Balasubramanian VK
Pune
Summary
Seasoned financial analyst and finance business partner with over 11 years of demonstrated expertise in FP&A, operational finance, and commercial finance, showcasing strong business partnering capabilities. Holds a techno-managerial background in engineering (Industrial Biotechnology), complemented by an MBA
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Ocean Product and Area Sales FBP
Maersk GSC Pvt Limited
Pune
01.2025 - 03.2026
- Developed the Sales Target Setting in Salesforce and distributing USD 600m to 100+ individual sales reps using a bottom-up approach, historical analysis, capacity based planning.
- Orchestrating financial analysis for USD 400m logistics sales portfolio in MEKONG (TH, VN, MY - APA) translating insights into actions at a customer level that support strategic goals and top-line expansion.
Financial Analysis Manager
Maersk Global Service Centre
Pune
12.2023 - 12.2024
- Acted as Finance Business Partner for Global Operations Finance, supporting HQ leadership with financial insights and decision support across a USD 2.5b+ cost portfolio.
- Partnered with Equipment and Operations leadership teams to analyze cost drivers, challenge assumptions with data-driven insights, and support cost optimization initiatives delivering ~5–8% efficiency (~USD 50-100m) cost saving opportunities.
- Collaborated with Business Heads to support annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, and strategic business planning, performing variance analysis and introducing driver-based forecasting thereby improving forecasting accuracy from 90 to 95%.
- Prepared management review decks, monthly cost performance OPR/AOP memos, highlighting financial outliers, risks, and opportunities to enable informed decision-making.
- OPEX vs CAPEX analysis, lease vs buy analysis for equipment, financial modeling, forward-looking and what-if scenario analysis.
Associate Financial Analyst
Maersk Global Service Centre
Pune
05.2019 - 11.2023
- FBP to Equipemnt Maintenance & Repair and Equipment team USD 500m Opex spend.
- Developed a new surcharge product generating USD 100m revenue with cross functional support process documentation on pricing vs cost analysis.
- Supported Business Heads with cross functional collaboration with regional teams, Finance Teams (CCAP, ATR, LnS, Data & Analytics, Commercial, Network and Markets and Ocean surcharges).
- Improved financial data quality and creating global solutions at a granular level for better business decisions.
- Worked on Power BI, SAP, predictive machine learning models.
- Best/standard practices sharing from regional equipment FBPs fostering higher collaboration.
Intern
Maersk Global Service Centre
Pune
04.2018 - 06.2018
- Built an Analytics model for Tracking and Forecasting of Transhipment Cost. Project objective Optimization in forecast of operations cost.
IT Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
Chennai
08.2012 - 07.2017
- Worked in BFS-Banking and Financial Services Vertical for Citi bank, USA as a buisness analyst.
- Performed requirement and impact analysis using JIRA & Visio tools for developing business solution designs for Citi global consumer banking initiatives.
- Ensured alignment between business goals and customer journey for the first Smart Watch App for Citi US that benefited over 10k watch users.
- Lead a team of 5 associates for a Compliance project and supported the IT Audit teams.
Education
MBA - Business Analytics & Finance
SCMHRD, Symbiosis International University
Pune, India04-2019
MBA Student Exchange -
Berlin School of Economics And Law
Berlin, Germany01-2019
B.Tech - Industrial Biotechnology
SASTRA University
Tamilnadu, India06-2012
Skills
- Financial modeling and budget forecasting
- P&L Ownership & Management
- C-Suite Business partnering
- Influencing decisions
Accomplishments
• Awarded Maersk Champion of the month consistently for delivering a new surcharge product generating USD 100m.
• Awarded with 'Going the Extra Mile Award' for unlocking USD 10m saving opportunity.
• Awarded with pre placement job offer from Maersk post successful internship.
• Awarded with 'Going the Extra Mile Award' for unlocking USD 10m saving opportunity.
• Awarded with pre placement job offer from Maersk post successful internship.
Social Links - Linked In
https://www.linkedin.com/in/balasubramanian-venkatesan-kumar-228bb54b
Timeline
Ocean Product and Area Sales FBP
Maersk GSC Pvt Limited
01.2025 - 03.2026
Financial Analysis Manager
Maersk Global Service Centre
12.2023 - 12.2024
Associate Financial Analyst
Maersk Global Service Centre
05.2019 - 11.2023
Intern
Maersk Global Service Centre
04.2018 - 06.2018
IT Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
08.2012 - 07.2017
MBA - Business Analytics & Finance
SCMHRD, Symbiosis International University
MBA Student Exchange -
Berlin School of Economics And Law
B.Tech - Industrial Biotechnology
SASTRA University