Associate Director - Strategy Group
KPMG Lower Gulf
Total years of experience :21 years, 1 Months
Responsible for developing and growing the Strategy practice for KPMG in the UAE and Oman region. The proposed services include strategy formulation, business planning, feasibility studies, market studies, commercial due diligence, business plan review and financial model development.
Pre-deal advisory, market and competitive position, strategic assessment, business due diligence and synergy evaluation for Private Equity and large business houses. Market entry and growth strategy (organic and inorganic) for businesses as well as investment evaluation for new businesses.
Providing transaction support services to global private equity firms. The services include market attractiveness assessment engagements in niche industry segments and business and operational due dligence assignments on prospective target companies with a strong investment perspective to it. The role offers an opportunity to work with some of the marquee global PE houses and on some of the largest PE investments in India.
Working in the Risk Consulting division of CRISIL Ltd., which is a subsidiary of Standard & Poor's. The role involves providing consultancy services to banking sector with respect to Basel II and RBI norms related to Risk Management and Capital Adequacy.
Forecasting, budgeting and variance analysis in close coordination with the Country Managing Director and Finance Director for some countries in the EMEA region for Oracle's License Sale business. This also included preparation of a critical MIS report circulated to senior European leadership of Oracle.
The work involved acquisition of new clients and managing relationship with the clients. It included goal-oriented investment planning, portfolio management and other financial advisory services in the area of tax-planning, Investment evaluation, etc. I was also instrumental in setting up the financial product research base of Allegro Capital Advisors in the retail space.
- 99.83% in CAT examination with calls from six out of six IIMs - CGPA - 6.71/ 9; amongst the Top-20 percentile in the batch of 260 students - Specialization in Finance & Strategy