Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Cost Accountant, Company Secretary and Master of Commerce with over 3 decades of work experience in India and UK, in Finance, Accounts, Costing, Secretarial, Commercial and Legal both in manufacturing and retail industry. Specialties: Senior Level Executive with extensive hands-on experience in management, business leadership and working with Board of Directors, Venture Capitalist and Banks. Strong in setting up process/systems for finance, accounting and secretarial functions. Strong leadership, people manager, problem-solving, planning, team-building and project management skills. Very organized, detailed, meticulous with exceptional grasping abilities. Was conferred the Chairman’s ‘Exceptional Contributor Award’ in the year 2022 in Aditya Birla Group.
Heading the Controllership Function for Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Limited and taken on additional responsibility from August 2019 to August 2022 as CFO - FIDPL (Shantanu and Nikhil) (an ABFRL subsidiary). Currently handling Controllership, Taxation, Inventory Assurance, Risk Management, Assurance Function and Chief Commercial Officer for Galeries Lafayette. Experience also include being part of Core team that set up "The Collective", establishing MFL Business Shared Service (BSS) which was was selected and showcased to other units by Management Services Division under ABG group level Chairman’s initiatives under Formula 1, Head of Finance for Madura Garment Exports (MGE), New Business Commercial and part of core team responsible for SNN (Shantanu & Nikhil Bridge business)
CFO-Central and Brand Factory, a division of Pantaloon Retail (India) Limited from Feb 2007, prior to which was the CFO for Home Solutions Retails (India) Limited, a subsidiary of Pantaloon Retail (India) Limited from May 2006 to Jan 2007. Both these companies are a Future Group venture.
Joined OyzterBay since inception and was responsible for the finance, accounting, commercial and secretarial functions of the company. Part of founding team of OyzterBay Managing and controlling the outsourced accounting team of eight related to general accounting, payroll, credit collection, taxes, insurance and banking. The Company built a national network of 36 stores and 18 shop-in-shops in 27 cities across India and its own E.Com website.
Part of core team for Tanishq project International Exposure in Titan London, where handled multiple functions, Finance, Logistics, HR, IT (other than sales and marketing) Regional Commercial Head for Southern Region Company Secretary for Titan Costing, Accounts, Projects, Treasury, Factory Accounts - all round exposure in Finance function. The position of Senior Manager - Finance and Assistant Company Secretary was held since November 1998. It involved handling the entire commercial functions of Tanishq (Titan’s jewellery division) which involves establishing operational procedure and monitoring of the same, supervision of commercial operations of the boutiques, monitoring stock and debtors of the operations and coordinating with treasury to ensure smooth and efficient flow of receivables. Budgeting for entire jewellery division and monitoring the performance of sales and marketing against the budget. Handling the entire secretarial function, which involves preparation for and coordination of Board Meetings and General Meetings of the company, drafting minutes of meetings. Interaction with stock exchanges, SEBI, Registrar of Companies and compliance of other statutory requirements.