Sep 2024 – Apr 2025 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Overall responsible for maintenance and closure of books of accounts in accordance with relevant accounting standards, maintenance of fixed assets, statutory filings including tax returns, payroll management, statutory and tax audits, vendor management and payments, invoices and collections and enhancement of financial and reporting process

Jul 2023 – Sep 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Lead a team responsible for invoicing, management of collections & monitor accuracy of revenue through validations. Oversee GST and TDS reconciliations and ensure upkeep of Balance Sheet recons. Drive audits of revenue and receivables including ICoFR; implement controls around revenue and ensure closure of books on a monthly basis to ensure accurate financial reporting of its financial performance.

Dec 2021 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Managed successfully end to end accounting and reporting integrations of all new acquisitions at PhonePe. The integration activities included migration of accounting platform from erstwhile ERP to Oracle; setting up / enhancing the current accounting and reporting of all process areas (customer, vendor, procurement, treasury, tax etc., ) to bring efficiencies and robustness; defining risk and controls, authority matrix for approvals and aligning the accounting policies reporting mechanism to that of PhonePe group.
• Led the R2R, P2P and financial reporting process for all new acquisitions along with spearheading audits (Statutory Audit, Tax Audit, XBRL), financial reporting and the monthly book closure activities with a set of team members.
• Currently associated as Lead in Anti-Corruption Financial Control Monitoring (Level 1) to ensure appropriate implementation of financial controls at PhonePe.

Jun 2021 – Dec 2021 · 6 mos

• External Audit and Assurance Manager with seven plus years of experience (including internship) with specialization in statutory audits, limited reviews, shared service audits, group audits, tax audits, development of process and internal control framework including risk assessments, financial reporting for multinational listed companies and large local companies across various sectors like technology, trading, manufacturing, consumer and industrial sectors.
• Audit :
• Responsible for planning & managing activities for ensuring completion of audits within time and budget. The activities included development and monitoring of audit plan, project staffing, engagement budgets as well as investigating and following up on any variances from expectations.
• Expertise in managing financial & accounting matters; preparation and review of financial statements along with disclosures; assessment of accounting implications for first time adopters of Ind-AS (Indian Version of IFRS); present significant external audit observations and internal control recommendation to the Audit Committee / those charged with governance of Listed Public Entities and Large Corporate Entities.
• Worked with people situated across the globe at various Deloitte Member Firms and corporate clients and was on deputation with Deloitte UK office performing audit of a large health care company for a period of two months.
• Transformation and Innovation:
• Member of cloud-based audit documentation software development team with the responsibility of the designing the analytics to enhance the quality of audit practice across the globe and various initiatives driven by the global quality team. Facilitated training sessions to practitioners across PAN India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Mauritius for implementation of such solutions developed.

Jan 2018 – Jun 2021 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Acted as senior audit member of teams engaged in audits of listed and unlisted company managing a portfolio of clients with focus on ensuring timeliness and quality of the audit engagement. Served as primary liaison with client management resolving engagement conflicts and held meetings to discuss key accounting matters and critical audit issues.
• Prepared and reviewed audit documents like the presentation on planning, memos on risk assessment, approach notes, presentations to the Audit Committee and Those Charged with Governance; accounting position paper, audit reports and management letter comprising observations and recommendations.
• Involved in auditing companies having adopted Ind-AS for the first time (Indian version of IFRS) comprising evaluation of changes to accounting principles and additional disclosures to be reported in the financial statements. Executed audits involving transitional year of adoption of IFRS 15 & IFRS 16. Reviewed financial statements and related disclosures and identified Key Audit Matters (KAM) along with testing of relevant management Controls and perform substantive procedures to address such KAMs.
• Audited complex balances of accounting estimate and ensured the compliance under the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles such as IFRS and Indian GAAP. Performed projects in the nature of due diligence and GAP analysis which included maturity assessment of aspects including end use monitoring and accounting compliance.
• Part of the team that contributed to the innovation section through development of automated solutions using VBA like exception modules identifying outliers, automated lease calculations and other solutions bringing audit efficiencies and reduction of hours across audit practice.
• Received team and individual performance awards during the stint and appreciations from client for the valuable contributions and impact during the audit.

Sep 2014 – Sep 2017 · 3 yrs · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

• Conduct process understanding and walkthroughs of various business process in the area of finance with stakeholders of client engagement across revenue, payables, treasury, payroll, fixed assets and taxation . Provided assistance in identification of financial risk & mitigative controls.
• Perform substantive testing procedures over key account balances in accordance with Standards of Auditing and accounting principles i.e. Indian GAAP, Ind AS & IFRS. Substantive testing activities included selection of samples ; verification of supporting documents like invoice, agreements, and approvals ; rolling out confirmations to customers, vendors & employees ; physical verification of inventory and fixed assets.
• Perform evaluation of design & implementation and test operating effectiveness of identified controls based on Indian/ International Standards on Auditing including test of controls at Shared Service Centers for multinational companies.
• Analyze general ledger balances through analytical procedures like trend and ratios analysis between multiple reporting periods to identify out-liers. Review disclosures in the financials to ascertain those are in line with accounting standards along with testing for its completeness and accuracy.
• Prepared audit work papers documenting the procedures performed to plan the audit, test of controls, test of details and conclude sections. Received appreciation from Managers, Senior Managers and rewarded as Rising Star towards contributions in client engagement.