Rajinder Chohan

An ICAEW chartered accountant with 10 years post qualified experience, immediately available for a new role. My personable nature, along with the diversity of my experience, clients and strong interest in business has allowed me to develop excellent skills and add real value to my teams. Outside of work, I am very passionate and enthusiastic about health and fitness, spending time outdoors and travelling. Full UK working rights with no sponsorship required.

Supervisor - Lubbock Fine - London

(2025-02 - 2025-07)

• Working as part of a team as well as completing audits independently planning to completion.
• Project management responsibility keeping senior leaders aware of progress and problem areas.
• Built long-term relationships with senior client stakeholders driving internal equality through advocating benefits of diverse teams.
• Cut team attrition by mentoring junior staff, championing professional development, and contributing to a high-performance culture.
• Acquired invaluable commercial insight via hands-on assessment of business models, controls and financial performance across multiple industries doing Going concern assessments.

Executive - Shipleys Accountants

(2024-07 - 2024-12)

• IFRS and UK GAAP audited entities experience in aerospace industry from £50m-£100m turnover.
• Built long-term relationships with senior client stakeholders, improving audit quality, driving an increase in repeat business across several clients, particularly within the private equity sector.
• Worked independently completing all fieldwork keeping the partner informed of progress.
• Assisted key clients with budgeting and forecasting to support financial planning and decision-making.

Executive - MHA

(2024-02 - 2024-05)

• Exposure to various industries including financial services, investment companies, aerospace.
• Audited entities with a turnover of £50 - £90m for IFRS reporting.
• Managed complex audit engagements under strict time constraints; balancing conflicting priorities and maintained attention to detail to ensure quality.
• Successfully secured new audit clients through targeted pitching and relationship management to grow audit department.
• Achieved successful fee increases across client engagements through effective negotiation and stakeholder management.

Assistant Manager - KPMG - Birmingham & London

(2017-10 - 2023-03)

• Ensuring high-quality and IFRS-compliant reporting under tight deadlines in a high performing Big 4 environment.
• Helped deliver the Aston Martin audit in time for their IPO public listing in 2018.
• Worked in large teams to deliver listed audits being Travis Perkin, BMW Group and Hill & Smith.
• Worked with key stake holders in the business to help improve employee morale.
• Developed a number of technical audit skills on complex areas like IFRS 16 and Goodwill impairment reviews including experience in challenging senior management on complex judgement areas.
• Preparing audit findings reports to be communicated to the audit committee of listed companies.
• Junior managed various audit clients around £450m turnover within the building and construction sector reporting under FRS 102.
• Delivered over 20 audits to deadline and within budget by managing teams across concurrent client engagements including overseas staff, ensuring high-quality outputs and efficient resource planning.
• Providing continuous feedback to juniors to aid with their continuous professional development.
• Assisted in delivering a new KPMG audit platform, supporting audit teams through change management and operational transition.

Audit & Account Senior - Crowe Clark Whitehill - Birmingham

(2014-08 - 2017-10)

Top 13 accountancy firm globally.

• Controlling audits from planning through to completion for clients with a £2m to £53m turnover.
• Experience in analysing company accounts through analytical reviews to identify potential audit risks.
• Produced financial statements for small to large companies under accounting standard FRS 102 including disclosures to ensure completeness and compliance with relevant standards.
• Producing audit findings reports informing clients on any controls weaknesses identified during the audit as well as any accounting errors identified within the accounts.
• Keeping managers and partners up to date on progress of the audit.
• Securing over-run fees of up to £2,000 on audit engagements.
• Reduced inefficiency-related costs on an engagement by 21% through targeted improvements in the audit strategy and workplan.

BSc (Hons) - Business and Management - Aston Business School, University of Aston

Industrial Placement - Reporting Analyst - Intel Corporation