Professional summary
An MBA from Christ University, his experience has taken them through finance leadership and assurance from organizations ranging from KPMG to an elite division of ITC. His specialization has been in assurance, trending, project profitability, and strategic initiatives, including project management of several key initiatives at ITC. His core areas of domain specialization have been in manufacturing, distribution, FMCG, and information technology.
Our go-to guy, he was super responsive and really picked up on our inputs [....] and was instrumental in creating our model
2021
Continuously impressed me with his skills in strategy, projections and planning. Instrumental in designing our business model.
2020
Played a key role (at ITC) in driving capex implementation plan achieving remarkable KPIs and displayed maturity.
2018
Resume
Experience
2019 - Present
Engagement Manager
Prequate Advisory
Hands on experience in preparing business models, investor memorandums, strategic finance advisory, deal negotiation & structuring, business strategy, process optimization and cost optimization.
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Handled clients across multiple industries - Technology (SaaS, PaaS, eCom, product, services), manufacturing, healthcare, consumer durable, F&B, education, logistics, community, etc.
Bengaluru
2018
Manager
ITC Limited
Saharanpur
Manage the accounting and controlling processes within the tobacco division; accountable for development, review and monitoring of best practices in financial accounting and control procedures.
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Provide financial analysis, analyze trends, formulate projections, identify & evaluate cost optimization opportunities.
Manage & report initiative NPV/ IRR, manage budgeting process, perform variance analysis, and implement tools.
2014-2015
Audit Assistant
KPMG
Bengaluru
Gained expertise in conducting end to end assurance engagements (statutory audit, group audit and tax audits) of several corporates ensuring adherence to accounting standards and preparing financial statements in line with IFRS/IndAS.
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Detection of fraud prone areas in business, evaluating internal control systems/ procedures and preparing audit reports.
Evaluating risk areas and implementing recommendations for clients across manufacturing, IT and healthcare sectors.
Education
2015 - 2017
CHRIST UNIVERSITY
MBA
Bengaluru
2011 - 2014
CHRIST UNIVERSITY
BCom
Bengaluru
Certifications
LEARNING DATA ANALYTICS
MICROSOFT EXCEL: USING SOLVER FOR DECISION ANALYSIS
Professional skillset
Entrepreneurial Mindset
Go-to-Market Planning
Teamwork & Collaboration
Digital Analytics
Financial Simulations
Project Management
Languages
English (native)
Kannada (proficient)
Hindi (proficient)
Recent Projects
My work has taken me across various industries & sectors and with organizations across the world in different stages of growth (ranging from inception to Series D).
Financial Modeling
IaaS
Asia
Developing the financial model along with analysis of key metrics and roll-out planning for a mobile devices company for its $20M fund-raise.
Performance Dashboarding
Sustainable Food
Asia
Developing the performance dashboarding for a sustainable food company as part of managing the CFO office of the organization.
Enterprise Excellence
Publishing
Asia
Developing the pricing, prioritization, dashboarding for an award-winning publishing conglomerate based out of 3 countries.
Financial Modeling
Micro-mobility
Europe
Developing the rollout financial model with scenario analysis and expansion planning for a Series B funded micro-mobility company including the addition of new business verticals.
Business & Financial Planning
Electric Vehicles
Asia
Developing the fund-raise plan for an award-winning EV company for their planned commercial launch and for investor roadshows.
Transaction support
Marketplace PaaS
Asia
End-to-End program management of a Series A raise in Asia & US of an innovative platform SaaS company.
Pre-deal preparation
Sustainable coffee
Asia
Develop the pitch-deck and financial model for a sustainable farm-to-cup coffee company working on increasing transparency and sustainability in agricultural supply-chains.
