+ Play a key role in financial planning processes, and evolving the underlying integrated financial forecast models, systems, and tools+ Support the leadership in evaluating strategic initiatives and key decision processes+ Develop and monitor critical financial performance metrics, and communicate actionable insights to relevant stakeholders+ Prepare presentations and key reporting to the Board of Directors and the leadership team+ Develop and evolve scalable processes to effectively manage financial performance, measure against actuals, and to improve forecast accuracy+ Actively contribute to the design and implementation of planning tools

New Region Strategy and Planning - Network Finance+ Perform complex financial modelling for AWS New regions and deep dive on Network cost structures using a broad range of tools including Excel+ Influence business decisions with effective verbal and written communication, data driven analysis and presentation of options and alternatives+ Serve as the key finance partner working directly with regional AWS technical product management and other internal stakeholders to provide financial recommendations+ Facilitate financial review meetings with various levels of leadership to ensure effective finance and cost optimization+ Develop the right metrics to measure process quality and productivity, providing meaningful feedback to the technology and business teams+ Support ad-hoc CEO financial and strategic analyses that impacts the decision to launch new regions across the globe

+ Led a project to drive strategic partnership with the banks to facilitate integration across the financial services verticals - Lending, Insurance and Wealth; Handled communication with various banks and discussed with the senior management to ensure the best banking partner(s) are onboarded+ Prepared investor decks and presented in monthly review meetings with senior leadership team and external stakeholders+ Developed the business forecast model for the lending business, translated the plan into individual KPIs to compare against actual performance + Worked extensively in an integrated team environment and managed relationship with consultants, investors and the banking partners

+ Part of India Financials coverage, which includes HDFCB, ICICIB, Axis, Kotak, IndusInd, Yes, AU Bank, Bandhan, Equitas, SBI, Bajaj Finance+ Thematic series - Analyzed microfinance activity of the top players across India, Indonesia and Bangladesh; Published a comprehensive series with comparisons at both macro and stock level between two high growth Asian economies (India and Indonesia); Consumer credit cycle in India+ Regular interaction with clients and presentations to sales and trading on published research reports and any new market developments+ Active participation in the earnings conference call, interaction with company's management / investor relation team+ Assisted and presented in four-day India FinTech trip, attended by 20 major Global Institutional Investors; Includes group meetings with founders of Paytm, Razorpay, m-Swipe and Zerodha to understand the fast-evolving digital payment landscape in India+ Conduced market surveys to understand end-to-end microfinance cycle and origination / collections of offline consumer credit loans+ Performed in-depth analysis to estimate market share of digital payments in India; Authored pre-IPO premier on State Bank of India cards+ Worked on stock coverage initiation of Bajaj Finance and Bandhan Bank; Performed in-depth analysis of companies for bespoke projects

+ Solely responsible for preparation and filing of income tax returns for emerging FinTech players and for further follow-ups+ Prepared advisory reports for multinational companies pertaining to restructuring by analyzing tax laws and implications under the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement+ Reviewed Private Placement Memorandum, which included details of Alternative Investment Funds and also engaged with the regulators to get the requisite approvals