Saurabh Mittal
Chartered Accountant
Mumbai
Summary
Finance professional with 10+ years of work experience with diversified experience across performance management, business partnering, supply chain finance and Corporate Accounts. Have led large teams and delivered transformational projects for the organisation.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages
Work History
Business Finance Head - CPG
Purplle.com
01.2022 - Current
- Creating AOP framework for CPG segment and ensuring the monthly/qtrly delivery as per the plan and identify if there any risk
- Conducting monthly review meeting with Founder and Business Heads, to review overall business performance against AOP
- Business partnering with various Business Heads to understand there needs to drive business and overall financial health
- Working on self service dashboards/reports to provide information and insights
- Streamlined financial reporting processes for increased accuracy, timeliness and reliable financial data
- Engaging with team to guide and motivate them to deliver there goals
P2P and B2C - Head
Hindustan Unilever
03.2020 - 01.2022
- Heading P2P function of 35K crs annual payments for entire HUL during the Pandemic time and ensured zero working capital impact to our Trade Partners
- Handled 5K crs annual payments of Customer claims across multiple trade channels - GT, MT, Ecom
- Automated lot of processes like paperless invoices, vendor reconciliation, co-packers payments with the help of RPA
- Automated 85% of claims processing and customer collection in ERP system through RPA and delivered significant manpower savings
- Handled integration project of GSK and HUL on B2C front
Finance Controller
Lakme Lever Pvt Ltd - HUL Subsidiary
9 2017 - 03.2020
- Leading controllership agenda across R2R, P2P and O2C for the business
- Setup accounting and reporting framework for newly launched Unilever Prestige Beauty brand in India
- Setup revenue assurance process around service businesses hence adding back topline through plugging of leakages
- Worked closely with Marketing and Sales to drive business performance and deliver topline and bottomline.
Asst Manager Corporate Finance
Hindustan Unilever
10.2015 - 08.2017
- Created the annual target framework to set target for Unilever South Asia and India (for all key businesses)
- Partnering CFO & senior leaders to drive performance management
- Overheads control - run the Zero Based Budgeting exercise for the company and ensured 25 crs annual savings got delivered
- Stepped up the quality of Information & Analytics with sharper insights decks; creating self service tableau based information dashboards that can be leveraged across functions.
Asst Manager Supply Chain Finance
Hindustan Unilever
08.2011 - 09.2015
- Headed factory commercial operations which involves - planning, sourcing and distribution along with finance activities to ensure top class financial & physical hygiene at units
- Managed SCF operations for 60+ co-packers units across India and rolled self audit mechanism across all co-packers
- Setup the freight module to automate primary freight payment at centralized location for Pan India
- Part of Global Product Costing project team where led team to re-wire entire product cost and trained 40+ manufacturing units on revised process
Education
Chartered Accountant -
ICAI
11.2010 -
B. Com - undefined
Kurukshetra University
04.2005 - 05.2008
Skills
Stakeholder Management
undefinedAwards
- Best Collabration Team, Purplle.com
- Best Business Partnering Team, Lakme Lever Pvt Ltd, Commercial Team won the awards for Best Business Partnering Team
- CFO Awards, Hindustan Unilever Limited, Won this award under the People Development pillar
Timeline
Business Finance Head - CPG
Purplle.com
01.2022 - Current
P2P and B2C - Head
Hindustan Unilever
03.2020 - 01.2022
Asst Manager Corporate Finance
Hindustan Unilever
10.2015 - 08.2017
Asst Manager Supply Chain Finance
Hindustan Unilever
08.2011 - 09.2015
Chartered Accountant -
ICAI
11.2010 -
B. Com - undefined
Kurukshetra University
04.2005 - 05.2008
Finance Controller
Lakme Lever Pvt Ltd - HUL Subsidiary
9 2017 - 03.2020
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