Finance Director CV Sample

Executive Summary

• Finance Director to the XXXX of Indian research business XXXX. XXXX is world’s 3rd largest market research company.
• Demonstrated track record in maximizing business opportunities and consistently achieving corporate financial performance goals.
• Recognized as a hands-on, expert problem solver who can rapidly resolve cross functional business process problems, formulate strategic plans and implement change, with benefit to company’s bottom line.

Core Competencies

• Business Integration
• Controllership
• Change management
• Financial Planning
• Capital budgeting
• Effective Leadership

Professional Experience

Designation: Director of Finance (USA) Jul 10 – Present Florida, USA.

• Improved working capital cycle by reducing no. of days between project close and billing cycle.
• Reduced DSO from 66 to 61 days by improving timely collections through successful implementation of check points at process levels.
• Key role in supporting business finance partners and driving verticals to achieve their primary segment goals.
• Provide useful insights in monthly board report executive summaries through detail write-ups on company’s financial health and future forecast to set up the stage for monthly exec business meetings.
• Reviewed group company policies & guidelines to ensure every accounting, legal and operational policy is implemented and visible at the lowest transactional level of the business unit.
• Reviewed finance organization and restructured team to improve timeliness and accuracy in monthly reporting.
• Reduced reporting man days by 17% in a relatively short span
• Successful implementation of SAP BPC reporting for Indian business region
• Refined revenue recognition & WIP concepts in business unit to ensure reporting is aligned to company’s accounting policy and IFRS standards.

Designation: Senior Manager (XXXXXXXX Finance) Jan08 – Jun 10 Texas, USA.

• Managed global budgeting & forecasting process for the entire organization (900m revenue).
• Monitored Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in monthly results and created Risk/ Opportunity charts in the forecasting process in order to identify deviations from annual budgets.
• Enabled global best practices by constantly engaging regional team managers to standardize and implement the most efficient regional processes across globally.
• Lead central teams to monitor and cut costs and improve efficiency by implementing work streams at BU level which helped the business to save.
• Coordinate company’s half / full year published reports as per group company’s listing norms in London Stock Exchange and accounting policies under IFRS standards.
• Convergence of new standards & releases with the current statutory & management reporting requirements.

Company: XXXXXXX CMG May 05 – Jun 06 London (UK) & Florida (USA).

Designation: Manager (F, P&A) .

• SWOT analysis of verticals for management presentation ensured adequate visibility of high margin, high volume verticals along with high risk & high return vertical units.
• Provided deep insights into capital budgeting by identifying best possible investments to maximize returns.
• Prepared monthly Board report summaries and presented business results and commentaries to the management.
• Created Global Service Delivery (GSD) model setups in financial systems and coordinated with management team to implement operational plans into action.
• Ensured cross functional coordination of finance team with IT & HR and successful implementation of budgets into the new delivery model.
• Prepared Bids for external IT projects & represented finance in the Bidding team.

Professional Development

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) from XXXXXXXXXX State Board of Accountancy, 2008
• Chartered Accountant (ACA) from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), 2001
• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), from ISACA (USA), 2005
• Graduate in Accounting from Florida University, USA, 1997

Technical Skills

• SAP BPC, Hyperion Essbase, Cost Point, MS Solomon, MS Agresso, MS Office, Tally

Personal Details

• Date of Birth:23/1/1993
• Address: XXXXX
• Languages known: Spanish , English , and French