Sreedhar Thota
FP&A Leader, Ex. Amazon, Cargill & PE backed Firms
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About
As a Finance Leader with 10 + years of Corp. Finance, Strategy, and FP&A - building FP&A from scratch at Startups, Small & Medium PE Backed (5 yrs) companies, as well as experience scaling at F-500 - Amazon & Cargill (5 yrs) companies, including Individual Contributor roles. Prefer fast paced bias for action and ownership roles
Experience
10 + years of progressive FP&A, Managerial Accounting, Data Analytics experience at premier F-500 - Amazon & Cargill (6 yrs), smaller pre-IPO/ PE backed & medium sized companies (8 yrs), both leading teams & as an Individual Contributor.
Built the FP&A function (Long Range, Annual Operating & Monthly Risk & Opportunity Plans) from scratch & owned the complete P&L function including monthly, quarterly, and annual performance reviews, variance analysis, & KPI tracking. (Spreetail & EnviroTech) and scaled the existing FP&A Function at Cargill, reducing 25% planning cycle time, increasing forecast accuracy by 15% using driver based adaptive planning and applied ML, while automating storytelling decks and ensuring high explainability and facilitating decision making ability.
Education
Master of Business Administration - GPA: 3.81/4.0; Finance & Management Accounting
- Applied Consultant - Team Leader for two process improvement projects ( University of Iowa Hospital, John Deere)
- MBA Associate - Implemented an OEE system at Bausch & Lomb, to reduce material variance, cost of quality
- Stats and Math Geek – Advanced Stats, Data Analytics at the University of Iowa
