Neha Sharma

[email protected] | +91-8143423963 F-706, Accurate Wind Chimes, Narsingi, Hyderabad – 75

Academic Qualifications
Degree Year Institute, University/ Board % /CGPA
PGDM – Finance 2013 Regional College of Management 8.0/10.0
BBA – Finance 2011 Datta Meghe Institute of Management Studies 67%
H.S.C 2008 ADLS Sunshine School (ISC, New Delhi) 86%
S.S.C 2006 St. Xavier English High School (Ranchi University) in 2006 62%

Key Skills & Competencies

 Domain Knowledge

o Forecasting, Budgeting, Variance Analysis, Process Analysis, Process transition, Reporting, Stakeholder
Management

o Extensive knowledge of the financial tools like Hyperion Financial Management, SAP, SAP BI and the
Microsoft tools like Visio and have working knowledge in Reporting tool like Tableau
o Exhaustive secondary research across proprietary databases such as Factiva, OneSource, Thomson
Research, Bloomberg, Cognos etc
o Understanding of business research methodologies and research databases; Work on Research Tools like
Factiva, Lexis Nexis, CCH Intellinet
 Analytics
o Providing business insights and comparison of plan / Latest forecast versus actuals and identifying the key
drivers leading to increase / decrease of the financial components.
o Interpretation & Analysis of Various contract and provide insights to the leadership
o Prepare Variance Analysis and investigate the Sales Trend change
o Report Quarter on Quarter analysis. Provide Business Summary with the Quarter wise performance and
comparison
 Process standardization & improvement
o Developed PWS to establish new processes transitioned to India Office & improve existing ones
o Redefining process steps to remove redundant steps
o Utilized excel skill to update automate the reports with checks
o Validate federal contract member
 Stakeholder management
o Presenting insights to senior leaders and client facing staff
o Worked with US, Egypt and ASIA team and have diversed experience in stakeholder management.
o Manage multiple projects in a fast paced environment
o Experienced in working within brand guidelines

 Tools & Softwares –

o MS Office – MS Excel, MS Word, MS Access, Power Point, Visio
o ERP and other IT Tool– SAP, SAP BI, Hyperion Financial Management, Tableau, Accolade,
Powersteering, Visio, Cognos BI, Thomson Reuters tools, Sandoz Siebel etc

Work Experience

Pepsico Global Business Services India LLP September 2019 to Present

 Preparation of NOPBT - COC/Bridge at Brand & SKU level and analyses of each of the factors like Vol., Mix,
Pricing etc., that drive to the change in profits vs. PY/AOP
 Provide overall support for the period end results to the Market and preparation of rolling forecast for P&L &
Detailed OCF
  Liaise with the Commercial and Supply chain team to know changes in Vol., Prices/Rates and Direct cost that can
potentially impact the P&L
 Support AOP process by rolling up the P&L, OCF and planning the same in Hyperion Financial Planning System
 Monthly/Quarterly Finance deck for Sector with analysis of the financial results providing reasons for cause of
change and other Ad hoc requests
 Actively participating in Automation &Transformation projects
 Transitioned work for 2 countries ( Egypt and China) prepared PWS and taken transition for another Country
(Taiwan) through zoom during Covid Times
 Develop PowerPoint presentation to communicate business results and insights
 Manage exceptions through verbal and written interactions with Sales and Sales Finance
 Collaborate with sales and finance functions on ad-hoc projects
 Create an inclusive and collaborative environment
 Coach and on- board new members of the team in ways of working and processes Qualifications/Requirements

Achievemnets:

 "Act as Owner" Award for taking accountability and stepping in as for others during Covid Times
 Award for successfully transitioning the process within estimated time despite Covid hit
 Received SMILE award from the Director for my active participation in driving the executive agenda

Firm Contribution:

 Part of Taskforce teams like career Guidance and Raise your Voice.
 Part of the executive committee to drive Director’s agenda of sharing and receiving feedback in positive manner,
speaking your mind and Acting as Owner
 Active member of the cultural committee in Financial planning team
 Active member in the townhall committee and work closely with Finance leads to organise monthly townhalls

