Sneha Bist

I lead the preparation and presentation of value-added financial analysis and provide insights to LFO, helping them prepare for meetings with Country head and equipe them for informed decisions. Experienced in managing the end-to-end budgeting and forecasting cycle for APAC, covering 7 sub-business units, with one direct report under my leadership. Additionally, I support high-level financial oversight for EMEA across 8 sub-business units (country), supported by two direct reports. In my role as a people manager, I am responsible for guiding and developing my team while enabling cross-functional collaboration and streamlined financial operations across geographies.

• Estimating and Presenting Monthly Revenue projections to senior management before results are available in system.
• Month end reporting that includes providing revenue story and obtaining as many details to minimize the unidentified revenue bucket through gap analysis and connecting with the Global Accounting and Billing team
• Providing detail variance commentaries for vs Budget/forecast, revenue movement between Months, Qtrs, Years and other scenarios.
• Analyze and estimate potential impact of client & business events i.e. Wins, Losses, Rebate using Salesforce and advice accounting team for any accrual or adjustments and coordinate with CRM to keep deals details up to date.
• End to End preparation and upload of annual Budget and Mid-year Forecast in Hyperion Planing tool
• Lead monthly calls with Global accounting team and Billing team including LFOs to discuss potential issues and bring everyone on the same page ahead of the month close.

• Accountable for financial analysis and reporting of APAC for Global Services, Global Markets, Global exchange, AIS and IMS.
• Prepare APAC Leadership Meeting deck (APLM), Monthly Business review (MBR) and Quarterly Business Review (QBR) by collaborating with the Revenue and Expense teams for insights and commentaries
• Prepare high quality monthly deliverables (Direct, Indirect P&L etc.) which vary by BU,
• Co-ordinate with Revenue insight center and Expense insight center for in-depth analysis and identification of business drivers for high-level revenue and expense analysis

• Serve as a Business Advisor for Consulting Partners to support project financial and portfolio management and during sales opportunities
• Run pricing scenarios to estimate the project price and profitability before the proposal submission to the client
• Establish healthy billing and collection practices with clients, account payable/finance team
• Tracking project actuals Vs budget and report any variance in expected revenue and profit.
• Worked with billing in raising invoices and reviewing before sending to clients

• Perform sales and pipeline analysis at the country level which includes Business opportunity recognition, market trend analysis, provides insights on upcoming clients and projects with an estimated value of revenue generation
• Perform various financial analysis such as Budgets vs actual comparison reports and variance analysis; Manage support activities to prepare budget and forecasts and to project and track financial metrics such as revenue, expense, etc.
• Perform regular analysis on data extracted from various tools (My Engagement tool, B&PR tool, GTAC, Interaction, Retain, Business Object, and GFIS etc.)
• Perform analysis to attain the optimum staff mix to arrive at the desired margin for projects, co-ordinate with resource managers across service lines to review objectives, margin and revenue on projects.
• Perform billing and expense analysis and advice on billing for the projects by tracking the hours & expense in the financial tracking model entered by the resources in Global Time & Expenses tool..
• Handling multiple regional reports ranging from Sales and pipeline reports to Utilization reports for an entire region.