Shanay Charmika Bhaktawar

• Manage the Health and Lifestyle and E-commerce P&L's which includes effective GTN management, drive positive ASP, healthy top-line and margin growth
• Scenario planning to assess promotional campaigns and evaluate price increases.
• Update forecasts based on market trends and customer performance.
• Monthly performance reporting

Pricing Analyst (October 2023 to September 2024)

• Collaborating with Sales, Marketing, Finance and Supply chain to align pricing with business objectives
• Ensuring pricing policies are followed and maintained accurately in SAP.

Financial Planning & Analysis (STA – October 2024 to May 2025)

• Assisted on the Homecare portfolio which included managing the brand P&L, providing financial insights to brand managers to help make informed decisions on new product listings and budgets, discussing the brand performance and conducting scenario analysis and assessing the financial impact of strategic decisions.

• Debtor and creditor statements
• Budgets
• Month end reconciliations
• BBBEE verifications
• Year-end internal and external audit files/recons
• Inventory management on SAP
• Local and foreign cashbooks
• Managed the shipping and costing departments

• Bookkeeping
• Completing and submitting VAT returns
• Payroll (Simplepay program)
• PAYE
• Debtor and creditor statements
• Budgets
• Month end reconciliations
• Assisted in BBBEE verifications
• Assisted in a JSE listed company takeover on one of my clients
• Year-end audit files/recons
• I worked with companies that have various industries and one which has subsidiaries overseas.
• Financial controller role- managed bookkeepers, month end procedures.