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Pratik Parashar

Senior Auditor, Financial Services · KPMG Netherlands

I audit financial services. Private equity and infrastructure funds, insurers, banks.

Seven years in audit, four of them on fund structures. The work I do best is the judgement-heavy part: pulling apart a valuation model, testing whether the assumptions hold, and saying so when they don't.

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Experience

Seven years,
four of them in funds.

Each engagement sits under the firm and the period it belongs to. Findings are described as capability rather than detail.

Oct 2023 –
Present
Amstelveen, NL
IFRS · Dutch GAAP Valuations · NAV Derivatives · Treasury AFM · DNB

KPMG Netherlands

Senior Auditor, Financial Services
  • Owned the valuations audit end to end for CVC and DIF funds, including an infrastructure fund of roughly €7 billion. Reviewed the investment valuation models and challenged the assumption logic, picking up inconsistencies on a small number of holdings and raising them with the client controller.
  • Ran both ASR Vooruit entity audits independently, start to finish. Raised control and prior-year consistency issues with the client and proposed the process fixes.
  • Covered the complex MNSA areas for ASR VB: derivatives, treasury shares, asset management transactions. Supported the IT audit team on controls testing and flagged data and process gaps early enough to be useful.
  • Monitored AFM and DNB regulatory compliance on a listed insurance group, flagged non-compliance, and sourced alternative documentation to support the findings.
  • Pitched LLM-assisted analytical review to a partner using a published annual report. Invited onto the Audit Innovation team and nominated AI Ninja for the FS Audit department.
Jan 2021 –
Oct 2022
Bengaluru, IN
US GAAP · US GAAS PCAOB · SOX Carried interest Level I/II/III

Deloitte India

Audit Senior, Private Equity
  • Led the audit of KKR private equity funds under US GAAP and US GAAS. Valuation reviews across DCF and Level I/II/III investments, carried interest calculations, and NAV reporting across multi-billion dollar portfolios.
  • Executed SOX-compliant documentation and internal controls testing across the key financial reporting cycles. Workpapers met PCAOB standards throughout.
  • Joined quarterly valuation calls with the fund's internal and external valuation teams. Raised queries on management assumptions and resolved inconsistencies in valuation memos before they reached investor disclosures.
  • Managed audit workstreams across a 75-person offshore team spread over multiple locations, keeping concurrent funds on schedule through the year.
  • Deloitte Spot Award, March 2021.
Earlier roles2014–2020 · 4 entries
Nov 2019 –
Mar 2020
Bengaluru, IN

Deloitte India

Audit Analyst, fixed term

Three-month contract on the KKR funds team. Took ownership of the carried interest workpapers inside the first month, above the level the role was scoped for, and was offered a permanent Senior role at the end of it.

Aug 2018 –
Oct 2019

Career break

Family business

Stepped back from professional work to support the family business through serious illness in the family, running day-to-day operations and the financial administration.

Mar 2015 –
Jul 2018
Bengaluru, IN
Ind AS · IFRS 15 ICFR · SOX Consolidation RACM · SAP

KPMG India

Articled Assistant, Audit
  • Statutory audit for Britannia Industries, United Spirits, Eberspaecher, MediAssist and a range of IT and cybersecurity clients. Listed companies, private entities, multi-site manufacturers.
  • Led the IFRS 15 and Ind AS 115 revenue recognition procedures for Britannia. Tested the five-step model across distributor arrangements, rebates and multi-element contracts, and found cut-off errors that led to audit qualifications.
  • Ran ICFR controls testing for United Spirits across manufacturing sites at Kumbalgodu, Nelamangala and Mumbai, working directly with the local unit heads under a US-aligned SOX framework.
  • The only articled assistant on the Britannia team picked to lead a branch statutory audit, work normally handled by qualified CAs. Ran it independently and was commended to the engagement partner by the branch manager.
  • Worked the full consolidation by hand before the automated tools were in use. Component entities across multiple Excel files, eliminations, minority holdings. Found errors in the elimination entries and pushed back on figures that did not reconcile before sign-off.
  • Reviewed a full Risk and Control Matrix for a cybersecurity client and separated the controls that needed redesign from the ones failing at execution.
  • Above and Beyond Award, June 2017.
Jul 2014 –
Feb 2015
Bengaluru, IN

KPMG Global Services

Audit Assistant

iXBRL tagging of financial statements for UK and Ireland clients, for regulatory submission.

