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• Neeraj GargNeeraj Garg

  <ul><li>Company Overview: Group Company of PUIG, Spain</li><li>Team Leadership & Process Excellence: Organised the transformation of the Finance & Accounts function, establishing performance-driven goals, and embedding a culture of accountability and continuous improvement. Drove operational efficiency through process redesigns, SOP implementation and optimal resource deployment, leading to measurable improvements in turnaround time and accuracy.</li><li>Strategic Partnering with CXOs: Acted as a key advisor to the CEO, CFO, and other CXOs on business planning, pricing strategies, and business model pivots to support scale-up and profitability. Contributed to investor communications with data-backed insights to enhance stakeholder confidence and secure strategic funding.</li><li>Cross-Functional & Global Stakeholder Management: Functioned as the strategic finance business partner to cross-functional heads and the PUIG global finance team, aligning local execution with global financial strategies and compliance requirements.</li><li>ERP Transformation & System Automation: Led end-to-end ERP reimplementation to address system gaps, enforce role-based controls, and automate core finance processes—resulting in enhanced data accuracy, faster reporting and improved internal controls.</li><li>Costing, Inventory & Profitability Optimization: Designed and implemented plant-level costing models to ensure accurate COGS determination. Improved inventory management across pricing, consumption tracking, and aging analysis—enabling better working capital control and cost efficiency.</li><li>Manufacturing Finance & Statutory Compliance: Supervised end-to-end accounting for manufacturing operations and ensured full statutory compliance.</li><li>Financial Reporting, MIS & Profitability Analytics: Delivered accurate and timely monthly MIS reports, including P&L, Balance Sheet and KPI dashboards with deep-dive variance analysis across stores, business verticals, and geographies. Supported board-level decision-making through insightful presentations on financial health and business performance.</li><li>Budgeting, Forecasting & Business Planning: Led the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and rolling forecasts, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and market dynamics. Monitored key financial metrics to enable business decisions and proactive cost management.</li><li>Statutory, Internal & Tax Audit Management: Finalized standalone and consolidated financials under Ind AS and IFRS, ensured timely group reporting and compliance with international standards. Delivered clean and timely closures of statutory, tax, and internal audits in coordination with Big 4 auditors. Strengthened audit readiness through pre-audit diagnostics and rectification of recurring control gaps.</li><li>Regulatory Compliance & Risk Management: Ensured end-to-end compliance which includes ROC, RBI, FEMA, Income Tax, GST, Transfer Pricing, DTAA, and Customs. Reviewed cross-border contracts and transactions to ensure arm’s length pricing, accurate TDS application, and proper documentation under Transfer Pricing regulations.</li><li>Commercial Negotiation & Contract Governance: Led commercial negotiations and structured deals with vendors and franchisees. Reviewed key business contracts to ensure financial viability, risk protection, and compliance with regulatory standards.</li><li>Treasury & External Commercial Borrowing (ECB): Managed fund planning and liquidity management including ECB drawdowns, bank negotiations, and interest optimization. Improved working capital cycles through proactive cash flow forecasting and receivables control.</li><li>Internal Controls & Governance Framework: Led organization-wide reviews of internal control systems, identified process gaps, and redesigned or implemented over 40 SOPs and IFCs. Established a governance structure for financial discipline, risk mitigation, and policy compliance across departments.</li></ul> at Kama Ayurveda Pvt. Ltd. & PUIG India Pvt. Ltd.<ul><li>Company Overview: Group Company of PUIG, Spain</li><li>Team Leadership & Process Excellence: Organised the transformation of the Finance & Accounts function, establishing performance-driven goals, and embedding a culture of accountability and continuous improvement. Drove operational efficiency through process redesigns, SOP implementation and optimal resource deployment, leading to measurable improvements in turnaround time and accuracy.</li><li>Strategic Partnering with CXOs: Acted as a key advisor to the CEO, CFO, and other CXOs on business planning, pricing strategies, and business model pivots to support scale-up and profitability. Contributed to investor communications with data-backed insights to enhance stakeholder confidence and secure strategic funding.</li><li>Cross-Functional & Global Stakeholder Management: Functioned as the strategic finance business partner to cross-functional heads and the PUIG global finance team, aligning local execution with global financial strategies and compliance requirements.</li><li>ERP Transformation & System Automation: Led end-to-end ERP reimplementation to address system gaps, enforce role-based controls, and automate core finance processes—resulting in enhanced data accuracy, faster reporting and improved internal controls.</li><li>Costing, Inventory & Profitability Optimization: Designed and implemented plant-level costing models to ensure accurate COGS determination. Improved inventory management across pricing, consumption tracking, and aging analysis—enabling better working capital control and cost efficiency.</li><li>Manufacturing Finance & Statutory Compliance: Supervised end-to-end accounting for manufacturing operations and ensured full statutory compliance.</li><li>Financial Reporting, MIS & Profitability Analytics: Delivered accurate and timely monthly MIS reports, including P&L, Balance Sheet and KPI dashboards with deep-dive variance analysis across stores, business verticals, and geographies. Supported board-level decision-making through insightful presentations on financial health and business performance.</li><li>Budgeting, Forecasting & Business Planning: Led the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and rolling forecasts, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and market dynamics. Monitored key financial metrics to enable business decisions and proactive cost management.</li><li>Statutory, Internal & Tax Audit Management: Finalized standalone and consolidated financials under Ind AS and IFRS, ensured timely group reporting and compliance with international standards. Delivered clean and timely closures of statutory, tax, and internal audits in coordination with Big 4 auditors. Strengthened audit readiness through pre-audit diagnostics and rectification of recurring control gaps.</li><li>Regulatory Compliance & Risk Management: Ensured end-to-end compliance which includes ROC, RBI, FEMA, Income Tax, GST, Transfer Pricing, DTAA, and Customs. Reviewed cross-border contracts and transactions to ensure arm’s length pricing, accurate TDS application, and proper documentation under Transfer Pricing regulations.</li><li>Commercial Negotiation & Contract Governance: Led commercial negotiations and structured deals with vendors and franchisees. Reviewed key business contracts to ensure financial viability, risk protection, and compliance with regulatory standards.</li><li>Treasury & External Commercial Borrowing (ECB): Managed fund planning and liquidity management including ECB drawdowns, bank negotiations, and interest optimization. Improved working capital cycles through proactive cash flow forecasting and receivables control.</li><li>Internal Controls & Governance Framework: Led organization-wide reviews of internal control systems, identified process gaps, and redesigned or implemented over 40 SOPs and IFCs. Established a governance structure for financial discipline, risk mitigation, and policy compliance across departments.</li></ul> at Kama Ayurveda Pvt. Ltd. & PUIG India Pvt. Ltd.

