Amit Patil

● Strategic Business Partnering & Risk Management: Identify financial risks and present insights to senior management; prevented ~€3M in client-penalty exposure through proactive revenue-vs-risk assessment and early risk escalation.

● Budgeting & Forecasting: Support annual budgeting, quarterly rolling forecasts, and long-term financial planning across 8 business units; translate BU-head and client demand into revenue forecasts using FTE hours, rate, and fixed-price assumptions across time-and-material and fixed-price engagements.

● Performance Management & Cost Controlling: Create and consolidate actuals, forecasts, and actual-vs-budget variance analysis; analyze P&L, gross margin, and BU-level profitability across FTE, software, server, computing, and other operating cost drivers.

● Financial Reporting & Governance: Perform revenue recognition, accrual/prepayment analysis, reconciliations, and cost allocations; support audit requirements and SOX-aligned accounting controls, resolving discrepancies from incorrect entries, incomplete data, and process gaps.

● Billing, Invoicing & Cash Flow: Support quarterly invoicing and financial operations representing ~€25–30M annual revenue; analyze payment timing and cash-flow visibility.

● Management Reporting: Prepare and present weekly financial performance, forecast, variance, margin, and risk reports to senior management and client stakeholders.

● Strategic Modelling: Build financial models with multi-year (7-year) revenue, cost-ramp-up, and margin scenarios for new business opportunities to support leadership decision-making.

● Automation & BI: Automated manual FP&A and reporting workflows using Power Query, VBA, and Power BI, reducing reporting effort by ~40%.