Overview
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Srikantan K

Srikantan K

Bengaluru

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Associate Director FP&A

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Bengaluru
01.2020 - Current
  • Associate Director FP&A 2024 till date
    Leading the Industry Solutions Group Practice with annual Revenue of 650M$ spanning across BFS,Insurance,Manufacturing etc.
    Manage complete P&L of the Practice, including consolidation and deck for leadership review.
  • Sr.Manager Corporate Functions Finance (2020-2024) In-charge of CFO, Marketing, Legal, Global sales & Pricing with annual SGA spend budget of 450 M$
  • In charge of budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis, along with SGA monthly forecast reviews, and reporting these to respective stakeholders and EC members.
  • Review the balance sheet and look for prepaid schedules to enable better forecasting accuracy.
  • Worked on a special project named 'Project Honey' along with the EY team for the sell-off of a unit that is part of the Accelerator.

Sr. Professional Finance (Team Leader)

DXC Technologies
Bengaluru
01.2018 - 12.2019
  • Worked as Team Leader finance handling a team of 6 supporting a portfolio of 100M$ USD across Energy, Oil & Transportation Industry across Americas
  • This includes P&L / Balance sheet review and do Forecasting and Budgeting for those accounts and do Variance review and walks for my team
  • Was leading the AR/DSO/Cash flow initiative for entire Decision Support services for Americas and helped reducing it by 3 days overall and improved cash flow too.

Financial Advisor

NTT Data Services (Formerly Dell Services)
Bengaluru
04.2014 - 01.2018
  • Managing portfolio of 160 M $/Yr across many accounts in North America and also Australia and NZ region including P&L, Budgeting and Forecasting, Variance analysis with regular reviews with Business stakeholders and accounting teams as well
  • Was in charge of Consolidation for MRLE (Manufacturing, Retail, Logistics enterprises) business which is a 300 M $/Yr business with major accounts like Du-pont & Towers Watson
  • I was also part of the Integration testing from Financial systems side when Dell services was taken over by NTT data.

Financial Analyst

IBM India Pvt ltd
Bengaluru
02.2009 - 04.2014
  • As a Financial Analyst I was responsible for profitability of multiple business units, which would include ownership of P&L as well as balance sheet for the units (End user Services and BCRS)
  • Revenue and Margin Forecasting - Forecasting accuracy in Revenue and Margins
  • Ensuring variation between the different stages of forecast & actuals are within +/- 4 to 6%.

Education

Masters in Business Administration - Finance

IFIM B-School
Bengaluru, Karnataka
05.2006

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Instrumentation

Shanmugha College of Engineering
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
05.2004

Skills

  • Microsoft Office
  • Google Data Studio
  • Reporting using OBIEE/Oracle Apps
  • Expense Control

Accomplishments

Awarded 'Michael Dell Champion Award' in 2016 for outstanding contribution to process improvements and forecasting accuracy.

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 11/06/81
  • Gender: Male

References

Available on request.

Timeline

Associate Director FP&A

Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2020 - Current

Sr. Professional Finance (Team Leader)

DXC Technologies
01.2018 - 12.2019

Financial Advisor

NTT Data Services (Formerly Dell Services)
04.2014 - 01.2018

Financial Analyst

IBM India Pvt ltd
02.2009 - 04.2014

Masters in Business Administration - Finance

IFIM B-School

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Instrumentation

Shanmugha College of Engineering
Srikantan K