Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore · On-site

• Group CFO for Indiassetz and Co-founder in a stealth mode startup!

Mar 2022 – Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Financial Insight Ventures Private Limited is developing a FinTech platform, UpCap, to address the problem of growth and accessibility.
• Growth, for retail and HNI investors in investment options and for borrowers, in access to working and growth capital.
• Accessability is being addressed by keeping the entry ticket size low so that first time investors can experience the power of higher returns on investments.

Aug 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Finance Director for AMETEK's India and Middle East Businesses. Responsible for all aspects of Finance, Legal and Procurement for this region. Key responsibilities included business partnering, long term and short term planning, budgeting, taxation, treasury and banking.

Jul 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos

Jan 2017 – Jun 2020 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore

• Managed a diverse, multicultural team across India, Lebanon & Russia & also working with multiple accounting partners across various countries & managing relationships
• Responsible for all finance activities in the region which includes Budgeting, Planning, Forecasting, Statutory Accounting, Compliances, Banking relationships, Outside Accountant firm relation management and team management
• Led a multi-regional finance team across EMEIA on a “Great Places to work” initiative, evaluated existing tools, identified & defined the desired state & made relevant recommendations for changes that are being implemented
• Standardized the finance deliverables for the region to be in line with Europe- in terms of quality of output as well as timelines; Setup a team & achieved Best GPTW scores amongst the finance teams in EMEIA
• Improved credit and collections matrices- reduced aged AR/ gained more visibility into customer operations to enable improved collection strategies
• Led the successful GST rollout for the organization

Dec 2011 – Dec 2016 · 5 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Finance Controller for India Business with End to end finance responsibilities for the India sales and marketing entity including business partnering, budgeting, month end close, annual planning, forecasting, customer and vendor negotiations, sales planning etc
• Mandate to manage India business for Balance sheet management, P&L Management, Financial planning, analysis and reporting, Business partnering, Long term and short term planning
• Core team member of the APAC testing team during the rollout of Hyperion Reporting in the company
• Rolled out the Leasing Business for NetApp products in India- established vendor relations, negotiated transactions with customers & worked with Global/ APAC lease teams to get the same rolled out
• Involved in the set-up of the India Shared Services team for various Global processes
• Hyperion roll out in APAC- part of the user acceptance test team
• Trained various partners in partnership with the legal team on various matters of legal, FCPA and other compliances;

Oct 2010 – Nov 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Responsible for long term and short term planning, pipeline management, go-to-market analysis and quota deployment
• Developed the strategy, along with Sales heads, to meet the targets set within the country
• Developed the mid-term and long term plans for the Business Unit (BU)- 3 years growth plan
• Facilitated sales forecasting, pipeline reporting and sales development programs from Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) Headquarters

Jan 2008 – Oct 2010 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Responsible for sales planning, go-to-market planning, opex and marketing financials in addition to support on big deal terms and conditions negotiations from a revenue recognition perspective
• Participated in the country sales planning exercise- provide analysis for the Go to Market strategy, sales representatives’ quota, monitor credit allocation
• Provided presales support on commercial terms & conditions’ negotiations with customers for large deals
• Handled deal pricing and advice on revenue recognition implications under US GAAP
• Participated in the annual planning exercise
• Worked on a Three Year Planning for Enterprise Business (EB) BU
• Responsible for managing and reporting EB operating expenses- (Field Selling cost, Country Manager costs and Marketing expenses)
• Worked with the Country senior leadership team for all country reviews and presentations

Jan 2004 – Dec 2007 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Worked with the India business and management teams and the APJ headquarters to set targets for the BU with respect to orders/ revenue/ margin for the following year
• Closed the books of the BU during the Month End Close process
• Monthly review with the business managers to highlight the key financials and action plan needed to achieve the targets
• Reported to APJ on the performance and also forecast for the balance quarter
• Periodic reviews of project completion and sign off status with the Business Managers
• Initiated a weekly review of projects’ status with all the relevant stake holders from business, procurement, delivery and operations teams. This process helped improve the forecast accuracy in terms of revenues and margins and also resulted in increased control over the business for the BU head
• As Opportunity Consultant was involved in the pricing of tenders that HP decided to participate in
• Responsible to provide inputs on the financial terms and conditions on tenders, Deal structuring, Deal Pricing, Customer negotiations

Nov 2007 – Dec 2007 · 1 mo

• Managed the Controllership functions for Asia Special Situations Group
• Provided support for the Month-End close and Quarter close Balance Sheet substantiation exercise

Sep 2002 – Dec 2003 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Field in-charge of the audit and liaison between the audit team and the client
• Statutory Audits of various companies in the Technology sector notably IBM, Tyco; Also Stock audits & Tax Audits