Shradha Agarwal

Team Management

• Established the Financial Transactions Transfer Pricing sub-service line within the broader TP group;
• FTTP expertise and capability building from a 1-member team to 7-member team in a span of 2 years;
• Developed operational plans for working with various member firms including US, UK, Middle East, Singapore, and Germany;
• Trained a new team on Financial Transactions Transfer Pricing and established a training curriculum and training videos for smoother onboarding on the team;
• Developed Improvement plans for the team and planned transition from basic to complex engagements including Audit and Advisory support;
• Responsible for goal setting and performance management of the FTTP team.

Technical Expertise

• Managed and delivered complex and varied cross-border tax and transfer pricing advice as part of a dedicated financing and treasury tax team;
• Project managing and supporting all aspects of work from the development of transfer pricing policies, through to documentation and audit defense;
• Reviewing and where needed undertaking comparability and economic analyses;
• Reviewing and where needed, preparing transfer pricing documentation;
• Working with Partners and Directors in the US offices to build client relationships and interact with clients;
• Mentoring junior members of the team, playing an active role in their development;
• Working with KPMG member firms across the globe on international projects;
• Developed automated loan pricing models and credit rating analysis models across industries using VBA;
• Worked on more than 400 clients for FTTP engagements in a span of 2 years.

• Managing a team that was aligned to the on-shore UK-Financial Services Office as full-time equivalent resources;
• Liaising with on-shore office for managing workflow and resource allocation, understanding team skill-set and resource mapping;
• Working on multiple engagements across the financial services sector and specializing in financial transactions;
• Worked on projects involving setting up of treasury centers in the UK;
• Pricing a variety of intra-group funding arrangements such as shareholder loans, cash pools, guarantees, debt options, financing returns, netting center remuneration, trade balances etc. whilst also assisting with various aspects of debt capacity analysis;
• Supported the on-shore team with technical analysis and supporting rationale for various tax-audits;
• Worked on various sector-specific international transactions including ECM/DCM analysis, pricing of MREL and AT1 Capital for banks, various economic analysis and benchmarking studies for banks and insurance companies, including cost allocation models, and revenue/profit sharing models;
• Assisted in and conducted functional interviews for clients in the financial technology sector - drafted full FAR analyses based on the functional interviews;
• Managed and lead large global documentation engagements for financial services clients;
• Experienced in drafting OECD compliant and country-specific transfer pricing documentation, including specific HMRC guidelines on financial transactions transfer pricing.

• Global Financial Services and Treasury - Worked with various EY on-shore offices (including US, UK, Singapore, Malaysia, KSA, Spain, Luxembourg) on financial transactions and financial services transfer pricing.

• Specialization: Transfer pricing in financial transactions; Working on global assignments including Finance Risk and Economic Analyses; Debt Pricing analysis; Credit Rating Model building and analyses (Knowledge of Moody's Rating Methodologies and S&P's methodologies); Guarantee Fee analysis, Cash Pool Analysis, Debt Capacity Analysis, Thin Capitalization Analysis, Debt Mapping, and Advanced Pricing Agreements (APAs)
• Part of Deloitte's knowledge management team working on the Global Transfer Pricing BEPS Matrix (available on the public domain) pertaining to documentation with respect to OECD's BEPS Action 13 guidelines and implementation.

• Subject matter expert for Fundamental Data Quality for Bloomberg - financial data and associated testing practices;
• Responsible for maintaining data quality of equity fundamentals data on the Bloomberg terminal;
• Worked with the Technology team in the US for suggesting and maintaining self-sustaining validations within the data creation process to ensure product quality;
• Actively engaged in testing activities.

Worked with the Global Information Reporting team for US Corporate Tax practice.

• Economic research analysis - prepared a thesis on "Foreign Direct Investment and its impact on the Indian economy" - used the thesis to complete Master's degree in Business Administration;
• Studied various aspects of International Trade, World Trade Organization policies and World Intellectual Property Organization and the IP environment in India and across the globe.

Responsible for conducting discreet audits on the field to understand customer requirements and degree of satisfaction alongside seller behaviour.