Mar 2019 – Present · 7 yrs · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Jul 2017 – Apr 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos · India

• Saguna Rural Foundation (SRF), is a Social Welfare Public Trust setup to promote and support rural India through research and implementation of innovative farming and forest practices. Importance is laid to make it a happy and rewarding event for the local participants to be able to keep it rolling without outside support.
• The objective of the trust as elaborated in the trust deed are as follows:
•  Agriculture research, education, and extension to the farmers.
•  Development of rural India.
•  Research and spreading knowledge about carbon sequestration for stable environment through planting cover crops in agriculture land.
•  Finding methods and their extension of farming for mitigation and adaption to climate change.
•  Offer help to those in need from rural India.
•  Research and extension in high rainfall zone to stop water that flow away in floods, using the same for wealth generation.
•  To advance and propagate education and learning including the establishment, maintenance and support or conduct or administer educational institutions including schools, colleges, hostels, libraries and reading halls and/or conducting or administrating professorships, lectureships, scholarships, workshops and prices and/or for establishing and maintaining and/or conducting a Chair in a university at graduate and post-graduate level and/or for research and otherwise for advance education in all its aspects and specifically connected with provision of end of life care to person suffering from cancer and other life limiting diseases.
•  To grant loans, scholarships, awards or other financial assistance on such terms and conditions as the trustees deem fit to scholars, research workers, lectures, teachers, poor and needy farmers or any other person or persons whomsoever in the furtherance of the objects of these presents.

Feb 2011 – Jan 2017 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Melbourne, Australia

• Dyson’s Group of Companies is one of the largest and leading bus companies in Victoria providing public transport and charter services all over Victoria.

Sep 2010 – Nov 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Reflex Technology Group is a medium sized Melbourne based IT company specialized in providing Networking and Software Development solutions to Schools, Legal Firms and Not for Profit Organisation.
• Reporting directly to: Managing Director
• Revenue responsibility: $20,000,000
• Number of employees: 50 Permanent Staff
• Responsibility include:
• Produce monthly management reports and provide commentary analysis of the financial results for each month within 5 days of the month end.
• Provide various financial analysis and human resources reports as required by the managing director.
• Cost analysis of client contracts each year as per salary increase and time spent.
• Manage the service contract which includes implementing yearly CPI increase to client contracts as per the terms of the contract and informing the client of the same.
• Track and analyse the actuals to the budgets for the project.
• Calculate and accrue the work in progress for each project.
• Create pricing models to be utilized by the business managers to quote on projects.
• Forecasting of quarterly results based on the current position and trends of previous years.
• Preparation and reporting of BAS and Payroll Tax.
• Cash flow management.
• Overseeing Payroll, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable function.
• Creating and implementing new human resources policies including OH & S.
• Managing the timesheet management system.
• Providing human resource support.
• Achievements include:
• Provided trend and financial analysis of the current year performance which helped in identifying key deficiencies in current business model.
• Influenced the director in creating the companies first annual budget.
• Changed the presentation of the monthly financial reports so that they can easily be comprehended by the director.

Feb 2006 – Jan 2011 · 4 yrs 11 mos

• Responsibilities include:
• Produce monthly management reports within 5 working days of month end.
• Provide commentary and analysis on the financial results for each department.
• Analyze the key financial requirement of tenders / projects and liaise with the relevant department for the feedback.
• Provide pricing as per the requirements of the tender.
• Created pricing and costing models based on various wage awards, workcover and payroll tax rates, period of contract.
• Analyze the variances between contract performances to budgets.
• Actively involved in preparation of annual budgets for each departments.
• Provide quarterly forecast on the financial results based on current performance.
• Management of Cash Flow on a weekly basis and reporting to Directors and bank.
• Managing accounts of two subsidiaries and performing month end reconciliation and consolidation.
• Process the monthly internal payroll and involved in processing of payroll for the weekly temporary staff of more than 450.
• Overseeing Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable functions.
• Prepare and report monthly BAS and Payroll Tax.
• Liaise with the Account Managers in regards to creating financial reports useful for business performance.
• Achievements include:
• Recommended to senior management a new strategy of Invoice Finance Facility which resulted in an increase in working capital of $800,000.
• Streamlined and created efficiency in various financial functions including invoicing and payroll.
• Revised all the management documentation to create highly efficient and comprehensible reports. The reports have been used for presentations to clients, banks and other stakeholders.
• Involved with the senior management team in developing Key Performance Indicators for different department managers and created reports to measure these on a weekly basis.
• Successfully reduced the 90+ days overdue accounts from 10% of total debt down to 0.5% of the debt. This provided the business cash flow which was disapproved by the bank.

Apr 2000 – May 2003 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• V.S. Potdar & Co. was a boutique CA firm mainly dealing with small and medium scale manufacturing clients. The services provided included preparation of books of accounts for the client, auditing, taxation advice and finalization of accounts for taxation and company reporting.
• Responsibilities Included:
• Preparation of books of accounts which included General Ledger & Journals, Asset registers.
• Reconciliation of Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Bank & Payroll.
• Year End Internal Auditing & Finalisation of Financial Statements for the clients.
• Taxation services for the clients which included advising the clients on the matter of taxation, preparing the tax returns and year end payroll tax returns.

Jan 2000 – Mar 2000 · 2 mos

• Sajag Securities is a well known local investment company providing investment advice to its clients.
• Providing information to prospective customers of various mutual funds provided by the company.
• Developing strong working relationships with new clients.
• Obtaining appointments from the prospective customers for the sales representatives of Sajag Securities Ltd.
• Providing customer service to the investors regarding various issues of their mutual funds.
• Assisting the sales team in charting the best mutual funds for various needs of the investors.