James Varghese

Experience Industries Served Specializations Educational Qualification

& Certifications
• 17+ years post qualification • NGO MFI • Corporate Governance • LLB. (Gen.), Bombay
experience in Finance, Leadership • Finance & Accounts University
Accounts, Business • Financial Services • Audit • FCA, ICAI, New Delhi.
Management, Corporate • Consultancy • Taxation and Law • CIA, USA
Finance and Audit. Organization • FRM, USA, (Affiliate
Member)

Relevant Experience

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Executive Industry: Midsized Microfinance Company (Indian arm) of a Christian Development, Relief and
Director- Advocacy Global Organization
India  Period: 2005- till date
 Work Profile:

a) Responsible for Strategizing, Business planning, Policy framing and implementing to

scale of a start up micro finance Company to Scale.
b) Engaging on a regular basis with Overseas Office as well as Domestic and also the
Board.
c) Responsible for all Statutory Obligations and Regulatory requirements.
d) Responsible for Resource Generation from within the country and Overseas for
funding.
e) Timely Internal Reporting and Programme Management.
f) Providing Leadership to the entire Organization (Team Size 100+).
g) Liaison with Banks, Financial Institutions and Grant Funders such as USAID.
AVP-
Operations
 Industry: Business Process Outsourcing (Finance and Accounts Transaction Process)
 Company: ACS of India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India
 Company Profile: Fortune 500 American BPO Company, providing F&A support to
Fortune 100 Companies.
 Period: 2003-2004.
 Website: www.acs-inc.com.
 Work Profile:

a) Set up and Managing F&A Operations (AP, AR, FA & GL) for 6 Asia Pacific
Locations for General Motors.
b) Team Size 150 covering 6 locations in Asia Pacific.
c) Responsible for SBU P&L.
d) Managing SLAs, Business Unit specific.
e) Service provided to client using their applications on SAP, Mainframes, etc. and
internally using state of art Document Management Solution.
f) Tracking Quality and spearheading as well as implementing process improvements.
g) Project Management.

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Chief
Financial
Officer  Industry – Project Engineering, Products and Services.
 Company: Rajni Combustion Pvt Ltd, (Agents for Fortune 500 Companies Bentonne
AB, Sweden and Weisaupt GMBH, Germany)
 Website www.rajniglobal.com
 Company Profile: Fast Moving Engineering Goods and Services with operations in
India & South East Asia, total revenues in excess of Rs. 500 million
 Period: 2000-2003
 Designation: Chief Financial Officer (Reporting to Board of Directors)
 Work Profile:
• Designed Financial Policy & Process
• Corporate Finance & Banking
• Liaison with Bankers and arranging Term and Working Capital
Limits.
• Statutory Audit & Accounts
• MIS
• Budgeting & Financial Analysis and Credit Control
• Expense Cost Control
• Process Audit.
• Liaison with Income Tax, Sales Tax, Customs and
Octroi Department.

GM Finance  Industry – Business Consultancy Company (AN ISO 9001-2000 Company)

& MBD  Company: MITCON Consultancy Services Ltd., (A Joint Venture of ICICI Ltd.,
IDBI, IFCI, SICOM Ltd., MIDC, MSSIDC & Nationalized Banks)
 Website www.mitconindia.com
 Company Profile: Professional Industrial, Technical and Management Consultancy
Organization with multi locational operations in India, total revenues in excess of Rs.50
million
 Period: Since 1996-1999
 Designation: Chief Financial Controller (Reporting to Managing Director)
 Work Profile:

• Project Design, Feasibility and Report preparation.

• Designed Financial Solutions for Client Process.
• Process formulation, review, modification keeping in mind client needs,
business productivity, & profitability
• Project profitability analysis

Sr.Manager  Industry – Financial Services & Accountancy Company.

 Company: Gosar & Shah Associates
 Company Profile: Professional Financial and Management Consultancy Organization.
 Period: Since Jan 1992-1996.
 Designation: Senior Financial Manager
 Work Profile:

• Process Formulation & Financial Structuring.

• Public Issue and Merchant banking activities.
• Project Plans & Pre-Feasibility Study
• Designed Financial Solutions for Client Process.
• Conducted independently Statutory, Internal,
Investigative as well as Management Audit for Medium Corporate
clients
• Liaison with Income Tax, Company Law for SME’s.

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 James Varghese
Audit  Chartered Accountant Firm.
Supervisor  Company: Lodha & Co (Affiliate of BDO International).
 Company Profile: Chartered Accountancy Firm among the top 10 firms in India.
 Period: Since May 1990-1991.
 Designation: Audit Supervisor
 Work Profile:
• Conducted independently Statutory, Internal, Tax as
well as Management Audit for Large & Medium Corporate clients.
• Liaison with Income Tax, Company Law for SME’s.

Articled  Chartered Accountant Firm.

Clerk  Company: R. G. Bhala & Co.
 Company Profile: Chartered Accountancy Firm.
 Period: Since Oct 1986- Dec 1989.

Corporate’s  United Phosphorus Limited.

Associated  Bennet Coleman & Co. Ltd.
with for  Century Industries Limited.
Audit and /or  Time Guaranty Finance Limited.
Financial  Arrow Webtex Ltd.
Consultancy  Cosme Menezes Mathais Limited.
Assignments  Shree Ambeshwar Paper Mills Limited.
 Cadbury Schwepps I. Ltd.
 Alpic Finance Ltd.
 Dagger Frost Ltd.
 Narmada Agro Industries Limited.
 Troika Process P. Ltd.
 Win Medicare Ltd.
 Unidyne Projects Ltd.
 Le Meridien Hotels P.Ltd

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:

• Bachelor in Science (Physics, Mathematics & Statistics) from Bombay University, in 1986
• Bachelor in General Law from Bombay University, in 1993.
• FCA ,The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India in Nov.1991.
• Certified Internal Auditor, USA, 2007.

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name : James Varghese
Date of Birth & Age : 4th,October 1965; 43 years.
Email : james_varghese@hotmail.com
Present Location : Chennai, +919840037610

Strengths
a) Integrity and Maturity.
b) Aptitude to learn.
c) Analytic and numerical mind.
d) Able to analyze change and generate solutions quickly.
e) Cross Cultural approach.
f) Enjoy problem solving and taking on challenges.

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