Accounting & Reporting Consulting

In today’s dynamic business environment, organizations are continuously required to adapt to the dynamic shifts in accounting & reporting standards and regulations. Enhanced management reporting requirements and accelerated reporting timelines necessitate increased automation within the finance function, including optimally leveraging the power of AI. Special events, such as preparing for an IPO/capital market transaction or fulfilling the reporting requirements arising from an M&A transaction, introduce additional complexities and challenges for the finance function.

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Our Services

Technical Accounting Advisory
IPO Readiness
Audit Support
Accounting Support
Transaction Accounting Advisory
Finance Transformation & Operations
Financial Risk Management

Our dedicated team of experienced accounting and reporting advisors serves as an independent extension of your team, providing comprehensive services to navigate the intricacies of modern financial reporting. Our Technical Accounting Advisory services are designed to empower your business with expert insights, ensuring compliance and precision in financial statements.

We help companies navigate the IPO journey from early-stage readiness to public listing. Our expertise spans financial statement preparation, technical accounting analysis, IFC compliance, and public company-ready closing processes. We lead the Project Management Office (PMO), ensuring seamless execution and stakeholder coordination. Additionally, we provide strategic guidance on ESG, investor relations, and FP&A maturity, equipping organizations for a successful transition to a publicly listed entity.

We partner with our clients to ensure the timely and effective completion of audits by providing comprehensive support throughout the audit cycle. We assist boards and management in navigating special situations, liaising with auditors on complex accounting matters, and delivering practical solutions that strengthen trust and transparency.

We compile financial statements under your required accounting reporting framework, such as US GAAP, IFRS & Ind AS, and support period-end reporting needs. Our expertise includes stock option accounting, audit support, and consolidation and disclosure assistance. We also act as an extension of your finance team to support critical business projects.

We assist companies with transaction driven GAAP conversion and accounting changes including preparing position papers for complex transactions; provide accounting assistance during carve out of businesses / entities; and in the Purchase Price Allocation process. In addition, we also assist companies in integration and enhancing the SOPs and Chart of Accounts to factor the impact of the transaction.

Our Finance Operations consultants bring a unique blend of both systems and operational finance expertise. Having served the world’s leading enterprises on many different finance technology stacks, we help you transform your finance operations with process and improvement, financial technology implementation, shared services, and FP&A advisory services. We view each of these methodologies as tools that ultimately help you fine-tune and optimize your financial close, accounting, and reporting processes.

We partner with our clients across regions to mitigate risks in their financial exposures and navigate complex business challenges by crafting robust risk strategies, enhancing risk-adjusted performance, and delivering pragmatic solutions. We also support organizations in building best-in-class risk and regulatory frameworks, driving risk transformation programs that strengthen their financial resilience and operational effectiveness.

Why Us?

Our leadership and deep expertise

Our co-founders and other senior ARC leaders have played a pivotal role in shaping the ARC industry globally. These leaders have deep experience, each partnering with diverse businesses worldwide, on their accounting, reporting, compliance, and finance function transformation journey. Substantially all our ARC leaders have been partners and leaders with Big 4 accounting firms.

Deep and diverse talent pool and globally integrated delivery model

Being a company specializing in ARC as a core solution, we are a hotbed for high-quality talent in this area. Our leaders bring substantial experience from engagements relating to accounting advisory, audit, finance transformation, treasury, governance, risk, compliance, and technology practices of the Big 4 and other large consulting and technology companies globally. Due to our global organization structure, our talent pool is fully integrated, collaborating seamlessly across our key markets of the USA, India, and the Middle East. Leveraging our offshore talent pool, combined with substantial onsite presence, we deliver significant cost efficiencies while maintaining timely, high quality delivery.

Agility and responsiveness

Our team embodies the essence of agility and responsiveness, fostering a dynamic environment where adaptability and quick responses are integral to our operations. Free from auditor independence requirements, we can seamlessly support our clients without the friction, delays, or restrictions caused by independence considerations. Our agility and responsiveness is enhanced by a high degree of partner/director involvement on projects.

Our technology-led approach

Our technology-driven approach empowers us to provide comprehensive end-to-end implementation assistance. Leveraging deep functional experience, proprietary tech assets like Reporting UniVerse and strategic partnerships with leading tech platforms, we are adept at addressing challenges related to automation, data management, and integrity within the finance function. This allows us to not only conceptualize effective solutions but also seamlessly integrate and implement them, ensuring a holistic and streamlined approach to meet your organizational needs.

