This document contains a cover page and resume for Suneel D'Souza. It lists his contact information, professional qualifications including being an Associate Member of Certified Fraud Examiners. The resume then details his skills and experience in areas such as financial management, taxation, compliance, leadership and training, data analysis and modelling, and relationship management. It provides details of his professional experience including roles at Charities Services, Inland Revenue, and Placemakers.

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1 Margaret Shields Avenue
Aotea, Porirua.
Tel: Res # 04-2601428
Mob: 021-981428
Email:mrsndd@yahoo.com
Suneel D’Souza
Professional Qualifications:
Professional Membership
Associate Member of Certified Fraud Examiners
Key skills and Experience:
Financial Management
 Several years of progressive experience in finance across Asia, Middle East and New Zealand.
 Managed the timely preparation of monthly & annual financial statements of companies with an annual
turnover between $30M-$55M.
 Preparing of budgets for the business unit, in line with updated financial baseline.
 Tracking & adjusting forecasts, and reporting on them on a monthly basis.
 Managed payroll of a staff of 45 with an annual payroll of approx. $1.8M.
 Successfully managed filing and timely payment of GST, PAYE and FBT dues to Inland Revenue.
 Managed reconciliation of General ledger accounts.
 Managed the margin verification process at Placemekers.
 Accessed and worked on systems like SAP (accounting system), BART (budgeting tool), OLAP cubes
(reporting tool).
Taxation
 At Inland Revenue worked across a range of revenues namely Income Tax, GST and FBT covering wide
ranging issues including Transfer Pricing on cross border transactions, Amalgamation of companies and its
impact on taxation and the Imputation credit accounts, Double tax agreements (DTA), Fringe benefits to
employees, GST implications on second hand goods transactions between related parties, suppressed sales,
and deductions incorrectly claimed.
Compliance
 10 years of progressive experience in Compliance of which 6.5 years were at a senior level.
 Successfully closed investigations involving complex tax structures, financial arrangements and business
valuations.
 Adept at interviewing customers and eliciting information vital to the investigation at hand.
 Skillful in understanding, interpreting and applying legislation.
 Experience of working with case management systems such as CRM (at DIA) and e-Case (at IR).
Leadership & Training
 Actively displayed effective leadership/mentoring skills in various roles namely as Case Manager for the
Manufacturing Project in Inland Revenue,as Business Accountant at Placemakers and as Finance Manager
at a company in Saudi Arabia.
 Mentored junior Investigations staff at Inland Revenue and conducted aspire training courses for ten of the
new recruits.
Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand. 2007
Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India 1991

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 Delivered tailored training based on identified training needs of staff within the Compliance team, at
Charities Services.
Data Analysis & Modelling
 MS Excel to an advanced level for facilitating analysis and reporting.
 Developed automated financial and non financial models e.g. forecasting model, billing analysis for the
0800 number charges from Telstra. The Telstra billing model resulted in savings of $228K, as
inconsistencies in the billing process were now easily identified.
 Developed a statistical model that assisted in reporting on investigations stats at DCE level.
 Accessed information from databases by running queries in Data warehouse.
Relationship Management
 Pro-actively built and managed relationships at a senior level with external and internal customers in my
role as Senior Investigator Financial at Charities Services, as Financial Analyst at inland Revenue, and as
Business Accountant of a leading retail business (i.e. Placemakers).
Professional Experience:
Senior Investigator, Financial (Compliance), Charities,Department of Internal
Affairs
(With the merger of the Charities Commission into DIA and a subsequent
restructure my title changed from Senior Analyst to Senior Investigator Financial)
June 2009- Dec 2015
Key responsibilities:
 Undertake a number of monitoring activities to ensure that registered charities continue to qualify for
registration, are complying with the requirements of the Charities Act, and information on the register
relating to entities is accurate; and
 Conduct investigations of complaints submitted from a variety of sources to determine whether serious
wrongdoing or other breaches of the Charities Act has occurred; and
 Promote compliance with the Charities Act,through education and assistance for charities to maintain good
governance and management; and
 Identify training needs of staff and develop and deliver them to staff.
 Carry a caseload of high end, complex investigations and presented key insights on some of the cases to
team members to develop staff financial and non-financial investigation capability.
 Provide analysis and guidelines to compliance staff on investigations concerning complex financial issues.
 Mentor and train compliance staff on ways of identifying financial and non financial risks and developing
awareness of the new accounting standards.
Key achievements included:
 Successfully challenged a top rated NZ lawyer and a couple of valuation experts who represented a charity
that engaged in a complex financial arrangement with a related entity, resulting in the de-registration of the
charity.
 Managed to convince a charity to restructure its operations in order to continue its charitable status.
 Recognised for my work on a political advocacy case involving a charitable trust, in the local newspaper
and commended by the CEO, corporate manager and my immediate manager.
 Successfully managed the removal of a charity (a Company) that was involved in circular transfer of funds
between related entities and the charity, perpetrating a tax fraud and in turn providing private pecuniary
benefit to the director of the company to the tune of several million dollars.
 Recovered $89,000 from an officer of a charity and moved the funds back into the charity for charitable
purposes.

