Venkatesh Kumar Maale
Bengaluru
Summary
Result-driven Chartered Accountant with more than 5 years of professional experience, including 2.5 years of extensive Financial Due Diligence (FDD) experience at Deloitte and 2.5 years in Audit at EY network firm. Currently serving as a Manager (accelerated promotion in July 2024 at Deloitte FDD), specializing in financial due diligence and transaction advisory services. Proficient in managing end-to-end due diligence processes, providing critical insights for clients in high-stakes transactions. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams, maintaining strong client relationships, and delivering impactful, data-driven analysis.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager - M&A
Deloitte
Bengaluru
10.2022 - Current
- Led Financial Due Diligence for sector-agnostic companies across fintech, SaaS, e-commerce, hospitality, and ed-tech, analyzing historical performance, working capital, and key business drivers of companies valued up to and more than $500 million.
- Performed detailed analysis of financial statements and identify critical risks, opportunities, and synergies related to transactions.
- Interpret and evaluated operational and financial trends of target companies along with evaluating earnings quality as well as quality of net assets evaluation. Evaluated multiple companies focusing on revenue models, customer cohorts and unit economics.
- Managed associate team members, ensuring quality deliverables and adherence to timelines.
- Collaborated with clients, tax and legal teams, and advisors to prepare comprehensive due diligence reports, providing strategic insights, identify risks and integration considerations.
- Assisted clients and their strategy teams in evaluating strategic fit and potential synergies by analyzing financial and operational data of targets in consumer tech and digital sectors.
- Supported market-entry and inorganic growth assessments by providing financial benchmarks, historical trends, and red-flag insights during due diligence.
- Awarded Move the Dot for leading the high-pressure due diligence project and exceeding client expectations.
- Received Live the Dot for simplifying due diligence processes and saving significant project time through innovative solutions.
- Assisted in the Tech Fast 50 Programme, collaborating with the judging panel to evaluate and rank the top 50 fastest-growing technology companies. Analyzed financials, growth trends contributing valuable insights to the judges' decision-making process.
Assistant Manager
S.R. Batliboi & Associates LLP (affiliate of EY)
Bengaluru
02.2020 - 10.2022
- Statutory Audit and Tax Audit of Amazon India (E-Commerce) and Intel India (Information Technology)
- Review of Ind AS Financial Statements including disclosures.
- Presenting Audit Reports clearly highlighting key audit recommendations to management.
- Performing analytical and substantive procedures in the areas of leases, capex, operating expenses, borrowings etc.
- Analyzing internal controls over financial reporting and assessing the risk of material weakness, fraud.
- Review of RCM, flow charts of processes and preparation of process notes.
- Performed walk throughs on ICFR processes to identify gaps in internal controls.
- Analyzed the impact and disclosure regarding transition of Leases from Ind AS 17 to Ind AS 116 of Amazon India entities.
- Led the team to effectively audit the consolidation being applicable for the first time in Intel India and business sale, combination transactions happened during the year winning 'Kudos Award'.
Article Assistant
NSVM & Associates
Bengaluru
02.2017 - 02.2020
- Worked on Audit Engagements for wide variety of Industries, including Manufacturing, Real Estate, Charitable Trusts and Human Resources.
- Preparation of Consolidated and Standalone financials under Ind AS and AS.
- Led team of 6 Article Assistants by prioritizing tasks and assigning duties in performing Statutory Audit of a listed company (Bal Pharma Limited).
- Managed accounting, tax and audit work for more than 10 Real Estate Companies including Embassy Group, Radiant Group.
- Assisted in Scrutiny Assessments and Raid Assessments of big corporate clients such as Embassy Group, SRS Travels and high net worth Individuals.
- Prepared Working Papers, Supporting Documentation and filed more than 100 Income Tax Returns of various assessees including Individuals, Partnership Firms.
- Advisory for Tax Issues on Foreign Remittances with regard to the levy and recovery of tax in case of Non-Residents, filing of Form 15CA and 15CB.
- Honored with Sherlock Homes Award for exceptional analytical skills and identifying crucial audit findings.
Education
Chartered Accountancy -
ICAI
01-2019
Intermediate in Commerce - Mathematics
Sri Chaitanya Children's Academy
01-2015
SSC -
Mother India High School
01-2013
Skills
- Artificial Intelligence Tools (completed Deloitte AI Expert Bootcamp associated with Great Learning)
- Financial Analysis and Management
- KPI Trends analysis
- Scenario modeling support
- Advanced excel and Power BI (basic)
- Data-driven Decision Making
- Power pivots
- Cash flow and working capital analysis
- Public Speaking
- Financial Reporting
- Problem Solving
- Project Management
- Client Relationship Management
Accomplishments
- Featured as a speaker in Josh Talks Telugu - 2024
- Guest Speaker for a Webinar on Investing - 2021
- Best Student Speaker in ICAI Students Conference, Bengaluru - 2018
- First Prize in Elocution by ICSI, Bengaluru - 2018
- First Prize in Debate Competition by ICSI, Bengaluru - 2018
- Best Student Award in my 12th Standard - 2015
- First Prize in Elocution by Rotary Club - 2015
Hobbies and Interests
- Fintech
- Artificial Intelligence
- Block Chain Technology
- Event Organizing
- Technocrat
- Volunteering & NGOs
- Stock Markets
- Mutual Funds and Investments
Languages
- Telugu
- English
- Hindi
- Kannada
Leadership And Volunteer Experience
- Co-Founder and Board Member of Onway Association, a non-profit group
- Acted as School People Leader in my 10th Standard
- Elected as Leader of the Volunteers' Group mentoring over 25 Volunteers and serving over 1000 school students in my 9th Standard
- Part time tutor of Mathematics and Science and taught over 100 students in my 10th to 12th Standards.
Affiliations
- Tutored more than 100 students till my CA Final.
- Ex-Co-founder of chartiable organisation managing day to day operations of our Association, planning new events.
- Leader of volunteers at high school.
Languages
Telugu
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Kannada
Beginner
A1
Timeline
Manager - M&A
Deloitte
10.2022 - Current
Assistant Manager
S.R. Batliboi & Associates LLP (affiliate of EY)
02.2020 - 10.2022
Article Assistant
NSVM & Associates
02.2017 - 02.2020
Chartered Accountancy -
ICAI
Intermediate in Commerce - Mathematics
Sri Chaitanya Children's Academy
SSC -
Mother India High School
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