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Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Mumbai Area, India

• Business partner to Manufacturing and Quality Teams for all India based manufacturing units• Leading the central FP&A for opex of Rs. 900 cr ensuring spend are within budget• Worked on IT automation projects to improve business velocity• Strategized projects with Operational Excellence and Continuous improvement teams to reduce the opex and fund automation and safety initiatives• Drive FP&A to identify areas of spend increase, opportunities for spend reduction, internal and external benchmarking• Initiated processes to drive reduction in material costs on account of Cost of Poor Execution (CoPE) like batch failures, lower yield, consumption variance• Ensured all internal frameworks and controls are complied Achievements:• Overall manufacturing spend within budget despite higher spending on account of higher FDA compliances as well as overhauling of plants• Reduced CoPE to the tune of ~Rs. 40 cr• Received award as part of core team to publish the first Integrated Annual Report

Mumbai Area, India

Mumbai Area, India

• Business partner to Finished Product Sourcing Team which involves sourcing from contract manufacturing as well as P2P parties• Established benchmarking process for sourcing of products• Monthly MIS creation to track LBE, actual vs budget, price-volume variance and other analysis to achieve savings target• Prepared a framework for rate approval process and interlock mechanism to make sure savings identified are delivered • Ensured timely GST compliance in areas of contract manufacturing and P2P parties. Identified and led negotiations for savings on account of GST• Worked with technical teams to identify savings levers and drive projects to reduce overall cost• Worked on compliance of all internal audit recommendations and implementation of IFC/DOAAchievements:• Achieved annualized savings worth Rs.21cr from P2P vendors on account of GST

Mumbai Area, India

• Part of 4 member PMO team selected to work on overall EBITDA improvement program of the company with key focus areas of Procurement, Manufacturing and Supply Chain• PMO for Logistics work stream consisting of Domestic, Import and Export Logistics streams having spend base of ~Rs. 340 cr• Worked on Logistics work stream from ideation to implementation phase for all ideas• Owner of KPI work stream in Supply Chain process improvement program. Assisted in defining and baselining KPIs to measure impact of improvementsAchievements:• Successfully project managed savings potential for Logistics work stream worth ~Rs. 40cr• Implemented KPIs for impact measurement of Supply Chain process improvement program

Mumbai Area, India

• Worked on consolidated MIS creation of global inventory for presentation to top leadership team every month, giving visibility on various fronts• Provided analysis on inventory in terms of trends, ageing, top materials, coverage against norms etc. for better monitoring and control• Initiated reviews for high value procurement (ARV, Respiratory, Bond etc.) with planning and procurement teams, for better inventory control• Initiated regular call with overseas supply chain partners to set up norms and reduction in norm days• Worked to improve system for write-off of materials – initiated write-off portal development to bring entire process online, and made provision in system to make mandatory entry of BU and reason• Initiated processes and ways to liquidate non-moving inventory, and developments in system• Worked on strengthening vendor/customer recovery process• Worked on compliance of all internal audit recommendations and implementation of IFC/DOA• Finance partner to supply chain team implementing MRP, provided key inputs from control perspectiveAchievements:• Reduction in inventory levels substantially by ~Rs.1000 cr• Improved processes for Inventory creation, write-off & Inventory management reducing write-offs by ~Rs. 40 cr

Mumbai Area, India

- General Management role which involved Business Partnering with Procurement team- Worked on Track and Trace project to implement traceability, serialization and anti-counterfeit features for products. Worked to understand the requirements, interacted with vendors (both hardware and software providers including leading anti-counterfeit service provider from France) to understand the solution offered and documented the project proposal- Worked with Solvents team to link the prices of solvents to crude which can help the buyer in identifying savings potential and the same also helped procurement finance team in budgeting exercise- Worked with API team to link the prices of API with KSM for last 3 years for ~top 30 products (~70% spend base covered). Analyzed the same to understand factors affecting the price movements and possible future trends- Under operational excellence worked on implementation of new procurement process for capex procurement- Worked on implementation of corrective measures suggested by auditor- Worked on obtaining Internal stakeholders (manufacturing units) response/rating for procurement teams and further to improve the ratings- Studied the feasibility of moving solvents procurement from drum to tanker. It involved discussions with vendors, manufacturing units, logistics and capex team

Mumbai Area, India

- Analyzed the determinants of Repo Rate, MIBOR and G- sec rates by multiple regression analysis- Studied the working of Interest Rate Swaps and its determinants- Developed a model for estimating one year MIBOR OIS - Studied the government securities market and Inflation Indexed bonds- Framed a view on the direction of the yields by studying the impact of various macro-economic factors on the government securities

Mumbai Area, India

Worked on BI project with Pentaho BI Solutions. Primary responsibilities involved :- Creation and maintenance of data warehouse- Creation of ETL to load data- Creation of cubes(OLAP) on data warehouseWorked on BI project with Microsoft BI Solutions and Sharepoint-2010. Primary responsibilities involved :- Creation of cubes(OLAP) on database- Creation of Sharepoint portal and reportsWorked on developing iPhone application.

Mms, Finance, Grade A, 6.13/7

Gold Medalist

Master Of Business Laws, Business Law, 3.4

Bachelor Of Technology (Btech), Electronics, 8.9/10

Hsc, Computer Science, 95.17%

Stood 3rd in Mumbai district