Kapil Ahuja Email & Phone Number

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Private Equity backed global nutraceutical ingredients supplier. Provides scientifically validated natural ingredients to nutrition brands around the globe. Headquartered in India and commercial office in the US; Customers across North America, Europe, and Asia.Responsible for the overall direction, leadership and performance of finance function, board and shareholder governance, M&A, Information Technology transformation, Legal, Strategy Development, and Fundraising.Board of Director of OmniActive Health Technologies Inc USA

Gurgaon, India

No 2 ophthalmic company in Russia/CIS, with foothold in India, US and Europe. Recognised as top 100 Great Place to Work Responsible for full array of finance responsibilities across the company with 8 legal entities, audits and controls, business partnership, cross border taxation, transfer pricing, risk management, board governance, new business, M&A, IT and Legal.

Mumbai Area, India

Responsible for overall direction, P&L / cash delivery and risk management of $0.5bn business across Europe, Asia [ex India], Middle East, North Africa, Latin America, Australia and Greater China [with 80+ countries, 7 Joint Ventures, 3 factories and 30+ legal entities]. Board of Director and Head of Audit committee in Cipla JVs - Uganda, Morocco, Sri Lanka- Worked closely with the BU CEO to drive profitable growth across markets. - Delivered strong margin and ROIC improvement over 18 months by interventions across pricing, mix management, cost restructuring and cash optimisation.- Established compliance structure across business units by implementing robust and systematic controls on key risk areas. - Played a critical role in pre-deal stage of M&A on business case, finance due diligence and deal negotiations. Post deal, set up financial processes, systems, CFO / finance team recruitment, JV board governance, and synergising processes with Cipla India.- Implemented 12 months rolling forecast to ensure timely delivery of sales and improved forecast accuracy.- Rationalised 30+ countries and 800+ SKUs to optimise cost structure of the business. Closed 10+ legal entities. Reversed front end business across all major countries in Europe to deliver profitability. - Built strategy to drive deeper focus on top 10 select markets to drive robust future growth trajectory.

Mumbai India / Singapore

Finance planning for Mondelēz Asia Pacific region (Formerly Cadbury / Kraft Foods) (Size $5bn+). Finance head for Category Boards for Asia Pacific Chocolate, Gum and Candy: Singapore - Established annual and long range strategy plan for the region covering 5 Business Units / 12 countries. Reviewed monthly results with Finance Directors of each Business units. Analysed sales, margin and cash to guide the achievement of financial targets.- Led Finance for Chocolates and Gum & Candy category boards for Asia Pacific region. Collaborated with cross country category teams to deliver margin accretive innovations and pan Asia Pacific launches.- Set up analytics and business intelligence toolkit to enable fact based decision making in areas of pricing, investment and cost.- Implemented ZERO Based Budgeting process across countries and various functions.Head Business planning for Cadbury India Business (turnover of $1bn). Responsible for guiding the business to deliver P&L and Cash targets: Mumbai India- Established a monthly rolling forecast of the P&L to ensure clinical delivery of results every quarter, in the challenging environment of demand uncertainty and commodity pressures. - Partnered with the marketing team to launch Oreo Biscuit in India. Played a critical role in establishing the price points. Set up contract manufacturing for Oreo in India.- Improved margin of Candy category by leading critical pricing decisions, rationalising low margin SKUs and re-establishing incentives to trade up more profitable large packs. - Delivered year on year savings by identifying and delivering sustainable cost optimisation initiatives, in partnership with sales, supply chain and R&D teams.- Led a cross functional cash committee. Improved the Cash Conversion Cycle of the business by implementing supplier financing, optimising inventory and controlling overdue payments.

Vietnam, Mumbai, India

Responsible for books closing, audits, compliance and finance planning Vietnam and exports markets (Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka)- Implemented strategies to establish leadership position in Biscuits through investment behind a focused portfolio of 3 power brands. Delivered sustainable profitable growth, despite high level of investments. - Drove controls and compliance structures across business units. Managed statutory, legal and head quarter requirements. Set up local finance team. - Exited a 7-year relationship with the old distributor with no financial exposure. Engaged a new master distributor in Vietnam with superior margin & payment terms. Met an aggressive timeline to ensure minimal business disruption due to distributor transition.

Mumbai, India

- Transitioned Asia reporting office from Singapore to Mumbai and replicated best practices. - Managed regional financial closing, Audits, and Controls and Compliance for the new $0.7Bn Cadbury Asia region. Drove strategic insights and risk management for the Asia Leadership team.- Led post-acquisition Kraft- Cadbury integration for Cadbury business within Asia including close tracking of revenue, cost and balance sheet synergies.

Mumbai Area, India

- Set up global Finance shared services operations, of 300+ FTE across 18 countries, with 3rd party provider in India, Europe and China. Reduced overall cost by 50%+ and build productivity initiatives to deliver year on year cost reduction. - Led strategy to business case to internal alignment with country leadership teams. Followed a global RFP process to choose global provider, managed contract negotiations and delivered strong project management to meet business case. - Transformed global Account Payable / Receivables operations to best in class delivery including significant reduction in cycle time and deployment of tools like duplicate payments / automated receivable management to improve working capital.- Setup of Cadbury Business Services office at Mumbai, including recruitment of entry positions from IIMs / top business schools.

London, United Kingdom

Defined a new fleet risk management solution for 9 countries in Europe, that reduces driver risk, ensures legislative compliance, and delivers cost saving to the fleet customers. Scoped the product, by managing local needs of the countries within the Pan European product structure

Minneapolis Usa, India

- Achieved overall annual revenue of $2MM (+103%) and improved revenue/head by 60%. Generated cost savings by maximising overall offshore execution to 83% (+15%) within the programme.- Reduced the client’s investment by 20% on $1.5MM budget, by identifying reusability across projects. Created the Centre of Excellence in India to execute the development of all projects, based on reusable componentsManaged team of 28 Engineers (22 India / 6 US)

General Management Program

Activities and Societies: Harvard Business School Alumni Network

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Strategic Finance, Retail, And Advance Risk Analysis

Activities and Societies: Won the AT Kearney business plan competition award. Presented a business plan, to the VPs of AT Kearney.

B Tech, Production Engineering And Management, A Grade. Received Proficiency Award For High Academic Achievement.