Abhinav Choudhary

As Global Co-Head (Sourcing & Buying Operations) (2018- Till Date) • Instituting & executing high-level operational strategies, making high-stakes decisions, and overcoming complex business challenges using experience-backed judgment, strong work ethics and irreproachable integrity. • Managing the spend review of EUR 1.2 billion based on vendor-provided invoices to ensure accurate billing. • Spearheading consumption management for 100+ global contracts, overseeing vendor management, PR-PO budget compliance, spend review, and invoice validation. • Ensuring PR compliance by verifying all relevant checks, such as VRM ID, TPRM ID, and contract mapping, to maintain NPNP compliance. • Identifying & implementing strategies for building team effectiveness by promoting a spirit of cooperation between team of 5-6 AVP’s (overall 40 members). As India Site Lead/ Head P2P AP & Payments Lead (2014- 2018): • Functioned as the Head of Procure to Pay (P2P), played a pivotal role in managing the delivery organization. • Directed team focused on executing and improving payment processes, ensuring efficiency, quality, and compliance. • Fostered talent development and ensured the seamless delivery of services for the global business, which included overseeing vendor and intercompany payments totaling EUR 23 billion across over 1 million invoices. Collaborated with: • Subject Matter Experts to drive continuous improvement efforts, such as preventing duplicate payments, enhancing on-time payments, and shortening cycle times. • Senior stakeholders globally, regularly reporting on performance against desired service levels at governance forums and updating on the progress of remediation plans.

• Conducted financial due diligence for public/private companies, prepared quality of earnings reports, and performed complex financial analysis for M&A transactions. • Analysing detailed financial statements, conducted equity research, and prepared comprehensive research reports for clients in the oil and gas sector.

Key Result Areas: • Created a vision and executed a successful transition process. • Led due diligence projects for target companies, analysed financial statements, and prepared detailed research reports for clients in the financial services sector. • Managed equity research, analysed financial data, and prepared comprehensive reports for clients to support investment decisions.

Key Result Areas: • Ensured effective creation of plan for managing change. • Engaged in determining organizational readiness and risks for effective process transitions. • Managed account reconciliation for GE Europe, closed and reported financial schedules, and conducted monthly and quarterly balance sheet analysis. • Maintained quality relations with clients, interacted with CFOs, and ensured accurate financial reporting for medium to large-scale firms.