GAURAV VARU
Summary
Accomplished Assistant Vice President at Apex Fund Services, adept in people management and operations management, significantly enhanced team performance and client satisfaction. Skilled in issue resolution and building effective relationships, demonstrated through successful fund transitions and leadership contributions. Achieved a culture of high performance and quality service, leveraging both hard and soft skills.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant Vice President
Apex Fund Services
04.2023 - Current
- Handling Team of 7 members
- Established a high-performance culture within the team by setting clear expectations and providing regular feedback on individual performance contributions.
- Coordinating with onshore funds on regular basis and discussing various challenges and providing possible solutions.
- Reviewing tasks performed by team members like NAV review, Capital call working, Distribution working etc.
- Handling complex funds and delivering them on timely basis.
- Supervision of day to day operations to meet performance, quality & service expectation.
- Actively involved in transitioning of new funds and related activities from the Client.
- Attended weekly meetings and special sessions of Leadership and Executive Leadership Teams and contributed to major administrative initiatives, policies and decisions.
- Conducting team meeting and involved in allocation of work on daily basis and creating backups among the team members.
Manager Group Consolidation & FP&A
Genpact India Pvt. Ltd.
09.2019 - 03.2023
- Participating in preparation of Profit & Loss account at Group Consolidation level, Slides & Briefing book pages for external reposting, various check sheets to ensure there are no variances in any of the reports, other reports as and when required by Finance Manager.
- Independently handling and connecting with Finance Manager for Cash Flow forecasting.
- Updating actuals for relevant month.
- Resolving queries from market/auditors.
- Reviewing of all reports before releasing to client/external review.
- Compliance of SLA's and company policies without fail.
General Accounting Ops Senior Analyst -R2R
Accenture Services Pvt.Ltd
09.2017 - 09.2019
- Acted as team lead and supervised team of 4 members.
- Connected with Controllers and markets for weekly updates.
- Completed remote transition from Warsaw & Chester to India.
- Performed detailed analysis aged PO's on monthly basis.
- Managed work load priorities independently.
- Executed miscellaneous reclassification,adjustments & write offs
- Evaluated processes and controls for effective operation and recommending & implementing improvement.
- Maintained GL related master data (Accounts, Cost Centers creation & changes)
- Allocated work among the team members and monitored the status.
- Reviewed reconciliations of various Sub Ledger and General Ledger.
- Prepared monthly report analysis for audit queries.
- Verified bank entries performed by various departments and communicating with concerned department for transactions which are not posted within time.
Assistant Manager - Internal Audit
Jayaswal Neco Industries : Raipur
10.2014 - 08.2017
- Reported financial leakages-penalties,additional interest, demurrage & punitive charges.
- Reviewed findings of internal audit assessment and ensured adequate action plan to overcome short comings.
- Verified statutory registers maintained by HR department and other activities of HR department.
- Conducted Physical Audit of raw materials, finished goods, stores & consumables items on regular basis.
- Executed pre auditing & passing of purchase bills, cash bills & journal vouchers etc. as per company policy & financial norms.
- Analyzed debit balance of creditors age wise on monthly basis, ageing of staff advances, recovery period & confirmation procedures.
Accounts Executive
Indian Broiler Group
07.2013 - 09.2014
- Conducted thorough account reconciliations, promptly resolving any discrepancies or irregularities identified during the process.
Audit/Account Staff
B.P. Waghela & Co.
08.2008 - 06.2013
Education
Bachelor of Commerce - Accountancy
Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University : Raipur
Raipur01-2008
Skills
- People management
- Issue resolution skills
- Effective relationship building
- Operations management
- Critical thinking
- Decision making
- Oracle PBCS
- Oracle Reporting (BIRDS)
- SAP
- Cadency
- Paxus
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Accomplishments
- Got client appreciation for handling market independently.
- Received Encore award from Supervisor.
- Received Star performer award in Genpact.
- Achieved All India 49th Rank in CA PCC exam conducted by ICAI.
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Gujarati
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Timeline
Assistant Vice President
Apex Fund Services
04.2023 - Current
Manager Group Consolidation & FP&A
Genpact India Pvt. Ltd.
09.2019 - 03.2023
General Accounting Ops Senior Analyst -R2R
Accenture Services Pvt.Ltd
09.2017 - 09.2019
Assistant Manager - Internal Audit
Jayaswal Neco Industries : Raipur
10.2014 - 08.2017
Accounts Executive
Indian Broiler Group
07.2013 - 09.2014
Audit/Account Staff
B.P. Waghela & Co.
08.2008 - 06.2013
Bachelor of Commerce - Accountancy
Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University : Raipur
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