Vikas Chadha Email & Phone Number

London, GB

Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom

• Financial Leadership: Heading financial processes, I've designed frameworks for innovation projects on the Combustibles category (contributing to £7.8bn revenue, £2.6bn profit from 142 markets), partnering with Global.
• Strategic Influence: Led the development of a project governance framework that enhanced cost transparency. Developed the strategic plan for Product Realisation until 2030.
• Business Partnering: I lead a team of 4, who collaborate with c.70 cross-functional team members and guide financial recommendations for global initiatives, aligning marketing strategies with operational KPIs to.
• Performance Management: Design, update, and implement analytical methods and reporting processes supporting insights on effectiveness of our Portfolio to the business, including C-Suite, and managing future risk..

Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom

• Pioneered processes in Combustibles to deliver £15m annual savings and embed sustainable practices. Delivered multiple global projects, leading cross-functional teams, that continue to yield value
• Responsibility ranged from articulation of a conceptual approach (on how to drive harmonisation and scale within our portfolio) to project management of implementation (to realise the efficiency savings).
• Lead multiple cross-functional, global, sub-projects to convert concept into sustainable workflows.
• Keep leadership informed on progress and collaborate with purpose across functions.
• Analyse our global portfolio and consumer preferences to identify opportunities to reduce complexity and deliver commercial benefit with managed risk.
• Advise value engineered approach to build commercially prudent business cases for new product initiatives.

Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom

• Developed growth strategies for brands across Europe, Asia, and Africa, contributing 20% to group profits and led initiatives to rejuvenate brand growth and boost market presence.
• Articulated an insights-based strategy to address core barriers to brand development; for example, Global go-to-market strategy revision.
• Developed commercial investment cases and managed projects to support commercial development of brand within markets; e.g., brand image revival, improved shelf presence via inorganic growth; development of propositions.
• Engaged the commercial community via inspirational success stories and insights on brand performance.
• Built wide network and collaborative relationships with markets, divisions and supply chain.

Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom

• Managed a £160m marketing budget, developed ROI models, and drive a 30% portfolio simplification, aligning resources to strategic goals
• Collaborated with brand teams to develop long term brand strategic plans.
• Analysed ROI on investment cases and whether the team’s focus and marketing spends are aligned to strategy.
• Presented brand performance and financial insights to stakeholders (Brand teams and Exec. Leadership Team).
• Prepared forecasts for £160m of marketing spend, across sub-functions, and tracked performance against plan.

Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom

• Identified and capitalised on commercial opportunities, within other tobacco categories (FCT – Fine Cut Tobacco, Oral Tobacco, Mass Cigars and Paper), in developed and new markets, such as US
• Analysed and identified commercial opportunity in new markets, The US of A and India, for Oral Tobacco category.
• Developed investment cases, including introduction of new FCT propositions in the UK to drive commercial growth.

Gurgaon, India

• Co-piloted with the head of BU, £65m business unit performance comprising of 65 partners and employee base of 2200, implementing strategies to improve revenue and mitigating risk exposure. I developed the analytics.
• Forecasted and controlled P&L of business unit with revenue of £65m and employee base of 2,200.
• Co-developed commercial priorities with sector leaders and managed performance of strategic and financial KPIs.
• Reviewed pricing and profitability for an engagement base of 16,000.
• Managed a team of 16, improving engagement and developing successors from within. Restructured team’s capabilities for better business partnering. Led partner reviews to assess performance against financial targets.
• Defined customer segmentation for higher commercial focus, resigned from non-strategic audits to reduce risk and unlock growth opportunities, led Record to Report processes within finance transformation, improved.

Gurgaon, India

• Led SOX compliance, financial consolidation and reporting, and statutory audits for India Region. Reduced income tax by £20m annually through entity mergers.
• Consolidated financials on Indian & US GAAP for 11 entities (revenue £380m) and coordinated statutory audit.
• Responsible for filing tax returns and led the merger of legal entities to reduce corporate tax liability.

Coimbatore Area, India

• Maximised profit for a £24m market unit, digitised compliance requirements, and introduced market audits for improved control over IFRS15 costs. Enhanced customer experience and delivered value accretive processes that.
• Led financial planning and review, accounting, and reporting for a £24m market with 2 factories.
• Partnered with the business head on pricing, promotions, and product mix to drive share and profit.
• Ensured process controls and statutory compliance to manage financial and legal risk.
• Reviewed investment cases for capex spends within factories.
• Managed team of 31 employees and achieved highest team engagement score amongst peers.

Gurgaon, India

• Managed agronomy business that had a cost base of 10% to NR, the largest operation of its kind in India. Introduced innovative pricing strategies for competitive advantage and securing strategic supply agreements.
• Performance Management and Compliance: Introduced financial and operational KPIs to achieve better transparency of operational performance and cashless transactions across our farmer base of 6500 for improved controls
• Responsible for commercial decision support, strategic planning, and financial controllership of the agronomy business, involved in purchase of 120,000T of potato and dealing with 6500 farmers.
• Recommended sale and buy back prices. Conceptualized an innovative pricing of seed sale and buy-back of our advantaged potato, effectively blocking competition from accessing this pipeline.
• Worked with R&D to venture into new cultivation areas and liaise with government bodies.
• Managed Potato logistics for in-bound freight and non-potato purchase of £3m.

Gurgaon, India

• Managed supply chain for a business of £80m, introducing KPIs for improved performance management, achieving reduction in stock holding by one-third through a new replenishment model, and a 10% reduction in our.
• Managed end-to-end supply chain, responsible for numeric and weighted availability service levels across the market and responsible for building long term capacity plan and manufacturing footprint.
• Managed the S&OP process and was responsible for realisation of new product development projects.
• Managed inventory holding to deliver against working capital targets and reduced the system stock by 1/3rd through introduction of replenishment service model.
• Managed £6m logistic budget and achieved 10% reduction; introduced partners for end-to-end distribution.

Kolkata Area, India

• Partnered sales team on the commercial aspects and owned accounting processes and controls. Maximised our profit delivery in a capacity constrained scenario via improved information systems to monitor stocks and.
• Responsible for ensuring internal controls and compliance to company’s policies.
• Preparation of annual operating plan; responsible for cost review and generation of relevant management reports.
• Responsible for completing all VAT documentation and formalities.
• Review of pipeline stock, debtors, credit approval, sale returns and market practices.
• Reviewed distributor profitability/ regional product P&L, to design discount and promotions.

Kolkata Area, India

• Ensured robust internal controls and ERP system integrity across 19 manufacturing locations, regional offices and corporate functions, for a business of £850m.
• Identifying and mapping of changing business risks into control objectives; ensuring adequate internal controls in the accounting and financial systems.
• Recommending remedial action where control objectives are not met.
• Ensuring integrity and reliability of information in an ERP environment.
• Carrying out special assignments to investigate irregularities; conducting broad assurance reviews of associate companies and review the adequacy of their internal controls.

Chartered Accountant, Accounts, Taxation, Law

Activities and Societies: Member of Rotary Club- Received All India 44th Rank in my final examination of Chartered Accountancy

Company Secretary, Law

B Com, Commerce, Accounts

Isc, Science

Icse, General