Ashish Sachdeva

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About Ashish Sachdeva

HIGHLIGHTS• CA, CS & XLRI graduate offering extensive experience of 20 years in multiple finance domains such as Global & Regional FP & A, Strategic Transformation, Business & Commercial Finance, Controllership, Internal Control, SOX Compliance, Pricing of telecom & automotive deals, Risk Assessment & Mitigation, Company secretarial role, Vendor negotiations across multiple industries such as Telecom, Food Ingredients, Agri-Chemical, Automotive, Polymer, Power Plant, Steel etc.• Experienced in project management, team management and also managing transition of roles from country to captive services centers meanwhile mentoring large teams & developing them for higher roles.• Worked with host of European, US and Indian corporations such as Ericsson, Nokia, DuPont, GE & Anand Automotive systems. Currently working with Bekaert Corporation as Director-Global FP & A for €2 billion of SWS business unit.JOURNEY SO FAR• Currently leading Global FP & A function of €2 billion Steel Wire Solution BU in Bekaert Corporation and prior to that was leading Global FP & A in GE Power (Clean Combustion BU) • Handling ASEAN Commercial Finance cum FP & A in Corteva Agrisciences (part of DowDuPont) also responsible for route to market commercial effectiveness initiatives to improve bottom line and also managed channel financing for big distributors in multiple countries.• Finance Controller cum Business Finance Partner of multiple legal entities & businesses in DuPont and company secretary of Danisco entity. Also, simultaneously lead operation finance of all manufacturing locations of DuPont South Asia. Also acted as Strategic transformation leader of DowDuPont Spin off project for South Asia during this stint.• Overall spent 6 years with 3 telecom multinationals,+3 year with Nokia and rest with Ericsson and British Telecom. Handled extremely complex 2G and 3G contract accounting with Bharti Airtel account while working in Nokia and Ericsson. Did pricing of global telecom deals for about 2 years during British Telecom stint.• Started my career with Anand Automotive systems, working on Internal audit of all manufacturing locations across India and then worked as finance manager with one of their JV Henkel Teroson handling multiple roles. Played instrumental role as pricing lead in winning big order from Mahindra for their Logan model and TATA Motors for Marina Model. Was part of project team involved in set up of new manufacturing facility.