Veerendra Baligeri Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Helping global companies set up and manage Global Capability Centres (GCC'ss) in India. Manage and drive end-to-end functions including accounting, taxation, FP&A, legal, compliances under Direct & Indirect Taxes, Companies Act, Labour laws & FEMA. Automate payroll function, provide insights and dashboards for better control. Working with the global CFOs.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Bengaluru Area, India

• Front ended Finance, Tax and Legal due diligence, review of share purchase agreements, and was involved in negotiations of transaction which resulted in Sankalp getting acquired.
• Instrumental in getting Investment into the company. Worked with multiple Investment Bankers and underwent couple of Due Diligence activities.
• Played a key role in acquiring one of the business units of Interra Systems. Led due diligence.
• Worked on preparation of Scheme of amalgamation, application to NCLT and successful implementation of merger of two Indian entities as per NCLT’s order.
• Set up subsidiaries in India and overseas
• Rolled out new Phantom Stock Policy

Hubli Area, India

Bangalore

• Responsible for Accounting, Financial Statements, MIS, Statutory Compliance of 12 entities across the globe.
• Introduced OTC (Order to cash) Process.
• Cleaned up ‘Chart of Accounts’, ‘Cost Centers’ and introduced ‘Maker/checker’ concept for entries to be posted in books of accounts for all the entities.
• Identified the areas of revenue leakage and initiated the steps to control the leakage.
• Instrumental in building in-house FP&A Team of 14 team members (entire FP&A was outsourced)
• Successfully negotiated higher working capital (Fund Based + Non Fund Based) limits with

Bangalore

• Created a detailed Business Plan for the second half of FY 13.
• Introduced the process of MIS, Variance Analysis (Budget Vs. Actual) and helped management in identifying the areas for cost reduction and efficiency improvement.
• Negotiated with Bankers for increase in the limit of credit facility

• Took innovative measures at multiple instances to ease the cash flow.
• Successfully registered a Branch office in California, USA.
• Successfully negotiated a deal with financial institutions for a working capital requirement (first working capital facility for the company, while EBITDA was ‘-ve’)
• Created a detailed Business plan analyzing impact of various changes on profitability.
• Negotiated a deal with property consultants like JLLM, C&W, DTZ to work at “Zero” fee for the procurement of office space
• Cash management, working capital management, short term investments, foreign exchange rate negotiations; Handled accounts payable and vendor management

Bangalore

• Worked as Head, Accounts and Finance, iRunway India Pvt. Ltd, with an additional responsibility of managing Operations; and reports to CEO and COO of the company.
• Streamlined and setup the entire process of Accounting, MIS, Statutory Compliance, Working Capital Management and payroll.
• Handled Business plan, Preparation and finalization of Annual Accounts, Interaction with auditors, Transfer Pricing, STPI compliances, Company Law related activities.
• Pricing and costing for new projects

• Joined Span as an Accounts team person, and in a span of just 1 year was promoted as Head, Accounts and Finance. Over the last two years, management has also entrusted an additional responsibility of heading.
• As Manager, Finance:o Project Manager for Accounting and Financial due diligence carried out by KPMG and Kocharo Instrumental in streamlining the process of Accounting, MIS and payrollo Successfully negotiated a deal.

• Was the youngest partner of the firm, who was given an opportunity to be the face of the firm for the new clients
• Headed teams for internal audit, statutory audit and concurrent audit
• Designed and structured flow of accounts for newly established business organizations
• Processed Registrations under Various Acts for multiple clients.
• Interacted with Officers from departments like Commercial Tax, Income Tax & Registrar of Companies.

Icai, Accounts

B.Com, Accounts, Cost Accounting, Taxation