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West Bengal, India

Bengaluru South, Karnataka, India

Managed monthly financial close process, analyzing cost trends and investigating variance against the plan• Developed quarterly and annual planning cycles to establish cost plans for leadership visibility.• Provided decision support to achieve business goals by conducting variance analysis and ideating gap mitigation strategies.• Conducted Monthly financial review (MFRs) with Operations and program leaders, providing key updates and financial insights.• Enhanced Station staff… Show more Managed monthly financial close process, analyzing cost trends and investigating variance against the plan• Developed quarterly and annual planning cycles to establish cost plans for leadership visibility.• Provided decision support to achieve business goals by conducting variance analysis and ideating gap mitigation strategies.• Conducted Monthly financial review (MFRs) with Operations and program leaders, providing key updates and financial insights.• Enhanced Station staff productivity by 14% (INR 102MM) through strategic collaboration with resource planning team.• Reduced the Under the roof (UTR) Cost per shipment (CPS) by 20%, through effective reduction of consumables spend.• Developed a CPS simulator to calculate shipment cost under different circumstances, facilitating better decision making by ops.• Streamlined the cash collection process by implementing an auto debit mechanism for outstanding dues exceeding 30 days• Created a No Due Certificate (NDC) document which would safeguard Amazon from past liabilities beyond 3 months’ timeframe.• Evaluated optimum opportunities by conducting cost benefit analysis for pincode distribution between Amazon and 3p vendors.• Collaborated to modify route allocation methodology based on channel-specific cost resulting in CPS improvement by 40bps.• Improved the channel productivity at enterprise level for deliveries by identifying the gaps which saved INR 40M p.a.• Program-managed corporate Headcount by working with HR to define the tenets of deploying HC and then managing requisitions fornew hires and aligning the numbers with budgetary constraints. Show less

Led a team of 4 analysts for COGS standardization across 4 BUs resulting in one model which would facilitate all the COGS needs• Managed multiple stake holders across functions for Productivity Standardization which resulted in saving of 50-man hours pm• Drove the SKU rationalization project which eliminated 30 non-value adding SKUs from the snack's portfolio and shared specificaction items for volume and profit opportunity SKUs impacting $7.6M in Contribution.• Analyzed data… Show more Led a team of 4 analysts for COGS standardization across 4 BUs resulting in one model which would facilitate all the COGS needs• Managed multiple stake holders across functions for Productivity Standardization which resulted in saving of 50-man hours pm• Drove the SKU rationalization project which eliminated 30 non-value adding SKUs from the snack's portfolio and shared specificaction items for volume and profit opportunity SKUs impacting $7.6M in Contribution.• Analyzed data and prepared Quarterly Cost reports and forecasts along with preparation of the Annual Operating Plans (AOPs)• Found and analyzed variances in forecast-actual to propose and execute cost savings of $1.7M and improved turnover by $0.5M• Provided data driven analysis and insights on business performances to support leaders in decision making.• Awarded the star performer among a batch of 50 associates for providing exceptional deliveries Show less

Developed financial models on RM, COGS, Cash Flows, Productivity, Capex, and other line items that impact the businesses' P&L• Delivered the right mix of sales distribution by understanding the various channels of distribution to maximize sales• Developed COGS variance model - volume, rate, usage, cost, brand mix, size mix to create a business impact of $3M• Developed raw material supplier report showing a comparison between local and imported vendors, their prices and quality thus… Show more Developed financial models on RM, COGS, Cash Flows, Productivity, Capex, and other line items that impact the businesses' P&L• Delivered the right mix of sales distribution by understanding the various channels of distribution to maximize sales• Developed COGS variance model - volume, rate, usage, cost, brand mix, size mix to create a business impact of $3M• Developed raw material supplier report showing a comparison between local and imported vendors, their prices and quality thus resulting insaving in import cost of $1M and selecting vendors whose Raw material provides high finished goods with low scraps• Led the team to automate various cost reports resulting in saving of 360-man hours per annum• Drove process improvement initiatives by automating 80% of manual reports through macros, power query and Power BI• Designed and automated 15 financial reports for better analysis with more KPIs for more efficient tracking using Tableau• Certified as Performance Data Analyst after completing a couple of automation projects with cross sector collaboration Show less

West Bengal, India

Started with an innovative idea of delivering anything at any time with almost negligible cost, for example - If somebody forgets their keys or some important documents then we could have sorted the issue with our startup. Clocked a revenue of INR 2000 per day with a 10% margin.

Ca, Business/Commerce, General

Bachelor’S Degree, Business/Commerce, General, First Grade