Jan 2023 – Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Oct 2020 – Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Jan 2018 – Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Mumbai

• Managed ?300 Cr+ spends with ~3% efficiency improvement
• Implemented RPA automation for MIS and dashboards
• Enabled data-driven decision making across stakeholders

Apr 2016 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Leading the team to act as a Credit Controller for ALL the business defining Credit Limits, Credit Policies and Credit days for the business partners
• Leading the team for Budgeting and Planning for key spends (Schemes, Discount and ATL / BTL) for the organization
• Reviewing and monitoring the spends Vs the budget and analysing the variance
• Spearheading the area of Trade Spend Analysis for the organization wherein effectiveness of Schemes and Discount is analysed
• Executing Process correction for electronic and centralized processing of Credit Notes
• Making sure that the Transactional Services Teams apply standards, practices and processes in a consistent way
• Streamlining and standardization of business process and timely completion of projects
• Providing effective query and issue resolution for users through a Customer Services and acting as a focal point
• Scanning monthly forecasts of expected cash flow associated with the processes managed
• Highlights
• Took complete charge for successful migration of ERP to SAP Pricing, Discount and Credit Notes and established the process of effective budgeting and planning for key spends for the organization
• Helped establish the process of evaluating the Trade Spends with certain KPI’s without impacting competitiveness in the market
• Spent efficacy in the area of BTL spends; led the team to make pending claims ZERO for the organisation
• Received an yearly award for bestowing effective leadership in simplification and faster processing of Scheme settlement

Apr 2015 – Mar 2016 · 11 mos

Mar 2013 – Mar 2015 · 2 yrs

Apr 2011 – Mar 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Key Result Areas:
• Managed the area of Revenue Management wherein the core work was to identify the areas where the revenues of the organization grew along with profitability; executed the Pack Pricing for all the packs Margin structure
• Created Trade Spending (Discount) for each of various packs
• Managed and analysed trade spends in the market
• Optimised revenue by creating the right balance of trade margins and market scheming across all the packs
• Supervised schemes and discount across all the packs which were operate in the market
• Helped the organization grow revenues faster than volume and trade spending
• Started the process of evaluating channel profitability (Traditional Trade Vs Modern Trade)
• Highlights:
• Holds merit for winning the “PepsiCo Star Award” on account of helping the team to start business and increase the profitability of Cash and Carry Channel

Feb 2008 – Apr 2011 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Key Result Areas:
• Managed Fixed Assets Accounting, Travel Accounting, Cost Centre Accounting and did the monthly closing as per US GAAP including detailed analysis of all the major accounts
• Tracked the monthly Non Variable Overheads and reviewed them cost centre wise
• Monitored SOX Compliance for the organization and ensured that all the SOX Cycles are duly complete with no deficiencies
• Reviewed the internal controls for the processes and prepared the Standard Operating Procedures for every such process
• Scanned all the claims made by the stockiest for various schemes operated by them in the market
• Analysed the Return on Investment (ROI) for all our schemes operated in the market
• Streamlined and standardized various processes
• Highlights:
• Received 100% SOX scores for the organization during the tenure as SOX compliance Manager
• Acquired 100% automation of distributor claims and their online processing
• Moved all the distributors from cheque mode of payment to RTGS mode

Jan 2007 – Feb 2008 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

• Department : Business Planning & Analysis at Corporate office
• Job Responsibilities:
• Analyzing the financials vis-à-vis budgeted numbers and doing the variance analysis.
• Preparing the management summary for each months reported financials and presenting it to top management with due analysis.
• Preparing the yearly budgets for all the regions with a Top down and a Bottom up approach.