SAKSHI MEHTA

E-Mail: mehtasakshi1@gmail.com~ Contact: 91-8527830175

Experienced Finance professional with a demonstrated history of working across various industries –
QSR, FMCG, Manufacturing, Consulting, Travel, Service, Telecom.

SYNOPSIS

⮚ Finance professional with over 13 years of experience in Finance strategy, Finance Control, SOX Compliance,
Supply Chain, business plans, capital and operational budgeting, working capital management.
⮚ Experience with implementing financial policies and procedures, internal financial controls, project financing
and costing and managing teams across regions and demographics.
⮚ Act as a key player on Supply Chain Finance with overseeing all aspects of Supply Chain analysis (logistics,
3PL, warehousing and stock operations), ensuring accurate recording of costs, finalizing SKU pricing, Business Case
Analysis, New Product Case Analysis.
⮚ Strong interpersonal skills, capable of resolving multiple & complex issues & motivating staff to peak
performance. Outstanding presentation & communication skills.

CAREER CONTOUR

March 2021 – Present Independent Purchasing Company (SubWay) Financial Controller – MEA, SA

⮚ Financial Control: Managing and controlling a total turnover of USD 4 mil across MEA & SA.
⮚ Financial Policies: Improved Net Margins from 10% to 18% post set-up and management of financial
policies across business functions and regions.
⮚ Asset Management: Improved Cash Reserve from 2020 by closely monitoring collections and setting up
related KPIs.
⮚ Audit & Assistance: Managing Middle East, Europe and India external audits and closing related queries
and financials with auditors.
⮚ Taxes and Filing: reviewing and filing VAT, GST, Corporate and other tax filings in Middle East, UK and
India.
⮚ Budgeting & Forecasting: Managing and monitoring Budgeting, Forecasting, Business Case and Project
Analysis for existing and new projects in the MEA SA region leading to lower variances between actual & forecast.
⮚ Cost Management & Control: improved Net Profit Margin by 2% by designing & implementing systems,
policies and procedures to achieve cost control and enhance overall efficiency.
⮚ Financial Due Diligence: Introducing detailed Financial and Legal risk analysis of SubWay ingredient
suppliers. Project now adapted across other IPCs due to better cost negotiations.
⮚ Internal and External Stakeholder Management: Managing Board meetings/ Stakeholders and queries
and quarterly financial presentations. Managing, resolving, responding and aligning with internal stakeholders and
leadership peers to achieve mission and vision, collaboratively.
⮚ Risks and Analysis: evaluate business decisions and review financial impacts by effectively communicating
risks and opportunities.
⮚ ERP Migration: setting up a new accounting/ ERP system – Business Central for Accounting AP/AR, FA for
MEA and South Asia Region.

August 2018 – Nov 2020 VFS Global Services Pvt. Ltd. V&A Business Finance Controller

⮚ Financial Control: Managing and controlling a total turnover of USD 9 mil globally.
⮚ Financial Policies: Improved Gross Margins from 20% to 60% post set-up and management of financial
controls and agreements with business vendors.
⮚ Budgeting and Forecast Managing and monitoring Budgeting, Forecasting, Business Case and Project
Analysis for existing and new projects Globally leading to lower variances between actual & forecast
⮚ Financial Modelling – Analysing and preparing Financial Models for all upcoming projects and bids to
support costing/pricing to support business decisions.
⮚ Cost Control & Savings: Discussing and devising various cost saving methods & enforcing policies to the
business with respect to compliance. Ensuring allocations and recoveries are in line.
⮚ Audit Assistance: Assisting Internal and External audits of the business and related financials.
⮚ Acquisition & SAP Implementation: working on acquisition and assisting external valuation of DocsWallet
Business for Acquisition.
⮚ Managing TMS: Managing & reporting treasury system for the business line to the corporate HO.
⮚ New Business Reporting: Building a financial reporting system to capture performance for a newly set-up
business line. Driving an accurate and timely business performance & communicating the variance drivers to the
senior management & internal stakeholders.
Devising Financial automation for income & payment on-system enhancements.

