Neha Shah *** Washington Avenue,

Rutherford, New Jersey – 07070

USA

Email Id: acq1np@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile: +1-917-***-****

OBJECTIVE & INTEREST

o Objective is to work as a responsible employee in a reputed firm wherein I can share and increase the knowledge I prevail and utilise them in a practical manner. Responsible and dependable in professional and personal life.

o Ability to learn new methods, systems and technologies with relative ease and apply them effectively in shortest possible period.

o Consistently tried to and shall maintain high standard of achievement at work. Organized and comfortable working in a multi-tasking project-oriented environment. o Adapted to learn new techniques, communicating and interacting with new people in day to day life and try to achieve goals successfully.

EDUCATION

o 2006-07 - Cleared Group A of MBA from ICFAI University o 2005-06 - Successfully completed Master of Commerce (M.Com II - Management) securing Second Class from the University of Mumbai o 2004-05 - Successfully completed M.Com - I (Management) from the University of Mumbai

o 2003-04 - Successfully completed Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) securing Second Class from K.C.College

o 2001-03 - Successfully completed Software Programming courses from NIIT which includes programming languages such as HTML, XML, Java, SQL, C, C++, VB.Net, ASP.Net etc

o 2000-01 - Passed H.S.C securing First Class from K. C. College o 1998-99 - Passed I.C.S.E securing First Class from Queen Mary School (ICSE Board) WORK EXPERIENCE

1. September 2004 till April 2014

Organization : Ernst & Young Private Limited, Mumbai Designation : Senior Consultant (Direct tax – Industrial and Consumer Products) Responsibilities & Key learning

i) Transfer Pricing

o Preparation of transfer pricing reports which includes full scope transfer pricing reports, economic analysis updation reports, benchmarking reports, functional analysis report, conducting industry overview & research, etc

o Identification of international transactions;

o Reconciliation of international transactions with audited financial statements, notes to accounts, foreign currency transactions o Performing comparable searches for transfer pricing assignments on Indian databases such as Prowess and Capitaline Plus. Also undertaken searches earlier using the RBI / SIA website for particular royalty transactions

o Performing comparable searches for transfer pricing assignments on Foreign databases such as OneSource, ISI emerging markets, etc

o Conducting extensive searches on Indian and foreign databases from an industry perspective such as comparable search for tested party related to the industry for eg Information technology enabled services, software support services, pharmaceuticals, merchant banking and broking activities and media searchs o Reviewing annual reports of companies for purpose of comparability o Reviewing legal documentation/ agreements

o Computation of margins

ii) Assessment and appeal support

o Preparation of factual/ technical submissions submitted before the tax authorities to defend the positions adopted by the clients

o Assisted in advising, preparing and filing of appeals and drafting of submissions to be presented before Commissioner of Income-tax (Appeals) level o Assisting in evolving strategies adopted in respect of representation before the Dispute Resolution Panel (‘DRP’) and Income-tax Appellate Tribunal (‘ITAT’) o Assisting in preparation and filing an application before the DRP and ITAT o Assisted in handling and filing application for Advance Pricing Agreement (‘APA’) iii) Client service and financial

o Support in managing relationship with clients

o Attending meetings for functional interview to understand the background of the company and critical matters

o Undertake correspondence with the clients depending on the level of complexity of queries

o Handle billing on various clients

iv) Others

o Assisting in preparing, reviewing and analyzing of Transfer Pricing Certificate (Form 3CEB)

o Assisted in analyzing appropriate structure from a cross border structuring perspective for specific client

o Learnt to apply for PAN applications, etc

o Have conducted various trainings for colleagues such as interns, new joinees, executives based on Prowess, Capitaline, Comparable searches, etc 2. June 2004 to August 2004 (3 months)

o Employed with Kotak Mahindra Bank - Home loans department for handling outbound and inbound enquiries for home loans

o Managing and regular follow-up with the clients

o Managing the database for the enquires, etc

3. March 2003 to December 2003 (10 months)

o Employed with TDS & Co., Chartered Accountant as a trainee and gained knowledge in Tally and managing the database for various other financial entries 4. Additional experience

o Learnt software programming from NIIT and simultaneously assisted as Public Relation Officer

(PRO) and performed the following activities:

- Managing enquiries and explaining various courses held at NIIT to students

- Guiding students to the best program/ course

- Assisted in feeding data in the database

- Visited various schools where short term courses were held by NIIT for educating young children on MS Office and Internet

- Actively participated in exhibitions promoting NIIT courses, etc AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

o Participated and won Prizes for Interschool marching competition at school level consecutively for two years

o Participated and won certificates for sport activities in school o Participated and won in various dance competitions in and outside school o Participated as a volunteer for seminars / exhibitions held by IDP Education Australia at Trident, consecutively for two years.

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of Birth: 27 May 1983

Languages Known: English, Hindi, Gujarati & Marathi Marital Status: Married

HOBIES

o Listening to music

o Dancing

o Making friends

o Discovering new and adventurous locations

I CAN OFFER

o Commitment and capacity to dedicatedly work, adapt to changes taking place in the professional environment

o Handle the assignments for and on complete responsibility on behalf of the firm o Willingness to change and respond to conducive feedback. Ability to focus on the positive aspects of colleagues and respect them for what they are

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