Chris Vincent
Versatile finance professional with 9+ years of experience across fundraising, FP&A, and finance transformation. Bring a mix of commercial judgment and hands-on delivery with significant experience in partnering with senior leadership, closing deals, and building solutions for global clients.
Work Experience:
9.6 Years
Industry:
Banking Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) | Consulting | Technology
Function:
Consulting & Strategy | Finance | Investments
Fractal Analytics (AI and analytics consulting company) | Mumbai
Senior Consultant
- Senior Consultant on Fractal's client-facing track, leading finance transformation and analytics programs for Fortune 500 clients.
- Led cross-functional teams of 4–5 (engineering, data science, UX) across 6 global client engagements, delivering custom finance and analytics solutions end to end.
- Reduced sales pricing turnaround time by ~40% for a global payments processor by leading the end-to-end rebuild of their EU pricing tool, transforming a 150-tab legacy Excel system into a modular, UX-driven interface that raised NPS from 3 to 9.
- Re-architected a global CPG client's performance reporting, eliminating cross-market and cross-department data duplication and building a single reusable system that saved 2,500 reporting hours a year.
- Built an internal pricing tool for Fractal's sales team by digitising legacy Excel-based tools and layering in an LLM and a predictive engine, cutting deal-structuring time by ~50% while suggestion better pricing outcomes.
Senior Manager (Finance Business Partner)
- Finance Business Partner to three units across Fractal Analytics — Fractal Alpha (products division), Group Corporate Functions (GCF), and Fractal Capabilities (a high-growth vertical within Fractal Services) — whose combined revenue grew from $40M to $140M during my tenure.
- Owned annual planning and budgeting end to end for all three units, building the financial plans that set targets and resource allocation for the year.
- Ran monthly reporting and MIS, producing the financial dashboards and analysis that gave each unit visibility into performance against plan.
- Led forecasting and senior-stakeholder management, presenting financial analysis and performance insights directly to the CEO, COO, and Capability heads to support decision-making.
- Major initiatives included building the financial cadence and operating system for the Capabilities division, a newly formed, fast-growing vertical at the time.
- Mentored new joiners in the team and successfully mapped them to functional areas based on their interest and growth prospects.
Elemential Labs (Blockchain development platform for enterprises) | Mumbai
Project Manager, BD and Project Management
- Project Manager at Elemential Labs (early-stage blockchain startup), spanning go-to-market and product to take blockchain-based workflow solutions to market.
- Built the digital lending pipeline from scratch, driving partnerships and go-to-market strategy and opening early-stage conversations with lenders in a previously untapped segment.
- Presented at the Digital Lenders' national conference to drive industry adoption of blockchain-based lending solutions.
- Shaped the product concept for a blockchain-based anti-fraud solution to detect loan-stacking across lenders, partnering with engineering on the design.
Mumbai Angels (early-stage angel investing network platform) | Mumbai
Deal Manager, Venture Capital
- Deal Manager at Mumbai Angels, one of India's leading early-stage angel investment networks, owning the deal lifecycle from sourcing through to close across a broad sector mandate.
- Built and worked a multi-channel sourcing funnel (warm introductions, college and incubation-centre tie-ups, and direct LinkedIn outreach).
- Evaluated 1,500+ startups during my tenure, building the investment case, championing deals to investors, and negotiating terms to close.
- Built new deal pipelines in sectors outside Mumbai Angels' traditional mandate, establishing a biotech sourcing channel through a tie-up with the Atal Innovation Centre that gave the network access to cutting-edge companies such as Oncophenomics, Pandorum Technologies, and Leucine Rich Bio.
- Partnered with external funds, early-stage networks, and accelerators to co-invest on shared deals, expanding deal access and syndication capacity.
- Pitched to 300+ HNI and UHNI investors to raise capital for selected startups.
- Closed 6 of the 13 investments the firm completed during my tenure (the highest deal count on the team) raising INR 10.6 Cr cumulatively across: Closed 6 of the 13 investments the firm completed during my tenure (the highest deal count on the team) raising INR 10.6 Cr cumulatively across:
- o Oncophenomics (formerly Theranosis) — INR 3.5 Cr
- o Falconbrick — INR 2.2 Cr
- o WittyParrot — INR 2 Cr
- o SelectJobs — INR 2 Cr
- o Azuro — INR 50 L
- o Newsbytes — INR 40 L
- Drove Mumbai Angels' regional expansion as part of the launch team, running the inaugural pitch events in Pune and Hyderabad to build the local investor base in two new markets.
- Achieved 110% goal achievement in 2 out of my 3 years (Senior Consultant – Fractal).
- SMART Award: This award is granted to Fractal employees who have displayed exceptional client management while managing projects.
- Kaizen Award: This award is given to fewer than 50 Fractal employees a year for significantly raising the bar for operational performance within Fractal.
- Exceptional Student of the Year (2015): Awarded to a single student per batch, this recognition reflects all-round performance. I earned it for strong academic results, active classroom engagement and leadership in extracurricular activities.
- Outstanding Team Performer (2014): The International Economics Convention is a prominent annual competition involving 10 colleges from India and US. I was recognized for my role in debating, presenting and effectively highlighting Thailand's major economic challenges.
- MBA (PGPX), Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
- Bachelors in Financial Markets, Smt Mithibai Motilal Kundnani College, Mumbai
- CFA Level 2 candidate