Pushpendra Lodha
Chartered Accountant
Dubai
Summary
Driven and dedicated professional with a strong desire to join a dynamic core team. Committed to excellence, bring honesty, versatility, and a passion for contributing to organizational growth. With a focus on consistently delivering high-quality results, eager to make a significant impact in a growth-oriented environment.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages
Work History
Senior Analyst
Al Futtaim Real Estate
Dubai
10.2023 - Current
- Led the annual budgeting and forecasting process and developed robust forecasting models for mall revenue and expenses, achieving alignment with corporate objectives and ensuring efficient resource allocation
- Produced insightful management reports, dashboards, and presentations to convey financial results and strategic recommendations to senior leadership, enabling informed decision-making and performance tracking
- Developed advanced financial models to simulate various scenarios and assess their impact on mall financial performance and leveraged data analytics and KPIs to support strategic decision-making processes, providing
valuable insight - Ensured timely submission of tax filings by maintaining up-to-date knowledge on CIT tax regulations and working closely with external auditors.
- Handled month-end and year-end end finances by managing and reporting fixed assets and other data.
- Generation additional revenue of AED 2M by planning fund and investing the additional in Fixed Deposit
- Evaluated proposed projects'' ROI using NPV, IRR, and other financial metrics, helping prioritize initiatives with maximum value potential.
Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A
Citibank
Mumbai
04.2022 - 09.2023
- Develop and manage end to end annual planning, budgeting and periodic forecasting processes for Expenses and Headcount for Markets division across 76 countries (EMEA region) by analyzing each expense account
- Provide variance analysis to senior management and key stakeholders on financial performance (actual versus budget/forecast/prior quarter/prior year) and identify and communicate risks , opportunities, business analytics and timely financial insights to support key decision making
- Prepare financial reporting material by providing information on business drivers and provide commentary for review decks that will help drive and support business
- Scrutinizing particular Expense line and identifying potential Cost saving techniques and formulating ways to better forecast Expense line Preparing various reports and walks for Business Heads to help them understand Expense story and to ensure expenses are within Budget
- Co-ordin with ICG Sector & Citi Corporate Team on a monthly basis to help them understand Expense variances
Senior Associate, Financial Due Diligence, Deals
Pricewaterhouse Coopers SDC Pvt Ltd (PwC)
Kolkata
01.2021 - 04.2022
- Led financial due diligence for potential M&A activities, ensuring thorough evaluation of targets.
- Working closely with the Australia and New Zealand on shore teams to understand the actual framework of the geography, industry and provide support to them on various deals from financial due diligence perspective
- Deals Data Analytics- Access data from virtual rooms, convert, align and summarize unstructured data to facilitate further analysis with the use of analytical tools- Alteryx ( used for more than 25 deals)
- Providing presentation deck of the final deal report used for decision making
- Leading teams into complex projects, overseeing their work and ensuring timely delivery of the work. Undergoing Extensive technical training on the deal framework and data analysis software on a regular basis to get updated and work efficiently
Consultant, Risk Advisory
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited
Bangalore
03.2020 - 01.2021
- Effectively perform technical components of risk assessments to provide accurate view of client’s current risk state
- Assess and design internal controls by applying an understanding of internal control design frameworks and regulatory requirements
- Examine and evaluate financial and information systems, recommending controls to ensure system reliability and data integrity
- Collect and Analyze data to detect deficient controls, duplicated efforts, extravagance fraud or non-compliance with laws, regulations and management policies
- Understand the client’s business, interpret sector trends, and learn leading practices.
- Prepare detailed reports on audit findings, asset utilization and audit results and recommend changes in operations and financial activities.
Education
Chartered Accountant - Finance
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
Nagpur 01.2015 - 01.2020
Skills
Data analysis
Financial forecasting
Client management
Performance monitoring
Report preparation
Cost-benefit analysis
Budget planning
Timeline
Senior Analyst
Al Futtaim Real Estate
10.2023 - Current
Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A
Citibank
04.2022 - 09.2023
Senior Associate, Financial Due Diligence, Deals
Pricewaterhouse Coopers SDC Pvt Ltd (PwC)
01.2021 - 04.2022
Consultant, Risk Advisory
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited
03.2020 - 01.2021
Chartered Accountant - Finance
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
01.2015 - 01.2020