Controller/Finance Manager

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Nalvar Lay Out,

Rathinapuri,

Coimbatore,India

SOWDESWARI .P E-Mail: **********.*@*****.***

Contact No: +91-988*******

Career Objective:

To Learn, Adapt and flourish in the field of Finance & Management as well as automate the manual process wherever possible in my work field.

Career Summary

• Worked as Finance Executive from May 2005 – May 2006 in ABB Global Industries and Services Ltd, (Corporate Research Center)

• Worked as first line controller from June 2006 – June 2008 in ABB Global Industries and Services Ltd, (Corporate Research Center)

• Implementation of SAP ECC 6.0 for Research and development Center

• Onsite assignment from July 2008 – January 2009 in ABB Vietnam (streamlining SAP and business process in Transformer factory)

• Streamlining the ERP process for Research and development Unit from January 2009 – March 2009

• Played the role of Business and Finance Controller for Global Operation Center (comprising of 400 people) from April 2009 – June 2010 and also was a part of Management Team

• Currently working as Business and Finance Controller for Corporate Research Center (comprising of 1000 people) as well as taking care of new developments in the system (SAP ECC 6.0).

Academic Summary

• Masters degree in Commerce, with distinction from PSG College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore

• Bachelors degree in Commerce, with distinction from PSGR Krishnammal College for Women affiliated to Bharatiyar University, Coimbatore

• BA., Hindi from Dakshin Bharath Prachar Shaba

Experience Summary

Organization : ABB Global Industries and Services Ltd (Corporate Research Center)

Designation : Finance and Business Controller (work location: Bangalore)

Duration : May 05 till date

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Receivables Management

• MIS Reporting

• Core Team member in mySAP – ECC 6.0 Implementation

• Member of internal SOX testing team

• Streamlining of Business Process

• Finance and Business Controlling

• Budgeting

• Handling statutory audit

• Receivables

• Tracking the Project Costs, providing the same to the project managers and ensuring the same is invoiced to the customers

• Invoicing in Sales and Distribution Module (SAP), sending to customers and updating in the CIT tool

• As a statutory requirement, filing the Invoices to Software Technology Park of India

• MIS Reporting

• Liquidity Forecast Reporting

• IG (Inter group) Reporting

• Reporting in Hyperion Management Tool at Company Level (ABB Global Services Limited)

• Employee Utilization Analysis

• Project cost analysis

• Vertical wise Cost analysis

• Analysis of Revenue with Planned and Actual Cost

• SAP – ECC 6.0 Implementation

• Understanding the Business requirements and with continuous interaction with SAP team implemented the following Processes on ECC 6.0 in Corporate Research Center

• Integration of Whizible, a Legacy with SAP. This facilitates business requirement of Project Management linked with Finance

• Assessment & Distribution Cycle: This is for allocating Overhead costs to respective Projects

• Working and Functional knowledge in various modules of SAP like

Project Systems

Sales and Distribution

Finance

Controlling

Business Warehouse

Cross Application Timesheets (CATS)

*more concentration on Fi and Co modules

• Headed the data migration team at the time of implementation

• System Development (SAP - ECC 6.0)

• Developed various reports in BW portal as per the business requirements

• Co-ordinate for enterprise structure changes in SAP at the company level, for automating the reporting with Hyperion Financial Management System

• Automated various process like creation of debit note in the system

• Integrated Travel Management System with SAP (PS module) to capture the travel cost project wise

• Integrated the legacy system to CATS for capturing of timesheet of employees and posting of actual cost to PS module

• Creation of various cost centers, allocation and distribution cycles for capturing and allocating the cost as per the business as well as reporting requirements

• Automated the process of Project Costing and Control

• Integrated Enterprise Management Tool (EPM) with SAP PS

• Automated invoicing process from CHTET database to SAP SD module

• Streamlined the reporting process of R&D, in such a way that the reports are automatically uploaded from SAP to Hyperion.

• Streamlining of Business Process

On a short-term assignment to Vietnam, performed the following activities for a manufacturing setup

• Streamlining SAP with business process

• Training the employees on SAP process flows in line with the business

• Part of internal control team, in ascertaining the risk controls and documentation

• Streamlining the Result Analysis (RA), Work-in-Progress calculations, Over-Under absorption calculations in the system and trained team on it

• Team member in setting up SAP system for a new factory setup.

• Finance & Business Controlling

• Played the role of a finance and business controller for Operation Center, Global Souring business and Information System Delivery Center

• Responsible for cost control and cost optimization

• Responsible for book closing, revenue recognition, expense booking and MIS reporting as per ABB group accounting and reporting guidelines

• Performed GL scrutiny and Balance Sheet scrutiny (USGAAP)

• Interactions with global stakeholders

• Analyzing the utilization of employees and co-relating it to billing

• Regular interactions with the department (BU and LBU managers) and group managers on financial aspects

• Monitoring the work package budget and cost report in CHTET database

• Handling the billing and reporting of costs for research projects through ePipe database

• Streamlined the cost center creation, budgeting and actual booking in R&D unit across different Business Units, Product Groups and Divisions

• Creation of allocation and distribution cycles for distributing the common cost across the Product groups and division

• Variance analysis of Budget with Actual

• Interaction with the management team for deciding the budget and its achievement

• Heading a five members team and one point contact across other departments like Admin, HR, Supply Chain, IS.

• Budgeting

• Prepared budget for Operation center for each vertical

• Prepared budget for R&D unit for each division

• Prepared cost center wise budget and updation of same in the BPS tool

• Determining the burden rate for the business

• Statutory Audit

• Prepared various schedules as required by the auditors like

Revenue Schedule

Various expenses schedule

Related parties transaction

Expenditure in foreign currency

Cost Sheet for project business

• Handled statutory audit for operation center and R&D unit

Achievements

• Awarded as “Best Performer for the year 2007” in ABB

• “Diamond Award Holder for the year 2009”in ABB

• University Rank Holder in Master of Commerce

• University Rank Holder in Bachelor of Commerce

Lingustic Profile

• Hindi (to read, write and speak)

• English (to read, write and speak)

• Tamil (to read, write and speak)

• Kanada (to speak)

Sowdeswari

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