May 2023 – Dec 2023 · 7 mos

Dec 2021 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Leading Cluster finance & strategic support to seven (7) countries within Southeast Asia and India.
• Providing strategic direction and enabling business to capitalize opportunities and partnering with business to proactively manage impact of any headwind.
• Leading finance teams across the cluster to accelerate our functional vision to provide leadership that drives results and value to our stakeholders by being a Strategic and Financial Advisor while balancing Risk with Effective Controls
• Leading multiple initiatives across the cluster to transform and enhance commercial finance teams support to business
• Supporting Digital transformation initiatives through process alignment and centralization to drive efficiency and scale.
• Leading APAC level project of driving Culture and Engagement in APAC Finance (part of global initative) , APAC Digital Core Operations in Finance

Jul 2017 – Dec 2021 · 4 yrs 5 mos

• Commercial Finance Lead: leading Finance operations for commercial unit with higher double digit YOY growth (pre-covid) by decision support in FP&A, S&D finance and Internal Controls
• Captive IT and R&D Finance Head: Member of Senior Management to devise & implement strategies & processes for setting up a new legal entity from scratch, for accomplishing corporate goals for Global R&D and IT center captive unit with ~1000 employee
• Pioneer in Digital Intervention as APAC Finance Digital Transformation Co lead and Digital Core Lead for India Region
• Legal Entity Integration Lead: Spearheaded legal entity integration of 10+ countries /region for a recently acquired business
• Strategic Support / Business development : leading collaboration with business teams to formulate strategy aiming to drive growth and expansion for Pharma injectable business in OUS region
• P&L Transformation : Leading strategic projects focused towards building sustainable business through focus on margin accretion and SG&A optimization
• Team Management: Leading team of 39 qualified professionals (incl. 15 contingent) with Chartered Accountants & MBA Finance
• Stewardship/ Fiduciary responsibility : Responsible of timely completion of statutory audit , tax audit and Internal audit across all there legal entities .Being part of Board of directors providing strategic leadership, direction and management of the financial operation of organization
• Planning & Budgeting: Managing the processes for financial forecasting and budgets, and overseeing the preparation of all financial reporting. Advising on long-term business and financial planning in the form of long-range plan. Ensuring Adequate Control environment / Risk Management. Driving process simplification and acting as business enabler without impacting overall controls environment
• Cost Optimization : Providing strategic support in cost optimization & maintaining right cost base through Zero base budgeting & zero-base spending approach

Mar 2015 – Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• New Plant Set-up: Collaborated with the Senior Management Team to devise & implement strategies & processes for setting up a new plant from scratch, accomplishing corporate goals & profitability for the group company in 2 countries with total revenue of more than $70 M
• Project Management: Pivotal in the execution of Value Improvement Project; generated $ 1 M duty savings for both locations
• Strategic Finance Operations: Pioneer in creating a culture of Finance Acumen and prudence for a new entity of 300+ people with $ 75M investment
• Process Improvement: Developed and implemented automated financial accounting systems & scorecard that increased transparency, drove accountability to achieve WIG – Wildly Important Goals
• Instituted E1 / Oracle JDE accounting system and trained staff on all accounting modules and eliminated NVA
• Cost Control Initiatives: Achieved $ 3 M savings in capital spending and $ 2 M Opex saving (per annum) through detailed research & global policy alignment. Implemented Capital expenditure control for completion of project resulted in savings of $2.8 M. Liaised with customs to implement duty free importation of capital goods resulting in savings of $ 1 M
• Cross-cultural Functions: Provided motivational leadership to 10 professionals across Thailand & Philippines; pivotal in getting 2 executives promoted. Played a vital role in strategic decision making for optimal utilization of Thailand and Philippines Plant capacity utilization

Jan 2013 – Mar 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Responsible for all finance related operations for the biggest plant of Baxter India with around
• 200cr. VOP including exports. Leading a team of five professionals including cost accountant and
• chartered accountants. Key areas of responsibilities include:
• · Budgeting, Forecasting, Regional reporting and alignment with all stakeholders to ensure full
• utilization of plant capacity and at lower cost
• · Lead monthly in-depth review of the plant operations to provide analysis /cost reduction
• opportunities , identifying VIP (value improvement projects) and supporting business decision
• · Ensuring tax and compliance requirement in regard to Excise and Service tax
• · Leading export benefit initiatives including advance license, FPS etc. which helped to save
• substantial cost for the plant
• · Process re-engineering to improve internal control across various financial processes and
• revamping P2P process to ensure timely payment to vendor and negotiating better deals.

