Ganapathy Palanimuthu

As a Chartered Accountant and Tech enthusiast, I bring a dynamic blend of financial acumen and tech proficiency. My career reflects a commitment to continuous learning and the practical integration of skills across various domains. Passionate about leveraging technology for impactful solutions.

Skills

Core Skills

Sustained performance optimization through comprehensive MIS reporting, reviews, and follow-up.
Overall Finance management including Capital Budgeting and Working Capital Management
Business Development Support: Tender Commercials & Negotiation
Supply Chain & 3PL: Controls, Compliance & Reporting
ERP implementation across Finance, Supply chain, Sales, and Human resources.
Impactful training to enhance team potential.

Technical Skills

Data Exploration, Visualization, Modeling, and machine learning algorithms using R programming.
Assisting physicians with regression analysis, descriptive statistics, and meta-analysis in enhancing their research paper submissions.
Practical SQL Server expertise, covering database design, views, stored procedures, and functions.
Specialized in Excel VBA on interactive dashbaords. automation of repetitive tasks and SQL data integration.
Application development using MS Access database.

Experience

Overall

With over two decades at Compass Group plc, I've made significant contributions in finance, supply chain, ERP, commercial, and business development across GCC & Africa.

Accounts & Finance

Spearheaded Annual Budgeting, Business Planning, and effective Working Capital Management, contributing to surpassing country performance targets. Played a vital role in contract mobilization, ensuring compliance, and overseeing internal controls for continuous improvement.

Business Development

Active participation in winning significant contracts in Healthcare and Oil & Gas sectors in GCC and Africa underscores my role in business development. Collaborative contract negotiations with diverse teams have been instrumental in achieving success in this arena.

Supply Chain & 3PL

Systematically executed the ETL process for SAP, actively participating in Management and Performance (MAP) reviews and supply chain meetings. Introduced comprehensive reports monitoring Supplier Performance, Inflation Tracker, and Inventory Holding, driving operational compliance.

Healthcare

In the Healthcare Space, I've developed and implemented interactive reports on revenue and operational insight, leveraging Excel VBA and SQL Server Integration for a hospital and EMR software company.

Contributions Beyond Work

Beyond professional achievements, I am dedicated to knowledge sharing through my YouTube channel, covering data exploration, visualization, modeling, and machine learning algorithms using R programming and Shiny Apps; and Excel VBA. This educational platform reflects my commitment to continuous learning and sharing.

I've also contributed as a co-author to medical abstracts, focusing on innovative solutions in diabetes management and a study comparing no-show rates between telemedicine and in-person clinic appointments.

Certification

Apr 2019

Data Visualization with Tableau

Coursera.org: Creating Dashboards, Data Visualization, and Storytelling in Tableau

Aug 2019

Tableau Desktop Certified Associate

By Tableau Software, a subsidiary of Salesforce.

May 2020

Clinical Research Statistics

Coursera.org: Statistical Analysis and interpretation of results.

Nov 2023

Data Science & Machine Learning Bootcamp with R

Udemy.com: Basics of R, Data Manipulation, Data Visualization, Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, SVM and Decision Tree.

Portfolio

Delve into R programming, Shiny Apps, and Excel VBA for insightful tutorials on my YouTube channel, Happy Learning-GP. The images shown here have links to respective YouTube videos.