Rahul Valecha
Associate Director - Business Finance - Flipkart Minutes | Chartered Accountant
Bengaluru
13+ years of work experience
Nov 202510 mosPresent
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• Led category finance and FP&A for Flipkart Minutes, contributing to a remarkable 4x business growth in one year.
• Drove gross-margin-per-order improvement through strategic pricing and mix optimization.
• Established AI-enabled automated financial reporting, significantly reducing manual effort across the team.
Apr 20258 mosNov 2025
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• Served as the finance partner for the Growth team, managing annual entire marketing and growth investments.
• Led the financial evaluation and negotiation for the Flipkart-YouTube partnership, enhancing content creator strategies.
Dec 20222 yrs 5 mosApr 2025
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
▪ Business finance partner for the Growth team of Flipkart; Engaged with Marketing and Growth leaders in planning the top of the funnel investments to ensure optimum return on investments
▪ Finance partner for the newly launched Recharges & Bill payments business on Flipkart; ensuring user growth through newer business vertical to drive increments across the funnel for the commerce business
▪ Finance partner for Performance marketing for all Business units; planning monthly spends, traffic targets, ensuring the most optimum ROAS and CPVs
▪ Preparation of AOP for central marketing, customer, Performance marketing and events charters
Apr 20211 yr 9 mosDec 2022
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
▪ Finance custodian for Staples, Fresh & Tobacco – Responsible for managing and controlling sales and margin targets for respective BU’s. Engage with business stakeholders regularly to ensure judicious pricing and investing actions are taken to achieve targets
▪ Engage with Sales channel leaders and drive efficiency in sales team KPI’s with initiatives and monitoring; Setting up monthly targets for sales team’s incentives and problem-solving obstacles to drive targeted sales numbers
▪ Planning sales and margin targets for all sales events (BBD, Independence Day, etc.) with various stakeholders to ensure investments yield the optimum results for the business. Daily tracking of SKU level plans and course correcting wherever required.
▪ Tracking inventory on a regular basis to ensure optimum working capital investment; engaged with supply chain, operations and business teams to ensure reduction in DOH through active monitoring and initiatives.
▪ Preparation of AOP for all the above business unit with all relevant stakeholders. Planning the channel level and customer segment sales and margins and capturing all initiatives planned at each level are part of the plan
Aug 20209 mosApr 2021
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
▪ Ensured business commercial processes relating to collections, credit periods and customer billing are back on-
track in the post-COVID world as the markets were crippling back to normalcy
▪ Implementing post-COVID processes & policies which involved ensuring closely monitoring credit, extending
business support to channel partners, identifying credit risks & action plans for mitigation for B2C verticals
▪ Supervise & control the credit management, collections and FFS processes with respect to all B2C channel partners
Oct 20172 yrs 11 mosAug 2020
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
▪ Responsible for managing & controlling the gross margins / profitability for Pidilite through exception reporting,
driving pricing & productivity initiatives across business verticals with the executive leadership
▪ Supervised and managed the end-to-end product costing process for 10+ SBU’s
▪ Responsible for reporting product level / business level margin performance and company level status of
productivity initiatives to senior leadership teams
▪ Took up the responsibility as the interim ‘Business finance manager’ for 3 SBU’s on account of vacancies to ensure
business continuity and prevent delays in critical business decisions
▪ Custodian of the SKU and Product rationalization process of the company. Extensively worked with the business
category managers to discontinue or prepare an action plan for products / SKU’s adding to the complexity of the system
▪ Responsible for financial evaluations for various proposed mergers and acquisitions transactions of the company
▪ Awarded the BK Parekh excellence award for living the Pidilite core value of ‘Act like owner’ due to high levels of commitment showed in managing gross margins for all business verticals of the company in a year where the material
costs volatility led to costs of key raw materials increasing approx. 40%
Jun 20161 yr 4 mosSep 2017
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
▪ Responsible for reporting, monitoring and controlling supply chain and distribution costs for the company
▪ Finance Lead for a cross functional project (called Project Parivartan) which involved working with a leading
management consultancy firm to identify productivity initiatives across supply chain, manufacturing operations and
packaging materials
▪ Undertook the annual manufacturing network optimization for the entire manufacturing footprint
Aug 20113 yrs 1 moAug 2014
Mumbai
▪ Part of the statutory audit team of the Treasury department of Reliance Industries Limited
▪ Responsible for auditing for certifications required by the Reserve Bank of India for Risk Management & Inter Bank
dealings for Reliance Industries Limited
▪ Conducted Statutory audit for MCX Stock Exchange Limited (currently known as MSEI)
Rahul’s AI Stack
Education
Chartered Accountant, Auditing, Accounting, Taxation and Finance
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
20104 yrs2014
Chartered Financial Analyst Level III, Finance and Financial Management Services
CFA institute
20133 yrs2016
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