PRANESH S

• Leading and managing a team of up to 3-4 people comprising of fresh and experienced graduates.
• Monitoring work, managing and motivating the team to ensure deliverable meet necessary quality standards and agreed SLA’s.
• Sharing knowledge, mentoring and coaching the team members.
• Identification of issues/missing information and managing & tracking the open issues until resolved.
• Maintaining the data confidentiality and adherence to the risk management policy by the team members.
• Helping Managers, Senior Managers and Partners in performance review of the team and completion of audit.
• Review of the team’s work and to provide timely feedback to team members to enable them to improve their performance.
• Directly interacting with client to raise issues and coordinating all communications with the client to ensure timely delivery of information required. Building relationship with the onshore team and independently attending and leading meetings with client to raise issues involving senior personnel.
• Auditing complex sections of the financial statements of Banking companies as per country specific statutory requirements. This includes managing end to end audit.
• Working as in-charge, demonstrate effective project management skills and taking full accountability for the areas responsible for. Emphasize on the quality of documentation without compromising on project timelines and raise concerns, when needed. Adhere to culture of high challenge by being confidently challenging the onshore and maintain professional skepticism throughout the audits.

I. Audit & Accounting assignments:-

• Experience in handling Statutory Audits, Internal Audit, GST Audit, Tax Audit, Stock Audit, and Audit of Not-for-Profit Organizations for diversified industries like Aerospace, Coffee trading, Dairy products, financial services, e-commerce, hospitality, IT-enabled services, and manufacturing sectors.
• Statutory auditor for Major US MNC’s Clients, a leading IT-enabled company, a UK coffee trading & ecommerce company, etc.,
• Internal auditor for a leading Netherlands coffee trading & IT enabled company etc.

Key aspects during Audits:

• Vouching for all ledgers to confirm propriety and scrutinized Bank Reconciliation Statements.
• Performing substantive audit procedures like Test of controls, Test of details, Analytical review etc. and Risk assessment procedures as per SA 315 & SA 330 during Auditing.
• Ensured proper audit documentation as per SA 230 of all material documents including working papers based on professional Judgment.
• Verifying Statutory compliances – IT, GST, MCA, TDS, PF & ESI, etc. across various locations.
• Retrieving all working documents required for Tax audit, CARO, IFC, Annual filling reports, etc.,
• To ensure the reliability of audit evidence, obtained third-party confirmations at financial statements level from Banks, accounts receivable/Payables, etc., as per SA505 whenever required.
• Following Standards on Auditing and intimating the audit findings promptly to those charged with governance. Note - Independently led multiple audit engagements and managed teams of 3-10 members during the execution of the audits

II. Taxation assignments:-

• Preparation of computations & reviewing GST.
• Tax computation including advance tax and filing of returns for individuals, companies, and firms.
• Tax computation including advance tax and filing of returns for individuals, companies, and firms.

III. Other assignments:-

• Handled assignments involving obtaining certificates of lower rate/Nil rate by filling out Form-13 for Residents/non-resident tax deduction purposes.
• Preparation of secretarial matters like Memorandum and Articles of Association for companies, Partnership Deeds, and Memorandum of Association & Rules and Regulations for societies.
• Handling Expat taxation and reviewing Form 15CA & 15CB on remittance of international payments.
• Filing annual returns of RBI and compliances as per the FEMA Act.