Vishal Singhal

• Led monthly and annual financial closings, and prepared accurate financial statements in line with applicable accounting standards.
• Managed statutory audit, internal audit, tax audit (Form 10B), and ITR filing end-to-end, ensuring timely completion with minimal observations, while maintaining complete FCRA compliance, including annual returns and audit documentation.
• Oversaw financial governance for donor-funded projects, including payment processing, fund utilization tracking, milestone monitoring, donor reporting, and submission of Utilization Certificates and financial progress reports, as per donor and regulatory requirements.
• Conducted financial due diligence, expenditure validation, and documentation verification to enhance transparency, strengthen internal controls, and maintain audit readiness across programs and operations.
• Drafted, reviewed, and managed Supply Chain Management (SCM) contracts, MoUs, and operational agreements, ensuring alignment with statutory requirements, compliance frameworks, and organizational policies.
• Led organization-wide statutory compliance covering GST, TDS, FCRA, and regulatory filings, and coordinated school audits, including compliance checks, physical verifications, and management reporting for corrective actions.

Key Impact: Strengthened compliance discipline, reduced audit gaps, and improved reporting efficiency through process standardization, and enhanced financial governance mechanisms.

• Led the end-to-end land acquisition strategy for a new university campus, including negotiations with farmers, brokers, and government authorities, successfully aggregating approximately 45 acres.
• Conducted extensive 30–45-year title and land record due diligence, and managed complete transaction execution, including Agreement to Sale, Sale Deeds, Stamp Duty compliance, and registration, ensuring a 100% clean title transfer.
• Spearheaded the University License Application process, including the preparation and submission of the Detailed Project Report (DPR) in alignment with state regulations and education policy requirements.
• Established financial governance systems for the new site, covering budgeting, procurement controls, vendor management, and operational finance processes, ensuring transparency and compliance.
• Improved financial reporting accuracy and timeliness by streamlining accounting workflows, implementing automation tools, designing dashboards, and developing financial models for strategic planning and capital expenditure forecasting.
• Optimized liquidity, strengthened working capital, and enabled strategic decision-making through enhanced cash flow management and collaboration with legal, procurement, operations, and executive leadership teams.

Key Impact: Led and achieved critical institutional milestones-including university licensing and large-scale land acquisition-through strategic negotiation, regulatory coordination, and compliance excellence, enabling the organization to advance toward full campus development and long-term expansion.

• Managed end-to-end finance and accounting operations across multiple locations, with direct reporting to the founders, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely delivery of key financial outputs.
• Led monthly and annual financial closing, preparation of financial statements, and coordination of statutory, tax, FCRA, GST, and TDS audits and filings, ensuring full regulatory compliance.
• Developed and implemented financial controls, SOPs, and automation improvements across procurement, payroll, payments, asset management, and documentation workflows, strengthening governance and operational efficiency.
• Prepared annual budgets, monitored fund utilization, conducted monthly variance analysis, and delivered MIS dashboards and donor reporting, including Utilization Certificates, to support strategic decision-making.
• Implemented centralized procurement and fixed-asset management systems, optimized working capital, and enhanced documentation standards by training cross-functional teams on compliance and process discipline.
• Built financial models and long-term projections (5–10 year outlook) to support strategic growth planning, resource allocation, and organizational expansion decisions.

Key Impact: Improved financial visibility strengthened internal controls, and enhanced compliance discipline, resulting in greater operational efficiency, and improved audit outcomes.

• Prepared standalone and consolidated financial statements for clients across multiple industries in compliance with Ind AS requirements, including XBRL filing (AOC-4).
• Led and supported statutory, internal, and tax audits (Form 3CA/3CB/3CD), and performed fixed asset and stock verification across multi-location organizations, ensuring accuracy and control compliance.
• Conducted process and compliance audits, and provided recommendations to strengthen internal controls, while supporting clients with GST and income tax advisory and compliance implementation.