Krishna P.

Experience

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  PwC

  Sept 1996 - Jun 1999

  Audit Associate
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  KPMG

  Jul 2003 - Sept 2005

  Audit Associate

  • Performed the number of public and non-public interim and final audits.• Performed Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) audit for a public company.

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  KPMG US

  Oct 2005 - Dec 2005

  Senior Associate Auditor

  • Performed special bankruptcy audit and post-bankruptcy audit. • Performed the number of public and non-public Interim and Final audits.

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  KPMG

  Dec 2005 - Sept 2009

  Senior Finance & Strategy Analyst

  • Manage the month-end and year-end closing process, which included the preparation and review of journal entries.• Provide ongoing financial analysis and business advice to leadership to identify issues with financial results and recommend improvements.

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  KPMG US

  Oct 2009 - Sept 2014

  Associate Manager - Finance/Strategy/Accounting
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  KPMG

  Oct 2014 - Sept 2020

  Manager -Finance/Strategy/Analytics/Operations
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  KPMG US

  Oct 2020 - Sept 2021

  Regional Lead Manager - Finance/Strategy/Analytics/Operations

  • CFO and two Regional Leadership Support: Developed trusted business Partnerships and forged solid and positive professional relationships with C-suite upper management with the ability to influence leaders, and various functions. Responsible for all financial matters including full P&L, integration, key leadership presentations, collaborating with stakeholders to prioritize and identify emerging trends, critical thinking, actionable analysis, holistic accounting considerations, and assisting in policy development to support change initiatives. • Finance Analysis: Provide thought leadership, deep-dive analytics into business challenges, and recommendations for action across a wide range of business and financial situations like Revenue Trends, Opportunity, and Booking trends, cost trends, cost reductions, Special Growth Initiatives, complex incentive program for Partners, Go To Market Analytics, Process Reimagination. Align Finance to the business roadmap, identify Finance requirements, and perform as a functional subject matter expert (SME) role to various teams. Developed and implemented Finance transformation initiatives to improve margins, extensive leverage model changes, and productivity improvements. • Planning & Modeling: Leads Long Term Planning for complete P&L. Serves as the liaison with the other teams during the planning cycles.• Reporting: Coordinates Cycle, monthly, annual reporting. Ability to simplify. Provides executive summaries with observations and insights in monthly reporting and special projects. Collaborate with the Infrastructure & Analytics team for developing key reporting processes.• Leadership: Manage both Onshore and Offshore teams. Incorporate diverse perspectives. Lead digital transformation projects using various tools (SAP HANA, Oracle, Power BI, Alteryx, Tableau, SQL, Adv Excel, Hyperion HFM, ERP Systems ). Coaching a 6-person team on Technology, leading a 8 member National P&L team, leading an offshore team. Show less

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  Salesforce

  Oct 2021 - now

  • Program management for AMER Professional Services. Part of the leadership team to manage Large Scale Programs (LSPs). Be part of the Delivery Engineering team working on multiple programs well over $240m+resulting in long term multiyear license fees. Drive P&L Controllership functions and deliverables for the P&L of our hyper growth business with a focus on accuracy,cross functional solutions, and optimization.• Part of the leadership team on Salesforce Flagship biggest & most complex project – Fortune 10 client involving more than 350 resources at any point of time.• Provide insights to the C-suite leadership team on Project Governance, Forward looking Actionable analytics, Finance and Revenue Recognition team on these programs.• Planning & Modeling: Leads Long Term Planning for complete LSP team project’s P&L.• Innovation initiatives using technology for financial modeling, visualizations, trending analysis, and ad hoc support of executive leadership initiatives.• Responsibilities include accounting, financial analysis, Quarterly Attestations, month-end close, budgeting, and thought leadership on key initiatives.• Report analytics to leadership on Operations, Strategic, Financial (historic and predictive) matters.• Business Partner with Assurance Delivery Team, Resource Team, Project Managers Delivery, Scrum Teams, Engineering Teams, Finance Team, Revenue Recognition Technical Team. Show less

  • Director of Financial Planning and Analysis

    Aug 2024 - now

  • Finance Senior Manager - Finance/Strategy

    Oct 2021 - Jul 2024