Responsible to work on 2 critical verticals at Shell group level i.e. Corporate Strategy & Portfolio and Group Planning & Appraisal. It includes analysis for CEO/CFO, Executive Committee and Board of Directors.The role requires along with the team of 6 to lead/support Group in framing Strategic risks, optimizing portfolios through right capital allocations to different businesses, and turn strategies into achievable short to medium term (10yrs) business wise plans. Also to support Investor relations activities through team e.g. on quarterly results / strategy announcements, competitors analysis etc. As head of Strategy & Planning activities in India, lead building a community of practices in close coordination with country based functional/business leads. This role requires to work extensively with internal business consultants, different businesses performance management teams, & senior most executives within the company based across the globe.

Global Shell Trading portfolio comprises of crude oil, refined products, natural gas, power, and freight trading based in the UK, US, Canada, Singapore, The Netherlands, Japan, Barbados, United Arab Emirates. My role requires management of Trading Settlement & Accounting activities for World outside North America through a large team of ~85 members based in India and Poland. The scope covers ~$1.5bln payments/receipts per day, managing Global Trading Compliance risk including Sanctions & Cyber Crimes.This role requires to work closely with lots of senior stakeholders including senior-most leadership of company, located in various locations around the world. Major Achievements:1. Delivered working capital saving by $100mln/month through Credit/Receivables management;2. Significantly improved 1st time - on time Closing activities delivery with Overtime reduction through Process improvements & stakeholders engagements;3. Created a Crude & Products TSA organization linked with Business structure & its goals;4. Significantly reduce businesses risk on Sanctions & related compliance matter;5. Created a firewall of people to mitigate Cyber crime linked deals;

Bukom Refinery is one of the largest & complex Manufacturing sites in Royal Dutch Shell portfolio with over USD 500mln of Opex spending annually.My role as the Opex Lead is like a mini-CFO on site. The role has full accountability of the cost management process to ensure thorough cost challenge & controls, transparent cost reporting, Budgeting, Benchmarking with Competitors & value adding contract management activities. Major Achievementsa) Lead cross functional teams to claw back/stop cash losses to the extent of USD 5 mln p.a in JV & 3rd party contracts;b) Improve competitive cash position of Refinery by improving Refinery Budgeting process & holding challenging discussions at all levels of leadership;c) Drive tighter controls & process improvements through Ways of Working projects between Onshore & Offshore Teams;c) Automation of advanced reporting requirements of leadership in multiple currencies, making decision making easier with less efforts

Shell India is one of the major market player in India especially in B2B segment & active in various global Commercial businesses like Lubes, Bitumen, Marine, Retail & LPG having more than 3000 industrial customers/distributors. My role as head of Credit Management team is to formulate Country level Credit Strategies to control credit risk of all business units without losing growth aspirations. Further, through a team of Onshore & Offshore based staff, manage the Credit Operations of business like Assessments, Cash Collection, Recoveries, & customer account managementMajor Achievements•Helped OTC org in India to secure 2nd position globally on CSI (customer satisfaction indexing) scoring (EVP Global Commercial award); •Reduced working capital in Lubes India COB by reducing Overdues from 32% to within 5% & in Bitumen CoB from 40% to 15%; •Lead successful migration of a complicated Downstream India legacy system to GSAP

The role required Management of fast growing Retail Fuel business Supply & Distribution Commercial activities including relationship management with owners of Terminals, oil suppliers & Transporters to ensure uninterrupted supplies to Retail stations, business planning for pan India Retail outlets supply network & overall cost & margins performance management in discussion with senior leadership. Major Achievements & Recognitions• VP award for structuring & implementing an IT based data recording & MI software (Stock purchase system) in S&D India, thereby reducing the requirement of 2 staff & monthly accounts closing time by 2 days;• VP award for leading MEA Zero based Budgeting 2010 exercise;• VP award for setting the MI framework for East Regional Supply & Distribution on credit management;

HPCL is a Fortune 500 company with a turnover of USD 24.7 billion &, the 2nd largest refining & marketing oil company in India. I joined in their fastest growing Aviation SBU, HQO as the commercial officer looking after commercial activities of 16 Airport locations covering over 100 domestic & International Airline customers including working with Marketing teams to bid for new business contracts, Major Achievements• Pioneered the concept of Factoring arrangement in India Aviation Industry & helped in bringing a fully secured business of more than USD 200 mln p.a.;• Nominated as “Outstanding Achiever – 2006” & continuously for 3 years secured “Performing Exceeding Targets’ rating from commercial & head of Aviation SBU.

Statutory Auditor of India's largest Upstream company (ONGC) , various manufacturing businesses & Banks;Concurrent Auditor of Reserve (Central) Bank of India