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LASER-FOCUSED | PROGRESSIVE | RESULTS-DRIVEN | FINANCE/OPERATIONS LEADERBusiness Leader with expertise in handling profit/cost centres for driving revenue, optimising costs, enhancing productivity, setting up teams and augmenting processes across manufacturing and all support functions. My competence has been in validating business plans and strategies for maximising profitability in line with organisational objectives. Delivering colossal impact on overall finance management. I thrive in imparting robust organisational alignment for positive business output.SUCCESS STRATEGYWith total experience of 22 years, I have deep proficiency in transforming traditional sales and manufacturing companies and driving innovations through various Lean and emerging technologies. With proven track record in setting up strong HR department, I also implemented employee lifecycle management software and set up a call centre with an optimized ‘in-house and outsourced’ model to manage call volumes.STEADY TRACK-RECORDI create strategic plans into workable solutions through use of financial acumen for building better relationships with stakeholders. I have set up a Global Robotic Process Automation Centre of Excellence. I am well versed in developing risk-based audit methodology and initiating a paradigm shift towards the perspective of internal audit. I have served as a contributor to the global process improvement team and led a dynamic follow up process for all audited entities. I influence executive leadership to achieve company’s vision and objectives.SPECIALTIES:I thrive in cross functional, global teams whilst becoming a significant value contributor to the business and also bringing value to my stakeholders. My specialties:Visionary Strategist | Business Leadership | Strategy Implementation | Technology Led Transformation | Continuous Improvement | Internal Audit | Finance and Controlling | Supply Chain | IT Systems | Leadership Development | Growth Strategy | Entrepreneurial Knowhow | Stakeholder Management | Customer Support | Robotic Process Automation
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Founder And CeoArthaveda LlpBengaluru, Ka, In
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Founder & CeoArthaveda Llp Feb 2024 - PresentArthaveda LLP concentrates on transformation of financial processes and workflows through digitalisation and automation of manual operations, aiming to enhance the capabilities of the Digital CFO and bolster support functions to facilitate an organization's growth with digitised support functions. It also provides comprehensive services for SMEs seeking to establish their operations in India, covering everything from company formation to dissolution, as well as ongoing accounting, compliance, payroll, and various shared services, maintaining a high professional standard throughout.
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Group Cfo & DtoNarayana Nethralaya Eye Hospital Feb 2024 - Present -
Director Of Investor RelationsPhysis Capital May 2024 - PresentPhysis Capital is a $50 million, sector-agnostic venture capital fund dedicated to investing in India, with a specific emphasis on targeted Pre-Series A to Series B startups. The management team at Physis has established robust processes and consistently achieved superior outcomes at Inflection Point Ventures (IPV), India's largest CXO-driven angel investment platform. Over the past four years, IPV has maintained remarkably low failure rates, while fostering the growth of one Unicorn and numerous Soonicorns within its portfolio, attributed to its exceptional upfront due diligence and strong post-investment support. The objective is to extend this investment philosophy and replicate this performance to benefit the investors of Physis Capital. -
Angel InvestorInflection Point Ventures Aug 2019 - PresentGurgaon, Haryana, In -
Director And Cfo - India & SaarcZeiss Group Jun 2020 - Jan 2024Oberkochen, De -
Board Of Studies & Visiting FacultyAlliance University May 2020 - Jun 2023Bangalore, InPart of the BoS helping define relevant syllabus and guest lecturer on various topics -
Director And CfoStanley Black & Decker India Private Limited (Power Tools, Hand Tools & Storage) Jun 2019 - Jun 2020 -
Director Of Internal AuditAlfred Kärcher Se & Co. Kg Feb 2016 - Mar 2019Winnenden, Bw, DeKärcher is a family owned, world’s largest cleaning equipment manufacturing company, with a turnover of approximately 3 Billion US$ and more than 12,000 employees spread across 70 subsidiaries in over 60 countries. Responsible for the Internal Audit of the Kärcher Group covering Group.o Introduced new risk based audit methodology to include all functions of a subsidiary, focusing on developing “Internal Controls” and ‘Processes’, by offering risk specific recommendations.o Key contributor to the global Process Improvement team in helping them develop standard policies using best practices and inputs gathered during audits and customisable based on the local culture and requirements.o Spearheaded improvement projects on SAP for standardising user roles as well as customising some industry specific business processes common across many subsidiaries to automate controls.o Set up a dynamic follow up process for the audited subsidiaries and acting as an active liaison between the relevant department in the group headquarters and the subsidiary. -
