KUNAL DESHPANDE
Thane
Summary
Assistant Manager with expertise in financial reporting, management information systems, account reconciliation, GST reconciliations, and operational analysis. Skilled in strengthening internal controls, ensuring regulatory compliance, and maintaining audit-ready documentation. Certified in Operational Analysis of Suspicious Transaction Reports and Combating Terrorism Financing, in association with the International Centre for Asset Recovery of the Basel Institute on Governance.
Overview
3
3
Languages
3
3
Certifications
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
ASSISTANT MANAGER
Creative Polypack Private Limited
Mumbai
02.2026 - 07.2026
- Prepare reports to support analysis, oversight, and strategic decision-making.
- Perform GST reconciliations to identify compliance gaps, reduce reporting errors, and lower audit and regulatory risk.
- Review financial records and supporting documentation to strengthen internal controls and maintain audit-ready files.
- Draft responses to income-tax notices and coordinate with external consultants for timely submissions and appeals.
- Track regulatory and tax requirements, follow up with stakeholders, and drive timely issue resolution.
- Collaborate with finance teams and external advisers to address reporting, reconciliation, and compliance matters.
SENIOR - EXPATRIATE TAXATION
KPMG India
Mumbai
02.2019 - 11.2025
- Prepared and reviewed regulatory compliance returns, supporting workpapers, financial documentation, and case records, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and adherence to applicable regulatory requirements.
- Conducted detailed financial data review and discrepancy analysis to identify inconsistencies, unusual patterns, potential compliance risks, and issues requiring further investigation, clarification, or escalation.
- Performed risk identification and compliance reviews across financial, payroll, and client information, applying strong analytical skills and attention to detail to identify potential compliance gaps and exceptions.
- Supported investigation and escalation processes by reviewing supporting documentation, validating information, identifying discrepancies, and ensuring appropriate matters were escalated to relevant stakeholders.
- Maintained 100% on-time compliance with regulatory filing, reporting, payment, and documentation deadlines across assigned engagements, demonstrating strong regulatory compliance and deadline management.
- Coordinated with clients, internal specialists, and key stakeholders to obtain required documentation, resolve information gaps, investigate discrepancies, and support timely regulatory submissions and compliance closure.
- Maintained accurate case logs, compliance trackers, review documentation, and audit-ready records, ensuring clear documentation of issues, actions taken, outstanding items, and resolution status.
- Reviewed junior team members’ work for accuracy, completeness, and adherence to established procedures; documented review comments and findings, performed quality checks, and supported continuous improvement of compliance processes.
- Managed multiple engagements simultaneously, prioritizing risk-sensitive matters, tracking outstanding requirements, performing follow-ups, and escalating exceptions to ensure timely resolution and regulatory compliance.
- Trained new hires and interns on established processes, documentation standards, quality-control procedures, and compliance requirements.
- Promoted to Senior in recognition of consistent performance, strong analytical and review capabilities, quality of work, ownership of complex engagements, and effective stakeholder management.
Education
Post Graduate Diploma - Financial Management
Welingkar Institute of Management
MumbaiBachelor of Management Studies - undefined
N.K.T.T. College of Commerce
Skills
- AML, CFT & Suspicious Transaction Reporting (STR/SAR)
- Transaction monitoring and risk-based investigations
- Regulatory compliance and regulatory notice support
- Risk identification, assessment and litigation
- Customer, account and transaction due diligence
- Financial crime analysis and data analysis
- Alert review, case investigation and escalation
- Documentation review and audit-ready workpapers
- Quality control, compliance testing and review
- Regulatory remediation and issue resolution
Certification
AML-KYC and Customer Due Diligence
Timeline
ASSISTANT MANAGER
Creative Polypack Private Limited
02.2026 - 07.2026
SENIOR - EXPATRIATE TAXATION
KPMG India
02.2019 - 11.2025
Bachelor of Management Studies - undefined
N.K.T.T. College of Commerce
Post Graduate Diploma - Financial Management
Welingkar Institute of Management