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Bengaluru, Karnataka

● Deliver revenue growth and margin target through financial analytics to enable business decision making for the Amazon Pantry and Amazon-Fresh Business of Cloudtail India● Plan, forecast and provide variance analysis of actuals with business reasons along with an action plan to mitigate gaps to target delivery.● Identify opportunities to improve performance through targeted analytics in the areas of margin, product mix, discount recovery and inventory management. ● Delivery of free cash flow targets through the identification of opportunities in credit period from suppliers, inventory wastage minimization and timely recovery of receivables.

Gurgaon, Haryana

● Partner with supply chain leadership team to deliver total supply chain cost targets for make and move cost lines.● Plan, forecast and report actuals of Cash Conversion Cycle KPIs of DII, DPO and DSO.● Identify and highlight risks to cost line target delivery and engage with the supply chain leadership team to implement mitigating actions.

Gurgaon, India

● Responsible for the sales accounting and commercial operations for North foods unit with a turnover of INR 2500 Crores● Ensure cost-to-sell targets are achieved and provide variance analysis for differences vs plan for all cost lines● Ensure compliance to accounting policies and review the balance sheet schedules.● Support sales infrastructure and discounting related investment decision making through marginal contribution driven analytics to ensure positive marginal contribution. ● Implemented a Sales Manager level Marginal contribution tracker to create visibility on territory level spends.

Gurgaon, India

● Review and audit of process designs, risk control matrix of PepsiCo entities across Asia, Middle East and North Africa● Perform control testing of business cycles across range of business formats such as company owned bottling and snacks operations, franchise management and joint ventures● Assess and validate COSO maturity of PepsiCo business across South Asia, Middle east, Asia Pacific as per PepsiCo’s Global Control Standards Framework● Communicate identified control deficiencies, root causes and recommendations to stakeholders including CEO, CFO and General Auditor of PepsiCo Inc.

Gurgaon

● Ensuring Integrity of financial reports and monthly closure of books for multiple plants● Driving Balance sheet schedules review, visibility and accounting hygiene across plants● Responsible for review of compliance issues for plant operations in partnership with legal● Subject matter expert for policy and process related information providing guidance to plant teams on accounting and processes.● Driving capex controls, monitoring of key projects and plant capital spend● Developed new SOPs, key controls and process flow charts for stores, shipping and finance team as per organisation structure changes● Developed training material and induction modules for Plant finance team

Palakkad Kerala

● Monthly balance sheet review of plant, cleaning up of old balances and identification of risks and highlighting to BU for necessary action.● Monthly reporting of plant financials, variance analysis● Monthly forecasts of plant results by mid-month.● Building of annual operating plan and financial budgeting.● Annual planning of plant capital expenditure spends and drafting techno commercial capital expenditure proposals with financial forecasting (IRR, NPV)● Review, monitoring and reporting of capital spends ● Driving GCS Key Controls compliance for all departments in plant including specific performance of control activity, documentation and leading the testing procedure for key controls.● Supporting plant manager in execution of financial controls in routine operations.● Ensuring compliance to Excise, Service Tax for the plant and VAT for Kerala state.

Chennai Area, India

Responsible for Monthly financial reporting of South Market Unit along with variance explanations/reports from plants and sales offices for Market Unit level reporting. Cash flow, working capital metrics reporting.Balance Sheet Review of plants, sales offices and market unit.Financials consolidation and Tax Audit enclosure preparation for Statutory Audit.Improved SOX Key controls compliance through training, bringing about continuous improvement in documentation process and ensuring rigour in Key control testing processCollaborated with Shared Service Centre to standardize various provision and reporting processes and improved reporting accuracy.Improved financial controls through implementation of various operational review processes.

Cochin Kerala, India

Responsible for the commercial aspects for Kerala Region with a sales turnover of over 450 crores, managing 4 branches at Cochin, Thrissur, Calicut and Trivandrum. Ensuring overall process compliance in branch operations. Planning and executing infrastructure development, overhead budgeting and plan – actual variance analysis, vendor management, operations and auditory control in field units, customer accounting and distribution management. Driving initiatives within the region with focus on customer servicing. Also responsible for statutory compliances and monthly return filing and assessments under VAT.

Project on EDC Initialization at American Express and Partner Bank Terminals + POS Helpdesk Turnaround Time

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance

Activities and Societies: Head of Finesse: The finance club at LIBA, Organising committee member for National Management Symposium.

B.M.S, Management

H.S.C, Commerce