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Srinivasan Marimuthu

Cypress,TX

Summary

Business-minded Finance Manager promoting more than 13+ years of expertise overseeing transactions and driving business growth both financially and establishing market presence. Skilled in both business and financial strategic analysis. Experienced in achieving operational efficiency and increasing operational gains in the IT & Services domain. Finance and Business process improvement, data analysis, lean-six sigma and project management expert.

Employ root-cause analysis to identify issues and develop process improvements that lead to cost- savings. Exceptional planning and implementation capabilities.

Highly collaborative individual with track record of effectively training and coaching staff members. Offering confidence, team contribution and decision making skills

With 18+ years of experience and exposure to different industries at different stages of business in growing and established organizations.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Finance Manager

HP
Spring, TX
10.2016 - Current
  • Lead financial consolidation and help drive efficiency across the Digital Transformation Organization and manage all FP&A related activities for Global Finance Organization
  • Spear head collaborative engagement with business to cultivate strong partnership, yield actionable insights and unlock incremental value for the enterprise
  • Communicate financial results and key drivers across a breadth of stakeholders and the business unit teams through concise and effective story telling
  • Financial modeling and reporting along with variance Analysis
  • Lead global flash and all forecasting activities for the towers over $1B
  • Lead monthly reviews, interlock & collaborate with business and finance for Corp flash
  • Manage and lead quarterly assessment of risks and opportunities to drive sound financial decisions and establish playbook for business actions
  • Lead the Long-Term Planning, Org and outline changes and Budget processes, Capital optimizer initiatives for the Global IT organization
  • Streamline, harmonize and align workstreams, internal financial systems to recapture time to be repurposed for analytics
  • Compliance Reporting
  • Manage CAPEX forecasting
  • Drive Accounts Payable forecasting at company level.
  • Coordinate across multiple teams within SC finance, operations, treasury, procurement to forecast Accounts payable
  • Manage BMW and all the AP related dashboards.
  • Grow, develop and position your team to deliver on key objectives; Help cultivate culture of feedback to drive results collaboratively

Senior Financial Analyst II

HP
Singapore, Singapore
10.2010 - 10.2016
  • Lead and own the end-to-end planning process and cadence for APJ PPS across Revenue, Margin, Op-Ex, RTM Quota, Sales Comp and related financial metrics to enable planning of Long-Term Forecast, Budget and Quota across APJ countries
  • Ensure pricing, forecasting and margin systems meet the yearly Budget, Flash and month-end close activities
  • Support Bid-Desk Planning, forecasting and driving sales.
  • Coordinate with various stakeholders (WW FP&A, Region Category and Sales, Countries, Channel marketing, Sales compensation team) to fulfill the required deliverables within timeline
  • Schedule Executive check points and review meetings to ensure key decisions are made timely to drive revenue and margin
  • Work with APJ and WW counterparts during the Budget interlock period and ensure budget alignment and submission is achieved within the stipulated time period
  • Drive and Organizational Change submissions to WW and ensure that they are correctly reviewed and addressed
  • Designed the quota process and templates to meet business requirement as well as presenting data in structured and meaningful way for ease of submission and consolidation
  • Ensure the quota metrics are correctly deployed to the countries
  • Maintain high accuracy in quota data as well as historical compares
  • Attend and represent APJ at the WW weekly reviews and governance meetings
  • Works with cross-functional teams across the entire span of business planning activities
  • Manage and support a critical financial application which enables monthly forecasting and closure of month-end activities for APJ region
  • Represent APJ at the WW level for the tools and process improvement and present the APJ dashboard
  • Provide leadership and guidance to analysts managing different modules of the application
  • Manage data and workflow to all the downstream systems
  • Collaborate effectively with key users from business, finance, marketing and country sales teams

