Priya Narayanan
Plano,TX
Summary
Priya has 8 years of experience in FP&A with industry focus in e commerce, Retail, IT & financial services. She has extensive experience in budgeting, strategic planning, forecasting, variance analysis and reporting for decision making. She is adept at increasing work process efficiency and profitability through automation, detailed business and financial analysis. She has worked in cross cultural environments with exposure to North America, EMEA and India markets. She has a green card and does not need any visa sponsorship.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST
AMAZON
12.2022 - 02.2023
- Completed 8 weeks of Finance Returnship Program with Amazon's middle mile transportation finance team, evaluation done
- Project was to come up with a monthly check in process for capex investments that had a two-way door decision optionality
- The goal was to build flexibility to adjust capex investments in response to volume and market changes
- Familiar with models for Cost of ownership, NPV, PBP, ROIC, tracking the actual asset performance vs forecast/plans
- Worked extensively with business team as part of the project to understand the process of planning for assets for the year
SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST
M H ALSHAYA CO LLC
06.2015 - 12.2015
- Advising and assisting with the planning, budgeting, forecasting, analysis, modeling and reporting of the total pharmacy business
- Monitoring ongoing performance and business profitability against plans and targets
- Model and provide previous, current and forecasted financial information to assist and enable brand, operations and support function management to review performance and build business plans that optimize trading patterns
- Review, consolidation and communication of budget against actuals trading performance every period
- Ensure timely and accurate production of standard and customized financial reports for the business
- Undertake focused analysis on Capex investment performance, brand, store and country profitability and ongoing costs review
- Preparation, review and communication of monthly performance of new stores (new business opening)
- Weekly updating, consolidation and review of stores opening forecast by country and location Monthly preparation of the portfolio review report by market and by brand
EXECUTIVE FINANCE
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
02.2006 - 11.2008
- One of the first employees of the division, I directly reported to the Business Head
- Impacted profit margins of the business by 5-10% through concrete practical suggestions on expense management
- Single Handedly prepared financial plans for the new business ($10Mil Revenue forecast for Yr 1)
- Profitability analysis, preparing expense plans, variance analysis, cost tracking, utilization analysis
- Monthly, quarterly financial reporting to the management with detailed MIS as needed
- Acted as a link between the business and the FP&A team
- Attended sales, business calls and helped the sales team in pricing new deals for the business
- Coordinated with the senior management to prepare profitability improvement plans
- Designed resource utilization reports to achieve efficient resource utilization and improve project profitability
SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST
ORACLE USA
10.2003 - 01.2006
- Commendations received from the management for excellence in reporting and customer centricity
- Worked with the Finance Directors of the regions on forecasts and budgets
- FP&A preparation of country level business results reports, MIS reports
- Annual expense plans, variance analysis and expense tracking of Oracle offices in US and Europe
- Preparation of weekly sales forecast and variance analysis with actuals
- Preparation of adhoc MIS report requests
- Member of Report Automation and Standardization team
- Extensively used Excel Macros
INDUSTRIAL TRAINEE - CITIBANK
07.1999 - 08.2002
- Team member involved in preparation of country level reports covering business results on a monthly, quarterly, yearly basis
- Financial Reporting, Internal Audit of the financials of the department
- Preparing expense plan, spend and variance tracking of Internet investments
- Concurrent, Statutory, Internal and Tax Audits of corporations and banks
- Exposure to auditing Forex Authorized dealers, Banks and Insurance companies
- Preparation of tax returns for individuals
Education
CPA INDIA (CA) -
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
01-2003
Bachelor of Commerce -
University of Madras
01-2001
Skills
- Financial modeling
- Budgets and strategic planning
- Forecasting
- Change/variance analysis
- Trend analysis
- Reporting for decision making
- Profitability improvement plan
- Pricing
- Automation
- KPI monitoring
- Growth projections
- Expense reduction
- Cost-benefit analysis
- Oracle Financials
- PeopleSoft
Digital Skills
- Finacle
- IBIS
- Microsoft Office
- MS Excel
- Strong communication
- Curious learner
- Interpersonal skills
- Prioritization
- Deadline driven
- Attention to detail
- Analytical approach
- Practical approach
- Business partnering
- Relationship management
Soft Skills
Accomplishments
- Reported directly to BU heads, directors and top leadership executives
- Impacted profit margins of the business by 5-10% through concrete practical suggestions on expense management
- Consistently rated among top 5% of Oracle GFIC team and promoted within 12 months of joining
- Won several accolades at work for quick ramp-up and consistent delivery
- Excellent academic track record - state 5th ranker in India high school examination
Timeline
SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST
AMAZON
12.2022 - 02.2023
SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST
M H ALSHAYA CO LLC
06.2015 - 12.2015
EXECUTIVE FINANCE
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
02.2006 - 11.2008
SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST
ORACLE USA
10.2003 - 01.2006
INDUSTRIAL TRAINEE - CITIBANK
07.1999 - 08.2002
CPA INDIA (CA) -
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
Bachelor of Commerce -
University of Madras
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