Finance Leader · Open to Opportunities

Priya
Ravi
FP&A

Senior Manager, Corporate FP&A ◆ Finance Business Partner ◆ Finance Transformation

12+ years of progressive FP&A experience at Fortune 500 companies including Warner Bros. Discovery, Staples, and Ernst & Young. Trusted advisor to C-suite leadership, navigating mergers, divestitures, and corporate separations with analytical depth and strategic clarity.

See My Work Get in Touch
Resume Executive Summary
Priya Ravi
12+
Years Experience
$1B+
Budget Managed
4
M&A Transactions
Core Competencies

What I bring to
every role

01
Strategic Finance & FP&A
Enterprise-level financial planning across multi-hundred million dollar portfolios, owning the full budget, forecast and long-range planning cycle.
02
M&A Integration & Due Diligence
Hands-on experience across mergers, private equity sales, international divestitures and live corporate separations across media and retail.
03
Executive Stakeholder Management
Trusted monthly presenter to C-suite and VP-level leaders, translating complex financial data into narratives that drive confident decisions.
04
Finance Transformation & Automation
Track record of identifying and building solutions that eliminate manual work, reduce cycle times, and unlock capacity for strategic analysis.
05
Global Team Leadership
Works cross-functionally with finance teams across the US, Poland and India, building strong working relationships and holding outputs to high analytical standards.
06
Cost Optimisation & Efficiency
Proven ability to identify savings opportunities through spend analysis, historical trend reviews and budget tasking exercises.
Areas of Impact

Selected work &
project highlights

Finance Transformation
G&A Reporting Automation
Designed and implemented an automated G&A reporting solution across 80 business units with the Essbase IT team, replacing a fully manual process with a streamlined, reliable monthly refresh.
↓ Week-long manual refresh reduced to 4 hours
M&A · Corporate Separation
Corporate Separation & Strategic Pivot
Supported a multi-month corporate separation workstream, building standalone budget frameworks for two prospective entities. When strategy pivoted to a Paramount merger, rapidly re-baselined all budgets to BAU without loss of continuity.
Full planning cycle reoriented under live strategic shift
M&A · Warner Media / Discovery
$43B Discovery & Warner Media Merger
Compiled full personnel and non-personnel cost details for supported teams and presented a clear budget picture to merger leadership. Led the rebuild of the full budget under the combined structure. Managed compensation compliance for 1,000+ employees, untangling complex AT&T RSU obligations.
100% adherence to contractual obligations
Global Benefits · Workforce Planning
Global Benefits & Workforce Planning
Owned the full budget and forecast cycle for $150M+ in global benefits spend, developing per-head cost models and partnering with external consultants to project claims trends and anticipate utilization shifts across US and international workforces.
$150M+ benefits spend under management
Staples · International
High Growth Market Strategy Support
Led revenue forecasting and modeling for international markets across Asia and South America, building financial models and scenario analyses. Developed a Tableau report giving leadership real-time visibility into sales, revenue and own-brand performance trends.
Real-time Tableau dashboard across international markets
Staples · PE Sale
TSA Management Solution, Staples PE Sale
Following the $6.9B sale of Staples to Sycamore Partners, independently designed and built a comprehensive Excel-based TSA management solution after identifying that existing systems could not handle post-acquisition allocations, creating accurate intercompany charges across three standalone entities.
Built from scratch: existing systems couldn't handle it
Career Timeline

12 years across
Fortune 500 finance

May 2024 – Present
Warner Bros. Discovery
Senior Manager, Corporate FP&A
Served as finance business partner for People & Culture ($200M) and Corporate Communications ($40M). Acted as trusted monthly presenter to C-suite. Collaborated closely with analysts in Poland to drive reporting accuracy and analytical depth.
Sept 2021 – Dec 2022
WarnerMedia
Manager, Corporate FP&A
Served as finance business partner for Corporate Communications during the $43B Discovery merger. Led compensation compliance for 1,000+ employees and the Workday to Adaptive migration finance validation.
Dec 2020 – Jun 2021
WarnerMedia
Manager, Technology FP&A
Owned end-to-end consolidation of budget, forecast, LRP and monthly reporting across the $700M+ Corporate Technology finance function.
Nov 2018 – Dec 2020
WarnerMedia
Senior Financial Analyst
Owned budgeting and forecasting for $110M in operational expenses across 44 departments and 145 headcount.
Aug 2016 – Nov 2018
Staples
Senior Financial Analyst · Promoted within 15 months
Owned budgeting and reporting for $800M in company-wide expenses. Contributed to two separate divestiture processes. Built the TSA management solution for the $6.9B PE sale.
Early Career
Emirates NBD · Ernst & Young
Analyst → Manager
Progressed from Analyst to Manager at Emirates NBD across Retail and Private Banking. Performed audit and stock-taking at Ernst & Young across retail, fashion, jewelry and horse racing clients.
Technology & Tools
Expert ExcelTableauPower BI PowerPointWorkday Adaptive PlanningEssbase CognosSAPOracle
Education
MSc Law & Accounting, London School of Economics BCom, Madras University
Testimonials

What colleagues
say about working together

Priya has an exceptional ability to translate complex financial data into clear, actionable insights. Her FP&A work consistently helped our leadership team make confident decisions under pressure.

Strategic ThinkingCommunicationFP&A
SM
Sample Colleague
VP Finance · 2 years together
★★★★★

One of the most reliable partners I've worked with. Priya brings both rigor and warmth to everything she does, and she's the person you want in the room when the numbers need to tell a story.

ReliabilityStorytellingLeadership
JK
Sample Colleague
Director, Operations · 18 months together
★★★★★

Worked with Priya? She would love to hear from you — takes just 2 minutes.

Leave a Testimonial
Get in Touch

Open to full-time,
contract & freelance

Whether you're looking for a senior FP&A leader, a finance business partner for a specific project, or a transformation specialist — I'd love to hear about the opportunity.

✉
priya.ravi@hotmail.com
in
linkedin.com/in/priyaravi1

"Finance leader with a rare track record of navigating complex corporate transactions at every stage of a 12-year career."

— Executive Profile