Manish D.

About Manish D.

A seasoned finance leader and development sector professional with over 25 years of experience across diverse sectors. After working for 18 years in corporate finance function, since past 6 years, have started specializing in strategic financial management for social enterprises, I have successfully led grant management, social inclusion initiatives, and capacity building for grassroots organizations. Successfully led roles with MNCs, domestic conglomerates, startups, closely held promoters managed corporates and Non-Profit (NPO), Foundations, CSR in social sector.Worked in diverse sectors including Foods, Financial Services, Media Agency, Urban Mobility, IT product, Renewable Energy for rural community, Grassroot Sports, social infrastructure, and artisan carfts.My work blends financial acumen with a passion for driving social change, community development, and sustainability through participatory leadership.My skills include:• Strategic financial leadership across a wide range of sectors and organizations, startups to conglomerates, domestic to global, closely held to publicly held• Fund Raise, restructuring, automation, integration, process transformation and corporate governance • Understanding of the Indian social impact ecosystem and global development trends.• Managing funder relationships, grant management, financial sustainability for NGOs and foundations.• Proven leadership in foundation management, resilience building, community-driven development.• Mentoring next-gen leaders

Experience

1. Chief Financial Officer

   Sarita Handa Exports Private Limited

   Apr 2024 — Present · Gurugram, IN

   Leading financial strategy for Sarita Handa Group. An INR 700+ Crores lifestyle home textiles international B2B and B2C retail stores business. Organization provides livelihood opportunities for ~1,500 rural women artisans (~2,500 associates) • Drive local and global strategic alliances, long-term financial sustainability, governance, regulatory compliance, and social impact through strategic financial insights.• Fund raise - Equity and Debt for strategic growth• Leveraging forex for treasury gains• Initiated operations for Sarita Handa in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).• Transforming Finance Team and finance operations• Managing CSR fund and supporting community educations, working with implementation agencies and educational institutions

Education

• The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

  Chartered Accountant, Finance & Accounts, Managment,Taxation, Business Laws

  1997 — 2000

• Corporate Finance Institute® (CFI)

  FMVA, Finance, General

• Amity University, Greater Noida Campus

  MBA (Finance), Business Administration and Management, General

  2018 — 2019

• ACCA

  DipIFR, Accounting and Finance

  2018 — 2018

• HarvardX

  Tiny ML - AI, Artificial Intelligence

• SPJIMR SP Jain Institute of Management & Research

  PGPDM, Development Management

Skills

• Analysis
• Operational Excellence
• Leadership
• Strategic Planning
• Budgeting
• Project Finance
• Variance Analysis
• Team Leadership
• Sap Implementation
• Start-Ups
• Financial Planning
• Project Financing
• Business Strategy
• Business Process Improvement
• Consulting
• Financial Services
• Management Accounting
• Financial Statements
• Management Information Systems (Mis)
• Negotiation
• Recruiting
• Strategic Financial Planning
• Managerial Finance
• Business Development
• Accounting
• Business
• Team Management
• Management
• Financial Analysis
• Strategy
• Auditing
• Executive Management
• Business Planning
• Hyperion Enterprise
• Business Intelligence
• Business Analytics
• Budgets
• Finance
• Mis