Ranjith Acharya
Bangalore
Summary
Strategic Head of Finance known for highly productive and efficient task completion. Possess key skills in financial forecasting, risk management, and budgeting, ensuring precise financial planning and growth. Excel in leadership, communication, and problem-solving, facilitating seamless cross-departmental collaboration and driving teams towards achieving corporate objectives.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Head of Finance
Vidyoai Ventures Private Limited (DBA: Quso.ai)
Bengaluru/Delaware
09.2023 - Current
- Leading finance for India parent & U.S. subsidiary; oversee global accounting, tax, and compliance.
- Partner with CEO & CTO on strategy, fundraising, and investor relations; manage board reporting.
- Designed and implemented global financial controls, revenue recognition, and transfer pricing framework.
- Designed and implemented the company’s first ESOP framework including policy design, valuation, legal structuring, and board approval; managed end-to-end execution covering grants, cap table management, and employee communication.
- Successfully streamlined GST refund process, recovering ₹3.5 crores in blocked input tax credits and improving working capital cycle.
- Built finance team and processes from scratch covering GST, Traces, income tax, payroll, and cross-border remittances.
- Spearheaded financial due diligence, and capital structure optimization.
- Partnered with GTM & product teams to provide revenue insights, CAC/LTV analysis, and churn metrics.
- Worked with team to create dashboards (FP&A, ARR/MRR) that improved executive decision-making and fundraising readiness.
- Reduced bad debts by 70% and improved collection.
- Supported fundraise process (due diligence, investor decks, financial models) — successfully closed funding rounds.
- Set up finance operations in the U.S. subsidiary ensuring full compliance with local GAAP and tax.
- Designed financial models projecting ARR growth, used in VC negotiations.
Senior Manager Finance
UrbanPiper Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore
09.2018 - 08.2023
- Managed and participated in all financial functions within the company, including accounting, Investments, expenses.
- Took care of all the due diligence and Statutory compliance with ease.
- Closely worked on the funding round of the company for Series - A & B.
- Provided Consultation and worked closely with CFO & CEO. Resolved most of the revenue & expense leakage.
- Introduced new tools & software's to enhance the current process. Have bridged quite some integrations for AR & AP.
- Preparation of Revenue Reports on a monthly basis and update the MRR for all the regions without anomalies and ensure there are no revenue leakage.
- Played a major role in migration of data from one accounting tool to a new tool. Prepared chart of accounts and ensuring the migrated accounting data is matching.
- Improved billing efficiency and increased accuracy of financial forecasts.
- Ensured none of the due dates were missed for filing GSTR - 1, GSTR - 3B etc.
- Coordinated and supervised a team of 5. Who were my direct reportees.
- Created any supporting revenue stream documents which are required for invoicing.
- Periodical reconciliation of 26AS with customer statements and track all advances.
- Have a good knowledge running SQL queries to simplify complexed data.
- Proficient in writing formulas in Microsoft Excel.
- Regular review of customer ledger reconciliations.
- Any legal changes w.r.t the agreement is well driven with inputs.
- I was active enough to reach out to the stakeholders and the data sanity is ensured.
- Conduct weekly cadence calls with placeholders to review the AR summary for each region.
- Review GSTR-01 summary report and filing.
- Reconciliation of billed revenue with Salesforce deals.
- Preparation of process documents with respect to billing, receivables etc. Review of day to day financial transactions, including verifying, classifying, computing, posting and recording accounts receivable data (Including payment entries, Journals for payment received through payment gateways etc).
- Assist with new billing procedures across all the regions. Engage management over any AR problems you encounter, identify slow-paying customers, keep improvising the current processes.
- Adaptable and willing to learn - i.e. - propose changes that improve our processes and systems and to take up processes established over the period and own it.
- Providing Company Directors with accurate financial information, management accounts and data analysis.
- Creating vendor registration form.
- Preparing multiple reports to understand and analyze the accounting, recovery and churn trends.
- Allocation of tasks and customer emails to the team on a daily basis.
- Working closely with the tech team to ensure the Customer portals are disabled for non-payers.
- Managing and developing a team of Accounts Receivables.
- Co-ordinating with the internal and external auditors and ensure the financial data is accurate.
- Preparing monthly billing report and providing MIS data to the management.
- Prepared chart of accounts and ensuring the migrated accounting data is matching with respective ledgers.
- Managed the entire audit of the company, ensured all the data is accurate and financially healthy.
- Review of customer queries with regards to GST & TDS.
- Created dashboards using data studio using master data to the higher management.
- Helped company in building customer database.
- Oversee the preparation of financial reports, including income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements.
Education
PGDM (Finance & Business Analytics) -
ISBR Business School
Bengaluru12.2023
BCOM (Tax Procedure) -
Alvas College
Mangalore12.2018
PUC -
INCPUC
Bengaluru12.2015
SSLC -
Oxford School
Bengaluru12.2013
Skills
- Financial Leadership: C-level finance strategy, investor relations, board reporting
- Global Finance & Compliance: Indian GAAP, US GAAP, Transfer Pricing, Cross-border compliance
- Strategic Finance: Fundraising support, FP&A, scenario modeling, valuation
- Revenue Operations: SaaS metrics (MRR, ARR, churn, CAC, LTV), GTM finance partnership
- Tech & Tools: Stripe, Salesforce, SQL, PowerBI, Zoho, QuickBooks, advanced Excel, ERP systems
- Accounting
- Financial principles
- SAAS
- Process improvement
- Task management
- External engagement
- Microsoft Office 365
- Financial Planning
- Statutory Compliance
- Due Diligence
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Banking
- A/R
- A/P
- Cost Control
- Expense Reduction
- Lead a Team
Accomplishments
- Awarded as a best Lead in multiple townhall events.
- Launched and institutionalized ESOP program to attract and retain top talent; set up valuation, trust, and compliance processes, ensuring seamless alignment with board, investors, and employees
- Earned ESOP's from the company for being a major contributor in company's growth.
- Recognised as a best Internal Auditor for managing KPMG & Deloitte audits.
- My idea was implemented as a feature, and this helped to bring down company's ageing and hence the bad debts.
- Awarded for bringing down 71.23% of bad debts.
Timeline
Head of Finance
Vidyoai Ventures Private Limited (DBA: Quso.ai)
09.2023 - Current
Senior Manager Finance
UrbanPiper Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
09.2018 - 08.2023
PGDM (Finance & Business Analytics) -
ISBR Business School
BCOM (Tax Procedure) -
Alvas College
PUC -
INCPUC
SSLC -
Oxford School
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