Feb 2024 – Jun 2024 · 4 mos · Hybrid

Jul 2023 – Jun 2024 · 11 mos · Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

• Strategic Business Optimization: Collaborated with three clients (annual turnover ~ 300 CR revenue) to optimize business structures, driving sustainable growth.
• Stakeholder Management & Cost Efficiency: Proactively managed stakeholder relationships as an accounts manager and outsourced CFO, saving 10 lakhs yearly in compliance costs.
• Audit & Control Leadership: Conducted internal audits, addressed control gaps, and provided strategic solutions.
• Tax Compliance & Facilitation: Led tax audits, ensuring compliance and facilitating income tax return filing for diverse clients.
• Organizational Development Leadership: Spearheaded the development of organizational structure and policies, optimizing communication channels, streamlining decision-making processes with a team of 5.

Jan 2022 – Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India · Hybrid

• Client-Centric Management: Managed end-to-end client sourcing, conducted tax audits, and handled stakeholder management for 15 micro-organizations with an annual turnover of 20 CR.
• Proactive Compliance & Financial Oversight: Filed Income Tax and GST returns proactively, ensuring compliance with applicable provisions of the law.
• Audit Facilitation & Revenue Recovery: Conducted concurrent audits for State Bank of India, facilitating compliance filing, and recovering revenue leakage of approximately INR 1 Lakh annually.

Jul 2021 – Dec 2021 · 5 mos · Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

• Strategic Business Guidance: Guided collaborative efforts with 6 businesses, resulting in 2 successfully sustaining and expanding portfolios.
• Financial Strategy & Organizational Advisory: Engineered business models identifying fund gaps and cash requirements, advised on agile organizational structures, ensuring clear communication and swift issue resolution.
• Policy Formulation & Compliance Leadership: Formulated internal policies, created a process-driven environment, defined roles for improved organizational cohesion. Conducted internal and compliance audits, aligning financial data with policies, successfully bridging control gaps.

Jul 2018 – Jul 2021 · 3 yrs · Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

• Strategic Audit Leadership: Led a diverse team in high-profile internal audits for top leaders in Milk Cooperatives, an Automobile Fabrication Unit, BSE Listed Companies, and the UP Government.
• Expense & Process Reviews: Conducted detailed expense reviews, department-wise internal audits, evaluated processes to rectify vendor shortfalls, and assessed financial impact.
• Incentive Optimization & Team Management: Conducted incentive and expense reviews for an NSE-listed company, aligning strategies, recovering excess incentives. Managed a team of 10, ensuring operational efficiency across multiple projects.

Jun 2012 – Jun 2015 · 3 yrs · Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site