Chinmay's CV
Chinmay Mundhra | B19012
Business Management(Finance & Strategy) XLRI Jamshedpur 2021
Profile summary
Accomplished Senior Finance Manager with 7 years of progressive experience in business finance, financial planning, and strategic operations. Track record of driving cost reduction initiatives, securing high-value asset leasing deals, and building financial models for international market expansion. Dedicated to combining rigorous financial analysis with cross-functional execution to optimize profitability and support corporate growth.
Career highlights
Cost Reduction and Financial Planning: Drove a 25% reduction in packaging costs by creating a standardized product-to-packaging material mapping across hubs while managing monthly budgeting and forecasting.
Financial Modeling and Strategic Partnerships: Developed financial models and led partnership discussions to expand ride-hailing operations in MENA markets, securing a term sheet for entry into Saudi Arabia.
Working Capital and Demand Planning: Won the Business Excellence Award for saving a GMV loss of over 1.8cr per month by identifying business critical pincodes and improving capacity utilization.
Trading Operations and Market Analysis: Managed a trading book size of 15 Million while executing high frequency trades averaging over 200 trades per day on international exchanges.
Key skills
Professional experience
Directs business finance operations across strategic projects and hub networks. Owns financial planning, profitability modeling, and cross-functional cost optimization initiatives without geographic markers.
- Drove a 25% reduction in packaging costs by creating a standardized product-to-packaging material mapping across hubs.
- Grew Other Revenue 35% in 3 months by targeting key users, optimizing product placement, and retargeting communications.
- Created PO generation SOP for offline marketing, improving spend tracking and reducing provisional-to-actual variance by 30%.
- Partnered with OPS to bring down last mile and manpower cost by 15% via optimized clustering and manpower benchmarking.
- Led a cross-functional initiative to develop a pan-India AOP, owning monthly budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
Directed strategic financial planning and partnership operations for ride-hailing expansion across MENA and domestic markets. Oversaw cross-functional capital allocation, annual operating plan construction, and investor negotiations. Managed unit economics tracking and lease structure evaluations.
- Secured investment deals worth 150cr across 950+ cars through investor negotiations and financial modeling for asset leasing.
- Projected savings of >₹120cr over 4 years by analyzing the total cost of ownership for various electric vehicles to inform procurement.
- Saved ~30 man hours per week through product development of an automated invoicing and payment system for lenders.
Awards & Recognition
- Won Business Excellence Award in Q2,’22 for saving a GMV loss of over 1.8cr/month by identifying business critical pincodes
- Received Udaan ‘Act Fast’ Award for Q3,’22 for effective demand & capacity planning by achieving capacity utilization >90%
- Won ‘Udaan Striker’ Award in Q2,’23 for exceeding the WC goal by ~10cr via vendor negotiations & payments optimization
- Owned the monthly P&L planning, reporting and forecasting process for the staples business of Udaan (~3000cr GMV)
- Improved the sourcing efficiency in sugar and flour by 25bps and 80 bps respectively by creating a vendor level scorecard
- Led the monthly demand and capacity planning for North & East regions, impacting a ~3000 crore business
- Liaised with business & ops to build daily demand plan for 19 cities, factoring in seasonality, holidays & local demand spikes
- Minimized FMCG inventory by 33% through portfolio shaping, reducing the monthly working Capital needs by 3cr
- Spearheaded the Bizfin side of FMCG PO approvals for East region, saving the firm ~12cr in ageing inventory in 6 months
- Devised the Financial Plan & got Business Approval for the supply chain network re-design of a ~20 crore city in East
- Reduced the TAT for re-inventorisation in warehouses by 4x, minimizing losses due to liquidation by ~20 Lakhs/month
- Evaluated credit business, off-role costs, COD Bad Debt, RTO for 19 cities, minimizing losses due to leakages by 5%
Directed commodity market analysis and execution strategies on international exchanges. Managed portfolio operations, trading book allocation, and market sentiment evaluation across financial terminals.
- Managed a 15 Million trading book size, executing over 200 trades per day.
- Traded 2.1 Million worth of Cotton No. 2 futures and 3.36 Million worth of RBOB futures on ICE and CME.
- Analyzed market sentiment through 6000 hours of technical indicator monitoring using Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters Eikon terminals.
- Analysed the investment thesis of over 300 venture capital and private equity funds to shortlist targets based on SaaS and fintech strategies.
- Projected five-year revenues for Antrepriz using Discounted Cash Flow Valuation modelling.
Education
Finance & Strategy
Industrial & Production