Barun Shaw

[email protected],+917406278169

SUMMARY
Collaborative leader with 10 years of experience in capital intensive industries developing and implementing
financial controls and processes improvements. Proven track record of finance initiatives contributing to process
efficiencies, cost savings and regional and global consistency. Strong abilities to build high-performing global
teams, make decisions, and compete-to-win have ensured market leading positions in businesses across diverse
industries with expertise leading financial operations, corporate strategy initiatives, business administration, and
various functions for both multi-trillion dollar operations and small, entrepreneurial start-ups
CORE COMPETENCIES
● Financial Analysis ● Stakeholder ● People Management
● Forecasting Management ● Valuation
● Budgeting& Ad hoc ● Financial Modeling ● Month-End Close
● Business Planning ● Strategic Planning ● Capital Planning
● Cost management ● Financial Reporting ● Project Planning
● Cash flow ● Project Management ● KPI Development
● Pricing
● Global Strategic
● IFRS&GAAP US/UK
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND, London, United Kingdom Jan 2013-Jan 2014
Master of Business Administration, Finance
● Organized and coordinated annual unit conference for 60 + MBA professors nationwide.
UNIVERSITY OF BURDWAN, West Bengal, India Jul 2009 - Jul 2011
Master of Commerce, Accounting and Finance
UNIVERSITY OF BURDWAN, West Bengal, India Jun 2006 - Jun 2009
Bachelor of Commerce (Honors), Accounting and Finance
Other Skills
SAP (FICO), SAP (PS), SAP (SD), SAP (FSCM), SAP (MM), SAP (PP), and SAP (HRM). Cognos 8.3, Oracle, MS office, MS
Project 2010, Hyperion, SQL, GW Basic, C++ Tally 9, Sage Pay roll. People Soft Financials 9.0. Tableau, Business
Intelligence Tool.SOX404, Operational Risk, Auditing, IT Audit, Financial Risk Operational Risk, Internal Audit
Risk Management, Enterprise risk management, Risk Consulting. Compliance with GAAP/IFRS Handled Industry
Hospitality, telecom, utilities, Real estate development, IT, Manufacturing, Infrastructure import & export, Finance,
health care, education, retail. Attended more than 300 workshops globally. Cleared exams like CAT, MAT, SNAP,
IIFT etc.
EXPERIENCE
● Financial Reporting and Financial Planning &Analysis (FP&A), Business Transformation, Migrations &
Service Delivery in F&A.
● Profile primarily involves Forecasting, Budgeting, Financial Analysis, Cost Allocation and Headcount
Reporting.
● Reconciliation of headcount / FTE numbers in the MIS reports with the system reports and prepare
explanations for the same.
● Involved in managing multiple business processes – Operations support for establishing processes,
metrics identifications and reporting etc.
● Implement and lead the roll-out of a monthly gap analysis report process for OPEX and Headcount.
● Provide monthly and quarterly analysis and metrics to assess and report on the financial performance of
the company versus the forecast.
● Assess actual performance, providing feedback and taking corrective actions as necessary to ensure
company financial targets are met.
 ● Develop business case analyses to support major initiatives and support sound business decisions.
● To ensure the financial impacts of key decisions are understood by the leadership team.
● Preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual MIS along with variation analysis, board presentation,
leadership team (LT) deck along with comments and insights on business performance.
● Working on adhoc MIS requirements from management and stakeholders.
● Responsible for monthly compilation (from the reporting systems) of the financial reports pertaining to
the finance centers.
● Review of the financial numbers, variance analysis and interacting with the center Finance teams to clarify
open questions if any.
● Prepared the combined monthly financial operational dashboards for the Finance centers with different
cut locations, service function etc. along with executive summary for each cut.
● Actively support in preparation of any ad-hoc reporting requirement that may come up from time to time.
● Prepare various dashboards/ presentation to support the leadership during the group review of Monthly
and Quarterly results.
● Finalization of budgets involving detailed discussions & inputs from business team, on the recurring cost,
basis past trends and abnormal/exceptional items along with its comparison to the previous year.
● Publishing quarter on quarter cost forecast and its month on month variance analysis comparison to
actual cost booked ledger with detailed bridges and commentaries to the higher management.
● Involved in MIS preparation at business unit level with detailed P&L Analysis including preparation at
business unit level with detailed P&L analysis including preparation of presentations to senior
management.
● Develop and enhance content for tower specific modules across different stages of account life cycle
● Reporting quarterly performance of the company along with the plan for the next quarter.
● Responsible for timely Preparation & Finalization of monthly, quarterly & Annual reports.
● Higher efficiency through automation and group consolidation activities for simplified reporting and
closing tracking using Hyperion and Cognos.
● Finalization of rate cards depicting the cost per headcount for the deliveries/ client basis the past trend
and current forecast and circulating the same to the business across all the locations.
● Involvement and Finalization in monthly and quarterly management level business reviews & flash reports
and publishing the same to the leadership month on month basis.
● Deliver domain based trainings to participants as per their proficiency levels
● Ensure audit readiness and work towards achievement of satisfactory rating in corporate & statutory
audit.
● Build, conduct and evaluate assessment / case studies for different programs.
● Ensure all monthly reporting & accounting for cost center, is delivered accurately, on time and in full.
● Continuous identification/ evaluation of cost savings opportunities within the business driving continuous
ledger analysis.
● Co-ordinate and project manage training programs in collaboration with LA team and stakeholders.
● Supporting the various deliverables across all locations in ad hoc analysis and management reports.
● Discussions with senior finance leadership for global guidelines and year to year variance reporting.
● Support with the on- going development of all reporting with focus on ensuring reporting continually
evolves to best serve the organization with information and in the most efficiently and timely manner.
● Prepared and signed off Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for all the activities.
● Handling teams and responsible for the timely and accurate review and posting of month end close and
accounting transactions.
● Build training programs by towers for employees basis their current competency levels
● P&L and balance sheet account analysis, review, reconciliation & resolution.
● Keeping on track of billing & payment to be on time, support ad-hoc &misc analysis as requested.

Accenture PVT LTD, Chennai& Bangalore India Sep 2018 – Aug 2020
FP&A Lead Specialist / Operation Manager (Financial Planning & Analysis, Taxation, M&A)
 ● Ensure the team present monthly deck and timely month-end reports to Senior Directors and the CFO;
providing insightful commentaries enabling a clear view of business performance
• Collaborates with the Planning & Analysis, Controllership and other various Team to drive continuous
improvement of effective, concise and relevant reporting tools and reports for the business segments
• Lead the team to continuously improve their month-end and year-end processes, seeking to improve
efficiency of these recurring activities
• Part of Strategy decision making

CAPGEMINI PVT LTD, Bangalore, India Oct 2015 – Nov 2017

● Redesigned accrual calculations and implemented reconciliation controls; reduced processing time by
66%
● Initiated enhancement of global utilization report to include geo timezones; resulted in 100% accurate
monthly operating expense.
● Budgeting forecasting and variance analysis by Income statement & Balance Sheet analysis for cost and
revenue component.
● Responsible for reporting variance bridge for entire business to corporate finance.
● Preparing periodical and ad-hoc financial reports for revenue, expense and headcount reporting.
● Designing and building financial & Statistical reports/ models to analyze the business performance.
● Executed manual reporting forclient-side M&A performance and consolidation of system for one quarter.
● Coordinated with global teams to develop and monitor multibillion-dollar budget allocation.
● Monitored operational cash flow and developed plan for with corporate finance team.
● Enhanced strategic decision making by providing custom reports, financial forecasts, research analysis and
financial models to executive teams as part of M&A business plan.
● Assessed financial risk from M&A audits and financial impacts discrepancies from forecasts report; used
by senior executive team in risk mitigation every quarter.

CAULDON COLLEGE, London, United Kingdom July 2014 – Aug 2015

AGRI FOODS LTD, London, United Kingdom Mar 2013 – Jun 2014
Finance Manager(Global Finance, Marketing & Sales Finance, Financial Planning & Analysis)
● Led global cross functional teams to support and manage financial operating systems; performing annual
financial report with various team.
● Increased efficiency in high cost and high-volume manufacturing plant; led to increasing of new
distributors by 70%.
● Generated transactional operating margin analysis methodology; lead to reduction of inventory levels by
29 % to a 2 % increase in sales.
● Developed and implemented new merchandise planning process by streamlining process to increase
business development opportunities.
● Re-designed revenue forecast model to reduce budget preparation time by 30 %.

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES, West Bengal, India Apr 2012 – Aug 2012
Senior Associate(Financial Planning & Analysis, Business Analysis)
● Work with financial and executive teams to develop financial strategies and cost saving programs
● Overhauled business processes to shorten finance reporting times to comply with quarterly reporting
requirement.
M/S Universal Enterprise, West Bengal, India May 2009 – Mar 2012
Manager(Business Strategy, Financial Planning& Analysis, Business Transformation, Growth Strategy)
● Lead financial planning team for development of 5-year Strategic Growth Plan, Operating Plan, Capital
Plan & Workforce Plan for 400 workforce.
● Negotiated line of credit extendible to 5% of revenue with local financial institutions to set up new
manufacturing plant; increased by 10 million rupees from initial contracts.
● Increased cash flow by 5 million rupees buy re-evaluating lease vs. buy strategy of an assets.
● Reduced capital expenditure by 2 million rupees through installation of a new capital order process
centralizing division’s procurement and eliminating.

ADDITIONAL
● Worked with over 21 global startup companies over last 7 years to raise over half million dollars
combined.
● Organized Computer and English literacy workshop with NGO- Help Age for 5000 underprivileged children