PRIYANKA GUPTA
Issaquah,Washington
Summary
Seasoned Financial Analyst with proven experience across different industries, I excel in delivering financial insights that drive business success. My expertise includes managing multimillion-dollar budgets, strategic analysis, building stakeholder relations and developing complex financial & pricing models. Have successfully contributed to revenue growth and cost reduction initiatives in previous roles.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
FP&A Analyst
Svante
Vancouver, CANADA
05.2025 - Current
- Working at Svante HQ with the Corporate Development Team and senior leadership in driving Svante’s strategic goals through accurate financial planning and strategic decision-making.
- Responsible for the corporate budget and reforecasting processes, including building a complex budget input template and guidelines that record inputs from 40+ budget holders, as well as budget holder training and consolidation.
- Building strong relationships with 40+ budget owners and cross-functional teams on a daily basis to walk them through expense details, understand their department needs and align financial strategies.
- Monthly Variance Analysis of Actual vs Budget, deep level analysis to understand expenses and flag anomalies.
- Close collaboration with the Accounting Team for the reclassification of monthly flagged expenses.
- Working with business leaders across Svante to develop, automate, and maintain recurring business review materials, reports and analysis to support strategic and tactical business decision making.
- Single handedly managing Vena ERP system- new user license, training, troubleshooting.
- Managing Finance module in Vena- cost center creation, alignment with budget owner and department, Account creation and updates.
- Increased efficiency by automating updates between Svante’s data systems to better streamline and save time.
- Working on Cash Balance Reconciliation between IFRS and Internal Finance.
- Worked on preparing Finance reports and Vena documentation from scratch.
- Assisted in preparing presentations for Quarterly/ Annual Business Review.
Financial Analysis Specialist
Del Monte Foods
San Francisco, USA
12.2022 - 07.2024
- Worked at CFO Headquarters closely with FP&A Directors, VPs and cross- functional leaders on Budgeting, Forecasting, Financial Analysis, Close and Reporting as well as Pricing Contracts bringing in $$$ Revenue for Del Monte Foods.
- Ownership of overall Financial Analysis & Reporting for Foodservice, Government Bids and Co- Pack business channels.
- Lead detailed Annual Budget and rolling forecast cycles by partnering with cross functional teams, developing consensus and aligning with key stakeholders.
- Developed Pricing Model and lead Pricing Analysis calls with leadership, making real- time adjustment to model, analyzed profitability using different scenarios and quoted competitive Prices/ Bids. Worked on 100+ Pricing Contracts. Won several significant contracts through detailed analysis and strategic pricing.
- Spearheaded Monthly- close by analyzing Financial Statements, preparing monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting, analyses with regards to Actuals, Budgets, and projections.
- Analyzed Variances from Plan, keeping close track of Key Performance Indicators and quantifying drivers of the variance to Key Stakeholders.
- Created and maintained innovative and dynamic financial models.
- Built strong relationships with business partners and influenced decisions through data analysis and financial presentations highlighting performance against budget, key financial metrics, and areas of risk or opportunity.
- Automated Financial Reports, created analysis reports across business channels and visualized large sets of financial data into Graphs and Charts. Increased productivity by 50%. Helped all business channels to increase productivity.
- Performed Inventory Analysis on a periodic basis, worked on Surplus Pricing and lead pricing calls with Finance & Sales leadership. Resulted in 20% less spoilage of excess inventory.
- Developed and maintained monthly Performance Analysis Scorecard presented to CEO.
- Performed leaf level COGS Analysis up to Operating Income on negative margin categories, identifying specific items driving negative margin and setting them up to be discontinued from the business. Increased Margins by 12%.
- Worked on creating new Power BI Dashboards from Excel reports & implemented across business channels and updated them on periodic basis.
Financial Analyst
Honeywell Technology Solutions
Bangalore, INDIA
05.2018 - 11.2020
- Handled 800 million USD Annual Budget in Engineering Arm of Honeywell Aerospace Financial Planning & Analysis.
- Prepared and executed detailed long-term financial plan i.e., budgeting in collaboration with upper management for operational and capital expenses. Lead the process of Essbase budget loading.
- Lead the evaluation of the mid-term financial plan and delivered budget analysis to leadership team. Made budget corrections in Essbase. Worked on Rate Setting in SAP.
- Worked closely with the accounting team to ensure accurate financial reporting, performed weekly analysis of SAP transactions and Business Objects to catch business anomalies.
- Performed detailed variance analysis between actual results vs budget and forecast; evaluated reasons & presented key performance metrics to the management on monthly basis.
- Consolidated monthly financial data in excel and updated Global Aerospace FP&A Dashboard in Tableau on a monthly basis. Designed and implemented new Dashboards across function.
- Built excel models, contributed to strategic planning, annual planning, rolling forecast and variance process.
- Analyzed past results, performed variance analysis, identified trends, and made recommendations for improvements.
- Analyzed existing business and reporting processes, identified areas of improvement and worked on cost saving projects.
Education
MBA - Finance and Analytics
Xavier Institute of Management & Entrepreneurship
Bengaluru04-2018
Bachelor of Finance -
Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology & Sciences
Prayagraj, India04-2016
Skills
- Strategic financial planning
- Financial modeling
- ERP systems: SAP, Essbase, Anaplan, Vena
- Advanced Excel
- SharePoint
- Dynamics 365: Outlook, Teams, Power Automate
- Data Visualization: Excel dashboards, Power BI, Tableau
- Stakeholder Relations
- Pricing Analysis
- Financial Decks
- Process Optimization
Accomplishments
• Del Monte Silver Award: Worked on Pricing Analysis for Foodbuy customers which involved deep analysis of Foodbuy items in different pricing & rebate scenarios, competitor pricing analysis and decision making on the Floor & Final Price. Won 3-year contract bringing in ~2MM USD.
• Del Monte Bronze Award: Worked on Pricing Analysis for Premier items and won 3-year contract.
• Honeywell Business Partnering Award for working on Texas Audit Project for Aerospace business in 2019.
• Del Monte Bronze Award: Worked on Pricing Analysis for Premier items and won 3-year contract.
• Honeywell Business Partnering Award for working on Texas Audit Project for Aerospace business in 2019.
Timeline
FP&A Analyst
Svante
05.2025 - Current
Financial Analysis Specialist
Del Monte Foods
12.2022 - 07.2024
Financial Analyst
Honeywell Technology Solutions
05.2018 - 11.2020
MBA - Finance and Analytics
Xavier Institute of Management & Entrepreneurship
Bachelor of Finance -
Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology & Sciences