary master, treasury, banking, audits, M&A, due diligence, ERP implementation, corporate accounting policies and procedures, IFRS, US GAAP.

Accomplishments:

• Reduction in inventory holding cost, i.e., efficient scaffolding management between ME entities in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, and Bahrain.
• M&A of companies from Saudi Arabia.

• Responsible for the entire gamut of accounting, costing, finance, audits, treasury, budget and variance analysis, payroll, visa, banking, MIS, project management, contract billing and accounting as per IFRS, credit control, insurance, CAPEX budget, inventory control, and factory lease.

Accomplishments

• Focal point for the sale of this PE to HSBC PE – M&A function: preparation of information memorandum, due diligence, valuation, change management, and PE exit.

• Soroosh & Nowrooz facility – reconstruction of 17 oil wells destroyed during the Iran and Iraq War, worth 1.5 billion US$. Responsible for upstream accounting and cash-call reports on a monthly basis to the JV partner.

• Responsible for accounting, monthly flash reports, annual revenue budgets, monthly variance analysis, including commentary master, banking, insurance company reconciliation, credit control, etc.

Accomplishments

• Involved in the merger of "Sedgwick Forbes ME Limited" with "Marsh Insco."

• Day-to-day accounting, banking, bank reconciliation, supplier reconciliation, annual budgets, and variance analysis, monthly COGNOS and MIS reports to the Norway head office, interim and statutory audits.

Accomplishments

• Involved in automating bank reconciliation statements.
• Part of the Y2K project.

• Maintain books of accounts, inventory, bank book, bank reconciliation statement, sales report, sales commission report, etc.
• Responsible for imports, SGS, inventory control, and weekly HQ report.
• Accounting, banking, monthly sales, and PL reports to HO, annual audit.

Accomplishments:

• Implemented VAT process and successful filing with URA.

• Manage daily cash collection, deposits, and bank book
• Manage vendor forex payments through the bank.
• Update the general ledger, and assist with annual audits.
• Collaborate for imports, SGS certification,

• Member of the Lipton, Brooke Bond merger audit.
• Involved in statutory audits of Parry ltd, Kilburn reprographics, Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited