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Industrial Trainee Corporate and Workplace Solutions Division (CWS)Period of Training:October 2020 to October 2021Experience Gained:>Worked as an integral part of Global Travel and Expense management team managing expense heads over 80 million USD during the period served.>Checking compliance of submitted expenses with company’s T&E policies, verifying documentations, appropriate approvals to support disbursements outside company policies.>Directly involved in implementation of Appzen A.I. into the firm’s system of expense management.>Monitoring the A.I. and conducting performance reviews of the system to suggest improvements, identifying lapses to increase overall efficiency of the work, assigning criteria for risks.>Daily audit of exceptions – Audit of High risk reports on the basis of assigned criteria.>Sample audit of Medium risk reports at monthly intervals to analyze trends and patterns, abnormal behavior and assessing the requirement of potential rule changes and policy changes required.>Prepared quarterly governance reports and presentations for leadership teams to present data and metrics in a summarized form for enabling performance reviews.>Prepared ROI Tracker – Tracking of savings derived through implementation of the tool and effect of changes made therein on the basis of previous findings.>Coordinating with Anti-bribery group and managers of different divisions of the organization.>Process training and management of the other staff associated with the process for ensuring smooth transition of work at the period end and drafted SOPs.>Gained working knowledge of software such as SAP Concur, Appzen A.I., Qlik Sense Extra:> Worked as a CA Interns Coordinator at Goldman Sachs for a period of 8 months to organize and conduct guest sessions, knowledge sharing and studies sessions, formal and informal team building sessions. Interacting with other employees, interns and Managing Directors of the company.

S.K. Bajpai & Co.Chartered Accountants, AgraAbout the Firm: S.K. Bajpai & Co. is one of the oldest and biggest firms in Agra having operations in multiple cities across north India.It is a leading Chartered Accountancy firm rendering comprehensive professional services which include audits, management consultancy, tax consultancy, accounting services, litigation and secretarial services.Period of Training: August 2018 - October 2020Experience Gained:>Team member in successfully conducted Internal Audit assignments in entities like Northern Coalfields Limited (Assets/Stock Verification).>Experienced as a team member as well as a team leader in Concurrent Audit assignments of various banks such as Union Bank of India having aggregate advances of more than Rs. 600 Crores at branch level.>Handled areas of NPA provisioning, verification of loan documentation, cash verification, physical verification of stock and checking accuracy of drawing power on the basis of Stock/Book debts.>Team member in successfully conducted Statutory audit assignment of State Bank of India.>Conducted GST registrations and GST audit of individuals and proprietorship firms including preparation of monthly/annual returns having turnover exceeding Rs. 20 Crores.>Carried out Tax Audit of various entities being manufacturers, traders or exporters with a combined turnover of over Rs. 300 Crores.>Filing of Income tax returns and monthly/annual GST Returns of various corporate and non-corporate clients including TDS compliances.>Handled Income tax notices, preparation and filing of income tax appeals.>Analysis of financial position of clients through financial statements, financial ratios, etc.>Preparation of project report, assessing the financial needs of the clients and computing their bank financing limits as per banking norms.>Preparation of projected financial statements keeping in view the current financial position and the future business goals of the clients.