Gaurav Pandya

Supporting SMEs with day-to-day accounting and tax reporting, cash-flow and working-capital analysis, banking and reconciliation, statutory audit coordination, and tax/customs/excise compliance. Also providing immigration and company secretarial services, and running a security tech supply and installation company.

Lead financial strategy, performance management, and executive decision support across multi-entity, multi-country operations. Direct treasury, cash-flow forecasting, working-capital optimization, banking relationships, and liquidity management, and oversee group consolidation, IFRS-compliant reporting, statutory audit coordination, and tax/customs/excise compliance.

Led finance controllership, procurement governance, budgeting, treasury, statutory reporting, and management performance analysis. Managed group reporting, balance-sheet controls, audit coordination, working capital, and regulatory compliance, and partnered with commercial and operations teams on pricing, cost analysis, supplier strategy, and business performance.

Led group/divisional accounting policy, period close, balance-sheet substantiation, internal controls, and standalone/consolidated financial reporting. Supported IAS/IFRS capability building, insurance oversight, collection controls, KPI/SLA management, and audit-action closure.

Led consolidated management reporting, cash flow, budgeting, receivables, payables, audit actions, and finance-team performance. Introduced stronger cost discipline and zero-based budgeting while restructuring internal reporting and management KPIs, and improved collections by 30% through SAP billing automation, statement discipline, and area-based ownership.

Managed finance and accounting policies, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, MIS, financial reporting, and audit support. Oversaw product-line profitability, AR/AP/GL controls, and consolidation of six entities using Tally ERP.

Managed branch and project accounting, consolidation, taxation, stores, cash controls, and administrative finance across regional operations in Kenya, Sudan, and Malawi.

Pursuing the ACCA qualification.

Completed an MBA in Finance from the National Institute of Management, Mumbai in 2010.

Earned a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Mumbai in 2002.

Completed the LinkedIn Learning course 'Manager's Guide to Building a Data Dashboard with ChatGPT (No Code Required)'.