1. KUNAL K PUNDE
Mobile: +91-9561127788 ~ E-Mail: kunalpunde@gmail.com
Middle to Senior Level Assignments
Management Reporting ● Analytics ● Financial Planning and Analysis ● Finance & Accounts
An ardent analyst with expertise in strengthening companies to lead in highly competitive situations
EXECUTIVE CAREER SUMMARY
 Nearly 8.5 years of cross-cultural experience of valuable experience gained in the field of Management Reporting &
Analytics, Financial Planning and Analysis, Financial Modeling, overseeing finance involving maintaining books of
accounts, preparation of statutory financials as per Indian GAAP as well as IFRS, handled IFRS audits and special
projects.
 Skillful in Statutory Accounting & Reporting, creating of the financial statements, commentary and writing related
disclosures.
 Expert in performing comprehensive review of existing process flows to identify potential areas of driving value and
significant value adds with a fair understanding of Indian GAAP as well as IFRS apart from other tools.
 Proficient in developing various financial models and standard templates that went on to be used by the Finance
Dept. during the planning processes and further ensuring quality, accuracy and focused analytic review .
 Merit of using financial analysis techniques, tools, and concepts to provide insights to management on driving
business results.
 Successful in interfacing with senior level decision makers; resolving critical problem areas and delivering on client
commitments.
 Outstanding in analytical & negotiation skills with proven track record of achieving targets during the career span.
 Proficient in managing client relationships with strong technical accounting and process skills.
 Having onsite work experience of 15 months in London, UK.
 Recognized as subject matter expert in multiple areas like GFS, BO, HFM, Accounting, Reporting and departing
trainings to larger teams to enhance their knowledge.
 An enterprising performer with abilities in motivating team members and enabling them to deliver quality services to
clients. Strong relationship management, analytical and communication skills.
CORE COMPETENCIES
 Management & Legal Reporting ● Financial Analysis with commentary ● Financial Modelling
 Data Analysis & Interpretation ● Financial Planning – Forecasting & Budgeting ● Client Relations
 Legal Reporting – IFRS, GAAP ● Preparation of Financials Statements and handling statutory audits
 Usage of Excel, PPT, Business Objects (BO), Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), Business Object Financial
Consolidation (BFC)
CARRER HIGHLIGHTS
 Recipient of Gem of an Associate Award within 1.5 year for the continuous performance from CFO of Financial
Services GBU of Capgemini in Jun-2009.Received promotion twice for exemplary performance in Accounting (GL) role
in Jan-10 & Jul-11
 Bagged Wright Brother Award from CFO of Financial Services GBU of Capgemini, as team lead for Barclays Business
Controlling Team for excellent work on reducing DOR and excellence in Financial Reporting in Aug-14
 Recipient of Employee of the month Award within 6 months of joining COE Reporting and Analytics team for
stabilizing the team, establishing good relation with internal client based out of Netherlands and ensuring quality of
the deliverables.
 Gained valuable knowledge of:
o Business Objects (BO) SAP based Tool to extract reports from GFS (Oracle), to perform daily task for Accounting,
Analysis and Management & Statutory Reporting.
o Hyperion Financial Management for wide range of Management Reporting.
o Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Human Resource, Fixed Assets and Project Accounting modules and
working on GFS / Oracle Application systems (ERP).
 Holds the merit of:
o Setting up automated template for Balance Sheet and P&L for legal Reporting under IFRS.
o Successfully set the process for employee advance balance tracking, which substantially reduced the old
employee advance balances
o Played a key role in identifying disconnects Accounts vs payroll records, which initiated the recovery of
substantial excess amount paid via payroll
o Developed and automated the excel template for performance analysis and various KPI’s for Business Unit(BU) in
capacity of Team Lead for Barclays, YBS, Co-op & Aviva Accounts under UK BU within FS SBU Capgemini.
o Setting up / improving processes for analysis of WIP, AR and Profitability, within UK Business Unit to act as real
finance partner for delivery teams
o Setting the process for sub-contractor accounting to avoid double booking of cost and also for reducing the
outstanding subcontractors’ balances
o Developed the highly automated HFM base Management report which reduced the reporting preparation time
and errors in reporting significantly. It also helped in quickly delivering adhoc reports.
o Creating template to perform variety of Analysis based on management needs like Onshore Revenue by KPIs,
Managed Revenue, CM% analysis, Profitability analysis etc.
o Training larger teams including own team on variety of topics in which recognized as subject matter expert.