Technical

What I actually know.

Four reporting frameworks, two controls regimes, and the fund mechanics underneath them.

Audit & assurance
External audit · Internal controls testing · ICFR · SOX · RACM review · PCAOB standards · Substantive and analytical procedures
Reporting
IFRS · US GAAP · Dutch GAAP · Ind AS · Group consolidation · Revenue recognition under IFRS 15 and ASC 606
Funds
Private equity and infrastructure funds · Investment valuations · DCF and Level I/II/III · NAV reporting · Carried interest · SPV structures
Insurance & banking
Derivatives · Treasury shares · Asset management transactions · Investment entity reporting
Regulatory
AFM and DNB compliance monitoring · Statutory reporting · Regulatory filings · iXBRL
Tools
Excel, advanced, including macros · SAP · Power BI, working knowledge · Prompt engineering and agentic AI for repetitive financial workflows
Qualifications
ACCA, 9 of 13 papers cleared · CA (ICAI), studies completed and examination pending · B.Com, Jain University Bengaluru
Languages
English, fluent · Dutch, basic and actively learning · Hindi, native · Kannada, fluent

Automation

The other half
of the job now.

Audit is getting automated from the inside. I would rather be the person building it than the person it happens to.

Agentic workflows

I use prompt engineering and agentic AI regularly to automate the repetitive parts of financial work. Not as a novelty. As a way to get the mechanical work done so the judgement work gets more of the time.

LLM-assisted review

Pitched analytical review using large language models to a partner, run against a published annual report. It led to an invitation onto the Audit Innovation team and an AI Ninja nomination for the FS Audit department. I have since rebuilt the same idea in Copilot Agent Studio, on tooling the firm has approved, and it works well.

Excel and Power BI

Built macros to take reconciliation and testing steps off the manual path. Working knowledge of Power BI for reporting. I also built a variance commentary tool as an experiment and wrote the whole thing up, including the version I threw away, under Writing.

Writing

All Out of Tokens.

Notes on audit, automation, and moving countries. Written for people who do this work.

Aug 2026 What It Can't Do: The Limits of the ToolWhere the variance generator falls over, and why most of it comes down to context the ledger never had. 7 min May 2026 The Rebuild: From Three Tabs to NineA transaction trail, a P&L bridge, and the prompt design that fixed the hallucination problem. 14 min Apr 2026 From India to the NetherlandsI didn't research the culture. I didn't have a plan. I had 75-hour weeks and enough of them. 8 min Mar 2026 The Controller Role Is Being RedefinedController upper-range salaries fell 21% in a year. The market is saying something. 5 min

All writing

Away from the desk

The rest of it.

Pratik Parashar standing beside a Ducati Scrambler on a fog-covered mountain road
Somewhere in the mountains, wrapped in fog, and glad about it.

My life moves between two distinct gears: full momentum and deep quiet.

In motion, it's the hum of a motorcycle engine, the fast-paced strategy of basketball, and the grit of functional fitness training. It's where focus meets physical output. In stillness, it's capturing golden hour light at dusk, practicing daily meditation, and turning pages in high-concept sci-fi and epic fantasy worlds that spark the imagination.

Connecting both sides is a relentless appetite for learning. At my core, I run on an uncompromising curiosity and a belief in the growth mindset: that skills are built, perspective is cultivated, and life expands in direct proportion to how deeply you engage with it. So whether I'm tackling a complex problem or chasing a late-night research rabbit hole down to its root, I'm dedicated to giving every pursuit my full, undivided presence.

Spreading happiness, because a world with more dimples is a world with less wrinkles.
Personal motto, held to more often than not

Contact

Open to audit, controls,
reporting and controlling roles.

External audit, internal audit and controls, financial reporting, financial control, and fund accounting. Netherlands, hybrid or on site. If you are hiring for any of those and the profile fits, I would like to hear from you.

parashar.pratik@gmail.com Download CV LinkedIn