Prakash Agarwal

About Prakash Agarwal

With a strong foundation as a Chartered Accountant and completion of the Senior…

Experience

1. Financial Business Controller

   Roche

   Nov 2017 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   Key Responsibilities Strategic Planning:•Responsible for driving the India Finance Strategy including overseeing implementation and tracking of performance•Business partnering with Commercial Team and GM to drive and support business strategy•Decision-making on investment initiatives including business cases, product launches, bold moves & other investment cases to ensure the long-term and short-term financial health of the business.•Understanding business requirements to provide business decisions and support.MIS & Budget Planning:•Drive the annual business planning process and monthly forecasting process for India.•Tracking actual expenses with a budget and providing feedback to all the stakeholders.•Product-wise profitability analysis and GP level.•Supervising in preparation of MIS reports providing feedback to top management on financial performance, viz. monthly profitability, age-wise analysis of debtors, pending advances list, outstanding issues, etc.•Drive Opex efficiency and identify opportunities for Cost optimization.Finance & Accounts:•Ensure accurate and timely recording of transactions and reporting of financial performance as per the Global Timeline.•Ensure Timely monthly closure of financial books with adherence of FGAR•Ensuring timely reporting into DIS and ICFR reporting•Customer/Vendor management – Appointment, Identification, due diligence & settlement, etc,•Ensure accountability for the Financial Services and processes performed locally including credit control etc.•Development of SOP in line with the Global & Local Compliances reporting.People/Task Leadership•Responsible for cultivating team culture, training and development of team members, coaching, driving within the team•Ensure Coordination with the Cluster/Global team and other functions for timely and effective closure of all open issues.•Lead and develop a team to drive the company’s financial strategy, compliance, and guidelines.

Education

• Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

  Senior Management Program (SMP), Business Administration and Management, General

• Calcutta University, Kolkata

  Bcom (H), Business/Commerce, General

  1996 — 1999

• NIIT

  One year Honor’s Diploma course from NIIT (MS Office Tools and another operating system)

• Chartered Accountant

  CA, Accounts, Auditing & Taxation

  1998 — 2002

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)

  IFRS

Skills

• Mis
• Business Development
• Forecasting
• Customer Lifecycle Management
• Revenue Assurance
• Channel Sales
• 3g
• Distributed Team Management
• Project Planning
• Accounting
• Vendor Management
• Telecommunications
• Finance
• Team Management
• Gsm
• Management