User:Shalini Chakravorty

Shalini is the serving Country Manager of Hill & Associates (India) since January 2010. She reports directly to the headquarters at Hong Kong and Singapore while heading & overseeing India’s operations. Her mandate also includes neighbouring countries of Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bangladesh.

In her role she is responsible for the successful and ongoing aggressive business development and expansion in the consultancy. With more than seven years of experience at Hill & Associates (India) she was instrumental in unfolding the consultancy into a multi-dimensional entity in India. Shalini’s expertise ranges from strategic analysis of geo-political issues and enterprise risk management to business continuity planning, crisis management and business intelligence development.

She has headed the Business Intelligence and Integrity Risk Practice during her career at Hill & Associates and broadly advised the Senior Management of Fortune 500 companies on corporate risk management in India.

Shalini has over 12 years of extensive experience in areas like accounting and internal control and has worked with a large number of multinational conglomerates on assignments related to integrity risks, people’s risks and internal control risks. She has been instrumental in formulating the response mechanism for multinationals to help them combat the business risks prevalent in a developing economy like India. Moreover, she has conducted a number of due diligences on both high-end individuals and Indian companies. In addition, she has successfully handled corporate investigations, which involved conflict of interest and expense account frauds, procurement frauds, related party transactions, intellectual rights violation etc.

Prior to joining Hill & Associates, Shalini worked in the finance and accounts division of leading Indian companies like Apeejay Surendra Group and The Oberoi Hotel. She has participated in financial reviews, compliance audits, and fraud risk reviews. She has been covered by many business magazines like Business Today and Business Standard etc.

She holds a bachelors degree in commerce and the associate membership of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (equivalent to CPA) by virtue of being a qualified chartered accountant.

Shalini is a certified fraud examiner and a fellow member of the esteemed Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).