Business finance - Cost Optimization, Margin Improvement

Senior Finance professional : Proficient in areas of business finance, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, Headcount planning and MIS reporting. Proven ability to partner with business leaders, drive cost optimization, improve utilization, and deliver accurate financial insights to support strategic decision-making. This position is responsible for driving all the direct costs optimization initiatives for all strategic / top accounts and at the BU level. The focus is to enhance Operating Margin, Gross Margin, and Revenue, through Cost + Efficiency initiatives. Partnering with the business leadership to provide decision support, periodic analytics and proactively draws attention of the business towards possible red flags. This role involves very high and frequent involvement and engagement with the Finance/ Business leaders/ Delivery and program managers/ HR BP/ RMG/ TA teams to lead, support and track BU level business initiatives to successful closure.