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Devansh Sethi

Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A

Gurugram, India • +91 99102 64438 • devansh.sethi@hey.com • linkedin.com/in/devansh-sethi-fpa

Portfolio: www.eliorexa.com/portfolio/financial-analyst-mid

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.

Skills

FP&A: Driver-based forecasting, Annual budgeting, Rolling forecasts, Variance analysis, Scenario modeling

Modeling & Excel: Advanced financial modeling, Excel (Power Query, VBA macros), Power BI, Tableau, KPI dashboards

Accounting & standards: GAAP, IFRS, Revenue recognition, Cost accounting, GST compliance

ERP & systems: SAP FICO, Oracle NetSuite, Tally Prime, Anaplan, SQL (basic)

Core Competencies

FP&A · financial modeling · forecasting · budgeting · variance analysis · GAAP · IFRS · reporting · SAP · NetSuite · GST · cost savings

Work Experience

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

Aug 2022 – Present

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 2019 – Jul 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.

Projects

ForecastPro — driver-based model — 3 business units

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.

Tech: Financial modeling, Forecasting, SaaS metrics

Interactive 3D Portfolio

WebGL portfolio built on Eliorexa, linked from this résumé.

  • Showcases selected models and dashboards with scroll-driven storytelling — fast, reduced-motion safe, and mobile-first.

Tech: three.js, Reporting, Storytelling

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)