Jayati Gupta (Aca) Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

• Oversee financial operations, including financial reporting resolving technical accounting issues.• Providing reporting consultancy in compliance with US GAAP and IFRS to clients with turnover over $50Mn.• Conduct financial audits for listed clients in London, U.S. as per regulatory requirements.• Assess statutory and regulatory compliance including SOX, FCA, ICAAP, ensuring adherence to financial regulations.• Manage a team of 10 professionals from shared service Centre (SSC) in Bangladesh.• Ensured compliance with internal controls to enhance financial accuracy and integrity.• Engaged in planning, walkthrough, risk measure, data analysis, fieldwork, findings and VAT reports preparation.• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize financial performance and efficiency.

London Area, United Kingdom

• Provided monthly business and financial insightful analysis to the senior VP of operation business segment of APAC for the performance of cocoa factories based in Indonesia and Singapore.• Prepared annual and quarterly budgets, cost variance analysis, inter-company transfer pricing and explore profit growth opportunities.• Ideated and initiated automation of dashboard for fair valuation accounting by leveraging technology resulted in man hours saving of 20%.• Comprehend cocoa hedging mechanism through commodity futures in London and New York ICE markets.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams like commercial, supply chain, internal audit to support strategic decision-making.• Developed accounting system elements and internal controls, identifying problem areas and developing solutions to set-up and improve sustainability accounting, reporting and analysis.• Managed treasury function- working capital loans, sale of forex, import finance facility, term loans and liaising with banks.

Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria

• Review financials at group level (including JVs with blue chip partners financials: Kellogg, Colgate & Arla)-pan-Africa. Direct reporting to the Group CFO • Consolidation of Financial statements & preparation of MIS reports, Treasury reports and presenting group wide financials (Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory coast, Egypt, South Africa, Eswatini and Kenya) to shareholders • Consolidation & presentation of annual operating plan (Budgets) & Five-Year strategic plan (Strat Plan) for the group to shareholders • Restructuring the debt of the company based on different interest rates provided by the banks to obtain the lowest weighted average cost of capital. Reduced the borrowing cost of the group to single digit % by restructuring the debt • Evaluating new business/investment opportunities for the group in Nigeria as well as other parts of Africa & accessing purchase consideration/business valuation of various companies and suggesting management with the opinion of doing JV/Investment• Preparation of monthly MIS (Flash and MOR) reports, formulating budgets to maintain 20%+ CAGR for the business and conducting variance analysis • Managing overall Treasury- Liaising with banks for facilities like import finance, overdraft, term Loans • Analysis of detailed product costing, cost savings and reduction plan, working capital management, ratio analysis & cash flow analysis • Review compliance to the accounting systems & procedures in place, preparation of audited financial statements with Deloitte, Nigeria

Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

• Performing monthly books closure and MIS reports, formulating annual business plan and monthly forecasts for production costs. • Deep diving on cost components and working on cost controlling and reduction initiatives for key performance indicators (KPI) for mining blocks and equipment.• Active Participation in negotiation with commercial team for vendor selection, pricing, due diligence, finalizing deals and documentation thereof. • Capex Monitoring and control, working capital analysis and requirements. • Key achievements: • Rewarded for analyzing high cost mining equipment. • Automated financial performance dashboard for one of the aluminum plant in Jharsuguda, India.

Varanasi Area, India

• Statutory and Internal Audits in different domains of industries like manufacturing, trading concerns, charitable trusts. • Direct Taxation-submissions to income tax department for notices under search & seizure cases, scrutiny cases.

Master In Global Finance, Finance And Financial Management Services, 80%

CFA accreditation (80% CFA Level 1 & 2 curriculum)

Chartered Accountant, All India Rank 34

Ifrs Diploma, Accounting And Finance

B.Com, Business/Commerce, General, A

Intermediate, Commerce, A+