Posted on 2024-04-09

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This finance executive brings a rich blend of strategic insight and practical expertise to the table, demonstrating a proven ability to enhance financial and operational performance across diverse sectors. Key achievements include:

Designing a comprehensive plant performance dashboard that sharpened leadership focus and surpassed budget expectations.
Advancing audit controls and reporting by implementing and refining the COSO framework.
Crafting and implementing robust SAP review frameworks that ensured seamless pre and post-implementation analysis.
Streamlining capital expenditure processes to improve proposal efficiency, training, and forecasting accuracy.
Transforming reporting mechanisms across multiple plants and regions, streamlining the close process by a full day, and providing actionable insights for leadership.
Stabilizing shared services operations by forging collaborative SLAs with IBM, addressing back-end process inefficiencies, and enhancing the quality of transactional support.
Accelerating inventory close processes in major manufacturing setups through strategic leadership engagement, IT enhancements, and task automation, leading to a significant 24-hour improvement in plant cost reporting.
Pioneering a strategic initiative for revenue and cost management that netted $2M in pricing gains while streamlining business operations to curb costs and bolster long-term profitability.
Leading a groundbreaking procurement transformation with a global 99% adoption rate of the ARIBA system, setting a new standard for procurement efficiency.
Executing a financial system overhaul that modernized financial infrastructures, restructured business entities, and renegotiated key banking relationships.
Rationalizing pension plan administration to achieve a 30% cost saving, optimizing both defined benefit and defined contribution plans for improved financial stewardship.

(a) How many years of business or and/or other organizations experience do you have? and (b) What seniority level(s) do you have significant experience at?

  • 20+ years of experience
  • Director level

What functional areas do you have experience in?

  • Finance
  • Accounting
  • Legal
  • Technology / Technical

What sectors / industries do you have significant experience in?

  • Transportation and Logistics
  • Consumer Packaged Goods
  • Other

What types of products and/or services do you have significant experience with?

  • Consumer products - non-durable
  • Business-to-Business Services

What key barriers to growth / issues that businesses might face are you most able to help them with?

  • Operational enhancement / process/cost efficiencies
  • Sustainability (environmental, social) / ESG, EDI, Stakeholder engagement
Baburaj Baburaj

Experienced Finance Executive: Strategic Growth, Business Processes, Controls & Operational Excellence

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  • CA$150.00  / hour