Arpit Nahata
New Delhi
Summary
Strategic finance leader with over 16 years of experience, shaping business and creating value. Known for leading high-impact transformation initiatives, mentoring high-performing teams, and fostering collaboration across global and cross-functional teams.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
2013
2013
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Certifications
Work History
Senior Finance Business Partner Pricing
BT Global Business Services
01.2025 - Current
- Strategic Value Creation: Partnered with senior leadership to deliver insights that influenced key strategic decisions for BT’s Business Products portfolio (Revenue: £2.1 billion).
- Business Case Leadership: Reviewed and signed off on over 15 BCMs, ensuring value maximisation and competitive leadership.
- Automation Excellence: Designed and implemented processes delivering efficiencies over 20% and adopting technology.
- Financial Planning Expertise: Developed comprehensive budgets and forecasts, enabling effective reviews and right focus on key KPI’s.
- Team Leadership: Created a mentoring framework, improving team collaboration and enhancing employee engagement scores by 40%.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Worked with commercial and Business teams to identify growth opportunities for Products across Connectivity, Mobility and Voice products that contributed robust 15% increase in profitability.
Planning & Insights Operational Manager | Lead Retail Products
BT Global Business Services Pvt Ltd
07.2019 - Current
- Strategic Value Creation: Partnered with senior leadership to deliver insights that influenced key strategic decisions for BT’s Business Products portfolio (Revenue: £2.1 billion
- Stakeholder management (Finance Director, Finance Controllers and Pduct leads)
- Collaboration with cross-functional teams including commercial & channel teams
- Conceptualizing and Driving Cost & Process Transformation programs
- Partnering with business on propositions and business cases to underpin task and challenges
- Driving the Financial planning exercise (Annual budget, Monthly and mid-term outlook)
- Carrying out the analysis of Business performance, Working capital and Balance Sheet
- Presenting the Business performance to the senior leadership team
- Team management with key focus on upskilling, coaching, mentoring, and ensuring right engagement within the team
- Overseeing the preparation of Quarterly and Annual financial statements and smooth conduct of Audit
- Leading on knowledge sharing sessions and actively participating for improvements
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Worked with commercial and Business teams to identify growth opportunities for Products across Connectivity, Mobility and Voice products that contributed robust 15% increase in profitability.
Finance Manager | BT Business Direct PLC
BT Global Business Services Pvt Ltd
09.2016 - 06.2019
- Profitability Reviews: Conducted variance analysis and profitability assessments, driving initiatives that delivered cost savings of £3 million.
- Treasury & Hedging: Implemented hedging strategies for foreign currency procurement, mitigating risks and enhancing cash flow predictability.
- Compliance Leadership: Ensured adherence to IFRS and VAT regulations, improving audit readiness and reducing compliance risks.
- Operational Efficiency: Partnered with procurement to enhance vendor terms, reducing procurement cycle times by 25%.
Exploration & Production Joint Venture (E&P JV) Financial Controller
GAIL (India) Limited
04.2014 - 09.2016
- Company Overview: www.gailonline.com
- Strategic Portfolio Leadership: Managed a portfolio of 27 exploration blocks, including 3 overseas.
- Architect of Financial Systems: Designed and implemented robust accounting systems.
- Strategic Feasibility and Modeling: Conducted financial modeling and feasibility studies for new projects, influencing investment decisions.
- Tendering for procurement of materials and hiring of services.
- Handling non-operating partners and DGH audit.
- Taxation compliances – Withholding Tax, Customs & Service Tax.
- Financial Modeling for blocks & conducting feasibility studies and preparing project reports to assess the financial viability of projects, predictable cash flows.
- Forecasting of revenue considering foreign exchange rate fluctuations and Gas price movements for supporting the Risk Management team to take hedging exposures.
- Preparation of budget and variance analysis based on actuals.
- Identify and develop controls/processes towards all risks and opportunities are addressed appropriately.
- Www.gailonline.com
Assistant Portfolio Manager
Jaypee Commodities Limited
07.2009 - 10.2009
- Trading in various commodities like Gold, Silver, Crude, Natural Gas, etc., on following exchanges MCX, MCX-SX, and NYMEX.
- Analyze various strategies to study the movement of market and take the positions accordingly.
- Study the relation of commodities with rest of the world and probable impact thereon on the prices of the commodities.
Education
Executive MBA (PGPMAX) -
Indian School of Business (ISB)
01.2023 - 01.2024
Master's - Business Finance
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
Chartered Accountant - undefined
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
B.Com - undefined
Delhi University
Skills
Business Partnering
Pricing strategy
Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
Stakeholder management
Teamwork and collaboration
Certification
Global Operations, London Business School, 2024
Accomplishments
- Value Creation, Delivered financial benefits exceeding £10 million over the years through several strategic initiatives and process implementation.
- Leadership Impact, Fostered a culture of collaboration and accountability, mentoring high-performing teams that consistently exceeded productivity targets and engagement scores.
- Business Case Modelling (BCM), Led several high-value BCM reviews worth £500 million aligned with long-term strategic goals.
- Process Automation, Successfully implemented processes across various functions leveraging advanced tools and thereby adding efficiency over 20% and improving decision-making process.
Interests
Reading books
Travelling
Fitness enthusiast
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 09/19/85
Training
- Leadership Training (As part of Accelerate – BT’s Global High potential Talent program)
- Future Leadership Program (BT)
- SAP-FICO
- Business English Course by British Council
- Internal Controls by Deloitte
- Three months residential training on Professional Skills Development, ICAI
Articleship Training
- M/s Jain Bansal & Gupta, 04/01/06, 05/31/08
- M/s K.C. Jain Associates, 05/01/08, 04/30/09
Timeline
Senior Finance Business Partner Pricing
BT Global Business Services
01.2025 - Current
Executive MBA (PGPMAX) -
Indian School of Business (ISB)
01.2023 - 01.2024
Planning & Insights Operational Manager | Lead Retail Products
BT Global Business Services Pvt Ltd
07.2019 - Current
Finance Manager | BT Business Direct PLC
BT Global Business Services Pvt Ltd
09.2016 - 06.2019
Exploration & Production Joint Venture (E&P JV) Financial Controller
GAIL (India) Limited
04.2014 - 09.2016
Assistant Portfolio Manager
Jaypee Commodities Limited
07.2009 - 10.2009
Chartered Accountant - undefined
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
B.Com - undefined
Delhi University
Master's - Business Finance
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India