Akhil Mehta

Bio

Finance professional with nine years of international team leading experience in project finance, financial modeling and risk management across the Oil & Gas (Essar Oil), Financial Services (GE) and Mining (Vedanta Plc) industries.

Currently

Works at:
Microsoft
Location in:
Singapore, Singapore

Akhil would like to connect to people in

  • Consulting
  • Investment Banking
  • Private Equity/VC
  • India
  • Singapore
  • United Arab Emirates
  • United Kingdom
  • United States of America

Akhil has worked/studied in

  • India
  • Singapore
  • United Kingdom

Akhil speaks

  • English
  • Hindi

Akhil has experience in

  • Financial Services
  • Investment Banking

Work

2012 – present

Services Operations Manager - MACH Role

Microsoft
  • - Drive operational excellence in order-to-cash process across the Enterprise Services business.
  • - Own month end revenue recognition and contract compliance cycle for Microsoft Consulting.
  • - Asia-pacific lead for ‘Customer Partner Experience’ excellence within Enterprise Services business.
2012 – present

Credit Analyst - Intern

Microsoft
  • - Formulating credit SLAs and analysis metrics
  • - Strategizing for the group global credit outsourcing project.
2012
(Feb – May)

Intern

Invensys Operations Management
  • - COE Concept Planning for Economic Development Board (EDB Singapore) funding
2008 – 2011

Senior Manager - Project Finance

Essar
  • - Led core project finance activities, including deal structuring with financial institutions, for Essar’s proposed USD 6 billion green-field petrochemicals project.
  • - Financial modeling and feasibility analysis of new projects/ joint ventures across the Oil & Gas value chain, including within the natural gas exploration and refinery expansion space.
  • - Conducted buy-side valuation and due diligence of potential M&A targets across Asia, Middle East and North America.
  • - Commercialized the group’s maiden natural gas field as Commercial Lead for Coal Bed Methane Marketing business, owning business P&L.
  • - Coordinated financial appraisal for the USD 6 BN petrochemicals project with SBI Caps.
  • - Completed the financial closure due-diligence for the USD 700 MN polypropylene project, with IDBI Bank.
  • - Designed the model Gas Sale Purchase Agreement (GSPA) for Essar and negotiated the first 10 year gas sale deal worth USD 7 million.
2007
(Mar – Oct)

Finance Manager

Sterlite Industries
  • - Directed US GAAP implementation across Hindustan Zinc (HZL), a key subsidiary.
  • - Led the setting up of the US statutory and listing (SEC) compliance process for HZL.
2004 – 2007

Assistant Manager

GE Capital India
  • - Independently led and closed the USD 3 BN Global Loss Sharing Project: Structured the inter-company settlement for Group tax consolidation across fifteen countries with final project delivery implemented in UK.
  • - Implemented inter-company settlements worth GBP 560 MN of Group Payment Arrangement (including ACT payments and Section 102 payments) for the GE UK Tax Group.
  • - Managed the bank compensation and price negotiation desk for GE’s European Treasury.
2003 – 2004
(May – Aug)

Finance Executive

eSys
  • - Established group’s 25 FTE financial back–office in India. Implemented process improvements and standardization at the Singapore head office and transitioned multiple functions to the back office.
  • - Managed the global Risk, Credit and Insurance management portfolios.
  • - Supported India sales team through risk management and commercial support in achieving revenue growth from INR 8 million to INR 500 million per month, within a span of 16 months.
2002
(May – Jul)

Management Trainee

BILT
  • - Part of the Issue Management team for the company's rights issue of INR 2700 MN.

Education

2011 – 2012

Nanyang Business School

MBA
2001 – 2003

Panjab University

MBA
1997 – 2000

Jai Narain Vyas University

B.Com.

Clubs

2011 – 2012
(Aug – May)

Nanyang MBA Student Executive Committee

Officer

Achievements

  • - Recipient of the Nanyang Scholarship
  • - Captain of the Nanyang Business School's Business Plan Competition team, representing and winning multiple competitions across Asia and North America.
  • - Chairman of the Banking & Finance Club at Nanyang Business School

Additional Info

Website
www.linkedin.com/in/akhilmehta
GMAT Score:
710
Nationality:
  • Indian