Shallu Arora

Chief Financial Officer @Sirca Paints India Limited

Delhi, IN

Partner with Board on long-term planning, mergers, acquisitions, and growth initiatives.• Drive value creation by balancing profitability, liquidity, and growth investments.• Ensure accurate, timely, and compliant financial reporting. • Manage budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis to support decision-making.• Build strong internal controls and risk management frameworks.• Ensure compliance with taxation, corporate laws, and regulatory authorities.• Oversee audits (statutory, internal, cost, GST) and mitigate financial risks.• Ensured all statutory and regulatory filings were accurate and submitted on time.• Work with business heads to analyze margins, costs, and profitability drivers• Acted as a business partner to department heads, supporting budget management and performance reviews.• Build strong relationships with banks, auditors, customers and suppliers. • Lead investor relations.• Implement digital finance solutions.• Drive process transformation & SOP standardization for efficiency.• Build and mentor a high-performing finance team.• Showcasing leadership skills by providing guidance to entire team to deliver results more effectively & efficiently• Promote a culture of accountability, ethics, and transparency.• Collaborate cross-functionally to support business innovation and scalability.• Monitored changes in accounting standards and assessed their impact on reporting• Supervised financial transaction recording, ensuring compliance with internal control frameworks.• Finalizing presentations on financial and allied matters every quarter and presenting to the Board of Directors Meetings• Managing stakeholders & investors by updating with value relevant information, financial performance and outlook of the organization in quarterly earning calls and investor meetings.• Strengthening systems and processes across various functions for optimization of working capital by Receivable management, inventory control and Payable management.

Lovely Professional University

Post graduation

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

Forensic audit

Guru Nanak Dev University

Graduation

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

Chartered accountancy