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Finance Manager @ Amazon (FinOps) | Chartered Accountant | FP&A • Controllership • Finance Transformation | Building AI-powered finance tools on Amazon Bedrock | IIM Mumbai | CPA (Pursuing) | Views are Personal

About

Chartered Accountant and Finance Manager at Amazon (FinOps), with 13+ years across FP&A, controllership, and finance transformation — including Big-4 consulting at PwC and Deloitte, a founder stint, and an Executive Certification in Investment Banking & Financial Analytics from IIM Mumbai. What I do best: turn financial data into decisions, and build the tools that do it faster. 📌 Highlights: • Single-handedly building a full-stack AI invoice processing platform on Amazon Bedrock — OCR, AI-driven matching, and multi-system API integrations (email, purchase orders, vendor financial systems) • Delivered ₹50 Cr+ in cost savings through strategic financial analysis and optimization • Led budgeting and financial planning for entities with budgets exceeding ₹5,000 Cr • Standardized accounting across 1,068 branches with a team of 800+ people; cut year-end close from 90 days to 7 • Built 40+ free financial calculator apps for public use at apps.bizpanel.net — ad-free, for financial literacy At Amazon, I serve as SME for Fulfilment Centre Inbounding Operations — driving compliance dashboards in QuickSight, invoice-matching controllership (PQV/PPV), and data analytics on Redshift datasets running into billions of rows. My toolkit spans both worlds: financial modeling, P&L analysis, strategic planning, Ind AS — and SQL, Amazon Bedrock, QuickSight, Power BI, Power Automate, and Excel/VBA automation. On the side, I build full-stack products as personal R&D — most recently a multi-tenant business management platform and a markets analytics application (AI-assisted development; happy to demo). Currently pursuing CPA (USA) via NASBA/Miles Education. 📫 cagsaluja@gmail.com

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Finance Manager, FinOps IN BP at Amazon, Jan 2026 - Present · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, SME – Fulfilment Centre (FC) Inbounding Operations, FinOps • Serve as SME for FC Inbounding Operations, driving compliance, analytics, and process transformation across Amazon's India fulfilment centre network • Single-handedly conceptualized and building an end-to-end AI-powered invoice processing platform on Amazon Bedrock — orchestrating email ingestion, purchase-order, and vendor financial-system APIs to automatically capture invoices, extract data via OCR, run AI-driven validation and PO matching, and route them to dispatch • Designed and launched an Inbounding Compliance Dashboard in Amazon QuickSight for regular monitoring of inbounding defects that cause downstream financial issues • Drive invoice-matching compliance through a multi-point invoice validation framework and end-to-end reconciliation between proof-of-delivery records, receiving data, and vendor invoices • Strengthen controllership through continuous monitoring of price and quantity variance metrics (PQV / PPV) • Work hands-on with Amazon's Andes datasets and Redshift, writing complex SQL and performing data analytics on datasets running into billions of rows

Manager at PwC India, Dec 2023 - Aug 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Advisory / Consulting · Team of 6 • Led finance teams of 4 state institutions for comprehensive budgeting, financial reporting, accounts finalization, and statutory compliance • Drove revenue augmentation initiatives — online fee-collection portal, hall-booking portal, and revised pricing — increasing fee collections • Conducted strategic planning, fund requirement analysis, and 5-year budget forecasting for a state film promotion policy • Performed financial due diligence and net-worth assessments for large applicant pools; drafted frameworks for proposal evaluation and grant guidelines • Developed business models and Detailed Project Reports for state federations; streamlined accounting per AS / Ind AS

Senior Consultant at Deloitte, Jun 2023 - Dec 2023 · 7 mos, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Advisory / Consulting · Team of 4 • Led a state corporation's finance team for strategic planning, annual budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, and regulatory compliance; implemented fund-based accounting per ICAI guidance • Designed an automated financial dashboard for key-metric analysis; established a financial governance framework for 3 state-wide schemes • Streamlined management of Abstract Contingent and Detailed Contingent bills

Senior Manager at Choice Consultancy Services Private Limited, Feb 2022 - Apr 2022 · 3 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Developed financial models for training programs impacting 45,000+ government employees; designed executive KPI dashboards and led monthly C-suite financial reviews

Senior Consultant at S K Patodia & Associates, Chartered Accountants, May 2019 - Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Team led – 800+ members • Led standardized implementation of accounting practices, financial reporting frameworks, and accounting software across 1,068 branches, 38 zones, and head office, leading a team of 800+ members • Created an automated financial consolidation tool reducing year-end closing from 90 days to 7 • Built Excel/VBA automation for GST threshold monitoring and multi-GSTIN deduction accuracy • Established financial controls ensuring adherence to World Bank guidelines; led quarterly P&L analysis, budget-utilization, and performance reviews

SME Accounts and Finance at IPE Global Limited, Dec 2018 - May 2019 · 5 mo, Patna

Founder, Director and CFO at GUNI educators and Management Consultants Pvt ltd, Oct 2016 - Nov 2018 · 2 y 1 mo, Bihar

Finance Manager at Multiple Companies, Sep 2012 - Sep 2016 · 4 y, Patna

Education

Chartered Accountant, Finance, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), Commerce, patna university

Public links

youtube.com: https://youtube.com/@cagurpreetsaluja

apps.bizpanel.net: https://apps.bizpanel.net/