May 2011 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Closely worked with India Senior Business Leaders and Country manager to formulate, analyze,
• and support formal planning and analysis process including monthly/quarterly/yearly/long range
• planning and forecasting reviews. Key areas of responsibilities include:
• · In depth review of the business operations, providing value added reports to senior
• management to analyze and support business decision. Strong partnership with business on a
• daily basis to understand key drivers, formulates strategy, achieve results & grow
• · Direct involvement in Operational & Financial Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, tracking
• and analysis of P&L, Balance sheet, cash flow , working capital , Financial Reporting and
• Metrics/KPIs Development, Financial evaluation techniques, accounting and finance controls
• · Strategic involvement to provide support new business decision and decide growth strategy
• · Responsible for India sub regional monthly business performance review/reporting to Asia
• Pacific senior management & finance team

Aug 2010 – Jul 2011 · 11 mos

• Involves close interaction with Capital market team, US domestic cash team and Hedging team to formulate, support and monitor effective cash planning /investment and hedging strategy.
• Responsible for US cash forecasting & investment, Global Interest expense planning and forecasting, Treasury reporting to CFO and Financial Risk Committee.
• Direct involvement in Baxter $2.5B share repurchase program. Planning, forecasting and tracking of actual share repurchase, stock options and ESPP and its accretion impact on EPS.
• Closely working with FX Hedging team to monitor /forecast FX exposure and performing hedging effectiveness testing (SOX compliance).

Nov 2009 – Aug 2010 · 9 mos

• Given additional responsibility of Business decision support for one of the fastest growing business unit of the company. Areas of additional responsibilities include:
• Strong business partnership with sub regional business unit managers to understand / indentify the key business drivers & working together towards business sustenance , target achievement and exploring business development opportunities
• Project Lead for South East Asia “Finance Essentials for Non finance” focused towards mentoring non-finance teams to understand the key areas of finance.

Apr 2009 – Nov 2009 · 7 mos

• Involves interaction with South East Asia Senior Business and Finance leaders to formulate, analyze, and support formal planning and analysis process including monthly/quarterly/yearly planning and forecasting reviews. Key areas of responsibilities include:
• Understanding and executing on business financial data requirement by creating value added reports useful for business to understand key drivers, formulate stratergy,achieve results & grow
• Direct involvement in Operational & Financial Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, tracking and analysis of P&L, Balance sheet, cash flow , working capital , Financial Reporting and Metrics/KPIs Development, Financial evaluation techniques, accounting and finance controls
• Responsible for South East Asia sub regional (six countries) monthly business performance reporting to Asia Pacific senior management & finance team

Jun 2007 – Mar 2009 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Managing Internal Control framework of 13 countries across Asia Pacific involving handling Controls over processes, Consolidation and analysis of reports for senior management, conducting country’s Balance Sheet reviews, Implementation of Global Projects and Risk Assessments for Asia Pacific Countries. Key area of responsibilities includes:
• Analysis of Legal & Management numbers, Capital Structure and Ratio analysis for various countries across Asia pacific. Also developed a globally replicable Hyperion integrated tool to automate analysis for more than 100 countries across Baxter worldwide.
• Designing and implementation of Financial Policies & Procedures for various countries
• Project Lead for “Project E-Grants” PEGA software implementation across regional countries
• Worked closely with Peer Testers (a group of trained qualified people) on various initiatives for strengthening control environment, helping countries financial operations & S-Ox compliance

Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 · 2 yrs

• member of Deloitte Touché Tohmatsu providing Audit, Tax, Consulting, and Financial Advisory
• services across the globe. Major Clients handled include:
• · US GAAP –Punjab National Bank involves working on FASB and conversion of Indian
• GAAP statement to US GAAP.
• · Internal Audit -Moser Baer India Limited - Inventory management, capital expenditure, &
• vendor management.
• · Statutory Audit:
• o Wiley Dreamtech India Private Limited,
• o Gates India Private Limited