• Financial Leadership: Be the finance leader for the business and provide direction and management, and mentorship of the finance and accounting team. • Financial Planning: Lead the annual, long-range and strategic planning for the company, while aligning with goals of the broader organization. Assess and evaluate financial performance of organization with regard to short, medium & long-term operational goals, budgets and forecasts.• Business Partnering: Partner closely with business team help make strong data -driven decisions and translate strategic initiatives into actionable and measurable roadmaps. Provide insight and recommendations to both short-term and long-term growth plans of organization.• Financial Management: Manage cash flow planning process and ensure funds availability. Maintain outstanding banking relationships and strategic alliances with vendors and business partners.• Resource efficiency: Drive efforts to optimize expenses, support enterprise resource planning initiatives, support vendor negotiations, etc.• Control: Drive all financial audits/due diligence efforts and strengthen internal financial control across the company.• Accounting: Drive the accounts functions, reviewing all month-end closing activities. Ensure timeliness, accuracy of financial, and management reporting data for internal stakeholders, investors, and company’s board of directors.• Taxation and Regulatory Compliance: Lead all tax filing and financial reporting activities in compliance with the law.

• Entrusting with the responsibilities of determining financial objectives, designing & implementing systems, policies & procedures to facilitate internal financial control• Pivotal in capital raising and strategic partnership with top global logistics provider to fund future growth plans• Driving P&L functions and leading budget planning process with emphasis on providing reliability in services, reducing costs, improving gross margins, revenue earning capacity and profitability• Implementing significant improvements in accuracy and timeliness of cash management and reporting• Spearheading wide variety of activities including:o Finalization and submission of Income Tax Returns (Direct), GST Returns (Indirect) along with advance tax calculations and planningo Finalization and submission of quarterly and Annual Standalone and Consolidated Financial results, Annual Report finalization, and managing the board of directorso Liaising and negotiating with Bankers for issuance of Fund / Non Fund based limits to meet working capital and Capex requirements• Steering monthly analysis of actual vs. budgeted expenses and delivering financial and analytical support to all levels of management• Heading the preparation of MIS reports to provide feedback to top management on financial performance like fund management, credit control, profitability and others

• Collaborated with the Senior Management Team in improving & executing strategies and processes, accomplished corporate goals and profitability for the company by steering an entire gamut of functions entailing taxation, finalization, compliance, banking, finance, treasury, & external and internal audits• Pivotal in fund raising from prestigious private equity players • Directed financial analysis, internal & regulatory reporting, accounting operations, budgeting & forecasting for achieving long-term improvements in cost savings, profitability and productivity• Formulated business & operational strategies, translated strategies into executable plans with a large team • Augmented operational efficiency, worked closely with cross-functional teams for implementing financial strategies, driving new technology implementation, and augmenting profitability • Drove finalization of monthly/quarterly/yearly balance sheet and planning budget process with emphasis on providing reliability in services, reducing costs, improving gross margins, revenue earning capacity and profitability• Designed & consolidated budget cost center / profit center wise and submitting to the Audit Committee• Monitored overall accounting process for overseas entities, balance sheet reconciliations, reconciliation for retained earnings and reconciliations of vendor, customer, tax accounts, inter-company & inter-division accounts• Drove preparation of performance reports, that summarize & forecast the organization’s financial position for maximizing profits & ROI; delivered presentations at the Board Level• Prepared Audited Standalone and Consolidated Quarterly and Annual financial results• Designed, directed and controlled the accounting policies & processes

• Designed, directed and controlled the financial and operational policies and processes for the concept• Created and maintained system for prompt and accurate collection of financial information• Developed an effective accounting system to finalization of accounts and statutory and management audit• Ensured adequate control over inventory through accurate MIS for Management to ensure optimum stock turns, liquidation of old stock, deciding the buying plan based on future sales forecast & so on• Concluded the concept operational and procurement planning and budgeting with different management teams• Conducted management analysis on a monthly basis to identify variance from budgets and ensured cost optimization and store performance improvement• Interfaced with SAP Team for improvising & implementing ERP processes and new system roll-out• Assessed performance of stores across concept and take corrective actions

• Performed consolidation of Accounts at Future Group level on quarterly and annual basis• Headed the initiative for conversion of Indian GAAP accounts into IFRS accounts to ensure transition to IFRS in a smooth manner• Conducted statutory audits of consolidated accounts and all group companies in a timely manner, standardization of MIS and monthly review process across future group to ensure basic hygiene• Executed the management assurance framework across the group highlighting strategic, operational and financial areas of concern for each company and preparation of timely action plan • Extended financial advice and guidance to the business on initiatives which are new or outside the scope of core trading functions

- Part of the SAP core team responsible for implementation of SAP R/3. My assignment involved implementing Finance / Controlling / Asset Accounting module of SAP R/3. Also responsible for IT-Commercial.• Planned difference between standard SAP solutions and current business practice• Assessed various scenarios and organize module testing and system integration testing• Delivered sufficient business data to consultants to enable them to provide solutions• Restructured the procurement to payment lifecycle

• Formulated monthly MIS along-with exception report, highlighted key areas of action and submitted the same in the Executive Committee Meeting • Coordinated with Plants to prepare cost budget and with Sales & Marketing Department for sales & realization forecasting & marketing cost estimation• Finalized & closed books of accounts, statutory audit; prepared balance sheet and profit & loss account as per Schedule VI requirement• Created MIS System (Business Wise) for Sales Offices across the India; conducted trend analysis of Product Sales/ Realization / Working Capital Management• Conducted analysis of sales, realization & credit rating & so on and monitored debtors & inventory

• Conducted Statutory & Tax Audit of prominent manufacturing companies’ like Indo Gulf Corporation Ltd. (Fertilizer & Copper Division), Electrosteel Castings Ltd., Rossell Industries Ltd., Duncans Industries Ltd., Hindusthan Development Corporation Ltd., Phoenix Yule, Dunlop India Ltd. • Performed Statutory Audit of Peerless General Finance & Investment Company Ltd.’