Krishna Patel

Role: Financial Analysis of the Business Unit & Profitability Management of 12 Partners
• Developed Financial Dashboard in Excel to measure KPIs of the Partners and preparing it monthly to analyze and report their performance.
• Management Accounting on a monthly basis for Profitability & Margin Analysis, Revenue Recognition, Accruals accounting, Provisions, Cash flows, Net Investment Analysis and Reporting.
• Assisted on Budgeting for FY 2018 and Forecasting of Revenues for the financial year using Backlog and Pipeline.
• Managing Financial Operations of whole Business Unit - team of 85 people single-handedly which includes managing Work in progress (WIP), handling AR and AP of clients, contractors as well as Inter-company billing, Net Investment % and Days outstanding etc.
• Ensuring compliance and checking risk assessment of every signed contract and client acceptance.
• Instrumental in Implementing VAT in PwC ME - accounted for exposures on existing engagements which did not cover VAT clause in the contract and undertook supplement steps to reduce this exposure to the firm and to ensure compliance on all future engagements, invoicing requirements including inter-firm settlements.
• Ongoing review and analysis of the health of the projects, raising flags for any exposure, non-recoverability or risk element involved using Red/Amber/Green (RAG) status reporting and quantifying its financial impact.

Role: Financial Analysis, Reporting and consolidation
• Built financial models for Capital Investments to calculate and analyze the payback period, NPV and IRR in order to identify the most profitable and viable investment opportunities.
• Prepared Forecasted Margins, EBITDA and Cash Burn Statements using top down and bottom up hybrid approach of topline GMV that is by optimizing the operationally feasible Sales (SKUs registered on platform) with the Market penetration and Market Share analysis in the Middle East.
• Consolidation of Financial Statements from QuickBooks and instrumental in its migration to Oracle.
• Prepared Cash forecasts on the basis of Budget allocated and liaising with the different departments of the startup - Marketing, Products team, internal IT, Technology, Logistics, HR, non-merchandise procurement, warehouse teams etc.
• Identified KPIs and Scorecards to measure the operational performance of all departments to justify their investment requirement and ensure these function efficiently.
• Management Accounting for Contribution Analysis, determining Average Selling Price, Product Flow charts for Inventory Models, and devising pricing mechanism for customers and Fee Structures for Sellers.
• Assisted in drafting Procure to Pay and CAPEX policy documents, User Manuals, Presentation and imparted training on the same.
• Involved in Competition study of Middle East E commerce Market and other emerging market economies like India and China.

Role: Financial Analysis of Global Institutional clients and Reporting to CFO and Business Heads.
- Weekly Activity Reports to evaluate forecast, trends over period and financial plans of the Business.
- Expense and Profitability Reporting, Analysis of Margin for each Product and channel.
- Forecast Analysis and Monthly revisions for the updated Outlook of the year.
- Detailed Monthly Scorecards of the US Institutional Sales Teams to rank their performances and to compute incentives using Financial Models.
- Monthly Decks to evaluate performance of the Institutional channel for the Business Managers.
- Planning, Forecasting and Budgeting of the Institutional Business based on past trend and Market Analysis of future Investments coupled with Variance Analysis of Actual vs. Plan.
- Preparation of Business Analysis Reports, Presentations as per the requirement.
- Providing Support and Inputs for the high level integration and migration projects of different business platforms to achieve increased efficiency, central Database and time save.