Accountable for the Financial, Legal and Risk management functions of the company, and to devise financial strategies and control mechanisms to monitor the financial health in accordance with statutory requirements and policies to preserve company assets and report accurate financial results. Role also provides strategic advice to Board of directors and support in formulating financial strategies

Contributing to the overall strategy of the Group with specific accent on Management Services in select areas to solve issues, benchmark, create value, maximise growth, build sustainable competitive advantage, improve business performance and attain Group synergy.

Building and providing strategic direction for delivery model of captive shared services for common technology, application, business and support processes. • Leading strategy planning and implementation of shared services for the Aditya Birla Financial Services Group Units.• Aligned services for life insurance, mutual fund, NBFC, broking, wealth management, general insurance broking and private equity with business strategy of each unit• Consolidating and managing initiatives for administration, management and delivery of technology, HR and other common services with a 30+ sized team• Addressed key areas of funding, cost allocation and governance by working in association with the CXOs of each business unit of the group• Developed road map to establish organization and support processes by defining future-state for 4 new functions of procurement, admin, infra facilities and legal• Formalized program management of services scale-up, organization design and created scalability and sustainability through SLAs, capacity planning, vendor management• Accomplished drawing up an SOW against master services agreement, fixed charge-back mechanism and billing process, defining process for funding and cost allocation• Commenced the monitoring and reporting of SLA’s and prepared long-term funding option.• Defining the role of shared services across delivery, vendor management, opportunity identification and accountability

Led the corporate operations for central backend processing with a 500+ member team for one of the top 5 private life insurance companies in India.• Acted as the leading relationship interface for sales and other operations and business functions for the Corporate Operations team• Enhanced operational efficiency and service delivery, manage budget, drive succession and leadership planning and make planning process for team• Implemented operations strategy and participated in defining overall business strategy• Led the strategic project for capacity building by having a relook at the Operating Model.• Identified decentralization possibilities, outsourcing opportunities, areas for process improvements and process automation as well as organization structure changes• Ensured that proper, efficient and well documented processes and systems support all company-wide initiatives for audits, administrative and branch-office development.• Established 50 new signature branch offices of the company as per planned time schedules and budget, for an aggregate area of 100,000 sqft• Implemented cost effective and efficient plans for re-location of the Head Office in March 2003 as well as its expansion plan in January 2006 for an aggregate area of 80,000 sqft• Formed ‘Major Projects Prioritization Group’ to prioritize implementation of systems projects in BSLI • Restructured Business Analyst organization and systems implementation into PMO • Formed Enterprise Application Initiative focusing on strategic system initiatives by identifying and initiating new system implementations in line with IT strategy• Maintained labor and establishment laws compliance, with no litigation or disputes• Implemented and maintained Business Continuity and Crisis Management Plan in line with the time schedule agreed with SunLife reviews of the plan• Retained BSLI amongst the top 3 in Sun Life’s World Wide Business Continuity Scorecard, per every Quarter assessment

Managing Treasury Desk for Metals, Forex and Interest rate trading.

Initial job responsibilities comprised of Business Analysis, Monthly Review of Financials, Review of Annual Budgets, Review of Cap-Ex needs, and Review of Expansion & Diversification plans, Review of New Projects etc. of each individual SBU’ s in the Group. This required playing the role of a vital communication link between the Chairman and the people behind each SBU’ s in managing the process for reviewing the performance of the SBU as well as keeping the Chairman abreast of important issues related to it.Progressive job responsibilities comprised of assisting in drawing up and reviewing the broader corporate strategies, business plans & policies; vision building; project monitoring; amongst others.