Circle Business Controller, Kolkata & RoWB
Aircel Ltd
Total years of experience :6 years, 10 Months
Since February, 2009 with Aircel Ltd. In Feb '13 promoted as Circle Business Controller, Kolkata & RoWB circle - Heading Finance Function
❑ Promoted to Circle Business Controller in February, 2013 responsible for overall Finance function (Financial Reporting & compliance vertical and Analytics vertical) of TWO circles ( i.e., Kolkata & Rest of West Bengal, having annual turnover of ~Rs.850 crores.
Chief Deliverables
• Financial Compliance, Control & Governance of Kolkata & WB Circles.
• Business forecasting and Budgetary Control
• Support achievement of business objectives of Kolkata & WB.
• Business reporting & analytics for Kolkata & WB to highlight GAP areas
• Drive timely and appropriate internal and external financial reporting of Kolkata & WB in partnership with shared services.
• Continuous Improvement in Internal Control environment in Kolkata & WB circles
• Drive compliance to DOA and organizational policies
• In 2013, Revenue grew by more than 100% for both Kolkata & RoWB circle
• Kolkata & RoWB Circle turns Ebitda positive within a year
• Drive Cost Reduction for sustained improvement in margins
• Successfully completed Leadership Direct Program with Harvard Business Publishing
❑ Moved to Eastern Region in August, 2012 having Revenue of Rs.120crocres including leadership circle like Assam and North East. Currently designated as Assistant General Manager - Finance Control in Eastern Region. Reporting to Regional Business Controller-East.
Chief Deliverables
• Financial Compliance, Control & Governance of Eastern Circles.
• Business forecasting and Budgetary Control
• Support achievement of business objectives of East.
• Business reporting & analytics for Eastern Region to highlight GAP areas
• Drive timely and appropriate internal and external financial reporting of Eastern circles in partnership with shared services.
• Continuous Improvement in Internal Control environment in eastern circles
• Drive compliance to DOA and organizational policies
❑ Joined as Head Management Accounting Function for Bihar Circle and moved to Kolkata for Heading Management Accounting Function for both Kolkata & RoWB Circles. Reporting to Circle Business Head and Functionally to Regional Management Accounting Head.
Chief Deliverables
• Establishing the Management Accounting Function for Bihar and Overseeing the MA Function for Kolkata & RoWB Circles.
• Responsible for the overall Business Planning (Annual Plan, Quarterly Plan & Monthly Plan), Reporting, Analytics & Highlighting key areas of improvement and formulating new strategies for improving the EBIDTA.
• Managing budgetary control with profitability analysis, Opex analysis with variance analysis of Unified Bengal.
• Co-ordination with Finance for Monthly Revenue closure.
• Ensure achievement of KRA & SDP for the team and self through constant focus and review Need based training identification & recommendation for the same
• Ensuring 100 % compliance of Management accounting activities
Key Functional Responsibilities
• Preparation and supervision of AOP in close co-ordination with other functions.
• Business and Financial Validation of Business Cases.
• Monthly Flash & Forecast Report.
• Rolling Forecast for Next Quarter
• BTS wise Performance on Daily Basis.
• Analysis on Quality of Acquisition and SAC burn
• Supervising Daily Revenue analysis and revenue projection for decision making.
• Monitoring Subscriber Analysis and Reporting on Daily Basis.
• Administrating Key Performance Indicators on daily basis.
• Daily Network Analysis - Outages, Traffic, Call Drop.
• Managing comparative analysis of Acquisitions and Revenue on Weekly basis.
• Ensuring Weekly KPI Projections.
• Monitoring the Preparation of Monthly Financial MIS after closure of books of accounts on monthly basis
• Administrating preparation of Business Operation Review Report.
• Circle operation review presentation.
• Benchmarking Analysis of amongst other Circles of Aircel Limited.
• GAP analysis of Variances against AOP and Last Month (Monthly and Quarterly)
• Analysis of calling pattern in terms Local, NLD and ILD.
• Pre & Post Analysis of new products.
• SAC projection with Sales based on market scenario and approving the same after discussing with Circle Head & Regional Heads.
Major Achievements
• Successfully setup of Management Accounting Function.
• Validation of Automation of Business Reports with IT.
• Review Trackers for Eastern Circles for better control on Operations.
Previous Experience
October '07-February '09 Bharti Airtel Ltd., Bihar Manager - Business Planning and Analysis
❑ Heading Business Reporting Function.
Key Functional Responsibilities
Ensuring Reporting Discipline: • Monthly Revenue Closure with RA and Finance.
• Regulatory Reporting - TRAI & COAI
• Monthly preparation of Management Analysis & Performance Review (MAPA)
• Daily Reporting of Closely Watched Numbers (CWNs) to Top Management for decision making & building strategy.
• Weekly Zonal CWNs to Top Management for understanding Profitable & loss making zones.
• Flash & Forecast - Monthly Activity i.e., Projection for next month.
• AOP - Partially involved in preparation of AOP for the year 2008-09.
• Presentation for circle review, Eastern Region review.
Facilitate Reviews & Analysis: • Anova- GAP Analysis of Variances. Monthly, Quarterly Analysis done against AOP (Annual Operating Plan) & Forecast.
• Benchmarking Analysis amongst all 23 circles of Bharti Airtel Limited.
• Traffic Analysis - Analysis of minutes, operators in terms of Local, STD, ISD.
• Unique Subscriber Report - Analysis on Operators in the Circle.
Major Achievements
• Awarded for development of Zonal CWNs for Bihar Circle.
• Awarded for OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE in last nine months.
Before October '07 Gontermann-Peipers (India) Limited, Ispat Group Company,
Manager - Costing & MIS
❑ Heading Costing & MIS Function.
Key Functional Responsibilities
• Experienced in Implementation of Activity Based Costing (ABC) & Department-wise Activity Based Cost Management (ABCM)
• Gap Analysis of the Profitability along with variance reasoning, Cost Benefit Analysis, Sensitivity Analysis, Input-Output Ratio of the products of the Company.
• Daily Plant Control & Performance Reporting.
• Monthly monitoring of Cost and thereafter reporting to the Board of Directors at monthly performance review meetings.
• Preparation of Monthly Rolling Plan & Annual Business Plan of the Company.
• Estimated Cost Sheet given to Marketing at the time of Enquiry Processing and negotiations with the Customer.
• Product-wise, Customer-wise, grade-wise Profitability of the Company.
• Preparation of Reports for the Management in respect to the Overall Performance of the Plant and ensuring compliances of their suggestions thereafter.
• Cost benefits analysis of Six Sigma Projects undertaken by different departments of the Company. Undergone Six Sigma blackbelt course on DMAIC.
• Analysis of loss areas identified under Kobetsu Kaizen Pillar under TPM activities undertaken by the Company.
• To make presentations on the performance of the Company to Chairman of the ISPAT group and outside agencies.
Major Achievements
• Recognised amongst TOP 5 employees for the year 2006-07 by Gontermann-Peipers (India) Limited.
• Developed of ABC (Activity Based Costing) for Gontermann-Peipers (India) Limited
• Developed ABCM (Activity Based Cost Management) under the guidance of Kirtane Pandit Consultants for Gontermann-Peipers (India) Limited