Chief Financial And Operating OfficerAlfred Kärcher Se & Co. Kg Apr 2017 - May 2018Winnenden, Bw, DeKarcher (Japan) Co. Ltd. is a fully owned subsidiary of the Karcher Group with a turnover of ~200 Million US$ and >450 employees spread across 17 locations.Continuous Improvemento Established end to end, company wide operating procedures encompassing the head office and all brancheso Initiated global standard process rollout projects and best practices implementation ensuring inclusivity and team buy-inFinance and Controllingo Streamlined the finance department and improved efficiency by transferring repetitive tasks to Shared Services in Singapore/Germanyo Created adequate standardised dash boards and reports including contribution to global reporting templates to aid management decision makingSupply Chaino Optimised time to customers, warehousing cost and delivery cost by establishing 3PL warehouses and implementing contracts with transporters across the country with agreed turn around timeso Introduced Sales and Operations meetings to optimise inventory by improving forecast and thereby maximising availability and reducing slow and non-moving inventoryPeople Managemento Successfully handled transition of the Japan Head Quarter from Sendai to Tokyo, with headcount retention of over 80% and minimised operational risk by documenting all existing processesIT Systemso Lead the designing of new server room to ensure scaleability for the future and ensured procurement of optimal equipment and selection of the right service providers with a balance between global service providers and local suppliers to ensure service levels are meto Initiated and supervised the interface construction between the Warehouse Management System of the 3PL service provider and SAPo Optimised SAP usage including report automation using Business Warehouse and Excel VBA as well as optimal license managemento Spearheaded the migration of local domain to the Parent Co. Active Directory in Germany and introduced IP Telephony services thereby completely eliminating fixed line costs
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Chief Financial And Operating OfficerAlfred Kärcher Se & Co. Kg Nov 2012 - Feb 2016Winnenden, Bw, DeKarcher Cleaning Systems Pvt. Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary with over 300 employees spread acorss 11 locations in IndiaContinuous Improvement:•Pioneered a dynamic Operations Audit department to monitor the effectiveness of the established processes across departments and branches.Finance and Controlling:•Revamped and streamlined the entire finance department and transitioned and integrated transactional tasks with the Financial Shared Service Centre in Singapore/Germany.Supply Chain:•Optimised time to customer, transportation cost and warehousing cost by strategically establishing 3PL warehouses in different locations across the country•Introduced Sales and Operations (S&OP) meetings to optimise inventory cost and maximise availabilityPeople Management: •Established a strong Human Resources department and implemented an Employee Lifecycle Management software•Set up and monitored an effective whistle blower management system as well as grievance and harassment committeesIT Systems: •Rollout Manager for SAP and Microsoft Dynamics based CRM as well as Concur Expense Management system•Established contracts with a balance between global service providers and local suppliers to ensure adequate service levelsCustomer Support:•Set up a Call Centre to handle customer queries, orders and complaints with an optimised “in-house and outsourced” modelAdministration:•Steered the company to a lighter Balance Sheet by leasing assets like IT Equipment and Vehicles•Identified, setup and managed new branch locations based on sales / customer concentration and travel costs•Centralised and standardised purchasing of office supplies•Setup an effective travel desk to support the local and overseas travel
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Faculty For StudentsInstitute Of Chartered Accountants Of India Jun 2008 - Nov 2012Part time faculty for Chartered Accountancy course students
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Head Of ManufacturingRexam Healthcare, India Jun 2010 - Oct 2012London, GbThe erstwhile Rexam Group was the world’s largest Primary Packaging company (now sold to multiple businesses), headquartered in London and was listed on the London Stock Exchange with a global turnover of about 8 Billion US$. Rexam Healthcare India, was a Pharmaceutical Packaging plant with a turnover of about 10 Million US$ and an employee strength of over 200.Setup of a new manufacturing plant with a fully functional “class 100k” Clean RoomContinuous Improvement:o Lean Gold plant for two consecutive years, after taking over as a Lean Bronze planto More than 1000 days without an accident in the plant with a dynamic and effective “Near Miss” reporting systemo Six Sigma Green Belt certification by executing a project for improving cavitation of an Injection Mould tool using the DMAIC methodologyo Improvement projects in production, tool room and maintenance departments using tools like Six Sigma, Value Stream Mapping, 5S, Process Audits and strong change management to support all major transitionsPeople Management:o Lead discussions with the labour union (externally affiliated), improved relationship and executed the first cooperation contract valid for 3 years thereby ensuring a cordial working relationshipo Strategically planned the ideal balance between contract labour and new hiresManufacturing and Supply Chain:o Achieved global benchmark in Injection Blow Moulding Optimal Equipment Efficiency across 40+ production facilities across the world.o Negotiated an automatic, continuous and reliable raw material supply, by establishing long term contracts and pricing based on crude indexes instead of individually negotiated supplies.o Introduced “Just In Time” raw material inventory management system using Kanban techniques and restructuring the raw material storage racks to gravity based roller racks.o Setup a 3PL warehousing system within own warehouse for efficiently managing finished goods. -
