Chitresh Agarwal
Associate Director at Dr Reddys | Corporate FP&A | Analytics & Insights | CFO office | Investor Relations | Finance Transformation | Business Finance | AI in Finance | Value creator | ex - EY |
- Role
- Associate Director Finance - CFO Office Finance Transformation & Corporate Analytics at Dr. Reddy's Laboratories
- Location
- Hyderabad, TG, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Chitresh Agarwal
I work with leadership teams to drive business performance through strategic finance…
Experience
Associate Director Finance - CFO Office Finance Transformation & Corporate Analytics
Oct 2023 — Present · Hyderabad, IN
Directed $4B enterprise-wide planning, budgeting, and forecasting, enhanced forecast accuracy through robustLE reviews.Actively participated in business reviews with CXOs and business stakeholders; identified risks and opportunitiesand provided actionable insights to strengthen business metrics.Institutionalized a self-serve BI analytics platform providing reliable real-time information anddashboards, replacing fragmented Excel reporting. Reliability achieved through 96% automated pipelines,centralized master data, and robust data governance. This transformation released significant finance bandwidthand created a best-in-class digital system designed to serve the organization for years to come.Received Special Recognition from the MD (iPad award) for pioneering this analytics transformation, which enabledmore value-added finance partnering.Streamlined gross margin analysis accelerating availability, reducing finance bandwidth by 100+ hours per month, and improving gross margins by addressing low-throughput products.Managed productivity and optimization initiatives across $1B+ OPEX including legal, professional, travel, and non-payroll spends; delivered 20% travel cost savings by integrating analytics into booking systems and enforcingpolicies.Anchored the industry’s first AI-driven finance chatbot for structured data queries, enabling real-time, naturallanguage access to financial insights.Tracked and presented business scorecards to leadership, conducted peer benchmarking
Education
ICAI
Chartered Accountant, Accounting and Finance
2008 — 2012
ACCA
Diplome in IFRS, IFRS
2012 — 2012
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