Maulik Bhupatani
Sharjah,SH
Summary
To work in a healthy, innovative, and challenging environment where I can contribute in corporate finance and M&A, while continuously learning and growing at both professional and personal levels.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Corporate Finance & M&A Executive | Group Internal
Universal Travel & Tourism LLC (Musafir.com)
08.2023 - Current
- Supported corporate finance and deal execution across UAE, KSA, and Qatar, including three M&A transactions totaling AED 167M in enterprise value.
- Assisted in buy-side due diligence across finance, tax, legal workstreams , and contributed to valuation assessment and investment feasibility analyses to support decisions.
- Contributed to deal structuring, funding analysis, and transaction documentation in coordination with senior management and advisors.
- Participated in a USD 75M fund-raising initiative valuing the group at USD 200M , supporting buy-side due diligence (finance, tax, legal, commercial), financial projections, and investor materials (transaction deferred at final stage)
- Prepared financial models and investment summaries for management and board presentations.
- Supported financial process automation , improving approval workflows and operational efficiency.
Deputy Manager
Adani Enterprise Limited
08.2022 - 07.2023
- Handled various internal audit assignments for ports, logistic and digital sector of group for business areas like revenue, operation, and other support services.
- Responsible for execution of audits as per plan approved by audit committee from initiating audit announcement to auditee till issue of final audit report after discussion with process owners.
- Performed benchmarking across sites/location for various business areas and reporting of the same to management.
- Identified improvement & automation scope for customer invoicing.
- Responsible for monitoring of corrective and preventive actions of closed reports and supporting business in timely closer of the same and reporting to management in case of noncompliance.
- Responsible for continues review of third-party auditors' work and supported for smooth execution of audit assignment.
Associate
SMSFA Assurance Service LLP
05.2021 - 04.2022
- Performed audit of Australian Superannuation fund as per the ATO rules and regulation.
Senior Analyst
Mahajan & Aibara
12.2018 - 09.2019
- Handled various internal audit assignments for hospitality, automobile companies, conducted audit for business areas like Lease & Licensing, Record to Report (R2R), Procurement (P2P), Order to Cash (O2C), customer complaint management review.
- Performed risk based internal audits by conducting process walkthroughs, evaluating risks and controls in the processes, conducting test check and data analysis, to identify effectiveness of existing controls and mitigation of identified control gaps.
- Identifying audit issues, discussing observations with the concerned HOD & developing recommendations for areas of improvement.
- Issuing audit report and obtaining agreed action plan for strengthening controls against identified observations.
Article Trainee
M/s V. Parekh & Associates
02.2015 - 06.2018
- Handled various internal audit assignments for textile, cement, pulp & paper, automobile companies, where covered areas such as Procurement (P2P), Order to Cash (O2C), Record to Report (R2R), Human resource, stores operations, statutory compliances, etc.
- Assisted in the statutory audits of Real Estate, Polymer, Automobile companies, etc. by performing review of financial statements.
Education
Chartered Accountant -
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
01.2021
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) -
Mumbai University
Mumbai 06.2016
Skills
- Due diligence
- Financial Modelling & Analysis
- Capital structuring & funding analysis
- Risk consultancy
- Internal audits
- Process optimization
- IFC Testing
- Financial Accounting
- SAP, MS Office, Tally, Oracle
LANGUAGE KNOWN
English
Hindi
Gujarati
INTEREST
Stock market enthusiastic, Playing cricket
Timeline
Corporate Finance & M&A Executive | Group Internal
Universal Travel & Tourism LLC (Musafir.com)
08.2023 - Current
Deputy Manager
Adani Enterprise Limited
08.2022 - 07.2023
Associate
SMSFA Assurance Service LLP
05.2021 - 04.2022
Senior Analyst
Mahajan & Aibara
12.2018 - 09.2019
Article Trainee
M/s V. Parekh & Associates
02.2015 - 06.2018
Chartered Accountant -
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) -
Mumbai University
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