Responsible for P&L management across India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bhutan, focusing on achieving net revenue and NOPBT targets. Key responsibilities include developing the annual operating plan, rolling forecasts, short-term planning, KPI achievement, performance reviews, business partnering, scenario-based planning, long-term P&L strategies, commercial finance, and supply chain finance.

Complete owner of Profit and loss and Budgets, analyzing the financials performance to identify key drives of variance and provide actionable insights to management and business teams. Finalization of Annual financial planning including half yearly forecast covering head count, costs, revenue and margins with due interaction with various location finance and service function. Own monthly and quarterly budget vs actual reporting, ensuring quality, timely and accurate reporting and provide key business insights and outlooks while quantifying risks and opportunities in achieving forecast along with mitigation plan. Finalization of rate cards with due interaction service line/business function leaders. Futuristic business performance evaluation 6+6, 9+3 and 11+1 to provide early insights management with bridge plan. Establishing strong and collaborative relationships with key internal business partners to develop and implement effective financials process. Partners with business to support strategy and decision making and lead ad hoc financials modelling and analysis in details, scenario-based models to evaluate the financial impact. Lead and developing and maintenance of financials models, incorporating forecasting and scenario analysis and generate ad hoc reports as needed to support decision making. Interact with counterpart in Argentina, Philippines, Poland, Hungary, Mexico, UK. Providing support to various technical team on creation of cost center/ codes, rate structure, hierarchy and planning tools (Hyperion). Experienced in Hyperion, SAP, Power BI, Excel. Helping the team to achieve their KPI’s and goals. Providing the opportunity and grooming them for the next level.

Complete exercise on Annual operating Plan (AOP) for full year with end-to-end process. Forecast of full year financials and fixing targets for functional teams. Forecast of financials before books closure and variance analysis against actual to find reason for deviations. Cost schedule movement revenue to find out cost saving opportunities. Circle performance review packs to circle management committee. Ensured proper books closing on monthly basis by way booking all required provisions. Identified and handled cost saving projects with cross functional teams to save the cost. Reviewed trail balance on regular basis to know the movement of the General Ledgers and reason for variance. Evaluation of new product launches by way of cost benefit analysis. Productive analysis on selective cost line items to improve the performance and reduce the cost structure. Ensured underutilised sites identified with the help of site wise profitability report to maximise the utilisation or shut down proposal. Prepared scenario wise Profit and loss for different business proposal to evaluate and implement the new changes within the organisation. Team handling: handling team of 3 members and guiding them for their improvement and performance on regular intervals. Handled all regulatory related queries from DOT. Validation and approval of Note for approval and purchase requisitions. Eliminated unnecessary report and standardized reports prepared for all the items in the Profit and Loss account. Competitive cost bench marking analysis. Undertaken project on starter kit cost for PAN India saved 10% of the total cost. CAF activation vs GAD ration reduction to reduce the cost of wastage.

Projected expected P&L before books close for lubricant business and provided variance vs. plan and outlook to the management for decision making by using tools like purchase price variance, sales prices variance, material consumption variance, over/under recoveries. Involved in finalizing the annual operating cost plan for the full year & also Accountable for submitting short term plan (outlook) to the top management. Supported Germany cluster and part of migration project. Reviewed activity rate for the plant opex and ensured actual cost allocated to the product and recovered from customer. Helped in reducing inventory days by 10 to improve the working capital by Producing Inventory MI to the management & which will give us DSO (Days of stock outstanding), DPO (Days of Payable Outstanding) FD (Forward Days Covers) etc. This tool enables us to continue monitoring the inventory position. Ensured all month close activities done properly including accruals, provisions and journal vouchers. Ensured all indirect cost are recovered properly without any over under/recovery and tweaking activity rates. Reviewed balance sheet movement on quarterly basis to have control on the number and providing reason for the movement for receivables, stock, payable etc. Reviewed product costing for the lubricant portfolio to track the trends of the product cost. Frequent onshore stake holder engagement to get continuous updates from the business. One of the MI team KPI is to standardization of report to save time and money & to eliminate/reduce unnecessary reports. Monthly stock movement analysis to identify the material consumption Variance (BOM Vs Actual) which is one of the hidden variances to explain to the top management. Supported business for different countries like Germany, Oman, UAE, Pakistan from India. Monthly transfer price review analysis for input materials like Base oil. Inventory controls, provision controls etc.

Produced estimated P&L before books close and provided variance to the top management reason for variance against plan and outlook (short term plan) for quick decision making. Produced product costing analysis tool to find out the reason behind variance comparing against Plan (BOM) & provided commentaries along with business reason behind it, also help the technical team to understand the financial impact. The tools also provide variances like prices, quantity, mix and usage variance. Developed a tool to calculate the value of closing stock before the books close to know the financial impact. Prepared next 5 years plan and revised short-term outlooks. Analysed Profit and loss account in comparison to Plan & outlook and provided business reason for the delta which helps the management to take further action on developments. Monthly evaluation of unit performance. Divisional performance review pack. Vetting of cost saving projects. Costing of By-Product. Physical Verification. Reconciliation of intra and inter divisional transactions. Audit schedule to the auditors on quarterly basis like (Related part schedule, Other Income, Donation etc). Processing of Capex payments. Negotiation (Civil, Capex, Revenue, Petty contracts). Handing audit queries. Acted as Supporting power user for FI Module (GL Section). Acted as Power user for ERS Portal (Employee Reimbursement Scheme).