Hari Kishore

During my role as CFO at Kothari Industrial Corporation Limited, I lead financial operations across multiple verticals, including Footwear Manufacturing, Drone Technology, QSR/Restaurants, and Fertilizer Production. I provide strategic financial leadership, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives and Board reporting requirements. My focus is on enhancing profitability through advanced budgeting, forecasting, and financial analytics, while also implementing robust risk management frameworks. I direct accurate financial reporting under IFRS, IGAAP, and UKGAAP, ensuring compliance across cross-border operations. Achievements: I have successfully reduced the working capital cycle, automated financial consolidation, and implemented international tax planning strategies that have significantly improved post-tax profitability. Additionally, I have managed a 22-member finance team, optimizing workflows through ERP implementation and achieving a 70% reduction in turnaround time for financial processes.

During my tenure at FE Fundinfo, I led financial reporting and consolidation for entities across multiple countries, ensuring compliance with IFRS and local GAAPs. I directed global finance operations, streamlining workflows in Treasury, Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay, and Tax. I designed and implemented group-wide budgeting frameworks and spearheaded transfer pricing policy implementation, managing documentation and audit defense. My role involved championing financial transformation initiatives that improved reporting accuracy and resource utilization. Achievements: I successfully integrated automation into financial processes, achieving a 99% accuracy rate in reporting and compliance deliverables. My leadership resulted in enhanced month-end close efficiency and significant improvements in financial operations across the organization.

Responsible for overseeing and managing financial operations, including budgeting, financial reporting, and analysis. They provide leadership to the finance team, set financial goals and priorities, ensure compliance with accounting standards and regulations, and make strategic financial decisions. Additionally, they are involved in financial planning, forecasting, and cost control, and they communicate financial insights to senior management to support informed decision-making and the financial health of the organization.

Supporting the Team Leader in managing the accounts team, reconciling financial accounts, preparing financial reports, providing leadership in the Team Leader's absence, facilitating team training and development, ensuring compliance with financial regulations and internal policies, and contributing to process improvements while maintaining effective communication and data management within the team.

Responsible for planning and executing audits of real estate transactions, conducting financial analysis, ensuring compliance with industry regulations and company policies, assessing risks, improving processes, and providing recommendations to enhance property management and financial practices. They collaborate with cross-functional teams, communicate findings to senior management, and mentor junior staff while contributing to due diligence processes and internal control evaluations, ultimately safeguarding the company's real estate assets and financial integrity.

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Completed Foundations of Business Strategy from University of Virginia, gaining a strong understanding of how firms create, sustain, and defend competitive advantage. The course covered core strategic concepts including industry analysis, competitive positioning, value creation, cost leadership vs differentiation, business models, and long-term strategic decision-making. Focused on applying strategic frameworks to real-world business scenarios to evaluate market dynamics, firm performance, and strategic trade-offs across industries.

Financial Reporting, Taxation and Financial Management