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Resume:
Gopal Dixit
Chartered Accountant
With post quali?cation experience of 19 years.
SKILLS
WORK EXPERIENCE
BATAS Group
GM ? Hotel Ananda Pashupati
**/**** ? 01/2025
- Leading the team of 50 people across all departments and responsible for overall operation of
75 rooms hotel.
Group Chief Financial Officer &
Head of Internal Audit
BATAS Organization Pvt. Ltd.
06/2021 ? 02/2024
A Diversified Conglomerate in Nepal.
Leading the team of 74 people across 18 group companies from corporate office at Kathmandu for 95
million dollar business.
Brief Job Description;
A. Planning
1. Provide financial leadership in formulating the company's future direction namely Annual
Business Plan (ABP).
2. Monitor, review and direct the implementation of the approved Annual Business Plan in a
scheduled manner.
3. Advise business, financial, and tax strategies.
4. Supervise the financial budgeting processes as per ABP.
5. Develop a performance measures-based culture in the Finance & Accounts Department of a
whole group of companies.
B. Fund Management
1) Supervise the process of consortium meetings with banks, the requirement for funds, and
its management. Coordinate and negotiate interest rates, and other fees with banks and
financial institutions when needed.
2) Monitor the fund status of all group companies.
3) Advise for debt and equity financing
4) Oversee the process of meeting banking obligation
C. Operations
1. Ensure that all the group companies? daily accounting and finance jobs are done timely and
accurately.
2. Build trust relations with key partners, suppliers, and stakeholders and act as a point of
contact.
3. Keeps up with current trends in the industry and modern business practices by reading
periodicals and developing a sharing culture within the subordinates.
4. Performs advisory role after reviewing MIS reports on how the companies can cut expenses
and increase revenue.
5. Monthly review of Business Plan and Budget of all the sister concerns.
6. Finalizing contracts/agreements with goods/service providers after group level negotiations.
7. Weekly Team Meeting/Training within/across functions to increase efficiency and
effectiveness in the work performed by the team.
8. Monthly award and recognition program to select best performer among the team and
communicating rest of the team members that how he/she has become the best.
D. Financial Information
1. Oversee the issuance of financial information.
2. Actively participate in the budgeting process and take approval from BOD.
3. Personally review and approve all Financial Statements before filing with banks, financial
institutions, and regulatory authorities.
4. Report financial results to the board of directors against budget and last year explaining any
variations.
5. Review increase in costs of any major items of expenses including all capital expenditures
E. Risk Management
1. Play an advisory role in the identification of any risk areas and update BOD about it along
with its impact.
2. Develop and monitor reliable internal control systems through an internal audit function.
3. Review appropriate insurance coverages being set up by HR and Admin department prior to
making payments.
4. Review to ensure that the company complies with all legal and regulatory requirements.
Like- registration and renewal of municipal/ yatayat/land taxes/TDS/chamber of
commerce/NADA/and other government and non-government legal dues.
5. Ensure that record keeping meets the requirements of auditors and government agencies
6. Report issues along with their risk classification to the board of directors through an internal
audit report.
7. Maintain relations with external auditors; investigate their findings and implement the
recommendations.
F. Audit
1. Co-ordinate with external auditors for the audit in consultation for corporate Kathmandu units
and ensure audit report signed by Poush end for all group companies.
2. Monitor and ensure implementation of the recommendations made by external auditors.
3. Establishing an internal audit team and properly monitoring the internal auditing process.
G. MIS
1. Review the MIS (Business & Receivables) of all the group companies and corporate support
functions (HR, Admin, Procurement & IT), and recommend actions to be taken on a
monthly basis.
2. Supervise quarterly MIS presentations to the board and recommend improvements to be
done.
H. System Development
1. Review the existing Finance system of all the group companies, recommend change wherever
required, and its implementation and support in the development of a standard operating
procedure manual for all group units.
2. Ensure compliance with the financial law, company?s policies, and their implementation for all
group companies through an Internal Audit function.
I. Third Parties
1. Maintain PR relationships with Banks, FIs, Vendors, Service Providers, Auditors, Team, etc.-
dinner/lunch meet once a month.
2. Represent the company and coordinate with regulators/ various Government bodies like the
Inland Revenue Department, Department of Industries, Department of custom and Exports,
FNCCI, ICAN, Investors, stakeholders, and various other relevant institutions.