• DEEPAK KUMAR SAJWARDEEPAK KUMAR SAJWAR

  <ul><li>Profile: Record to Reporting (R2R)</li><li>Performing financial reporting and controlling for across all the entities (in Hyperion and Oracle = JD Edward).</li><li>Performing End to End P&L finalization (Review of accruals, Negative Cash Accrual, prepaid amortization schedule, FX Adjustments, creation, deletion and capitalization of fixed assets, posting of depreciation etc.) & taking calls with Controllers during Months end for further review of P&L.</li><li>Banking process includes positive pay exceptions, stop payment, voiding checks with AP team. Checks movement to unclaimed property. Payment proof, remittance details.</li><li>IFRS lease computation complying with IFRS 16 in CoStar – Real Estate Manager system (this is only for lease).</li><li>Preparation of webforms and variance analysis report and sharing with stakeholders with detailed information.</li><li>Performing Balance sheet reconciliation with adherence of policy and clearance of open items along with relevant details of lines which is overaged however will be staying for long time (i.e.- Bonus and dividends, Common Stocks, Security Deposits).</li><li>Facilitating team operations by discussions through the sharing of information and knowledge, identification of teamwork issues, development of problem-solving recommendations, and recommendations of standardizing team operations.</li><li>Cross train resources in order to have backup of each other to help team synergy helping team members to take leaves when required without bothering of work/process deliverables.</li><li>Conduct weekly, biweekly and monthly meetings with stake holders as per their agreement.</li><li>Create opportunities for team members to provide input on procedures/processes and share their expertise with other team members.</li><li>Working knowledge of ERP systems People Soft, ART (Reconciliation software of Oracle), JD Edward, Teradata, Cetova, Hyperion (HFM), Cadency, Blackline, SAP, NetSuite, Workday Adaptive, Coupa, Tableau, CoStar, Alteryx.</li><li>PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS</li><li>Given 12 lean ideas in area of Month End Close journals, Balance Sheet Reconciliations, and Bank Reconciliations.</li><li>Part of a green belt project on quality of reconciliations and BOT implementation (work in progress) – controllership impact</li><li>Bring automation & Marco enabling dash board MIS reporting for monthly SLA, KPI, IC balances, Cash forecasting etc.</li></ul> at Genpact India Pvt. Ltd<ul><li>Profile: Record to Reporting (R2R)</li><li>Performing financial reporting and controlling for across all the entities (in Hyperion and Oracle = JD Edward).</li><li>Performing End to End P&L finalization (Review of accruals, Negative Cash Accrual, prepaid amortization schedule, FX Adjustments, creation, deletion and capitalization of fixed assets, posting of depreciation etc.) & taking calls with Controllers during Months end for further review of P&L.</li><li>Banking process includes positive pay exceptions, stop payment, voiding checks with AP team. Checks movement to unclaimed property. Payment proof, remittance details.</li><li>IFRS lease computation complying with IFRS 16 in CoStar – Real Estate Manager system (this is only for lease).</li><li>Preparation of webforms and variance analysis report and sharing with stakeholders with detailed information.</li><li>Performing Balance sheet reconciliation with adherence of policy and clearance of open items along with relevant details of lines which is overaged however will be staying for long time (i.e.- Bonus and dividends, Common Stocks, Security Deposits).</li><li>Facilitating team operations by discussions through the sharing of information and knowledge, identification of teamwork issues, development of problem-solving recommendations, and recommendations of standardizing team operations.</li><li>Cross train resources in order to have backup of each other to help team synergy helping team members to take leaves when required without bothering of work/process deliverables.</li><li>Conduct weekly, biweekly and monthly meetings with stake holders as per their agreement.</li><li>Create opportunities for team members to provide input on procedures/processes and share their expertise with other team members.</li><li>Working knowledge of ERP systems People Soft, ART (Reconciliation software of Oracle), JD Edward, Teradata, Cetova, Hyperion (HFM), Cadency, Blackline, SAP, NetSuite, Workday Adaptive, Coupa, Tableau, CoStar, Alteryx.</li><li>PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS</li><li>Given 12 lean ideas in area of Month End Close journals, Balance Sheet Reconciliations, and Bank Reconciliations.</li><li>Part of a green belt project on quality of reconciliations and BOT implementation (work in progress) – controllership impact</li><li>Bring automation & Marco enabling dash board MIS reporting for monthly SLA, KPI, IC balances, Cash forecasting etc.</li></ul> at Genpact India Pvt. Ltd

