Kashish Arora

· Ensured timely completion of month-end closing procedures for accurate financial statements in our France based tool – Vector.

· Delivered regular financial presentations to senior management, facilitating informed decision-making processes on a monthly, quarterly and yearly basis.

· Preparation of annual budgets and Long Term Plans (5 Year) basis analysis of historical data and future projections and discussions with stakeholders of respective zones in order to obtain numbers and compile reports to showcase final financial KFIs.

· Preparation of Half-Yearly Forecast/Quarterly Landings/Flash landing depending upon the trends being followed in the first half of the year, monitoring the revenue/expense trends, discussion with stakeholders and providing KFIs on regular basis.

· Partnered with IT and operational leadership to improve financial reporting accuracy by streamlining processes and implementing automated systems SAC and Finance Repository and Alert Management.

· Prepared and managed large capital expenditure budgets to effectively handle infrastructure investment and long-term operations. Also, planning in Shifting and stabilizing the same in a financial year as per the Budgets allocated by Asia.

· Enhanced budget management by closely monitoring expenses and identifying cost-saving opportunities.

· Increased efficiency in accounts payable and receivable, implementing robust tracking systems and generating a systematic email set-up to be sent to vendors for the due amount.

· Supported in preparation of Financial statements by maintaining organized records and providing clear communication with external auditors.

· Completed physical inventory verification in order to facilitate auditors including entire process of coordinating with store managers and auditors. Getting a finalized report from Auditors and sharing standards of practice to respective locations (including verifying stock levels, address discrepancies, and forecast future needs)

• Part of the tax and regulatory line of services, handling indirect tax areas of various clients across industries
• Preparation and uploading GST returns along with audit reports and review of regular GST compliances/ MIS reports / reconciliations, Handling Due diligence on regular basis, analyzing tax rules and exposures relating to specific projects in order to prepare final reports, Handling GST refunds and obtaining RFD-10
• Engaged in assignments involving litigation like drafting replies to show cause notices, appeals before the Tribunal and replies to other regular queries/ notices received from the authorities and filing of the same before authorities for VAT/Service Tax
• Involved in various interactions with the department/government officials regarding GST/VAT related matters
• Involved in performing service tax audits for reputed clients
• Providing opinions with respect to GST queries raised by clients
• Liaising with internal and external parties to identify and resolve issues in relation to Indirect Tax matters
• Working together along a team with ad hoc projects and tasks such as tax system implementation, VAT audits/enquiries and providing opinions with respect to GST queries raised by clients
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Excel
• Ability to manage, organize, and prioritize multiple assignments and projects (3-5 projects at any given time); resolve issues, and consistently deliver a thorough and accurate work product with great attention to detail
• Demonstrated competence in meeting required deadlines.

• Handling payments & receipts of various dealers
• Tally accounting, maintaining ledgers and cash book
• Preparing tax and commission for all C&F Agents located all over India
• Reconciliation of bank statements.

• Filing of Income Tax Return
• Preparation of Financial Statements
• Exposure to Tally Accounting