Key Skills

Profile Summary

Business Vision & Leadership

Work Ethic

Time Management

Interpersonal Communication

Critical Thinking

Analytical Skills

Team Building & Leadership

Eagle eye for details; excellent organizational skills go hand-in-hand with precision.

Passionate leader with excellent track record of managing overall team. Strong client focus; understanding the client’s business, mission, industry and culture to achieve the Company’s financial goals.

Out-of-the-box thinking; capable of developing fresh ideas and strategies to solve complex and unique issues.

Strong sense of ethics.

Embrace challenges and changes; effectively respond to changes in working environments.

Multitasking.

Dynamic, go-getter & pragmatic & focused with excellent planning, leadership and problem-solving skills.

Passion for people development (Coaching & Mentoring). International work experience.

Career Timeline

2009-2015 2015-2016 2016-2020

KEVIN ATWAROO

An enthusiastic and energetic financial professional who recently turned 33 years of age with around 10 years of experience who has a successful and consistent track record of achieving high level of work return to clients. Involved in diversified financial works comprising of audit assignments and financial engagement reviews.

adj93l@r.postjobfree.com Nationality: Mauritian +230-****-**** Nexia Baker & Arenson

as Senior Auditor

Nexia Baker & Arenson

as Team Leader (Senior

Accounting)

BDO Solutions Ltd as

Project Leader

(accounting department)

Soft Skills

Professional Qualification

ACCA; partly qualified (Level1, Level 2 and P1/P2/P3 in Level 3 completed). Awaiting results for papers P5 and P7 sat December 2020. Work Experience

May 2016 – June 2020

Key Achievements

BDO Solutions Ltd

I joined BDO Solutions Ltd as a Team Leader on 30 May 2016 and was promoted to the position of Project Leader on 01st July 2018. I was in charge of a team of approximately 15 members.

Key Responsibilities;

Responsible for a portfolio of clients and acting as the direct point;

Reviewing monthly and quarterly management accounts;

Reviewing payment file and setting up payments on bank platform;

Verification of payroll;

Respond promptly to queries;

Ensure that all deliverables are thoroughly reviewed before submitting to managers/clients;

Ensure high quality works;

Takes responsibility for work quality and ensures errors are rectified;

Highly organized with the ability to prioritize and multi task;

Prepare planning in peak period;

Restructure planning when timetable changes;

Ability to meet deadlines by working with end result clearly in mind and addressing problems preventing the completion of work;

Identify complex/technical issues while preparing/reviewing management account;

Ensure standardization of deliverables;

Provide teams with regular feedback about their work;

Prepare minutes of meetings;

Train team members as and when required and continuously share information knowledge and expertise.

Significant Accomplishments:

During my tenure at BDO Solutions, I had the opportunity to be on overseas secondment to BDO Reading and BDO Bristol for a period of 5 weeks, where I received training on several existing projects as well as new potential project. I had the responsibility to convey the knowledge acquired to my fellow team members through training and coaching sessions, and at the same time developing my leadership, team work, problem solving, organization, confidence and communication skills. In addition to the above duties, I had the chance to act as Assistant Manager with further responsibilities, listed below:

Preparing monthly billing and invoice clients.

Preparing monthly internal reporting.

Set and attend monthly feedback call with clients.

Monitoring and approving leaves and overtime claims of team members. Communicator Problem-solving

Planner

Collaborator Adaptability

Successfully

grew top-line

and bottom-line

as per company

expectation

Talent

Development

International work

experience and

developing

Leadership skill

Writing articles in

Newsletter.

March 2015 – May 2016

Nexia Baker & Arenson Chartered Accountant

A member of Nexia International, a leading worldwide network of independent, high quality financial & consulting firms, which helps to meet business and financial needs of organizations with an international outlook.

From March 2015 to May 2016, I have moved from the audit department to the accounting team and I have acquired a vast experience in the accountancy and tax fields. In addition, I have on some occasions been on secondment at client place and my team has mainly a portfolio of local clients for accounting and internal control. Through the supervision of Chartered and Certified Accountants, my job consisted of;

Financial analysis including financial ratio computations, performance, activities and gearing;

Testing internal control;

Preparation of financial statements;

Reconcile intercompany balances and transactions and resolve discrepancies in a timely manner;

Respond to queries from external auditors and the Mauritius Revenue Authority within agreed deadlines;

Verification of monthly and quarterly VAT;

Preparation of tax and APS (Advance Payment System) computations;

Effect payment of VAT, APS and Tax within due dates to avoid penalty fees;

Verification of monthly payroll;

Verification and submission of monthly NPS/PAYE/TDS declaration via MNS

(Mauritius Network Services);

Verification of payments by cheques/bank transfers of invoices, etc and ensure that relative payments are being done;

Mitigate risk with respect to duplication of payments;

Verification of Fixed Assets register to ensure proper information are being disclosed in financial statement;

Assist my superiors in the handling of the accounting functions by compiling and preparing financial records to meet legal requirements;

Provide relevant, timely and accurate information to relevant stakeholders, and when required within agreed deadlines to meet all legal requirements;

Train team members as and when required and continuously share information knowledge and expertise.

Sept 2009 – March 2015

Nexia Baker & Arenson Chartered Accountant

My duties consisted of;

Carrying of audit procedures;

Drafting of financial statements (under IFRS);

Prepare tax computations;

The review and appraisal of client's accounting and internal control systems and making appropriate recommendations to management;

Organizing and planning of audit team assignment;

Supervision of audit work done by subordinate staffs and ensuring that appropriate audit techniques have been applied;

Liaising with Managers/ Supervisors/ Partners of the firm on audit matters. Discussing with clients on all aspects relevant to the audit assignments;

Assisting senior members in the preparation of group accounts under IFRS;

Assisting annual inventory count at client place. I was also in charge of the tax (corporate tax and V.A.T) and APS computations for a portfolio of clients assigned to me. Furthermore, I had the opportunity to response to the Mauritius Revenue Authority on behalf of clients for some tax assessments. Also, I have worked on special assignments on fraud detection for particular client. Professional

Qualification

Personal Details

ACCA; partly qualified (Level 1, Level 2 and P1/P2/P3 in Level 3 completed). Awaiting results for papers P5 and P7 sat December 2020. Date of Birth: 27th November 1987

Address: C4, La Tour Koenig, Pointe aux Sables

Languages Spoken: English & French

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