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Management Consulting Expert
London, United Kingdom
Toptal member since December 6, 2019
Bio
Saveen is a strategic finance leader with 10+ years of experience across FP&A, financial modeling, and commercial finance in PE-backed, high-growth businesses. ACA-qualified with an Oxford MBA, he specializes in building and transforming FP&A functions, delivering board-level insights, automating reporting, and driving data-led decision-making. Saveen is skilled in Excel, Power BI, SQL, Python, and Tableau.
Career Highlights
Financial Planning and Analysis Manager
Gresham House
Transaction Services Manager
PwC | PricewaterhouseCoopers
Education Highlights
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Degree
University of Oxford
Certification Highlights
ACA Chartered Accountant
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
Case Studies
Infrastructure Business Vendor Due Diligence
Due DiligenceFinancial ModelingFinancial Data Analytics
Real Estate Services Buy-side Financial Due Diligence
Due DiligenceFinancial AnalysisModelingStakeholder ManagementProject Management
Business Services Net Working Capital (NWC) Review
Working Capital ManagementFinancial AnalysisModeling
Expertise
- Analytical Review
- Due Diligence
- Financial Analysis
- Financial Data Analytics
- Financial Modeling
- IFRS Financial Reporting
- Valuation Modeling
Work Experience
Director of Financial Modeling and Analytics
2023 - 2025
Awaze
- Drove improvements and reformed the FP&A team, focussing on process improvement, personnel training, and new hiring. Improved communication within different parts of the business by developing the business partnering team.
- Fostered close partnerships with the private equity portfolio management team and the C-suite, ensuring the key stakeholders get the right data at the right time for decision-making.
- Orchestrated revamp of financial modeling and analytics framework. Involved end-to-end view, from reshaping data strategy to implementing best-in-class visualization tools, ensuring the synthesis of modeling outputs with dynamic business needs.
- Supervised creation and revision of key financial models used across the company, spanning areas like long-range planning, acquisitions, and refinancing. Stepped in to drive the development of complex models, ensuring precision and reliability.
Focus areas: Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Finance Transformation, Exit Planning, Financial Modeling, Refinancing, M&A Modeling, Budgeting, Finance Process Improvement, Analytics, Three-statement Modeling, Project Management, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Financial Analysis, Microsoft Excel, Analytical Review, Power Query, Microsoft PowerPoint, Valuation Modeling, Power Pivot, SQL, Forecasting, Business Models, Excel VBA, Python 3, Budget Modeling, Tableau, Modeling, Stakeholder Management, Data Visualization, Finance Strategy, Data Strategy, Microsoft Power BI
Financial Planning and Analysis Manager
2019 - 2023
Gresham House
- Served as an integral part of the finance team, working on developing a forecasting model, modeling acquisitions, and providing commercial and technical accounting expertise across the group's reporting function.
- Reviewed company-wide leases and prepared a detailed accounting paper explaining the key steps to be followed for adoption, accounting journals to post, and disclosures needed in the financial reports (due to the imminent adoption of IFRS 16).
- Created a comprehensive accounting white paper covering various income streams of the business, clarifying which income streams are covered under IFRS 15, recognition in financial reports, and treatment of related costs.
- Reviewed employee share-based compensation schemes and their accounting treatment. Suggested changes to scheme structure for optimum accounting treatment, things to consider at exercise point, and strategies to fund employee benefit trust.
- Developed a 3-statement financial model for budgeting and 5-year forecasting. The model incorporates a provision to flex for the base, downside, and upside cases. It also models the impact of potential acquisitions, including the impact on EPS.
- Worked directly with CFO to create communication material for the board, analysts, and investors.
Focus areas: IFRS Financial Reporting, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Financial Modeling, Budgeting, Forecasting, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Three-statement Modeling, Project Management, Financial Analysis, Microsoft Excel, Analytical Review, Power Query, Microsoft PowerPoint, Valuation Modeling, Power Pivot, SQL, Business Models, Excel VBA, Budget Modeling, Tableau, IFRS 15, Modeling, Stakeholder Management, Finance Process Improvement, M&A Modeling, Data Visualization, Finance Strategy, Analytics, Microsoft Power BI
Transaction Services Manager
2012 - 2019
PwC | PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Led financial due diligence with responsibilities that included creating the financial model, preparing the diligence report, and presenting it to the client for the proposed £1-billion buyout of a global infrastructure business.
- Created a comprehensive acquisition model that accounts for different scenarios and assumptions to output a discounted cash flow based valuation. Presented the model to the CFO.
- Conducted detailed workshops with senior management—both within corporate and private equity—to understand key drivers of the business and their impact on the financials.
- Presented to selection of C-level executive on financial diligence best practices and how to make your business diligence ready.
- Reviewed refinancing model for a private equity client, performing diligence on key assumptions and compliance with existing covenants.
Focus areas: Carve-out Analysis, Carve-out Planning, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Financial Data Analytics, Financial Modeling, Deal Advisory, Due Diligence, Three-statement Modeling, Project Management, Financial Analysis, Microsoft Excel, Analytical Review, Microsoft PowerPoint, Valuation Modeling, Power Pivot, Business Models, Excel VBA, Tableau, Modeling, Stakeholder Management, M&A Modeling, Microsoft Power BI
Education
2010 - 2011
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Degree in Strategy
University of Oxford - Oxford, UK
1999 - 2003
Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati - Guwahati, India
Certifications
SEPTEMBER 2022 - PRESENT
CFA Level 1
CFA Institute
JANUARY 2015 - PRESENT
ACA Chartered Accountant
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
Skills
Finance
Three-statement Modeling, Cash Flow Modeling, Financial Modeling, Accounting, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Budgeting, Forecasting, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Deal Advisory, Due Diligence, Valuation Modeling, Finance Strategy, M&A Modeling, Finance Process Improvement, Refinancing
Output Software
Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint
Data & Analysis Software
Power Pivot, SQL, Tableau
Industry Expertise
IFRS 15
Other
Business Models, Modeling, Stakeholder Management, Financial Analysis, Analytical Review, Project Management, Financial Data Analytics, Power Query, Excel VBA, IFRS Financial Reporting, Analytics, Microsoft Power BI, Data Visualization, Python 3, Budget Modeling, Carve-out Planning, Carve-out Analysis, Exit Planning, Data Strategy, Finance Transformation
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