Viswanath Ganapathy Email & Phone Number

Trusted Finance and Accounting leader with over 20 years of diversified progressive experience blending strategic insights and technical acumen with transformative leadership skills. Collaborative interpersonal approach backed by prudent judgement and commercial reasoning for driving solutions. Comprehensive understanding and involvement in the businesses have established my highly successful track record of working with and developing startupsWork experience includes significant construction, manufacturing, distribution, financial technology and services and hospitality services sectorsCore competencies :Setup and management of finance, accounting, planning, execution, analysis, direct and indirect taxes and corporate secretarial functions in standalone and group environmentsFinancial modelling, due diligence, financing options for projects and companies, sale of business, mergers, acquisitions, preparation of business cases, data room creation, financial due diligence and feasibility studies, VC and PE funding.Project planning, costing, evaluation and tendering process. product costing and pricing, budgeting, bid support, risk assessment, claims management. Good understanding of price structure, cost structure and cash driversFunded and non funded bank facilities, treasury functions. Investment accounting, valuation, risk management, statutory and internal reporting, benefits management, portfolio analyticsCorporate Secretarial, Audit and Risk committees, Board of Directors and Shareholders/Investors. Annual audit planning; Continuous monitoring; Conduct Risk and Controls exercise; Proactive findings tracking and remediation; Influencing executive stakeholders and policy making. Career long interaction with Big 4 firms.Leadership development and mentoring; consensus and team building. Implementation of ERPsDirect and indirect taxes in India, ROC, RBI, SEBI, IRDA, GST and such regulatory authorities interaction, compliance and resolution.

Listed skills include Financial Analysis, Auditing, Financial Modeling, Financial Reporting, and 22 others.