Manager Accounting

SALIN VENUGOPALAN

Samhita Square Flat No M* Block 2, Basavanagar Main Road, Marathahalli Bangalore - 560037

Mobile: +91-984*******; E-Mail: **********@*****.***, Date of Birth: 9th May, 1981

LinkedIn Profile: in.linkedin.com/pub/salin-venugopalan/18/5b3/803

TOP MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL

FINANCE & ACCOUNTING OPERATIONS (Procure to Pay, Record to Report and Order to Cash) P&L MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEE BUSINESS STRATEGY & SOLUTIONING CLIENT ENGAGEMENT TRANSITION AND TRANSFORMATION

Offering 16+ years of rich and diversified experience; can be headhunted for a senior managerial level position across any functional sectors with an organization of repute

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Seasoned and versatile management professional with cross-functional experience across highly reputed business establishments, specialized skills in - Strategic Business/ Financial Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting, Business Process Transformation, Delivery Excellence, Process Initiatives & Controls, Business Continuity Planning, Strategic Business Operations, Customer Relationship Management, New Client On-boarding, Quality Management, Change Management, Stakeholder Management, Continuous Improvement, Internal Audits, Cost Optimization, Liaison & Coordination, Employee Engagement and Team Leadership.

Currently spearheading F&A as Lead Director with Access Health Care, Chennai

CAREER HISTORY

METRIQE ACCOUNTING SOLUTIONS (Movement as a part of Merger and Acquisition)

Vice President (F&A Operations, HR, Admin and IT)

Portfolio Size: 5 Million USD p.a.

Team Size: 258 (21 clients)

Roles and Responsibilities: -

Service Delivery Lead for Finance and Accounting operations,

Leads Human Resource, Information Technology, Administration, Recruitment and RPA

P & L owner

Transitions, Transformation Lead, Solution design and Sales Function for Finance and Accounting operations.

ACCESS HEALTH CARE, CHENNAI since Sept’18

BU head F and A (Procure to Pay, Record to Report and Order to Cash)

Portfolio size: 3 Million USD p.a

Team Size: 100

Roles and Responsibilities: -

Service Delivery Lead for Finance and Accounting operations / Site Lead

P & L owner

Transitions, Transformation Lead, Solution design and Sales Function for Finance and Accounting operations.

Achievements

Top Line revenue growth by 400 K in 2019

Onboarded 3 clients for F&A operations

Onboarding of 3 clients for F &A (14 FTEs in 2019)

Part of Mergers and Acquisition (Due diligence, scoping, analyzing P & L for operations, EBIDTA and Gross Margin, Skill set mapping and Eliminate Nonvalue add)

Efficiency gain of 25 FTE in 2018.

Shift from a - 35 % Gross margin to 45 % gross margin in 3 months

Transformation Project R2R: Redesign Inputs process and improve quality of Financials

Transformation Project P2P: Auto scanning and Invoice upload: Productivity gain of 5 FTE

Transformation Project O2C: Outbound Invoice billing tool: Productivity gain of 6 FTE

Implementation of 3 clients for Account Payable (System integration)

Leverage technology to augment controls and eliminate defects – BOTS for indexing.

Vendor Trend for missing Invoices (deployed BOTS to identify missing Invoices, reduced from 25 % to 10 %)

Key projects: Automation of vendor sets and Chat BOTS in progress

CAPGEMINI TECHNOLOGY SERVICES LIMITED, BANGALORE Aug’14 – Sept’18

Senior Engagement Manager (Service Delivery, Transformation and Transition)

Department: Procure to Pay and R2R

Portfolio Value: 6 Million USD Annually

Instrumental in creating Process excellence framework (from process ownership to developing quality process artifacts that were well adopted by the business like defining CTQs, process maps, control framework, key process matrices, interface agreements, end user experience, etc.) and business process blue print reflecting everything what the company does.

Handled operations and finance functions involving designing & implementing systems, finance policies & procedures to facilitate internal financial control towards the accomplishment of organizational goals.

Pioneered efforts across effective communication within the organization for strategic deployment of plans & policies; deftly managed whole gamut of Finance & Operations matters.

Demonstrated strong leadership, relationship management, negotiation, people management, analytical and coordination skills.

Provided insights on future company initiatives which are in-turn used for framing company policies/strategies-cost cutting, planning & development, etc.

Responsible for applying process improvement and reengineering methodologies and principles to identify and plan improvements (process & technology) including identifying the current process, applying best practices and creating performance measurements.