Deputy Manager of Operations

Corelogic Global Services Private Limited
Bangalore, India
12.2007 - 09.2010
  • Overall team Management - a team of 105 associates with 5 team leads at two locations
  • Manage team functions and deliverables
  • People management – Resource planning, Performance tracking, evaluation, review & feedback, promotions and appraisals
  • Own and deliver Process SLA
  • Ensure KPI – Key performance indicators, metrics measurements and operational results as per SLA
  • Ensure proper tracking of business fundamentals and scorecards
  • Ensure month-end accounting close process and manage client books
  • Budgeting & forecast and control review process
  • Comprehensive financial analysis and assess operational health on client accounts, provide effective management information and information solutions for decision making
  • Representation and implementation of quality measures and facilitate Audit programs of internal and external, Process and Statutory and ISO
  • SAS-70 Audit compliance
  • Consultation & Integration – Provide best financial and process consultation and guidance, partner with other operation team on value propositions and process integrations
  • Project Management - Drive business initiated and financial projects, manage transition and Training & Development
  • Controls & Compliance - Ensure adequate process controls, Accounting and Audit compliance in accordance to the corporate governance
  • Management Reporting - Develop timely and accurate models / reports for key financial indicators to support management decisions and operations
  • Planning & Analysis - Effective planning through internal forecast tools and analyze the financial and business aspects to indicate the risk factors and ROI maximization
  • Client Management - Customer centricity and developing a customer focused team
  • Training and Knowledge Management
  • Transition responsibilities – Demonstration & Presentation Process model, build process models, validation of transition proposals, Documentations, resource planning and feasibility analysis
  • Transition & Sign-off., Six Sigma Green Belt Project – this project involves improvement of process accuracy & efficiency, to reduce the error level per million transactions
  • Spearheaded Talent management and New Hire Recruitment as part of the company’s recruitment panel
  • SAS-70 Auditing – Ensured SAS-70 implementation and process certification.

Assistant Manager

IBM India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore, India
11.2004 - 12.2007
  • Managing team functions and deliverables in accordance to customer SLA and metrics
  • Ensure key financial indicators and measures to optimize the financial decision-making of the company
  • Management reporting, analyze the key driving factors of the business performance, send instant MIS and review the KPI (Key Performance Indicators), metrics measurements and operational results
  • Comprehensive financial analysis and reporting on client accounts
  • Transition responsibilities – Build process models, process aspects, resource planning and other feasibility analysis
  • Execution of transition plan monitor and sign-off Process
  • Training and knowledge management - Process training, induction and orientation to the new team members, training the trainers, review and approve process documentations and Training materials
  • Ensure process improvements and initiatives in team and motivate to achieve the SLA matrices and move up the value chain
  • Internal audit and process controls
  • Project deliverables - Lead all Client initiated projects and Quality GB projects to reduce error rate and increase efficiency
  • Superior customer engagement & client management to ensure overall customer satisfaction
  • Resolve and close escalations and customer complaints by eliminating grey areas and implementing preventive measures
  • Drive Process Improvements, standardization and automation and of the existing process
  • Ensure daily / weekly follow-up and review calls with the clients to discuss the targets achieved and misses and communicate plan of actions
  • Management review on team's performance and deliverables., Received many accolades from Senior Management and Clients for the work exhibited and displaying true boundary-less behavior and IBM values to do what it takes to be a true IBMer.

Education

MBA - Financial Planning And Accounting

Anglia Ruskin University
Cambridge, UK

Skills

  • Forecasting, Strategic Planning, Long Term Planning and Budgeting
  • Pricing & Revenue Planning
  • Finance & Business Process improvement
  • Ability to set direction, prioritize, schedule and deliver by effective coordination
  • Advanced Excel, Presentation and Project Planning
  • Use financial data to build financial models, scenarios and bring strategic insights
  • Excellent analytical thinking, technical analysis, and data analytical skills
  • Good negotiation, disturbance and dispute handling, motivation and coaching skills
  • Can perform well under pressure and in any given environment
  • Transition and Transformation experience
  • Business Systems – Essbase, SAP, BW

Accomplishments

Received recognition and appreciation from CTO, CIO, VP, Managers and different customers and peers across different functions.

Six Sigma Green Belt Project – this project involves improvement of process accuracy & efficiency, to reduce the error level per million transactions.

Spearheaded Talent management and New Hire Recruitment as part of the company’s recruitment panel.

SAS-70 Auditing – Ensured SAS-70 implementation and process certification

Project: Designed and created a Contact Database which helped reduction in time spent in processing loans which effectively increase efficiency and productivity.

Received many accolades from Senior Management and Clients for the work exhibited and displaying true boundary-less behavior and IBM values to do what it takes to be a true IBMer.

Additional Information

Church leader in the community – leading home cells.

Playing drums, listening to music and inspirational talks & spending time with children.

Photography and creating toy models for children.

Back-yard Vegetable Gardening.

Timeline

Senior Finance Manager

HP
10.2016 - Current

Senior Financial Analyst II

HP
10.2010 - 10.2016

Deputy Manager of Operations

Corelogic Global Services Private Limited
12.2007 - 09.2010

Assistant Manager

IBM India Pvt Ltd
11.2004 - 12.2007

MBA - Financial Planning And Accounting

Anglia Ruskin University

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