Srikanth Chintakindi

• Own and deliver BAU financial reporting and analysis to support strategic decision-making.
• Manage expense forecasting and planning processes with budgets of up to $30M.
• Prepare and maintain headcount forecasts aligned with workforce planning, hiring trends, and cost projections.
• Identified and implemented operational cost-saving initiatives worth $0.23 million, contributing to expense optimization.
• Automated monthly BAU reporting reduces manual efforts by 30% and increases efficiency.
• Prepare senior management reports, including periodic forecasts, financial reviews, and variance analysis.
• Lead month-end closing processes, including accruals, prepaid entries, and cost reclassifications.
• Develop executive-level decks highlighting key financial and operational metrics for stakeholders.
• Perform in-depth variance analysis for major expense heads, and recommend cost control actions.

• Delivered variance analysis on actual vs. Forecasted financials, presenting drivers, and performance insights to business partners.
• Managed sales and revenue forecasts of up to $55 million.
• Designed and implemented a new forecasting framework, reducing manual work by 40%.
• Conducting a month-end review of books of accounts and financials with stakeholders for achieving month-end revenue, accruals, and allocations.
• Led initiatives to standardize and automate month-end reporting, cutting processing time by 25%.
• MIS Reporting: Preparing month-end closing management reporting packs, which include revenue dashboards and employee utilization dashboards for the management.
• Steered automation and standardization of month-close processes for MIS reporting.
• Provide financial guidance to business functions, and assist in decision-making and providing recommendations to management.
• Provided strategic financial guidance and data-driven recommendations to senior management.
• Built Power BI dashboards for visualizing financial KPIs, and presented them to leadership teams.

• Preparing and analyzing balance sheets, statements of profit and loss, and cash flow statements quarterly.
• Created a cash flow model that provides brief details of group cash inflows and outflows.
• Managing the Statutory, Internal, GST, and Due Diligence Audits.
• Preparation of projected financial statements and various management reports.
• Performed cost analysis, variance analysis, and monthly financial reviews, including accruals and prepaids.
• Forecasted budgets, and provided daily financial reporting and operational insights to senior leadership.
• Conducted detailed trial balance reviews, identifying and resolving key accounting discrepancies.

Audit Manager: June 2018 to Oct 2019

• Conducted statutory audits, tax audits, and preparation of statutory audit reports, tax audit reports for various companies.
• Preparation of financial statements, i.e., Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss Statement, and Cash Flow Statements, in compliance with Schedule III.
• Proven ability in professional judgment dealing with the disclosure of information in Financial Reporting.
• Highly skilled in researching issues and finding solutions and the best alternatives to tax issues.
• Coordinating with the clients, team members, and partners in charge of multiple assignments.
• Analyzed revenue, gross margin, and profitability.

Article Assistant: Sep 2014 to Sep 2017

During my practical training, I gained a lot of exposure in statutory and tax audits, as well as in areas like filing of returns and scrutiny works.

• Conducting statutory, internal, stock, and tax audits of different assessees, and discussions with concerned department heads, business heads, and preparation of statutory reports thereof.
• Preparation and maintenance of books of accounts for various kinds of businesses.
• Verification of internal controls, as per the organization's policies and general accounting and auditing principles.