Karan Shah

About Karan Shah

Chartered Accountant and a B.Com graduate with the knowledge, skills and enriched experiences in the diverse fields of Business Finance, Strategy, Operations, Auditing, Taxation and Technology.• Purpose is to drive impact through the Right Mindset, High Integrity, Emotional Intelligence and my Passion for Business and Finance.• Currently, working as a Business Finance Partner in building Nykaa Fashion & Nykaa Man E-commerce Platforms, Fashion Owned Brands, and Nykaa Retail Stores. Partnering with Business teams to drive growth and profitability through optimizing the science and art of Business and Finance.• Earlier worked in the CPG industry, on a project to make data more fruitful in driving decisions. Analysing & reporting on the Forecasts, Budgets and Actual Spend.• Have led the Statutory Audits of several Public Companies like The Shipping Corporation of India Ltd, ABG Shipyard Ltd.(Alongside Insolvency Proceedings), SBI Life Insurance Ltd. and The Wadhwa Group, achieving the highest quality outcome.

Experience

1. Finance Business Partner

   Nykaa

   Sep 2021 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   Contributing in building Nykaa Fashion & Nykaa Man E-commerce platforms, Nykaa Fashion Owned Brands Business and Nykaa Offline Retail Store Business -• Complete P&L ownership & Management- Strategizing high class operations & value proposition with strong customer cohorts to achieve greater sales growth, collaboratively run the marketing campaigns and optimizing all the direct and indirect cost for higher profitability.• Supporting strategic decisions through data driven insights and judgement. Also, regular reporting of performance to CEO and CFO of the business.• Cluster, Category, Brand and SKU level analysis to optimize the product and service offering.• Financial modeling for creating Annual Operating Plan, monthly forecasts and Actual Analysis. • BI Analytics Nykaa Retail Stores-• Analyzing & reporting store wise performance of over 150 stores all over India.• Store, Brand & Format level analysis for growth, profitability and target achievement.

Education

• The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

  Chartered Accountant

• Mithibai College of Arts Chauhan Institute of Science and A.J. College of Commerce and Economics

  Bachelor of Commerce - BCom

  2013 — 2016