Rajesh Kotha

• Monthly book closing activities for direct tax accounts in accordance with US GAAP for the legal entities spread across multiple countries.
• Monthly preparation of reconciliations for current and deferred taxes related to the balance sheet from a US GAAP perspective.
• Performing return to provision activity to align books of accounts with tax returns filed and effective tax rate reconciliations for SOX entities and reporting to the corporate accounting team.
• Supporting statutory audit including preparation of income tax schedules.
• Local GAAP tax provisions and handling all direct tax related questions from audit team and coordinate with legal entity managers for various tax issues.
• Coordinating with service providers and internal teams to support tax returns of various legal entities and provide information for tax audits and tax assessments.
• Participate in and lead process improvement projects to improve existing processes and actively participate in the automation of repetitive processes and standard templates.
• Caterpillar India Engineering Solutions Private Limited

• Led a team of 3-4 Members for Auditing and reviewing of financial statements of listed and Unlisted entities.
• Involved in the audit of Key Business Process like Revenue, Purchases, Loans and Investment, Fixed Assets Etc. along with testing of assumption used for various valuation.
• Executed Statutory and Group audits of various companies.
• Assisting in issuing of ECB-2 report.
• It is a well-known CA Firm having head office in Mumbai with branches in Pune, Gurgaon, Bengaluru and Hyderabad.

• Executed Statutory audits including site visit, analysis of financial statements of companies having turnover ranging up to Rs. 1 - 50 Crores.
• Conducted Tax Audits and GST audit for 2 consecutive years of corporate as well as Sole Proprietorships and Partnership Firms having turnover ranging up to Rs. 1 - 50 crores.
• Direct Taxation:
• Prepared and filed 200+ Income Tax Returns for diverse client base rangingup to Rs. 2 Crores of total Income.
• Handled work regarding appeals including dealing with the client, section interpretation, research work, and drafting written submissions presented before Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals) and Income Tax Appellate Tribunal.
• Filing of Audit reports under Income tax Act.
• Filing of TDS Returns and issuing TDS certificates.
• Filing of various Income Tax Forms - Form 15CA & 15CB.
• Drafting submissions for income tax assessments/appeals.

• Drafting submissions for income tax assessments/appeals.

Indirect Taxation

• Worked extensively in GST audit, refund, compliances and registration of

corporate and non-corporate entitles.

• Filed more than 30+ GST Returns and forms every month for a year and applied

for 50+ applications for Registration and cancellation under GST. Assisted

clients in GST refund related issues of more than Rs. 1 – 5 Crores.