Amit Bhuwania

Job Role: Business Planning and strategy, Investments, Real estate acquisitions, Fund Raising & Treasury, Financial analysis & management reporting, Pricing and cost control. 1) Investments: -Work closely with all stakeholders and business leaders to define Investment & Growth strategy, -Manage end to end real estate acquisition process including investment evaluation and analysis, Negotiations, transaction structuring and deal closure. -Responsible for leading Board and shareholders approvals for business plan and investment strategy. 2) Business Finance: -Budgeting and Long term financial planning -Pricing strategy and negotiations. -Drive Budgetary controls, Cost optimization and Capex efficiency. Accountable for EBITDA and profitability Margins. -Financial Analysis, Management Reporting and Business performance management. -Leading valuation exercises, Market benchmarking & analysis 3) Treasury & Fund Raising - Resource planning and fund management. - Responsible for raising capital to meet business requirements through various debt and equity options - Manage treasury risks and maintain optimum balances of debt and equity. - Manage banking and debt market relationships and optimise cost of capital - Drive working capital efficiency. - Compliances including managing equity infusion process from foreign shareholders.

Head- Business Planning and Reporting Responsible for Business Planning, Reporting, Analytics and Revenue Management of Wireless Business. Responsible for Revenue, Cost and EBITDA reporting for all circles, Variance analysis, Analytics of key KPIs, Revenue & Cost Drivers, Business performance indicators, Customer segmentation and Competition benchmarking

Head – Strategic Partner management Feb 13 – Dec 13 Accountable for managing accounts payable lifecycle and contract management of strategic partners ( IP Partners / Active network/ Lease line vendors) comprising 63% of total expenditure, to drive reconciliations and governance framework for resolution of disputes, manage accounting, reporting and audit of network expenses, Also responsible for career planning and development of 35+ member team Head: Transition, Process Control and Automation (Shared Services) Dec-10- Feb-13 Responsible for managing smooth transitions of finance processes from circles to shared services, developing shared services design and strategy in engagement with all stakeholders and consulting firm, reviewing as is processes and reengineer them basis shared services design, managing communications and customer engagements for effective transition, and managing knowledge transfers. Responsible for enhancing process efficiency and productivity of shared services, delivering value by improving controls, implementing appropriate review mechanism and automation of key processes

Head – Accounting Operations Sep 07 – Nov 10 Led 60 member team in managing accounting operations (Revenue / Technical Accounting, Channel payouts, Accounts payable, Fixed Assets etc) of the company having total AUM size of INR 300 Bn with a new business premium of INR 25 Bn and renewal premium of INR 30 Bn. Responsible for, account and system reconciliations, enhancing process controls, tax and regulatory compliances and managing statutory and internal audits.

Manager (Revenue Accounting & Channel Management) Feb 07 – Sep 07 Responsible for Revenue Accounting, Revenue enhancement, Business Support, Collection Management and Indirect taxation. Responsibility includes Product wise EBITDA reporting, Product appraisals, AOP formulation, Trend analysis, ARPU and ER analytics, Traffic analysis, Subscriber usage analysis

Asst Manager – Revenue & Channel Accounting (MP&CG) Responsible for Revenue & Channel Accounting, indirect taxes & collection accounting for MP& CG circle. Responsibility includes maintaining and proper reconciliation of all accounts relating to taxation, Revenue and selling expenses. Also accountable for Trading, Roaming, IUC and subscriber debtors’ management and reconciliation.

Finance Officer (Jhanor Gas Project, Gujarat) Nov 01 – Sep 05 Responsible for financial reporting & MIS, commercial accounting, cost accounting, and cash & bank functions. Responsibility includes finalization of quarterly, half-yearly and annual accounts and coordinating internal and statutory audit.

Audit assignments of large organisation: Articles with Singhi & Co