Profile: Manager, Innovation, Value Creation, Business Transformation, Digitization, Industry 4.0, Strategy, Execution CV Dr. Srikanth Mathur Buchenrain 54, CH-8704, Herrliberg Pages 1 of 4 ***.******@******.***
Srikanth Mathur, Dr. Sc., Executive MBA
Address Buchenrain 54, CH-8704, Herrliberg, Zürich E-Mail ***.******@******.***
Mobile +41-79-247****
Date of Birth 26.05.1971
Civil Status Swiss Citizen, Married, one child
Value Proposition
Objective Create value at Organizational, Team and personal levels. Profile
Skills
• 10 years of business consulting experiences with Business Management, Project Management, Business analysis, and Data analytics for clients in diverse areas of Wealth Management, Information Technology (IT), Intercultural management.
• Managed in partnership, a small business - Interculture with <1 Mio. CHF turnover based in Switzerland.
• Experience in definition of business strategy for business growth and development for small business clients.
• Key projects also included support for business and IT solutions for global wealth management client
• Hands on experience in preparation, controlling, reporting of balance sheets and financial statements including maintaining the integrity of book keeping for tax and audit purposes.
• Imparted Coaching to senior executives, Trained business leaders through workshops and conducted Project management through Research for academia, Guest speaker and panellist in Intercultural management.
• Experienced in writing Business Plans for Start-ups and Business Case studies for Executive education.
• Presented and taught academia on Industry 4.0 and Biotechnology.
• Analysed Data with MS-Excel®), including practical experience with relational databases (MS-Access®) & data archiving and document configuration management (MS-SharePoint®) including Specification development and User Interface design (Joomla® 2.5).
• Experienced dealing with strategic business partners, key stakeholders, vendors including successful Presentations to Senior Management (MS PowerPoint®)
• Experienced with monitoring, reporting and managing key risks, issues and dependencies (Atlassian JIRA®), including critical path management (MS Project®).
• Experienced working in global business environments with multicultural teams in Switzerland, USA, UK and India towards successful delivery and implementation of business deliverables. Profile: Manager, Innovation, Value Creation, Business Transformation, Digitization, Industry 4.0, Strategy, Execution CV Dr. Srikanth Mathur Buchenrain 54, CH-8704, Herrliberg Pages 2 of 4 ***.******@******.***
Employment
Client
Project
Achievements
2009-10, Business Consultant, Sri Business Consultants, Zürich. Executive Wealth Management, Küsnacht, Zürich.
• Automation of the administration of deferred executive compensation plans for multiple, global confidential corporate clients (handling change during financial crisis).
• Ensured business continuity through change
management of ongoing projects for Primary clients with Carry Interest Plans and also for on boarding of new clients with Closed End Funds.
• Gathered financial accounting and controlling
frameworks (US-GAAP, IFRS in co-invest, carry-interest types of plans) from Financial Plan Controllers in US, UK and specified requirements for the automation and
integration of business functionalities such as target allocation, vesting, forfeiture, distribution and payout during the life cycle of deferred compensation plans.
• Coordinated definition of business rule engines and analysed business impact to procure approvals from Business Plan accountants as an integral part of moving into development phase.
• Automated a Participant services system for Client Relationship Managers who needed to be able to monitor FAQ requests from their wealth management clients
within their SLAs on leverage, non-leverage types of deferred plans and respond with consistent firm-wide replies.
• Project deliverables included business specifications for design and implementation of User Interfaces for
integrating business functionalities and a reporting solution and data security features (restricted roles, authorizations and profiles).
• Defined test cases, lead test execution and coordinated and signed off end user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Resolved challenges in overseeing the development of and deployment of the UI with an outsourced team in India using SDLC methodology.
• Managed release deployments of software
developments and communicated to various
stakeholders.
• Reported key issues, risks & progress of software- development directly to MD, CTO & Senior Management and stakeholders using customized JIRA tools.
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Client
Project
Achievements
2011-13, Business Consultant, Interculture GmbH, Zürich,, 2013-14, Managing Director, Interculture GmbH, Zürich,
• Manage an innovative business as a Partner to CEO, Swiss School of Tourism and Hospitality and Professor of Business at University of Zürich.
• Developed business strategies for growth as start-up.
• Set-up and executed the Finance and IT Operations.
• Designated Consultant, Facilitator for Workshops, Trainer and Expertise Speaker on the management of Indian
Business culture for Swiss clients.
• Defined business strategy with key stakeholders, developed roadmap, milestones towards predefined
business targets and towards positioning of training workshops as a brand within available investments and current and potential clientele.
• Prepared financial-policies for internal governance in dealing with monetary transactions between business partners, clients, vendors, contract service providers and ensured compliance with tax & audit- requirements.
• Responsible accountant for receivables and payables of business transactions and responsible controller for reconciliation of balance sheets and for integrity of bookkeeping.
• Designed and implemented in MS Excel® a template for invoicing bills and expense reports.
• Created a database in MS Access® to manage track, maintain fiscal accounts along with client information and preparation of financial statements periodically.
• Signed off on tax documents and worked in liaison with partners, external bookkeeper/auditors to ensure correct and complete closing of accounts.
• Ensure business operations are in sync with annual operational budgets.
• Designed and developed overall IT strategies for information and document configuration management
for audit readiness.
• Executed changes to client user interface webpage in Joomla® version 2.5 to manage client communications.
• Negotiated pricing deals for workshops and vendors.
• Supported client procurement process through business research and own network to on-board new and
potential clients.
• Sustained strong business relationships with external strategic partners to maintain competitiveness.
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Client 2016-17, Swiss Chinese Case Study Centre, Executive MBA, UZH Scope Conduct Research, Interviews & Transcription of Business cases Client 2015-17, Guest Speaker, Academia UZH & FHNW, Switzerland Scope Intercultural Management, Biotechnology & Industry 4.0 Education
2008 Executive MBA, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. 2008 Leadership & Negotiations Management, Yale University, USA. 2008 Strategic Chinese Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China. 2005 Doctor of Science, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland. Client
Project
Achievements
2014-16, Best Curry & Delhi House Best Curry, Zurich
• Develop business strategies for market entry, and positioning for gastronomy clients in Zurich.
• Key consultant for Marketing & Advertising Operations with objectives for growth and scalability.
• Secured, coordinated and executed contracts for
advertising material from India based on cost arbitrage.
• Created MS-Access® database tool to capture ongoing transactions and maintained accounting balance sheets. Input over 3 years of sales data into a Relational Database Management System (RDMS) to create a Management
Information System (MIS).
• Analysed data for production of financial statements including budgeting and forecasting.
• Based on Data Mining analysis and Break-even analysis corroborated strategies, which led to the diversification of Business ensuring investment or dis-investment decisions in the different service lines.
• Identified and defined a business hypothesis by analysing purchasing patterns of key customers to manage
customer relations and sales.
• Utilized the RDMS to manage Supply chain Logistics and for forecasting of inventories against demand.
• Evaluated transactional costs versus sales volume benefit to decide on products, pricing in line with market competition, streamline administration overheads and operational logistics.
• Diagnosed business risks and dependencies, simulated scenarios to mitigate business risks leveraging tools such as SWOT analysis.
• Strategies implemented were effective and the brand has experienced commercial growth with financial
profits, increased market share, market penetration and is currently undergoing organic expansion in Zürich.