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
Modeling & Excel
Accounting & standards
ERP & systems
Work experience
Senior Financial Analyst — FP&A · Stratoswave Technologies (SaaS)
Aug 2022 – PresentGurugram
- 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 2019 – Jul 2022Pune
- 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
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.
Education
MBA — Finance
2019Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
Gold Medalist · Specialization in Corporate Finance & Analytics
B.Com — Accounting
2017Hansraj 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
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