Sudesh Jain

• Defined and executed the GCC North Star and digital-first strategy, positioning the GCC as a value-creation engine.
• Spearheaded group-wide Finance Shared Services strategy and transformation across businesses.
• Led large-scale digital, automation, and AI initiatives to drive productivity and operational excellence.
• Partnered closely with CXOs, CFOs, and business leaders to deliver best-in-class shared services.
• Built and scaled high-performing teams through structured capability building and leadership development.
• Institutionalized a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and ownership mindset.
• Strengthened governance, risk, and control frameworks across shared services operations..

• Led end-to-end Finance Shared Services operations, delivering standardized, scalable, and high-quality finance services across multiple businesses.
• Drove process harmonization and centralization initiatives, improving efficiency, control environment, and service consistency.
• Implemented automation and digitization across core finance processes, reducing manual effort and improving turnaround times.
• Partnered with business and finance leadership to enhance service delivery, stakeholder satisfaction, and governance outcomes.
• Built and managed large, multi-location teams with a strong focus on talent development, performance culture, and succession readiness

• Partnered with cross-functional business and service teams to develop and finalize the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), aligning financial targets with strategic objectives.
• Led quarterly and monthly operating reviews across multiple business units, analyzing performance against plan, identifying variances, and driving corrective actions.
• Conducted in-depth analysis of capital expenditure (CapEx) proposals, including stage-wise investment evaluation, return projections (ROI/IRR), payback analysis, and risk assessment to support executive decision-making.

• Oversee overall operations of SSC comprising of various COE (B2P, O2C, Treasury, Tax and R2R) and look for improvement opportunities. Ensure all the deliverables are being tracked, SLAs are met, and reported.
• Lead periodic governance and controllership review meetings with multiple Business Units across Adani Group. Ensure SLAs/RSLAs Dashboards are presented and discussed along with other key initiatives which SSC is driving for the BU
• Championed New Initiatives -
• Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in partnership with Automation Anywhere
• Vendor Invoice Management (VIM) tool from SAP Open Text for vendor invoice management
• Happay Travel & Expense (T&E) Management Solution
• Implemented Goods and Services Tax (GST) through Super Tax ASP
• Power BI tool for Analytics, Dashboards and Visual Management
• Service Now Implementation for customer queries and ticketing management
• Banking Portal for Adani Group on Dot Net
• SSC Portal on Sharepoint

• Core member of Project Tiger (Vodafone BPT), driving process design, banking partner selection, SAP setup, UAT, data cleansing, transition, stabilization, and BAU governance.
• Led a 22-member team (6 CAs, 2 CWAs), achieving zero regrettable attrition (2009–10) and earning management recognition.
• Served as key interface to Group Treasury, managing liquidity, operational compliance, weekly governance reviews, and SLA reporting.
• Oversaw month-end close including bank and intercompany reconciliations, ensuring SOX and corporate compliance.
• Delivered KPI adherence across Accuracy, TAT, Productivity, and Customer Satisfaction metrics.

Supervision of entire accounting and taxation functions for 38 group companies, Finalization of books of accounts including preparation of consolidated statements.

• Design and develop effective Mid office and back office processes to monitor treasury desk's performance on a day to day basis as well as at period end.
• Cash flow management of treasury desk through detailed understanding of derivative settlement systems and margining mechanics.

Finalization of accounts of public limited companies, statutory audits of companies, government & insurance audit, tax audits, Income tax return filling etc.

• Internal and Statutory audits of companies, banks, insurance firms etc, concentrating on the area of statutory compliances, accounting system, compliance with accounting standards, vouching, bank Reconciliation etc.