Rucha Vikharankar

• Strategic Finance Professional with a dynamic career of 20+ years in Finance & Accounting functions with consistent record of delivering results in growth, revenue, cost, operational performance, and profitability.
• Front-led major role in establishing and formulating finance and pricing strategies in coordination with top management, implementing company procedures, policies and practices, ESG framework (sustainability reporting) & collaborating with big 4 auditors both statutory & internal.
• Financial Transformation & Turnaround specialist, transferred across the group companies in C-Suite role to identify & resolve problems.
• Proven expertise in IPO, private equity deals, foreign funding, structured financing, working capital financing from banks and other financial institutions and managing commercial operations including developing contractual terms / conditions for procurement and skilled in working with suppliers.
• Applied advanced skills in financial analysis such as budget setting, expense variance analysis, financial projections & consolidation; investigated and controlled potential revenue leakage areas.
• Highly skilled in managing the general accounting, tax and compliance functions inclusive of preparing financial projections, managing annual budgets, and conducting profitability analysis across the departments, statutory & internal audits.
• Working as an active member of the Leadership Team for driving strategic business initiatives that supports business growth including mergers, acquisitions, business and capital restructuring and active participation in the meetings of Board of Directors, Audit Committee and Risk Management Committee and formulation of policies and corporate governance best practices.
• Showcased excellence in developing financial models to measure and monitor the profitability of all business units within the organization including new projects and capex.
• Broad-based expertise in streamlining the working processes and formulating cost-effective solutions for enhancing overall profitability of organization.
• Consistent Top Performer with skills in building high performing teams that excels in delivering business value with high morale & low attrition, recruiting, leading, training and monitoring performance of the team members for maintaining excellence in the finance, accounts, tax, compliance functions.
• Possess excellent communication, negotiation, analytical and coordination skills with capability to multi-task, work amidst tight deadlines and contribute to the achievement of organisational goals, managed administrative & basic HR functions.

I am a strategic finance professional with over 20 years of experience in strategic and financial planning, fund raising, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, ERP implementation, business partnering, budgeting, variance analysis, treasury management, compliance management, commercial negotiations, investor relations, etc.

I have successfully led a team of 100+ members and played a pivotal role in achieving consecutive rating upgrades, securing significant funding through NCDs and term loans, and implementing SAP S4 HANA.

My education is as under:

Chartered Accountant

Company Secretary

M.Com - Accounts & Taxation