Ankush Pandey

Chief Financial Officer - client service

• Consolidation of monthly financial reports for the group entities, and reporting to the CEO within due date.
• Ensuring 100% statutory financial compliances
• Setting realistic sales targets KPIs in line with management's vision
• Annual Capex & Opex budgeting and analysing against monhtly actual spent.
• Established machanism for timely collection of receivables, developed tracking methods to monitor the progress to ensure working capital functions smoothly.
• Monthly review of input tax credit and utilisation against tax payable.
• Critical review of P&L trend movement, balance sheet, FAR, accruals & prepaid schedules, aged receivables/payables, and provision for doubtful debts.
• Balance sheet analysis and providing analytical insights to the management for material movements and exceptions.
• Leading cost saving initiatives and implementation of process automation

Leadership role

• Striving for continuous automation in the process to increase efficiency and mitigate manual efforts.
• Managed a portfolio of over 100 clients by mentoring and leading a team of more than 35 resources.
• Drafting dynamic and customised fee proposals for the prospective clients as per their needs.
• Preparation and analyis of assignment costing with feasibility analysis.
• Developing strong client relationships and exploring business development opportunities.
• Resource planning and executing the hiring process for new talents.
• Ensuring the process is in adherence to SOP and policy set by the management
• KPI reporting and governance compliance

• Responsible for quality client deliverables within agreed SLA
• Conducted second level review of the month end reports before publishing to the client
• Maintained and Strengthened client relationship
• Mentored and managed a team of 16 resources
• Understood the client needs and expanded the scope of services
• Ensured timely invoicing to the client, collection within credit period and reconciliation in the books of accounts for all the assigned clients.
• Assisted Director and partner with effort estimates and pricing proposal for the prospective clients.

• Managed clients effectively and efficiently
• Ensured accurate and thorough review of monthly reports
• Managed and oversaw a team of individuals

• Efficiently managed books of accounts of multiple clients based out in India, Dubai, Canada, Europe and USA
• Preparation and review Balance Sheet and P&L on monthly basis
• Assisted clients in monthly tax returns for USA and Canada
• Monitor and review day to day accounting performed by the team
• Assisting Central AR department with monthly transactions, reports and man-hours for client invoicing
• E2E accounting including Accruals, Prepaid, Fixed Assets, Inter-company, Accounts payable, Accounts receivable and Bank reconciliation
• Training of fresh talents before giving them client facing exposure

• Prepare headcount report and direct cost forecasting on monthly basis
• Manage the E2E accrual of consultant/contractor cost in UK (approx$5m on a monthly basis)
• Analyze aged Purchase order and work with Business Managers to identify opportunities for releases
• Calculate and submit to Finance the monthly client allocation/ recoveries (passthrough).

• Financial Accounting- Monthly and quarterly closing of books, Balance sheet variance analysis, P&L Accounts, Cash and Bank, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Inter company accounting, Fixed Assets accounting, Insurance, SOP compliance
• Indirect Taxation- Monthly reconciliation of Input Tax Credit, Raising invoices Under RCM, preparing detailed file for GSTR1, GSTR2, summarizing GST liability and ITC for GSTR-3B, TDS deductions, monthly payment, filling of return, issuing TDS / TCS certificate
• Management Accounting- Contribution analysis, Overhead analysis, Budgeted vs actual analysis, Sales analysis, Repairs to machinery, Waste analysis, monthly reports etc
• Facilitation for divisional, internal and statutory auditors.

• Preparing Monthly MIS, Cost Comparison Assisting taxation team in preparation of customer wise form C datasheet
• Recommending economical mode/Source of dispatch Weekly Controlling of stocks at Trade depots Shortage Claim Settlement