A competent leader with a comprehensive experience in setting up & controlling the finance department of an organisation. I believe in challenging status co, and identifying opportunities for cost reduction and hard efforts to achieve the results. Being an ex-banker, I have in-depth knowledge of corporate banking products & services and strong skills to raise resources and negotiate to the best advantage of the company. Looking for a challenging assignment in the area of banking, treasury management, accounting & vendor management.

 Supplier / Vendor management
 Outsourcing & Contracting
 Commercial deals & Negotiations
 Business benchmarking
 Relationship & Communication
 Accounting - Dutch GAAP, IFRS
 Liaising & Coordination
 Senior Stakeholder Management
 Leadership & Team Coordination
 MS Office
 ERP - SAP

 Supplier / Vendor management
 Outsourcing & Contracting
 Commercial deals & Negotiations
 Business benchmarking
 Relationship & Communication
 Accounting - Dutch GAAP, IFRS
 Liaising & Coordination
 Senior Stakeholder Management
 Leadership & Team Coordination
 MS Office
 ERP - SAP

Sept 2012- Dec2020
Finance Head - VE Staal BV (Erstwhile Viraj Europe BV)
 Activities and Projects
 Established a subsidiary of Indian Metal Manufacturing company– Viraj Profiles Ltd., Mumbai India (VPL).
 VPL manufactures stainless steel and has sales turnover of USD 1 bn across the globe in 37 countries.
 VE Staal started with turnover of EUR 5 mio in 2012 increased to EUR 250 mio in 2020.
 Direct procurement of stainless steel scrap from various vendors in Europe for onward supplies to VPL India. - Total procurement of approx. EUR 200 mio p.a.
 Designed and implemented a strategy wherein treasury, accounting and other core activities performed in house in Netherlands whereas logistics, invoicing and other non-core activities are sourced to vendors. This structure helped to scale the business without corresponding increase in the cost / manpower.
 Indirect procurement - Logistics services procurement & invoicing services (BPO) contract.
 Preparing business plans / budget based on a project basis or for the defined period.
 Division of cost as controllable and non-controllable.
 Designing and publishing KPI dashboard, frequent updates on achievements and actions pending.
 Started accounting for the company. Day to day accounting of sales, purchases, bank movements, fixed assets and final GL postings.
 Work experience in accounting software SAP
 Finalisation of accounts as per local GAAP & IFRS.
 Co-ordination with statutory auditors for final certification.
 Finalisation of accounts as per Dutch GAAP.
 Co-ordination with statutory auditors for final certification.
 Vendor network and management for general, marine, credit insurance.
 Compliance for VAT and tax returns
 Transfer pricing study to avoid tax & legal dispute
 Subsidiaries and associate company’s funding, legal and compliance management

August 2009-2012
Asst. General Manager & Branch Head- ICICI Bank
 Responsibilities – Sales and profitable client relationship
 Exceeded revenue / fee target of USD 6 mio.
 Managing relationship with TOP corporates of India. Larsen and Turbo Ltd., Hindalco Industries Ltd, Vedanta Group, Siemens Ltd., Mumbai, Aditya Birla Group Companies, etc.
 Enriching relationships with about 100 companies and its executives includes large, medium and small corporates.

August 2001-2009
Corporate Banking Operations Units – Chief Manager ICICI Bank.
 Project Champion - Global Trade Services Centralisation (GTSU)
 Designed and implemented a project centralising operations of 11 corporate branches at different cities in India.
 Identified and implemented workflow software to connect branches to a central location in Mumbai
 Project resulted in converting branches to delivery channels rather than processing hubs and helped to control operations and fraud risk centrally.
 New structure helped to handle 200% growth in business within the same cost.
 Training – Training module developed to train new recruits and handle staff turnover.
 Global Remittance team - Team size 140 employees.
 Flagship global remittance products i.e. Money2India, Vostro Remittances, etc.
 Addressed customer delivery problems and operations obstacles. Market share increased from 10% to 25% within a span of two years
 Treasury back office operations and control
 Treasury SOX processes, regular testing and control for FI, Fx products, Swaps, options, deposit products and commodities.

Extra-Curricular
I am avid yoga fan and perform everyday

Hobbies
 Formula 1
 Running / walking every day for one hour
 Travelling