Financial Analyst / Accountant · Mid-level · ~5 yrs

Devansh Sethi

Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A

Professional summary

Financial analyst with 5 years in FP&A across SaaS and manufacturing, owning the annual budget, rolling forecasts and monthly reporting for business units up to ₹180 crore in revenue. Builds the models leadership runs the business on — driver-based forecasts, variance analysis and board-ready decks — and partners with department heads to turn numbers into action. Cut costs and tightened forecast accuracy, and mentors two junior analysts.

₹180Cr

Operating budget owned

±3%

Forecast accuracy achieved

₹2.6Cr

Annualized cost savings

Skills

FP&A

Driver-based forecastingAnnual budgetingRolling forecastsVariance analysisScenario modeling

Modeling & Excel

Advanced financial modelingExcel (Power Query, VBA macros)Power BITableauKPI dashboards

Accounting & standards

GAAPIFRSRevenue recognitionCost accountingGST compliance

ERP & systems

SAP FICOOracle NetSuiteTally PrimeAnaplanSQL (basic)

Work experience

Senior Financial Analyst — FP&A · Stratoswave Technologies (SaaS)

Aug 2022Present

Gurugram

  • Own the ₹180 Cr annual operating budget and monthly rolling forecast, improving forecast accuracy from ±9% to ±3% through driver-based modeling.
  • Lead monthly variance analysis across 7 cost centers, presenting actuals-vs-budget to the leadership team and flagging risks before quarter-close.
  • Built a Power BI reporting suite refreshed from NetSuite, cutting the monthly close-and-report cycle from 8 days to 4.
  • Identified and drove ₹2.6 crore in annualized cost savings by renegotiating SaaS vendor contracts and consolidating duplicate tooling.
  • Mentor 2 junior analysts on financial modeling and review standards, raising deck-error rates close to zero.

Financial Analyst · Hindprabha Industries

Jun 2019Jul 2022

Pune

  • Prepared product-level cost models and margin analysis across 40+ SKUs, informing a pricing reset that lifted gross margin 3.4 points.
  • Standardized the monthly reporting pack in Excel and SAP, reconciling GAAP and IFRS views for the parent company in Germany.
  • Automated GST reconciliation in Tally, reducing input-credit mismatches ₹70L over the financial year.

Featured projects

3 business units
ForecastPro — driver-based model

A reusable SaaS revenue + headcount model adopted across 3 business units.

  • Designed a bottoms-up forecasting model linking ARR, churn and hiring plans to the P&L, now the standard for quarterly planning.
Financial modelingForecastingSaaS metrics

Education

MBA — Finance

2019

Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune

Gold Medalist · Specialization in Corporate Finance & Analytics

B.Com — Accounting

2017

Hansraj College, University of Delhi, New Delhi

Certifications

CFA Program — Level II (Passed)

CFA Institute · 2023

Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA)

Corporate Finance Institute · 2021

See the work in 3D

Explore Devansh's interactive WebGL portfolio — projects, skills and a way to get in touch.