Abhinav Dubey
Summary
Business finance controller with expertise in business finance controlling, financial planning & analysis, budgeting and budgetary control, profitability analysis and margin management, supply chain and logistics operations, strategic planning & execution, stakeholder management, compliance & audit, accounting operations and financial reporting and Power BI dashboard developments.
Currently I am leading finance operations for businesses size of 100M USD, managing a team of 19 with 9 direct reports in Waters India Private Ltd.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Head of Finance and Controlling
Waters India Pvt Ltd (Waters Corporation US)
Bangalore
06.2023 - Current
- Leading as Finance Controller for India Business Finance operations to support India business of $100 Million
- Leading a team size of 19 with 9 direct reports
- Reporting to Director-Finance
- Role encompassing: Monthly, quarterly, and annual Financial and Business closing & reporting
- Partnering with Sales and Service leaders for business requirements
- AOP, Forecasting, and budgeting, rolling quarterly forecasts & estimates
- Working capital management: DSO, DTP, and Inventory levels controlling
- Managing internal and external Audits, SOX, and ICFR
- Working on process improvisations and automation opportunities
- Periodic SOP/SOD review/updates.
Country Finance Manager
DHR Holding India Pvt Ltd (Danaher Corporation)
Mumbai
01.2018 - 06.2023
- Led India business finance function for Radiometer Medical Aps India divisions of Danaher India
- Key result areas were: Led India finance team with 7 members, including imports, supply chain, and logistics operations with finance
- Active partnership with Country Business Head in building AOPs, Budgets & forecasts buildup and sales funnel reviews
- Led weekly and monthly calibration calls with sales and service for rolling forecasts, calibration with AOP, and making YTD Actual and FY forecasts on various product lines to identify lead indicators, wins, and losses
- Participated in and led growth rooms initiatives, commercial actions plan tracking & collaboration
- Handling operations review calls with global commercial leadership
- Finding, leading, and owning initiatives on implementing local cost savings and margin improvements as per global directives and targets
- Channel and distributor management: Monitoring and tracking channel partner compliances
- Periodic follow-up on distributor Inventory levels and secondary sales review
- Driving the SOP and policy implementations
- Actively managing internal audits, compliance audits, and legal reviews for the India business
- Stakeholder management in formulating management action plans (MAP) and leading MAP executions
- Overseeing finance Backoffice operations for the divisions including monthly book closing, monthly reporting to HO, and handling audits for the business division
- Key projects and initiatives delivered: Finding and onboarding the most suitable 3rd party logistics partner to expand the warehousing capacity by 5-fold without additional opex
- Diversified the warehousing operations from the South of India, by setting up additional warehousing facility in north India to serve the distribution network of north and east of India
- It helped achieve shorter delivery time and to mitigate the business continuity risk
- Establishing a full-scale service center in India for ABG & IA analyzers' re-conditioning for redeployment on operating lease models to save on depreciation costs
- Led Kaizen Project to deliver target 5% gross margin expansion and successfully identified avenues to deliver >4.5% gross margin expansion
- Developed Power BI dashboard from scratch to provide real-time analysis of sales and gross margins to regional business leaders
- Successfully collaborated in a distribution network optimization project to reduce the number of CPs by 40%, leading to lower cost of compliance, focused distribution network, higher revenue predictability.
Manager – Corporate Finance
Hindalco Industries Limited (Aditya Birla Group)
Mumbai
10.2015 - 01.2018
- Part of the corporate accounts team of Hindalco Corporate Office and core member of the Ind AS implementation team SPOC & Project Coordinator from Corporate in Hyperion implementation for 20+ Plants and mines and branch office
- Monthly, quarterly, and Annual accounts closing, coordinating with plants and branch accounts team for inputs for consolidation in Hyperion
- Prepared the results for quarterly stock exchange reporting under SEBI LODR regulations
- Preparing standalone financial statements every quarter for stock exchange reporting and preparing certain parts of annual financial statements in line with Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) Compiling the annual financial statements for Standalone financial and CARO reporting
- Key projects and initiatives delivered: Acted as SPOC for Hyperion Implementation at Hindalco
- Received special appreciation from the CFO for timely and successful delivery and implementation
- Received special appreciation (ABG Praise Award) from the VP-Corporate Accounts for playing pivotal role in Ind AS implementation in Hindalco.
Principal Consultant – xBRL Reporting
IRIS Business Services Limited
Mumbai
06.2012 - 10.2015
- Performed functions as a Business Analyst and Subject Matter Expert in IT implementation projects for establishing end-to-end solutions for financial reporting for Banking, Business, and Entity regulators in different countries like Saudi Arabia, Thailand Malaysia, and Mauritius
- Successfully analyzed reporting requirements & standards, and regulatory environment around the process of data filing by reporting entities to clients (regulators)
- Prepared & updated Business Requirements Documents and communicated business requirements to the development team; acted as liaison between Business Users and the development team to ensure the development of agreed specifications
- Projects Delivered Successfully: Tadawul Stock Exchange | Central Bank of Mauritius | DBD, Thailand.
Assistant Manager – Treasury & Finance
Global Smelters Limited
New Delhi
08.2010 - 06.2012
- Managed banking compliances including preparation of monthly stock statements as per terms of sanction and QMS for submission to banks
- Monitoring the funding and Interest servicing
- Coordinated with external rating agencies & managed surveillance and credit rating
- Finalized annual financial statements, prepared notes to accounts & details required to be included in CARO reporting with supporting workings and calculations
- Handling statutory audits.
Education
Post Graduate Certificate in Strategic Management -
Indian Institute of Management, Nagpur
01.2022
Certificate in Information System Audit -
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
01.2017
Chartered Accountant -
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
01.2010
Bachelor of Commerce -
Chhatrapati Shahu ji Maharaj University, Kanpur
01.2006
Skills
- Business Finance
- FP&A
- Budgeting
- Forecast Analysis
- Commercial Strategy
- Price Management
- Management Reporting
- Credit Controlling
- MIS
- Audit management
- Supply Chain
- Warehousing & Logistics Operations
- Team Building & Leadership
- People Management
- Microsoft Power BI
- MS Power Point
- MS Excel
- Sales Funnel
- Funnel Analysis
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Timeline
Head of Finance and Controlling
Waters India Pvt Ltd (Waters Corporation US)
06.2023 - Current
Country Finance Manager
DHR Holding India Pvt Ltd (Danaher Corporation)
01.2018 - 06.2023
Manager – Corporate Finance
Hindalco Industries Limited (Aditya Birla Group)
10.2015 - 01.2018
Principal Consultant – xBRL Reporting
IRIS Business Services Limited
06.2012 - 10.2015
Assistant Manager – Treasury & Finance
Global Smelters Limited
08.2010 - 06.2012
Post Graduate Certificate in Strategic Management -
Indian Institute of Management, Nagpur
Certificate in Information System Audit -
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
Chartered Accountant -
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
Bachelor of Commerce -
Chhatrapati Shahu ji Maharaj University, Kanpur
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