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Shashi Shekhar

Head of Global FP&A, Brillio | Ex. Orion Innovation | Virtusa / Shell / TechM / Dell

Edison, NJ, US

About

Global, strategic finance leader who serves as a trusted business partner to senior leadership. Breadth of finance expertise in financial planning & analysis in large and small as well as public and private organizations. Known for leading cross-functional teams in the design and execution of challenging, large-scale initiatives. Recognized for a strong data-driven approach, providing executives with clear and concise information to drive strategic decisions. Consistently tapped to establish new functions and roles and build engaged teams to meet the needs of evolving companies. Led 12+ highly successful tuck ins & acquisitions including due diligence followed by global integrations. As a leader, cultivates a collaborative environment with a clear vision of “what good looks like” so team members work with a sense of purpose and commitment. Projects are built on team members strengths, provide appropriate challenges, helping them grow and develop into top performers. Provides coaching based on developmental needs with an eye toward their career aspirations.

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Work experience

  1. July 2023 – present

    Brillio

    Head of Global FP&A
  2. May 2022 – July 2023

    Orion Innovation

    Head of Global FP&A
  3. November 2011 – July 2022

    Virtusa

    Senior Finance Business Leader - FP&A
    As a global finance leader for technology, telco & media verticals provide > BU/Vertical/Company/Competitor/Market trend, current backlog, and pipeline view in a business readable view that is used as one of the inputs for annual planning & budgeting meetings > Participate in annual business planning and strategy meeting to understand the direction and help answer few risk vs return investment decisions. > Work with business to convert the overall strategy and vision into financial targets and percolate it down to the lowest levels. > Help business in monitoring, forecasting, controlling, and reporting financials by means of reporting key performance indicator, variance analysis and ad-hoc reporting of the business.
  4. September 2009 – October 2011

    Royal Dutch Shell

    Finance Business Partner - FP&A
    › Fully accountable for management information system (MIS) of shell real estate (US). › Work with business to understand current and future opportunity/challenges and build a solution that is self-operable by business to go over trend, patterns, plan/latest estimate/forecast/actuals & key performance indicators. › Work on ad-hoc flexible cubes and queries that could help advance users to fetch data on demand. Many reports created out of this was used as prototype before it was fed into BI. › Provide data driven ad-hoc analysis. › Process Improvement to achieve better results, accuracy & save time. › Provide BU/Vertical/Company/Competitor/Market trend, current backlog, and pipeline view in a business readable view that is used as one of the inputs for annual planning & budgeting meetings. › Participate in annual business planning and strategy meeting to understand the direction and help answer few risk vs return investment decisions. › Work with business to convert the overall strategy and vision into financial targets and percolate it down to the lowest levels.
  5. January 2007 – January 2009

    Mahindra Satyam

    Lead Financial Analyst
    › Provide trend that was used as one of the inputs for annual planning & budgeting meetings. › Participate in annual business planning and strategy meeting to understand the direction and help answer few risk vs return investment decisions. › Work with business to convert the overall strategy and vision into financial targets and percolate it down to the lowest levels. › Help business in monitoring, forecasting, controlling, and reporting financials by means of reporting key performance indicator, variance analysis and ad-hoc reporting of the business. › Work with business to find creative ways use resources in the most optimized ways. › Work with core finance during close (monthly/quarterly/annually) process to ensure no surprises and accuracy. › Work with business in identifying improvement plan and track them through closure. › Analyze financial performance by comparing and analyzing actual results with plans/ forecasts and publish.
  6. May 2004 – April 2005

    Dell International Services

    Technical Support Associate
    › Reporting daily\weekly & monthly team metrics to top management. › Set a new process of channelizing technical issues to find solution for the same and communicating it to all level 1 associates. › Work with other Technical Support SPOCs to share best practice and challenges.

Education

  1. 2005 – 2007

    MBA, Finance
  2. 2000 – 2003

    Informatics, Rourkela, Orissa

    BITM, IT & Management