Atul Sharma, VP

Atul Sharma

VP

Finance

Location
India - Bengaluru
Education
High school or equivalent,
Experience
12 years, 1 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :12 years, 1 Months

VP at Finance
  • United Arab Emirates
  • My current job since November 2022
VP at Upscalio India Pvt Ltd
  • January 2022 to November 2022

Key areas working on
§ Releasing cash stuck in working capital
§ Debt restructuring & renegotiating lending terms
§ Closed 10cr Working capital line with a NBFC.
§ Books cleanup process and Series B funding

VP at Finance
  • United Arab Emirates
  • March 2020 to January 2022

Trell (A company engaged community commerce and Video blogging)
I have joined this organization as the head of the finance & Legal function. Primary responsibility is to set up the team and scale the
e-commerce business line along with fund raising.
• Established and maintained balanced and accurate e-commerce budget to execute on initiatives with proper funding and
enrich customer experience.
• Incorporated e-commerce objectives in social media platform management.
• Constructed new payment systems for online orders to optimize website shopping and boost sales.
• Close the fundraising during the lock-down and successfully raised $57 million.
• Setting up the team and helping business start new business lines (Brand sales and E-commerce)
• Setting up process of AOP and monthly tracking

Finance Controller/Head of finance
  • January 2017 to March 2020

Ninjacart (A company engaged in B2B of F&V)
In the role of head of the function, I have done the complete transformation of the finance & legal function in Ninjacart which includes
setting up of functions like finance, budgeting, treasury and admin. Have spear headed decision making and setting up new policies.
Closed USD 167 million investment over the period of 3 years. Current finance team includes verticals like Finance & Accounts,
Business finance, Internal Audit, Payroll, Treasury and Procurement. Implemented SAPB1.
§ Monitoring monthly revenue, book closure, FAR, AR, AP.
§ Closely managing the working capital requirement and treasury management
§ Closed Overdraft facilities with banks against FD and Mutual funds with best rates.
§ Facilitating expansion and controlling the budgets.
§ Managing investors’ relations and addressing investors’ queries.
§ Assessing the Capex requirement and planning the cash flow
§ Preparation of AOP and monthly variance analysis.
§ Implementation of SAP B1.
§ Closed compounding with RBI against initial filings of FCGPR with a minimum penalty

Finance Manager at Clutch Group
  • Great Britain (UK)
  • February 2015 to January 2017

A Global Legal Technology Products & Services Organization)
Responsible for managing the company’s Revenue, Management reports and reducing revenue leakage by keeping accurate
records and ensuring invoices are raised on time.
§ Monitoring monthly revenue of the Group companies and closing books of accounts
§ Build financial and strategic reports, cash flow statements.
§ Preparation of management information system (MIS) reports and dashboards for senior management and key
stakeholders.
§ Evaluate and analyze the final financial results of the company and perform analysis of key performance indicators.
§ Monitoring and interpreting cash flows and predicting future trends, including AR
§ Formulating strategic and long-term business plans
§ Implemented Netsuite and Anaplan

Assistant Manager
  • April 2014 to February 2015

TESCO HSC (Global in-house Center of TESCO Plc, UK)
§ Monthly Preparation of MIS and Cost Variance Analysis of TESCO HSC
§ Support Capital planning and project planning process.
§ Owning and driving the IT budgeting process in conjunction with UK Finance Team.
§ Responsible for budgeting IT services cost and revenue in different planning cycles

Senior Executive- Business at Eka Software Solutions Pvt Ltd
  • India
  • April 2012 to April 2014

A Product based commodity trading company)
Played key role in the Due Diligence for fund raising (USD 33 million from Silver Lake Kraftwerk, USA). Successfully migrated finance
function from Canada to India and played key role in the Canadian acquisition. I was part of the two acquisition that was done during
my tenure in EKA.

Education

High school or equivalent,
  • at Institute of Chartered Accountants of Indi
  • January 2011
High school or equivalent,
  • at Secretary Institute of Company Secretaries of Indi
  • January 2010

Specialties & Skills

Working Capital Management
Accounting
taxation
Corporate Finance
Financial Modeling
FINANCE
BUDGETING
CASH FLOW
FUNDRAISING
MANAGEMENT
PAYROLL PROCESSING
POLICY ANALYSIS
STRATEGIC