Novartis March 2016 to September

2019
 Responsible for the extensive evaluation and interpretation of customer contracts to ensure payments are made
accurately and timely as per the terms and conditions of the contracts.
 Responsible for the detailed analysis and validation of chargeback data and the calculation of rebate payments
utilizing systems and applications.
 Maintain an effective customer focus and proactively manage all aspects of account assignments.
 Responsible for raising issues with and providing rebate supporting documentation to management.
 Responsible for the identification and analysis of disputed data.
 Optimize own performance to increase productivity by developing automated solutions, eliminate duplication,
coordinating information requirements
 Keep up to date to Novartis products and market competition to accurately adjudicate rebates.
 Maintain systems and logs to track status of contracts and rebate processing for review by Contract/Rebates
senior analysts and managers
 Variance and Trend analysis of Contracted Sales providing an overview of the sales for the period.
 Provide Contract set up information for all new contracts and updating the contract setup Analyst about the
amendments to the current contracts.
 Analyse the results and provide meaningful insights into the numbers and suggest relevant business actions.
 Work on daily sales actual vs target and compare and provide reconciliation Business Unit wise
 Month-end activities such as roll-forward of all existing templates and decks
 Responsible for evaluation of business cases for various projects by analysing several performance measures.

Firm Contribution:
Neha Sharma
[email protected] | +91-8143423963 F-706, Accurate Wind Chimes, Narsingi, Hyderabad – 75

 D&I PWD central team member, planned and executed 2 events;

 Appreciated with Applause award from Genflex team for contribution in Synergy 2018
 Part of Site Initiative Diversity & Inclusion worked on various events like D&I carnival and also supported the
NASSCOM event “Women in Technology” held in Novartis.
 Member of Diversity and Inclusion Initiative and have worked with the team on organizing the Nasscom D&I
Summit

Deloitte, Consultant I (Tax Research) May 2014 to March 2016

 Tracking events on Merger & Acquisition and circulating the information for the relevant team.
 Accessing Different research tools like Factset, Factiva, Lexis & Nexis and RIA.
 Issue of internal journals, newsletter and Technical News, to the higher management of the company on a daily
base.
 Provides Tax technical research that tracks Legislative, Regulatory, Judicial, and Administrative developments and
incorporates the research into newsletters for the entire Deloitte Tax practice.
 Tracks market trends and emerging tax developments to support internal clients and Tax Leadership

S&P Capital IQ, Junior Research Associate in Fixed Income May 2013 to March 2014
 Identification, analysis and interpretation of market data like Bond, CDS and switches.
 Setting up of new financial instruments like Bonds, CDS, Tranche in the database.
 Adding Tickers to new entities.
 Researching new bond issues Monitoring, cleaning and analyzing Price quotes for Bonds, CDS, Loan CDS, CDS
and Switches.
 To validate the bid & offer prices of bonds including Cash, Asset Swap, YTM, Z-spread, I-spread and equity
(reference) price for convertible bond.
 Adding entities including child entities to the parent entities by using Reuters smile tool, Reuters data scope, IDC
and Capital IQ database.
 Mapping bonds, updating regex and adding tickers to the entities.
 Raising and resolving aces to support parser to parse correctly.
 Detecting new mappings and adding them to the mapping tables and adding them to the system

Summer Internship Project

State Bank of India INTERNSHIP DURATION: 2 months

PROJECT TITLE: A Comparative Study on Customer Perception and Customer Satisfaction towards personal
Loan of SBI and other banks and to study the recovery process of NPA.

RESEARCH ANALYSIS:
 Approximately 43% of personal loan product users said that the service of SBI in personal loan product is
excellent.
 From this project it is found that SBI personal loans are most preferred by the customers at Bhubaneswar,
there is a great opportunity to further improve its positioning among all Banks
 Many of these customers are satisfied with the low interest rate and longer repayment period of the loan
product.
SUGGESTIONS:
 Customer awareness program is required so that more people should be attracted towards SBI.
 SBI must take some steps so that customers can get their loan on time. Verification agent should be
employed for fast TAT.
 Physical verification rather than phone verification.
 SBI should focus more on retaining existing customers.

Place: Neha Sharma

Date :