Priya Ganapathy

• Managed ~ $10 million budget and 300+headcount for Cisco's Supply chain and Product Lifecycle COGS ( Cost of Goods sold ) departments.
• Conducted Bi-weekly review cadence with business leaders to review spending and provided insights on risks and opportunities.
• Provided weekly forecast updates to Central Finance team with detailed commentary on prior week variance and budget variance.
• Ensured budget/commit load in Hyperion Planning/ Essbase tool for budgeting, forecasting and reporting.
• Handled accruals, prepaid expenses, and ensured compliance with accounting policies.
• Supported monthly accounting close activities, reconciliation and cross-functional charges.
• Handled monthly Third Party Vendor contract processing including approvals to deploy resources for projects.
• Collaborated closely with finance leaders and provided hands-on support to business leaders.

• Managed the Operating expenses budget, forecasting, and cost optimization for $50 million portfolio, constantly tracking spending against the budget.
• Collaborated with leaders across various infrastructure departments ( Storage, Server, Security, Media, Cloud, Data Center and Network ) to present metrics, gather forecast projections and provide insights into risks and opportunities.
• Worked with the finance team to ensure accurate cost allocation to cost centers and chargebacks.
• Oversaw vendor invoices for all infrastructure leaders, verifying them through the proper approval channels.
• Tracked Amazon Web Services (AWS) consumption for all departments.
• Managed accruals and ensured accurate posting for compliance as well as tracked and reported prepaid expenses.

• Managed financial forecasting for Third Party team and Data Analytics team overseeing a portfolio worth $15 million.
• Presented weekly financial report to leadership, providing detailed insights into financial performance.
• Tracked and processed vendor invoices, ensured accurate monthly accruals and allocated invoices to appropriate project codes based on budget.
• Routed invoices through the Accounts Payables process, tracked resource costs and managed internal movements.
• Reconciled project fixed costs with allocated budget, ensuring alignment with project demands.
• Conducted weekly reconciliation of project governance budgets providing explanations for any variance over 10% for each project code.

• Managed Quarterly/Monthly/Weekly bookings forecast for US Commercial Service areas.
• Ensured 98% accuracy in forecast at all times.
• Provided decision-support data for finance and sales leadership and conducted quarterly business reviews.
• Analyzed pipeline metrics and provided insights on operational metrics, booking trends and performance.
• Involved in annual planning, goal setting and process improvements including developing a Smartsheet model for tracking deals.
• Played a key role in tracking and managing incentive compensation.
• Involved in system enhancement testing and provided feedback.

• Managed forecasting model for ten projects within the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) team with a total budget allocation of $25 million and $5 million budget for Hardware and Software.
• Prepared the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) for all EDW projects and ensured variance less than 5% between AOP and actuals.
• Acted as a liaison between the Central Planning team and EDW teams to support accurate forecasting and financial analysis.
• Ensured correct resource allocation to projects and cost centers, handling cross-charges from other business units and accurately recording them in SAP.
• Conducted project review meetings to identify and communicate risks and opportunities.
• Ensured all CAPEX projects were properly documented, approved and monitored to remain within budget.

· Part of core Global Mobility team – off shoring the immigration process to India.

· Processed all paperwork for PERM filing before the due date.

· E-file PERM's in DOL website.

· Provided business requirements for system enhancements.

· Lead the PERM Green Card processing team.

· Generated reports from My Visa application.

· Presented dashboard metrics.

· Reported Discount Analysis and Gross Margin – Region wise and Product Group wise to the sales team for making strategic decisions.

· Analyzed the data and send the feedback report to the sales team.

· Conducted the weekly and monthly price change in the Global Pricing System.

· Handled all queries of the sales team relating to reporting.

· Ensured that all the processes meet the Service Level Agreement.

· Handled the market independently with the customer satisfaction rating of 5/5.

· Lead the ISO audit.

· Lead the travel expense department operations through a team of eight.

· Reviewed Account Receivable, Reserve and Bank account reconciliation.

· Developed control mechanism for corporate card transaction in online Expense reporting system (Concur).

· Developed interface control mechanism for online Expense reporting system (Concur) and payment system.

· Completed Sox/Non-Sox compliance documentation and adherence.

· Liaised with Citibank, American Express and IT in implementing new reporting system.

· Implemented secured transfer mechanism to eliminate PII exposure.

· Lead for Annual File Review and Record retention program.

· Lead the Quality Initiative Projects – 1 Kaizen and 1 Yellow Belt Project Certified

· Lead Coordinate with auditors for ISO audit and GAO Audit.

· Coordinated with the IT team in building new financial systems/enhancements for the operation.