KAPIL GROVERChartered Accountant, M. Com, B. Com (Honors), Dip IFR (ACCA)

Phone: +91-120-4164852, +91-9811985776 E-mail: kapilgrover@gmail.com

MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL With over 11+ years of comprehensive skill, knowledge & expertise in:

Financial Control • General Accounting • Process Migration • MIS Reporting • Reconciliation

• Risk Evaluation & Management • Compliance Evaluation & Documentation • Internal Audit

SYNOPSIS

Highly accomplished Financial and Risk Management professional with skills in achieving organisational efficiency & profitability. Expertise in analyzing existing systems and procedures, designing internal control systems, facilitating & influencing effective decision-making based on intensive financial analysis of facts & figures.

As a Financial Controller, responsibility includes maintaining the integrity of the financials, assuring compliance with internal policies and standards. Ability to connect, inspires, influence & confront people in order to improve process, systems & eventually achieve operational efficiency

As part of the Assurance team, involved in planning and managing the internal audit review and other projects. Help management in closing high risk internal audit points and implementing change initiatives.

Diverse working environments in Asia, Africa, Europe and America enlightened me with the distinctive approach being pursued towards work and the sensitivity involved in managing people.

CAREER CONTOUR

Barclays Shared Services Private Limited working since June 2008

The organization is a subsidiary of Barclays Plc registered at UK, which has a banking history of 320 years and has presence in 63 countries round the globe.

Job ResponsibilitiesAssistant Vice President UK Retail Bank Product Financial Control – April’12 till present

Seamless transition of Financial Control process from UK Financial Controller within the Personal & Corporate Banking business

(Current and Saving Accounts SBUs). Responsible for integrity of financials. Ownership of month-end cycle starting

from accounting, reconciliations, reporting, planning and projects, covering the end to end accounting cycle and acting as leader for CoEs.

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Providing financial analysis on a wide range of complex technical/business issues, impact of change initiatives, impact of new accounting regulations and accounting for new products.

Finance responsibilities include - - End to end ownership of SBU books including Balance Sheet, Income,

Costs, Provisions, Accruals and Prepayments - Completing P&L analytical review & providing Balance Sheet commentary - Assuring compliance with internal policies and standards - Ensuring proper maintenance and preparation of ledgers and analysis of

business performance for Finance Business Partners - Ownership of SBU SOX sign-offs - Ownership of various statutory returns filed to regulators- Analysis of SBU decisions including new product approvals for market and

new income streams - Developing operations procedures to increase efficiency and accordingly

implementing standards - Liaise with internal and external auditors

Assistant Manager, Financial Control Governance – June’09 till April’12 Risk Consulting / Project Management responsibilities Risk Consulting responsibilities include

- Planning, budgeting and managing the audit programs. Preparation of audit checklists.

- Perform conformance assurance review over the policies and standards issued within the Financial Reporting and Control key risk framework

- Provide recommendations to BUs over the compliance of policies. Extending support to raise the standard of compliance and reporting

- Sharing an experience with the other team members- Mentor new joiners within the team- Periodically share the status of assignment with the key stakeholders- Support the Policy development Steering committee with thorough review

and recommendations on the policies and guidelines Project management responsibilities include

- Performing ad hoc projects addressing legacy issues related to reconciliations and reporting across the Barclays Group

- Part of team assessing initial requirements and UAT sign-offs of INFoRM and FRSTT

- Implementing ARRTS across African countries- Imparting training of INFoRM and FRSTT during pilot phase- Helping BUs preparing process documentation and detailed process maps

Assistant Manager, General Ledger Control – June’08 till May’09 Seamless transition from UK Track service delivery and highlight client's prospective Implement the process in current location and train & manage the team of

B3s Mentor team members Drive process improvement initiatives (5 White Belt project from the team)

Significant Achievements

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Management accorded me with the Extra Miler award, for supporting new team members

Recognized with the Champions League award during Q4 2010 (team award) Red Carpet Team Award for seamless migration of Financial Control process

Q1 2013 Rolled out Account Reconciliation Reporting tool across the entire Global

Retail banking as part of the strategic objective of Financial Control framework

Genpact India Pvt. Ltd. worked from March 2006 till May 2008

The organization is the pioneer in process and technology management in the country, which was incorporated in 1997. It caters to the businesses18 countries.

Assistant Manager in Financial Control Governance – Commercial Finance (Com Fin) CoE

Job Responsibility Planning and conducting audits; review new team member's work Study of the process in depth with a view to identify internal controls within

the system, analyzing weaknesses and suggesting remedial actions Discussions and finalization of audit reports with the business. Conduct follow up audits Prepared process documentation under Statement of Accounting Standards

70 (SAS 70) for Commercial Finance business. Conducted Reconciliation Audit for Finance & Accounting COE Preparation of Training Module for Reconciliations

Significant Achievements Gold Award winner for driving SAS 70 in Genpact Commercial Finance COE. Silver Award for Reconciliation Audit for Dalian (China) Two Bronze Awards for Reconciliation Audit in all locations in India. Appreciated by Senior Management for handling Reconciliation Audit across

Finance COE.

Copal Partnersemployed with the Group from October 2005 till March 2006

Copal PartnersCopal Partners provides research and analytics services to leading financial institutions and corporations worldwide.

Designation - Sr. Analyst

Job Responsibility Comparable company analysis (Comps): Evaluate companies in a specific

industry. Sources for undertaking above studies include company filings (10K, 10Q, 8K, Press releases, Annual reports), Bloomberg, Thomson, Alacra, Reuters

Was part quality check layer 2 within 4 months Managing selected projects including receiving requests, managing the team

and delivering the final output

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N. KOCHHAR & Co (Chartered Accountant Firm). Worked from August 2004 till September 2005

The company is Chartered Accountant Firm providing internal audit, management consulting and risk management services.

Designation -Audit Assistant

Job Responsibility Team leader in all assignments at N.Kochhar& Co. Planning, conducting and supervising Internal and Statutory Audits Preparation, discussions and finalization of audit reports with senior audit

managers and review the follow up with the clients Helped clients in improving daily operations

PROFESSOINAL QUALIFICATION Chartered Accountant (November 2004) DipIFR from ACCA (June 2014)

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION M.Com from HP University in 2002 B.Com (H) from Delhi University in 2000

TRAININGS ATTENDED SOX Compliance Management Development Program on Effective Communication for Managers &

Leaders (MDP) from MDI Gurgaon

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of Birth 7th March 1979Passport Z2010344 (US B2/B1 Visa valid till 2020)Father’s Name& Occupation Late Sh. D. L. GroverMother’s Name & Occupation Smt. Prabha Grover /Retired from IDPLSpouse’s Name & Occupation Smt. Deepti Grover (Chartered Accountant)Kid’s Name Master Pavit Grover & Baby Advika GroverResidence C-304, Elite Homz, Sector 77, Noida, UP – 201301.

SD/-(KAPIL GROVER)

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