Kanchan Diwan

About Kanchan Diwan

Extensive experience in Financial Planning, Forecasting, Analysis, Budgeting, Management, Research and Modelling. Excellent communication, analytical, stakeholder management and team management skills.

Experience

1. Financial Planning and Analysis Senior Manager

   Cognizant

   Apr 2011 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Monitoring and supporting the month end / quarter end reporting cycle activities on an end-to-end basis to ensure smooth, accurate and timely closure. Analyzing the business performance against budget / forecasts / historical trends; providing crisp and value-added variance analysis using revenue and margin walk across the customers. Building the monthly / quarterly revenue and margin forecasts with a detailed bottoms-up approach considering several factors – account level expertise, pipeline, key risks, optimization levers Managing the yearly planning, budgeting process, budget calendarization in conjunction with the business side Interacting with the senior leadership and COO on a regular basis to apprise them of any opportunities, concern areas, challenging accounts for the business and evaluate the likelihood of achieving forecasted revenue and margins. Preparing flyer mails in short span of time, analytics based management dashboards, presentations for the senior management highlighting the key focus areas in addition to business performance analysis and comparative analysis. Working on several ad-hoc requirements beyond BAU work – leadership presentations, new policy implementations, trainings, possible areas of innovation / automation in day-to-day work (six sigma yellow belt certified), creating simplified pricing models, as a service offering models. Building strong relationships and network with all the stakeholders in bid management cycle as well as partner functions (controllership, revenue, delivery/business, AP, etc.) involved by liaising with them on a regular basis. Designing and developing cost and profitability model for vertical - developed costing model for infra business and drove its 100% implementation with business development teams. This won IT IS Innovation Challenge 2014. Independently providing extensive training sessions and enablement to Business Development teams

Education

• St. Michael's School, Durgapur

  Accounts, Commerce

• CFA Institute, USA

  Chartered Financial Analyst, Finance, General

• Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC)

  Accounting and Finance

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

  Cleared CPA exams, Accounting and Finance