Gopala Chakravarthy is a Chartered Accountant with over 19 years of experience in finance, accounting, taxation, and compliance who is currently seeking a suitable position that offers variety and opportunities for professional development. He has extensive experience managing accounts, financial reporting, taxation, payroll, budgeting, and RBI compliance for both domestic and international operations. His career highlights demonstrate his expertise in these areas as well as his accomplishments in managing international tax compliance, centralized invoicing, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance testing.

1. Gopala
Chakravarthy. M
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Accounts
International Taxation &
Statutory Compliances
MIS and Strategic planning
Service Tax
Budgeting
RBI compliance
Payroll Management
Fund Management -
Manufacturing and IT
industry
PERSONAL SKILLS
Analytical
Strong
influencing skills
Negotiation Skills
Good interpersonal skills
and team playing ability
PERSONAL DETAILS
E-Mail:
gopala.chakravarthy@gmail.com
Mobile: 09866073091
Value Proposition
Highly accomplished,resultsdriven Chartered Accountant w ith 19 years of post-qualification experience in
Finance. Demonstrated ability of Riskmanagement in InternalFinancial Controls and Reporting, A regulatory
compliance expert forareasrelated toIndia and Internationalcountries. A taxregulation strategist specializing in
corporate compliance, auditing, analysisand reporting.Proficient in latest, most innovative technological tools
and systems. Ihave the expertise in taxation (including Corporate Tax Planning & International taxation), Tax
audit, Finance, Accounting and Control.
Currentlylookingfora suitablepositionthatoffersvarietyand also opportunitiesto develop both personally and
professionally.
Career Highlights
Accounts/ MIS and Strategic planning
 Implemented systems& procedures;supervisingthe consolidation of group accounts and preparing
financial statements & annual reports. Under IGAAP and US GAAP.
 Finalization of Accounts including the statutory audits conducted by big 4 audit firm
 Supervising the preparation of MIS reports to provide feedback to top management on financial
performance, viz. fund management, credit control, profitability, etc.
Taxation
 Ensuring timely assessment& filingof taxreturnsin compliance withstatutory tax acts of International
Branches. Built taxdepartment to addressmultinationaltaxplanningand complianceneeds, devised tax
structure for efficiently using transfer pricing and low tax jurisdictions to achieve optimization.
 Providing tax advisory on new contracts, payments, filing of Indirect Tax returns of International
Branches.
 Filing of the returns, monthly Service Tax Payments and review ing Cenvat Credit Register.
 Monitored and reviewed internationalincome taxcomplianceof approx. 50 countries across globe and
ensured that foreign tax returns and other related compliances w ere accurately and timely filed
 Complex business and tax issues (Direct and Indirect Taxes /India and International)
RBI Matters
 Filing of APR(AnnualPerformance Reports)of InternationalSubsidiaries,annualfiling of foreign assets
and liabilities and of new international branches.
Payroll Administration
 Developing & maintaining documentationand controlsforallpayrollrelated activities and procedures;
serving as the main contact for all payroll related issues.
 Managing PayrollProcessing function involving computation of salaries and filing of PF, TDS, ESI,
Professional Tax and other statutory compliance and returns.
Budgeting
 Formulating budgets and conducting variance analysis to determine dif f erence between projected f igures & actual
expenditure and implementing correctiv e actions.
 Managing the pricing of the contracts f or bidding and v alidating the contracts f rom f inance point of v iew.
Operations Management of Centralized Invoicing process
 Managing receipt of PO/SOW/WO/TO supported with MSA from Customer to raising of the inv oice on the customer
through v arious tools
Working Knowledge of Compliance management
 Understandingthe compliance calendar through code of ethics f or employ ees, delineated duties f or each lev el of
hierarchy , dev eloping procedures f or customers and v endors through KYC norms.
 Designing the internal controls either manual or sy stems to prev ent f raud
 Compliance of all applicable direct and indirect taxes of the v arious geographies and India related FEMA.
Notable Accomplishments

2.  Played a key role in managingthe internationaltaxation and compliancesof internationalbranchesof the
company in countries like:
 USA, Canada, Europe, (UK, Germany,Belgium, Netherlands, Hungary,Denmark,Finland,
etc.) Middle East & Africa(Dubai, Qatar, Kuwait,SaudiArabia, Kenya, SouthAfrica, etc.).
 APAC (Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, etc.).
 Efficiently managed the accounts payable and accounting team of the company.
 Directed the team of Centralized Invoicing Team to centralize the invoicing operations.
 Instrumental in handling the business finance functions of one of business units.
 Pivotal in managing the Off-shoring of payroll processes of different countries.
 Successfullyhandled and coordinated startof Sarbanes-OxleySection 404management testing for the
first year of SOX process.
 Managed the transferpricing documentation in respectof overseasbranchesfor migrating to Cost plus
method from the traditional method of P&L method.
 Successfully handled the Service Tax audit for four years by the department.
 Successfullyhandled the IRS tax auditof USA branch.
Professional Experience
Tech Mahindra Ltd., Hyderabad
GroupManager –Finance June 00 – Present
 Extensiveexperience in conceptualizing and implementing financial procedures and actively
involvedin the maintenance & finalization of accounts, Audits, Working Capital Management,
Pricing, etc.
 Experience in managinginternaland statutoryauditsand SOX compliancetesting of Management
and Statutory Audit samples.
 Experience in Income Tax, InternationalTaxesof Foreignbranches, Service Tax and appearing
before the authorities for litigation management.
 Successfullyhandled and closed ServiceTax audit of the company spanning over a period of 4
years
 An exemplary communicator w ith expertise in liaising w ith statutory agencies for securing
mandatory approvals.
 Proficientin managingthe PayrollProcessing function entailingdesign & development of systems
& procedures, computationof salaryand adheringto regulatorycompliance.
 Developing, managing and motivating a teamof finance professionals.
Godrej Agrovet Ltd., Eluru, Andhra Pradesh
Executive – Finance & Administration Mar’99 to Jun’00
Godrej Plant BiotechLtd.,Hyderabad
Asst.Manager-Finance Mar’96 to Aug’98
Academic Qualifications
CA fromthe Instituteof CharteredAccountantsof India 1996
B.Sc. fromNagarjunaUniversity 1986
REFERENCES – Available on request