Abhinav Agarwal

* Manage all financial planning and analysis of the $1B Central Grocery Business; * Responsible for driving profitable volume growth and increase return on $150MM Trade budget; * Drove End-to-End planning processes at several key customers, which strengthened joint planning relationships and fueled business progression. * Partnered with Senior Leadership Team in shaping direction * Identified the need for more efficient trade spending across the key customer base and implemented funding changes resulting in $10MM in savings with virtually no impact to top-line sales

* Analyze company's global financing needs and implement the appropriate financing structures to manage interest expense while minimizing risk * Forecasting, analysis, and execution of Corporate Finance activities including: debt portfolio management, risk management (hedging of interest rate, FX and equity exposures), dividend policy, and share repurchase program management * Work closely with Treasurer and VP in completing annual financing plan for approval by Board of Directors, including plans relating to capital structure, dividend policy, and other uses of cash * Own and manage $150 million annual interest expense, including projections and variances; provide analysis on the effects of interest rates, exchange rates, and cash flows on interest expense * Recommend potential capital structure strategies, including debt exchange, debt tender, par call options and late interest rate swaps. * Analyze optimal capital structure components and present recommendations to CFO. * Assist with multiple bond issuances and interest rate hedge executions.

* Global headquarters of Sigma Aldrich, leading Life Science and High Technology company with revenues of over $2 billion; Corporate Planning and Strategy * Developed and formalized financial planning, reporting and analysis functions for Information System division across the globe reducing costs by $1M * Performed diagnostic analysis and delivered improvement plan for analyzing global sales resulting in 10% better forecast * Analyzed and implemented segment based reporting leading to better alignment of corporate strategy with the business units * Modeled the global budget and presented the plan to the CFO and corporate controller * Produced financial valuations for identified opportunities, evaluated the strategic and economic rationale, and presented the M&A Theses and next steps to senior leadership * Reviewed monthly financial performance against forecasts via monthly meetings with budget holders and identified potential improvement

* Corporate Strategy Team * Analyzed US$1B investment opportunity, including conducting due diligence, creating DCF financial model, and building internal case for investment * Fabricated financial model predicting future cash flows, analyzed project's cost structure, and presented results to board of directors * Developed investment strategy in Europe and America, conducted analysis of macro-economic and infrastructure landscape, and determined attractiveness, key market trends, and growth

* Global delivery centre for BNP Paribas, 6th most valuable international banking brand in the world * Secured $1.5(M) credit risk project as part of four member team which lead to company's expansion from 50 people to 350 people * Awarded with "Best idea for company development" for re-designing and streamlining the recruitment process, reducing costs by over 50% * Collaborated with the team in Paris for estimating contracts, budgets, and services of transversal project valued at $5(M)

Identified and wrote business requirements, and test strategies in support of business process redesign resulting in a cost reduction of $50,000 annually Trained and managed three team members across software development life cycle to deliver projects on time and on budget

* Responsible for driving profitable volume growth, including the preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual operating results analysis * Lead sales finance co-pilot for the Mars Fishcare business totaling $40MM * Drive organic growth by initiating and implementing market partition strategy framework * Lead a cross functional team to deliver $3MM in cost savings initiatives * Owned the S&OP+ process within the business leading to trade-off discusssions and setting clearer financial and operational measures against strategic objectives * Enhance the the quality of financial analysis and reporting, leading to better decision making * Provide key insights and analytics (eg. ROI) to increase trade effectiveness * Provide strategy insights to reshape the business for profitable growth * Drive pricing actions

Activities and Societies: Vice President of Olin Finance Club & Entrepreneur and Venture Capital Association Member - Olin Strategy Club