Sharmitha Rai

Finance Lead, CGI Inc.

• Working as a Finance Project Manager and owning complete stages of Project Life Cycle from Inception through monitoring and closing to deliver projects on time and budget
• Provide Business finance support to operations through value added financial and profitability analysis.
• Developed Client relationship in various activities like RFP , preparation of Estimations and Executive Review Decks , Initiating Project Mandates and Change Request , Billing Projects, Tracking Project and Project closures
• Financial forecasting and P&L variance analysis including management reporting
• Keeping a Track of Projects on Sales Funnel and also on Project Financials to see where the Project stand based on Revenue, Budget, Margins, Forecast
• Creating annual Budgets for business units on yearly basis
• Prepare RevRec with PM's for all the POC and T&M projects and arrange VB billing adjustments in order to adjust revenue owned to CGI
• Work on Rate Identification, monitoring and updating the Billing Rate in CPORT
• Monitoring the Margin Level of each Projects along with any Budget on over run or under run
• Prepare month end financial reporting pack and present month end financial and variance analysis vs budget and forecast to operations
• Involved in the role of Scrum Master on understanding the functionalists and the technicality of the Project .
• Analyze and communicate key financial, operational and industry trends promoting a high level understanding of our business

Project Controller Officer, CGI Inc.

February 2014 - December 2021

• Team coordination and managing PMO Team on achieving different targets pertaining to Team's Utilization, Teams performance and recognition, train team members on their interest on Project Management Skill
• Ensuring overall Project tracking, planning, coordinating status from various PMs using effective communication channel
• Providing regular project updates and status by preparing a Project Dashboard to PM's containing Project Margin, Revenue/Cost/WIP/Forecast on Member Level, Sales Funnel Status and current ongoing Opportunities that is engaged between PM's and Client
• Manage consulting mandates, Ensemble Filing and creating Ensemble Sites and Approving Ensemble Sites across all Bell Projects for CGI
• Global Delivery Deck preparation for VP that contains Utilization, Billable and Forecast status of resources
• In year - Revenue/Margin/Book to win reports are prepared and published monthly
• Sales Pipeline Tracking and maintenance for CMU Pipeline and APAC Pipeline
• Responsible for project forecast for Project Managers and Director Levels and end-to-end report on Monthly revenue forecast

Server Admin, CGI Inc.

March 2011 - January 2014

• As fresher in CGI, joined Wintel Server Admin on MultiClient Projects with Clients like Purolator, Rexel, Foresters, RSA
• Worked on ITSM, BMC Remedy ticket issue with trouble shooting Server related queries
• Knowledge on Server Admin, VMware server monitoring and building Servers to Production, FTP network Server Sites issues
• Gather data on all Incident/Change Tickets during CAB/E-CAB meetings also indulged in On-Call and on IMC calls to troubleshoot critical and priority tickets as Wintel Administrator
• Report preparation on Server status and direct communication with Clients and CGI Directors on fixing and troubleshooting any server related issues
• Gained Knowledge and worked on Incident and Change Management with various reports and discussion on priority and severity tickets.