Arjit Sethi

Finance Manager

India10 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Chartered Accountant with extensive corporate finance experience.
  • Proven track record in financial analysis and reporting.
  • Strong leadership in cross-functional team environments.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Corporate Finance expert with a strong background in Financial Analysis and Management Consulting.

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Skills

Core Skills

Corporate FinanceLeadershipFinancial AnalysisFinancial PlanningManagement ConsultingBig Four Accounting Firms

Other Skills

AuditingBusiness AnalysisBusiness InitiativesBusiness StrategyCash FlowConsultingCorporate TaxCross-functional Team LeadershipData AnalysisDeal ExecutionDeal StrategyEnglishEvent ManagementFinanceFinancial Accounting

About

I am a Chartered Accountant, working in corporate finance, interested in economics, and even more in human psychology behind it. Working with multiple teams, small and large, I've come to the conclusion that progressive teamwork > self-actualisation. I enjoy energetic mornings, love decorating my house, and look forward to Bollywood News. YouTube keeps me awake at night, and reading history is my new found hobby. You can reach me at arjitsethi1@gmail.com

Experience

10 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
3 yrs 10 mos
Current Experience

Baxter international inc.

Finance Manager (India, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia)

Aug 2022Present · 3 yrs 10 mos · India · On-site

  • 1. Strategic Financial Reporting: Deliver insightful financial analysis and value added reporting to Asia leadership teams. 11% YoY margin improvement, managing 2/11 countries marked as DIAMOND markets in Asia
  • 2. Planning & Forecasting: Lead local country level financial planning processes, including monthly flash reports, budgets, projections, and strategic plans, growth plans, Long Range Plans and Core Annual Operating Plans.
  • 3. Performance Analysis: Regular discussions with segment business leads to analyse key financial metrics (P&L, cashflow, margins, product mix and spending) and key business drivers to support overall country P&L. DSO reduction 17 days (with Govt accounts incl)
  • 4. Business Partnering: Develop financial models and evaluate strategic initiatives like new product launches, distributor ramp up, and creative go-to-market strategies for market penetration, like EMI modulation, credit term at play, price point discovery, etc.
  • 5. Process Management: Manage month-end and quarter-end close processes, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
  • 6. Process Improvement: Identify and implement efficiencies across financial reporting and planning processes.
  • 7. Leadership & Team Development: Lead and train finance teams across 71 countries, elected as GEM Finance Engagement Leader,encouraging engagement and driving performance development.
  • 8. Stakeholder Communication: Prepare and present high-impact reports and presentations for senior leadership reviews - region, segment, global leadership visits
LeadershipFinancial PlanningCross-functional Team LeadershipCorporate FinancePresentation Skills

Flipkart

Business Finance

Dec 2021Aug 2022 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Driving P&L Goodness Charters - developing plans with categories, product & strategy teams -
  • 1) Returns Cost Charter (G2N) - working with strategy teams to develop initiatives & drive adoption for an estimated YoY improvement of ~2% in returns & ~INR 200 Cr. savings
  • 2) Pricing & Promotions Charter - Driving AI/ML-based pricing product (Israel Team) adoption for ~1.5% goodness on margins ( ~3% in GMV)
  • 3) Working with the analytics team for driving KPIs and automating reporting for organisation-wide bizfin consumption
Management ConsultingPerformance MotivationMultitaskingLeadershipForecastingNegotiation+5

Wipro limited

2 roles

Wipro Finance Leadership Cohort - Assistant Manager

Aug 2020Dec 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Business Finance in a Collaborative Team Setup -
  • 1. Financial Metrics Analysis and Reporting - Budgets vs Actuals (MoM & QoQ)
  • 2. Revenue Closures and Analysis (IFRS & IndAS)
  • 3. Financial Closures - MoM/QoQ
  • 4. Capital Budgeting, Current Non Current Liabilities Review, ERF Reviews & Fixed Asset Reporting
  • 5. Quarterly Financials Review for Consolidation - P&L and Balance Sheet Level
  • 6. Need based Financial Process Automation (Revenue, Cost and Shared Services)
  • Additional Responsibility of European Subsidiary - Financial review for sanitised monthly/quarterly closures and entity's financial health (cashflows and margin) -
  • 1. Transfer Pricing Agreements
  • 2. Inter-company Adjustments as per LGAAPs
  • 3. Cost Analytics - Trend Analysis for reasons of variance
  • 4. Lease Reviews (IFRS 16)
  • 5. Profit and Loss Account + Balance Sheet Reviews
Management ConsultingPerformance MotivationMultitaskingLeadershipForecastingNegotiation+4

