ANUSHA SRINIVAASAN
Ellicott City,MD
Summary
Dynamic FP&A Manager with a proven track record at IDEMIA, excelling in financial forecasting and budget management. Expert in variance analysis and internal controls, I drive cross-functional collaboration to identify risks and opportunities, ensuring strategic financial planning and successful project outcomes. Recognized for enhancing financial performance and fostering strong client relationships.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
FP&A Manager
IDEMIA
Reston, VA
01.2023 - Current
- FP&A Leader for Sales & Marketing, and North America G&A expenses, including Legal, HR, Growth & Strategy departments, focusing on forecasting and planning.
- Oversaw all aspects of financial management for Sales & Marketing, and G&A cost centers within the North America region, including the annual budgeting process, monthly accounting close collaboration with the SSC in the Philippines, and monthly forecasting.
- Collaborated with budget leaders to identify risks and opportunities for MBR, and QBR reporting.
- Managed client relationships to facilitate smooth monthly closing processes.
- Created forecasting models for headcount management, attrition, hiring, and training activities for headcount within S&M, and G&A.
- Developed spreadsheet models for budgeting, forecasting, and analyzing financial performance.
- Q4 2025 challenges included a Business Line separation transition and tracking charges, cross charges across functions on the TSA.
Manager
Laureate Education
03.2020 - Current
- Managed Budget of $100+M Enrollment to Graduation Project involving various enabling technologies
- Successfully managed financials for a 27 month $58M ERP Implementation project for all Institutions within Laureate to migrate to new version Financials
- Managing Monthly Forecast and Budget Variance reporting for all IT Applications and Infrastructure Management teams
- Partnered with Accounting to manage mid-month IT chargebacks, Asset Go Lives and track system generated open PO balance accruals
- Managed External / Internal Controls processes to offset the system certification issues on Time tracking software used across all organizations in the Corporate office.
- Liaised with external audit firms like EY, PWC on an annual basis to draft the control language on Fixed Assets and compensating controls for system deficiencies (Manage FTE Rates, Hours Verification, Track Cumulative Spend below the threshold prescribed by PWC etc)
- Track Payroll of Internal IT employees, book labor capitalization entries
- Track Internal Employee Expense details loaded for approval in ERP / Concur
- Verify all AP invoices for vendor costs on Consulting, Hardware /Software, Maintenance contracts etc.
- Charge Inter-Company business units for services provided on all IT platforms
- Manage accruals for all work performed on Consulting SOWs, Software Maintenance contracts
Senior Financial Analyst
Laureate Education
02.2015 - 02.2020
- Portfolio Management for IT Projects, managed time and material costs, expense reports for capital investments.
- Clear understanding of Capitalization policy in SDLC of Implementation projects in various IT Platforms like PeopleSoft, SiS, Data Center, Cloud and Footprints
- Sourcing decision making for vendor selection for Excellence in Process (EiP) / Business Transformation teams to facilitate the Project Financial Planning process.
- Liaise with Corporate PMO team and manage the financials of ERP/SiS/EIP Efforts totaling $100M
- Experience working on PeopleSoft 9.1 AP, ePro, PO, GL modules.
- UAT testing for PeopleSoft migration from 9.0 to 9.1 for Corporate IT division
- Familiar with SOX guidelines, previous experience working on audit queries with McGladrey and PWC
- Liaised with Legal, Accounting and Tax teams for creating MSA and MySys Legal contracts for Chargeback models to various International Schools with Laureate Education, Inc
- Analyze line item AP vendor payments to ensure accurate cost allocation to correct cost center
- Oversee and lead a team of two Financial Analysts and assign tasks to them on everyday basis
- Manage all reporting and Platform billing to schools in different regions that are part of Laureate International Universities
- Experienced in managing Forecasts and Budgets for Corporate IT Structure
- Oversee accuracy of accrual and reclass journal entries for monthly close of Corporate IT and Corporate Finance teams
- Performing monthly, quarterly and annual financial tasks for all Corporate IT and Finance Projects including preparing journal entries, research and explain variances to projections.
- Have been point of contact for all CAPEX Regulations to be incorporated as per GAAP Accounting
- Maintained the distribution of costs between different cost centers and responsible for reporting the project actuals on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis
- Assess the expenses for all CAPEX projects after go-live; reconcile the books with the time tracking system to ensure all time has been logged by internal and external resources accurately.
- Work with PMO on tracking and forecasting capital expenditures for Capital Investment Proposal (CIP) process
- Maintained direct communication with vendors/consultants on issues that may relate to billing
- Received Entrepreneurial Drive award for successful IT Finance team Transition to PeopleSoft 9.1
- Preparing monthly and adhoc reports to Senior Management, maintain accurate records of project costing to support internal audit requirements.
