Kishore

About Kishore

Entrepreneuring CFO, startup specialist, Senior Corporate Finance professional offering international experience in Finance Leadership, setting up Global Finance Shared Services, Strategy, Decision Making, VC Fund raising, Controllership, Financial Accounting and Reporting, Business planning, Analytics and Reporting, Legal and Statutory Compliances, Corporate mergers & acquisitions, demergers, business integrations & standardization, Financial controls, Legal entities restructuring, implementation of financial systems and ERPs.A Chartered Accountant (CA), Company Secretary (CS) and MBA Finance with 26+ years experience in Food tech, Gig tech, eCommerce, Fin tech, IT, ITES, BPO, KPO, Financial Services, Logistics, Retail, B2B, B2C verticals.Have raised more than $500mn in VC funding and $10+mn in debt, have setup Global Finance Shared Service center for excellence for 200+ legal entities and handled transaction of $2+billion.Have extensive experience working with multi-cultural teams across continents. Have built global finance teams from scratch to 200+ teams, have setup new STP, SEZ centers. Excel at identifying, developing, implementing strategic priorities and tactical action plans that increase productivity, drive efficiencies, and reduce costs. Able to grasp the big picture, focus on critical details and prioritize multiple projects. Self-directed Finance leader who can build and motivate high-performance teams and cultivate effective working relationships with all stakeholders. Committed to adding value and exceeding expectations through collaborative problem solving, intuitive business judgment, and disciplined quick decision making abilities.Specialties: Strategic Business Planning, FP & A, Decision Making, Controllership, Finance, Accounts, System Integrations, Company Secretary, Competitive analysis, Mergers, Acquistions, International Accounting, Financial Reporting, US GAAP, SOX, Six Sigma, ERP implementations on MS Dynamics AX, SAP, DeFacto, Infinium AS 400, Oracle, People Soft, JD Edwards for OTC, PTP, RTR, MM

Experience

1. Group Chief Financial Officer

   Geezy

   Apr 2022 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Geezy foods enable restaurants, pubs, bars & hotel chains to optimize their underutilized kitchens by fostering virtual delivery only brands in their existing kitchens. We are the creators of those brands and manage end to tech solution, coordination with food delivery platforms, and marketing. If you would like to know more about us check us at as a marketing platform works with over 100 multinational brands such as Coca Cola, Mars Wrigley. Mondelez,Unilever and others enabling them to reach captive audience through food delivery networks, Airbnbs and other channels.

Education

• Bangalore University

  Bcom, Commerce

  1993 — 1996

• Sree Saraswathi Vidya Mandira

  Pre High school, English

  1978 — 1987

• Symbiosis Center for Distance Learning, Pune

  PGDBA - Finance, Finance

  2003 — 2004

• Vijaya College

  BCom, Accounting, Commerce, Law

  1993 — 1996

• Vijaya Preuniversity Composite College

  PUC, Commerce - MECA

  1991 — 1993

• The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

  Chartered Accountancy, Financial and Management Accounting & Auditing

• Bangalore High School

  Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), Accounting and Finance

  1987 — 1991

• The Institute of Company Secretaries of India

  Company Secretary, Corporate Governance

  1997 — 2001

Skills

• Ifrs
• Us Gaap
• Sec Reporting
• Revenue Recognition
• International Accounting
• Shared Services Implementation
• Leadership Mentoring
• Workforce Training
• Demergers
• Spin-Offs
• Company Secretarial
• Monthly Reporting
• Stpi
• Statutory
• Government Liasioning
• Financial Operations
• Bank Relations
• Accounting Analysis
• Year End Close
• Treasury Functions
• Board Reporting
• Financial System Implementation
• Cost Reduction Initiatives
• Business Control
• Federal Taxation
• Special Projects
• Statutory Accounting
• Accounting
• Banking
• Finance
• Sec Filings
• Year-End Close
• Company Secretarial Work
• Treasury
• Negotiation
• Tax
• Financial Services
• Shared Services
• Workforce Development
• Process Optimization