Experience

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  Forbes Audit and Accounting Limited

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Audit Manager

    • Nov 2023 - Present
    • Auckland, New Zealand

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  UHY Haines Norton (Auckland) Ltd

  • New Zealand
  • Accounting
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Supervising Senior Auditor

    • Apr 2022 - Nov 2023

  • Senior Auditor

    • Feb 2019 - Mar 2022

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  DFK Oswin Griffiths Carlton

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Assistant Accountant

    • Jan 2018 - Feb 2019
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    •Preparation of financial accounts and tax returns for individuals, companies, trust and partnership together with the statutory documents as per New Zealand tax legislation, accounting framework and standards;•Involved in the preparation of quarterly management accounts of a Not-For-Profit entity as per reporting requirements set out in the Charities Act 2005 (the Act) and accounting standards issuedby the External Reporting Board (XRB);•Preparation of relevant work papers while attending to the preparation of financial and management accounts;•Liaise with the Inland Revenue Department in relation to the client's accounting and taxation issues;•Provides support to the client on various issues relating to computer-based accounting systems, and help in the introduction of new accounting system;•Preparation of periodic GST, PAYE, and RWT returns;•Involved in the processing of payroll in IIPAY on a monthly basis•Attending to an analytical review of all income and expenses while preparing financials of individuals, companies, trust and partnership.•Attending to the companies’ office matters like Company incorporation, restoration, annual returns; GST and Employee registration, IRD number for the resident as well as overseas client etc.•Involved in the preparation of the statutory documents on behalf of clients which are required for attending company office matters as per the regulations specified in the Companies Act, 1993.

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  KPMG India

  • India
  • Business Consulting and Services
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Audit Senior

    • Apr 2017 - Jul 2017

    Reporting on Company’s Internal Controls• Preparation of detailed process flow and Identify organization's internal controls and risk associated with the Companies internal processes;• Test the design and implementation of internal controls by carrying out a walk-through and;• Conducting gap analysis, assess scope of studies and suggest solutions.Preparation of Company’s Financial Statement and Notes to the Accounts • Supervised audits and reviews of the financials of manufacturing and service sectors;• Collecting financial data and analyzing trends through Charts, Pivot table, VLOOKUP, ratios;• Responsible for all aspects of the engagement including budgeting, engagement formalities, finalization of deliverables, billing and completion of the engagements;• Understand and utilize KPMG audit methodology, E-audit (tool) for documenting audit procedure;• Determine and recommend accounting policies and ensure appropriate recording of transactions by the client (IGAAP, Interim Audit);• Prepare notes to the accounts, schedules and cash flow statements along with the supporting;• Preparing reports for senior management and audit committees highlighting key issues with their impact and suggest recommendations; • Support major transactions by identifying and addressing financial/accounting issue and opportunities;• Dealt with technical issues on critical audit areas like deferred taxes, impairment of assets, revenue recognition, valuation of inventory, year-end accruals, provisions etc.; • Prepare and analyze debtor’s and creditor’s ageing and enquired for long pending dues and;• Bank reconciliation and trace the balance with the direct bank confirmations.Taxation• Preparation of Income tax computation with the supporting evidence; • Performed reconciliation of balance with the Government authorities and;• Preparation and filing of Income tax return and tax audit report.

  • Audit Executive

    • Jan 2015 - Apr 2017

    • Collecting financial data and analyzing trends.• Preparation of audit plan and ensure completion of the same within the time.• Verifying compliance with company controls with established policies of various processes like Fixed Assets, Inventory, Payroll, Revenue etc.• Testing the design and effectiveness of internal controls by completing walk-through of complex business processes and analyzing results.• Identifying gaps in the controls and make a potential recommendation.• Ensuring applicability of accounting and auditing standards on various account balances and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.• Compiling report of audits results highlighting key issues to senior managers.• Drafting audit reports for review by senior managers.• Worked independently as well as with team from initiation of the engagement until sign off of the financial statements (IGAAP, Interim Audit).• Dealt with technical issues on critical audit areas like deferred taxes, impairment of assets, revenue recognition, valuation of inventory, public deposits, ECB etc.• Monitoring execution of audit engagement with agreed budget and deadlines and billing and collecting audit fees on time.• Establishing client relationship, responding to their queries, adding value by demonstrating a deep understanding of client operations.• Ensuring proper documentation of audit work and timely archive of the audit file.

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  Khanna & Annadhanam

  • New Delhi Area, India

  • CA Intern

    • Dec 2010 - Dec 2013
    • New Delhi Area, India

    • Monitoring execution of audit engagement with agreed budget and deadlines and billing and collecting audit fees on time.• Establishing client relationship, responding to their queries, adding value by demonstrating a deep understanding of client operations.• Preparation of Audit Plan and ensure completion of the same within the time.• Scrutiny of ledgers.• Analysis of revenue booking system.• Analysis of debtors and creditors-ageing, recovery period balance confirmation procedures etc.• Verification of fixed assets, inventory and investments.• Analysis of stock and stores – identification procedures for slow moving, non-moving and obsolete items, analysis of purchase procedure.• Preparation and review of various reconciliation statement e.g. BRS, Stock Count etc.• Preparation & finalization of audit deliverables.• Filing of Tax Audit• Filing of Income Tax Return