Our AI UniVerse platform

We have made significant investments in building AI solution capabilities for the finance function. AI UniVerse, our proprietary platform includes assets such as Memo AI that enable automating accounting research, extract and interpret authoritative literature, perform table-based calculations, and generate audit-ready outputs through structured, template-driven workflows. Memo AI uses advanced automation, contextual AI drafting, and integrated data processing across contracts, reports, and supporting documents, to generate audit-ready accounting memos.

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Our Leaders

Sandip Khetan

Co-Founder, Global Head of Accounting & Reporting Consulting | California, USA

Anthony Vitale

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | New York, USA

Abhijit Agarwal

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Bangalore, India

Amit Jain

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Gurugram, India

Arda Kaya

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | New York, USA

Ashish Gupta

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Mumbai, India

Avinash Ramkumar

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | California, USA

Dinesh Jangid

Regional Managing Partner Middle East | Dubai, UAE

Gagan Arora

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Gurugram, India

Mrinal Tayal

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Gurugram, India

Nirav Patel

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Mumbai, India

Nishant Sayani

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Mumbai, India

Raghuram K

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Chennai, India

Saad M. Al-Khathlan

Managing Partner, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia | Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Sagar Gupta

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Gurugram, India

Sagar Lakhani

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Mumbai, India

Sharad Chaudhry

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | New York, USA

Shashikant Shenoy

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Bengaluru, India

Shobhana S

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Bengaluru, India

Suresh Wadhwani

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Mumbai, India

Vineet Garg

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Gurugram, India

Ankit Gaba

Associate Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Gurugram, India

Subhasish Chakraborty

Associate Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Mumbai, India

Puneet Chowdhary

Associate Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Gurugram, India

Shahrukh Kapadia

Associate Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Dubai, UAE

Shyam Gupta

Associate Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Mumbai, India

Suraj Prakash Pandey

Associate Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Gurugram, India

Zaid Khatri

Associate Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Krishnakumar N T (KK)

Advisor | Mumbai, India

Harsimran Singh Sangha

Managing Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | California, USA

Shival Sehgal

Managing Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Canada, USA

Shoichi Ohno

Managing Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | New York, USA

Aksha Shetty

Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Dubai, UAE

Arpan Shah

Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Dubai, UAE

Ashwin Narayanan S

Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Chennai, India

Bhaumik Vora

Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Mumbai, India

Deepankar Garg

Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Mumbai, India

Dhaval Padhiyar

Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Dubai, UAE

Gaurav Agarwal

Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Bengaluru, India

Jaspreet Singh

Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Gurugram, India

Ketan Kataliya

Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Mumbai, India

Manas Sethi

Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Gurugram, India

Mazhar Lokhandwala

Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Mumbai, India

Nabeel Khatri

Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Ronak Malani

Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Mumbai, India

Sandeep Chaturvedi

Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Gurugram, India

Siddhant Chaudhari

Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Mumbai, India

Vikas Garg

Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Gurugram, India

Vishal Kulthia

Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Bengaluru, India

Vishwa Deep Mishra

Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting | Bengaluru, India
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Sandip Khetan

Co-Founder, Global Head of Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Sandip is an Indian Chartered Accountant, US Certified Public Accountant, Company Secretary, and an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad with over 25 years of experience in the consulting and assurance industry serving clients in the US, India, the Middle East and the UK. He has deep experience in the area of US listings and has assisted several large Indian companies in complying with US listing regulations as they raised capital from the US markets.

He is known as a problem solver, thought leader, and advisor to companies on IPOs, transactions, divestitures, complex accounting, and regulatory matters. Before his consulting industry stint, Sandip worked with HCL Technologies, a large technology company where he led the overall US GAAP reporting unit.

He was a founding member of the Accounting Advisory Practice at KPMG. During his stint at EY, he led the Finance Accounting Advisory Services practice and was part of the Assurance leadership team. He enhanced the digital capabilities at EY by building technology to automate the reporting in the finance function – this technology is now deployed for clients across different sectors in India and internationally.

Over and above his professional journey, Sandip likes to mentor startups and is also an active investor in the ecosystem. Sandip has a keen interest in badminton and has played at the national level.

