Akshay Jain Kala
Hyderabad
Summary
Corporate finance professional with over 9 years of experience in developing financial forecasts and enhancing budgeting processes. Proficient in creating strategic pricing models, conducting variance analysis, and providing robust modeling to support executive decision-making. Passionate about driving company operations through the analysis of key performance indicators and trends
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant General Manager
Sagility India Limited
Hyderabad
08.2022 - Current
- Pivotal in creating a foundational team responsible for managing all aspects of the pre-sales pricing process
- Ensured executive reviews and timely submissions through effective coordination between internal stakeholders.
- Managed enterprise-wide RFPs for major clients within the company, including pricing activities, contract reviews, and strategic pricing with discount structure for the clients.
- Led multiple initiatives to revamp business models across various geographies, standardizing templates and pricing summaries.
- Developed and presented Win/Loss and pricing trend analysis reports, with key insights, to executive leadership.
- Provided key insights on the financial impacts of reviewing all Master Service Agreements (MSAs), Work Orders, and Amendments across the company.
Manager
24-7 Intouch Private Limited
Hyderabad
11.2021 - 07.2022
- Joined as an individual contributor for the formation of the FP&A process for the new Indian entity of 24-7 Intouch.
- Single point of contact for integration of MIS reporting from parent company to the new entity.
- Collaborated with the Operations and Accounting team to create a forecasting model for the Indian entity, ensuring accurate financial reporting for senior management.
- Created a financial dashboard for a new entity with trends to key performance indicators to analyze and enhance operational efficiency.
Manager - Business Finance
Sutherland
Chennai
01.2019 - 10.2021
- Responsible for formulation and monitoring of financial budgets in Hyperion Essbase tool across all sites related to client entities across the geography, with deep driving the business planning and target setting by management, with corrective actions.
- Actively managing the support business of one of the major e-commerce clients in the world with a portfolio of more than $70 million for the year.
- Diligently overseeing key programs and consistently striving to reduce average resource costs through optimizing shrinkage and attrition, enhancing agent utilization, implementing pyramid changes, finalizing quarterly incentive plans, and minimizing revenue leakage.
- Driving and freezing the budget P&L for clients with negotiations and administration of existing MSA & SOW agreements, including pricing for new opportunities.
- Providing adequate financial support and perspective in winning new deals, and needs to secure timely involvement in the sales process.
- Proper risk management and mitigation, as well as providing trend and business analyses for early corrective action.
- I involved myself in the end-to-end financial process, from revenue recognition to cost management, client invoicing, and accounts receivable (A/R) process, in order to improve the DSO turnover.
Analyst - Financial Planning & Analysis
D. E. Shaw India Pvt. Ltd.
10.2016 - 01.2019
- Actively involved in formation of FP&A team with process-driven monthly, quarterly, and annual deliverables to senior management.
- Monthly deliverables include reporting monthly expense entries to the parent company, making appropriate allocations for the variable and fixed expenses.
- Prepare cost per head reports and provide actual vs. budget analysis on monthly, quarterly, and annual periods.
- Actively participated in the preparation of a funding request for the Indian entity, which included presenting full-year projections and 12-month projections to the board members.
- Responsible for preparing the Finance dashboard for the entire DESIS entity for reporting to senior management. This includes analysis of the key drivers of variances for annual, half-year, and quarterly scenarios against the budget and previous years.
- Active participation in the preparation of the budget for the entire entity for FY17 and FY18.
Senior Associate Manager - Business Finance
Sutherland
04.2015 - 10.2016
- Worked in same role but with different portfolio by supporting different vertical
Education
PGDM - Finance
Great Lakes Institute of Management
Chennai03-2015
B. Tech - Electronics And Communications Engineering
Vignan Institute of Technology & Science
06-2013
H.S.C -
Sri Vivekananda Junior College
04-2009
S.S.C. -
Nirmala High School
04-2007
Skills
- Corporate Finance
- P&L Management
- Cost Optimization
- Budgeting
- Accurate Forecasting
- Variance Analysis
- Strategic Pricing
Accomplishments
- Achieved Top Gun Award for 2023 in Sagility for outstanding performance on the job
- Achieved Employee of the quarter based on my performance with respect to handling the financials and involving in setting up best practices for the new business.
- Rated as Best performer among the peers in Sutherland.
Timeline
Assistant General Manager
Sagility India Limited
08.2022 - Current
Manager
24-7 Intouch Private Limited
11.2021 - 07.2022
Manager - Business Finance
Sutherland
01.2019 - 10.2021
Analyst - Financial Planning & Analysis
D. E. Shaw India Pvt. Ltd.
10.2016 - 01.2019
Senior Associate Manager - Business Finance
Sutherland
04.2015 - 10.2016
PGDM - Finance
Great Lakes Institute of Management
B. Tech - Electronics And Communications Engineering
Vignan Institute of Technology & Science
H.S.C -
Sri Vivekananda Junior College
S.S.C. -
Nirmala High School
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