Aakansha Agarwal
Mumbai
Summary
Dynamic finance leader with extensive experience at Tata Communications, excelling in revenue forecasting and cost control. Proven track record in enhancing profitability through strategic financial modeling and risk management. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams, driving efficiency, and delivering insightful financial analysis to support executive decision-making.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Manager– Finance
Tata Communications
Mumbai
11.2021 - Current
- Provide leadership with a clear view of financial performance, risks, and opportunities.
- Revenue Performance: Actual vs. forecast, growth drivers, variances.
- Expense Management: Operating costs vs. budget, efficiency initiatives.
- Profitability: Gross margin, EBITDA, net income trends.
- Cash Flow & Liquidity: Working capital, free cash flow, debt position.
- Led monthly forecasting and annual budgeting cycles, ensuring accuracy within acceptable variance.
- Built financial models to evaluate new business initiatives, improving ROI analysis.
- Partnered with business units to identify cost-saving opportunities.
- Prepared executive dashboards and board presentations, simplifying complex data for decision-makers.
- Automated reporting processes, reducing turnaround time.
- Conducted variance analysis on P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow, highlighting key drivers.
- Supported strategic planning initiatives by providing scenario-based financial projections.
- Collaborated with operations and sales teams to align forecasts with market trends.
- Enhanced accuracy of forecasting models by integrating historical data and external benchmarks.
BU Controller
Capgemini
01.2014 - 11.2021
- Prepare and submit the group’s monthly financial results, budget and quarterly rolling forecasts and complete the reporting requirements to the parent company.
- Improve existing processes and streamline workflows.
- Load figures into Hyperion.
- Determining financial objectives. Designing & implementing systems, policies & procedures to facilitate internal financial control.
- Preparing Annual Budget and forecasting trends.
- Coordinate the preparation of Financial Statements, Financial Reports for internal usage.
- Work out the insightful and qualitative analysis and monthly, quarterly & annual reports covering all elements of actuals against the budget / forecasts viz., Revenue, expenses, people, capex, margins, costs, utilization, realizations etc.
- Follow the process to track Key Performance Indicators on monthly basis.
- Assist in development and distribution of all required function/sub-function reporting.
- Preparation of Projected Profit and loss, Cash flow and Balance sheets.
- Track, prepare and analyze client/Project and product profitability and work with business teams to understand trends and performances.
- Prepare monthly revenue forecasting.
- Work out the model for pricing for new and existing clients.
Consultant
IGATE
07.2013 - 12.2013
- Worked as financial services domain specialist and contributed in domain and research related activities in areas like – Corporate Actions, Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities Trading, Wealth Management.
- Preparation of decks for presentation to management. The decks covered account specific details for FS clients.
- Created intuitive presentation decks for sales pitch and RFI/RFPs response etc.
Summer Internship
IFCI
Kolkata
03.2012 - 06.2012
- Assisted in Project Appraisal and appraised a Project on “S.M.Calchem Industries”. S. M Calchem industries approached IFCI Financial Services with a proposal to finance their project by way of term loan of Rs. 10 crore for setting up of manufacturing unit in Kamrup district of Assam.
- Exercised due diligence and performed following activities to create a detailed recommendation report - Valuation of Projects (New & Existing), Trading & Stock market Analysis, Stock Valuation.
Assistant Manager
IndusInd Bank
05.2010 - 05.2011
- Worked as an Assistant Manager and responsibilities there included - Client Management (Direct client interaction), Interaction with Corporate clients, Imparted training on Banking & Banking products, Managed client relationships and formulated business development strategies, Responsible for revitalizing relationship with existing clients.
Education
MBA - Finance
ICFAI
Hyderabad12.2013
BBA - Finance
Techno India
West Bengal, India12.2010
HSC - Commerce
CBSE
12.2007
SSC - All subjects
CBSE
12.2005
Skills
- Finance
- Corporate Finance
- Annual Budgeting
- Revenue Forecasting
- Pricing Models
- Revenue Assurance
- Cost Control & Margin Management
- Financial Risk Management
- Capital Markets
- Corporate Actions
- Trade and Wealth Management
Awards
- Rewarded for Business Relations, Stakeholder Management, On time deliverables.
- Internal Publications for BFS COE: iTrends, Chintamoney, Banker’s Digest, Blogs.
- Part of 'Banking in a Box' initiative of BFS COE.
- Acknowledgment for short learning curve while managing BU.
- Recognition for frequent participation in war room discussions.
Summary - Executive Summary
MBA (Finance) with 13+ years of professional experience in Finance. Analytical and detail-oriented Finance professional with experience in financial modelling, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis. Skilled at partnering with cross-functional teams to drive strategic decision-making, optimize resource allocation, and improve profitability. Adept at translating complex financial data into actionable insights for senior leadership.
Timeline
Senior Manager– Finance
Tata Communications
11.2021 - Current
BU Controller
Capgemini
01.2014 - 11.2021
Consultant
IGATE
07.2013 - 12.2013
Summer Internship
IFCI
03.2012 - 06.2012
Assistant Manager
IndusInd Bank
05.2010 - 05.2011
MBA - Finance
ICFAI
BBA - Finance
Techno India
HSC - Commerce
CBSE
SSC - All subjects
CBSE