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Sharad Chaudhry

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Sharad is an Indian Chartered Accountant with over 24 years of experience serving clients in the Technology, Fintech, e-Commerce, Travel and Aviation sectors in India, the US, the UK, and the Middle East.

During this tenure at KPMG, he was one of the founding members of the Capital Markets Group for the assurance practice. He participated and led multiple listing engagements in the US and India, including leading the firm’s US GAAP and SEC assurance practice. He has deep expertise in US GAAP, IFRS, Ind AS, SOX, SEC & PCAOB matters.

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Sagar Lakhani

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Sagar is an Indian Chartered Accountant with over 21 years of experience of servicing clients in the Financial Services sector in India and the UK. He has serviced some of the most prominent Indian financial services conglomerates such as the HDFC Group, ICICI Group, Mahindra Finance, Tata Capital, to name a few. During his stint of six years in the UK, he has serviced some of the global financial institutions such as Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse. Sagar is proficient in multiple GAAP’s – US GAAP, Indian GAAP, Ind AS, and IFRS. Sagar has an expert understanding of the accounting implications of capital raising in India and the US and as the audit leader of the India Capital Markets team at his previous organization, he has assisted several large Indian companies in complying with US and Indian listing regulations as they raised capital from the US and Indian markets.

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Ashish Gupta

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Ashish is an Indian Chartered Accountant with over two decades of experience serving clients across various sectors, both in India and internationally. He brings a blend of audit and consulting expertise with deep technical knowledge of Indian GAAP, IFRS, US GAAP, and SOX. Ashish has worked with several large and high-growth companies, handling complex situations and supporting them through IPO processes in both the Indian and overseas markets. Before joining Uniqus, he was with KPMG in India and the UK.

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Arda Kaya

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Arda is a Certified Public Accountant with over 20 years of experience in IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, carve-outs, technical accounting, and optimizing internal processes. Arda has served in various industry and sector roles during his 16 years with Deloitte and has significant expertise in US GAAP and IFRS. He has worked with many Fortune 500 companies and has led global finance and advisory teams in the US, Canada, and Europe. He has served clients in sectors such as Healthtech, Telecommunications, Travel, Hospitality, Consumer Products, Mining, Chemicals, and Industrial Products. Immediately prior to joining Uniqus, Arda led the controllership function for a multi-billion-dollar global organization.

Arda brings extensive experience in establishing, optimizing, and managing controllership functions, implementing ERP systems and upgrades, and overseeing consolidation and reporting processes under both US GAAP and IFRS. He is a subject matter expert and speaker at numerous webinars and events and is also a Certified Fraud Examiner.

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Avinash Ramkumar

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Avinash has more than 20 years of experience with strong US GAAP, SOX and IFRS experience.

Prior to joining Uniqus, Avinash was a National Office Audit Partner at KPMG in the US. He has assisted clients in resolving highly complex technical accounting implementation matters on a variety of subjects within the Technology, Life Sciences, and Industrial Manufacturing sectors. He has co-authored KPMG’s Accounting handbooks on various topics such as Share-based payments, Revenue recognition, and Accounting for income taxes. Avinash has facilitated a variety of technical topic discussion & trainings on US GAAP & IFRS accounting matters at various forums.

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Raghuram K

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Raghu is an Indian Chartered Accountant with over two decades of experience across sectors in both the US and Indian markets. He brings a blend of expertise from corporate, consulting, and audit roles, with a deep understanding of IFRS, US GAAP, and Ind AS.

Raghu has extensive experience working with PCAOB clients and practical insights into capital raising in India. He actively engages as a speaker and trainer on technical topics, conducting workshops for corporates and CFO forums. Furthermore, he serves on the Financial Reporting and Review Board (FRRB) technical team of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). He is a special invitee to the Sustainability Reporting Standards Board (ESG) of ICAI. Before joining Uniqus, Raghu was associated with KPMG, where he led the Assurance practice in Chennai and was a part of the Audit Executive Leadership Team.

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Dinesh Jangid

Regional Managing Partner Middle East

Dinesh is an Indian Chartered Accountant and a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) with over 20 years of experience in the consulting and assurance space serving clients across India, Middle East, Far East and the UK.