Achievements: -

Transitions: Transitioned Statistics FTE- 215 (P2P: 138, A2R 67, Freight 10, Pcard 8, T & E: 43).

Finance Operating Model: Built a Finance Operating Model for Client Shared services IN 2015 – Transitioned Finance Process Globally (US, Mexico, Bucharest, Czech, Australia, UK and Malaysia). Total revenue because Finance operating model change (Merger and Acquisition): 58 FTE: 1.2 M USD Approximate Value.

Robotics Lead for Engagement: Delivered an efficiency of 35 FTE’s in Fy17 with help of Robotics. FY18 efficiency forecast – 45 FTES. (Finance process).

Quality Improvement Plan: Additional revenue of 200K in Fy17 to help the client achieve their critical metrics (E.g.: debit balance clearing, Age creditors review and closure, Outstanding invoices payable, Payment Rejection resolution, Aged bank clearing, AR clearing and Cash in Transit clearing.

Project Revenue: Leverage operations group to work on revenue recognition project and Collections POC: 54K USD for 4 months. Extended support for revenue recognition project, statutory audit support, controllership activities, Vendor master clean up (in 2017), helped generate revenue of 980 K USD in 2017.

Project onsite for client acquisition (Transformation Project)

General Accounting: Implementation of Standard Journal template to enhance accuracy of journal posting from 69 to 95 %

Project onsite for client acquisition (Transformation Project)

Vendor portal Implemented and automate vendor statement reconciliation

Duplicate Identification and recovery process – Implemented a process around duplicate check.

Seat utilization project for AP: Partnered with Quality team to improve SU ratio from 1.1 to 1.5

Productivity gain: Productivity gain of 25 FTE’s in 2015 and 2016 – GA and AP (by way of standardization, process improvement and leverage AP and GA workflow tools from the sector)

AMAZON DEVELOPMENT CENTRE, HYDERABAD Apr’11 – Jul’14

Manager Operations: P2P (Finops Manager)

Achievements: -

Played a key role in building a Centre of excellence for Vendor maintenance at HYD (Transitioned jobs accounting to 14 FTE – From NA and EU entity).

Developed a centre of excellence for Invoice Modifications (Realigned activities from EU and NA Finance operations – to Hyderabad). Supported EDI conversion from 71 % to 82 % (for NA and EU entities).

Improved SU ratio from 2 to 1.85 in FY’12 to 1 .45 in Fy13.

CPT: 2.35 $ USD in FY12 v/s 1.36 $ USD per transaction (For the process Managed).

Reduced Overdue Travel advance from 2.5 Crores in 2012 to 20 Lakh in 2013.

Key Projects delivered

Non-Inventory Credits Process: Lead a project to identify unapplied credits. (8.5 Million USD unapplied credits ranging from 2007 to 2013).

Improved invoice paid on time from 52% worldwide to 91 % (52% base line 2012 to 91% year ending 2013).

Redesign Invoice receipt process to eliminate dependency on requestors and buyers – Improved Direct Receipt of invoices from Vendor (15% in 2013 January to 75% to 2014 January).

Conversion of Vendors to NEFT – 56% to 75% vendors to NEFT worldwide – Reduced check returned Volumes. Vendor Base population considered for this exercise was 7K top vendor across geographies.

Controls and Compliance for VM (duplicate vendors, inactive vendor process, Vendor on hold).

Redesign statement reconciliation (to focus on RBNI / Reduce duplicates – Process re-engineering) (WIP).

Automation of Vendor setups – Vendor self-service portal.

Process setup for Duplicate Identification and recovery – Prevention of duplicate payouts.

Built Statement reconciliation for Non-Inventory Vendors.

MONSANTO HOLDINGS PVT. LIMITED Dec’10 – Mar’11

AP Lead

HEWLETT PACKARD: GBS Jan’04 – Dec’10

Sr. Assistant Manager

ROHANKAR ASSOCIATES May’02 – Dec’03

Audit Assistant and Accounts Executive

EDUCATION CREDENTIALS

PGDBA – Finance, 2012; Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning

Diploma in Taxation Law, 2002; NBT Law College, Nashik

Bachelor’s degree in Commerce (B.Com.), 2001; B.Y.K College of Commerce, Nashik

Certification; Green Belt Certified (Non-Standard Pay term Project)

Passport Number: Z3390650 Visa status: US B1 Visa – 10 years

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