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SAPTARSHI GUHA

SAPTARSHI GUHA

Financial Planning and Analysis Manager
Mumbai

Summary

Dynamic professional with over 16 years of extensive operations management experience, specializing in multi-country finance and accounting service delivery across diverse sectors, including manufacturing, publishing, automotive, and retail. Proven success in partnering with clients to implement transformative finance initiatives, including ERP upgrades from SAP Atlas to SAP HQP and Oracle R11i to R12. Expertise includes Ariba deployment and comprehensive vendor onboarding support, ensuring streamlined processes and enhanced operational efficiency. A results-driven approach fosters collaboration and drives continuous improvement in financial operations.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
4
4
Languages

Work History

Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Nouryon Chemicals India Pvt Ltd
01.2023 - Current
  • Responsible for the Setup of the Global Capability center in India wherein I am essentially involved in scoping of each role, structuralise and overall monitoring of the transition.
  • Responsible for the Global ANT Reporting (which tracks Global cost saving initiatives) to the Leadership team (Global Project reporting for Integrated Supply chain)
  • Working as a Global Functional cost controller for different functions.
  • Responsible for P&L preparation, Flash reporting and Variance Analysis (Monthly and quarterly) for the global organisation
  • Functional and project cost controlling related activities.
  • Have set up the Governance framework for all activities which is key to stakeholder management
  • Emerging Market sales reporting and Sales through Distribution Channel reporting
  • As a part of Core PMO team, I am also responsible for KPI Dashboard and the presentations for global and Steerco Meetings
  • Responsible for global transfer pricing for intercompany- creation and maintenance
  • Oct'19 – Dec'22: JSW Global business solutions (Looking after Energy and Renewable Energy business from shared services acting as a Manager, Team of 10 Qualified accountants CA, CMA CPA's)
  • Worked as a GBS finance controller & looks after 2 Major business (Energy and renewable) supported by a team of 10 accountants/team leads
  • Represented F&A process in company and governance meetings with business verticals. Develop & maintain customer relationship with key Managers across the group.
  • Responsible and have to review the Capitalisation of the Fixed assets for different businesses
  • Responsible and have to review the Bank Reconciliation Statement for different business
  • Review the Treasury clearing process for all the business as well so that there is no old case stays pending
  • Accountable for accuracy & timeliness for financial closing and reporting, Variance Analysis, Review of the P&L accounts and prepare commentaries. Preparation of Management pack for C suite executives.
  • Monthly review of the Related Party transactions for all locations so that accurate numbers go to the Board
  • Contact for the internal and External auditors for the Energy Business (around 12 Audits in a year including CARO requirements)
  • Responsible for the preparation of the quarterly made compliance certificate which has to be signed by the CFO’s of different business.
  • Presently I am involved in 2 AOP projects for FY 2022-23

Manager – Finance Operations

AkzoNobel India Ltd.
06.2016 - 10.2019
  • Serving as a Manager – Finance to lead operations team at multiple locations responsible for P2P and R2R activities.
  • Accountable for client satisfaction against service level agreement and ensure achievement of key performance indicators/project milestones. Review bottlenecks and recommend changes to improve the overall service level
  • Responsible for managing transition of multiple processes during the tenure to ensure smooth migration of F&A processes from different parts of the globe to India offshore location
  • Responsible for maintaining the Governance and reporting on projects to Business units, Leadership, clients.
  • Build relationships with key business leaders and other stakeholders to drive uptake of innovation projects, define project vision, scope, requirements, and deliverables.
  • Leading the Monthly allocation process for the information Management operational and project cost
  • Monthly Trend analysis of actuals costs and the FTE movement
  • Co-ordination, reconciliation and validation of data with IM spend Managers to understand the latest view and major variances
  • Actively involved in handling end to end GL & Month end Close activities.
  • Review of Accruals, Prepayment, Salary and other monthly journal postings.
  • Review of monthly Balance sheet reconciliations.
  • Perform consolidated P&L review by giving details variance commentary with suggestions of corrective measures to be taken.
  • Highlights:
  • Part of process transition of outsourcing deal from Netherlands and Singapore to India. The process comprised of P2P, and R2R activities
  • Successfully collaborate with core and extended teams across the enterprise for deployment of end to end workflow Solutions by showcasing and articulating the business case and value proposition
  • Implementation of the Business Intelligent tool for the daily reporting and Analysis

Assistant Manager – Finance Operations

Genpact India Ltd.
07.2009 - 06.2016
  • Served as Assistant Manager – Finance Operations to lead multiple teams responsible for Procure to pay and Record to report as featured sub-processes for global customers in Oracle, PeopleSoft & SAP ERP Platform
  • Supervising the Back Office Team that was part of various Finance Transformation Projects such as ERP upgrade from Oracle 11i to R12, OCR indexing, E-invoicing Implementation, Oracle Invoice Workflow/ERP Integration
  • Taking part in formal staff review processes such as goal setting for team members, performance appraisals and salary reviews to corporate standards & timescales.
  • Managing the drivers for improving the commercials of the project by optimal usage of bench resources, supervision span, band mix and effective seat utilization Providing financial analysis and commentary on YTD & MTD development in working capital heads.
  • Providing concise business explanations for movement in Revenue & Expense by identifying potential business drivers.
  • Ensure timely transactions in books of accounts.
  • Highlights:
  • Implemented various process improvement ideas to increase the efficiency of the process such as reduction in helpdesk queries, vendor master data clean up, payment term rationalization, AP ledger clean up, debit balance reduction, reduction of unapplied cash, reduction of aged debt, reduction of close cycle days, reduction of open items in various reconciliations etc.
  • Contributed in carrying out multiple process migrations / transitioning of end-to-end-P2P & R2R processes
  • Led two green belt projects on Accuracy and Paid on time metrics. Accuracy improved from 85% to 97% and Paid on time increased from 77% to 91%

Education

Executive programme - General Management

Indian Institute of Management
01.2011

Bachelors - Commerce

Heramba Chandra College, Calcutta University
01.2008

Diploma - Computer Applications and Information Technology

CMC
01.2007

Skills

  • Data-driven analysis and management reporting
  • Working capital management
  • Financial strategy enhancement
  • Client engagement strategies
  • Project Management
  • Budgeting and cost management
  • Expense management
  • Team leadership
  • Expert in specific subject area

Accomplishments

  • Have been awarded “Best Debutant Award” within the 6 months of my joining across JSW Group
  • Have successfully driven the Transition for the Bank Statement Reconciliation process from the Corporate team to the Energy business
  • Have been awarded as “Most dependable” Employee in Q3 2021-22
  • Have been awarded as “The Best Process manager of the year” for FY 2021-22

Timeline

Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Nouryon Chemicals India Pvt Ltd
01.2023 - Current

Manager – Finance Operations

AkzoNobel India Ltd.
06.2016 - 10.2019

Assistant Manager – Finance Operations

Genpact India Ltd.
07.2009 - 06.2016

Bachelors - Commerce

Heramba Chandra College, Calcutta University

Diploma - Computer Applications and Information Technology

CMC

Executive programme - General Management

Indian Institute of Management

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