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# Rahul Valecha on Tal

## Headline

Associate Director \- Business Finance \- Flipkart Minutes \| Chartered Accountant

## About

– Strategic finance leader with 11\+ years of corporate finance, business finance and FP&A experience across high\-growth E\-commerce and FMCG sectors\. – Currently serving as Associate Director of Business Finance for Flipkart Minutes, leading an 8\-person team encompassing Category Finance and FP&A charters\. Scaled unit economics in rapid growth environments\. – Led the business finance function for the Marketing, Growth, Events and Customer teams to ensure the optimal investments across marketing and growth channels – Managed the category finance for Staples, Fresh & Tobacco category and sales channel operations at Flipkart Wholesale – Managed and controlled product and BU level gross margins, product costing and ensuring sustainable profitability as ‘Manager – Margin Management’ \(10\+ SBU’s and 9000\+ SKU’s\) – Managed the end\-to\-end receivables management across all 6 B2C verticals with 5000\+ channel partners – Chairman Excellence award winner – 2019 \[\~15 individual awardees amongst 6000\+ employees\] and Part of the Flipkart Annual Award\-winning teams on 3 occasions

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude

gemini

## Work experience

Associate Director \- Business Finance \- Flipkart Minutes at Flipkart, Nov 2025 \- Present · 10 mos, 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\.

Associate Director \- Business Finance \- Growth at Flipkart, Apr 2025 \- Nov 2025 · 8 mos, 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\.

Senior manager \- Business Finance \- Growth at Flipkart, Dec 2022 \- Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos, 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

Manager \- Category & Sales Finance at Best Price Flipkart Wholesale, Apr 2021 \- Dec 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos, 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

Manager \- Commercial Finance \(B2C\) at Pidilite Industries Limited, Aug 2020 \- Apr 2021 · 9 mos, 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

Manager \- Margin Management \(FP&A and Costing\) at Pidilite Industries Limited, Oct 2017 \- Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos, 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%

Assistant Manager \- Supply Chain Finance at Pidilite Industries Limited, Jun 2016 \- Sep 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos, 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

Articled Assistant at Chaturvedi & Shah, Aug 2011 \- Aug 2014 · 3 yrs 1 mo, 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 \(currently known as MSEI\)

## Education

Chartered Accountant, Auditing, Accounting, Taxation and Finance, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

Chartered Financial Analyst Level III, Finance and Financial Management Services, CFA institute

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