Aneesh Garg

About Aneesh Garg

Total Experience 28 Years: Accion 5 years -PE environment- working with three PE on…

Experience

1. Group Chief Financial Officer

   Accion Labs

   Jul 2020 — Present · Bangalore, IN

   Leading Business Finance, Group Compliance, Tax, Accounting, Audit and dealing with Board and Private Equity-Eco system in TA group.• Supported increase in Enterprise value from by 5X in 2 years and enabled deal support for investment by True North in Sept 2022.• Driving M&A strategy, target evaluation and integration approach. Led acquisition of e-Zest Limited.• Transformed finance function to support due - diligence of Group at any point of time.• Looking at avenues for operational improvements across Group for 30+ subsidiaries. Led various initiatives to improve EBIDTA by 5% over period of 2 years. • Re-designed MIS reports to provide insights in various business units on GM / EBIDTA and identifying areas were spend can be re-purposed to drive growth in high potential business units. • Initiated Tax planning across group, this had led to effective tax rate of 24% in CY 21 vs 28% in CY19.• Created treasury policy and forex policy across Group to ensure optimal cash management and mitigate currency movement risk.• Secured line of credit to extent of 5X EBIDTA multiple. Led necessary re- structuring of at parent entity level to enable this.• Created eco system of Lawyers / Consultants to support M&A, ESOPs and Tax optimization in cost effective way.• Regularly conducting Board Meetings and driving Board level compliances.• Led establishment of delivery centers in Romania and Mexico.• Led implementation of NetSuite across all entities of Group. • Providing support in leadership hiring at Accion Level ( CHRO / BU heads etc).• Designing incentive plans and ESOP plans at group level.• Initiated process of setting up Internal Audit function, Shared Services functions

Education

• Delhi University

  B.COM(H), Accounts

  1991 — 1994

• Bharatiya vidya bhavan

  XIIth Standard CBSE, Commerce

  1989 — 1991

• ICAI

  CA, FInance, Accounting

  1994 — 1997

Skills

• Internal Controls
• Management Information Systems (Mis)
• Financial Reporting
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Financial Analysis
• Finance
• Risk Management
• Team Management
• Financial Modeling
• Management
• Business Analysis
• Strategic Planning
• Forecasting
• Managerial Finance
• Business Process Improvement
• Strategy
• Leadership
• Accounting
• Mis
• Corporate Finance