Getting IPO Ready !

• Business Partnership: Effective collaboration across with Business managers, HR, SCM, IT, Manufacturing and cross-company finance and operational teams to influence the business results.• Finance Rhythms of business: Managing Budgeting, workforce planning, forecasting and monthly close in alignment with corporate timelines. Continuously improve processes to drive efficiency, prioritization, and cross team collaboration.• Financial Analytics and Insights: Analyzing results to understand performance against plan/forecast. Monitor trends and key drivers, such as cost per head, attrition, recruiting velocity, and vendor investment against plan/forecast assumptions. • Investment Optimization: Work on Resource allocation framework comparable analysis, investment ask process & principles. Providing credible insights into Profit and Loss (P&L) optimization, identifying market opportunities, performance improvements, and achieving growth. Guide team to focus on driving profitable growth by being an integral part of the business decision making process. • Controls and Compliance: Guiding team to ensure proper accounting and financial infrastructure in compliance with local accounting, tax regulations. Modelling a compliant culture through actions and decisions. Inspiring others to share risks to compliance and take steps to mitigate• Investor relations: Analysing and presenting financial trends, competitor behaviour, shareholder issues, Responsible for overseeing and managing quarterly earnings and conference calls, providing insights on market activity and present them to the leadership team• Treasury: Monitoring and managing the organisation's bank relationships and liquidity management, Ensuring deployment of surplus funds in various avenues (with in guidelines of investment policy), Interest rate risk management and development of risk mitigation strategies• Inorganic growth : Merger and Acquisitions, Joint Venture Tie ups, Diversification,

Joined Syngenta India Ltd as Financial Planning and Controlling Head, South Asia, where I provided strategic direction to Finance; leveraged research, analysis and experience to develop business and financial recommendations, provide budget feedback, and assist leadership in key financial aspects and proposed appropriate recommendations to the APAC Region. Eventually, grew to the role of Business Controller, India, whereinPartnering with CEO & MD to drive structural and sustainable growth across geographies and channels through business partnering and controlling. Guiding the customer facing Business finance team to ensure committed levels of return on investment for all channel partners. Evaluation of Go to Market expansion plans and validating addition/removal of channel partnersEvaluating the risk of exposures, both in inventory and receivables vs business opportunity Driving Global finance initiatives to collectively drive the business and the finance organization to either scale, transform, evolve or become more efficient

Joined Vodafone India Ltd in 2005 and operated in various gamut of activities pertaining to Finance Operations, Revenue Assurance, Capex & Opex management; eventually grew to the role of Financial Planning and Analysis Head. Throughout my journey in this organization I worked on process improvements that required enhancing controls and quality of reconciliations and related processes in the organization; Provided financial and strategic support to senior management for pricing analysis, sales and marketing metric reporting, and operating expense managementMonitored EBITDA, Working Capital, Capex Investment, Cashflow and balance sheet