Shalini Shanthkumar

• Maintained financial security by establishing internal controls and monitoring the financial data monthly.
• Identified financial planning and analysis needs and discussed the benefits of comprehensive financial planning acrossteams.
• Reviewed financial performance of overall portfolios, identified rebalancing needs, and provided suitablerecommendations aligning with client’s risk tolerance, time frame and goals.
• Provided client relationship support through managing, gathering, and analyzing client data, helping prepare financial plansand other client deliverables, and working with teams to resolve issues and other practice management tasks.
• Served as a Financial Advisor for an existing portfolio of 5 teams under managed services by providing advice and guidanceto help clients achieve their financial goals.
• mproved company financial position thru cost reduction from overvalued/overpaid vendors while achieving clientsatisfaction and loyalty through excellent services.

Managing Finance & Operations support, tracking, reporting & analyzing key account metrics & risk projections.
Facilitated execution of the client project & ensured better handling of account AR & AP
Designed simplified financial & progress reports & communicated results to appropriate audience, that gave a better

understanding of what drives profitability & project status.

Assistant Fin Operations Manager/FTS Specialist: Accenture Duration: Nov’19 – Jul’22 (2+ years)

● Managing entire finance operations support, analysis & reporting for Acquisitions
● Advisor of M&A activities in alignment with various finance groups like Controllership, CFM, OG Finance, Tax etc. ● Provide support during PMI Phase & financial transition of acquisition into Accenture ERP
● Accurate Reporting & Forecasting for Acquisitions
● Compliance with US GAAP & Internal controls

• ● Gained insight into customer’s business, their industry, and regional trends.
• ● Worked on developing strong business relationships and resolving any conflicts.
• ● Designed simplified P&L statement that gave a better understanding of what drives profitability and how to best alignresources to improve acquisition performance to align with business case.
• ● Provide support for “transitioning out' acquisition into organic business post mandatory reporting period

Client Finance Management Specialist: Accenture Duration: Apr’08 – Oct’19 (11+ years)

Joined Client Finance Management team in Apr'08 & is responsible for delivering financial services to Accenture engagements and the client team management throughout the lifecycle of an engagement/all contract types. And since then, I have worked in various projects across globe till Oct'19.

• ● End to End Contract Finance Management
• ● Forecasting & tracking of key account metrics.
• ● Managed monthly finance close, financial analysis and reporting to maintain high expense to revenue ratio and ensurelimited loss liability.
• ● Managed contract budgeting, pricing, and internal controls for clients/contracts.
• ● Lead and managed the account team for various clients/contracts globally and provided beneficial knowledge and expertiseto team members.
• ● Ensured strong relationships with client account/project leads, legal, controllership and internal audit teams to deliverbetter results

• ● Helping customers solve technical issues for HP commercial laptops.
• ● Answering questions from customers and prospective customers about the features and capabilities of our HP commercialnotebooks
• ● Communicating customer needs and wishes to our development and engineering staff.
• ● Primarily supporting as front-line tech support engineer voice process for NA & Canada region.