He was one of the founding members of the market leading Accounting Advisory Practice at KPMG in India. During this tenure at KPMG India, he led some of the most complex IFRS/Ind AS convergence engagements and provided transaction accounting support on several large M&A transactions. He also led automation projects for the finance function at several clients, including IFRS 16 tools, and consolidation & reporting solutions among others. In the Middle East, Dinesh has led some of the largest IFRS convergence and accounting change (revenue recognition, leases, and financial instruments) projects including for some of the largest telecom companies, shipping companies and retail chains, and a large petrochemical company.

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Shashikant Shenoy

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Shashikant (Shashi) is an Indian Chartered Accountant with over two decades of experience in serving clients across diverse sectors in India, the US, the UK, and the Middle East.

Shashi has served some of the most prominent Indian & global conglomerates and comes with deep expertise in GAAP (US GAAP, IFRS, Ind AS and SEC & PCAOB matters, including SOX), Finance transformation, IPO readiness, F&A shared services, Digital controllership and automation, Process improvements and Deal reporting. Prior to joining Uniqus, Shashi has worked with KPMG & Deloitte.

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Saad M. Al-Khathlan

Managing Partner, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Saad is a Certified Public Accountant with over 15 years of experience in auditing, accounting, and reporting. He has served clients in various sectors, including Financial Services, Telecom, Technology, and Automotive. He has deep expertise in IFRS and the Saudi Organization for Chartered and Professional Accountants (SOCPA) accounting standards.

Saad is also proficient in risk assessment, economic analysis, and control assessment. Before joining Uniqus, Saad was a Partner at EY, leading and managing a multi-locational team. His notable engagements include serving as the Lead Audit Partner for Saudi Telecom Company, Partner for Gulf Insurance Group and Saudi Information Technology Company, and other listed and unlisted companies. He has also been actively involved with various committees of SOCPA, the professional body pioneering and overseeing the accounting and auditing profession in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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Nirav Patel

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Nirav is an Indian Chartered Accountant with over 20 years of experience in consulting and assurance, serving clients across India and the UK. He has expertise in global sustainability frameworks such as the GRI, ISSB, CSRD, etc, and has led several sustainability reporting projects for companies in India. During his tenure at KPMG India, he was part of Accounting Advisory practice and has, led some of the complex IFRS/Ind AS convergence engagements in infrastructure, pharmaceuticals, and other sectors. Nirav has spent two years in the UK working with KPMG’s International Standards Group and was involved in teams working on business combinations and fair value. Before joining Uniqus, Nirav led external assurance engagements for India’s largest automotive and pharmaceutical companies.

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Suraj Pandey

Associate Partner

Suraj is an automation architect and provides strategic leadership on emerging technologies to our clients globally. He comes with over 19 years of international experience in cognitive-powered automation, application modernization and product development across organizations such as Accenture and EY.

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Mrinal Tayal

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Mrinal is a Chartered Accountant with extensive experience spanning over 15 years in accounting advisory and assurance services with expertise in US GAAP, IFRS/Ind AS, and Indian GAAP across sectors. He is an empaneled Technical Reviewer with the Financial Reporting and Review Board (FRRB) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He has previously worked with PwC and KPMG.

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Nishant Sayani

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Nishant is an Indian Chartered Accountant with a professional journey spanning over 13 years across firms such as KPMG & EY. He served as a member of the group established by a Big 4 firms assurance leadership to explore reporting opportunities within the realm of ESG. He has spearheaded several complex GAAP transition and consulting projects for major corporations across diverse sectors.

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Sagar Gupta

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Sagar is a Chartered Accountant with over 13 years of experience in accounting advisory services. He has extensively worked on US GAAP, IFRS, Ind AS and US GAAS, SEC and PCAOB related matters across sectors. He has also worked on multiple US listings, SOX implementation projects and has experience of advising clients on complex accounting issues. Sagar was previously with EY.

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Shobhana S

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Shobhana is an Indian Chartered Accountant with over 15 years of experience in financial reporting, internal controls & assurance, serving clients across sectors in India, US, UK and the Middle East. She was previously part of the audit practice of a Big 4 and has led multiple Ind AS, IFRS, US GAAP, SOX and PCAOB engagements.

