Piyush Agarwal

A Chartered Accountant and a Commerce Graduate from University of Calcutta. Skilled in Corporate Finance, Financial Analysis, Accounting and Auditing.

Senior Associate 2 – Assurance, Asset and Wealth Management at PwC AC (2020-12 – Present)

• End to end support to overseas primary audit team. Walk through documentation of key business processes.
• Adept in handling the wide range of assignments and core competencies include offshore audit of Asset Management Companies, Venture Capital Funds and Family Offices
• Performed FS tie outs, Substantive testing and Automated Disclosure checklist for financial statements
• Exposure of using Bloomberg and Data snipper for various audit documentation

Industrial Trainee – Corporate Finance, Strategic Planning at ITC LIMITED (2016-07 – 2017-03)

• Tracking of latest news and financial updates of competition entities
• Assisted in ITC Startup Cell to track various startups for strategic investments
• Financial Analysis of Competitors (Horizontal Analysis, Ratio Analysis)
• Preparation of Industry & Competitor Profiles (Corporate Profiling)
• Preparation of Daily and Weekly Share Performance Reports of Domestic and International Competitors
• Preparation of Comparative Valuations of competition entities as required from time to time
• Preparation of Competition Ready Reckoner as required from time to time
• Assisting in preparation of Quarterly Performance Reports of competition entities
• Assisting in preparing Competition Database across various business verticals
• Assisting in preparing Daily and Monthly Economy Reports on Indian Economy.
• Exposure of using Prowess IQ (software maintained by CMIE) and Industry Database maintained by CRISIL Research and Venture Intelligence (financial database of private entities)
• Exposure of using various databases for tracking Startups like Crunchbase, VCCircle.

Article Assistant – Auditing and Accounting at R. MODI & COMPANY (2014-12 – 2016-06)

• Internal Audit, Statutory Audit; Tax Audit
• Preparation and filing of Income Tax Return
• Preparation and filing of TDS Return
• Assisting in preparation and finalization of financial statements
• Assisting in Statutory & Concurrent Audit of Banks

Article Assistant -Auditing and Accounting at TARUN K. GUPTA AND COMPANY (2014-04 – 2014-11)

• Internal Audit, Stock Audit, preparation and filing of Service Tax Return
• Preparation of replies for notices issued by Service Tax Authorities

Alternative Investment Manager – AIWMI (2020)

Chartered Accountancy – The ICAI (2019)

B.Com (Honours) in Commerce – Seth Anandram Jaipuria College, Kolkata (2015)

Higher Secondary – Titagarh Anglo Vernacular High School (2012)

Secondary – Titagarh Anglo Vernacular High School (2010)