Raghav Pathania

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925-***-****

E XPERIENCE

EMC, Pleasanton, CA (01/16 – present)

Business Analyst (Contract)

●Managed project financials totaling $70MM in revenue

● Calculated SOP 98 capitalization requirements for project costs

● Met with project and resource managers to review financials and provide support

● Processed monthly SOW accruals and reversals and updated active contracts

● Presented financial forecasting data and reconciled in Essbase

● Utilized VBA programming to automate Essbase financial reporting for cost

center hierarchy

● Reviewed and approved invoices in Oracle system for payment

● Provided recommendations on allocation of resources to various projects

● Participated in decision making process during PRB meetings

● Reviewed sales commission reports with controller and other finance leads

ProQuest, Mountain View, CA (07/15 - 11/15)

Senior Financial Analyst (Contract)

● Prepared monthly sales commission reporting for VP of Finance

● Analyzed financial data and trends for Ebooks business

● Compared sales and royalty rate trends on year to year basis

● Prepared accruals, reclasses, and P&L report for financial dashboard review

● Maintained large sets of data using Global Sales Reporting tool and Hyperion

● Budgeting and forecasting duties in Hyperion performed on monthly basis

● Participated in budget and forecasting reiteration meetings

Chevron Corp, Concord, CA (04/08 – 06/15)

Financial Reporting Analyst

Financial Analysis Duties:

● Reduced overall operating expenses by 30% for entire IT organization through

furloughs, travel expense reductions, offshoring resources and key project

efficiency initiatives

● Engaged in planning and budgeting decisions for annual business cycles;

performed reforecasting iterations as needed

● Provided ongoing feedback and performance recommendations to management

● Analyzed headcount and operating expenses at cost center group level

● Budgeting, forecasting duties and variance analysis for all IT teams

● Met annual budget targets within 5% of operating expense goals

Capital Expense Duties:

● Managed and led capital finance committee meetings with product services

● Worked closely with project managers to manage capital expense funding;

reallocated project funds as needed based on quarterly expenditures

● Reviewed capital spend for various projects with leadership committee

● Developed forecasting tool for capital expenditure tracking

Technical Duties:

● Strong knowledge and understanding of Business Planning and Consolidation tool

● Converted existing spreadsheet reports into BPC application using Visual Basic

● Tested newly upgraded version of BPC for reporting functionality

● Trained new hires on using financial reporting tools and analytics

● Downloaded complex data sets from SAP system and formatted into Excel using macros

Accounting/Other Duties:

● Conducted P&L reviews and detailed variance analysis for IT teams

● Analyzed sub ledger accounts and performed reclassifications with journals

● Enforced Chevron accounting methods on projects; calculated depreciation and

amortizations, direct billings, and project labor cost allocations

● Consolidated cost center roll-up of financials for managerial review

● Engaged in budgeting and forecasting duties to manage cost center expenses

within ITC and PAD finance.

● Reported financials and provided recommendations to management

for reducing IT headcount costs.

● Developed and maintained monthly headcount rosters and project expenditure

reports for ITC teams using VBA programming.

● Provided financial reporting support for the Ariba upgrade project, and managed

the overall forecast for review by the project management team

● Assisted planning committee with reduction of ITC expenses for team budgets

● Performed accounting month-end and year-end close duties

● Utilized Hyperion Essbase to generate financial forecasts and budgets

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, San Jose, CA (04/06 – 12/07)

Financial Analyst

● Performed billing analysis for clients including LSI Logic, Nvidia and JuniperNetworks.

● Created value added tax (vat) revenue report for managers,directors and partners.

● Used pivot tables to categorize vat report regionally, and presented analysis.

● Provided monthly revenue analysis on engagement portfolios for partners.

● Administered invoices to clients and ensured timely cash collections.

● Analyzed engagement revenue gains for assigned clients.

● Obtained 95% of monthly billing and cash collection goals.

● Tracked invoices in payables database, and approved payments

● Met with all levels of client services and provided exceptional support

● Received recognition for high performance within finance team

Deloitte Consulting LLP, San Francisco, CA (03/05 – 03/06)

Project Controller (Contract)

● Responsible for SAP implementation project with $50M budget

● Managed financials for key SAP ERP implementation projects

● Provided recommendations based on monthly engagement results to partners

● Performed tracking of time and expense reports for consultants.

● Utilized the Deloitte Pricing Model to track the profitability of engagements

● Enforced Deloitte consulting policies and practices

● Monitored and updated project engagements with actuals/forecasts

● Used pricing model to calculate profit margins, and pivot tables to organize

expense reports.

EDUCATION

California State University, East Bay, Hayward, CA

M.B.A. Finance & Accounting

University of California, Davis, D avis, CA

B.A. Economics Minor: Managerial Economics

Dean’s List

Coresoft Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA Certificate, SAP R3 FI/CO

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