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Vineet Garg

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Vineet is an Indian Chartered Accountant with over 17 years of experience in Assurance and Consulting serving clients across sectors in India, the US, the UK, and other parts of the world. Prior to joining Uniqus, Vineet was associated with a pharmaceutical company as their Financial Controller. He was also associated with KPMG in the past, in their India and Silicon Valley offices, and built his experience in Ind AS, IFRS, and US GAAP including SOX and PCAOB matters and compliances. He comes with deep experience of working with companies on their compliance with PCAOB, AICPA, and Indian auditing standards.

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Harsimran Singh Sangha

Managing Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Harsimran is an Indian Chartered Accountant with over 12 years of experience in the consulting and assurance industry serving clients in India, Canada, and the US.

He has a deep experience in US GAAP, IFRS, PCAOB, ICOFR (SOX and COSO 2013 frameworks) & SEC through his association with E&Y and KPMG.

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Shahrukh Kapadia

Associate Partner, GRC

Shahrukh is a Chartered Accountant with 14 years of post-qualification experience in Assurance, Risk Consulting, and Capital Markets. He spent over a decade with KPMG in India, working with large financial services institutions and global banks. He was also with EY in the Middle East, where he worked on various consulting projects for some of the largest banks in the UAE. Most recently, Shahrukh was with Mazars UK in their London office, where he worked on various internal controls implementation projects as part of the revised UK Corporate Governance Code.

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Suresh Wadhwani

Partner,
Accounting & Reporting Consulting

With over 15 years of experience in Financial Risk Management across India, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, Suresh has advised several clients, including banks, financial institutions, and regulators. Previously a Director at Deloitte and having worked at HDFC Bank and Yes Bank in the past, he brings expertise in capital and liquidity management, regulatory reporting, enterprise risk, credit risk, and target operating models. Suresh is now focused on working with clients in redefining financial risk operating models to address emerging risks, evolving regulations, and dynamic customer expectations.

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Zaid Khatri

Associate Partner,
Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Zaid brings with him over 14 years of experience in advising clients in Australia, India and the Middle East across Corporate, Government and Not-for-Profit sectors. He is a member of both, Chartered Accountants of Australia and New Zealand as well as CPA Australia.

Prior to joining Uniqus, Zaid led the CFO Advisory services practice for William Buck, a leading professional services firm in Australia and New Zealand. Before that, Zaid acted in the capacity of Deloitte Australia’s Victorian Government Lead for Accounting and Reporting Advisory services. Zaid was also associated with KPMG, Australia in the past.

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Vishwa Deep Mishra

Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting
Bengaluru, India

Vishwa is an Indian Chartered Accountant with over 9 years of experience in the areas of technical accounting advisory and fund accounting & reporting with focus on the financial services sector. He has rich experience in implementing standards like IFRS 9, ASC 326, and executed GAAP conversion projects. Vishwa also has significant experience on IPO readiness projects. Prior to joining us, Vishwa was with KPMG India.

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Vishal Kulthia

Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting
Bengaluru, India

Vishal is a Chartered Accountant with 14 years of experience in Finance Transformation and Finance shared services, holding expertise in IFRS, Ind AS, Indian GAAP, and IPSAS implementations, along with specialized audits and advisory services. He has worked across geographies including the USA, UK, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Mauritius, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Nepal, which has deepened his ability to navigate diverse cultural and ethical landscapes. Prior to joining Uniqus, Vishal was associated with Deloitte providing assurance and advisory services.

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Vikas Garg

Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting Gurugram, India

Vikas is a Chartered Accountant with over 14 years of experience in auditing, consulting, and industry. He has worked extensively with clients across the telecom, media, and technology sectors, honing his expertise in statutory audits, financial consolidation, process automation, and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A). Before joining Uniqus, Vikas led the FP&A division and served as consolidation lead at Bharti Airtel.

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Sandeep Chaturvedi

Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting Gurugram, India

Sandeep is a Chartered Accountant with extensive local and international reporting experience of more than 11 years in the statutory audit field, majorly for Indian and US-listed companies. He was responsible for ensuring adherence to Ind AS, US GAAP, IFRS, and SAS 100 reviews for multiple companies working across different industries, such as IT-enabled services, E-commerce, Travel, Automobile, and Publishing. He has performed audits under IFRS as per PCAOB norms for companies listed on NYSE. He also successfully handled the PCAOB inspection on key focus areas, including revenue, bank, business combinations, and journal entry testing prepared as per IFRS.

