Jan 2025 – Nov 2025 · 10 mos · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India · On-site

• Results-driven Audit & Compliance Professional with extensive experience in internal controls, risk advisory, and strategic team leadership. Currently managing high-impact engagements across the cement, port, and logistics sectors for industry-leading clients.
• Internal Financial Controls (IFC) Oversight: Leading IFC testing and review for a top-tier cement conglomerate, ensuring adherence to regulatory standards and enhancing the effectiveness of internal control systems.
• Internal Audits: Conducting and managing end-to-end internal audit assignments for one of the largest port and logistics companies, focusing on risk mitigation, operational efficiency, and governance enhancement.
• Client Relationship Management: Acting as a key point of contact for clients, maintaining strong relationships, ensuring satisfaction, and aligning services with business objectives.
• Presentation of Findings: Regularly presenting audit findings and key insights to senior management, providing strategic recommendations and facilitating informed decision-making.
• Team Leadership & Hiring: Managing and mentoring a dynamic team of professionals; overseeing hiring processes, conducting interviews, and ensuring the development of team capabilities.
• Resource & Budget Management: Driving team allocation, project costing, and budget monitoring to optimize productivity and ensure financial efficiency.
• Employee Engagement: Implementing team satisfaction initiatives and engagement activities to build a motivated and high-performing culture.
• Business Development: Actively involved in identifying and pursuing new business opportunities, generating client leads, conducting need-based discussions with prospective clients, and presenting firm capabilities to align with their goals.
• Bringing a balanced approach of technical expertise, leadership, and business acumen, I am passionate about delivering value-added solutions and contributing to long-term client success.

Oct 2023 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

• > Leading comprehensive risk assessments for key clients, to refine risk-based audit methodologies and ensure alignment with industry best practices
• > Managing a cross-functional team to execute high-impact audits, including overseeing a remote SOX assessment for US-based entities, ensuring compliance with international standards.
• > Guiding business development efforts by creating targeted proposals, generating leads, and leading risk assessments for project initiation, which resulted in efficient resource allocation and enhanced project funding strategies.
• > Delivering exceptional client satisfaction by conducting thorough audits for major FMCG and life science companies, receiving accolades for comprehensive evaluations that identified opportunities for operational excellence.
• > Spearheading internal audits across multiple sectors (copper, life sciences, FMCG) in India, the UAE, Mexico, and the UK, driving critical process improvements and evaluating Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and Internal Financial Controls (IFC).

Apr 2022 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Feb 2021 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

• > Maintaining client relationship
• > Conducting control testing for pharmaceutical processes like Third party procurement, Project management, Plant manufacturing and maintenance.

Jun 2020 – Feb 2021 · 8 mos

• > Managing client relationships and expectations
• > Planning and performing risk based internal audit at corporate and plant locations
• > Performing business process reviews, compliance reviews and special assignment
• > Performing analytics using advance excel
• > Presenting issues on audit areas covered to audit partner, manager and client KMP
• > Facilitated technical training session
• > Train staff on conducting audit for process under review

Sep 2018 – May 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos

• > Planning and performing risk based internal audit at corporate and plant location.
• > Performing Business process reviews, Compliance reviews & Special assignments.
• > Performing Analytics using Advance excel on reports generated from ERP systems like SAP.
• > Preparing Risk assessment control metrics for all the audit areas.
• > Day to day interaction with client for Business process understanding and maintaining client relation.
• > Preparation of internal Audit Observation PPT and presenting issues on audit areas covered to manager and client KMP's.

Apr 2018 – Aug 2018 · 4 mos · Ahmedabad

• > Assessment of Internal control procedures for all business cycles, Review of the As-is process and suggesting improvements to the process cycles.

Dec 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bapunagar,Ahmedabad,India

• Giving lectures to B.com students for following subjects:
• >Financial Accountancy
• >Cost Accounting
• >Taxation

Jun 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

• Following work Performed for Automobile Dealer:
• >Testing Internal Controls
• >Business process review
• > Vouching Correctness of Sell bills
• > Insurance commission calculation and its recovery
• >Accounting of Sales

Mar 2013 – Feb 2016 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

• > Handling the Audit Assignment related to Internal Audit, Statutory Audit, Tax Audit of Listed Companies, Private Limited Companies, Partnership Firm, Trust, Propriety firms etc.
• > Finalization of Accounts.
• > Certification Work.
• > TDS and Service Tax related work.
• > Filling of returns relating to Income Tax, Service Tax, Vat, Excise
• > Annual Accounts filling with ROC (XBRL filling)
• > Conducted Physical verification of Inventories, Fixed Assets and its reconciliation with accounts
• > Conducted Physical verification of Inventories, Fixed Assets and its reconciliation with accounts which resulted into proper tagging of assets movements, cost control, efficient management control and timely reporting.