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Supported management planning and decision making by identifying, maintaining, and evaluating information & recommending actions for the North Americas Application offering in CSC. Provided tactical and operational business finance support for the Diversified vertical (largest industry segment in North America) encompassing –Consumer & Retail, Communication& Hi-tech, Energy & Transportation. Handled financial control and planning for the overhead responsibility center for the entire North America’s Application group.

Key Activities

• Developed financial controls, procedures and forecasting techniques to evaluate contract/ account status
• Lead project planning and analysis.
• Monitored progress of cost performance against plans to ensure contractual cost obligations are met. Made recommendations for cost performance improvements & risk mitigations.
• Focused on driving cost take out initiatives as part of the Overhead responsibility.
• Conducted highly complex financial analysis such as variance, risk and profit/loss analysis, etc.
• Approved pricing and contractual requirements for routine to moderately complex RFP's.
• Worked with business in identifying and tracking opportunities to mitigate any gap between forecast & budget.
• Actively involved in business reviews on performance and risk related to achievement of plans
• Spearhead standardization and automation initiatives

Key Accomplishments

• Lead the cost take out initiative for the Application’s offering by implementing measures leading to cost optimization like $Paid $Earned, Tier mix rationalization & overhead control.
• Instrumental in setting up processes and work breakdown structure procedures for the AMC and Mobility business segments.

Supported Americas Healthcare business leadership team by providing financial analysis including reporting and evaluation of financial and operational metrics, development of budget and forecast, managing book close activities, evaluating results and recommending corrective action & opportunities for improvement.

Key Activities

• Managed monthly, quarterly and annual forecast and budgeting process for the current portfolio
• Facilitated month-end close processes, invoicing, journal entries and account reconciliations.
• Prepare presentations and financial commentary for senior management
• Prepared Quarterly Business Review (QBR) & Monthly Business Review for board meeting & review meetings.
• Provided weekly and monthly transactional and pricing support to various accounts.
• Developed financial analysis reports and presentations by applying acquired financial principles
• Provided reliable and accurate financial reporting that exceeds existing standards and facilitates decision making.

Key Accomplishments

• A key participant in some of the largest wins for CSC in the Healthcare domain. Worked extensively with the legal and solution team to come up with a solid business solution for the customer.
• Played a key role in contract re-negotiations and rate increase negotiations with some of the largest healthcare clients in the vertical.
• Handled margin improvement initiatives which helped in improving the OI for the vertical.

Developed Balance sheet and P&L budget estimates and coordinated budget and forecast submission across the business unit. Prepared revenue forecasts and projections, as well as managed project plans and budgets by providing expenditure monitoring, conducting variance analysis and facilitating billing process.

Key Activities

• Prepared consolidated forecasts and budgets and analyzed trends in revenue, expense, capital expenditures and other related areas.
• Prepared Balance Sheet & P&L Budgets.
• Developed financial and business related analysis
• Provided analysis around key operational metrics like weekly trend of headcount (Billable & Non Billable), Skill Mix, Bench etc.
• Tracked key financial metrics like DSO/ Performance Cash flow etc..
• Suggested margin improvement levers & provided impact analysis.

Key Accomplishments

• Key member of the SAP implementation team for the business unit providing functional inputs in developing reports and procedures
• Took the lead in understanding and training the team in Hyperion and BW reporting tools.
• Standardized the Management reporting for the business units with inputs from the business managers.

Was Hired to manage the Revenue Recognition, MIS preparation, AP/AR and govern Inter-company transaction for the EMEA Region.