May 2017 – May 2018 Anheuser Busch InBev Supply Chain Finance Controller

⮚ Cost Management: Managing, analysing and presenting GBP 4 mil Supply Chain Margins from beer sales in
and out of UK.
⮚ Budgeting & Forecast: Monitoring and analysing monthly lane, shipping, volumes and related costs in line
with finalized budgets to avoid and manage variances.
⮚ Cost control & negotiations: Saving GBP 0.5 mil of costs by introducing several projects and initiatives.
⮚ Product Pricing: Commercial pricing of over 500 beer SKUs in UK and related business case analysis.
⮚ Planning & Analysis: analysing Logistics performance with regards to cost incurred and recovery from
sales; additionally analysing SKU performance for better decision making.
⮚ Review and approval: Review and approve monthly expenses incurred under the logistics level at each
site (both production and non-production) in the UK.

March 2016 - 17 Ceragon Networks India Pvt. Ltd. APAC Finance Controller

⮚ Reporting: Reporting trends and analysis during monthly/weekly/quarterly meetings and calls. Preparing
GL account review for P&L and validating balances compared to working plans. Calculation of NPV and ROI for all
entities.
⮚ Budgeting & Forecasting: Spearhead the annual budgeting process and subsequent monthly & quarterly
forecasts for Enabling functions and business.
⮚ Revenue recognition: Revenue recognition and reporting basis US GAAP. Analysis of revenue reports basis
Annual, quarterly and monthly budgeted numbers versus actual. Preparing monthly and quarterly revenue flash and
summary. Trend analysis for budgeted and actual monthly numbers.
⮚ Cost control: Preparing Cost trends and analysing major drivers and means to control costs. Work with
Financial Controllers and planning teams of the HQ and each entity to plan, forecast, report and control costs by
providing recommendations for the same (by coordinating with Marketing, Sales, Legal, PMO and Finance
departments of each entity and HQ).
⮚ Money leakage detection, reporting and investigations (part of other special projects and
requirements)
⮚ Audit Assistance for internal & external audits across APAC.

Feb 2015 – Mar 2016 Vodafone Digilink Ltd. Assistant Finance Controller - Prepaid

⮚ Month end Financial Analysis: Assisting in Financial & Non-financial data preparation for Month end
reporting. Data Revenue tracking and analysis (Post+Pre) with all details like 2G 3G, BB, usage etc. Operations
analysis & reporting.
⮚ Business case Analysis & Approval: Opex/Capex Management: Maintaining Business cases tracking and
periodic post launch analysis, Cost Centre wise Analysis of departmental costs
⮚ Budgeting & Forecasting: Assisting in Preparation of Budgets for Cost line items for each department.
Variance analysis of actual form budget and forecast

Aug 2014 – Jan 2015 Accenture/ALU/NSN Regional Finance Team Lead

⮚ Preparing financial analysis and models for Alcatel Lucent/ NSN businesses in Europe & Americas.
⮚ Working and preparing dashboards on direct and indirect costs for purpose of quarterly BR meetings.

Aug 2010 – May 2014 Ameriprise Financial Senior Finance Analyst

⮚ Preparation & Analysis of financial data including cash flow management, investment planning, risk
management and insurance planning for individuals, HNIs & Businesses.
⮚ Financial modelling using 5-year analysis, PI, ratio analysis.

2007-08 Onkar Infotech Travel Sales Consultant

⮚ Built a clientele supported by 60% referral business and fresh clientele for Travel sales.
⮚ Develop and implement strategic marketing plan for sales and marketing.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

Degree Institute/University/Board Percentage/CGPA Year

MBA (Finance & Limkokwing University, 3.83 2008-2010
Economics) Malaysia
B.Com- Accounts & SD College –Kurukshetra 51.50% 2003-2006
Economics Univesrity, Ambala Cantt
12th (Commerce) Convent of Jesus & Mary. 68.80% 2001-2003
CBSE Ambala
10th CBSE Convent of Jesus & Mary. 74.40% 2000-2001
Ambala