HEAD - FINANCE & ACCOUNTS
M.A.W. Earthmovers Pvt. Ltd.
02/2020 ? 06/2021
Sole Dealer of JCB Machines and Parts in Nepal.
Brief Job Description;
Leading the team of 23 people at head office in Kathmandu and 12 branches across
the country for 58-million-dollar business.
Preparation, Finalization and Implementation of Annual Business Plan including
Financial Budget.
To Achieve Profitability as per approved Financial Budget.
Preparation & Finalization of Annual and Half Yearly Financial Statement.
Timely completion of Statutory and Internal Audits including closure of open points.
Compliance to statutory requirements, accounting principles & M.A.W. SOPs.
Effective management of working Capital and reduction of finance costs.
MIS preparation, analysis and discussion with management and stakeholders.
To ensure timely maintenance of proper books of accounts, regular reconciliations
& ledger scrutiny.
Managing Relationship with Principal Company (JCB India Ltd.)
Product Costing and Pricing - Machine & Parts.
Handling complete Insurance portfolio of business.
To ensure timely and requite ordering of products & smooth/cost effective delivery
to the customers.
Ensure timely and accurate processing of Payroll.
PR building with Banks and Other Financial Institutions.
Team Development Activities.
FINANCE CONTROLLER
Delhi Duty Free Services Pvt. Ltd.
01/2010 ? 01/2020
A Joint Venture of GMR Group & Aer Rianta International
Achievements/Tasks
Provided effective ?nancial ownership to ?nance team, to enable strategic foresight
into the business and also provide
Knowledgeable and accurate information to colleagues and stake holders
for 200-million-dollar business.
Key strategist in business planning, cost analysis and annual forecasting.
Dashboard management including Operational, Financial and Sales KPI?s for Board and
Investors.
Effective hedging of rupee term loan through derivative/POS contracts with bank
resulting in savings of 3.42% (6 million dollar) over market costs.
End to end process control implementation with focus on Cash Management, Inventory
Management and Product Pricing.
Achieved cost savings of 0.60 million dollars on annual spends with strong
negotiation techniques.
ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER ? FINANCE
Track India Pvt. Ltd
05/2008 ? 01/2010
GSA for Air Arabia and Air Asia Pan
India Achievements/Tasks
Leaded the ?nance team pan India, for 77-million-dollar travel and tourism
business.
Supervised of four regional managers and eighteen branch
accountants across India. Ensured books of accounts are closed
and reconciled on regular basis.
Prepared and analyzed monthly MIS showing pro?tability and fund position for
individual branch as well as for the company as a whole
Ensured and managed vendor payments at the branch as well as central level.
Business reporting to management and venture partners on periodical basis and
variance analysis with business plans.
MANAGER ? ACCOUNTS & AUDIT
MGC
08/2006 ? 05/2008
A Consulting/Audit
Firm
Achievements/Tasks
Responsible for ?nancial accounting, auditing and reporting requirements of the
?rm.
Supervised bookkeeping and accounting staff.
Prepared Balance Sheet, Pro?t & Loss Account and other ?nancial reports.
Handled taxation matters related to Income Tax, Tax Deducted at
Source (TDS), Service Tax. Overall planning & supervision of the audit,
including supervision of audit staff.
Finalized audits including report writing.
HONOR AWARDS
Star leader of the year (2018 & 2019)
Delhi Duty Free Services Pvt. Ltd.
EDUCATION
Chartered Accountant
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
05/2006
LANGUAGES
English Hindi
Nepalese
SOFT SKILLS
CONFERENCES & COURSES
Computer Applications ? MS Windows,
MS Office, MS NAV, TALLY & BUSY
(07/2006 ? 12/2006)
ACHIEVEMENTS
Startup company (01/2010 ? 07/2010)
I was the ?rst one to join Delhi Duty Free and had a great experience of setting up the whole systems and processes
and their successful implementation.
ERP Implementation (06/2017 ? 12/2017)
Had an extensive exposure during implementation of new version of ERP (NAV 2016) from old version (NAV 2009)
as a project lead.
Change of Functional Currency (12/2017 ? 01/2018)
Had a good learning as a ?nance lead during the project of change of functional currency from USD to INR.
Thank You!
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