Bharatwaj C Dharmaraj

Lead a team of auditors to conduct financial audits for clients in the real estate and manufacturing industries, ensuring compliance with regulations, and identifying areas for improvement.

• Manage a portfolio of 10+ clients, delivering high-quality audit services within tight deadlines.
• Identified control weaknesses, resulting in cost savings and process improvements for clients.
• Manage all fieldwork to ensure quality service, and timely delivery of results.
• Provide valuable financial statement guidance and business recommendations based on testing performed and information gathered.
• Develop and implement training programs for junior auditors as part of the Learning & Development team.

Conducted financial audits and risk assessments for clients across various industries, ensuring compliance with auditing standards.

• Lead Senior on US GAAP engagements, performed work on key areas such as revenue, impairment, going concern, and leases, and reported directly to the manager and partner.
• Managed all aspects of the audit, including risk assessment, audit planning, controls, substantive testing, and completion procedures.
• Coached and led teams of 3 to 4 members, and reviewed work papers of junior associates and analysts.
• Liaised with managers, and presented findings and recommendations.

• Handled diverse portfolio of US GAAP engagements for clients ranging from listed companies (PCAOB clients) to private companies.
• Performed controls, substantive testing, corollary analysis across all audit areas and prepared final reporting deliverables.
• Performed reviews of planning, substantive and reporting work papers executed by staff.
• Performed preliminary and final analysis of Balance Sheet, Statement of Income and Cash flows.
• Performed entire audit of various Employee Benefit Plans such as Defined Contribution Plans.
• Ensured procedures, policies, legislations and regulations were duly complied with.
• Extensive experience in Data analytic tools (JE analysis tools such as Optix, Reveal etc). Performed financial, trend, and ratio analysis to facilitate a risk based audit approach and brought about more efficiencies in audit.
• Transitioned clients successfully to a cloud-based engagement database platform 'Omnia'.

• Established and monitored internal controls to enhance operational efficiency.
• Prepared comprehensive standard operating procedures for various business functions.

Short term deployment in the insurance audit team.

• Performed detailed tie-outs of fund financials.
• Performed test of details for various financial statement accounts.

• Handled statutory and internal audits of public limited and private limited companies and partnership firms.
• Performed tax audits of partnership firms, public and private companies and performed filing of income tax returns for individuals.