ARUN KUMAAR

• Manage and deliver profit targets of the region – 8% & $ 1 Billion EBIT
• Develop road map action and help functional teams achieve goals

· Program Manager, Strategy and Finance controller for Ford’s India Restructuring

· Successfully led and closed sale of Gujarat plants to Tata Motors

· Developed road map for Chennai plant disposition plan

· Lead for market footprint studies, aligning to Ford’s “Play to Win” strategy

· Supporting leadership team in optimising regional manufacturing foot print

· Competitive Benchmarking

• Determining & formulating financial strategies and providing overall direction for financial growth
• Lead monthly financial reviews with Regional CFO | Regional Operations Director | Global Controller
• Support Business process reviews (Operational Leadership) with key metrics
• Special projects on cost assessments
• Interrogating results and constantly driving plant operational efficiencies
• Steering plant efforts in delivering task targets
• Directing:
• Implementation of profit system for the region
• Centralization of activities from 3 regions
• 2 RPA Projects
• Creating & sustaining a dynamic environment that fosters the development opportunities and motivates the high performance amongst the team members

• Controlled $10 Billion global business
• Engaged in:
• Pricing to external parties (Jaguar & Land Rover, Aston Martin, Volvo etc.), JV partners and intercompany sales
• Bottom-line improvement of $10 mils
• And $4 mils through pricing actions
• Receivable management
• Internal Controls
• Preparation of monthly actuals, forecast, annual Budget and Business Plan
• Connect dots to big-picture, report profitability and drivers of variance to Regional and Corporate Profit Controller
• Built one of the first Finance CoEs in Ford GBS
• Transformed financial reporting mechanism; successfully managed external pricing audits (E&Y)
• Ensured effective implementation of robust control mechanisms
• Led functional design and development of financial reporting system
• Directed a senior 12 member team
• Business Strategy and

• For Ford’s India Restructuring
• Successfully led and closed sale of Gujarat plants to Tata Motors
• Developed road map for Chennai plant disposition plan
• Lead for market footprint studies, aligning to Ford’s “Play to Win” strategy
• Ford – Mahindra JV wind-down
• Supporting leadership team in optimising regional manufacturing foot print
• Competitive Benchmarking
• Due diligence of transactions and price-point determinations, Developed centralization roadmap for finance activities at GBS
• Supported leadership team with Corporate Presentations
• Facilitated benchmarking with other shared service providers

• Led Segmental Budget development; ERP

Portfolio management and HNI client aquisition