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Shagun Kumar — Regional Head: APAC & MEA · TMF Group · Singapore, Singapore.
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About
Business leader with over 27 years of experience and proven track record in driving transformation, global offices, unlocking growth – organic and inorganic, managing profitability, forming and inspiring teams to achieve sustainable results. My expertise ranges from multinational structured environments to medium sized enterprises and across emerging markets with diverse cultures. I have leveraged international exposure to adapt and inspire local performance while delivering on corporate priorities. I firmly believe that passion and curiosity can solve any problem – business or otherwise.
My leadership journey has stretched me in diverse directions: learning how to inspire through an ambitious vision and unlearning what perfection stands for!
Core Skills: Inspiring teams, creating vision, business transformation, unlocking growth, broad geographic markets (APAC, MEA, Australia), leadership, business analysis, compliance, strategy and implementation, operational efficiency, management information system, post-merger integration.
Industry exposure: Business enabling functions (finance, human resource and legal), Information technology, Insurance, Outsourcing, Consulting (Power, Infrastructure, Real Estate, Hardware, Manufacturing, Food & Beverage, etc).
Experience
Regional Head: APAC & MEACurrent
TMF Group · Singapore
Jan 2025 – Present
Partner: Advisory and Tax
Grant Thornton Bharat LLP · New Delhi Area, India
Oct 2013 – Nov 2015
My passion for entrepreneurship and problem solving combined with experience gained across various blue-chip companies and emerging markets, led me to consulting wherein I advise a diverse set of dynamic clients on their growth journey in India. This allows me to drive both strategy and execution, which is simple, scalable and sustainable. My current role was created to allow combining 3 distinct areas to leverage synergies. I have briefly outlined my key responsibilities below A. Accounting & Compliance: Lead a team of 35+ accountants providing accounting, payroll, reporting and compliance services – within the first year, grew the client base and revenue by over 55% and more than doubled the team size and locations. The team delivers value by driving accuracy and controls in book keeping and providing a predictable rhythm in closure cycles. Drove significant culture change built on passion, talent, growth aspiration and meritocracy. B. Operations Consulting: Identified a need, conceptualized and started a new service offering to enable commercial decision making based on data, analysis and insights. Solutions offered to clients range from transforming finance functions, budgeting to MIS and financial frameworks. I also launched “interim CxO” offering to support clients during unplanned transition phases. The business partnership with the CEO/Promoter has enabled a 4x return through cross sell of other services. C. Tax Operations: Accountable for delivery of targets and profitability of India Tax team (~300 people). Co-own strategy and priorities that I drive through monitoring and analyzing job efficiency, utilization, resources investment, benchmarking and initiatives.