2. IT SKILLS
o ERP Packages like Oracle (GFS), MOVEX, and SAP(basic knowledge)
o Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), Business Objects (BO), Business Object Financial Consolidation (BFC),
Capgemini FSGBU Internal Systems
o MS Excel, Word & PowerPoint
o Accounting packages like Tally, Navision and Quick Books
CAREER RECORD
Since Feb’08 GL Controller, BU Controller, SBU Controller in Capgemini
Growth Path with Highlights
Since Jan’15 Strategic Business Unit (SBU) Offshore Controller
Senior Consultant - Lead Consultant
 Playing a key role in COE Reporting and Analytics Team, as Lead of AppsTwo SBU Pune Team with end to end
responsibility of management reporting and analytics which includes scenarios like Actual, Forecast, Budget,
Restatement, 3 Year Plan, Business Reviews etc.
 Heading the team of six (6) people, in AppsTwo SBU of Capgemini having top line / revenue of more than 2.8 Billion
Euros.
 Working closely with onshore SBU Controller and SBU CFO, to ensure timely Management Reporting in various
scenarios in HFM and outside HFM based on management needs.
 Working closely with BU Controller and BU CFOs to help them in timely and reliable management reporting.
 Monthly Actual and Forecast reporting in HFM by performing various checks which include HFM Cross checks,
business checks and sanity check on numbers to ensure they are reliable and accurate before we report to Group
Management.
 Provide guidelines to Business Units (BUs) for management reporting highlighting key dates for submission and areas
to focus to have timely and quality reporting in different scenarios in HFM.
 Developed an Excel Template to automate the key Management reports to reduce the preparation time and also
errors in reporting significantly and which also helped in quick preparation of adhoc reports.
 Hold merit for creating template to perform variety of Analysis based on management needs like Onshore Revenue
by KPIs, Managed Revenue, CM% analysis, Profitability analysis etc.
 Well versed in performing variety of adhoc analytics based in management needs to support in effective decision
making and to achieve targets.
 End to end responsibility of creating, maintaining and publishing various Dashboards like M Review Deck, Business
Review Deck, Actual and Forecast Deck.
 Expert in preparing any HFM based adhoc report quickly as and when requested by Management.
 Extensively performing different analytics methods like trend analysis, variance to last forecast, variance to Budget
and Last Year of key P&L lines and KPIs. This includes onshore revenue analysis with KPIs, Revenue Analysis, CM%
Analysis with revenue & cost Mix and overhead Cost Analysis and so on.
 Holds matrix for Excel files with Matrix view of BUs to see variance between Actual vs Forecast/Budget/Last Year in
Actual close & reporting and forecast vs Last Forecast/Budget/Last year in Forecast close & reporting.
 Prepare Monthly Deck for Actual and Forecast performance with commentary on key P&L and KPI’s items.
 Instrumental in Actual and Forecast memos summaries business story on key P&L and KPI Items.
 Support SBU Management in driving various initiatives like profitability improvement, Cost reduction, Budgeting, 3
Year Plan and Business Reviews.
 End to end responsibility of External Communication which happens at end of each quarter which focuses on Year
over Year and Sequential revenue and profitability growth and analysis along with Sector, Accounts (CMA/AMSI/RTB)
and TLIs growth.
 Extensively working on harmonization of management reporting on various topics across all BUs to ensure proper
reporting at SBU level to Group.
Since Jul’12 Business Unit Controller (BU)
Senior Consultant (Including tenure in London-UK)
 Essayed a key role in United Kingdom (UK) Business Unit Controlling (BU) team and responsible for entire sales to
cash process under UK BU
 Headed the team of four (4) people, in UK BU Controlling Team of Financial Services Business Unit of Capgemini
having top line / revenue of more than 120 Million Euros.
 During my onsite tenure closely worked with various Account Executives and Sales Executives to help better manage
the business and successfully departed training on understanding forecasting process and performance analysis
reports to multiple account stake holders at various locations in UK.
