Ravistan Anthony

• WRI India is working to turn big ideas into action at nexus of environment, economic opportunity, and Human well-being. It’s a global research organization that spans more than 60 countries, with offices in Africa, Brazil, China, Europe, India, Indonesia, Mexico and United States as well as a growing presence in Other Countries and regions.
• Major Responsibilities:
• - Strategy planning and implementing annual goals of operations team
• - Overseeing and Managing $10 Million budget, finance, and accounts, Admin., statutory and legal compliances related to India regulatory authorities
• - Presenting quarterly financials and other details during board meetings
• - Funding to other organizations and due diligences process with flow down request from Donors
• - Overseeing and Managing finance and operations team with 5 reporting leads.
• - Collaboration and coordination with international offices
• - Identifying and mitigating various risk in organization
• Key Achievements:
• - Supported growth of WRI India offices as it expanded in size- from team of 150 supported by $ 4 million budget, to over 300 plus personnel delivering $ 10 million budget in FY 2022
• - Managed operational budget effectively, which has resulted in reduction of administrative expense from 22% to 18% in 2 years
• - Developed core operations function by setting up an team that currently supports five program verticals in India and across other countries
• - Invested surplus fund in right securities to get maximum returns
• - Managed set-up of group companies in India, and overseeing all statutory reporting, and development of back-office processes to support daily operations. Coordination closely with programs and global offices to maintain financial integrity and staff retention during these transitions
• - Developed framework for India operations function to (i) oversee local funding proposals and negotiate contracts with donors, partners, and other local stakeholders (ii) support CEO and India board with financial planning, to identify opportunities for growth and (iii) help India leadership effectively manage personal aspirations of their teams
• - Automation and digitations of various processes such as E-Procurements, I-Office, HR documents digitations, Online statutory audit, and legal compliance dashboard

Mission for Vision: It is a leading organization working for eradication of avoidable blindness and has acted as catalyst by strengthening several institutional towards excellence through equitable services and enabled over 2.5 million eye surgeries until date across India.

Major Responsibilities:

- Managing the Accounts, Finance, statutory compliances, and office administration

- Preparing annual budget and getting the approval from the board, monitoring budget utilization by the Programme and generating monthly cash flow and fund management

- Due diligence of partner organizations during the selection phase and releasing funds to the partners based on the utilization statement and achievement of milestones

- Audits, Income Tax assessment and FCRA returns and managing donor audits

- Creating monthly and quarterly financial statements for CEO and Trustee

- Updating the Trustees and other details in the Charity Commissioner office and FCRA Department

- Training and capacity building of the staff and partner organizations- - Vetting MoU’s, Agreements and contracts and analyzing financial and legal risk

- Oversee the procurements, facilities, and assets of the organization

- Investment of funds in the short term and long-term securities

Key Achievements:

- Supported Finance and accounts team of Partner Organizations in building capacity related to budget, statutory compliances, policies, processes and managing FCRA grants.

- Supported 3 partner organizations to construct new Eye Hospitals from scratch i.e purchase of land till the inauguration of the Hospital. Which included strategic support, funding, fundraising and regular guidance. The average cost of each Hospital was around INR 8 Crores

- Successfully completed due diligence of four CSR donors in getting INR 2 Crores per year and implemented monthly reporting format, which required financial and activity report on monthly basis with shorter deadline

- Independently completed 3 years income tax assessment scrutiny with nil recovery

UnLtd India: It is a launchpad for passionate individuals whose ideas can translate into long-term solutions for India’s socio- economic problems, it finds, supports and grow early – stage social entrepreneurs who can build high impact organizations and grow as catalysts for social changes.

Major Responsibilities:

-Managing the accounts, finance, and statutory compliances

-Preparing annual budget, monitoring budget utilization and cash flow

-Approval of expenses and finalization of accounts and presenting in the board meeting

-Releasing funds to the startup based on the utilization statement

-Audits, Income Tax assessment and FCRA returns

-Creating monthly and quarterly financial statements for CEO and Directors

-Vetting MoU’s, Legal agreements and contracts and analyzing financial and legal risk

-Coordination with donors for releasing the funds and submission of reports

-Training and capacity building of the staff and social entrepreneurs

Key Achievements:

-Supported startup Social entrepreneurs in managing their accounts, finance, and legal compliances

-Created a reporting format for the startup organization to report back for the seed money utilization

-Support for the 12A registration process, which was rejected by the Income Tax department three times in a row. Stating that it is a commercial entity. (12A is a tax exemption certificate in India)

-Successfully registered the entity under the FCRA Act to get foreign donations.

-Created an financial model by which cost of supporting per social entrepreneur was tracked at three levels and this model was used for fund raising purpose