Kavitha Namburi
Bengaluru
Summary
Dynamic Commercial Finance Manager with a proven track record at Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages, excelling in financial planning and data analysis. Expert in driving revenue growth strategies and optimizing costs, while fostering strategic partnerships. Adept at risk assessment and stakeholder engagement, delivering actionable insights that enhance profitability and operational efficiency.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Commercial Finance Manager
Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Limited
Bengaluru
09.2018 - Current
- Facilitated collaboration with Shoppers, Trade Marketing, and Route to Market teams through financial planning and analytics.
- Drove delivery of NPDS for Zonal Operating Income Target by leveraging volume, revenue, and expenditures.
- Provided analyses and insights to support business decisions, identifying opportunities and risks based on performance data.
- Enabled budget tracking for effective resource deployment and utilization across projects.
- Collaborated with internal and external teams to enhance overall business profile.
- Instrumental in launching and reviewing performance of new product developments (NPDs).
- Conducted value chain analysis and assessed promotional performance to optimize marketing strategies.
- Supported digitalization initiatives, including Coke Buddy program, and managed monthly cost reviews with RTM team.
Commercial Finance Manager
Coca-Cola Bottlers (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd.
11.2015 - 09.2018
- Partnering with commercial team to improve and achieve target margins for business size of USD250K.
- Revenue growth management – for opportunity mapping, scenario analysis, pricing.
- Deep dive analysis on – price/pack mix, margins, return on investments and dashboards to review of trade spends & effectiveness.
- BPPC financial scenario planning - Building margin through differentiation.
- Evaluation of commercial proposals, promotions – risk and opportunities.
- Financial planning of commercial strategies, implementation partnering and evaluating the performance.
- Process improvements/standardization.
- Successfully deployed a system whereby the actual performance can be evaluated for each business proposal.
- Developed dashboards for key customers margins, Channel analysis, market share.
Corporate Procurement Analytics Manager
Hindustan Coca- Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd (HCCB)
01.2005 - 10.2015
- Partnering for developing strategies for sustainable supply capability and driving innovation pipeline around procurement of goods & services.
- Commodity trend mapping, economy changes agri-commodities and impact on the costing.
- In-depth analysis and cost unbundling to identify opportunities for improvement. Finalization of RM/PM prices with detailed backups for budgets, rolling estimates and strategic business plans.
- Develop a budgetary control process to ensure compliance to plan.
- Ensuring hedge decision mapping, vertical P&L and monthly reviews to deliver business plan.
- Review areas of risk and opportunity and work on mitigation plan.
- Support in Supplier performance metrics.
- Project tracking mechanism – Establishment evaluation, finalize the partner and support till set-up.
- Projects identification, evaluation and execution for improvements resulting in cost reductions.
- Logistic costing models for inland movements.
- Worked on end to end on Agri-based project partnering tie-up. Including designing process, develop structured way for execution.
- Supplier Financial Assessment at L4.
Regional Business Analyst of North Region
Hindustan Coca- Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd (HCCB)
- Preparing the Annual business plan and Strategic business plan. Performance evaluation against the plan and make recommendations of changes to achieve the set targets.
- Analysis and consolidation of various financial reports and preparation of rolling estimates for achieving plan.
- Working on actionable items post balance sheet reconciliation, inter-company reconciliation and reconciliation with other regions.
- Handling the SOX Audit for the Region and secured clean audit report.
- Supply chain costing, asset utilization, capacity mapping, highlighting the scope of leveraging assets which in turn impacts profitability and ROIC.
- Benchmarking cost elements across region and highlighting the area of opportunities.
- Monitoring the Capex budget for the region and ensuring approvals as per COA.
- Build planning process.
- Instrumental in securing clean audit report for the region.
Executive (Finance) of India Region
Indian Express
- Preparation and consolidation of monthly Profit & Loss statement for all the divisions.
- Stock statement, tracking inventory, working capital and cash flow statements.
- Monthly tracking and control of expenses of the company and doing variance analysis.
- Finalization of budget for all the divisions, monthly MIS reports, department wise budget, budget controls and deviation analysis.
- Preparation of quarterly forecasts.
- Monitoring profitability and costing of individual plans as well cost benefit analysis.
- Ensuring statutory compliances pertaining to direct & indirect taxes, timely completion of assessments and co-ordinate with internal and statutory auditors.
- Supported on implementation of ERP system.
- Streamlined the reporting formats and build the routines.
Education
A.C.A. -
Institute of Chartered Accountant of India
05.2002
A.C.S -
Institute of Company Secretaries of India
02.2001
B.Com -
University of Osmania University
03.1999
Skills
- Financial planning and budgeting
- Data analysis and cost optimization
- Revenue growth strategies
- Performance tracking and improvement
- Strategic partnerships and collaboration
- Risk assessment and management
- Stakeholder engagement and business partnering
- Cash flow management and control
- Pricing strategy and forecasting
Timeline
Commercial Finance Manager
Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Limited
09.2018 - Current
Commercial Finance Manager
Coca-Cola Bottlers (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd.
11.2015 - 09.2018
Corporate Procurement Analytics Manager
Hindustan Coca- Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd (HCCB)
01.2005 - 10.2015
Regional Business Analyst of North Region
Hindustan Coca- Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd (HCCB)
Executive (Finance) of India Region
Indian Express
A.C.A. -
Institute of Chartered Accountant of India
A.C.S -
Institute of Company Secretaries of India
B.Com -
University of Osmania University
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