CA Kamal Kandhari

 Timely and accurate Management Reporting providing value added analysis with meaningful insights  Provide deep financial expertise in financial planning, budgeting, forecasting (PBF) and its variance analysis on timely basis  Proactive partnership and commercial acumen to drive growth in partnership with Business through modern, streamlined, and simplified planning and reporting activities  Create excellence by continuously implementing better processes by improvement, automation, standardization  Responsible for CASC APAC team development, skill upgrade, mentorship, and annual reviews

 Timely and accurate Management Reporting providing value added analysis with meaningful insights  Provide deep financial expertise in financial planning, budgeting, forecasting (PBF) and its variance analysis on timely basis  Proactive partnership and commercial acumen to drive growth in partnership with Business through modern, streamlined, and simplified planning and reporting activities  Create excellence by continuously implementing better processes by improvement, automation, standardization  Responsible for CASC SSEA team development, skill upgrade, mentorship, and annual reviews

 Statutory and Fiduciary compliances including statutory audit, internal audit, transfer pricing, direct and indirect taxation  Finalize the monthly books closure in compliance with US & Local GAAP  Designing and ensuring internal control framework including segregation of duties  Managing the cross-functions of Tax, Legal, CFR, Treasury, Trade structure finance  Risk Management -Insurance, counterparty, forex & commodity hedging- NCDEX, CBOT, MATIF, commodity position  Optimize the Gross Investment and Short-term debt utilization. Minimize the cost of funding i.e. Prepayments, PCFC, Buyers and Suppliers credit. Supportive in improvement of business key performance ratios i.e. DIO, DSO and DPO  Lead the Projects like :  IT system implementation- SAP, EKA, Power Query and Power BI  Management Report Optimization for APAC  GST business impact study and implementation for INR 3000 crore business PAN India  Outsourced the transactional load of the business to the Cargill business centre in Bangalore  Developed & implemented the mobility solution application for standardizing the commodity buying process  Strategic leader in SWOT analysis for Merger, demerger, and acquisition & related risks & opportunities

 Managed Accounts Receivable with ageing analysis & various MIS.  Handled all India promotions with companies like Heinz, Nestle etc  Prepared & presented the monthly cause of change from Annual operating plans  Central point of contact for all sales tax / VAT related queries  Exposure to SOX compliances

 Prepared profitability statement of 62 outlets and its variance Analysis  Ensured the compliance of financial statements with applicable Accounting Standards  Fund Management including its forecast & effective utilization  Planned, formulated and implemented Budget and Cost Controls  Debtor & vendor Management including the reconciliation of necessary accounts  Involved in the Financial viability of new projects-Ratio analysis, Trend analysis etc

 Responsible for preparation & presentation of Profitability statement, Balance sheet & MIS  Monitored corporate Taxation and Insurance Management  Assigned responsibility of liaison and coordination with Banks, Consultants and Auditors  Handled foreign remittances against Imports

Including CA Article ship  Managed book keeping & Income tax returns of Individuals, HUF and firms.  Audit of Banks (Oriental Bank of Commerce) and Cooperative societies.  Internal Audit of Construction company (Kohli Construction Pvt Ltd)

55th Rank in CA Final

B Com (H)