Lovish Agarwal

About Lovish Agarwal

An enthusiastic Chartered Accountant cum Company Secretary and Graduate with an experience in MIS Reporting, Financial Analysis, Budgeting, Month End Accounting, Analyzing P/L Variances, Setting Controls, Controls Testing, Project Accounting and Reconciliation Reviews. • Experience & Understanding of the entire business cycle in the Beverages sector, starting from the budgetary process to the actual and analyzing, monitoring and controlling the variances. • A dynamic finance professional with a thorough grasp of the accounting standards and principles, financial policies and procedures, corporate and taxation laws and statutory enactments with the ability to relate theory with practice. • A Team Player with a track record of quality work and timely execution. • Having Good logical and analytical skills and aptitude for work with numbers, thus being able to comprehend and explain complex financial data easily.

Experience

1. Commercial Finance Manager

   Kerry

   Mar 2018 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Business partnering in terms of Financial Planning and Budgeting, Profitability study of existing products / business verticals and the region as whole (South West Asia comprising 7 countries)\\\\n• Leading Profit improvement program for Indian Subcontinent.\\\\n• Responsible for costing and pricing for New product introduction / new customer introduction.\\\\n• Providing strategic support to senior management through preparing financial presentations, capital expenditure analysis, Variance Analysis, periodic analysis of margins.\\\\n• Monitoring Budgeting / forecast vs actual performance – revenue, cost and gross margin.\\\\n• Working capital management – Receivables monitoring, credit control.\\\\n• ROI for new products / project launch, ad-hoc business analyses, and financial modeling.\\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n

Education

• The Institute of Company Secretaries of India

  Company Secretary, Accounts, Finance, Taxation and Law

  2009 — 2011

• Mohanlal Sukhadia University

  Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), Accounting, Auditing, Taxation and Finance

  2005 — 2008

• The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

  Chartered Accountant, Accounts, Finance, Audit, Law and Taxation

  2006 — 2011