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Tathagato Roychoudhury

Chartered Accountant with 16+ years of Post Qualification experience

Current / Permanent Address

Flat # 106, Creative Elegance Apartment

Road No. 4, Karthikeyanagar, Nacharam

Hyderabad 500076 India

Phone : + 91.9985102015

Email : tathagatorc@gmail.com

Specialties: Established track record in implementing viable strategies and policies, setting roadmaps for process excellence,

review mechanism, corporate governance and project management across multiple sectors.

Executive Summary:

• 16+ years post qualification experience as Chartered Accountant

• Functional and technical competence in Corporate Finance, Business Strategy and Capital Market

• Comprehensive understanding and experience in Pharmaceuticals and Energy

• Demonstrated leadership and managerial qualities in problem resolutions and enabling strategic business decisions

• Fast learning curve and ability to deliver measurable outcomes

• Self motivated, result oriented, stakeholder centric with effective interpersonal communication skill

Academic Credentials

• Associate member (ACA) to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, New Delhi (2000)

• Bachelor of Commerce with Honors (1995) from University of Calcutta

16+ years of diverse and rewarding post qualification experience as CA

August 2007 – Present (8+ years): Aurobindo Pharma Limited (www.aurobindo.com)

Among the top export-driven Indian Pharma companies with revenues of Rs 120bn (FY15E) and 12K+ employees.

Aurobindo ranks among the top-5 most valuable Indian pharma companies and the top-50 companies listed in the Indian

bourses.

(October 2015 onwards) DGM/HoD – Enterprise Risk Management reporting to the CFO and functional reporting to the Risk

Management Committee, Audit Committee and the Board of Directors. Work responsibility includes planning, designing

and implementing an overall risk management mechanism for the organization; identify and evaluate potential risks across

various functions & financial parameters and suggest appropriate risk mitigation plans and policy directives. In addition,

responsible for leading, coordinating and ensuring the efficacy of the Internal Audit function and ensuring all proposals,

actions and issues emanating from the board/committee are appropriately taken care of.

(August 2007 – September 2015) DGM/HoD – Investor Relations reporting to CFO with functional reporting to the

Managing Director. Work responsibility included analyzing & communicating results, business drivers and strategies of the

company; institutional investor targeting; industry and peer tracking / benchmarking; preparing presentations and press

releases; financial modeling; managing company website and monitoring stock performances. Involved as an integral part

of the core team in capital raising (QIP) in due diligence, documentation and AsiaPac marketing, FCCB buybacks and other

strategic initiatives such as improving operating cycle and cost austerity measures of the organization. Aurobindo has been

among the top 5 pharmaceuticals / healthcare stocks and top 50 companies to be listed in the Indian bourses with market

capitalization of INR 43K Crores (24th

September 2015).

Company Sector KRA Experience

Aurobindo Pharma Pharma Investor Relations, Corporate Finance, Fund Raising, Business Strategy,

External Communications, MIS, Enterprise Risk Management, Internal

Audit & Compliance, Financial Modeling, Financial Due Diligence

8Y-7M

CESC / RPG Group Energy Corporate Finance, Accounts, Audit & Compliance, Investor Relations 6Y-1M

Genpact ITES Quality, Employee Engagement, Project Management 1Y-6M

Post Qualification Experience as Chartered Accountant 16Y-2M

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March 2006 – August 2007 (<2 years): Genpact (www.genpact.com)

A third-party ITES Company in India delivering operations excellence and business impact to customers globally.

(October 2006 – August 2007) Manager – GOLD (Genpact Operational Leadership Development) reporting to Service

Delivery Leaders

SME role: Driving Operations Excellence framework and Business Process Management System across the F&A Vertical of

the organization. Also, have been working on initiatives such as Value Stream Mapping exercise in mapping and improving

Training cycle time, Cross Training, Bench Utilization, Daily Performance Trackers and Digitization of Issue Logs for Finance

CoE, Hyderabad.

HR role: Driving employee engagement across Collections & Recoveries CoE through Gallup Employee Satisfaction Survey

action planning. Additional responsibility entrusted during the stint: ramp-up of a specific portfolio in Collections from 30 to

100+ FTEs in terms of Movement Plans, Operational Metrics, Learning Curve, Portfolio Hygiene and Productivity

deliverables.

(March - October 2006) Manager – Quality, Finance CoE, Hyderabad, reporting to the Quality Leader for site and CoE. Core

deliverable to check for Quality compliances through various surveys and initiatives as standardization of SoPs, Macro

Documentations, Process Stability Index (PSI) Survey, EVoC, Global Performance Tracker and Operational metrics.

February 2000 – February 2006 (6+ years): CESC / RPG Group (www.cesc.co.in)

An RP-Sanjeev Goenka Group flagship Company, engaged in generation & distribution of electricity in & around the twin

cities of Kolkata-Howrah in West Bengal, India and also having diverse business interests in Retail, Carbon Black, Media &

Entertainment among others

(July 2004 – February 2006) Sr. Executive - Corporate Finance, reporting to Group Vice President (Corporate Finance).

Primary function has been investor relations for CESC, KEC International, Phillips Carbon Black and CEAT. Work

responsibility included analyzing & communicating results, activities and performances of the companies with analysts and

Investors; organizing road shows and investor meets; peer tracking and benchmarking; preparing presentations for

investors and MDAs; monitoring stock performances of all group companies; key promise follow-ups and assisting top

managements in decision making with regard to investment and expansion strategies. Worked on CDM (Clean

Development Mechanism) projects on emission reduction credits for CESC and PCBL

(December 2001 to June 2004) Audit Executive - Internal Audit. Work responsibility included inspection of functional and

financial control over various activities of the company and recommending improvements thereon. Major departments

covered were Generating Stations, Commercial, Budget & Accounts, Treasury & Payroll, Retirement Services and Mains.

(February 2000 to November 2001) Finance Executive to Balagarh Power Company Limited, an Independent Power Project

of CESC. Work responsibility included developing finance plans for the project, maintenance of accounts as per specified

guidelines and statutory norms, preparing monthly cash flow statements and budget, reporting of accounts under US

GAAP, income and other tax matters.

~5 years of Pre Qualification experience as CA (including Articleship)

1 year as Audit Manager with M/s Upasani, Jain & Kshirsagar, Pune based CA Firm for C&AG audit on MKVDC.

1 year as Audit Executive with M/s AK Kumar & Company, Kolkata based CA Firm for audit of various Tea Companies with tea

estates in Assam and North Bengal.

3 years Articleship with M/s DP Sen & Co under (Late) CA. Rahul Roy, ex-President of the ICAI for Internal, Statutory and Tax

audits in Banking industries and Government organizations.

Professional Training

• Trained on Six Sigma DMAIC methodology and other quality tools viz Lean, Value Stream Mapping

• Sarbanes Oxley Act levels 1 and 2 and IFRS Basics and integration with Indian GAAP (by KPMG)

• Investor Relations Excellence

Interests

Pet keeping; Traveling; Photography; Music; Cooking; Reading; Movies; Sudoku; Jigsaw Puzzles; Chess; Social Media; Comics

and Graphic novels; Playing the Guitar, Mouth Organ and Synthesizer.

Other Information

• Date of Birth: 20th September 1973

• ICAI Membership No. 060441

• Passport Number: M5684423

• LinkedIn address: http://in.linkedin.com/pub/tathagato-roychoudhury/5/914/151

• Social Network address: https://www.facebook.com/tathagatorc