DEEPAK BOTHRA

Currently designated as Vice President in the AWM Public Fund Controllers.

• Review of Quarterly accounting and reporting packages, including fund level Net Assets values and investor reporting.
• Overseeing and managing the preparation of annual financial statements, as well as liaising with external auditors to cover the annual audits and its timelines.
• Providing Estimated capital statements to the investors on a quarterly basis.
• Responsible for the processing the Investor's cashflow.
• Supporting the different reporting and investor queries.
• Contribute in enhancing the existing policies and procedures to ensure an efficient and timeliness of Fund controller's function.

As Audit Manager in the Investment Management industry, was involved in managing the team working on one of the top audit clients. My role as Manager included,

• Regular co-ordination with the team - in India & US and regular interaction with the client on various audit related issues be it the administrative or technical issues like Valuation, Incentive fee and others.
• Reviewing the audit files prepared by staffs, seniors and sending it to Partner for their review. Along with giving them walkthrough of the files and resolving their queries.
• Planning and Strategizing audit engagements with onshore team to set goals and responsibility.
• Coaching and mentoring the team of Seniors, Staffs and train with the regular trainings and meetings to deliver high quality of work.
• Monitoring the engagement metrics on a regular basis and communicating to the management for any deviations.
• Involved in firm-level trainings, recruitment drives.
• Always thriving in of bringing efficiencies in the areas of work by automating certain areas of work.

Engaged in the statutory audit of financial service sector particularly in Wealth & Asset Management segment.

• Involved in full scope audit of the hedge funds gaining experience in IFRS and USGAAP, financial reporting, analytical reviews and of hedge fund industry.
• Project Management.
• Interacting with the Audit Partners and Managers and responding to their queries.
• Guiding, motivating and leading the team towards the goal.
• Providing on the job coaching and training.
• Working in shared service model requires maintaining the coordination and providing regular progress update to the Senior Management between local and onshore team.
• Coordinating with the fund administrators.
• Building relationship among the colleagues, timely feedbacks to the team members.

Project with Hewlett Packard (project period-3 months)

• Reconciliations were reviewed by using the complete knowledge of Accounting and Finance Manuals (AFM), US GAAP and the general Accounting Standards.
• Reviewing the Internal controls and Process of accounting for its compliance with company policies. Any deviations were to be escalated for clearing and to give suggestion for improvement in the process.

It's a subsidiary of US based company having over 11,000 branches in U.S and is newly set-up in India.

• Direct dealing with the clients throughout the process of their tax requirement.
• Inputs, research required in development of various service products for the Company.
• Mainly involved in assessing and filing Individual Taxation returns of India & U.S.

A 40 year old audit firm of Chartered Accountants in Bengaluru.

• I had experience of working for different clients engaged into varied industry sectors.
• Have gained experience in Statutory Audits, Limited Reviews (for listed companies), Tax Audits, Internal Audits, Government Audits, Bank Audits, etc. of nationalized banks, well-known manufacturing, construction and trading entities.