Head Of Finance & ItRexam Healthcare, India Apr 2007 - Jun 2010London, Gbo SAP rollout manager. Used “Change Management” techniques to streamline usage of SAP across all departments after an initial failure in system due to partial adoption of the system.o Arranged funding for the plant expansion and new construction with a balance between debt, in the form of External Commercial Borrowing and equity increase.o Successfully argued and secured an income tax refund of over 7 Million INR from the Income Tax department which was pending for over three years.o Secured an out of court insurance claim settlement for an export sale worth about 100k Euro which was rejected by customer by successfully presenting the case to the Insurer’s regional management team and independent verifiers appointed by them.o Put in place hedges securing 70% of the supply purchased in foreign currencies.o Sorted out the share holding, name change and foreign exchange funding issues arising post the acquisition of “Truepack Private Limited” by the Rexam group.
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Manager - Central Client Administration DepartmentAmicorp Dec 2005 - Apr 2007Hong Kong, Hong Kong, HkAmicorp is a family owned Dutch company providing services worth around one billion USD to clients across the globe, including company formation and management, compliance and legal regulatory services, fund and tax structuring and client management. Amicorp India was set up to handle various services for these international clients from India.• Successfully executed the first on-site transition of the tasks of the Customer Administration Department from Curacao to India despite initial hostile conditions and non-cooperation.• Set up the entire Customer Administration team from scratch to a team of over 50 members.• Handled the setting up and documentation of all processes including representing the department for ISO certification.• Set up the accounting process for various countries with full compliance to both the local legislation where the Company is domiciled as well as where the ultimate owners are tax residents. -
Senior Tax ConsultantKpmg Bangalore, India Sep 2005 - Dec 2005New York, Ny, Us• Completed tax certifications and tax audits for various clients as per Income Tax law.• Prepared the Transfer Pricing Study for clients based on the best suitable method to present to the Income Tax department that all transactions between the related entities are at “Arm’s length”.• Part of the team involved in optimisation of documentation and file storage of client data. -
Financial Planning AnalystGe Consumer & Industrial May 2004 - Sep 2005• Set up the base costs for GE Lighting, India for planning and analysing the performance of the various GE Lighting plants.• Reconciled an automatically cash pooled bank account with over 18,000 unreconciled line items that occurred due to the auto-posting of bank ledger entries by the newly implemented Oracle ERP without any posting trail.• Reinstated the automatic bank reconciliation and automatic posting of bank ledger entries, after discovery and correction of errors in the algorithms used to post the bank transactions.
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Audit AssistantFord, Rhodes, Parks & Co. Sep 2001 - Oct 2003• Handled statutory and tax audits of various private and public limited companies.
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Shreyas Kumar Education Details
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Institute Of Chartered Accountants Of IndiaCosting -
Seshadripuram Law College, BangaloreLaw
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National Law School Of India UniversityBusiness Law
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Stuttgart Institute Of Management And TechnologyGeneral
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Informations Systems Auditor (Icai)Audit & Security Of Information Systems
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Bangalore UniversityAccounting
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Shreyas Kumar works for Arthaveda Llp
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Shreyas Kumar attended Institute Of Chartered Accountants Of India, Seshadripuram Law College, Bangalore, National Law School Of India University, Stuttgart Institute Of Management And Technology, Informations Systems Auditor (Icai), Bangalore University.
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Shreyas Kumar has skills like Leadership, Auditing, Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, Business, Enterprise Resource Planning, 5s, Forecasting, Internal Audit, Supply Chain Management, Team Management, Finance.
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