UDAY JAMDAR

• Forecasting & Reporting for distribution revenue of $305 Million USD for Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) for HBO Max Over The Top (OTT).
• Made the budget for FY25 for CEE HBO Max OTT.
• Variance analysis for month close for Forecast vs Actuals.
• Monthly revenue accruals for unrecognized revenue.
• Reconciliation of billing vs payment received at month end.
• Provide analytical dashboard of businesses via Tableau and excel to walkthrough performance metrics.
• Involve in building of presentation decks so as to highlight key
  movements in each LOB(s) to senior management.
• Act as a business partner for the finance functions across CEE with regards to financial P&L overview and consolidation.
• Management reporting for CEE HBO Max and highlighting any risks and opportunities.

Key Project and Achievements:

• Developed dashboards in Tableau & Excel, enabling real-time data visualization that improved stakeholder engagement, reporting clarity & reduced reporting time by 0.3 FTE.

• Handling 5 Finance Categories with sales volume of $3.8 Billion USD
• Transitioned merchandise financial planning role from US
• Mentoring TM's to be their best with knowledge gained on transition phase
• Handling Ad-Hoc analysis for Finance executive on a regular basics
• Skilled in process reverse engineering
• Created multiple tailor made Power BI dashboard for finance team and merchants to have better grasp on product performance
• Worked closely with Finance executive's to track strategic decisions made on improving Gross margin
• Reported on POG (planogram) performance after reset
• Partnered with Inventory & Pricing team extensively on forecast
• Worked on Trade (vendor discount, billback's & fixtures) to allocate at product level
• Tracked and analyzed Markdown SKU's and stock levels
• Partnered with Finance Team & Merchants on AOP (Budget)
• Created and optimized SQL query to work with large data sets
• Weekly reports on Sales, GM & SKU performance
• Part of COE (Center of Excellence) for Finance to optimize performance

Key Project and Achievements:

• Transitioned merchandise financial planning process from US to India to forecast sales for worth ($10 billion) and set up a team from scratch.

• Reporting of key financial metric to stakeholders
• Variance Analysis of monthly collections to plan
• Reconciliation of bank and customer account
• Revenue recognition at cost center level

Key Project and Achievements:

• Worked with a global auto original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for analyzing, managing and streamlining their order to cash process for Europe, Australia and USA
• Improved efficiency by ensuring that the profit center is marked at the time of the posting entries to ensure the profitability analysis is performed correctly.

• Investment Research: Reported to the fund manager of SBI Credit Risk Fund
• Worked in the debt investment department and critically analyzed the business and financials of various companies to ascertain their credit worthiness for debt investment
• Created proposals for investment in infrastructure and chemical companies
• Created credit updates sent to senior management regarding existing investments.

• Prepared the budget for 3 business units (Capital, Operations & IRCTC)
• Forecast for 2 business units (IRCTC & Service Unit)
• Prepared the monthly financial Management Dashboard
• Cashflow management & projections
• Banking relationships and conversion of inward remittances
• Financial Modelling for bidding on government Tenders
• Worked with the business unit heads and support function heads to make the budget file for company for FY 16 & FY 17

Key Projects and Achievements:

• Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Tender: Developed a financial model from scratch to bid in the IRCTC Railway tenders for setting up Water Vending Machines (WVMs) at railway stations to provide purified safe drinking water
• WHIN has participated and won 15 clusters for setting up of 515 WVMs
• Delhi Jal Board, : Made financial models to determine feasibility and bid value to participate in various government and private tenders
• Model was used to successfully to participate and win a tender from the Delhi Jal Board to set up 29 Water Health Centers (Mini RO Plants) in the city of Delhi.