1. KAUSTUBH SAMANT
(CA, CS, Diploma in IFRS)
502, Bhavesh Plaza CHS, Khopat Road, Khopat, Thane (West)
Mobile No. 91-9820223741
E-Mail:- kaustya31@rediffmail.com
kaustya31@gmail.com
Summary:- A Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary with post qualification
experience of around 9 years and in the area of Internal Controls and Risk, Finance and
Accounts, Direct and Indirect Taxation, Financial Planning and Analysis, Regulatory
Reporting, various Audits, Secretarial Compliances, Management & Financial Reporting,
Hyperion reporting, IFRS Accounting and IPO and M&A.
Professional Qualification :-
Chartered Accountant (CA) – First Attempt – July 2007.
Company Secretary (CS) – First attempt – August 2007.
Diploma in IFRS – (ACCA, UK) – August 2010. Scored 81 marks.
Certified Financial Planner – CFP.
Significant Accomplishments in various assignments –
 IPO related preparations.
 M & A related activities and due diligence.
 IndAS migration project.
 Accounting of Foreign subsidiary.
 Preparation of Internal Financial Control (IFC) as per statutory requirement.
 IT Project management for project above Rs. 100 Crs.
 Undertaken the controllership project and analyzed the branch wise costing, group
wise profitability, product wise profitability and re-structuring of branches.
 Automation of employee reimbursement process.
 Played key role in migration of Indian GAAP accounts into IFRS.
 Implementation of maker-checker controls in various day to day payment
transactions for strengthening the control process.
 Played key role in Migration of accounts from Excel to Sun System.
 Completed the Credit card reconciliation and reduced the outstanding from 40crs
to 2.5 Crs in 3 months.
 Preparation and working for Transfer pricing audit and fixing of margin for
different services.
 Completion of export certification work at TATA Motors in record time and
received recognition mail from the Client.
 HDFC life recognized my performance and was rated as “Exceed Expectation”
for 2 years and promoted me as “Senior manager” in 3rd
year.

2.  JLT has recognized my performance and was rated “Exceed Expected for 1 year
and promoted as “Deputy Manager” .
Corporate Experience:-
(A) HDFC Standard Life – (January 2013 till date) – Manager Accounts and
Finance – Promoted as Senior Manager from March 2016.
1. Monthly/Quarterly and Annual Closing Activity : –
• Preparation of Financial Statements, Notes to accounts and various schedules.
• Expense Provisioning, Depreciation run, prepaid entries, Adjustment entries,
Manual Capitalization, etc.
• Prepaid Schedule, Accrual Schedule, Vendor balance report, GRIR Report, Rent
Schedule, Deposit Schedule, etc.
• Schedule 10 of Fixed Assets, Capex Advance, Capex Creditors, Capital work in
progress Report, Retension Report, etc.
• Review of bank reconciliation activity.
• Ledger Scrutiny.
• Various reports for senior management.
• Preparation of Monthly consol pack for reporting to Parent Company.
2. Day to Day Activities : – (Mostly Review work)
• Vendor Management, Accounts payable activity, Employee reimbursements
• Rent payouts and AS- 19 provisioning.
• Cash management activity.
• Fixed asset accounting.
• Capitalisation of various software and Licenses and in-house developed software.
(AS – 26)
• Bank Reconciliation.
• Accounting of foreign subsidiary.
• Handling of Asset insurance, commercial and general liability insurance and other
insurance requirement of company.
3. Business Planning and Analysis : –
• Annual budgeting activity.
• Expense and Depreciation Variance analysis – MOM, Budget vs Actual.
• Analysis and review of high value expense accounts.
• Working on Rolling Forecast and 3+9 & 4+8 Budgets.
4. Management Reporting : –
• Preparation of presentation for Finance Review and MBR.
• Periodic Reporting like Controllership Project, Capex Reports,etc.

3. • Preparation and presentation of detailed project report for in-house development
of Software to Management Team and progress report vis-à-vis cost and cash
flow analysis and forecasting.
5. Audit, Compliance and other :-
• Handling the quarterly audit activity – Haribhakti and PWC are Joint Auditors.
• Resolving various Audit Queries and handling partner review.
• Support in preparation of notes to accounts – AS 19 schedule, AS-18 Schedule,
etc.
• Preparation and working of Capital Commitments.
• Preparation of various Audit Schedules and analysis for Auditors.
• Handling of Internal Audit, Process Audit and BCP Audit.
• Preparation of various reports and statement for IFRS Accounting.
• Preparation of Various reports and statements for IPO Accounting.
• Preparation of Depreciation working as per the Depreciation policy of Parent
Company.
6. Other : -
• Support to AVP in various ad-hoc projects.
• Team handling.
• Driving of various project improvement initiatives.
• Undertaking of various automation and process efficiency related projects.
(B) Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT) India Pvt Ltd – (October 2009 to August 2012)
Started as Assistant Manager and promoted to Deputy Manager after 2 years.
 Managing of accounts payable and employee reimbursement related activities.
 Cash flow management and liquidity forecasting and investments. Inward
remittances.
 Fixed asset accounting.
 Income recognition and collection management.
 Preparation of various expense schedules and reports.
 Annual budgeting and periodic forecasting activity and Hyperion reporting.
Monthly variance analysis.
 Preparation of Financials as per revised Schedule VI with various Schedules,
reconciliations, etc. Managing of audits.

4.  Company secretarial compliances, SEZ and STPI compliances, transfer pricing
related matters and other taxation matters.
 Preparation of SLA and SOP for Transactions with HK and Singapore.
 Captive Insurance accounting.
C) ICICI Bank in Internal Control & Operational Risk Group- (April 2008 to
October 2009). -
 Review of Internal control and risk areas of various financial items.
 Compliances, Audit report reviews and process improvements.
 Walk through of processes and generating of various MIS on periodic basis.
D) Kotak wealth Management (Oct 2007 – Mar 2008)
 MIS, Process and System Development and Audit and Compliance.
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E) CVK and Associates (Article Assistant) (From August 2004 to August 2007)
 Main work area is Bank Audits, Internal Audits, Statutory Audits, certification
work, Income tax,etc.
Educational & Other details:-
 Received Past President Chinubhai Shah Award from ICSI for scoring highest
marks in “Company Law” in CS Inter examination.
 Scored 79% in BCom – scored. (Scored 100 out of 100 in Management
Accounting)
Computer Literacy:-
 Accounting packages – Sun system, Compas, Finacle, Finone, Hyperion, SAP-
FICO, MM and Asset.
 Various Tally Packages.
 MS Office – Excel , Word , Power Point.
 Outlook and other e-mail management system.
Personal Information:-
 Date of Birth:- 31- March-1983.
 Languages known:- English, Marathi, Hindi.
 Address :- 502, Bhavesh Plaze Co-operative Hsg Society, Khopat Road, Khopat,
Thane – 400 061.
Hobbies & Interests:-
 Reading Books on Jungle Stories, travelling, etc.

5.  Listening to & reading of various materials on Equity Markets, Various aspects of
Finance, Investment Related, Financial Planning, etc.
 Gardening & Farming.

6.  Listening to & reading of various materials on Equity Markets, Various aspects of
Finance, Investment Related, Financial Planning, etc.
 Gardening & Farming.