Meera Sridhar

About Meera Sridhar

A highly accomplished Chartered Accountant accredited with over 2 decades of experience in driving the entire suit of finance functions for large Fortune 500 companies/GCCs encompassing Financial Strategy, Board Level Reporting, Corporate Accounting, Financial Planning & Analysis, Risk Management & a strategist for financial services delivery, building offshore teams and value creation by leveraging a precise combination of financial instinct & stakeholder management.KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS As a Finance Leader deft in managing the entire suit of finance functions by monitoring core functions such as Financial Accounting & Close, Budgeting, Reporting, Internal controls & Tax (matrix) & providing Site level leadership.Global Service Delivery: Manage a diverse portfolio of shared services operations with a thorough understanding of business dynamics by monitoring core functions such as Accounting & Analytics, Operations, Payroll, FP & A & Tax and managing a team of 120+ FTEs.Scaling Offshore Centre: Responsible for scaling the Bangalore financial delivery centre to accommodate onshore business functions and bring in more complex processes (inventory reconciliations, Merch & Supply chain Finance related reporting, Modelling & Special projects) into its realm.Digital Transformation: Spearheaded a comprehensive 15+ digital transformation project that integrated advanced automation technologies across finance operations that led to absorption of additional work and reduction in HC by 10%Procurement Compliance Leadership: Drove a strategic overhaul of the Procurement function transforming the complete spectrum of operations to 100% compliant from non-compliant enhancing the function’s global credibility resulting in transitioning the procurement operations to India.Strategic Implementation: Orchestrated an in-depth freight cost analysis across AC Delco’s warehouse-to-dealer network & led strategic closure of underperforming warehouses optimizing freight management & improving the profits from 3% to 7%.Centre of Excellence: Instrumental in scaling the Treasury & VAT processes through implementing E2E process excellence initiatives transforming the India site as a global Centre of Excellence for Treasury and VAT operations.Diversity & Inclusion: As an advocate of D&I played a pivotal role in transforming GM’s Diversity Charter & established the Bangalore Chapter of the Society of Women Engineers from scratch, an influential external forum with 20+ corporate members strengthening GM’s commitment to diversity and equity.

Experience

1. Head of Finance

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   Jan 2025 — Present

Education

• The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

  Chartered Accountant

• The Takshashila Institution

  Graduate certificate in Publuc Policy, Public Policy Analysis

• Bangalore University

  Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.)

Skills

• Business Process Improvement
• Financial Modeling
• Financial Accounting
• Process Improvement
• Internal Controls
• Tax
• Budgets
• Finance
• Internal Audit
• Us Gaap
• Financial Reporting
• Business Analysis
• Corporate Budgeting
• Management
• Variance Analysis
• Analytical Skills
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• People Development
• Analysis
• Accounting
• Auditing
• Financial Analysis
• U.s. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (Gaap)
• Accounts Payable