ANKUR CHAKRABORTY

• Achieved 6x sales and 50x margin improvement for India captive center since leading as CFO from 2019 through business partnering with BU heads and profitability management
• Lead successful government incentive claim from Gujarat Govt. ITeS incentives and DGFT SEIS incentives
• Successfully initiated business process re-engineering for driving finance and business functions, integrations, digital transformations, automation and RPA projects thus generating efficiency in last 7 years as CFO and achieved cost efficiency by 9 percentage points amount to approx. Rs.10cr.
• Driving organizational budgets & forecasting, short term & long term growth plans and conducting scenario analysis
• Monitoring resource planning, budgetary control and approving necessary budget to Business Unit Heads
• Ensuring financial closure and reviewing process, statement analysis & budget variance analysis
• Presenting monthly CFO report to the CEO & Leadership team

• Helped SME clients to grow and scale by providing premium services of Financials Planning, Budgeting, Cash Flow projection, Financial Modelling, Management reporting with timely and quality delivery
• Connecting and relationship building with our clients and identify opportunity to support
• Supported global clients with sales tunraroud range from $2M to $50M
• Experience dealing with SME from Manufacturing, IT SaaS, Healthcare, eCom Retail, Jube Change, Car Wash & Detailing, Education Institutions, Hospitality, Professional services, Managed IT etc.
• Strategic financial advisory to the clients

Successfully worked on financial modelling & presentation entailing activities like budgets & planning, head count budget, BEP analysis, scenario testing, business value, cash flow projections, capital budgets and so on

Conducted multiple onsite client visits in USA for solutions implementation and client relationship management, client employee training on tools and application

Collaborated with the Division Heads to establish MIS processes and guidelines

Executed Global Managers sales analysis and shared the performance with them on a monthly and quarterly basis

Bagged around 20+ referral accounting projects from the US clients by providing financials, budgeting, cash flow projection, budget variance reports of high quality

Efficiently handled annual audit paper works and saved 30% of CPAs time for a US client

Acted as a Project Manager for the development of web based dashboard application that contributed around 8% of the revenue in 2 years, down the line (in 2011 & 2012)

Implemented time sheet practice across organization and a CRM system in a SaaS platform (2009-2010) (QuickBase)

• Selected as a Core Team Member in Finance & Controlling (FI & CO module) for SAP implementation in Infrastructure & Real Estate Division of Adani Group
• Successfully completed the FICO module implementation with the core team and consultants; supported the functional team after implementation
• Actively participated in the standardization process of the system among different group companies of the Adani Group

• Reduced vendor payment irregularities by 80% through creditor management, fund allocation for payment and creditor account reconciliation, able to stop frequent vendor visits to F&A division for payments
• Established process to systematize the payment process and brought smoothness into the process thus gaining credit period of 20 days
• MIS to the Financial Controller and Bank Liaison for fund management, bank guarantee, letter of credit for exports etc.