Experience

Power2SME

• India
• Retail Office Equipment
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior Vice President - Finance

  • Jan 2014 - Present

  Gurgaon, India



Finance Consultant

• France
• Insurance
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consultant

  • Jan 2012 - Dec 2013

  New Delhi Area, India Major clients: • CEO of Spa Group - on Internal Controls, Process-Re-engineering, SOP’s, Debt-raising, etc. • Sugrain Trading LLP



Golden Saplings

• Founder & Managing Partner

  • Jan 2012 - Dec 2013

  New Delhi Area, India • Set-up one of the first commercial hydroponics greenhouse facility in North India. • Gained first-hand experience in production, supply chain and marketing.



Genesis Colors Pvt Ltd

• Financial Controller (GM-Finance)

  • Apr 2008 - Dec 2011

  Gurgaon, India • Pro-actively built and nurtured objective relationship with cross-functional peers and business leaders which helped immensely in bringing out organizational synergies. • Got the financial due-diligence process successfully done three times from Big 4’s for private equity investments amounting to approx. INR 200 Cr. • Raised and managed debt of more than INR 60 Cr from foreign as well as Indian banks. • Got the statutory audit done from KPMG for three successive years… Show more • Pro-actively built and nurtured objective relationship with cross-functional peers and business leaders which helped immensely in bringing out organizational synergies. • Got the financial due-diligence process successfully done three times from Big 4’s for private equity investments amounting to approx. INR 200 Cr. • Raised and managed debt of more than INR 60 Cr from foreign as well as Indian banks. • Got the statutory audit done from KPMG for three successive years with no major qualification. • Got the internal audit done from BDO Hari Bhakti for four successive years with no major observation. • Successfully handled Income Tax, VAT, Excise, Service Tax surveys/inspections/assessments. • Commercial vetting of all legal arrangements, • Set-up MIS Dashboards based on key operational metrics to drive business planning. • Set-up budgetary control systems. • Developed, trained, inspired, motivated, nurtured and thus retained core finance team for 4 years. • Major Achievements: => Efficient use of banking tools like WCDL, Buyers’ Credit and Hedging against foreign exchange risks brought down interest cost by more than 1%. => Detailed risk assessment and network of insurance brokers helped achieving more than 26% savings in insurance costs. => Initiated structured Business Reviews based on KPI’s Reporting with a commentary on each KPI. => Worked on Standardizing the Chart of A/cs, effective implementation of IGAAP’s, immaculate statutory compliance, strong internal controls with well documented SOP’s for all walks of commercial controls, clean Internal Audit Reports, improved inventory management. All this helped manage the B/S without any major qualifications from KPMG culminating into getting better valuations for PE Investments. => Threatening demand from VAT Audit of 3 yrs running into more than Rs 3 Cr., managed audit with demand less than Rs 10 lacs, thus resulting in a savings of approx. Rs 3 Cr. Show less



Reliance Retail Limited

• India
• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Manager - Commercial

  • 2006 - 2008

  Gurgaon, India • Set-up the Commercial Teams for “Staples Sourcing” SBU of Reliance Fresh in 13 states all across India, including – recruitment, training and coaching. • Key member of the Core Business Team of the SBU, responsible for critical analysis of new business proposals, commercial sign-off thereof. • Finalized legal arrangements for third party processing, space hiring for storage, etc. including commercial negotiations, vetting of agreements and sign-offs. • Responsible for pre-start… Show more • Set-up the Commercial Teams for “Staples Sourcing” SBU of Reliance Fresh in 13 states all across India, including – recruitment, training and coaching. • Key member of the Core Business Team of the SBU, responsible for critical analysis of new business proposals, commercial sign-off thereof. • Finalized legal arrangements for third party processing, space hiring for storage, etc. including commercial negotiations, vetting of agreements and sign-offs. • Responsible for pre-start financial planning of the SBU. • Documented commercial SOPs – drafting, discussions with customers, finalizations, implementation and constant updating. • Handled all product costing and annual budgeting in SAP. • Responsible for SAP Configuration and setting up of Master Data for the SBU. Show less



Haier Appliances India Pvt Ltd

• India
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Manager - Corporate Finance

  • Aug 2004 - Apr 2006

  New Delhi Area, India • Member of Strategic Business Planning Group of the Company, in-charge of making the AOPs and SOPs. • Handled all Finance & MIS at the corporate level. • Pricing of all products across India. • Credit Control across more than 1500 dealers/distributors all over India.



Chequepoint Group (UK) – BPO arm at Noida

• Manager - Finance & Accounts

  • Nov 2000 - Aug 2004

  Noida Area, India • In UK: Led the Core Team to UK for migration of its end-to-end accounting processes from UK to India. • In India: Established the accounting systems for the two major group companies of UK • Set up the system for daily setting up of competitive Foreign Exchange Rates for the Transcheq business of international money transfers. • Handled preparation of Costing Analysis for invoicing to the group companies, complying with Transfer Pricing Regulations of Indian Income Tax Act, 1961 and… Show more • In UK: Led the Core Team to UK for migration of its end-to-end accounting processes from UK to India. • In India: Established the accounting systems for the two major group companies of UK • Set up the system for daily setting up of competitive Foreign Exchange Rates for the Transcheq business of international money transfers. • Handled preparation of Costing Analysis for invoicing to the group companies, complying with Transfer Pricing Regulations of Indian Income Tax Act, 1961 and maintaining records thereof. Show less



Calcom Electronics Ltd

• Assistant Manager - F&A

  • Mar 1997 - Nov 2000

  New Delhi Area, India • In charge of all accounting and banking operations of the company, worked on Baan ERP platform