Manager - Financial Planning and Analysis

Reporting - Doing routine activities like facilitating month closure, reporting of numbers to local and regional
leadership team, reporting of Inter-company Profit elimination (IPE) to Central accounting team.
• Analysis of Monthly reporting - Analysing market intelligence reports (IMS reports) at a brand level to gather
insights into commercial operations for better understanding of reasons for variances vs Budget/Forecast.
• Forecasting - Incorporating the insights of market scenario in long range plan, budget submission & rolling forecast

Heading finance team for entire manufacturing site operations and responsible for -
• Driving Profitability - Cost management for all the line items of the Plant P&L. Responsible for driving cost reduction
by operational excellence, Vendor/Employee union contract negotiation, Capex evaluation for new projects etc
• Budgeting - Preparation of annual budget and monthly rolling forecast. Preparation of COGS review bridge for explaining variance in actual vs budget/forecast
• Reporting and Compliance - Reviewing accounting/reporting requirements and signing off trial balance. Also
responsible for Blackline reconciliation of balance sheet GL's
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Manager Supply Chain Finance

Supporting the commercial teams from finance point of view in terms of decision making

Finance Business Partner

Solely handling commercial finance for PAN India operations including areas like -
• Sales Finance - Conducting a deep dive into various primary & secondary sales reports to understand the trends and generate insights regarding the consumer behaviour. Lead implementation of Trade Promotion Management tool
(TPM) in India region as a part of global roll out (SalesForce based CPG tool for better understating of trade spends).
• Product pricing - Reviewing pricing for new SKUs after considering various impacts like custom duty benefits, Ocean
freight, additional discount given on similar SKU in past. Preparation of any special pricing/one-off discounts and quantifying the impact on bottom line.
• Brand profitability / Channel profitability - Preparing Brand P&L, Customer P&L for better understanding of areas for margin improvement and incorporating the same in decision making of allocation of resources. Extensively
using tools like Anaplan, Cognos, Hyperion (HPT) etc for same.
• Cost management - Supporting cross functional teams in various cost management exercises like zero based
budgeting (ZBB) to help extract better value form existing spends and to quantify savings from various indicatives.
• Performance tracking / Financial forecasting and analysis - Tracking of actual performance vs the plan and
highlighting the timing difference and permanent gap vs plan on all P&L line items. Supporting cross functionally to submit the Annual Plan (AOP) and long term strategic plan numbers in terms of any financial calculations.

Senior Financial Analyst - Commercial Finance

Financial evaluation - Evaluating various commercial propositions like - new products/revision of old product
construct, new processes, capex ask. Conducting post implementation review for the same. Also conducting adhoc
analysis to drive ways to improve for customer additions, revenue enhancement.
• Competition Analysis - Generating insights on competition performance by region wise benchmarking on various
KPI's like subscriber, Revenue from data published by regulatory organisations and various investor/media reports.

Manager - Decision Support - Commercial Finance

Performance monitoring - Preparation of various performances monitoring dash boards like weekly BRM along with EXECO commentary, daily KPI, monthly snapshot, monthly deck along with monthly governance call with circle FP&A
team on overall review of financials.
• Competition benchmarking - Benchmarking of subscriber related KPI's vs competition like net-adds market share,
VLR trends and market share T3M GAS share, daily UU for competition.
• Product note evaluation - Financial evaluation of change/new product along with ad hoc analysis for National BDM.
• Simplification and automation of processes - Working in partnership with central BI team to ensure
standardization of reports and sources of information to ensure delivery of existing circle requirements.

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Pratik Chordiya

Merck Sharp and Dohme

Induri Plant

Data Analytics division

Mattel Toys

Vodafone

COO's Office

Chartered Accountancy

University of Pune