Ranga Rajagopalan

About Ranga Rajagopalan

Well-rounded tech leader with data-centric, analytical focus and dual business / technology background. Strengths in strategic finance, FP & A, and business operations-Experience building high potential finance teams-Experience partnering with sales and technology organizations to drive business decisions-Experience leveraging operational / financial data to extract business insights-Long-term goal to lead finance in a high-growth tech company.Specialties: FP & A leadership, business operations, product finance, strategic alliances, headcount management applications (Workday, Oracle), Financial Applications (Anaplan, Coupa, Oracle Expenses, Hyperion), product release management, data analysis, pricing strategy, business intelligenceCurrent interests: SaaS metrics (ARR, ACV, churn), Cryptocurrency space, clean energy

Experience

1. Head of Foundational Finance

   JLL

   Feb 2024 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

   Lead the global Foundational (Enterprise Technology) finance team for JLL, as part of JLL Technologies (JLL/T), responsible for partnering with the Cybersecurity, Cloud / Infrastructure, Governance Risk & Compliance, and Digital Workplace Services teams-Implemented an India hiring strategy to pivot the team to greater strategic finance activities, including increased leverage of the shared service team in Gurugram and direct hiring in Bengaluru-Partnered with Cloud Ops to design a Savings Plan coverage forecast for AWS, which led to material annualized savings in cloud cost-Facilitated an enhanced budgeting process to triangulate IT cost to serve with the bottoms-up vendor level forecast across the key technology pillars-Liaised with the revenue-generating business units to provide greater transparency around directly allocated technology costs hitting their P & Ls

Education

• The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

  MBA with Honors, Accounting and Finance

  2009 — 2011

• Cornell University

  B.Sc., Computer Engineering

  2001 — 2005

Skills

• Strategic Partnerships
• Strategic Planning
• Scrum
• Investments
• Pricing
• Analytics
• Business Strategy
• Due Diligence
• Leadership
• Financial Reporting
• Management Consulting
• Portfolio Management
• Competitive Analysis
• Business Operations
• Start-Ups
• Valuation
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Business Intelligence
• Corporate Finance
• Strategy
• Data Analysis
• Product Management
• Pricing Strategy
• Financial Analysis
• Analysis
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Entrepreneurship
• Finance
• Financial Modeling