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 Worked with charities in identifying non-compliant activity, recommending changes and overseeing the
implementation of those changes .
 Successfully managed an extremely difficult customer who wasabusive, abrasive and wasa constantsource
of grief for the Registration and Operations team. This customer finally agreed to have his charity removed
from the register as it was never a charity in the true sense.
 Pursued constant improvements to the Commission’s compliance systems, strategy and process by
suggesting improvements at team meetings and participating in the change process envisaged by the
management.
Financial Advisor/Analyst, Finance and Planning Unit, Inland Revenue
(Starting on a four months secondment ending Aug 2007 in the Assurance team, and
later in a permanent role in the assistance teamfrom Oct 2007)
Oct 2007-Jun 2009
Key responsibilities:
 In charge of the financial reporting for Workflow business unit, and the Call Centre non-financial
performance reporting.
 Was responsible for reporting on voice analytics to the Service Delivery Management Team.
 Engaged in the processof administering capital bids, re-aligning the business processcodes and the internal
standards in line with the new directions of the top management and the new structure in National
Collections Enforcement unit1
.
Key achievements included:
 Developed a model to check on Telstra’s 0800 number call billings and successfully clawed back
overpayments of $228K.
 Devised a methodology for estimating the cost for calls made through specific queues.
 Carried out the duties of a Senior Advisor in the absence of the Senior Advisor.
 Timely preparation of monthly workflow financial statements.
 Successfully managed the forecasting of operating and non-operating expensesand profiled them in BART,
the budgeting tool used in Inland Revenue.
 Managed accuracy and timely presentations of management reports on FTE numbers of the business unit
and accurately recorded these in BART.
 Successfully completed the preparation of yearly business unit budgets based on approved baselines.
Investigator, Inland Revenue,Wellington NZ Oct 2004-Oct 2007
Key responsibilities:
 Undertook a range of audit activities which supported Inland Revenue’s business direction of targeting
compliance and risk,
 Worked across a range of revenues, typically requiring in depth technical knowledge, some of which may
not be readily addressed by law or by Inland Revenue policy and interpretation statements (i.e.
predominantly complex or grey areas, including tax avoidance and tax evasion).
 Candidates targeted were companies within the $50-$150M mark, and individual groups prone to evasion
of taxes.
 Progressively engage in audit activity covering a wide range of complex issues and estimate its impact on
the revenue.
 Regularly monitor investigation cost and benefits for audit activities that ran over sixty hours, and seek
team leader approval before progressions further.
Key achievements included:
 Audit activity successfully identified complex tax issues that included;
o imputation credit discrepancies on amalgamation of companies,
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o transfer pricing issues on cross border transactions,
o GST wrongly returned on second hand goods transactions, damages and payments made to custom
agents.
o fringe benefits paid to employees not returned or incorrectly returned,
o income disguised as loans.
o suppressed sales, and
o incorrect deductions claimed on returns.
 Successfully cleared all quality checks carried out on my investigations.
 Ensured that in the identification of non-compliance, the reasonsfor the assessments were clearly explained
to the taxpayer, and the taxpayer was informed on how to comply correctly for the future.
 Build trusting relationships with all taxpayers while still carrying out an investigation with integrity.
Business Accountant, Placemakers, Paraparaumu , Wellington NZ Jan 2002-Oct 2004
Key responsibilities
 Financial reporting to head office.
 Preparation of budgets and monitoring expenses against budgets.
 Updating & monitoring daily cash flow.
 Preparation of management reports and electronically submitting them to head office on a daily / monthly
Basis.
 Reconciliation of general ledger accounts, and passing of journal entries.
 Payroll Processing for a staff of around 45 (annual payroll of around $1.8M), done weekly for the wage
staff and monthly for the salaried Staff.
 Processing of payments through PC banking.
 Evaluation and payment of tax liabilities (PAYE, GST & FBT) within the specified period.
 Participation in quarterly stock takes and using the results along with other supporting reports, to evaluate
true branch margins.
 Participating in the recruitment of staff needed for the Accounts & Administration Department
 Overseeing the smooth functioning of the Accounts & Administration department, including delegation of
task and appraising performances.
 Monitoring processes and overseeing that internal controls as suggested in the best practices has been set
in place, and where necessary suggest changes.
 Ensuring compliance with company policies & procedures.
Worked in Saudi Arabia and India in the finance and marketing field. Prior to Jan’02
Additional Qualification:
Referees:
Available upon request
Diploma in Business Management (Marketing)
National Institute of Management, Bombay, India.
1987
Bachelor of Sciences,Delhi University, India 1985