Ramesh M

About Ramesh M

I am an MBA Finance professional with over 8 years of diverse experience across Finance…

Experience

1. Assistant Manager Finance

   LIPTON Teas and Infusions

   May 2022 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Spearheaded design and development of Profit & Loss, product profitability, and cost control reports for group reporting, enhancing financial visibility and decision-making across the organization.• Contributed to implementation of the Group Reporting Data Collection (GRDC) tool in SAP S/4HANA, streamlining consolidation processes.• Coordinated and led the management reporting team in performing pre-checks, margin analysis, and MR/FR validation to ensure timely and accurate monthly financial reporting.• Reviewed financial performance and budget/forecast variances with country controllers during Monthly Executive Committee (MEC) meetings.• Developed and implemented global validation matrices (GL-FA and GL-Fn) in collaboration with country controllers and IT to improve report accuracy and process efficiency.• Directed configuration of transaction and movement types in SAP S/4HANA, collaborating with R2R, Group Control, Treasury, and IT teams to optimize balance sheet and cash flow reporting.• Managed implementation of intercompany markup solutions with FP & A, SCF, intercompany, and tax teams, improving cost transparency and margin accuracy.• Led rollout of margin analysis (PA, TDD) in SAP FICO, overseeing IT configuration and business testing to establish gross margin visibility by product and customer.• Developed Power BI cost center derivation tool to assist procurement PO creation and R2R manual journal entries; collaborated with S2P team to implement cost center validations in Ariba.• Implemented substitution rules for forex accounts to streamline payments and validations for Capex/Opex WBS and cost centers, contributing to shortening MEC calendar from WD8 to WD5.• Served as primary GBS liaison to global team for systems implementation to ensure compliance with CSRD and EU Taxonomy sustainability reporting.• Supported fixed asset team by developing custom reports for reclassification of purchase price impacts during Unilever transition.

Education

• St.Andrew's Higher Secondary School

  Higher Secondary School, Bio-Mathematics

  2009 — 2011

• Bharathidasan Institute of Management Tiruchirapalli

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Operation Management

• Indira Institute of Engineering and Technology

  Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Mechanical Engineering

  2011 — 2015

Skills

• Solid Modeling
• Ansys
• Catia
• Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing
• Mechanical Engineering
• Mechanical Drawings
• Solidworks
• Mechanical Product Design
• Autocad Mechanical
• Sheet Metal
• Ptc Creo
• Sheet Metal Components
• Autocad