Oversee all aspects of Financial management including Financial planning, budgeting, forecasting & Business processManage Project finance activities including structuring financing arrangements and ensuring compliance with banking agreements for working capital requirementsAccountable for Accounts, Taxation, Commercial & Statutory Compliances.Managing Audit, P&L, Balance Sheet.Lead annual business budget & periodically present business performance of projectsIdentify potential financial risks & implement strategies to mitigate their impact

Driving Circle Opex optimization plan of 85 Crs through cost reduction efficiencies leading meaningful impact on baseline resulting in improved profitability across business functions.  Performing spend analysis of annualized operating expense of 1200 Crs for Circle.  Tracking financial results by analyzing actual results in comparison with forecasts.  Modelling & Forecasting of site cost basis past trends, actuals, price trends, escalations, site rollout plan, upgradation, contractual terms, operational & cost efficiencies, rate revisions, contract renewals, normalization & present to management  Benchmarking cost for 10500 towers basis Infra Provider, products, tenancy, billing parameter for rental & energy & comparing nationally.  Identify high Opex sites basis landlord rentals & energy outlier’s basis consumption per site.  Approve new site deployment & relocations. Achievements:  Opex achievement of stretched targets through cost optimization & WOW efficiencies of INR 60 Crs in FY 22  Opex achievement through cost optimization & WOW efficiencies of INR 40 Crs YTD Q2’23  Recognized 6 times since Dec-21 under Beat your Best for achieving monthly targets

Spearheaded the infrastructure provider billing reconciliations and operations for 8 telecom circles.  Identified cost-saving opportunities through partner quarterly billing walk through and application of contractual terms, analytics & value-mining.  Innovate, adopt, drive & implement new ideas, products & solutions on network requirements, automation & cost-savings across circles, also engaging with partners.  Conduct governances with partner & circle teams, tracking operational disputes, reconciling accounts & closing disputes with partners for Delhi, Rajasthan, Gujarat, MPCG, West Bengal, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and North-East as individual contributor.  Driven SOPs, analyzing automated billing validation output reports & correcting logic failures.  Formulated & improved processes in line with the audit & management requirements for proper internal controls which meet business needs.  (i) Ensured audit compliance & control (ii) Validated inaccuracy of assessments, risk exposure & quantification of financial impacts and sharing of risk management plans. Achievements:  Achieved approx. 1.5 Cr savings through price negotiation with IOCL through a deep dive into pricing structure.  Achieved marked improvement in the availability and pricing of diesel for tower sites.  Executed the commercial closure with Indus towers for newly built extreme power sites in the year March 2018

Led the efforts to control the site operating expenses for Rajasthan Circle through billing validation, contract validation and cost-benefit analysis of service agreements.  Monitored various important parameters in site governance along with SLA KPI’s & their penalties, discounts and benefits across partners.  Reduced costs through cost-modelling & trend-analysis for rental & energy costs, investigating cost leakages and fixing them in partner billing. Achievements:  Achieved annualized savings of INR 72 Million via a project for de-loading network equipment.  Maximized savings by dismantling low revenue/low usage sites, relocating high cost/high rental sites and duplicate BTS removal at sites via TRX reconciliation.  Implemented New process of electricity bill payments for tower sites through Airtel Payments Bank.  Won "Star of the Month" certificate for timely partner invoice validation of INR 27 Million in Jan 2018.

Managed monthly accruals, provisions & actualizations with high degree of completeness, accuracy & quality, adhering to SLAs on financial deliverables to central team, cross functions & PFO and government agencies/external departments.  Analyzed variances between budget, provisions & actuals, scrutinizing the ledger report.  Reviewed & improved the scores in Fiscal Tracker, Key Variable Indicators Index & Self Validation Control Checklist along with vendor payment score, ensuring compliance w.r.t. approvals on invoices & Purchase Orders.  Ensured control for (i) debtors & creditors aging, (ii) advances & account open items, (iii) GR/IR clearing accounts, (iv) SOA reconciliation of strategic partners (v) inter-unit settlement transactions and & (vi) open purchase orders.  Enabled timely capitalization of fixed assets, driving control on high aging network & IT inventory as per deployment plan.  Finalized PV report after physical verification of warehouse inventory and SRN material with usability assessment.  Recovered the overdue refundable security deposits, interconnect settlements & site infrastructure billing.  Reconciled DTH inventory with active partners, finalizing settlement of inactive distributors within 30-day cycle. Achievements:  Won certificate of appreciation for exceptional contribution towards achievement of organizational goals for year 2012-13.  Achieved inventory provision reduction of INR 91 Million, utilizing high aging inventory, redeploying material from inactive sites and reviving repairable/ proposed for scrap inventory.  Improved cash inflows from BSNL, reducing IUC & SMS bad debts through reconciliation efforts with variation below 0.25%.  Established the best practice of obtaining security deposit confirmations from all vendors & operators.

Led a 4-member team in verifying & approving invoices as per accounting guidelines, TDS implications & PO/contractual terms for Delhi & Haryana circles.  Processed all major invoice payments for lease circuits, interconnect charges, port charges, infrastructure sharing, payroll of outsourced associates, leasehold improvements, lease, administration, marketing expenses etc.  Prepared monthly & yearly reporting schedules of expenses, deposits, advances, debit balances etc. & ensured closure of open items >90 Days.  Performing billing reconciliation of Interconnect Usage Charges & minutes of Incoming & Outgoing calls. Achievements:  Awarded 'Certificate of Appreciation' for excellence in contributions in 2009.  Set up the vendor help desk for vendor query-resolution.

Led 4 off-rolls team members to handle the cluster business & commercial operations for Jaipur Cluster in Rajasthan Circle.  Processed the evaluation, appointment & termination of channel partners, channel commission payouts and full & final settlement for channel partners.  Ensured timely collections from all Reliance web worlds, retail stores & franchisees, monitoring the bank reconciliation of all collection accounts. Achievements:  Converted the tariff of 293 BTS sites from Non-Domestic to Mixed-Load category for the Jaipur cluster.  Replaced manual cheque/draft process for distributors' inventory billing with online fund transfers.