Amruta Karajgaonkar Avdhani

• Conduct in-depth cash flow forecasting and balance sheet analysis, supporting strategic decision-making and ensuring financial health and liquidity oversight for the group and 8 countries
• Perform reconciliation of forecasted and actual liquidity, identifying variances and providing insights to improve forecasting accuracy and financial controls.
• Collaborate closely with external consultants and internal stakeholders to address complex queries related to cash flow projections and balance sheet movements.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to enhance forecasting models and reporting tools, contributing to more efficient and accurate financial planning processes.
• Develop and manage the annual budget and periodic forecasts for the holding entity, incorporating key business drivers and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure accuracy and alignment.

Key Achievements:

• Improved the accuracy of liquidity forecasting by identifying key variance drivers and streamlining reconciliation processes.
• Strengthened external consultant collaboration, ensuring timely and accurate responses to balance sheet and cash flow inquiries.

• Supporting Financial Planning & Analysis of Le Labo Brand for EMEA Region (12 Markets)
• Retrieving and organizing data into required reporting formats to provide basis for comparison and evaluation.
• Preparing special studies, analysis and recommendations in areas such as budgets, forecasts, financial plans and statistical reports.
• Preparing reports analyzing specific aspects of department structures, functions and operational procedures and recommended ways to improve productivity.
• Analyzing records of present and past operations, trends and costs and estimated and realized revenues to project future revenues and expenses.
• Supporting Sales team, marketing team and online team with budget and strategy
• Creating and maintaining precise and accurate models, charts and reports.
• Analyzing actual data and finding cause of Variance from plan and estimate

• Responsible for Accounting and Valuation of Real estate leases as per IFRS 16 and ASC 842.
• Responsible of timely completion of valuation and other processes and keeping database up to date
• Ensuring accurate and timely preparation of Month end analysis, manual adjustments and reversals in REFX
• Responsible for timely completion of all quarterly reports relating to leases.
• Performing Variance analysis on Month on month basis.
• Liaison with local workplace teams on new leases, terms, expiration and renewal.
• Oversaw reconciliation of accounts, verifying compliance and auditing financial reports.
• Prepared working papers, reports and supporting documentation for audit findings.

• Conducted quantitative analysis of financial data to forecast revenue, identifying Future trends and preparation of reports for more than 20 customers
• Responsible for monthly closing of books and variance analysis from last month and budget, Identifying extraordinary income and expenses.
• Preparation of Budget through analysis of past trends.
• Preparation of Weekly and monthly cashflow and fund flow reports
• Compiled financial data to comply with budget
• Reduced financial discrepancies to minimize threats to health and productivity of business
• Reviewed sales and gross profit report to assess company efficiency

• Maintaining AR Records, Issuing invoices, Processing payments and issuing Credits of over 35 customers with revenue of over USD 10M
• Analysis of New Statement of Work received and recognition of revenue accordingly
• Booking unbilled and deferred revenue based on percentage completion of projects
• Reviewing aging and following up on Due and overdue balances to decrease turnaround time of cash collection
• Account reconciliation
• Estimation of revenue and collection every month to help plan expenditure.
• Performed weekly analysis of cashflow and fund flow to estimate cash requirement in coming weeks
• Briefed senior executives on monthly projections, product launches and other marketing plans