Feb 2022 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• Strategise, design, and execute 9 programs across various business units focused on accelerating startups
• Responsible for the entire program lifecycle from shortlisting the startup, marketing, budget planning, program management, delivery, demo day, and post-program support
• Key team member to analyze, strategize change management, and restructure a team of 30 under the new leadership team
• Consulting various national and international stakeholders like corporates, government, and academia to design various innovation programs
• Working with cross-functional teams like marketing, legal, finance, and admin can help deliver program success
• Lead conversations with mentors, speakers, and facilitators for different programs/events. Facilitated 1000+ hours of mentoring for the startups from industry leaders/ entrepreneurs/subject matter experts − Conducted demo day that witnessed 70+ investors and 40+ corporate connections
• Understand the various ongoing changes in the priorities of the startups and make strategic connections to help startups in GTM, collaboration, and funding, among others
• Gathering and synthesizing feedback from users of products to identify areas of improvement
• Building revenue partnerships with corporate and governments to execute their accelerator and funding programs
• Achievement:
• Redesigned T-Angel program framework to support growth, mid and early-stage 15 startups
• Achieved an overall NPS of 95% across 9 programs
• Executed programs for increasing awareness around best practices in design, GTM, and investment, achieved an average outcome of 4.6/5 feedback score from startups
• Played a crucial role in restructuring and stabilizing the team under the new leadership

Jul 2021 – Feb 2022 · 7 mos

• Spearheaded 2 migration roles of ~50 finance processes to Pepsico Global Shared Services and led projects on building AOP, Ecmod template, budget, forecasting, and variance analysis process
• Planned and designed 2 process improvement projects to resolve issues, improve productivity and help with a quick turnaround for informed decision-making
• Drive adoption and retention of the launch of new financial processes by leading problem discovery and driving toward metrics-driven solutions
• Project financing - Responsibilities for cost center included periodic forecast, closely track on the expenses like Travel, Outsourced business support, and Unsaleable and submitting for cross charges, consolidating variance explanations, presenting variance analysis and sellex(cost) overview for NA to stakeholders (include the Sr. directors)
• Create a process for KC and KT to manage the transition of employees. Build the L&D initiative for a finance team of 50
• Effectively manage communication with supply chain cross-functional teams to identify, scope, and evaluate the capacity investment agenda for products and other optimization projects
• Working on benchmarking of Capex projects metrics as well as creating financial dashboards, creating and updating trackers on a periodic/quarterly/HY/annual basis. Prepare and provide insights on margin and credit scorecard reports for Dollar customer, which is used as a source for discussions with the customers (report gives the financials/performance for the period)
• Actively participate in strategic initiatives and special projects when assigned or required. Assist on Adhoc offline financial models
• Overall, 5-year strategic capacity plan - Compare demand v/s capacity across time (generally 5 years), Analyze utilization models to identify a project, define the project's scope, and conduct Financial evaluation (obtain IRR). After the financials are viable - Build submission documents (slide deck, CAR docs, variations of ecmod, budget, etc.).

Dec 2019 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

Jun 2017 – Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Supported Global Finance Team on effective management of financial responsibilities
• Implemented Forex Analysis for controllable expenses of the company
• Budgeting and Variance analysis - Researched & built budget and variance analysis reports for CFO's review. Give inputs on the favorable and unfavorable variances for different departments across the company
• Created monthly & quarterly financial reports for leadership requirements- Partnership discussions, Internal & External Communication
• Maintained databases in the Peoplesoft system to perform monthly test and production activity for the distribution of large-scale (2700) management reports to more than 700 employees across the hierarchy with 100% accuracy
• Cross-functional team-collaborations to build management reports
• Review, approve and answer queries for re-class requests and other financial questions submitted by different persons across Franklin Templeton

Jun 2015 – Jun 2017 · 2 yrs

• Preparation of Broker confirmations, statement reconciliations, restricted trading list, corporate actions (disclosures), and follow-up on missing statements.
• Conducted primary & secondary research for municipal, corporate bonds and risks-in-trade for international partnerships using various databases such as Bloomberg, Bonds view, OneTIS, and Image onsite
• Generated detailed violation reports and categorization under violation types. Such as preclearance violation, profit violation, and blackout period violation.
• Validation of different rejects such as group users, portfolio users, security users, trades and orders, K2, and pay to play
• Report Generation for continuous monitoring & assigning of KYC to sub–associate daily
• Client validation through due diligence using applications- LexisNexis, RDC alerts

Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 · 0 mo · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• Proposal Drafter end-to-end MSME proposals
• Served as an analyst for loan eligibility for individual or MSME

Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• Assisted with monthly closure & preparation of internal operating plans and reports
• Prepared quarterly financial reports/materials for leadership perusal
• Client Management on drafting monthly budget plans
• Supported the internal audit department review process