Arvind Shidlagatta Email & Phone Number

London, England, Gb

London Area, United Kingdom

This is an exciting short term contract with a "Unicorn" Start-up. I am helping my SaaS Business client with Workday implementation and creating templates, analysis, dashboards and long-term strategic planning.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Business partner and trusted advisor to senior leadership and business leads across all areas of the firm, providing financial guidance and insights to maximize profitability. Provided weekly and monthly insights to Senior Management.• Led Group Financial Planning and Budgeting process across 5 regions. Liaised with regional Finance Managers who support overseas offices.• Produced key commercial reporting including KPIs Dashboard and monthly Board reports. • Provided commercial insights for Business Development and Strategy.• Provided cash flow forecasts and bank reporting around bank covenants.• Worked with business leaders and reviewed business cases for proposed laterals or mergers.• Mentored and provided leadership to a team of 7 Business Partners & Analysts, setting and reviewing performance objectives on a regular basis.• Prepared profitability analysis of clients and worked with the Business Development Manager and Partners to develop action plans to improve profitability.• Supported implementation and roll-out of Workday Planning software.

Worked closely with Private Equity investors, C level executives and Board Members.. Providing financial and strategic consultancy services for leading businesses in the legal sector. 1. Strategic Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting - Creating 3 to 5 year Strategic Plan backed up by detailed bottoms-up budgeting and forecasting. Analysing key market trends, competitive landscape and performance indicators underpinning business performance.2. Financial Planning & Analysis - Providing an end-to-end visibility of business performance, KPI dashboard, deep-dive variance analysis3. Financial modelling - designed advanced financial models to support business decisions around Pricing, Client Profitability and forecasts, Cash Flow forecasting4. Advanced performance dashboards - developed high quality performance dashboards on PowerBI that provides visibility to senior management and Board members5. Business transformation - Strategic advice on business transformation projects; driving process efficiency, cost savings to the business; change management; validation of return on investment (ROI) on strategic initiatives

Stockley Park

VeriFone is a leading PE-owned Global Fintech Company, providing Payment-as-a-Solution (PaaS) and E-commerce solutions. Managing circa 46% of world's non cash transactions and over 10Billion transactions, making it one of the largest in the world.Reported to the European CFO. Led Pan-European forecasting and budgeting process. Effectively collaborated with C level executives and Board Members to develop strategic business decisions. Supported by a team of 12 FP&A Analysts in the region. Achievements:1. Led implementation of BI tools such as Hyperion and Tableau across Europe.2. $Multi-Million improvement to bottom line through operational efficiencies and business transformation3. Achieved R&D budget for 9 successive quarters by optimising resources across 6 gateway servicesKey activities:• Provided quarterly earnings guidance to investors (Europe regional revenue and profitability)• Developed 5 year strategic plan for review with Board members• Analysed business performance through sophisticated KPI metric and dashboard built on Tableau• Reviewed internal investment proposals and prepared valuation models to support investment decisions. • Reviewing Europe R&D projects and resource planningAdditional responsibility: Financial controller• Took up additional responsibility as Finance Controller for European R&D Operations.• Prepared and submitted US GAAP 10K and 10Q information• Worked closely with R&D heads to drive operational efficiency and HC planning.• Reviewed monthly accounting journals for R&D cost accruals, inter-company charges and capitalization of software development / project costs.

Reading, England, United Kingdom

Reported to FP&A Director. Led Indirect Channel Strategy and implementation.Formulated five-year strategic plan and financial projections that provided consistent and measurable targets for the business. • Analysed Pan-European market (TAM), competitive landscape, market share, and market growth. • Developed Indirect Channel and UK Public Sector strategy. Reviewed channel readiness.• Developed analysis to support customer segmentation and mid-tier customer strategy• Partnered with Marketing and Sales for new Strategic Cloud product launch ($ multi-million). • Presented monthly and quarterly business results to Senior Leadership Team in EMEA and the US. Achievement: Built business case for a new $Multi-Million indirect channel.

Langley, England, United Kingdom

Led Pan-European FP&A process for Honda. Managed a team of 2 analysts.• Analysed sales and profitability of various Car and Bike models across various channels• Provided advanced analytical models to support investment decisions• Supported implementation of Hyperion and Essbase BI tools

Slough, England, United Kingdom

Reported directly to the Director FP&A for Europe. Managed a team of 3 FP&A Analysts.Achievements: • Turned around a strategic business, resulting in $Multi-Million profitability improvement for Europe.• Partnered with McKinsey to drive Pan-European Go-to-Market Strategy.• Worked closely with Commercial Director in driving Europe's growth strategyMain activities:• Led Pan European budgeting and forecasting process. • Designed and developed Performance Management System and Analytical Framework.• Prepared and presented monthly business report (MBR) to CEO & business leaders.• Reviewed and consolidated Strategic Business Plans for Europe. • Analysed profitability of business units, products, key account, and sales channel.• Analysed performance of Key Retail customers and Mobile Operators covering market share, top line growth, sales, pricing, channel inventory, in-store share, and profitability.• Analysed impact of global launch of iPhone on LG's Mobile business.• Analysed effectiveness of pricing and promotion strategy (Go-to-Market).• Ad-hoc analysis such as analysis of impact of recession & eastern European currency on business.

Kuwait

Identified, researched and led $ 250M Acquisition (M&A transaction) in Turkey.

France

CFO, Europe• Established finance operations in Europe. Working closely with Europe CEO, we built growth strategy for European Generics business including 2 strategic acquisitions (M&A).• On completion of acquisition, I assisted in moving operations from France to UK and in the liquidation of French subsidiary. I was the single point of contact for SOX, external audit, VAT returns, inter-company payments and filing US GAAP and French regulatory returns.Corporate Finance (IPO at NYSE)• Key member of core team responsible for $ 115mn ADR (IPO) listing at NYSE.• Prepared financial statements (US GAAP) and Management Discussion & Analysis (MD&A) section.• Liaised with auditors and lawyers in response to queries from SEC during ADR listing.Received special commendation award from the CEO for successful IPO at NYSE.

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Conducted statutory audits, tax audits and internal audits for top corporate clients in IndiaTrained in International Taxation and Management Consultancy

Masters

Oxford Blockchain Strategy Programme

Equivalent To Cima In India

Bachelor Of Commerce (Honors)

Qualified Chartered Accountant

Senior School