Michelle Beck - Palomar College

SUMMARY
Manish Gupta
346 Ridge Rd
Washington Grove, MD 20880
Phone: 202-247-5099 Email:mkguptamail@gmail.com
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Experienced and progressive senior level executive with more than fifteen years of success. Communicates
effectively, develops new initiatives and business unit assessments across the organization’s national and
international operations to create efficiency and increased profitability. Extensive qualifications in corporate and
business development; risk management; CFO advisory and financial transformation; control optimization; global
assurance management; team development and change planning.
EXPERIENCE
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The Washington Post Company Washington, DC USA
Director, Corporate Audit Services 2008-Present
Lead the global internal assurance and advisory efforts of 10+ professionals serving multiple divisions focused on key
strategic, operational and financial risks such as mergers and acquisition integration, business and operational analyses,
financial management and reporting, and internal control evaluations. Cumulative accomplishments for assessments of
over 20 divisions, averaging $150 million in sales, include:
• Education, cable, media, and broadcasting evaluations of Kaplan ($2.9 Billion - Higher Education, Test
Preparation, Ventures and International – Europe, Asia-Pacific), Cable One ($750+ Million, 10th largest U.S.
cable company), Washington Post Media (5th largest U.S. Newspaper), PNS TV Stations (6 Local Broadcasters),
Newsweek and Corporate office.
• Led team’s discovery of over $25 million in improvements to financial results and $600,000 in working capital
improvements.
• Turned around quality, credibility and value of professional services provided to CEOs, CFOs, Controllers,
business unit management and Audit Committee. Realized over $500,000 in external audit cost
savings/efficiencies.
• Improved resource utilization hours/levels and business unit exposure by over 200%. Introduced integration of
IT skills in assessment process and collaboration with technical IT resources, supporting a robust data analytics
focus.
• Built a reputation and cross business units relationships that proactively seek to leverage department’s resources.
• Modernized department to leverage leading audit technology to enhance the overall efficiency of department’s
processes, e.g. complex data analysis tools and engagement review/documentation management.
• Consult internally on financial infrastructure and operations to a new, in-house advertising agency providing
social media marketing services to Fortune 100 brands.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP 2001-2008
Director, PwC – Financial Management Advisory Practice, Washington, DC (2004 – 2008)
Led and directed multiple projects, including:
• $15 million Financial Transformation project: served as Engagement Director overseeing the proposal, business
development and delivery of cross-functional team project providing corrective action plan guidance, ensuring
internal control remediation, and project quality assurance. Managed efforts of 20+ professionals.
• $20 million, multi-year Financial Statement and Performance Audit overseeing reporting process, supervision of
financial and performance audit services, and development of methodology. Managed efforts of 10+
professionals.
• $2 million SOX implementation directing a full-time staff of 9 accounting professionals.