Phaneendra Potnuru

I have qualifications of Chartered Accountancy and Cost and Management Accountancy with 10+ years of experience.

In my current role as Financial Reporting Manager ( Deputy General Manager ) at Shared Services of Caterpillar, Bangalore , I have responsibility for Legal Entity Reporting ( General Ledger, Capital Assets, Reconciliations, Tax Accounting in US GAAP, Ind AS & IFRS ) for 35 ledger with turn over of $10B.

I have All India 2nd Rank and All India 30th Rank to my credit in CA. I did my articleship at PwC Chennai when I was pursuing my CA. I started my career with Caterpillar as an accountant got elevated to different roles and am now Deputy General Manager.

In this 10 years of experience, I learnt practical aspects of US, India, Singapore,Thailand,Indonesia, Australia and Hong kong GAAP reporting. I also have fair exposure in currency regulations, Direct and Indirect Tax matters. From systems perspective, I have decent knowledge about SAP and in Expert knowledge about MS Excel and MS Access. I am in process of learning Tableau as well.

With my passion for technology, I have taken several projects on digitisation, automation etc which were originally meant for local use but later replicated at global level.

Having spent 10 years at Caterpillar, I am looking for a new role which is very challenging and demanding where I can make difference to the company.