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VIPUL VADECHA

Mumbai,Maharashtra

Summary

Result-oriented and energetic professional with over 11 years of experience in finance and accounting across diverse industries including pharma, automotive, FMCG, and engineering

Strong expertise in FP&A and supply chain finance functions, with a proven track record in scenario modeling, sensitivity analysis, and management reporting. Skilled in preparing, consolidating, and reviewing monthly financial statements

Proficient at coordinating with stakeholders to review status against forecasts and identify root causes of variances

Finance lead for S&OP and IBP, providing analytical interpretations of industry trends and considering internal/external constraints related to supply chain

Responsible for preparing quarterly forecasts and annual budgets (AOP/IOP). Restructured internal financial reports, improving accuracy and developing executive dashboards with trend analysis

Identified and addressed system inconsistencies. Led a Kaizen project, mentoring team members to brainstorm and execute improvement ideas, achieving organizational objectives.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Finance Business Partner-FP&A

Avantor Sciences
04.2023 - Current
  • Leadership in IBP and S&OP: Leading Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) as FBP-FP&A, managing a team of 5
  • Responsible for P&L management, including Revenue, COGS, OPEX, and EBITDA.
  • Comprehensive Financial Planning: Delivering BU-wise and region-wise IOP/AOP (Annual Operating Plan), rolling forecasts, and weekly estimates
  • Reconciling financial P&L with IBP/S&OP forecasts and explaining variances.
  • Strategic Business Partnering: Partnering with onshore finance and regional commercial leadership teams to drive financial performance and strategic initiatives.
  • Process Improvement and Mentorship: Leading Kaizen projects and mentoring team members to generate and implement process improvement ideas.

Manager-FP&A

Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.
10.2017 - 04.2023
  • Core FP&A Leadership: Part of the Automotive Sector’s core FP&A team, reporting to the CFO and managing a team of 3
  • Responsible for submissions to CFO and M&M group corporate accounts, covering 6 manufacturing plants.
  • Financial Statement Consolidation and P&L Management: Supervised P&L management and gross contribution for the Auto Sector involved in consolidation of financial statements with intercompany eliminations in HFM.
  • Decision Support and Improvement: Provided decision support, highlighted potential improvement areas and opportunities (R&O), and reviewed product-wise and department-wise P&L to ascertain segment profitability.
  • Variance Analysis: Conducted variance analysis, including reconciliations of actual vs Prior year, actual vs Budget, and actual vs Forecast.
  • Strategic and Operational Involvement: Involved in product pricing, optimal product mix/sourcing mix decisions, inventory management, statutory audits, and other MIS for CFO/CEO review.

Sr. Finance Executive-SCF

Hindustan Unilever Ltd.
08.2015 - 10.2017
  • Supply Chain Finance Leadership: Led a back-end team of 5 in the Personal Care portfolio, which constitutes half of the organization’s turnover
  • Participated in material cost forecasting by triangulating currency, crude, palm oil, and feedstock market movements
  • Ensured alignment with production and distribution planners.
  • Strategic Insights and Fiscal Management: Monitored fiscal (excise) benefits for excise-exempted units on a quarterly basis
  • Provided insights to the brand team to facilitate decisions related to promotional offers and pricing.

Accounts Executive

Elecon Engineering Ltd.
12.2013 - 08.2015
  • Adhered SBU wise Profitability, Calculation of Machine Hour Rates to get conversion cost, Cooperated with Cost Auditor and prepared Cost Audit work as per requirement of Cost Audit

Trainee Article

P.D. Modh and Associates
09.2012 - 12.2013
  • Functioned on Cost Compliance Reports and Cost Audit reports for more than 15 companies

Education

CMA(ICWA) -

The Institute of Cost Accountants of India
06.2013

B.com -

The Gujarat University
04.2012

Skills

  • Preparation of Financial Statements
  • P&L Management
  • Costing & Cost Management
  • Budgeting and Forecasting
  • Variance Analysis
  • S&OP and IBP
  • Pricing and Inventory Management
  • Management Reporting
  • SAP, Oracle and major other ERP Systems
  • Hyperion (HFM)
  • Analysis for Office (AFO) from SAP - CFIN
  • SAC – SAP Analytics Cloud
  • Qlikview, QlikSense, BIW Analyzer
  • Power-BI and Power-Automate
  • Tech Savvy – Advanced formulae and VBA programming in Excel

Accomplishments

  • AIR-11 in CMA Final (First Attempt)
  • 3 times Excellence Awards and 5 times Spot Awards in M&M
  • Promoted in 2021 in Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd.
  • Avantor IMPACT award for creating an Executive-Dashboard for Global Senior leadership team

Languages

English
Hindi
Gujarati

Targetjobfunction

Finance & Accounts

Targetjobtitle

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Personal Information

Title: Finance Business Partner/Manager/Team Leader

Timeline

Finance Business Partner-FP&A

Avantor Sciences
04.2023 - Current

Manager-FP&A

Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.
10.2017 - 04.2023

Sr. Finance Executive-SCF

Hindustan Unilever Ltd.
08.2015 - 10.2017

Accounts Executive

Elecon Engineering Ltd.
12.2013 - 08.2015

Trainee Article

P.D. Modh and Associates
09.2012 - 12.2013

CMA(ICWA) -

The Institute of Cost Accountants of India

B.com -

The Gujarat University

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