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Ronak Malani

Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting
Mumbai, India

Ronak is an Indian Chartered Accountant, Cost Accountant and US CPA with over 11 years of experience in financial auditing and accounting. He specializes in accounting and reporting frameworks in IFRS, FRS 102, UK GAAP, Ind AS, IGAAP, and US GAAP. Ronak has served clients across various global markets – India, the UK, and the US, amongst others and comes with diverse sector experience. Prior to joining Uniqus, Ronak was associated with EY, in their UK and India offices.

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Puneet Chowdhary

Associate Partner,
Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Puneet is a Chartered Accountant with over 13 years of experience in auditing and accounting advisory services with expertise in US GAAP, IFRS & Ind AS across sectors. He has extensively worked on complex accounting and reporting matters in diversified industries, across geographies including America, EMEIA and APAC. Puneet joins us from EY Global Delivery Services where he was part of the Technical Accounting team.

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Bhaumik Vora

Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting
Mumbai, India

Bhaumik is an Indian Chartered Accountant and a Company Secretary with over 20 years of experience in a global bank, NBFC and consulting firms across diverse business and control functions in multiple geographies. He has experience across all 3 lines of defence spread over deal structuring and execution, product management, business risk and controls, governance standards for all transaction banking products. In the past Bhaumik has worked with KPMG, HSBC Bank and EY and has considerable leadership experience in financial services industry and has delivered transformational strategic consulting solutions.

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Ashwin Narayanan S

Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting
Chennai, India

Ashwin is a Chartered Accountant with over 11 years of experience in auditing large MNCs & startups across India & the US. He specializes in Ind AS, IFRS and US GAAP and has significant exposure in handling complex accounting topics including business combinations, financial instruments, securitization arrangements, share-based payments, and various GAAP transitions. Prior to joining Uniqus, he was associated with KPMG India.

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Ankit Gaba

Associate Partner,
Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Ankit is an Indian Chartered Accountant with over 12 years of experience in financial reporting & assurance, serving clients in various sectors in India, the US, and UK. Before joining us, Ankit was a part of the Capital Markets Group of a Big 4 and worked on multiple IPO/listing engagements. Ankit has extensive experience in Ind AS, IFRS, and US GAAP, including SOX and PCAOB matters.

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Krishnakumar N T (KK)

Advisor
Mumbai, India

KK is a qualified accountant and holds a membership with both the Institute of Chartered Accountants in India (ICAI) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants, England and Wales (ICAEW). He brings with him 35+ years of finance experience, primarily in the banking industry (HSBC and SCB) in addition to the Big 4 Audit Firms (KPMG and EY) – across India, the UAE, and UK.

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Nabeel Khatri

Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

 

Nabeel is an Indian Chartered Accountant with over 10 years of experience in audit and assurance services. He has led audit engagements for clients across diverse sectors, including telecom, aviation, media, and sports investment. He has worked across India, the Middle East, and Canada, bringing strong technical expertise and a deep understanding of complex business environments. Before joining Uniqus, Nabeel was associated with KPMG and EY in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where he led audit engagements for diverse clients across the region.

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Shoichi Ohno

Managing Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Shoichi brings over 15 years of experience in accounting and financial consulting, with deep expertise across the consumer products, media & entertainment, technology, and cryptocurrency sectors. Throughout his career, he has led a wide range of impactful engagements, including serving as an interim controller for a public company, driving complex SEC reporting projects, supporting SOX implementations, and providing technical accounting advisory services.

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Deepankar Garg

Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Deepankar brings over 13 years of diverse experience in assurance, transaction monitoring, and technical accounting support. He has managed several clients across various industries, including manufacturing, financial services, trading, e-commerce, and high-growth startups. He has led several assignments, including IND AS transitions, mergers, reverse mergers, and IPO financial presentation and preparation. Prior to joining Uniqus, he was associated with EY and KPMG.

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Shyam Gupta

Associate Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Shyam Gupta is a seasoned expert in Risk Management and Analytics with over 15 years of progressive experience in industry and consulting. Specializing in risk, finance, audit, and compliance, he has spearheaded the development and implementation of critical regulatory frameworks, including Basel II/III, IRB, and IRS 9.

