Commercial Negotiation: Negotiation of material and service contracts for cost optimisation, Vendor development, Negotiation and finalization of critical terms of contract review
Project Profitability: Standardizing project approval process, Digitizing project profitability report for CEO and MD, Monthly tracking of YTD profitability of projects and controlling variances
Planning & budgeting: Making 3-year and 10-year plan, Creating a break even plan, Assist the CFO in all other strategic matters
Outsourced Mfg overview: Review and process streamline of outsource manufacturing
MIS: Vertical wise P&L reporting, Timely closure of Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly books of accounts with quality insights, Setting risk and governance controls
Product Costing: Creating product costing for various SKU’s
ERP Implementation: Creating process flowchart for efficient outlining design and wireframe finalization
Greenfield Investments: Effectively helped create DCF models and capex proposals, Single handedly contributed to finding and winning Govt investment incentives, Involved in planning and execution of proposed plant end to end
Proprietor, Practicing CA
Subham Agarwal and Company
11.2016 - 04.2024
Areas of work: Monthly and Annual Statutory Compliance under Direct and Indirect Taxes | Government liaising | Litigation support | Statutory and Internal Audit | Book-keeping | Finalisation of accounts and Financial Reporting as per IND AS | Loan syndication | Financial Analysis | Budgeting | FP&A | Corporate finance | Advisory
Sector Exposure: MSME
Indirect Tax Associate
Pricewaterhouse Coopers Private Limited
Bengaluru, Karnataka
08.2014 - 10.2016
Company Overview: Indirect Tax
Responsibilities: Statutory Compliance | Advisory | Government liaising | Litigation support | GST Impact Analysis
Statutory Compliance: Undertaking periodical indirect tax compliances viz
Monthly and quarterly VAT returns, Preparation of VAT Audit reports for clients having pan India operations, Preparation and filing of Service Tax returns, CENVAT Credit Refund Claim and other Service Tax compliances, Statutory compliance under Customs Act in the form of obtaining prior approvals, Other regular VAT compliance for all states for clients having pan India operations
Tax Advisory: Preparation of opinion, memo, structuring notes on Service tax and VAT issues, Analyzing entry tax provisions, classification of goods for rate of entry tax on pan India basis
Government Liaising: Liaising with service tax department for refund applications of CENVAT Credit, Liaising with DGFT department (Customs) for issuance of IEC Certificate
Litigation support: Handling indirect tax litigations viz
Preparation of replies to showcause notices, appeals, petitions and assisting in filing the same with tax authorities in the field of VAT
GST Impact Analysis: Analysis of the provisions of Model GST law and help businesses assess their impact on operations
Indirect Tax
Analyst
Procter & Gamble
03.2013 - 07.2014
Company Overview: Management Consultant
Responsibilities: Business Effectiveness | Indirect Tax | Reverse Logistics
Business Effectiveness: Managing operational efficiency of contracts given to 3rd parties, Finding prospective opportunities from State Industrial Policy for client having operations in Bhopal & Goa
Indirect Tax Opportunities: Helped client in regularizing VAT input tax credit mechanism, Government liaising in availing existing and prospective tax benefits to client from Government industrial policy and other promotional schemes
Reverse Logistics: Managed stock defacing carried on pan India basis as per set SOP
Management Consultant
Intern
G.GARG & CO.
04.2011 - 03.2012
Job Description: Statutory and Internal audit
Intern
S.S. KOTHARI MEHTA & CO.
08.2008 - 03.2011
Job Description: Statutory compliance related for SEZ units, Loan syndication in the form of Working Capital Term Loan, Valuation of companies and projecting financials for purpose of restructuring, Reconciliation of project costs and seeking variance analysis for increasing project success
Education
Chartered Accountancy -
ICAI
01.2008 - 05.2012
Company Secretaryship - undefined
ICSI
01.2008 - 06.2011
B.Com (Hons.) - undefined
St. Xavier’s College
01.2008 - 01.2011
Class XII - I.S.C.
Don Bosco School
Class X - I.C.S.E.
Don Bosco School
Skills
Financial statement analysis
Financial Planning
Business Analytics
Strategic Thinking
Investment strategy
Personal Information
Age: 34
Accomplishments
Providing exceptional insights to channel partners incentive scheme
Single handedly exploring government investment incentives for greenfield investments