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Ankush Gupta

Finance Controller/FP&A/Business Partner

250 €/Tag
Munich, DE
8-15 Jahre

Durchschnittliche Reaktionszeit: 1h

Über Ankush

With 17+ years of experience in FP&A, Commercial Finance, Controlling, and Business Partnering, I help businesses improve financial visibility, forecasting accuracy, and commercial decision-making.

My experience spans high-growth consumer brands, FMCG, Retail, Marketplace, and D2C environments, including Air Up, Foodspring (Mars), UCB Pharma, and Mars Global Services. I have partnered closely with Sales, Operations, Logistics, Warehouse, and Marketing teams to translate business performance into actionable financial insights.

I support clients with:

• Budgeting, Forecasting & Financial Planning
• Management Reporting & KPI Dashboards
• Variance Analysis & Performance Management
• Commercial Finance & Business Partnering
• Profitability Analysis (Customer, Product & Channel)
• Retail, Marketplace & D2C Finance
• Cost Optimization & Margin Improvement
• Financial Modelling & Scenario Analysis
• Power BI Reporting & Finance Automation
• Interim Controlling & FP&A Support

Throughout my career, I have managed annual budgets, rolling forecasts, month-end reporting, cost center management, profitability analysis, and finance transformation initiatives. I combine strong financial expertise with a practical business mindset, helping leadership teams make informed decisions and drive sustainable growth.

Whether you need support during budgeting cycles, management reporting, business performance reviews, or a dedicated finance partner for a strategic project, I bring a hands-on, results-oriented approach focused on delivering clear business value.
  • Englisch

    Muttersprachlich oder zweisprachig

Vor Ort möglich
Munich (bis zu 50 km), Berlin (bis zu 20 km)

Projekt- und Berufserfahrung

  • Airup
    Retailer Profitability & Contribution Margin Model
    Januar 2026 - März 2026 (2 Monate)
    Designed and implemented a retailer-level profitability model providing end-to-end visibility from Gross Revenue through Contribution Margin 2 across key retail customers.

    Key deliverables:
    • Built retailer-level P&Ls incorporating trade spend, discounts, rebates, logistics costs, marketing investments, and operational expenses.
    • Improved transparency into customer profitability and commercial performance drivers.
    • Enabled Sales and Retail leadership to evaluate pricing, promotional investments, and customer-specific profitability.
    • Supported business partnering discussions through data-driven insights and profitability analysis.
    • Established a scalable framework for retailer performance monitoring and decision-making.
  • AIRUP GMBH
    FINANCE BUSINESS PARTNER
    November 2025 - Heute (7 Monate)
    • • Business Partner for the Retail Channel. Partnering with Retail Sales Head and Key Account Managers on topics related to "Retailer Conditions" both On and Off Invoice, other Trade Expenditure
    • • Built the entire Market and Retailer P&L to bring in clarity and transparency at a Retailer level profitability
    • • Finance Point of Contact for the Marketing Spent, including Influencer, Digital Marketing, Retail Marketing
    • • Working on Budget, Rolling Forecast, Month End Closing and other related topics
    • • Initiated topics on Inventory Management, Overstock and initiatives to effectively plan for overstocks
  • FOODSPRING GMBH
    FINANCE CONTROLLER
    September 2023 - September 2025 (2 Jahre)
    • • Working as FP&A Lead-Controller for the one of the prominent Nutrition & Health Care segment of a Mars Inc. based out of Germany
    • • Responsible for P&L with 70MN€ of Revenue. Omnichannel Revenue model (D2C, Marketplace and Retail)
    • • Responsible for Annual Budgeting, quarterly forecast cycles. Working with Sales & Operations planning teams on Revenue, expected COGS inflation and potential logistics and warehousing cost saving initiatives
    • • Built driver-based forecasting and profitability models to support commercial decision-making across Retail and Marketplace channels
    • • Business Partnering with Operations, tracking KPI, periodic Overhead Cost Centre management
    • • Lead & completed multiple Transformation projects like Overheads Report on BI, RPA for Periodic Submission, BI Inventory Analysis
    • • Competitor Analysis on Gross Margin 1, Gross Margin 2, Salaries & benefits and Advertising costs as percentage of Net Sales. Setting benchmarks for internal performance
    • • Conducted a financial analysis of current operations that identified cost-saving opportunities and improved profitability by 3%.
    • • Developed and maintained internal controls to ensure compliance with financial regulations and standards
    • • Adhering to Monthly/Quarterly and Annual Closing calendar, Group guidelines on budgeting cycle in Anaplan. Reporting dashboards to Group Controller

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Ausbildung und Abschlüsse

  • MBA
    GURU GOBIND SINGH INDRAPRASTHA UNIVERSITY
    2008
    MBA

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