Arpit Kalariya

Strategic Leadership

• Act as a key member of the executive leadership team, partnering with the CEO on strategic planning, business growth, and transformation initiatives.
• Lead the development and execution of financial and IT strategies aligned with overall business goals.
• Provide thought leadership on financial planning, risk management, and technology innovation.

Financial Management

• Lead end-to-end finance operations, including budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, cash flow management, and compliance.
• Oversee the preparation of timely, accurate financial reports for internal and external stakeholders, including the Board and auditors.
• Monitor financial performance against budgets and KPIs, and implement action plans to address variances.

Cash Flow, Funding, and Treasury

• Manage short- and long-term cash flow, working capital, and banking relationships.
• Oversee funding facilities, including negotiations with financial institutions and credit providers.
• Optimize capital structure and manage investment strategies in line with business needs.

Compliance, Risk, and Governance

• Ensure compliance with statutory, regulatory, and tax obligations.
• Maintain robust internal controls and risk management frameworks.
• Support governance by providing accurate and transparent financial information to the Board.

Tender Management and Government Negotiations

• Lead tender and deal-structuring processes for complex, non-standard opportunities, ensuring margin optimization and risk mitigation.
• Negotiate and manage commercial agreements with state government health departments.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance, governance, and effective pricing strategies.
• Conduct scenario analyses, and support contract and revenue risk management.

IT Oversight and Digital Strategy

• Provide strategic leadership for the IT function, ensuring systems and infrastructure support current operations and future growth.
• Oversee the implementation and maintenance of ERP/financial systems and core IT tools across the business.
• Drive technology and process automation initiatives to increase efficiency, data integrity, and reporting accuracy.
• Ensure cybersecurity and data protection frameworks are in place and effective.

Systems and Process Improvement

• Continuously assess and improve financial and IT processes to enhance scalability, efficiency, and user experience.
• Champion innovation and digital transformation across finance and IT.

Team Leadership

• Build and manage a high-performing Finance and IT team, with a focus on collaboration, continuous development, and accountability.
• Set clear goals, provide regular feedback, and foster a culture of performance and trust.
• Identify skill gaps, and invest in training and development to ensure teams stay ahead of industry trends.

Business Partnering and Stakeholder Engagement

• Work closely with department heads to provide financial insight, decision support, and IT solutions for strategic initiatives.
• Engage with external partners, including auditors, banks, vendors, consultants, and government stakeholders.
• Serve as the primary financial and technology advisor to the CEO and the Board.

• Liaising with Country Head & CEO on devising a strategy for Accounting Division
• Monitor and manage the delivery of monthly accounts, financial statements, and board reports for 1000+ clients and manage a team size of 350+ employees
• Deliver financial analysis and insights to inform operational and strategic decision-making
• Developed budgets, prepared forecasts and monitored financial deadlines.
• Handled accounting operations such as updating journal entries, pursuing collections and reconciling accounts.
• Supervised accounting tasks, which included accounts payable and receivable, general ledger management and expense reporting oversight.
• Prepared month-end closing entries for detailed reporting and recordkeeping.
• Oversaw cash flow, controlled costs and financial matters.
• Developed and implemented departmental accounting policies, procedures and processes to establish and standardize accounting best practices.
• Delivered actionable recommendations to enhance strategic direction and day-to-day accounting operations.
• Planned, directed and monitored regulatory operations, tax reporting and audit compliance. Liaise with external auditors.
• Monitor key operational effectiveness metrics including Productivity, Efficiency & Quality
• Manage expansion activities, including foreign currency, mergers, and acquisitions
• Lead the operational and financial risk management process
• Serving as a Project Manager for products like OCR, Project Management System, Business Process Management System
• Mentoring Automation Team to ensure optimization & automation through macros, RPAs, or 3rd party applications
• Monitoring the overall functioning of processes, identifying improvement areas, and implementing adequate measures to maximize the customer satisfaction level

• Managing the preparation and submission of accurate financial reports, including Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, and Bank Covenant reporting.
• Leading the month-end process to ensure agreed deadlines and deliverables are met.
• Perform financial analysis, reporting, and management activities.
• Investigate profit and loss variances against budgets, actuals, and provide analysis and commentary on differences.
• Prepare and review the Annual Budget and Monthly Forecasts.
• Establish an accurate forecast regarding expenses and revenues, and manage regular reporting requirements.
• Monitor and manage all expenses within the allotted budget.
• Ensure accurate calculation and distribution of salaries, and other benefits, to employees.
• Preparing cash flow projections, and monitoring working capital and funding requirements.
• Preparation, calculation, and review of operating leases.
• Establish key financial strategies to enhance business profitability.
• Working collaboratively with the business managers to identify cost-saving opportunities and drive improvements.
• Preparation of the monthly BAS return and the bi-monthly NZ BAS return.
• Preparation of the annual FBT return, including all information required and supporting documentation.
• Assist the Tax Manager in year-end tax preparation, provide relevant information, and liaise with external auditors at year-end.
• Ensure the financial team follows company policies and regulations.
• Develop standard accounting procedures to improve the efficiency of financial operations.
• Participate in the performance evaluation of finance staff, and conduct counseling sessions to identify skill development needs.
• Analytical reporting of business performance.
• Identifying and streamlining financial processes, systems, and software integrations.
• Reviewed invoices for accuracy and completeness prior to payment processing.
• Ad hoc reporting, as required by the business.