vijk wrote:
Hi, am planning on applying for 2021 intake. Yet to give GMAT, aiming for the last week of July.
Hoping you could help me evaluate where I stand, here is my profile GIST.
Age: 30, Male
10th - Andhra Pradesh Board, 79.
12th - Andhra Pradesh Board - 81% - Commerce, Civics and Economics
BCOM from IGNOU, 61%
2 gap years between Articles and first job due to personal reasons.
Chartered Accountancy - Nov, 2018 -
Work Exp, 6 years Excluding Articles
4 years at a media & event management company in Finance & Taxation profile - Asst. Manager - promoted from Sr. Finance executive.
Lead a team of 4 members in the end to end handling of GST audit at divisional level - including planning, review of the workings and supportings, co-ordination with GST auditors.
Single point of contact for direct and indirect taxation / transactional / revenue queries from business team / vendors and clients.
An active participant in Finalisation and preparation of financials at the year-end - including preparation of schedules as per Accounting Standards.
Profile in the role of individual contributor includes - liaison with business team on aspects of revenue recognition, Taxation, planning aspects of cash and fund management for the projects, implementing of internal controls.
Additional responsibilities: Projections of fund requirements and budgeting for the month / quarter / year - variance analysis.
Achievements: Identified errors in billing from vendors resulting in saving of Approx. 30 L, Concluded GST audit independently with a clean report before the other two zones in the company. Automated certain time-consuming tasks performed by executives using the available tools.
1 year with Ola cabs
Part of the team overseeing the transition to Oracle Financials
Team lead for North Zone - operations and Single point of contact for first escalations.
Single point of contact form the team for monthly and daily closure and reports.
2 years: 1 year before graduation, with an Income Tax practitioner.
Handling Tax audits under 44AB of Income Tax act
Service Tax consultancy
Representations before ITO and preparation of paperwork for Appeals at Appellate Tribunal.
Extracurricular:
Completed Advanced Valuation and Strategy - M&A, Private Equity, and Venture Capital on Coursera
Runner up place during intercollegiate Team Quiz competition during +2
No documentation available for the below
Volunteer for Spandana - Intercollegiate fest during +2
Class representative during +2
Has a personal blog for short stories - sporadic posts.
A regular contributor on one online forum for fiction writers.
A micro tale got selected for one of the anthologies.
Hi Vijk,
In your work experience, I'd ask you to focus upon the impact you made through your work. For example, while "end to end handling of GST audit at divisional level" well sounds as boring, it will be more relevant to mention how you overcame challenges related to GST implementation and made your organization GST ready (That would have happened within your tenure at your company).
Similarly, I find the work done related to : liaison with business team on aspects of revenue recognition, Taxation, planning aspects of cash and fund management for the projects- as more impactful from a strategic perspective.
ISB does not consider articleship as full time work experience, so you will have to exclude that if you are counting your one year article ship experience post-graduation into FT experience. Also, do check on this once with ISB/ reading through their FAQs.
Lastly, you will have to explain the two year gap in employment. ALthough its not desirable, but that's in the past and nothing can be done about it. So an explanation in the application form should help.