Unnati Mathur

Lead cross-functional teams in executing compliance, finance, legal, and operational functions. Oversee task allocation, resolve conflicts, and optimize team performance to ensure accuracy, efficiency, and adherence to regulatory standards.

• Coordinated with external consultants to obtain and maintain multi-state GST registrations, ensuring consistent and full statutory compliance.
• Ensured timely and accurate filing of GST returns, monitored compliance deadlines, and implemented corrective actions to resolve discrepancies.
• Conducted thorough verification of accounting records—including sales, purchases, and journal vouchers—to ensure compliance with statutory regulations and internal controls.
• Reviewed tender documents to confirm alignment with applicable legal, regulatory, and organizational standards.
• Monitored organizational adherence to government-issued work orders, ensuring full compliance with contractual and operational requirements.
• Led ISO certification efforts through NABCB-accredited agencies, coordinating documentation and ensuring compliance with international quality and process standards.
• Acted as primary liaison with legal counsel, managing litigation-related communications and ensuring regulatory compliance in all legal matters.
• Drafted and submitted accurate, timely responses to clarification notices from State Government departments, maintaining professionalism and alignment with legal standards.
• Reviewed and approved employee expense claims, ensuring adherence to internal financial policies and reimbursement procedures.
• Supervised the creation and tracking of sales orders within the ERP system, ensuring procedural integrity and workflow compliance.
• Oversaw the submission of invoices to relevant government departments, ensuring accuracy and adherence to financial protocols and deadlines.
• Managed employee onboarding processes, including the preparation of appointment letters in compliance with labor laws and organizational policies.
• Supervised payroll operations, ensuring accurate calculation of salaries and overtime payments in line with labor regulations and internal compensation frameworks.
• Maintained detailed and accurate employee attendance records to support HR policy compliance and audit readiness.
• Strategically delegated responsibilities across team members to improve operational efficiency and ensure effective resource utilization.
• Proactively addressed interpersonal and workflow-related conflicts, fostering a collaborative, compliant, and high-performance team environment.

Ensuring compliance with various tax statutes primarily working in the direct tax domain and intermittently supporting the Indirect tax team.

Direct Tax - As a direct tax executive I reported to Senior Manager Taxation where I managed a two-member team and my responsibilities included:

Tax Advice and liaise with Auditors

• Keeping up to date with various amendments, notifications, circulars issued by tax authorities & ensuring that business (i.e various stakeholders and accounting software) is in compliance with the changes;
• Advise business stakeholders on tax implications on various business transactions;
• Liaising with External Auditors to ensure smooth Tax and Transfer Pricing Audit;
• Resolving auditor's queries related to matters involving taxation;

Review and Filing of tax returns and responses

• Review and filing of the tax return in compliance with Income Tax Act;
• Review and filing of responses to various notices received from the Income Tax department in respect of scrutiny assessment and appeals;
• Filing forms for complying with provisions of CbCR;
• Review and filing of an application for lower withholding u/s 197 of the Income Tax Act;

Preparation of reports and other compliances

• Preparation of Segmental Profit & Loss for the purpose of Transfer Pricing study;
• Preparation and filing of the transfer pricing report in Form 3CEB;
• Preparation and filing of tax audit report in Form 3CD;
• Computing TDS and TCS on a monthly basis & ensuring timely remittance to the Government;
• Reconciliation of Tax Ledgers.

Indirect Tax

• Preparation and filing of GST Returns;
• Orchestrated tax reports implementation in accounting software to align with actual tax return format;
• Communicated changes required in the accounting software to the developer basis tax amendments & performed UAT on the changes.

Team management

• Day to day team management & conflict resolution
• Act like a buddy and support new joiners to ensure smooth onboarding to the team
• Mentoring and providing continuous on the job and ad-hoc training to the team members
• Conducting annual team appraisal and providing feedback to the employees and to Senior management

Accounting

• Preparation of Balance Sheet and Statement of Profit and Loss as per provisions of Companies Act;
• Finalizing Books of Accounts and ensuring compliance with applicable Accounting Standards;

Statutory and Tax Audit

• Independently handling statutory audit and tax audit assignments;
• Helped various clients lay down accounting procedures and internal control systems which led to better results and enhanced presentation of their Financial Statements.

Bank Audit

• Conducted Concurrent Audit of branches of Nainital Bank Ltd.

Direct Tax

• Assisted in preparation of replies for the Scrutiny Assessments & Appeals of various categories of the assessee;
• Finalization & filing of TDS and Income Tax returns;
• Actively involved in forming replies for notices received from the Tax Department in connection with TDS, Penalties, Demands, etc.

Indirect Tax

Handled matters such as calculation of service tax liability and filing of service tax returns of Schneider Electric India Pvt. Ltd.

Other Statutory & Regulatory Compliance

Compiling and filing of various forms required to be filed with the ROC under the Companies Act.