Sutapa Bhattacharya
About Me
# Resolute and committed Professional, offering over 19 years of diverse
experience and specifically in Finance Controllers role spanning
Accounting and Financial Reporting, Financial planning and Budgeting,
Corporate Pricing, Taxation, Treasury Management, Internal Audit, and
Enterprise Risk and Controls.
# Expertise in executing Financial Controllership role by driving IT
initiatives to optimize timely and accurate Financial Reporting complying
with IFRS requirements across Projects, Profit and Cost Centers and key
SBU while constantly focusing on improvement in efficiency, cost saving
and productivity with resultant impact on bottom-line.
# Hands-on-experience in effective Financial planning, Budgeting and
Forecasting while working in tandem with Operations to identify key cost
drivers for various business verticals and Projects analysis.
# Leveraged Power BI skills on strategic acumen, number crunching ability
and business analytical skill to identify global price trends and anticipate
change in customer perception resulting in increased Revenue.
# Managed Direct and Indirect taxation and ensured GST implementation
across all units with requisite transparency, while dealing with regular Tax
assessment and Audits.
# Proficient in effectively managing Treasury function to ensure effective
funding of internal operations through working capital management and
liaising with Banks.
# Created an effective mechanism to coordinate with Sales towards
mobilization and reporting of collections against target commitments, thus
streamlining the monthly Fund forecast process based on tracking of daily
collections thus gaining an early perspective of the Cash Flow projection
and Cash position.
# An effective Team player and Communicator with excellent relationship
management and problem-solving capabilities.
Education
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India 2004
Chartered Accountant
Being most prestigious Institute in India, the Institute offers most capable Finance personnel. It is a privilege to be Qualified Chartered Accountant.
Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of India 2001
Cost and Management Accountant
The Institute offers insight of costing and analysis. It is autonomous Institute of its kind.
Work & Experience
Powersonic Industry 05/01/2022
Global Financial operation and Analysis Manager
# Leading Global Finance Team Situated in Canada, India, Slovakia, US & Mexico while reporting jointly to Global CFO and Director – Finance & Admin. # Streamlining Finance Department with horizontal deployment of Policy and Procedure by centralizing process.
Bosch Rexroth India Private Limited 08/16/2016 - 04/30/2022
Deputy General Manager
# Implementing Marginal Price Index in collaboration with Central team from Germany and ensuring minimum benchmark returns across all product lines and verticals. # Driving the finance functions; framing financial objectives, developing & implementing systems, policies & procedures to facilitate internal financial and process controls. # Managing working capital funds; monitoring inflow / outflow of funds, steering measures to ensure optimum utilization of funds towards the accomplishment of organizational objectives #Evolving annual budgets and directing variance analysis to evaluate variance between projected & actual results and implementing corrective actions # Analyzing the internal control systems to highlight shortcomings & implementing recommendations # Reviewing existing processes and leading the implementation of systems aimed at enhancing process and operational efficiency of the organization # Designing and implementing systems & procedures; supervising the consolidation of group accounts and preparation of financial statements & annual reports # Supervising the preparation of MIS reports to provide feedback to top management on financial performance, including fund management, credit control, profitability and so on # Articulating need-based strategies for maximizing profitability, revenue generation & realizing organizational goals
Bosch Limited 01/04/2012 - 08/15/2016
Senior Manager
# Engaged in budgeting planning, ensured control and monitored through analysis of budget vs actual variance # Conducted Profitability & Cost Centre wise expenses analysis; reported to Executive Management & other stakeholders # Executed Product Profitability analysis for product and projects & Transfer Pricing # Steered working capital management, like cash and inventory
Ashok Leyland Limited 02/28/2007 - 12/31/2011
Manager - Internal Aduit
# Acted as key member of the IA think tank to implement Audit Risk Assessment across all functional processes with requisite risk ratings across all the verticals within the organization # Built an Internal Audit portal which acted as a repository for digital Audit Records across the previous 3 years and a permanent repository for all audits going forward # Acted as the Lead Auditor under Information Security and compliance reviews across ISO 27001 across 2 data centers # Managed multiple Audit assignments across Marketing, Corporate, Plant (both within India and at Czech Republic)
Hooghly Mills Projects Limited 10/01/2004 - 01/31/2007
Commercial Manager
# Acted as a core member of the Management’s Commercial and Finance Think Tank # Steered the implementation of Inventory Management module # Led the Company Secretary Team for disbursement to minority shareholders after consolidation of equity
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