LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)
Director - Performance Management Change / Director FP&A CoE
January 2021 - Present (5 years 3 months)
Bengaluru
Spearheaded key workstreams in modernizing enterprise finance capabilities across a multi-billion-pound organisation — spanning FP&A transformation, analytics enablement, and operating model redesign from LSEG's Bengaluru Centre of Excellence.
- Helped scale the FP&A CoE from 30 to ~100 professionals, increasing analytical depth and delivery capacity across global planning cycles
- Drove a 49% reduction in global reporting volume through a structured rationalization program — cutting low-value MI and giving leadership cleaner, faster insight
- Designed and built a synergy tracking framework that helped LSEG exceed its post-merger targets: £562M in cost synergies and £292M in revenue synergies
- Drove adoption and continuous enhancement of Oracle EPM across global regions — standardizing planning, consolidation, and MI reporting post go-live
- Built executive Power BI dashboards for a £9Bn portfolio and delivered a 30+ KPI BizCo Scorecard in under a week for C-suite visibility
- Designed automated reconciliation workflows across Oracle Fusion, EPM, and Snowflake, reducing manual effort by 50% and strengthening MI data integrity
Key tools: Oracle EPM | Hyperion | Power BI | Snowflake | Pyramid Analytics | Advanced Excel | Alteryx
Refinitiv
Senior Manager - Finance
October 2018 - January 2021 (2 years 4 months)
Bengaluru
Responsible for delivering analytics and finance partnering support to Business Finance teams and Group FP&A — bridging data, insight, and commercial decision-making across a rapidly evolving organisation.
- Co-developed the Early Look Model for GTM Americas, significantly improving baseline revenue forecasting accuracy and forward visibility for commercial leadership
- Provided critical data, analytics, and decision support to M&A teams and external consultants during the $27B LSEG–Refinitiv integration — drawing on multiple data sources to meet due diligence and regulatory needs
- Drove enterprise-wide deployment of Pyramid Analytics as the primary CoE user and internal champion — from proof of concept through full rollout, creating artefacts, enabling colleagues, and providing SME support to teams across the organisation
- Championed Alteryx and QlikView automation, reducing manual effort across recurring FP&A processes and improving analytical turnaround
- Led Whitespace Analysis for S&AM regions, identifying untapped market segments and growth opportunities to inform commercial strategy
- Directed GBP reporting conversion and currency transition from USD to GBP, overseeing UAT and ensuring reporting continuity throughout
Key tools: Pyramid Analytics | Alteryx | QlikView | Power BI |Tableau| Advanced Excel
Thomson Reuters
14 years
Senior Manager - FP&A CoE
April 2015 - October 2018 (3 years 7 months)
Bangalore
Key Profile: Led global FP&A service delivery, business intelligence transformation, and performance reporting initiatives across multi-billion-dollar revenue portfolios, strengthening executive visibility and commercial decisionsupport.
Key Achievements & Impact:
- Partnered with global finance and business leadership to design and institutionalize a standardized KPI framework, delivering executive management packs that enhanced transparency across revenue, Opex, and Capex drivers.
- Managed the sales reporting transition for a $200M revenue division, ensuring continuity, reporting accuracy, and alignment with evolving commercial structures.
- Spearheaded OBIEE migration and BI centralization strategy, consolidating disparate reporting systems into a unified platform; led requirements gathering, dashboard standardization, customization, UAT, and stakeholder sign-offs.
- Led executive financial review reporting, developing structured performance dashboards focused on operational efficiency, cost optimization, and capital allocation insights.
- Directed the Price-to-Billing reporting transformation (~$5.2Bn revenue scope), transitioning reporting from billing currency to pricing currency across Tesseract and Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) systems, ensuring end-to end data integrity and system integration.
- Represented FP&A CoE in Refinitiv demerger from Thomson Reuters), leading the Management Reporting workstream; conducted comprehensive readiness assessments of the reporting landscape and delivered a seamless transition with minimal business disruption.
Various Progressive Roles up to Manager - Finance, Thomson
Financial / Thomson Reuters
November 2004 - March 2015 (10 years 5 months)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Ten years of progressive growth from Senior Executive to Manager, building deep expertise in FP&A, financial control, revenue reporting, and commercial analytics within a global financial information services organisation.
- Built complex, org-agnostic revenue reporting frameworks in partnership with Global Revenue Assurance — creating a single source of truth for ~$4Bn revenue that remained stable through product and structural changes
- Developed a cost-to-revenue methodology for telecom vendor billing, enabling the business to identify low-contribution customers and inform decisions on migrating them to hosted platforms — initiative originated from recognising a gap in existing Access-based reporting
- Designed and implemented operational spend and Capex tracking frameworks to strengthen vendor payment governance and cost control — part of a team recognised with the TF Global Gold Award for excellence in financial management
- Provided data and analytical support to the Anti-Trust Defence project team during the Thomson Reuters merger integration, supporting legal, regulatory, and compliance requirements
- Delivered Executive Financial Review management packs and analytics in collaboration with Decision Support teams, providing leadership visibility into performance drivers
- Managed monthly forecasting and annual planning cycles for India operations, aligned to global targets and planning timelines
Key tools: Advanced Excel | MS Access | Cognos | SAP R/3 |Business Explorer | Proclarity
KPMG
Research Associate
April 2003 - March 2004 (1 year)
Bangalore
Early career grounding in risk-based process reviews and internal audit across multiple industries — some assignments carried independently from end to end.
- Conducted risk-based process reviews for clients in metals, logistics, and courier industries — identifying operational inefficiencies and recommending risk mitigation measures to improve financial and operational performance
- Held independent charge of physical stock verification and monthly MIS review for a metals industry client
- Assessed internal controls, documented process gaps, and presented findings to engagement leads
