I am Divya Padmakumar, fully qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA, 2012) from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) with more than 7 years of industry experience in Finance, Auditing, Taxation. I have also successfully completed the post qualification course from ICAI, namely ‘Diploma in Information Systems Audit (DISA, 2014)’ and ‘Diploma in International Taxation’ (DIIT, 2016). I also have a Masters Degree in Commerce (M.Com) from IGNOU.

I have worked as an Associate for 5 years in Financial Accounting and Reporting function of J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, handled the financial control and accounting of Derivative instruments like Equity, swaps, stock, dividend, FX, Foreign exchange options (FXO), Futures, responsible for ensuring the correctness of daily recons prepared by the team as part of BAU to ensure that downstream systems are in line with upstream risk management systems. Also responsible for timely month end closure of books for above mentioned derivatives and ensured the correctness of the same to various stakeholders. Also handled General Ledger Reporting and Substantiation (GLRS),  part of different system migrations (Oracle to SAP system migration), ensuring timely notional submissions for Exchange traded products (ETP), involved in General ledger to Basel reconciliations for external reporting. I also have experience in Statutory Audit of companies, Audit u/s 44AB, Audit finalisation of Tax and Non tax audit, Computation of total income, preparation of financial statements and e-filing of Tax returns. I was also a core member of the audit team responsible for conducting statutory audit of Glenmark Generics Ltd, a leading pharmaceutical company for 2 consecutive years, statutory Audit and Limited Review of Catholic Syrian Bank Ltd and team leader for conducting Tax audit of Thrissur District Co-operative Bank Ltd. I was also involved in the review of Suspicious Transaction Reporting (STR) of State Bank of India mutual fund.