• Brad MitchellBrad Mitchell

  <ul><li>Manage three separate teams for which their scope includes middle office support for the client relations community including known population remediations, complex reporting as well as a business manager team executing on efficiencies and development opportunities (eleven individuals both domestic and overseas contingent workers). 13 years of Institutional Relationship experience, 7 of those involving people management</li><li>Currently own and assist with facilitating the client relation pieces of various Management Action Plans (MAP) and internal audits within Revenue Credit Account (RCA) and Service Level Agreement (SLA) areas</li><li>In February 2024 released the first Salesforce Intake system at TIAA after five years of development and advocacy. This build has been noted as the blue print for all future case management intake systems within Salesforce at TIAA providing efficiency and ease for the user while reducing risk for the company</li><li>Worked on advancements and efficiencies within the Service Level Agreement process including salesforce automation. Implemented continuous improvement projects which reduced specific quarterly reporting tasks from days to minutes as well as the inception of a single budget code to pull penalties from rather than dozens of different budget codes</li><li>Through partnership with operations, updated the standard operating procedures for Client Service Managers concerning non bulk Lost Earning Calculations in 2021 to be submitted primary through plan focus unless through special exception. This reduced volumes for my team around lost earning calculations by 22% compared to the year prior while providing a more seamless and straight through process for the external clients</li><li>Continue working through obstacles, avoid duplication of efforts between client relations and other support team within different departments while creating synergy towards “working as one”</li><li>Advanced public speaking skills presenting both in person and virtually to groups as small as senior leadership to hundreds of employees on various forums</li></ul> at TIAA<ul><li>Manage three separate teams for which their scope includes middle office support for the client relations community including known population remediations, complex reporting as well as a business manager team executing on efficiencies and development opportunities (eleven individuals both domestic and overseas contingent workers). 13 years of Institutional Relationship experience, 7 of those involving people management</li><li>Currently own and assist with facilitating the client relation pieces of various Management Action Plans (MAP) and internal audits within Revenue Credit Account (RCA) and Service Level Agreement (SLA) areas</li><li>In February 2024 released the first Salesforce Intake system at TIAA after five years of development and advocacy. This build has been noted as the blue print for all future case management intake systems within Salesforce at TIAA providing efficiency and ease for the user while reducing risk for the company</li><li>Worked on advancements and efficiencies within the Service Level Agreement process including salesforce automation. Implemented continuous improvement projects which reduced specific quarterly reporting tasks from days to minutes as well as the inception of a single budget code to pull penalties from rather than dozens of different budget codes</li><li>Through partnership with operations, updated the standard operating procedures for Client Service Managers concerning non bulk Lost Earning Calculations in 2021 to be submitted primary through plan focus unless through special exception. This reduced volumes for my team around lost earning calculations by 22% compared to the year prior while providing a more seamless and straight through process for the external clients</li><li>Continue working through obstacles, avoid duplication of efforts between client relations and other support team within different departments while creating synergy towards “working as one”</li><li>Advanced public speaking skills presenting both in person and virtually to groups as small as senior leadership to hundreds of employees on various forums</li></ul> at TIAA

• Touseef Ahmad (ACCA)Touseef Ahmad (ACCA)

  Finance Manager at Rising AccountancyFinance Manager at Rising Accountancy