Rahul Arora
Head Finance | Retail, Consumer Wellness & Startups | Reliance Retail, Ex Cipla, Ola
- Role
- Head Finance Reliance Digital (Services Business Franchisee Operations) at Reliance Retail
- Location
- Mumbai, MH, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Rahul Arora
Strategic Finance Leader adept at driving long term value through financial discipline, margin transformation, Capital efficiency and value led governance. Demonstrated agility in adapting to diverse roles across high growth start-ups, large Indian conglomerates, and global capability centers (GCCs).Built & Led Business Finance Team for Cipla\'s Wellness/OTC Business with key focus on Category Finance Partnering, Margin Improvement Plans, Cost negotiations, Long term Strategic Plan, Financial due diligence of potential acquisitions, New Launch Financial Evaluation, working capital optimization & periodic management reviews.Also, been part of Ola group in a high growth environment demonstrating agility of managing variety of roles like Cost transformation, managing Investment Portfolio, partnering new lines of business, raising funds from banks for funding capex/opex and equity from parent.Currently hired under Reliance Retail\'s Prestigious Young Leaders Program as part of Retail Group CEO\'s office, transitioned into finance head (CFO) role in 3 months, managing a team of 30. This role involves end to end Finance partnering for a growing line of business Leading Controllership, Business Finance, FP & A, Revenue Assurance & Finance Operations
Experience
Head Finance Reliance Digital (Services Business Franchisee Operations)
Apr 2025 — Present · Mumbai, IN
Education
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
Chartered Accountant, Accounting and Finance
2008 — 2012
St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), Kolkata
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), Accounting and Finance
2008 — 2011
Great Lakes Institute of Management
Postgraduate Degree, Business Analytics and Intelligence
2019 — 2021
Skills
- Hyperion Hfm
- Financial Accounting
- Management Reporting
- Lean Six Sigma
- Financial Modeling
- Federal Reporting
- Accounting
- Microsoft Excel
- Cognos
- Corporate Finance
- Managerial Finance
- Financial Analysis
- Financial Reporting
- Internal Controls
- Budgets
- Finance
- Analytics
- Mis
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