Rahul Raichandani

About Rahul Raichandani

A highly motivated finance professional with a demonstrated ability to deliver. Experience of around 10 years in business partnering, treasury operations, financial risk management, financial stewardship, controllership and focus to optimise on every basis point to the bottom line or add value.Partnered with cross functional and internationally diverse teams on various aspects of financial planning, treasury operations including cash and forex risk management, tax optimisation, financial controllership and various aspects of restructuring.I have a strong sense of ownership in whatever I do and have a collaborative and curious approach towards work contributing to positive team spirit and inclusiveness.

Experience

1. Treasury Manager

   Unilever

   Feb 2025 — Present · Schaffhausen, CH

   Liquidity management for the Group’s main financing entity, taking care of central cash pool in various currencies.• Foreign exchange risk management and related operations to ensure compliance with the Group’s treasury standards.• Working on various strategies such as net investment hedging, cash pooling, reducing non deductible interest, tax and finance cost optimisation.• Working on various hedging strategies in discussion with bankers to deliver to extra carry to bottom line while complying with hedge accounting requirements.• Treasury business partnering which involves identification of various blockers in different markets from treasury standpoint and working on solutions.• External funding for group central finance entities which involves operations around CP issuances, bond issuances and making sure that the funding needs of business are met at optimum costs.• Group level hedging strategies (Net investment hedging, Interest rate hedges, balance sheet hedging).• Working on ideas to bring cash from various geographies and markets to centre in the form of intra group dividends, restructuring and inter company recharges in compliance with transfer pricing requirements.• Brainstorming and discussion with internal stakeholders, controllers across geographies as well as investment bankers around ideas for FX risk management, cash management, investments to optimise on group’s finance costs.

Education

• University of Mumbai

  BCom - Bachelor of Commerce, Accounting and Finance

• ACCA

  Diploma in IFRS, Financial Reporting

• Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

  Executive General Management Programme, Business Administration and Management, General