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<h2>Big 4 heritage with core outsourcing credentials</h2>
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<h2>100 years of cumulative experience in the field of outsourcing, accounting, assurance, taxation and compliance</h2>
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<p>We have 12 years of core outsourcing experience, handling engagements from Global MNC's having functional expertise across Banking, Insurance, Retail
etc Clientele across food, machine tools, banking, insurance, transportation logistics industries</p>
<p>Expertise in handling operations and outsourcing for large MNC s with past experience from OPI/ EXL, Wipro, Deloitte, PwC, EY and KPMG</p>
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<h2 class="team-title">Jose Mekkalath</h2>
<h4>Founder</h4>
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<li>Started his career with Deloitte in 2000</li>
<li>Worked with Deloitte and PWC in their assurance
practice</li>
<li>Worked with KPMG & EY in their M&A advisory
practices with key specialization in financial due
diligence</li>
<li>Handled multiple M&A engagements like:</li>
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<li>Assisted Actis Private Equity in their
acquisition of Nilgiris</li>
<li>Privatization of Kuwait Airways</li>
<li> Assisted Investcorp Bank B.V. Bahrain in
their acquisition of Middle East’s largest
industrial Gases company</li>
<li> Assisted Novartis in evaluating their
vendor selection process in the KPO space</li>
<li> Assisted Carlyle India in their proposed
acquisition of a manufacturer of cement
and cement boards.</li>
<li>Assisted Caritor in their proposed acquisition of
Chicago based IT and ITES company</li>
<li> Vendor due diligence of one of the largest players in
Kuwait’s auto leasing sector-</li>
<li>Assisted Goldman Sachs in their proposed
investment in the largest cable service provider In
India</li>
<li> Assisted Blackstone in their investment in Ushodaya
Group of companies, South India’s largest media
group</li>
<li>Assisted Blackstone Real Estate Fund in their
proposed investment in Bangalore based hostel
catering to corporate houses</li>
<li>Assisted TPG in their proposed investment in one of
the largest low-cost airlines in India
<li> Assisted Morgan Stanley in evaluating their proposed
investment in a Hyderabad based real estate
company.</li>
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<h2 class="team-title">Sreeram S</h2>
<h4>Engagement lead</h4>
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<li> Started his career with Deloitte in 2000</li>
<li>Worked with Deloitte and EY, Kuwait in their
assurance practice</li>
<li>Worked with OPI/ EXL in the Finance & Outsourcing
domain for 12+ years</li>
<li> Part of Backwater since 2018</li>
<li> Handled outsourcing engagements across all
verticals like Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Record
to Report and Hire to Retire for domestic and
overseas customers (USA, Canada, UK, Malaysia,
Singapore, Australia, Poland, Bulgaria, Indonesia)</li>
<li> Hands on experience and expertise in the areas of
Process Study, Mapping and Documentation;
Transition Planning and Execution, Project
Management and Reporting</li>
<li> Worked as a consultant in the area of Process
mapping and controls review – to evaluate and
report on the controls environment based on the
provisions of the Sarbanes Oxley Act, 2002 of USA</li>
<li>Outsourcing engagements handled include:</li>
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<li>Process Review, mapping and reengineering
across P2P, O2C, R2R and H2R verticals for
the European region of one of the world’s
largest food and agricultural companies</li>
<li>Process mapping, documentation, transition
planning, execution and project</li>
management of banking processes for 4 of
the largest banks in Canada</li>
<li>Management of a 200-member team
engaged in process across all verticals for
the world’s largest hand tools and machine
tools company headquartered in the US </li>
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<li>Worked in the realm of audit and assurance and has
performed External audit, internal audit, direct and
indirect taxation assignments for clients in India and
the Middle East</li>
<li> Experienced in Accounting, Bookkeeping, MIS and
reporting functions</li>
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<h2 class="team-title">Smita Leslie</h2>
<h4>Delivery lead</h4>
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<li>Started her career with Deloitte in 2000</li>
<li> Worked with Deloitte in their assurance practice</li>
<li> Worked with Reserve Bank of India</li>
<li> Worked with G Joseph & Associates, Chartered
Accountants, Kochi – as one of the partners from
2012 to 2019</li>
<li> Associated with Backwater since 2012</li>
<li> Hands on experience with the bookkeeping and
accounting functions and process outsourcing
across multiple verticals – P2P, O2C, R2R, H2R</li>
<li> Keen eye for compliances – handles compliances
under various Indian statutes like Income Tax Act,
Goods and Services Tax Act and labor law related
compliances</li>
<li> Supports US clients with compliances related to
Annual tax returns, Form 1099 filing, Sales and Use
tax returns etc</li>
<li>Outsourcing engagements being handled include:</li>
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<li>Supervise the entire bookkeeping, accounting
and payroll processing functions for an IT
company (US subsidiary) in Infopark SEZ, Kochi
with 80+ employees</li>
<li>Payroll processing for a Kerala government
company in the infrastructure development
vertical with 150+ employees</li>
<li>Bookkeeping, accounting, compliance
management, MIS reporting, Leave
management and payroll processing for a
staffing company (US subsidiary) with 25+
employees</li>
<li> Bookkeeping, accounting and compliance
support for a US company (incorporated in
Delaware) that is engaged in development and
marketing of software in healthcare domain.</li>
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