Formerly a Director at PWC and Protiviti (following roles at Deloitte and IDBI Bank), he has successfully led complex risk transformation projects for Financial Services (FS/BFSI) clients and regulators across India, APAC, and MENA regions.

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Anthony Vitale

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Anthony, with over 25 years of experience, is a trusted advisor and subject matter expert in finance strategy, operating model design (including GBS and shared services), and digital, technology-enabled process optimisation. He has led numerous finance transformation and performance improvement programs from assessment through implementation, spanning core enterprise processes.

Before joining Uniqus, Anthony was a Managing Director at CrossCountry Consulting. Prior to that, he played a pivotal role at Grant Thornton, where he launched the firm’s finance transformation practice and led the Shared Services solution area for the USA-based firm. He has also held leadership positions at EY and PWC, bringing with him deep global experience and insights.

 

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Gaurav Agarwal

Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Gaurav is a Chartered Accountant with 13+ years of experience specializing in PCAOB/AICPA audits, SOX compliance, and risk management for public & private clients. A proven leader delivering value-driven assurance, regulatory compliance, and risk mitigation solutions across diversified sectors, with strong expertise in complex accounting areas and stakeholder management. His portfolio of clients includes technology, consumer goods & emerging start-ups.

Prior to joining Uniqus, he was associated with Deloitte, KPMG and PwC.

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Amit Jain

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Amit is an Indian Chartered Accountant with over 17 years of experience in accounting and reporting advisory. He specializes in IPO readiness, capital markets, transactions and restructuring, and technical accounting under Indian GAAP, Ind AS, and IFRS.

He also advises organizations on ICFR readiness, including RCM design and process documentation, and has worked across sectors such as fintech, telecom, technology, renewables, oil and gas, EV Battery-as-a-Service, and co-working. Prior to joining Uniqus, he was a Partner at Deloitte India, where he led IPO markets, technical accounting, transaction advisory, and government advisory for the North practice.

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Mazhar Lokhandwala

Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Mazhar is a Chartered Accountant with over 17 years of experience in accounting, finance operations, finance transformation, and internal audit. He specializes in Finance Managed Services and has worked across core finance processes including procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, record-to-report, FP&A, treasury, and tax operations.

He has led transformation and managed services engagements across sectors such as telecom, oil and gas, media, logistics, and SaaS, helping organizations improve efficiency through process re-engineering, automation, and stronger internal controls. His experience spans India and the Middle East.

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Abhijit Agarwal

Partner, Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Abhijit is an Indian Chartered Accountant with over 20 years of experience in accounting and reporting advisory. He has advised a wide range of clients, including Global Capability Centres, large multinational and India-listed companies, and high-growth enterprises across sectors such as technology, consumer, energy, and e-commerce.

He brings deep expertise in IFRS, US GAAP, and Ind AS reporting, along with experience in IPO readiness, deal and carve-out reporting, finance transformation, and internal controls. Prior to joining Uniqus, he was a Partner at Deloitte India, where he led the Accounting & Reporting Advisory practice for the South region.

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Shival Sehgal

Managing Director, Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Shival is an accounting advisory professional with over 14 years of experience at leading professional services firms. He specializes in US GAAP and IFRS technical accounting, with expertise in complex financings, including embedded derivatives, as well as M&A and structured transactions across industries ranging from mining to technology.

Prior to joining us, he worked with KPMG and BDO in Canada.

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Aksha Shetty

Director,
Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Aksha is a Chartered Accountant with over 13 years of experience advising on complex accounting transactions under IFRS and US GAAP. She has extensive experience in financial reporting, advising on the ICOFR framework, developing policies & procedures, managing end-to-end implementation of new IFRSs, and delivering IFRS workshops. Prior to joining us, she worked with PwC Australia, KPMG Australia, KPMG Lower Gulf, and KPMG India.

She has supported large financial institutions and corporates on financial reporting transformation and complex accounting matters, including leading financial reporting and audit close engagements for a digital bank in Saudi Arabia and advising on purchase price allocation and carve-out financial statements in cross-border transactions. She also brings strong experience in SOX compliance and internal control frameworks.

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Arpan Shah

Director,
Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Arpan is a Chartered Accountant with over 10 years of experience in finance and support function transformation across clients in the Middle East, Europe, the United States, and India. Prior to joining us, he led finance transformation initiatives at Grant Thornton UAE and EY India.

