Business finance leader for ~USD 1 Billion business comprising of Laptops, Smart Watches, Tablets and related ecosystem Accessories business.

Business Finance Partner to Client Technology Engineering Leader managing the Budgeting & Planning function. Key responsibilities include:a. Controllership of Engineering function budget. Managing monthly forecasting exercise at product level and identify reasons for variances.b. Assisting the Technology Officers and Product Owners in setting financial targets and budget development. c. Help the product leads in defining framework and structure to cost recovery process.d. Provide strategic inputs to the Technology Officer by insights on the delivery linked to cost burn rate.e. Work with Product team and streamline the Azure cloud billing process by bringing in transparency and predictability.f. Drive Cost Optimization projects working with multiple stakeholders.

Finance head for Amazon Fashion business (Apparel, Watches, Shoes, Luggage and Jewelry) – a 150-member business organization; responsible for strategic, analytical, and managing the finances of the business. Key responsibilities include: a. Perform financial reporting, ad-hoc business analyses, and financial modeling. Day to day tasks include having discussions with business leaders in identifying key areas of growth that we should double down on and areas that need critical focus.b. Working with marketing leader in evaluating the customer promotions. Framing up customer incentivization plan around new customer acquisition/retention, increasing the basket size of order and cross category penetration. Was instrumental in working with marketing leader in coming up with customer incentive plan during Diwali’18 to help drive 100% YoY growth planned during 2018 festive season.c. Build mechanism for financials reviews at individual business level with right set of focus on get fit metrics around fee promotion, shipping cost and seller re-imbursements. Recipient of Award from India CFO for driving focus towards financial efficiency in the business team.d. Driving free cash flow (FCF) program working with Operational excellence team

Business finance partner for payments team (Amazon Pay Balance). I own (1) Tracking the cost of payments for Amazon.in and highlighting the key variances wrt to the plan and MoM variances. (2) Overall P&L reporting and FP& A for payment product issuance and External Payment Product ( Pay with Amazon). (3) Tracking the headcount for entire payments team and ensuring they are within approved budget.(4) Identifying opportunities for cost reduction and hence ensuring adequate controllership over wastage.

Instrumental in building the team and processes from scratch. First Oracle functional analyst to be based out of India. Took active participation in the interview process not just within the team but cross team as well and led to building a team of 30 people in span of 2 years.a. Lead an 11-member functional team. Responsible for direct supervision, work allocation and appraisal. Also responsible for working with contracting vendors in preparing an on boarding and roll-off plan.b. Work closely with AP Shared service managers to identify pain areas and suggest improvements both on business process and system end.c. Worked on various enhancements and new rollouts in Procure to pay business process space. The Oracle modules covered are Purchasing, Payables, iExpenses and Fixed Assets.i. Delivered complex integrations on Payables on both invoicing and payments area. Building various open interfaces with upstream system for invoice imports and building Host-to-Host integrations with various global banks like HSBC, Wells Fargo and Deutsche bank.ii. Designed one of the unique payment processes called Dynamic Discounting with C2FO entity. This is first of its kind implemented in Amazon. I was responsible for end to end design creation and implementation.iii. Designed automation on Asset creation process. This reduced the manual intervention on the Fixed Assets team where the required mandatory attributes were automatically populated, and users only had to manage exceptions.

a. Delivery Manager for Application Maintenance & Development Project supporting 11i Application covering Procure to Pay, Order to Cash and Record to Report process areas.b. Managing the staffing and hiring process for Oracle practice within the organizationc. Working on providing RFP and staffing sizing estimates for Application Maintenance & Implementation engagements as part of overall presales delivery activity

a. Oracle ERP consultant for Procure to Pay and Order to Cash business processes. Expert in Conducting and driving the study of ‘As-Is’ and “To-Be” business process and building future business process along with client SME’s.b. Identifying gaps based on current and future design and advice for either process change wherever appropriate or suggest workable customizations. c. Expert in Oracle applications like Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivable and Fixed Assets.

a. Gathering the business requirement for implementation of Oracle Receivables.b. Assisted the Technical counterparts in designing the custom form through which various receivables activities can be performed c. Worked extensively on extensions and customizations for AR (Auto-Invoice, Lockbox process, Invoice/Receipts/Adjustments API’s). d. Designing work around solution and designed specification for customized Oracle Apps solution to bridge identified gaps.

a. Understanding of Business Requirement of customers, studying functional and high-level design documents.b. Drawing up Practical Business scenarios for developing various test strategies & test plans for functional testing of Oracle Financial Modules. c. Working on Functional Certification of ERP Suite before a patch set is released with new developments/ enhancements working with development and PQE teams by logging Internal Bugs, Change Requests, Enhancements etc. to ensure an effective product are released to customers.d. Analyzing bugs logged by customers, performing the root cause study and coming out with the defective prevention measures

a. Preparing monthly management reports consisting of Monthly Profit and Loss a/c, Variance Analysis, Contribution Analysis, product wise variable cost, etc.b. Handling the export documentation as per L/C, Negotiation of export documents with banks and liaising with DGFT Rajkot for various Export/Import licenses.c. Performing other routine accounting activities including involvement in quarterly and yearly financial results.