Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos · India · Hybrid

• Fund raising,Due Diligence and VCFO
• www.aashvasanadvisors.com

Feb 2024 – Sep 2024 · 7 mos · India

Nov 2021 – Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Finance and Compliance Leadership Across 5 Countries
• Spearheaded financial strategy development and execution, driving significant revenue growth and enhanced profitability.
• Led the end-to-end implementation of a comprehensive financial reporting system, ensuring the availability of precise and timely data for strategic decision-making.
• Provided strategic support to the CEO on all go-to-market decisions, aligning financial insights with business objectives.
• Implemented cost control initiatives, achieving a reduction in operational expenses while upholding service excellence.
• Orchestrated successful fundraising efforts, securing capital through both equity and debt channels, fueling business expansion and sustainability.
• Negotiated and managed key financial contracts, resulting in strengthened vendor relationships and substantial cost savings.
• Directed financial planning processes, including budgeting, forecasting, and analysis, enabling efficient resource allocation.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to refine pricing strategies, optimize product profitability, and drive revenue expansion.
• Delivered in-depth financial analyses and actionable insights to the executive team, supporting informed strategic decisions.
• Established and enforced effective policies and procedures for HR, finance, and administrative functions, ensuring operational efficiency and compliance.

Apr 2019 – Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Kolkata Area, India

• Spearheaded the comprehensive management of contracts, from evaluation and review to drafting and negotiation, ensuring robust terms and conditions that safeguarded the company's interests.
• Masterminded high-stakes negotiations with vendors, securing competitive rates and terms that consistently benefited AMPL.
• Instituted a meticulous process to scrutinize contract databases, ensuring rate consistency across vendors delivering similar services, thereby optimizing cost efficiency.
• Proactively monitored contract performance, resolving conflicts seamlessly during renewals to maintain uninterrupted service and compliance.
• Directed strategic planning, budgeting, and forecasting initiatives, setting ambitious yet achievable benchmarks, and crafting precise project-specific budgets that drove operational success.
• Leveraged deep analysis of historical expenditure trends to inform budget creation, enabling data-driven decision-making that enhanced financial performance.
• Developed and maintained comprehensive management information system (MIS) reports, offering detailed insights into revenue, costs, and performance metrics that empowered leadership with actionable intelligence.
• Delivered insightful variance analysis between budgeted and actual performance, identifying key opportunities for improvement and significant cost-saving measures.
• Managed AMPL’s extensive insurance portfolio with a strategic focus, overseeing policy selection, renewal processes, and efficient claim settlements that minimized risk exposure.
• Conducted rigorous evaluations of existing insurance policies, identifying gaps and implementing actionable improvement plans that strengthened the company's insurance coverage.
• Negotiated favorable terms with leading insurance providers, closing deals that ensured optimal protection for AMPL at the best possible rates.
• Supervised day-to-day insurance operations with precision, ensuring timely renewals and swift, successful claim resolutions.

Aug 2017 – Apr 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos · Kolkata, West Bengal, India

• Internal Audit of various multinational clients.

Apr 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · Kolkata, West Bengal, India

• Managed from planning to execution of audits & review to finalization of reports relating to -
• Corporate Office & Branches of Coal Sales Division of Karam Chand Thapar & Bros. (Coal Sales) Limited, the flagship Company of the Group, including its Dispatch Centre (Coal India mines) & Port Operations.
• KCT is the largest Coal Logistics Company in India with an annual turnover of `9.7 billion INR.
• Corporate Office & two Production Units of Indicon Westfalia Limited, which manufactures different mining equipment’s, engineering & containerized solutions. IWL is the largest manufacturer of Feeder Breaker & Chair Lift in India.
• Corporate Office & two Production Units of ‘The Waterbase Limited’, which manufactures Shrimp feeds and into processing of shrimps. TWL is listed into BSE and NSE.

Jul 2015 – Apr 2016 · 9 mos

• Audit Planning and execution, Investigations and Special Reviews, Management Audits, Review of Process in the areas of Branch sales and purchase, Debtors and creditors review, customer satisfaction surveys and monitoring of services provided by ASP’s, reconciliation of CD’s provided to dealers and adherence to policies, participation in branch budget preparation, handling warehouse related Inventory management system and periodic PIC, etc
• Apart from the above responsibilities i was also the regional KAIZEN coordinator for welcoming new ideas and views,reviewing them and forwarding them for approvals.

Jul 2013 – Jul 2015 · 2 yrs · Kolkata Area, India

• Financial, Procurement, Energy, Education and Performance Audits and reviews, Implementation of Double Entry System in urban development sector, Preparation of Financial Accounting, Budgeting, costing and Internal Audit & Control manuals of large power sector companies, Organization Restructuring and formulation of KPI for the Accounting and Finance Wing,
• Special audits like Project audits of various Global Funding agencies like World Bank, EU, DFID, etc., Financial consultancy with regards application of IFRS- Beginner Base.

Jan 2013 – Jun 2013 · 5 mos · Kolkata Area, India

• Project Audits and GRM

Aug 2008 – Feb 2012 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Kolkata

• Stat Audit as per the Companies Act,1956;Income Tax Act,1961 and other statutes;Stock audit and PV,Consultancy in the field of accounting,direct and indirect taxes,laws and regulations, etc.