• Sales Accounting and NSR Calculation• Working capital management by coordinating with Banks and Treasury team to improve cash conversion cycle• Hedging of Metal Prices over London Metal Exchange• Presenting financial reports and analysis to CFO (Dy) and CMO to help in informed decision making• Buyers Interface, Contract Negotiation and Premium benchmarking exercise with Marketing Team• Establishing relevant and effective Internal controls to ensure system hygiene and reduce business risk • Trade Finance- Export bills negotiation under LC/SBLC/BG for Export/Merchant Export/ Merchant Trade• Letter of Credit- Issuance, Confirmation and Discounting.• Inventory Management- monitoring material movement, accounting and controlling holding cost• Handling SOX and other audit/regulatory compliances with key control on access rights distribution• SAP accounting system development, implementation and maintenance• Service Providers cum Vendor Management- Procurement, Management and Payments

Worked as a Functional Approver with Accounts payable - Shared Services team handling Vendor Payments• Managing a team of five Executives, continuously monitoring their work and making final approval of the bills processed by the team after verifying them for vendor payments• Managing the Shared Service – Quality Audit (QA) team comprising of 3 members to ensure adherence to SOP by various stakeholders involved in making a payment• Preparing MIS reports for Shared Services and presenting them to senior management• Providing ideas and driving implementation of various IT related projects to improve team efficiencyAwards & Recognition• Finalist (among top 5) in “Chanakya” (HZL wide Business Simulation and Strategy Game)• Accredited by senior management for identification of inefficiencies and development & implementation of improved processes and increasing automation

Worked with a team of two senior analysts based out of London from a leading Investment Bank in Socially ResponsibleInvesting (SRI) and Sustainability theme• During this period contributed to various thematic reports on Water Scarcity, Shale Gas, Oil and Gas Safety, Energy• Efficiency, Electric Vehicle market in Europe and Smart Metering & Smart Grid Industry in Europe• Built quantitative models using VBA Macros – 1) scoring companies based on their geographic exposure to ESG risks and creating indices with top scored companies and comparing their performance, 2) ESG financial analysis with stakeholders perspectives• Co-authored a whitepaper on “SRI in Asia – A Green wave riding high in the financial tsunami”Awards & Recognition• CRISIL R&R Award: Breakthrough Initiative and Excellence Award, a S&P recognition for performance in the role• ACE Award: S&P recognition for demonstrating customer focus and delight• Rewarded for being finalist (among the top 5) in “Brainwaves” (CRISIL wide White paper Competition)• London client office visit for 3 weeks on invitation

Analysed market potential and gave recommendations to improve product mix and distribution channelsStudied the impact of Macroeconomic events and regulations on the Excess & Surplus Insurance industryConducted financial analysis for an Insurance Company and its valuation under various growth scenariosBuilt a statistical model to calculate Customer Lifetime Value for a major Cable operator in US

As an intern, designed and implemented a strategic model for mapping usage of Google Apps for campus activities:Suggested changes in Google Apps' features and ways to make them scalable for academic institutions

As an intern, worked on a request for proposal on electronics shop concession at Abu Dhabi International Airport Performed competitive analysis of the major electronic retail chains in DubaiInvolved in preparing cash flow statements for Sharaf DG Duty Free and Sharaf Electronics Performed sales analysis of Sharaf DG Duty Free and peripheral outlets, came up with sales prediction for 2008 and gave recommendations on the right product mix

Developing a Linux Client and porting various components of BESRM from JAVA to C#Automate the process of registering and testing a large number of dummy clients