Oct 2018 – Feb 2026 · 7 yrs 4 mos · Hyderabad

• Ran finance and operations for a company that scaled from 40 to 3,000+ employees.
• Self-initiated and built the AI vertical from scratch - hired the team, directed infrastructure decisions, set technical direction.
• Shipped production AI products including an enterprise LLM platform, automated financial statement generation, and a role-aware enterprise assistant.
• Recruited senior GTM leaders from MBB/Big 4 backgrounds and led enterprise sales engagement with Fortune 500 stakeholders

Mar 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 3 mos · Telangana, India

• Independent CA practice providing finance advisory, business consulting, and AI-enabled financial solutions to SMEs and growth-stage companies.
• Traditional practice: Fund-raising advisory, insolvency resolution (IBBI-registered IP), due diligence, statutory audit, tax planning, M&A structuring, and business valuations.
• AI-augmented advisory (2024 onwards): Designed automated financial statement generation systems using LLM-driven workflows, replacing manual compilation with event-driven, continuous reporting. Built AI-led governance and compliance frameworks for clients in regulated industries. Advising enterprises on AI adoption strategy with a focus on financial process automation, risk-aware deployment, and ROI justification.
• Core philosophy: Financial calculations must always be deterministic. AI handles the conversational interface and document generation; business logic and arithmetic run through validated Python engines. This principle guides all my AI-for-finance work.

Jan 2016 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Hyderabad Area

Dec 2011 – Jan 2016 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Greater Hyderabad Area

•  Responsible for implementation of financial control policies across the organization and overall control over General Ledger.
•  Responsible for reviewing the closure of Books across all five sites every month – along with preparation of analytical commentary on performance.
•  Reviewing the various finance processes and suggesting process improvements leading to effective control over financial reporting.
•  Responsible for the year-end financial statements and handling statutory, internal and tax audits under Indian GAAP and IFRS.
•  Reviewing the monthly submission of P/L and Balance sheet related reports to the HSBC Group.
•  Providing accounting guidance to the GL/AP and AR teams.

Mar 2010 – Dec 2011 · 1 yr 9 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

•  Creating awareness of risk management and implementing Operational risk management framework across the organization – identification of risks and mitigating controls across various departments, analysis of various MIS reports for identification of potential risks, Intimation of control failures across various departments, suggest control measures or process improvements, provide guidance and risk management training to various employees.
•  Reviewing and recommending risk management strategies, policies and risk tolerance and presenting to the audit committee.
•  Conducting internal audit of head office and regional office operations of the Company.
•  Ensuring that the Business continuity plan is reviewed and monitored.
•  Process designing for new products launched by the Company
•  Testing the operating effectiveness of controls across various departments.

Dec 2005 – Mar 2010 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

•  Statutory audits (financial & tax) involving assesment of internal controls, analytical reviews and management recommendations for various Companies like Karvy Stock Broking Limited, Karvy Computershare Private Limited, Northgate Technologies Limited, GE India Exports Private Limited, Semantic Space Technologies Limited, RHI Clasil Limited etc.
•  Sox implementation for HDFC Bank Limited which includes - Identifying the various processes in the organization, mapping the processes identified to the various accounting captions in the financial statements, identifying significant risks and key controls in the processes identified and testing those controls.
•  Sox attestation for Dr. Reddys Laboratories Limited consisting - Performing walkthroughs for various processes in the organization, identifying key risks and controls in the processes and testing the controls for the various risks identified in the processes as a part of ICOFR.
•  Due diligence reviews for acquisitions in hotel, software, steel, telephone and cement industries in accordance with the agreed upon scope and preparing the deliverables based upon the findings.
•  Leading teams of qualified accountants on high profile assignments within timelines and with high level of effectiveness.
•  Building strong client relationships, suggesting best practices and identifying business opportunities.

Aug 2002 – Nov 2005 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Underwent extensive training and was rotated among various practice lines; Financial and Management accounting, Statutory/ Internal/ Tax audits, Management services and control reviews.