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Karan Jha

Karan Jha

VP :-FP&A
Delhi

Summary

Finance professional with 11 years of expertise in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), M&A due diligence, financial modeling, corporate finance valuations, and regional reporting and analytics. Proven ability in budgeting, forecasting, project management and finance transformation, driving strategic insights and business growths. Strong leadership and stakeholder management experience across multiple geographies, with a track record of effective collaboration and decision making. Skilled in financial modelling, revenue decomposition analysis, and flash commentaries, providing data-driven insights for business optimization. Creating & Updating of Financial Models and providing in-depth insights on Financial forecast.

Work History

Vice President-FP&A (CFO Business Partnering)

Barclays
01.2019 - Current
  • Work with CFO’s and COO’s to develop and execute the company’s financial strategy in alignment with business objectives.
  • Led end-to-end product profitability analysis across business segments by evaluating revenue streams, direct/indirect cost allocations, margin trends, and customer economics to support strategic pricing, investment, and portfolio optimization decisions.
  • Lead the annual budgeting & forecasting process to drive financial discipline and accountability.
  • Delivering full set of forward looking Financial projections.
  • Develop financial models and conduct scenario analysis to support strategic initiatives and investment decisions.
  • Collaborate with the Cost Center of Excellence (COE) to analyze monthly General Ledger (GL) postings and ensure timely month-end closing. Reconcile balance sheet accounts after month-end, providing detailed explanations for any discrepancies.
  • Identify and evaluate strategic opportunities for growth, cost optimization and risk mitigation.
  • Share insight based analytics of actuals and forecast financials (including capacity creation) based on underlying drivers.
  • Monitor financial performance against budget and forecast, highlighting variances & providing insights to management.
  • Leading high performing finance team, responsible for performance development, mentoring to enhance overall business partnering skills and career progression.
  • Support Capacity creation, cost saves and Risk& opportunities management and ensure compliance with accounting standards, regulations, tax requirement.

Analyst, BlackRock (FP&A)

BlackRock
02.2017 - 01.2019
  • Ensure annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting analysis requirements are achieved accurately and completely on timely basis.
  • Analyze complex financial information & reports to provide accurate & timely information to management.
  • Drive standardization, simplification of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting & reporting process in partner with cross functional teams to define key business drivers, performance indicators.
  • Provide information and MI reports to allow the business to be challenged as required where forecast requirement are not met.

Analyst, Mckinsey (Corporate Finance)

Mckinsey
11.2015 - 01.2017
  • Gathered key clients requirements of projects across sectors to support emerging hypothesis through research and analytics, industry analysis, benchmarking and case specific analysis.
  • Executing Strategic M&A decisions & divestitures and aligning appropriate capital structure and proper communication of business strategy with financial markets.
  • Research & analysis of Industry trends, identify growth opportunities which may develop into business opportunities.
  • Executing Financial Valuations of the companies (Key Metrics :-Profitability, Benchmarking, ROIC, DCF Valuation, Multiples based Valuation, Benchmarking).

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Education

MBA - Finance

Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
01.2022

Skills

Expertise in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access), TM1, Essbase, Power BI, Bloomberg, SAP, Oracle, SAC ORH, Alteryx, Tableau

Timeline

Vice President-FP&A (CFO Business Partnering)

Barclays
01.2019 - Current

Analyst, BlackRock (FP&A)

BlackRock
02.2017 - 01.2019

Analyst, Mckinsey (Corporate Finance)

Mckinsey
11.2015 - 01.2017

MBA - Finance

Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
Karan JhaVP :-FP&A