He has led more than 20 transformation engagements focused on finance operating model design, ERP implementation, and digital finance platforms. His work includes implementing process automation programs, supporting nationwide e-invoicing initiatives, and designing operating models for large organizations.

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Dhaval Padhiyar

Director,
Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Dhaval is a Chartered Accountant with over 11 years of experience providing accounting advisory services on complex transactions and accounting standard implementation. He has worked with clients across the Middle East, the United Kingdom, Sweden, India, and Vietnam. Prior to joining us, he worked with KPMG in the United Kingdom and previously served as an Associate Director at KPMG India.

He has advised organizations on transaction structuring, consolidation under shareholder agreements, business combinations and purchase price allocation, financial instruments, revenue recognition, and lease accounting. Dhaval also has significant experience supporting companies transitioning from local GAAP to IFRS across sectors including telecommunications, technology, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, and oil and gas.

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Jaspreet Singh

Director,
Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Jaspreet is a Chartered Accountant with over eight years of experience in assurance and accounting advisory services. He has worked with companies across the infrastructure investment, leasing, and manufacturing sectors and has experience working under US GAAP, IFRS, and Ind AS.

He has advised clients on complex accounting matters including business combinations, consolidation, financial instruments, revenue recognition, lease accounting, and impairment assessments. Jaspreet has also supported organizations involved in U.S. listings, including engagements related to De-SPAC transactions and their accounting implications.

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Ketan Kataliya

Director,
Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Ketan is responsible for managing engagement delivery and ensuring timely execution of services. He has experience supporting clients on IFRS and Ind AS transition engagements across sectors including mobility, engineering procurement and construction (EPC), and real estate.

Prior to joining us, he worked with KPMG and Deloitte, where he performed statutory audit and limited review assignments across multiple industries. He has supported organizations in assessing the impact of new accounting standards, advising on accounting policies, and strengthening Internal Financial Controls over Financial Reporting (IFCFR) through gap assessments, remediation planning, and control framework reviews.

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Siddhant Chaudhari

Director,
Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Siddhant is a Chartered Accountant with over 11 years of experience serving clients in the financial services sector in India, including banks, NBFCs, funds, and brokerage firms.

Prior to joining us, he worked in the audit practice at BSR & Co., where he gained experience working across US GAAP, Indian GAAP, and Indian converged IFRS. He has supported engagements related to Internal Financial Controls over Financial Reporting (IFCFR) and IPO audits, and previously worked with Nomura supporting intercompany reporting and US GAAP financial statement preparation.

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Gagan Arora

Partner,
Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Gagan brings over 21 years of experience as a management consultant, having led several large-scale finance transformation initiatives, ERP implementations, shared services set-ups, and EPM automation programs across India, Europe, the UK & Ireland, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Over the course of his career at EY, KPMG, Accenture, WCS, and Vodafone Group, he has worked across diverse sectors,

including energy & utilities, telecommunications, airlines, automotive, banking, retail, FMCG, education, and manufacturing. Prior to joining us, Gagan was an Executive Director at EY, where he led global engagements, working closely with COs and senior stakeholders to deliver impactful outcomes.

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Manas Sethi

Director,
Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Manas is an Accounting and Assurance professional with deep expertise in U.S. GAAP, SOX, and IFRS, specializing in leading and delivering PCAOB audits for SEC registrants. He brings extensive experience in the technology sector, complemented by strong capital markets transaction expertise and regulatory insight gained through audit inspections and direct engagement with regulators. Leveraging this diverse background, Manas has helped organizations strengthen finance functions, enhance governance frameworks, and drive high-quality, compliant financial reporting. Prior to joining us, he was a part of KPMG.

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Subhasish Chakraborty

Associate Partner,
Accounting & Reporting Consulting

Subhasish brings over 16 years of experience as a management consultant, having worked across India, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. He has advised C-suite leaders across sectors including Retail, Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, and Pharma, and has led large-scale finance and digital transformation programs. Over the course of his career with PWC, Accenture, EY, and IBM, he has driven impactful initiatives spanning ERP modernization, Al-led transformation, and enterprise-wide finance change programs for Fortune 500 organizations.

Prior to joining us, Subhasish was a Director at PWC, where he led complex, high-value engagements and consistently delivered best-in-class outcomes for clients.

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