1. CA Phaneendra Kumar Potnuru – 220330
CA Professional Achiever Award – Engineering and Capital Goods Sector
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Senior Manager
Caterpillar India Private Limited subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc USA

2. Turnover (Sales) of the Company in Rupees: INR 3,000 Billions
Net worth of the Company:
INR 646 Billions
Market Capitalization of the Organization:
INR 2,750 Billions
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3. About the Organization
Caterpillar is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel electric locomotives. It is also a leading service provider through Cat financial services, Remanufacturing, Logistics and Rail. With 2011 Sales & revenues of $ Billion, Caterpillar has been making sustainable progress possible on every continent and was ranked by Fortune as the number one admired company in the Industrial and farm equipment category and number 19 on world’s Most admired companies list this year.
Asia pacific shared services (APSS) provides valued accounting related shared services and decision support to help Caterpillar achieve its goals. We are recognized for providing value added low cost services by ensuring strong fiduciary reporting responsibility and regulatory compliance with 200+ workforce in Bangalore and Tianjin.
India Shared Service Center working from Bangalore provides accounting and related shared services support for 15+ legal entities in the region which covers India, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Australia etc handling business volume transaction of close to $12 Billion Sales & revenues.

4. KEY ROLE IN THE ORGANIZATION
Senior Manager with responsibility for Financial and Statutory Reporting and Capital Assets for facilities with total revenue of about $12 Billion. I have a work group of 17 people of whom 14 are qualified chartered accountants.
( Nov’11 – Till date )
Manager for Capital Assets, Reconciliations, Inter Company and Financial Systems teams (Nov’09 - Oct’11)
Deputy Manager for Financial Systems ( Mar’08 – Oct’09)
Revenue Accountant ( Oct’06 – Feb’08)
Qualified Chartered Accountant ( May’06 )

5. MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS Professional And Academic Career
ICAI – All India 2nd Rank (PE II), All India 30th Rank (Final) (self study – did not go for any sort of coaching)
ICWAI (self study – did not go for any sort of coaching)
B Com Hons - 15th University Rank
+2 Commerce – 13th State Rank
Cleared Two papers of Indian Actuaries Course
Served as faculty at ICAI Chapter, Bangalore for one year in 2010
Addressed a gathering of about 70 qualified chartered accountants at Belgaum Chapter in 2010 on accounting standards
Set aside and use 10% of my salary for social and charitable causes
Recognised for seamless transition of accounting function to India and SAP implementation in APAC region (2007)

6. MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS
Nominated as first Asia Resource for Accounting for SAP implementation at global level and recognised for work done on that by Group CFO ( 2009 )
Coded an excel template that sends mail response automatically with click of a button for which received appreciation from users across Asia Pacfic Region ( 2010 )
Served as President for Caterpillar FSD Toastmasters, Bangalore for one year. Club received “Select Distinguished Club” Status for 1st July 2010 to 30th June 2011 ( 2011 )
Rose to Senior Manager level in span of just 5 years ( 2011 )
Bestowed with creativity award for conception, development and implementation of productivity tools (2011)
Journal Archiving and Work flow Solution – JAWS ( For Designing and Testing )
Repetitive Activity Performance Tracker - RAPT (For Designing, Coding and Testing)
Tracker for One Time Tasks - TOTT (For Designing, Coding and Testing)
My profile selected for display in Caterpillar’s recently opened Visitor Center in US ( 2012 )