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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Languages
Timeline
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Venkatesh Chowdary Koppolu

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Venkatesh Chowdary Koppolu

Summary

Analytical professional with strong background in financial analysis and risk management. Skilled in transitions and project management . Astute candidate develops new strategies and processes to optimize financial operations. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.

Overview

7
years of professional experience

Work History

Adidas

Senior Specialist Finance Operations FP&A
01.2023 - Current

Job overview

  • Monitor and report MWB actuals and realign on forecasts periodically.
  • Report volume sales forecasts for Europe market which is major market globally.
  • Reporting top sellers, categorized BOH and pre-orders to sales and marketing teams.
  • Reviewing and activating spot deals in North cluster for optimizing inventory levels and driving B2B sales.
  • Managed price lists across seasonal and periodical changes within cluster which has € 8.2 billion market share globally.
  • Implemented and regularly reviewed financial controls to generate accurate and reliable financial data using SAP, MicroStrategy, Bizagi and Power BI .
  • Improved overall financial reporting by streamlining control processes and reporting structures during transition.
  • Reviewed historical records, current operational data and forecasting information to identify and capitalize on system enhancement opportunities.
  • Reporting using financial excel reports, dashboards to provide insights into key performance indicators.

PepsiCo

AM FP&A Frito Lay N.A
06.2020 - 11.2022

Job overview

  • Monitor and handle A&M Budget ($ 35 ~ 40 M) for Frito Lay and oversee all the spends thru the financial year, reporting these numbers periodically and discussing with Marketers and keeping the interaction dialogue in Monthly Budget calls
  • Validate spend and align with control teams to make sure marketers receive purchase orders within due time.
  • Ability to effectively communicate to stakeholders and provide ideas/solutions to solve reporting tweaks across finance, supply chain & warehouse operations teams.
  • Virtually transitioned this role from USA GBS to India GBS HUB
  • Skills & Databases or tools : Financial Analysis, FBP, Office 365, P BI, SAP, Cognos, Oracle, Neilsen
  • Developed and maintained courteous and effective working relationships.
  • Managed time efficiently in order to complete all tasks within deadlines.
  • Organized and detail-oriented with a strong work ethic.
  • Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations

Deloitte

Financial Advisor
06.2019 - 06.2020

Job overview

  • Responsible for pricing of both new and existing opportunities for both Federal & SLHE USA engagements within revenue less than $20 Mil.
  • Preparation of estimated un-billed at resource level and comparing it with actuals post closure of billing and ensuring that SAP loss is being converted as revenue.
  • Handling projects financials management – pricing & repricing opportunities, staff hours review, subcontractors, advising & controlling project margins with compliance related legal matters.
  • Drive DSO to minimum by publishing un-billed analysis reports to business delivery teams ensuring timely billing and collections are accrued in cashflows.
  • Reporting revenue and performing analysis vs Forecasting & Actuals.
  • Have virtually transitioned this role from USA Deloitte to Deloitte USI HUB.
  • Skills & Databases or tools helped : Financial Analysis, FBP, Office 365, P BI, Project Management, SAP, Cognos.
  • Provided specialized financial planning support for clients with diverse portfolios and individual needs.
  • Worked with clients to support understanding of rationale and details of financial strategies.

Thomson Reuters aka Refinitiv

Equity Content Research Analyst
04.2016 - 04.2019

Job overview

  • Analyzing corporate action real-time, providing financial analysis reports to Global Big-four clients through TR products.
  • Publishing periodical MIS & decks to the leadership flagging the performance within Global Clientele accounts.
  • Actively participating in testing and Automation of reporting and extracting tools and keeping up with pace of all internally used databases in corporate actions team environment.
  • Read, comprehend and apply equity stock information, display critical thinking, at higher level and assist in preparation and analysis of financial and operational reports to Management team.
  • Prepare and publish procedural method of work documents, knowledge articles about financial analysis and reconciliations to enhance external stakeholder's experience.
  • Upholding project accounting data bases to ascertain timely keep-up, security and control of client accounts.
  • Have virtually transitioned this role from USA Thomson Reuters team to Thomson Reuters BLR HUB.
  • Skills & Databases or tools helped : Investment Banking Analysis, Corporate Actions, Equity stock Information, Financial.
  • Securities valuation, Fund Accounting, Microsoft suite, P BI, Project Management, SAP, Cognos.

Education

VIT University
Vellore

MBA from Finance
05.2016

University Overview

CGPA: 7.19

S.V University
Tirupati

Bachelor of Commerce from Commerce, Accounting & Computers
05.2014

University Overview

GPA: 80.03%

  • Graduation with Distinction.

Skills

  • Equity Research
  • Monitor Market Trends
  • Financial Oversight
  • Ratios Analysis
  • Portfolio Management
  • Company Research
  • Financial Research
  • Financial and Operational Reporting
  • Financial Data Analyzation
  • Expense and Revenue Analysis
  • Budgeting and Variance Analysis
  • Planning and Analysis

Accomplishments

  • Onsite Transition in UK for a period of 3 months to completely move a couple of process for an Investment Banking
    Scotland based renown Investment Banking & Insurance Firm.
  • Virtually Transitioned and stabilized end to end processes for PepsiCo & Deloitte within a span of 4-6 months within the
    scheduled timelines with SOW, DTP and Process Maps and all Documentation.
  • Worked on automating SEC filings containing shares information used across, using R tool data reporting and extraction.
  • Worked on Tableau BI Tool for Analytical research on the data quality for the Thomson Reuters top niche clients.
    (Blackrock, M&G, S&P).
  • And supported on SQL projects that retrieve data from the database for Quality checks and Analytical Tasks.



Languages

English
Advanced (C1)
Telugu
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Kannada
Advanced (C1)

Timeline

Senior Specialist Finance Operations FP&A

Adidas
01.2023 - Current

AM FP&A Frito Lay N.A

PepsiCo
06.2020 - 11.2022

Financial Advisor

Deloitte
06.2019 - 06.2020

Equity Content Research Analyst

Thomson Reuters aka Refinitiv
04.2016 - 04.2019

VIT University

MBA from Finance

S.V University

Bachelor of Commerce from Commerce, Accounting & Computers
Venkatesh Chowdary Koppolu