Ranjan Dutta

New Jersey C: 347-***-**** Skype id: nextranjan acgfe3@r.postjobfree.com

Seasoned finance controller bringing over 9 years of experience in combining strategic thinking with existing policies to derive

solutions. Performs contract negotiations and comprehensive contract reviews, informing the organization of the financial impact and

financial obligations Worked with cross functional / departments in 5 countries. Managing month end closing, investor reporting, deal

review. Strong technology industry experience.

CORE COMPETENCIES

ROI, NPV, FCF, DCF Analysis Mergers and Acquisitions Auditing / Internal Controls Bank credit lines

Budgeting / Forecasting Payroll – Internal & outsource Month End Close / Treasury Risk Management

US GAAP / IFRS Equity investment Investor reporting Variance analysis

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

Financial Analysis & Planning

Financial budgets: Savings of annual $30M by analyzing financial structure and advocating restructuring initiatives.

Internal controls: Shorten the month end closing process to 4 business days from 30 days.

Commercial: Additional monthly working capital of $0.7M by curtailment of unwanted outlay.

Sales pipeline: Improved the revenue projection to the accuracy of 85% by streamline pipeline in Salesforce.

Business Finance: Achieved 2.5x income growths though aggressive cost management on core business deliverables.

Payroll: Managed UK, US and India payroll accounting, reconciliation and designed sales commission & bonus plan.

Product pricing: Prepared pricing for projects over $2.0M targeting a contribution of margin of 80%.

Capital budgeting: Evaluation of capital purchases on lease vs. cash and lead team to prepare $16M capital budget.

Treasury / Fund Management

Bank debts: Secured Term loan of $50M by monitoring monthly covenant and borrowing base.

Lease financing: Introduced finance Lease line of $10M for capital asset without director’s personal guarantee.

Equity investment: Instrumental in raising fund of $160M through private Equity firm and Mezzanine Loan of $35M.

Cash management: Executing collection strategies in order to reduce the DSO and ageing portfolio below 60 days.

Client contracts: Performed assessing creditworthiness of clients and contract review to ensure receipt of payments.

Auditing / Compliance

External audit: Established a comprehensive consolidation audit package for the parent company including 5 different

currencies spreading across Asia, Europe, UK and America in compliance with FAS 52.

GAAP: Implemented of revenue recognition guideline under ASC 605-25, ASC 985-605, and ASC 605-28.

Due diligence: Responsible for financial due-diligence of 3 acquisitions over $5M and Transfer-pricing studies.

Internal audits: Establish strategy for timely execution of risk-based internal audits and report for audit committee.

Tax audits: Reduced the tax liability from $2.3M to $0.2M for NYC sales tax.

Compliance: Knowledge of UK companies return, 1099 return, W-9, K-1 partnership returns, property tax returns.

CAREER SYNOPSIS

Sr. Finance Manager - Opera Solutions LLC, Jersey City, NJ Nov 2008-Till date

Leading big data & analytic company with revenue base of ~$120M in 5 global offices and employee strength of 550+.

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Recruited to leverage budgeting experience to initiate cost measures and deriving growth. Devised new internal control through

strategic analysis to improve the gross margin by 14%. Lead the team for global ERP implementation. Creating process and controls to

increase the accuracy of revenue projection, deal pricing.

» Direct and perform financial analysis and reporting activities to support short term and long range strategic plans and operating

budgets financial analysis for $120M.

» Prepare financial statements and reports for internal and external stakeholders within 4 business days.

» Reduced debtors below 60 days by weekly collection meeting, linking incentive payment plan to sales.

» Achieved EBITDA margin of 15% and top line growth of 20% by weekly sales pipeline call, sales strategies.

» Revamped the budget of 40 employee hiring plan and restructuring employee utilization to ~80%.

» Rejuvenated equipment in 8 months by restructuring old equipment loans and saving $45K in interest.

» Implementation of multi currency ERP with integration of HR module within 6 months and budget $1.6M.

Sr. Accountant - Penguin Books India Private ltd, New Delhi, India Oct 2007- Oct 2008

Publishing house merged with Random house in 2013 with revenue base of ~$70M and employee strength of 160+.

Challenged to solve the booking costing and inventory valuation pending for 3 years. Tracked progress of weekly spending on paper

purchase and vendor valuation for optimum costing. Served as key team member in taking decision of international remittance for

hedge against exchange rate valuation.

» Improved the financials metrics and KPI’s (Key performance indicators) for asset turnover, stock valuation.

» Utilization of the office space cost lowered by 30% per employee

» Key liaison officer between the insurance broker and the company reducing the coverage cost by 12%.

» Implemented new payment terms of 90 days for strategic vendors contributing additional working capital of $1M.

» Prepare production cost estimate and uploading financial figure in reporting software Prime Hyperion.

» Saved thousands of dollars by creating systems to efficiently and effectively track inventory and sales.

» Cut marketing cost by 30% by initiating a “12 Touch Direct Mail” program, which connects customers once per month.

Project Manager - Vikas Kocchar & Associates, New Delhi, India Apr 2007- Sep

2007

CPA firm specializing in Technology business audit and out sourcing of entire finance process with $20M and 100+ employees.

Selected to fill high visibility role to develop business strategies and team for outsourcing finance team. Challenged to create an

exclusive, upscale service assortment to retain client. Scaled the business from auditing division to transfer pricing, internal control,

regulation of capital goods imports. Managed P&L activities for 3 premier software clients.

» Assisted clients in obtaining all requisite approvals from the Registrar of Companies (ROC), Reserve Bank of India (RBI),

Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), Customs Act, etc.

» Generated additional sales of $50K in 4 months by introducing new services for account expansion.

» Lead team of stock valuation for a national valued jewelry chain for 135 stores in 3 months for contract value of $225K.

Accountant - R.K. Dhar & Company, Kolkata, India May 2004 -Sep 2006

CPA firm specializing in bank and non for profit government initiative audits with team of 22 employees.

» Responsible for Statutory Audit, Transfer Pricing, Internal Audit, Tax Audit.

» Trained department staff in various tasks for accrual, actual and adjusting JE, reconciliations and expense analysis.

» Prepared and finalized monthly payroll of the company.

» Preparation and filing of individual tax returns. Provided weekly cash activity reports to the partners.

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ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

1st Attempt

Chartered Accountancy, India Nov,2006

M.S. in Accounting & Finance Aug,2014

CPA, NJ Board (appearing for exam)

TECHNOLOGY SKILLS

ERP - Total Book Master [TMS], Net suite, Maconomy, Workday, Tally, QuickBooks, Sales force, Microsoft

office.

Reporting - HYPERION 9 and Business Object.

Date: RANJAN DUTTA

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