Ernst & Young LLP | Gurugram

Associate Manager

• Assisted clients across Europe, US, APAC and the Middle East in designing robust risk and control frameworks for core business processes, identifying gaps and inefficiencies, formulating targeted process improvement recommendations, and conducting thorough testing to assess the design and operational effectiveness of internal controls.
• Extensive leadership experience of 2 years leading 5–6 member teams, providing technical guidance and training; handpicked for 1-year contract by EY Germany leadership as Subject Matter Expert to lead their SOX and ICFR engagements.
• Laid foundation for established relationships with EY Germany and UK leadership and counterparts.
• Trained a 60-member team (India) on key business processes; prepared training curriculum and resolved subject matter queries.
• Led a 6-member team to design risk and internal control frameworks from scratch for a Germany-based SaaS company, across core business processes including Record-to-Report (R2R), Purchase-to-Pay (P2P), and Order-to-Cash (OTC).
• Collaborated directly with CFO and Functional/ Department Heads to identify process and control gaps, and presented findings and remediation recommendations to CFO – resulting in acceptance and implementation of key controls across all three processes.
• Led a 4-member team to build a risk and internal control framework from the ground up for a Germany-based medical technology client with no prior formalized control environment – engaging directly with the CFO and functional Heads of Department to map processes, identify control gaps, and deliver a comprehensive framework across core business functions.

Senior Consultant III

• For a Germany-based consumer goods company, convinced management to implement a Demand Planning tool to improve inventory management, reducing obsolete inventory and resulting in direct savings of EUR 5,000 over a 1-month period.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams on a SOX readiness assessment for a Singapore-based real estate company; identified revenue overstatement amounting to S$180,000 (approx.) due to incorrect period booking of service contracts.
• Designed Purchase-to-Pay process from scratch for a US-based Terminal Services company, benchmarking against industry best practices; recommendations directly delivered financial savings and mitigated material fraud and procurement risk.
• Collaborated with EY Analytics team to analyze key terms of ongoing supplier contracts – identified missed discounts worth USD 23,000 over 1 year; convinced management to implement a contract analysis tool, with direct potential savings of at least USD 23,000/year in subsequent years.
• Identified absence of a competitive bidding process for supplier procurement – convinced management to implement a formal bidding process, reducing procurement costs by 15% and directly improving profit margins.
• Identified fraud-prone gaps in the procurement process including insufficient supplier verification and approval controls – recommended targeted process improvements mitigating ongoing procurement fraud exposure across a high-volume transaction environment.

Senior Consultant II

• Identified lack of credit limit check surety for all B2B customers of a US-based Consumer Goods company; convinced management to implement strict credit limit checks, mitigating potential credit risk of approximately USD 10M.
• Worked on SOX/ICFR controls testing for a NYSE-listed global life sciences company; covered 15+ in-scope entities across Europe, APAC and US; recommendations to remediate identified control deficiencies mitigated aggregate misstatement and fraud risk exposure across procurement, inventory, financial reporting and IT access processes.

Senior Consultant I

• Conducted half-yearly (HY) deficiencies assessment for a global mining and commodities major (USD 25B revenue).
• Evaluated design and operational effectiveness of controls across treasury and trading operations including deal shaping, Letter of Credit (LC) processing, sales invoice cancellation, and cash receipts management.
• Identified multiple control deficiencies across front-office and contracts administration processes with root cause analysis and remediation actions.

Lead Associate

• Contributed to various corporate reporting engagements including preparation of financial statements, benchmarking financial performance against industry standards, lease accounting analysis, and related reporting activities.

Advanced Associate

• Advised EY UK leadership on automating financial statement benchmarking; implementation cut manpower needs by 50%, with direct savings of USD 19,000 over a 1-week period.

• Awarded Exceptional Client Service Award for delivering exceptional EY experience on UK ICFR engagements
• Awarded Highest Performing Team Award (x2) twice for being a team player - on one of the largest EY UK SOX engagements, and for managing multiple trading and holding entities for a UK-based manufacturing company
• Awarded Extra Miler Award for contributions to financial statements preparation engagement for a UK-based manufacturing company
• Awarded Spot Award (x6) six times in 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026 for dedication, commitment to the client, high level of professionalism, outstanding value and quality, and timely deliverables

• MBA (PGPX) – Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad | India
• Captain of Athletics team (Women)
• ACCA – Association of Chartered Certified Accountants | India
• Member status received 2021 | Exams cleared 2018
• BBA (Finance & Accountancy) – Christ University, Bangalore | India

• Lean Six Sigma, IIFCA Academy
• Advanced MS-Excel, Career Edifice
• Open Water Scuba Diver certified by PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors)

• Winner of Inter Deanery Cultural Fest - Awarded for securing first position in Street theatre at Inter-deanery cultural fest held at Christ University
• Secured second place Inter College theatre competition Halla Bol held at R.V. College of Engineering, Bengaluru
• Secured third place in Inter-Deanery Cultural Fest Blossoms held at Christ University
• Awarded Social Impact Champion Award at EY - volunteered and donated painting proceeds to ‘Sugam’, a Gurugram NGO providing education to 100+ underprivileged children
• Active volunteer in EY Ripples and GDS Connectival, managing 300+ team members on CSR initiatives
• Member of organising committee for ‘Sahyog’ (2018) at Christ University – helped 40+ specially-abled children perform before a 1,000+ audience; college theatre group member and multi-competition winner (2014–2016)