Experience

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  Notion Press Media Private Limited

  • Bengaluru South, Karnataka, India

  • Author of 'A Banquet of love stories'

    • May 2020 - Present
    • Bengaluru South, Karnataka, India

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  SVYM, Sanskriti and some teaching for 2 years in total

  • Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Probono

    • Jul 2012 - Jul 2018
    • Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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  IBM

  • Worldwide Consolidation Lead for Coc

    • Apr 2009 - Jan 2011

    • Worked with the AMS Business Ops to get and provide info to management regarding key issues related to AMS WW.• Consolidated AMS Financial results forecast and actual for WW organization. Includes taking the lead of AMS Finance & Planning quarterly reporting package including the Contract Gross Profit consolidation.• Consolidated Over/Under recovery report for GBS after coordination with the Geo Finance & Planning teams.COC (Center of Competence):• Set up the new COC’s, (10) put in the process and educated the Finance & Accounts teams in countries and the Operations managers. Co-ordinated the creation of EBU (Employee Business Unit) and FA (Finance & Accounts) codes and tagging of this to the depts.• Co-ordinated, consolidated and analyzed the financials of all the COC’s on a monthly basis and presented to the VP.• Worked with the operations managers and the countries to ensure that the process is smooth and the logistics (Inter Company Agreement, etc) are in place.• Co–ordinated the quarterly close activity with the countries and Accounting team to ensure that the IOT allocation is done.• Guided and supervised the Finance FAs’ who were part of the World Wide COC team.• Created 2 team rooms – 1for HQ and 1 for World Wide COC finance team.• Any other analysis, report as required by Top management.

  • World wide consolidation for GBS GD

    • May 2007 - Mar 2009

    • Responsibilities of Consolidation Manager reporting to the WW GBS GD CFO, based in France. • The job included the responsibilities of Forecast and Plan co-ordinator.• Put the process in place for reporting and helped train, educate new GD’s that came up.• The job role involved Interaction with the 8 strategic centers F&P contacts and WW executives.• It included handling any ad-hoc analysis requests from the management

  • Business Finance Manager for Point of Sale, Asia Pacific

    • Jan 2004 - Apr 2007

    • Responsibilities of Finance Manager for one segment, “Point of sale” or otherwise called as the “Retail store solutions” for Asia Pacific reporting to the Asia Pacific RSS Manager, based in Singapore and functionally to AP STG Consolidation manager based in Shanghai with the AP STG CFO and the WW RSS CFO as the second line managers .• Preparation of Fall commitment Plan for Revenue, Gross Profit, Expense and the Pre Tax Income based on the directions from the Worldwide and interaction with the respective regional Managers and the Asia Pacific Manager.• Monthly assessment as well as reporting to the Asia Pacific manager on the Region’s performance and Forecasting to the Worldwide CFO RSS for the quarter for Revenue, Expense and Field Inventory and Pre Tax Income. • Performed an In depth analysis by country and participated actively in the restructuring of the division in terms of Product portfolio, reporting structure and headcount allocation to improve profitability.

  • Asia Pacific, PCD, Business Finance

    • Oct 2002 - Dec 2003

    • Asia Pacific Service Charges (APSC) and Expense & Resources Planner for Personal Computing division in Asia Pacific, and additionally APSC Planner for AP Xseries Brand.• Reporting to the Finance and Planning Manager based in Tokyo, the job included periodic reporting of the expense actuals and forecasts to the Asia Pacific CFO for PCD and the Asia pacific F&P Manager.• It included interacting with the WW wide team for the expense and Resources budgets of the regions and drawing up the Asia Pacific Service charges plan for the various organizations in APSC PCD and System X.• Monthly review the APSC organization heads based in Tokyo and Sydney on the Expense and monitoring it against the budgets allotted to them.

  • India Accounting team player

    • Apr 2001 - Sep 2002

    • Functional team lead responsible for the Processing and disbursement of all employee related claims.• Reengineered the employee disbursement process and standardized the policies and procedure across regions.• Reconciliation overview of a Creditor in dispute and its closure.• Bank reconciliation overview.• Facilitated the Centralization of the Vendor verification Accounts Payable process in India with the Accounts Payable team in the USA (IBM World Wide HQ). • General ledger support for month close activities, expense and Balance sheet analysis and reporting to ASEAN.• Worked in standardizing the Provision methodology and the Accounting controls as per the Accounting guidelines.• Preparation of monthly MIS for IGSI, our service organization and Export group.• Statutory Preparation of accounts for IBM India (Trading organization) for internal circulation

  • India Business finance team Player

    • Jan 1998 - Mar 2001

    • Preparation of a monthly MIS report for Headcount and Expense for the Business unit heads and reviewed by the CFO with the top management team for taking pro-active business decisions.• Support to the Business units to facilitate decision making critical to the business units.• Preparation of Annual Budgets for Capital expenditure, Headcount and Expense for the business units and consolidation of the same into the overall Company Financial Plan.• Monthly reporting to IBM’s ASEAN headquarters in Singapore for Balance sheet and Revenue and Expense after review with the CEO and the CFO.• Analysis and formulation of policies in line with the expense reduction exercise undertaken.• Continuous interaction with Accounting Team to ensure consensus with Accounts and to facilitate smooth audits.

  • Treasury team player

    • Jun 1998 - Dec 1998

    • Maintaining the database of the “Car lease scheme” of the company. Interaction with the Employees (as internal customers) for the purchase under lease of new cars, monthly EMI’s, foreclosure, transfer, etc. • Interaction with the financing companies on an ongoing basis with whom the company had contracted and also participated in inviting the quotes and negotiations and in decision making by the Treasury manager in choosing the finance company to interact with going forward.• Preparation of Bank Guarantees on request by the Marketing team after discussion with the legal team on the terms and conditions applicable.

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  ESSEM engineering company

  • Greater Chennai Area

  • Account Executive

    • Jul 1996 - Jun 1998
    • Greater Chennai Area

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  A Subramanian and Co

  • Greater Chennai Area

  • Article Trainee

    • Jul 1991 - Jul 1994
    • Greater Chennai Area

    As an intern, I was exposed to various facets of Finance and Accounting functions including Statutory & Tax audits as well as internal audit exercises in various Trading, Export, Construction, Banking and insurance companies. (3yrs)