- Responsible for coordinating with SOX audit and internal audits.
- Work directly with Senior Director of Project Management Group to maintain a capital spend dashboard used for weekly executive review
- Liaise with IT Directors and the Project Management office and discuss project financials on a monthly basis.
Financial Analyst
Laureate Education
02.2013 - 02.2015
- As part of Corporate Finance team, acted as partner to procurement and IT operations providing support in getting the invoices paid
- Analyzed individual journal line items on a monthly basis for the capital project expenses, and reconcile labor and travel expenses
- Create accruals for OPEX and CAPEX for monthly/quarterly and annual close of books
- Responsible for setting up projects and approval workflows for time tracking
- Responsible for Hosting & Maintenance billing for License and Support Charges to the schools
- Responsible for tracking and billing Capex expenditure for IT efforts
- Prepared and presented ad hoc financial analysis as requested
- Create accruals for Travel and Expense on a quarterly basis for all outstanding travel expenses
- Liaise with the accountants at BV to create monthly invoices for support, maintenance and hosting of various software systems
- Responsible for managing and processing Time tracking requests to get the corporate consultants paid
IT Finance & Procurement Coordinator
Laureate Education
08.2012 - 01.2013
- Responsible for matching PO receipts to invoices and pre-process them in PeopleSoft
- Responsible for IT invoicing processes and submitting them to AP for prompt payment
- Liaison between the vendors, AP and Treasury for Net 30 payment to vendors
- Provide administrative support to IT Finance department in maintaining payroll for all IT consultants
- Maintain receipts for record of tangible goods and services received
- Manage vendor relationship and vendor set-ups in PeopleSoft
- Creation of blanket PO for vendors based on the SOW and approvals provided
- Accuracy in charge codes: BU, department, project codes and GL Account
- Responsible for managing and processing Time tracking requests
UK Financial Analyst
SITEL
01.2011 - 05.2011
- Maintain individual customer accounts for a retailer 'John Lewis' to establish profits based on online and in-store shopping.
- Each customer was expected to spend $20,000 on an annual basis and only profitable customer accounts were to be continued.
- Establish the functional specifications based on the Statement of Business Requirements and Prioritized Business Objectives.
- Performed baseline as-is business analysis by studying strategy, organizational structure, resources, core work activities, existing documentation and supporting business process.
- Forecasting any future deals that the customer will engage in with John Lewis on a long term basis rather than just signing off a customer after sales.
- Successfully conducted profitability analysis, forecasting, and general financial reporting.
- Monthly / annual evaluation to establish profitable customers and identify areas of customer satisfaction.
- Fulfilled ad-hoc analysis for different payment types made by the bank.
- Identifying, organizing and appraising corporate level key performance indicators, financial objectives, and operational goals, while offering analytical assistance for internal departments to streamline progress towards department operational and performance objectives.
- Designed and implemented advertising and marketing campaigns for five foundation events with budgets exceeding $100,000
- Maintained individual customer accounts to evaluate the back end work involved to maintain good relationship with the customer and at the same time to ensure its profitable for the business to do so.
- Worked primarily with John Lewis customers to enhance customer satisfaction and provide technical support for electronics
- Establish Business Process Flows and Use Cases (as appropriate, depending upon the level of detail) based on sponsor needs or requirements, in addition to inputs from the Program or Project Manager.
- Monthly / annual evaluation to establish profitable customers and identify areas of customer satisfaction.
- Implemented Cost Benefit Analysis technique for deciding whether to make a change and used it to simply add value of the benefits of a course of action, and reduce the costs associated with it.
Assistant Lecturer
ETHIRAJ College
07.2010 - 12.2010
- Provided lectures on Financial Management and Business Law modules.
- Conducted seminars and workshops for Sub-prime crisis, Online trading, Portfolio Management
- Implemented teaching through simulated stock indices.
- Imparting extensive knowledge to the students about real life business mergers and acquisitions.
Financial Analyst
EDF ENERGY
10.2009 - 06.2010
- Oversaw accounts receivables and payables, payroll, check audits, and the accuracy of invoices.
- Liaised with upper management on financial matters and data necessary for board meetings, monthly statements, and audit related matters.
- Directly responsible for retrieving past due accounting to more than $150,000 for the organization.
- Supported the Finance Group in identifying cost-saving procedures and annual profit analysis.
- Worked with MS Access, MS Excel and MS Visio graphs to represent financial data to managers.