 Handled entire cycle of Sales to Cash which includes Budgeting and:
o Forecasting: Responsible for end to end revenue forecast process for TransUnion account. Analysis of the actual
vs. forecasted revenue and publishing the same.
o Revenue realization: Facilitate the project setup process for contracted opportunities, ensure time compliance
and update bill rate in the system.
o Revenue accrual: Ensure revenue is accrued for the fixed type projects of accounts as per SOW on time.
Provide support to Global Revenue and Billing team for all billing matters where required. Ensure that billing is
done as per the schedule mentioned in SOW.

3. o Contract Management: Maintain a repository of client contracts, check over Purchase orders to ensure
accurate billing and avoid exceeding the PO value.
o Collections: Facilitate in timely collections from Clients-resolving queries and resolution of issues like cash
applications.
o Margin Analysis: Tracking actual margins to budget and driving margin improvement initiatives. Publishing
results and the variance analysis for margins forecasted vs actual.
o Preparation and analysis of various KPIs like ADRC, COR, PROR, Leverage, SPAN, ARVE, FTE on portfolio
level.
o Preparation of various dashboards like P review, M review on monthly and yearly basis on portfolio level.
 Developed and automated the excel templates for performance analysis of accounts under UK BU. This
automation helps in preparation of Excel Template within few hours, with 100% accuracy as soon as monthly
numbers get finalized and it acts as single file to track all KPI’s and key financial numbers.
 With the help of performance analysis report, I am acting as perfect Finance Partner for Delivery Team by helping
them to track all financial numbers and key KPI’s to achieve the year end targets and to help Accounts management
to manage & control performance at various internal levels.
 Vital role in developing:
o Scientific processes to analyze WIP at project level to have better control on WIP & to keep at minimal levels
o The invoicing process to have complete control on WIP and fast conversion of WIP to AR as soon as Account gets
PO and Approval for Signed SOW/Contract
o The Management Dashboard to report WIP at various internal levels to help Account Management in controlling
WIP by taking preventive actions well in time
o The Excel template to compute Fixed Price Revenue and to monitor cost overrun on Fixed Price Project and to
give timely alert to account leadership
 Established strong relation with client sourcing / client accounts payable team to better control the account
receivables and timely cash collection
 Extensively using Business Objects (SAP based Tool) to extract reports from GFS
 Successfully tested and rolled out internally developed forecasting Tool
Feb’08 to Jun’12 GL Controller
Associate Consultant – Consultant - Senior Consultant
 Essayed a key role in BFC / Cartesis (Group tool for Statutory Reporting and General Ledger Controller’s team. I was
responsible for US region accounting & statutory reporting.
 Led a team of 4 (four) to manage the books of accounts for US Region as a GL Controller. US Region had 5 Legal
Entities and 3 branches.
 Actively involved in Merger of SSS Group (UK Based) in Capgemini FS GBU in 2011; this group was spread across the
Globe and had presence in UK, North America and Asia.
 Visited to Manila (Philippines) in 2011 to depart training to SSS employees as part of integration.
 Distinction of preparing the consolidated / standalone PL3 and DISA Reconciliation (Reconciliation between Statutory
Accounts and Management Accounts (MIS)) for entire Financial Services GBU in Capgemini Group
 Mentored the entire Global Accounting Team with includes UK, India and APAC Region from Jul-11 till Jun-12 for
monthly, half yearly and yearly statutory book closure and statutory audits.
 Involved in / completed adhoc analysis of Statutory Numbers by Legal entity as requested by top management.
 Gained valuable experience of system migration from Old Oracle Application to Global Financial System (GFS) which
works on single instance globally as a member of UAT Team.
 Responsible for doing a thorough analysis of trial balance, balance sheet & profit & loss account and ensuring that all
the observations/errors have been dealt with by taking corrective actions
 Responsible for supporting the legal & tax team for statutory compliances.
COMMENCED CAREER
May’07 to Jan’08 Joshi Apte & Co., Pune Audit Assistant
ACADEMIC DETAILS
2007 Chartered Accountant from ICAI; secured 55%
2002 B.Com. from University of Pune; secured 61%
PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of Birth : 22nd
November 1982
Permanent Address : D-202, Swagat Enclave, S. No. 8, Plot No.1, Ambegaon Khurd, Pune – 411046
Marital Status : Married
Passport Details : J3411306 valid till 2nd
Jan 2021
Language Know : English, Hindi & Marathi