SHUBHAM AGARWAL
Gurugram
Summary
7 Years’ experience as a Senior Business Finance professional with a track record of spearheading cross-functional teams to steer end-to-end financial systems from managing M&A deals to guiding financial modelling and company evaluation while maximising revenue opportunities across start-up automotive space. Highly skilled in formulating key finance strategies, monitoring and analyzing key financials, and delivering high-impact finance solutions while streamlining, automating and implementing new processes to drive operational excellence, productivity and organisational growth. Adept at fostering stellar business relationships to provide compelling value to the stakeholders. KEY MANAGERIAL SKILLS Cross-functional Team Leadership & Management | M&A | Business Finance | Financial Modelling | Financial Analytics | Statutory Compliance | Budgeting & Forecasting | Financial Monitoring & Evaluation | Financial Planning & Strategy | Financial Analytics | Finance Process Automation | Vendor Management | Financial Audits & SOPs | Financial Reconciliation | Financial Reporting | Strategic Planning
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate Director
Girnarsoft Automobiles Pvt. Ltd
11.2018 - Current
- Business Finance & FP&A, and reporting to Head of Finance Used Car
- Key Responsibilities
- Preparation of standardized financial reporting packages that will help drive and support the business, inclusive of business metrics/KPIs
- Also, identify and communicate revenue risks and opportunities and review and respond promptly to ad-hoc requests for information and analysis
- Formulate policy to streamline resolutions and improve customer/partner experience through cost-benefit analysis
- Automated time-consuming manual tasks in the finance area to improve TAT & reporting timelines
- Flash Revenue & PL reporting to Business Head including analysis to identify the Volume, Revenue and Cost impacts along with logs to highlight the cross-country allocation issues along with unit economics
- Prepared monthly management reports for Governance; reported aged exceptions/variances, summarised root cause, action plan to remediate issues and target completion date
- Deep-dive into cost drivers to identify sources of waste and drive initiatives through cross-functional collaboration
- Led variance analysis and conformance checks for actual vs committed financial KPIs
- Drive the annual operating and financial targets setting activity through top-down and bottom-up planning & track the AOP on a monthly & quarterly basis through rolling forecast and analysis of variance
- Drive initiatives on profitability improvement, and cost optimization and identify areas of opportunity
- Preparation of quarterly MIS in discussion with the management, to be presented to the promoters
- Led and supported Inventory and Process audits to ensure adherence to SOPs and to prevent leakage.
Founding Member
ASAN Technologies Pvt. Ltd
- 10.2018
- YC-W17( ServX & CarBiqi ) acquired by CarDekho
- Key Responsibilities
- Spearheaded business operations of 8 stores in Delhi NCR with a turnover of
- From
- And assisted the tech team in implementing processes
- Integrated financial tracking by entering data, auditing docs and completing manual payments
- Managed and analysed customer data to assist sales and marketing teams in building strategies for increased sales
- Established standard rates of car servicing by gathering and studying secondary data and raised a fund of INR 12Cr from YC
- Suggested relevant services to customers via segmentation model & enhanced customer conversion and
- Developed a demand model and aligned the same with dealership man-hours for better decisions around dealership tie-ups
- Built an algorithm to suggest services to users based on records of bookings, car condition and service availed
- Collaborated with
- In Delhi NCR and bolstered customer conversion and retention by proposing relevant services and initiating mobile services to cater for customers
- ACCOMPLISHMENTS – BUSINESS SCALING
- Played an instrumental role in Founding Team journey of CarBiqi by introducing and optimizing business processes to bolster business growth
Project Coordinator
UDAAN Foundation
- Coordinated the education project of “Udaan Foundation (Non-governmental Organization)” and set up a school to provide free education to 63 children with no fees up to VIII standard
Education
B.E - Electronics & Communication
Birla Institute of Technology
Skills
Profitability analysis
Internal Controls
Revenue Recognition
Business Forecasting
Financial Management
Performance Analysis
Strategic Planning
Budget Forecasting
Financial Modeling
Financial Systems Implementation
Variance Analysis
Stakeholder Management
Financial Analysis
Financial Budgeting
Strategy Development
Timeline
Associate Director
Girnarsoft Automobiles Pvt. Ltd
11.2018 - Current
Founding Member
ASAN Technologies Pvt. Ltd
- 10.2018
Project Coordinator
UDAAN Foundation
B.E - Electronics & Communication
Birla Institute of Technology