SME/Team Lead/Team Manager @ Cognizant Technology

Key Skills:

Understanding of accounting and finance principles
Strong business partnering and interpersonal skills
Organized, flexible and easily adaptable to changing conditions
Ability to work well in high pressure situations in order to meet deadlines
High degree of proficiency with Excel, MS Access and PowerPoint
Strong project management skills
Ability to multi-task and manage numerous simultaneous priorities
High energy, high ownership of work product and dedication and commitment to driving results

Key Role:

Lead and execute month on Monthly P&L distribution and forecast consolidation for the SBUs.
Prepare rigorous and detailed budgets annually and forecast/projections every month
Prepare variance analysis and bridges to explain the movements against budget/forecast and the previous period.
Work closely with the Business Unit (BU) head to understand the variances and reasons for the same;
Should partner with the BU head and influence right decisions in a BU
Experience in Pricing, Deal Margins, Commercial evaluations. Work with sales teams on customer contract renewals or new pricing negotiations
Billing / control on Unbilled Revenue; Understanding of Revenue Recognition principles
Should be able to take complete ownership of the P&L with an objective to improve the profitability
Ability to work in chaotic environment and make sense of numbers, ability to filter information from disparate set of data sets and provide actionable information to the management
Should have a keen desire to automate and bring about automation by working with IT teams
Should have experience in dealing with multiple currencies and understand the currency impact on P&L
Should have preferably worked in export oriented IT services/ services companies/ KPO type businesses