SAKSHI SAMEER PHADKE

Legal responsibilities

• Construction Contracts: Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts between the various parties involved in a construction project, including contractors, subcontractors, clients, suppliers, and architects. This also involves ensuring compliance with local laws and industry standards.
• Construction Litigation: Representing clients in legal disputes related to construction projects, such as claims for breach of contract, delays, defects, or accidents. This may involve resolving disputes through negotiation, mediation, arbitration, or litigation.
• Employment Law in Construction: Addressing legal matters related to labor and employment issues in the construction sector, including worker safety, union disputes, wage issues, and compliance with workplace regulations.
• Project Financing: Assisting in securing financing for construction projects, including structuring financing agreements, addressing loan issues, and managing risk.

LEGAL EXPERIENCE

• Preparation of Tax Returns: Consulting clients on the preparation of accurate tax returns and ensuring compliance with local, state, and international tax laws.

• Review of Documentation: Scrutinizing financial records, corporate transactions, and tax filings to ensure all necessary documents are correctly filled out and submitted on time.

• Documenting Tax Planning: Ensuring that all documentation related to tax planning (e.g., agreements, transactions, financial models) is correctly drafted, aligned with tax laws, and defensible in case of scrutiny by tax authorities.

• Assisting in Tax Audits and Disputes: Providing support during tax audits, including preparing relevant documentation to respond to inquiries from tax authorities.

• Tax Litigation: Assisting while Representing clients in disputes with tax authorities by drafting legal documents such as petitions, complaints, and briefs in tax litigation cases.

• Contracts and Agreements: Drafting contracts, memoranda of understanding (MOUs), tax-sharing agreements, and other documents to reflect tax strategies, obligations, or exemptions.

• Support for Due Diligence: Assisting in preparing documentation for mergers, acquisitions, or investments that highlights potential tax implications, risks, and planning opportunities.

Audit Responsibilities

• Risk Assessment: Identifying risks related to financial reporting, operations, and compliance.
• Testing Controls: Examining internal controls to ensure they are effective and mitigate risks.
• Sampling: Analyzing a sample of transactions or data to make inferences about the entire population.
• Documenting Findings: Preparing clear documentation of audit procedures, findings, and recommendations for improvement.
• Reporting: Creating detailed audit reports that highlight issues, discrepancies, or concerns discovered during the audit process.

RESPONSIBILITIES HANDELED

• Post and process journal entries to ensure that all business transactions are recorded.
• Accounting in Excel and Tally.
• Filling TDS returns.
• Preparing details and computation of income tax, and filing of ITR.
• Update accounts receivable, and issue invoices.
• Update accounts payable, and perform reconciliations.
• Making balance sheets, income statements, and other financial statements according to legal and company accounting and financial guidelines.
• Update financial data in the database to ensure that the information will.
• Verifying company financial information.
• Assist senior accountants in the preparation of monthly / yearly closing, assist with other accounting projects