About Nikhil

Key Achievements

Profitability & Pricing Strategy at AWS. Led finance for AWS Direct Connect, a $750M+ recurring revenue business, including top clients like Meta, ByteDance, and NVIDIA. Designed and implemented a new pricing strategy that increased the average sales price by 14%, significantly improving margins and ensuring long-term pricing stability.
Large-Scale Cost Savings at KPMG. Led cross-functional finance and operations teams to drive strategic transformations for Fortune 500 companies and private equity-backed clients. Generated over $64M in recurring annual cost savings, including $33M from optimizing finance and marketing operating models for two major ERP providers.
Financial Planning & Reporting Automation at Amazon. Oversaw $270M+ annual operating budgets across Whole Foods, Restaurants, and Catalog FP&A. Automated national and regional reporting processes using SQL, Python, Excel, and Tableau, reducing manual effort, accelerating insights, and improving executive decision-making speed by double-digit percentages.
Business Intelligence & Forecasting Leadership at AWS. Directed a team of 4+ finance and BI professionals at Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build scalable forecasting models and profitability frameworks across multiple business units. Improved forecasting accuracy by 20% and reduced reporting cycles by 30%, enabling executives to make faster, data-driven investment decisions.

University of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business, Master of Business Administration (MBA)
University of Texas at Dallas – Naveen Jindal School of Management, Bachelor of Science in Finance and Accounting, 2011