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Work History
Education
Skills
Projects
Leisure Pursit
Accomplishments
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Sushma Anilkumar

'https://www.linkedin.com/in/sushma-a-iyengar/

Summary

Business-minded Finance Manager promoting more than 9 years of expertise in stakeholder management, project coordinator with work ordeal in the areas of financial analysis & reporting, taxation & transfer pricing, auditing & compliance. Highly collaborative individual with track record of effectively training and coaching teammates. Offering confidence, team contribution and decision making skills.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Finance Manager

Decathlon International
Dublin
08.2022 - Current

Supply chain division, European zone

  • Executed vendor setup, management of accounts payable, inter-company reconciliation and control account reconciliations.
  • Saved over millions by implementing cost-saving initiatives that addressed long-standing problems.
  • Reviewed documentation and identified financial discrepancies where applicable, ensuring proper compliance with standards.
  • Partnered with IT and operational leadership to develop financial business plans with detailed benchmarks.
  • Resolved conflicts and negotiated mutually beneficial agreements between parties.

Senior Finance Specialist

Decathlon International
Dublin
08.2020 - 08.2022

Supply chain division, European zone

  • Ensuring all accounting records reflect precisely the business reality and adhere to both group standards as well as fiscal regulations
  • Advising the team on inventory shrinkage control techniques and rebuilding the correct structure of product costing on SAP
  • Proposing automation around non-value added tasks that lead to saving of about 38 manhours per month
  • Management of linking between technical and financial flows for the consignment stock and facilitating the decisions on the pricing mismatch
  • Directed corporate decision-making and planning by monitoring and setting policies and procedures to optimize fiscal performance.

Financial Controller

Decathlon International
Bengaluru
01.2016 - 01.2020

Supply chain division, India and South-west Asia,

  • Enacting the role of a Business Partner by aiding the operations team comprehend the financial impact on the supply decisions they make
  • Management of purchases, stock and margin across the supply chain and advising operations team probable course of actions to clear the older stock
  • Supporting senior management in varied areas of product costing, internal pricing, financial analysis, strategic planning, forecasting and budgeting
  • Setting up and monitoring the flows for supply chain activities in neighboring countries while being a cross country referent on supply finance topics

Articled Assistant

Suresh & Co
Bengaluru
01.2012 - 01.2015
  • Technical review of the financials for disclosure and compliance with legal requirements and in accordance with relevant accounting standards
  • Internal, Statutory and tax audits of private companies; and preparation of audit reports
  • Analysis and Interpretation of Double Taxation Avoidance Agreements (DTAA) and effecting taxation of cross-border transactions
  • Conducting due diligence reviews regarding various government regulations, legal requirements and for the purpose of merger and acquisitions; Also indulged in client oriented one-off services
  • Benchmarking, Documenting and Reporting international and specified domestic transactions under Transfer Pricing regulations

Education

Masters of Business Administration - Finance

Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
2018

Bachelor of Commerce - Accounts

Bangalore University (BU)
2013

Intermediate - undefined

Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)
2012

Skills

    Tools:

  • MS excel; MS word; MS Power Point
  • G-sheets/slides
  • Oracle Eone; Hyperion Essbase Budget administration
  • Oracle HFM; Smartview Analysis
  • SQL Query extraction and data analysis
  • Oxygate and Autodiag
  • SAP for supply chain management
  • Soft skills:

  • Positive attitude and optimistic approach
  • Rational mender and powerful negotiator
  • Punctuality and sense of ownership
  • Adaptable to Changing Conditions
  • Strategic Risk Management
  • Effective communication
  • Proactive and Focused
  • Business skills:

  • Stakeholder management and team Business Valuation
  • Risk management and process analysis
  • Performance Optimization Strategies
  • Business Relationship Management
  • Mentoring and Coaching teams
  • Staff Recruitment and Hiring
  • Project Management
  • Analyzing Trends

Projects

Advising the accounting and financial impacts on stock and margin topics on several international projects such as Finance Academy (Project Lead), Warehouse Switch (Project Lead), HI@PI ecommerce platform (Project Lead-Finance), Destocking, Consignment Stock

  • Partook in pricing reconstruction during shift to GST regime while in India
  • Committee member to aid the decisions on fixation and negotiation of item pricing, price scaling and price positioning
  • Leading the finance academy project for Ireland to integrate various teammates on referent path and assist them upskill on various topics
  • Facilitating training on PNL and various topics of supply some of which include margin management, margin gap management, inventory shrinkage, stock depreciation, tax impacts on products and services

Leisure Pursit

Playing badminton, hiking, writing poetry and sketching.

Accomplishments

  • Supervised and coached team of 10 and 50 staff members respectively.
  • Radically upgraded the quality of analysis and reconciliation in various aspects of profit and loss statements and balance sheet
  • Several instances where I highlighted the recovery of amounts from external parties (customs / vendors, etc)
  • Referent on several topics such as inventory shrinkage management, transfer pricing, supply chain accounting, direct costs management, etc
  • Achieved over 70% compliance by introducing ways of stakeholder management through efficiency management tools.

Timeline

Finance Manager

Decathlon International
08.2022 - Current

Senior Finance Specialist

Decathlon International
08.2020 - 08.2022

Financial Controller

Decathlon International
01.2016 - 01.2020

Articled Assistant

Suresh & Co
01.2012 - 01.2015

Masters of Business Administration - Finance

Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies

Bachelor of Commerce - Accounts

Bangalore University (BU)

Intermediate - undefined

Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)
Sushma Anilkumar