mahesh rana

* Performed financial planning, budgeting and forecasting of monthly, quarterly and annual financials. Worked with sales and operation teams to identify and remedy revenue and expense variance drivers. * Provided reporting, analysis and insight into financial results of parent and Pakistan Joint venture. Analyzed customer margins by program and made recommendations. * Managed annual budget setting process, analysis, and schedule. Actively managed cost center budgets and provided insight into actual vs. budget variance analysis throughout the year. * Improved company cash flow through analyzing and addressing working capital components such as AP, AR and inventory. * Completed ad hoc projects for CEO and CFO. Prepared management and Board of Directors presentations.

* Planned Life-Cycle of hardware assets and telecom systems. Teamed up with Product * Managers to develop and market new features and revenue generating upgrade kits * Managed hardware equipment phase-in and phase-out schedules * Matrix managed a cost reduction test team and China kit development team * Performed financial analysis of new opportunities and developed model to identify cost * savings from suppliers, second sourcing and outsourcing * Developed financial models for new projects and cost reductions using breakeven * analysis and DCF * Compiled cost and revenue data from internal organizations to identify variances between * actual and forecasted data, trends and potential cost reductions

* Achieved $300,000 cost reduction per Lithography System * Improved wafer throughput by 1.7 wafers per hour, 3.7% increase, by shortening and re-routing nitrogen cooling lines * Designed mechanical assemblies, enclosures, and high precision hardware for Micrascan * Generated engineering test plans and design specifications

* Support 3 sales VPs with P&L and year-end revenue forecast projection with key emphasis on identifying revenue gaps and opportunities * Provide pricing recommendation for revenue generating upsell programs based on client relationship, member data and internal EBITDA targets * Supervised and trained three pricing analysts on UM Bundles (key revenue generating upsell program). Reviewed new pricing requests weekly and distribute requests among pricing analyst based on work load and expertise * Develop pricing models and product positioning strategies * Develop 3-Year Strategic Plan from current pipeline based on assumptions and win rate * Maintain VP and Senior Director Dashboards that exhibit real-time actual performance * Work with cross-functional finance team and VPs to set yearly budgets * Lead an efficiency initiative that reduced upsell sales errors from 250 to 4 in 6 months

* Responsible for managing 30% of total SG&A expenses * Analyze monthly financials and provide insight into Actual vs. Forecast, Plan, and Last Year variances * Work with internal business partners to develop and validate their monthly and FY forecast * Develop operating plan templates and work with management and direct Business Partners to validate assumptions and budget spreads * Generate and distribute monthly financial package which includes Regional and Divisional P&Ls and Expense Report * Calculate annual Incentive Plan calculations based on corporate incentive guideline * Provide ad hoc reports to management as well as lead cost saving initiative for closed stores * Create, streamline and automate models in excel

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi Golden Key Honor Society Pi Tao Sigma

Activities and Societies: * Finalist in 2007-2008 Rutgers Business School Business Plan Competition * Member, Rutgers Finance & Investment Club