- Determined areas of improvement; outlined and implemented process improvement.
- Conducted variance analysis of estimated revenue versus actual cash flow from the vendors.
- Built, enhanced and maintained financial models.
- Conducted cost savings and revenue generating analysis.
- Performed account reconciliation for all customers.
- Researched invoices to determine outstanding balance for billing purposes based on global vendors and clients (including foreign currency translation, accruals, aged accounts and pro-rated billing.
- Analyzed financial statements and delivered recommendations based on the budget and projected revenue.
- Streamlined Operating Flow to reduce expenses and increase efficiency along with establishing new procedures for regularizing monthly payments.
India Financial Analyst
GOLDMAN SACHS
05.2007 - 05.2009
- Worked as an analyst for PeopleSoft AP Integration with On base imaging system for Invoice Processing.
- Developed Functional requirement for AP voucher workflow approval process in version 8.9.
- Assisted users in writing queries to identify unpaid vouchers.
- Developed Business Requirements Document for generating MT103 Electronic Payment file for European countries.
- Developed BRD's for Queries for users to run once the Pay cycle manager is completed.
- Business Analysis for Brokerage, Clearance and Exchange payments for futures and forward contracts.
- Created BRD's for 1042S and 1099 U.S. tax liability and customizations to Invoice information page in voucher entry component.
- Assisted users in developing a process in Accounts Payable to improve reverse charge concept for multiple VAT rates for European payments.
- Process Documentation of Accounts Payable and Purchasing in accordance with Bank Holding Company (BHC) regulations.
- UAT testing for PeopleSoft version up-gradation from 7.5 to 8.9 versions.
- Created Business Requirements document and analysis for migration of AP Invoice information from Micrographics to Onbase Also assisted in Integration of PeopleSoft Accounts Payable with Onbase.
- Reporting financial transaction's accuracy to the top management.
- Generating quality assurance reports for managing service level agreements.
- Produced functional design documentation through use of business process mapping to PeopleSoft 7.5 AP and Purchasing systems, performed gap analysis, and application of business process reengineering.
- Identifying improvement areas for processing invoice payments accurately.
- Implementing adequate measures to reduce turnaround (TAT) time for payments.
- UAT testing for PeopleSoft up gradation from PSAP 7.5 to PSAP 8.9 and worked in liaison with the technology department to analyze various accounting aspects involved.
- Technical writing and process diagram mapping.
- Served Clients in 3 business lines - Investment Banking, Private Banking & Asset Management.
- PeopleSoft SCM Business Analyst consultant with experience in Accounts Payable, Purchasing.
- Troubleshoot the Problems in Voucher Posting and Payment Posting processes.
- Responsible for improvising payment of invoices methodology with respect to different regions across the globe.
- The team was responsible for monitoring the transaction till it hit the customer's account.
- Automated payment processing to eliminate the need for additional team head count.
- Ensuring minimum turnaround time for resolving client issues.
- Instrumental in exceeding service level agreements (SLAs) as agreed with the vendors and internal clients.
- Mapping customer requirements and coordinating in developing and implementing processes in line with the guidelines specified.
- Managing & monitoring the performances of the team members to ensure efficiency in business operations and to meet monthly targets.
- Determining training needs & conducting programs to enhance efficiency in various business operations.
Education
MSc - Finance & Investment
University of Exeter
UK01.2010
MBA - Financial Management
Annamalai University
India01.2009
BBA - Business Administration
Madras University
India01.2007
Skills
- Audit
- Internal Audit
- Accounting
- Accounting Systems
- Gaap Accounting
- Internal Controls
- Budget
- Budgeting
- Budgets
- Financial Reporting
- Financial Statements
- Financials
- Variance Analysis
- Payables
- Payments
- Financial forecasting
- Budget management
- Cost analysis
- Cross-functional collaboration
Timeline
FP&A Manager
IDEMIA
01.2023 - Current
Manager
Laureate Education
03.2020 - Current
Senior Financial Analyst
Laureate Education
02.2015 - 02.2020
Financial Analyst
Laureate Education
02.2013 - 02.2015
IT Finance & Procurement Coordinator
Laureate Education
08.2012 - 01.2013
UK Financial Analyst
SITEL
01.2011 - 05.2011
Assistant Lecturer
ETHIRAJ College
07.2010 - 12.2010
Financial Analyst
EDF ENERGY
10.2009 - 06.2010
India Financial Analyst
GOLDMAN SACHS
05.2007 - 05.2009
MSc - Finance & Investment
University of Exeter
MBA - Financial Management
Annamalai University
BBA - Business Administration
Madras University