Wipro Finance Leadership Cohort - Senior Executive

Apr 2019Aug 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Business Finance - North America and APAC Geographies. Handling Portfolio of 30+ accounts generating revenue of $135Mn annually with a QoQ growth of ~3%
  • 1. Driving Revenue and Margins in the competitive digitisation landscape
  • 2. QoQ/MoM Estimates and Variances
  • 3. P&L Analysis: Vertical and Business Unit Level
  • 4. Business Finance Requisites: Revenue Recognition, Invoicing and Collection (for a clean BS)
  • 5. Delta plugs for Revenue Leakage (Plugged leakage of $100k from a single account)
  • Strategic Deal Pricing, including;
  • Financial Engineering: Pricing Negotiations and Presentations for Deal Bidding
  • Leadership Review Decks and Analytics
Management ConsultingMultitaskingCash FlowInterpersonal CommunicationProblem Solving

Cry - child rights and you

Intern

Dec 2017Feb 2018 · 2 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Achievements
  • Counseling
  • o Early stages of Anger Management
  • o Confidence Building
  • o Patriarchal Mindset Shifts (not hitting sisters and treating them as equal)
  • o Parent Teacher Meeting – Resolved Issue of Bullying
  • Events
  • o IVD (International Volunteers Day) celebration – gloriously successful organization.
  • o Crispy Crème Collaboration for the Christmas Party, where kids were introduced to Doughnuts and were also taught of the process of making one.
  • Mathematics (Essential Basics/ Foundation) (6th – 8th)
  • o Multiplication and Division (with tables)
  • o Verbal Vedic Maths, Algebra, Equation building
  • o Decimals and Fractions
  • English (Foundation Strengthening) (Classes 6th – 8th)
  • o Introduction vocabulary
  • o Sentence formation, Story building
  • o Adjectives, Prepositions, Nouns, Verbs and Adverbs
  • Hindi (Curative) (Classes 6th – 8th)
  • o Story Recitation, Story Formation (multi-genre)
  • o Idioms, Phrases, Riddles, Rhymes
  • Extra-Curricular (Going Beyond Classroom) (1st – 8th)
  • o Dance, Singing, Poems, Sports
Multitasking

The institute of chartered accountants of india

Finance Executive

Dec 2015Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 11 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

  • 1. Customs (Appeals) | Client: Golf Course Developer
  • Golf course irrigation equipment (SKD) was classified as a luxury item by AO while the client was adamant of claiming it as agriculture equipment, thus seeking exemption.
  • 2. CESTAT (New Delhi) | Client: IRCTC Contractor
  • Issue was raised regarding classification of services provided. Dispute – No clear definition separating Business Auxiliary Services (BAS) from Business Support Services (BSS).
  • 3. ITAT (New Delhi) | Client: Architectural Services Provider
  • Certain expenses disallowed, creditors written back were included in income, 40(a)(ia) disallowance, Related Party Transactions and Method of Accounting (Contracts).
  • 4. NCLT (New Delhi) | Reg: Ex-Director’s liability upon liquidation NCLT summoned ex-director for provision of information to liquidator.
  • 5. GST Compliance Study | Facebook Group of Gamers
  • Gamers trading Gaming IDs to overseas clients against EULs (End-User Licenses)
  • 6. PSU Bank Statutory Audit | Client: Canara Bank
  • Leading a team of 4 to scrutinise and report the financials. Successfully spotted key indicators of flaws in provisioning and weaknesses in delegation of authority. Ethically reported to the Head Office.
MultitaskingBig Four Accounting Firms

Times of india

2 roles

Teach India (Times of India CSR Initiative) - Tihar Jail Chapter

Sep 2015Oct 2015 · 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

  • Trained over 20 female inmates at Tihar Jail.
  • Training included : Self-Confidence Coaching, Spoken English Training and Basic English Foundation.
  • Reward : 2 Inmates started their own parlor within the jail premises and pledged to start their own projects once released.

Education Volunteer

Jan 2015May 2015 · 4 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Spoken English Trainer (British Council Certified), tried to help build confidence and speech flow of educated individuals aged 17 to 26 seeking jobs.
  • Reward - Successfully placed wiling individuals at various organizations.

Aiesec in india

Team Leader

Dec 2013Mar 2014 · 3 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • AIESEC is an organization with vision of developing young leaders through International Exchange Programmes.
  • Elected as the Team Leader, working on deliverables for Incoming Exchange Individuals
  • Further, willingly took the positions of:
  • Core Organizing Committee member ; AIESEC BETA – Taking AIESEC to Schools
  • On-Site Organizing Committee SYNAPSE 2013- The Corporate Dinner

Education

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

Chartered Accountant

Jan 2014Jan 2018

Goethe Institut Indien

German Language Programme (A1)

Delhi University

Hindu College — Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) - BCom (H)

Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram

Commerce

Jan 2011Jan 2013

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