Vinu Joseph

Finance Business Partnering

• Undertakes End-to-end process of client budgeting and re-forecasting
• Provides valuable insights to management with regards to variances with Budgets and actuals
• Single point of contacts for operational finance queries
• Continues process improvement initiatives & helps management identifying cost effective methods in the job cards rates
• Participate in the month end catch-up calls with regional CFO
• Provide flash commentaries

P&L month end closure activities

• Carry out the detailed transactional review as part of month end process taking responsibility for various P&Ls including prepare and posting journals, preparing accruals, pre-payment, deferrals journals and supporting documentations and schedules
• Perform revenue and cost variance analysis to understand the root cause of the downward or upwards trend during last quarter and half year
• Work closely with EMEA client services and operational teams, talk through respective P&L with P&L owners and resolve any open questions

Process improvement initiatives

• Process streamlining and resource cost monitoring to utilize optimum level
• Provide useful insights on aged work in progress and revenue recognition
• Assist management in identifying low profit clients and provide extensive dashboards to take decisions

• Understand complex customer contracts and perform revenue recognition process based on financial schedule (Schedule-4)
• Liaise with Account Directors and customer SPOCs to resolve billing escalations and queries relate to it
• Participate in multiple progression meetings such as Service Readiness, Milestone completion and contract terminations
• Calculate & apply Consumer Price Index rate (CPI) for each customers by referring global websites IMF & EUROSTAT Perform billing adjustments (ARC & RRC)
• Monitor Revenue reconciliation process to understand missing revenues.
• Oversee the month end activities and ensure smoother closing is exhibited by billing team Participate in weekly internal management meetings
• Liaise with SOX compliance team and ensure proper closure of evidence and supporting files

CLIENT MANAGEMENT

• Convene Weekly & Monthly operational status meetings with UK,APAC regions
• First point of contact for process escalations in OTC Process
• Process gap & Scope gap mitigations
• Manage off-shore transitions of additional OTC billing activities
• Improve CSS score for OTC billing activities

TEAM MANAGEMENT

• Handled 25 FTE team in OTC billing & Customer Master data process
• Ensure TAT is met as per MSA
• Arrange process trainings with in multiple teams
• Mentor team for process improvement initiatives
• Calculate monthly incentive files and share with HR
• Assess performance of the team and process level loading

MANAGEMENT REPORTING

• Prepare volume based dashboards for client billing
• Weekly error TAT reports to management
• GOAL status updates of team
• RPA status meetings with management and business Analysts to share progress
• Participate in steering committee meetings

• Work closely with client account managers to prepare budget and forecast
• Manage a team of 4 resources in FPNA
• Analyzed cost and revenue variances for print media and online publications to provide insights for budgeting
• Posted revenue and cost accrual journal entries in CODA ERP to ensure accurate financial reporting
• Recorded pre-bill deferrals in accounting system
• Reclassified journal entries among different entities for accuracy
• Conducted revenue and cost reconciliation analysis to maintain data integrity and identify discrepancies
• Extract P&Ls from system and share with ADs
• Participate in month-end catch-up calls with client ADs