RADHIKA SOUNDARARAJAN

Summary

MBA Finance with *+ years of experience in MNCs in India and Singapore with financial analysis, strategic planning, budgeting and forecasting, Singapore PR

Passionate about financial analysis and accounting: pursuing CA professional examination to further enhance my professional credentials

Extensive experience handling clients from all over the across Manufacturing/Real Estate/EPC

Extensive experience in Excel, Power BI, Tableau, SPSS

Optimized cash flow by creating new tools and processes – enabling suppliers to be paid in time which led to significant business benefits (discounts, better relationships)

Analyzed 800+ properties (commercial) in the US with regression/sensitivity analysis, NPV/IRR/Cap rates leading to successful acquisition of 200+ properties leading to a revenue of 10+ million USD for the clients

Guided and led a team of 4 to prepare budgeting and forecasting reports for the company –cost saving, picking high priority projects and also analyzing the feedback from existing projects: our team saved 2.4 million+ USD per annum for the firm

My Credit review analysis saved the company from issuing costly loans to institutions with weak balance sheet – saved 200+ million USD by not providing commodities for credit

Skills

Budget Development

US GAAP Principles and IFRS

Cash flow analysis

Forecasting

Financial Planning and Analysis

Multi-industry experience

MS-Office (Word, Excel, PPT, Access)

VB, SQL, SAP, Power BI

SPSS (Statistical Package)

Work History

Lead Financial Analyst (2022)

Philips Pte. Ltd.

Financial planning, budgeting, forecasting on quarterly, half yearly and annual basis

Manage monthly and ad-hoc reporting to Function Owners and Head office

Initiate discussion with functions to gather input for quarterly forecast

Maintain and improve existing data gathering process to enable prompt turnaround for ad-hoc internal review

Manage all Month End Close (MEC) activities for Singapore Corporate books

Manage pre-review of results with Head of Finance before closure of MEC.

Involve in internal control activities for Singapore Corporate office

Past Experience:

Lead Financial Analyst (2010)

Lanco International Pte. Ltd.

Preparation of periodical revenue and expense budgets, forecasts (rolling forecasts)

Comparison of budget with actuals and variance analysis

Preparation of business trend and profitability report based on past data

Formulation of budgets based on resource availability and discussions with department heads

Preparation of sensitivity analysis and what if analysis reports as part of financial planning

Modeling and preparation of advisory reports on performance improvement

Creating SOP for the implementation of SAP (FICO) in the company

Lead Financial Analyst (2008)

Flextronics Technologies (Global Shared Services Centre) Ltd.

Preparation of credit review statements and credit advice based on customer financials

Management of treasury operations (receivables, payables, payment release and tracking, analysis of liquidity and default risk, cash management)

Modelling and preparation of management reports for different segments of the organization

Review of past performance, include future expectations and forecast revenues and expenses

Compare budgets and forecasts of revenue and expenses including variance analysis reports

Preparation of trend analysis and cost benefit analysis reports

Automation of segment-wise report which resulted in reduction in time taken for preparation of the report from three days to half a day. This also resulted in improvement of quality

Preparation of cost center expense report which helped in identifying major expenses and reducing the same thereby saving 1.8M+ USD per year for the organization

Team Lead (2007)

Consim Info Pte. Ltd.

Managed a team of four members who were involved in budgeting and forecasting activities of revenues and expenses of the company

Review of budgets, comparison with actuals and variance analysis.

Forecasting future revenues and expenses based on future economic and business expectations

Modelling and preparation of customized reports as required by the management

Financial Analyst (2004)

Zenta Pte. Ltd.

Valuation of assets and tracking the performance over a period of time

Delivering advice reports to the clients based on valuation and NPV, IRR calculations

Creation of financial models in the preparation of acquisition reports, monthly security valuation statements, future value of immediate cash flows and forecasting of future cash flows

Preparation of trend analysis and sensitivity analysis reports of residential and commercial properties based on market values of similar properties.

Education

MBA (Finance)

Anna University, Chennai, India

Bachelor of Commerce

Periyar University, Salem, India

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