Leadership of APAC Controller team in zones North Asia, ASEAN, Pacific and South West Asia. Responsible for financial governance and internal controls across the region, including controls over all accounting ledgers, local statutory and regulatory reporting, direct and indirect tax accounting and compliance (in partnership with tax centres of excellence). Primary liaison point for external and internal auditors within region.Regional Leadership of S4 HANA Implementation Readiness Team.Work with the shared service centres in Europe and Asia, accounting centre of excellence in Asia and Corporate team in US that provide accounting support to the region. Provide thought leadership within Finance and across the organization.

Partner with International Business Leader to accelerate Avanos’ international sales and profitability outside US in the regions covering APAC, EMEA and LATAM. Implementation of full suite S4 HANA in APAC & EMEA. Execute divestiture project of Surgical & Infection protection buisness of Halyard. Finance Transformation by setting up Global Shared Services platform reporting to Group CFO, Avanos MedicalAPAC Finance Director at Halyard Health - a spinoff from Kimberly-ClarkPartner with Asia Pacific Business Leader as holistic strategic facilitator by utilizing financial perspective to shape decisions pertaining to the long-term direction of the organization. Team up with country business leadership and functional leaders to formulate country strategies, objectives, and business financial plans. Project Manage Divestment and Integration post divestment of Surgical & Infection Protection business to Halyward to Owens & Minor. Provide financial expertise, counsel and recommendations in collaboration with the Corporate FP&A Leader & Corporate Controller to direct and control the financial and business analysis, budgeting and preparation of the financial reports consistent with the US and local Accounting Standards and shareholder requirements. Collaborate with Corporate Treasury, Tax office, direct and coordinate the management of country taxation, treasury, risk management to support the business units and meet statutory, shareholder and Corporate requirements. Drive a well-controlled, strong compliance culture and environment within the regional business units to protect the profits and assets of the company and improve business processes. Dimensions and Legal Accountabilities of $290M in the regionDirector of four legal entities with OH&S responsibilities, financial liabilities. Audited Statutory Reporting and Tax Reporting to local authorities, as well as Annual Company Returns to local Company Registrars, for all six Legal entities in Asia Pacific.

While managing the responsibilities of Regional Financial Controller, handled additional second portfolios of Regional Project Controller from 2013 - 2015 and Finance Director - East Asia Japan Hub from 2015 onwardsThe 3 main portfolios I have handled in this role are as follows:Financial Controllership• Managing Country Financial Controllers and finance teams across APAC, responsible for all aspects of controllership including reporting, forecasting, analysis, controls, compliance and audit• Dealing effectively with technical issues that arise from changes in business model, new contracts and M&A activities • Driving operational excellence through process simplification and standardizationFinance Business Partner – East Asia Hub• Managing Finance Directors, lead quarterly forecasts, budgets and strategic planning process and initiatives including establishing and implementing risk management and mitigation for East Asia Hub comprising ASEAN countries, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan • Handling end-to-end bid management including deal shaping and analysis, business case presentation, post-deal financials to enable topline growth• Cost optimization through strategic resource reallocationProject Controllership• Handled all aspects of project bidding phase as well as project revenue and cost management throughout execution period to successful closure• Supported regional project teams in project lifecycle with detailed review of vendor spend, tax structure, price variation/ exchange variation Selected Highlights:• Designed, customized and implemented in-house finance process risk assessment tool in line with SOX model for the entire organization globally thereby reducing internal audit fees • Successfully set up the Beijing Shared Services and transitioned Japan finance activities seamlessly • Conducted in-depth customer analysis and platforming enabling sales organization to make decisions which led to increased gross margins

• Reporting to the Global VP, Financial Planning and Analysis, managed financial planning and analysis at global level for industrial automation business line by consolidating and analyzing the reports from all the regions• Led Strategic Planning (STRAP), Annual Operating Planning (AOP) and Operational review processes including establishing financial targets for the regions• Recommended performance improvement toolsets such as statistical process control and flow and data analysisSelected Highlights:• Standardized and simplified analysis and review processes thereby reducing the turn-around and enabling consistency• Successfully implemented Standard Inventory Operating Procedure (SIOP) providing an end to end picture of sales to delivery to execution, creating effective inventory process

• Reporting to the Global Financial Controller (Corporate) and managing a team of 11 members, executed Finance Transformation Initiative (FTI) project for 30 entities at a global level• Led the transition of Customer to Cash (C2C), Purchase to Pay (P2P) and Record to Report (R2R) processes to boost productivity• Working closely with outsourcing partner, Genpact, re-engineered and standardized global processes for payables, receivables, intercompany and general ledger accounting through six sigma methodology• Developed business Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)• Led the Project Audit with Deloitte and passed through the company Board approvalSelected highlights:• Instrumental in transitioning the global processes within tight deadline enabling annual savings by bringing down the Finance Cost% to Sales from 2.7% at the start of the project to 1.8% post successful execution• Successfully implemented SAP for a product line in record time to have uniform platform prior to executing the project

• Handled dual portfolio of managing the centre of excellence based in India as well as process integrity leader for Asia Pacific• Established and operated captive shared service for risk and receivables for aerospace and industrial automation in North America and Asia Pacific handling credit assessment/ risk evaluation of customer portfolio, receivables management, cash application process improvement, transition of receivable management process through six sigma methodology• Conducted Sarbanes-Oxley audit for control systems entities and aerospace sites • Signed off green belt six sigma project and certified successful candidates • Delivered six sigma training and certification across the aerospace organization Selected Highlights• Set up business continuity backup center in India for North America and for the first time transitioned APAC countries within Honeywell India • Team improved DSO by 2 days amounting to mid 8-figure savings• Pioneered a 24/7 unit in India covering APAC and North America through hot seat process, thereby further reducing cost of operations .• Cleared old aged (>2 years) receivables with key airlines in APAC geography

• Managed remote IT financial services (IT product and services billing, telecommunication billing, Web application development) for all business lines in North America and Asia Pacific• Handled all aspects of pricing and costing for IT service projects and subsequently to the IT products when the company ventured into products areaSelected Highlight• Conducting in-depth feasibility study, pioneered the set up of shared services for IT and Financial Services including finalization of intercompany SLAs

• Managed all aspects of project finance including reporting, taxation and compliance with company policies as well as country regulationsSelected Highlight:• Controlled project receivables with timely dispute resolution with customer and setting up site facilities at a greenfield project prior to milestone saving high 6-figures of Liquidated Damage impact