Satish Kumar G

About Satish Kumar G

Highly accomplished and focused Finance Professional with proven competencies in setting-up centralized, large and skilled finance teams in Fortune 500 companies. Expertise in transition, centralization, transformation and heading teams of Group accounting, Statutory Accounting, General Accounting, Order to Cash, Record to Report, Procure to Pay, Transaction processing, FP & A and Finance technology.Excellent leadership and people management abilities.Partnering with Global Senior Management.

Experience

1. Vice President Finance

   Avantor

   Mar 2020 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Heading Global Finance shared service centers. Leading team of 500+ finance and accounting professionals in India (Pune, Coimbatore), Europe, Mauritius, and the US. Reporting CAO of $8 billion U.S. public company • Centralizing Global Controllership, FP & A, P2P and O2C Teams • Driving transformation projects to standardize, automate and bring in higher efficiencies • Engaged with Hackett Group and E&Y Consultants to drive improvements in collection and payment processes • In a short period, more than 250 additional roles were centralized in the Shared Service Centers. The following critical roles were included in this centralization- Business partnering (Corporate, Regional, SBUs) in Financial Planning and Analysis (FP & A)- Regional and Corporate Controllers - Statutory Reporting - Indirect Sourcing - Internal Audits - Full ownership of AR and AP processes • Center Head for Pune with 300+ employees of IT, Finance, and support functions

Education

• Institute of Cost Accountants of India

  CMA, Cost and Management Accounting

• Bangalore University

  Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), Accounting and Finance

  1998 — 2001

• ACCA

  Diploma in IFRS - ACCA (UK), IFRS

  2015 — 2015

• Annamalai University

  Master's degree, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

  2009 — 2011

• Dayananda Sagar Business School

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Accounting and Finance

  2001 — 2003