Upendra Gadre

CAREER AT A GLANCEACorporate Role 1.Private Placement of Equity @ Rs 120/ share of DGP Hinoday , due diligence, India Private Equity fund2. Budget / MIS & Costing for entire TACO Group ( turnover 4000 Cr and 22 JV companies)3. Business Plan for new Joint Ventures – 6 JV – analyzed the feasibility and converting to financial business plan, 4. Hand holding of Finance function in new JVs – procedure, process, pricing, negotiation, data management system, culture 5. CFO of 2 joint venture companies6. Policies and Processes7. Group ReportingB. Plant Role1. Establish Stores / planning and logistic function2. Establish new software system3. Established monthly closing and quarterly audit systemC. Green Field Project1. Project Coordinator of SGI Automotive green field project2. Business plan / Function & process set up 3. Identification of vendors4. Funding arrangement through ECBs and FCNR(B)D. Strategic Role1. Strategy plan for 2 joint venture companies clearly stating roadmap2. 2W manufacturing strategy for Tata GreenE. Functional1. Quarterly Statutory audits with ZERO adjustments2. Clean orders for Transfer Pricing – 08-09 , 09-10 FY… straightened records to get clean record3. Clean State VAT / CST Assessments for 20 branches – create diligent record keeping to trace and answer queries raised; Special Valuation Cell of Customs – 1% deposit of 1.25Cr recovered by negotiating the4. Negative Working Capital5. Funding arrangement for new projects / Capex6. Interest Cost reduction of Rs 60 Lpa7. Descaled and DE risked Finance organization8. Highest score in Employee Engagement survey – highly engaged finance team9. Restructured CFA / branch cost thereby reducing cost of operations by Rs 36 L pa - renogitated fees 10. Introduced branch profitability concept to drive profit culture across sales team .11. Refund of Rs 1.25 Cr from SVB Customs