Ashish Kulkarni
Finance Manager, Lead FTTx
Mumbai,Maharashtra
Summary
Finance professional with 14+ years of experience in accounting, financial management, financial reporting, and internal control. Experienced in managing multi-million-dollar business operations. Successfully optimizes frameworks and cultivates cohesive teams to meet and exceed business financial goals. Adept at dealing with complex issues and challenges in a way that enhances performance.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Business Finance and Planning FTTx lead
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd.
9 2015 - Current
- Develop and maintain dashboards and reports to track key business metrics and KPIs
- Regular Monitoring of FTTx Tableau reports to identify business parameters trends
- Presenting and Reporting of a key areas of business concern i.e
- Vendor stock ageing, OLT utilization with Capex spent, FSA-wise Capex spent
- Custodian of Capex budget requirements for new projects and to ensure all senior management approvals
- Detailed analysis of all operational costs and highlighting the key areas
- Identify opportunities for optimization and improvement based on data-driven insights
- Develop and implement analytics strategies and processes to support business objectives
- Inventory control and management - Monthly Inventory reconciliation, capitalization, ensure receipt of material for any inter-server/company transaction, physical verification periodically
- Co-ordination and managing 31 Jio centres Finance team across Mumbai state with day-to-day activities and business requirements
- Recognition: Awarded with the Finance excellence Award for FY 21
Revenue Reporting
Star India Private Limited
08.2014 - 09.2015
- Preparation of special reporting requests to management as per the requirements for routine/ non-routine analysis
- Ensuring timely submission of all the month-end reports
- Manage Revenue Accounting team, including overseeing the credit, billing and collection function
- Performing budget & rolling forecast analysis for the India and US
- Customer outstanding and balance confirmation from the international team (UK, US, ME )
- Revenue recognition for projects and revenue trend reports
- Regularly assist Revenue manager with monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasts
- Providing pre-audit fieldwork support to the audit team
- Month end closing activity - Provisioning and actualization.
- Ensured accurate revenue reporting by reconciling daily financial data and addressing discrepancies promptly.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams for comprehensive sales audits, ensuring accurate revenue reporting.
Accounts Receivable and Payable
Bharti Airtel Limited
07.2011 - 08.2014
- Prepared, managed and validated channel partner pay-outs and claw-backs as per the budget/GAC - Line of businesses - Prepaid, MNP, DTH, Telemedia, Airtel Money
- Monitored budget/GAC variances on monthly basis
- Stock reconciliation, valuation and consumption report preparation and submission
- Managing quarterly audit - Circle and HO
- Conducting Channel partner engagement activities like monthly zonal visits
- Acted as a liaison with Marketing, Customer services department and Human resource department in handling provision issues
- Recognition: Recognized by Finance head for identifying ensuring closer of Open work orders.
Senior Executive-Account payable
Sistema Shyam Teleservices Limited-MTS
05.2009 - 07.2011
- Payment processing as per Contract/Agreements
- IUC Payable Invoice processing - Roaming Charges etc
- Initiated Channel commission Invoice processing for PAN India
- Transactions Reconciliation and providing a statement to Channel partner
- Verifying CAPEX & OPEX bills for PAN India
- Overall responsible for all Opex Payments Includes
- Opex Vendor Payments of PAN India Level Maintaining Rejection MIS Tracker daily
Education
POST GRADUATE PROGRAM In Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - undefined
Great Lakes Executive Learning
05.2019 - 05.2020
MBA - Finance -
Sinhgad Business School
03.2007 - 04.2009
Bachelor of Commerce - undefined
MLS University
03.2004 - 03.2007
Skills
Stakeholder Management
Timeline
POST GRADUATE PROGRAM In Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - undefined
Great Lakes Executive Learning
05.2019 - 05.2020
Revenue Reporting
Star India Private Limited
08.2014 - 09.2015
Accounts Receivable and Payable
Bharti Airtel Limited
07.2011 - 08.2014
Senior Executive-Account payable
Sistema Shyam Teleservices Limited-MTS
05.2009 - 07.2011
MBA - Finance -
Sinhgad Business School
03.2007 - 04.2009
Bachelor of Commerce - undefined
MLS University
03.2004 - 03.2007
Business Finance and Planning FTTx lead
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd.
9 2015 - Current
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