1. Anirban Dasgupta
Competency – Governance, Risk and Controls
Education  Schooling from St. Lawrence High
School, Calcutta
 Bachelor of Commerce, St. Xavier's
College, Calcutta University
Professional
qualifications
 Institute of Chartered Accountants of
India
Articleship  Price Waterhouse, Kolkata
Language
skills
 Excellent Written and Oral
Communication: English, Hindi and
Bengali
Date of birth  April 7, 1971
November 2014 – till date
Hindalco Industries Limited
Internal Financial Controls (‘IFC’)
Anirban leads Hindalco’s IFC initiative for the Aluminium, Copper
and Precious Metals businesses) which include developing an
inclusive Internal Controls framework, documenting Entity Level
Controls, Process Level Controls (in all the key processes like
Manufacturing and Mining, Supply Chain and various Enterprise
Processes, Finance and Accounts including consolidation level
controls, Commodity Risk Management and Treasury, Marketing
areas like Pricing, Discount & Recovery of Selling Expenses, Order
Management, Credit Policy, Shipping & Invoicing, Collection, AR
management & GL posting, Credit and Debit Notes etc., Internal
Controls over Financial Accounting and Reporting, Internal
controls over capex and fixed assets, IT controls at the application
level and generic level. Anti-Fraud controls etc. Anirban in his role
in Hindalco reports directly to the Audit Committee and the
Managing Director.
Internal Audit and Audit Committee Reporting
Anirban through a strategic co-sourcing resourcing model leads
Hindalco’s Internal Audit function. His responsibilities include
appraisal of the adequacy and effectiveness of internal controls of
both Copper and Aluminium businesses so that financial, physical
and information resources are appropriately managed. He works
very closely with the MD of HIL to strengthen the internal controls
and risk management capabilities of the Company.
November 2004 – October 2014
PwC (Mumbai and Pune)
Prior to Hindalco, Anirban was a Director in the Risk Advisory
Services of PricewaterhouseCoopers Private Limited (‘PwC’) and
worked out the Mumbai and Pune Offices. Anirban specialises in
industry verticals like Core Manufacturing (with special focus on
Metals and Mining - both ferrous and non-ferrous and consumer
and Industrial Products etc.), Pharma & Life Sciences,
Transportation and Logistics, Insurance, Telecom, Retail &
Consumer and Financial Services.
His area of work in PwC included providing assistance in Internal
Financial Controls and CEO / CFO Certification, Internal Audit
Outsourcing and Co-sourcing Services, focussed Management
Audits, providing assistance in preparation of Standard Operating
Procedures, Internal Control Reviews, Accounting / Internal
Controls manual, Enterprise Risk Management - Facilitation of
Entity Level Risk and Controls Assessment and formulation of Risk
Management Framework, Control Self-Assessment (‘CSA’) and
Quality Assurance Reviews (‘QAR+’).
Key achievements in PwC (Tata Steel Group)
 Anirban during his time with PwC was predominantly
servicing the Tata Group Accounts in India and overseas with
particular focus on Tata Steel Group. He led the internal
audits and various large advisory projects across Tata Steel
Group (in Jamshedpur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Kalinganagar,
Thailand, Richards Bay (South Africa) and Canada). Besides,
he led very large scaled internal audit projects at Tata Capital,
Tata Communications, Tata Petrodyne and Tata Motors.
 Anirban relationships in Tata Group and primarily in the Tata
Steel Group starting from senior most levels to junior levels is
unmatched. Besides, his cumulative and collective knowledge
of business processes in Tata Steel (and its Group Companies)
and his overall industry knowledge of Ferrous Metals
Industry is extensive.
 Anirban has worked extensively in Jamshedpur, Kolkata,
Mumbai, Canada, South Africa and Thailand in various Tata
Steel entities and plants. He is in extreme good terms with all
key people in Tata Steel Group and is very well respected by
the Group. He is particularly liked by Group Executive
Director and CFO.
 Anirban, in the past has singlehandedly won several high
value assignments for PwC in Tata Steel Group based on his
relationships and exceptional delivery. For the first time in
history, under the leadership of Anirban, Tata Steel had co-
sourced its IA function and Anirban was a key element in the
business development and delivery processes.
 Anirban had been very proficient at creating relationships,
prospecting new relationships and strengthening
relationships. Starting small in 2006 with PwC winning a
project in Tata Steel, Anirban had been able to strategically
expand relationships within the Group. Not only his core area
of internal audit and other risk advisory services, Anirban had
represented the entire range of PwC services to the Tata
Group. In this process, he had been able to establish
productive and professional relationships with key personnel
in the Group. Without just looking at risk advisory services,
he always led solution oriented efforts that best addressed the
Group’s needs, while coordinating the involvement of all
necessary PwC business units.
 Through his relationships (coupled with excellent service
delivery by him and his team), Anirban had always been able
to achieve very high client satisfaction ratings from all the
Tata Group companies and the rest of his clientele.
 Anirban in his roles in PwC was tactically required to develop
and sustain long-term strategic customer relationship in his
clientele for mutual growth, profitability, trust and loyalty. In
his client pursuits, he was able to very quickly leverage his
relationship base, the Firm’s resources and capabilities in
creating and fulfilling value-based solutions, to meet both the
client’s and the Firm’s requirements and expectations as well
as future potential.
 Anirban is able to quickly and promptly engage at any
company’s C-Level. He has the capacity of working together
internally. Anirban was very capable to playing the pivotal
role of an effective collaborator in the internal teams that
keeps processes moving forward, builds internal bridges and
trust. He also has the natural ability to get the right people
involved at the right times to produce the best outcomes.
 Anirban has also carried out focussed Business Process
Reviews and Special Investigations projects too.
 In his Risk Advisory role, Anirban has successfully led
numerous high profile engagements in PwC. Other than the
Tata Group entities, his select clientele included one of the
biggest shipping companies of India, one of the largest
privately held pharmaceutical companies in India, an Indian
Pharma company providing small molecule process
chemistry, custom synthesis services and full life-cycle API
and drug intermediates, the largest manufacturer of
automotive and industrial lubricants in the Indian lubricant
market, India's sixth largest software company and its
subsidiaries US (Boston and Fremont, San Hose) and UK
subsidiaries of that provided Information technology Service
to diverse industries, large family managed Indian business
houses like the Kirloskar Group, the Kalyani Group etc.,
Sandvik Asia and ABN AMRO Bank Branch Audits.

2. July 2003 to November 2004
Bajaj Allianz and Allianz Bajaj (Pune)
Anirban had a brief spell as the Head of Internal Audit (reporting
to the CEO, Head of Legal and Audit Committee) in a major private
sector insurance company - Bajaj Allianz General Insurance and
Allianz Bajaj Life in their integrated Internal Audit Department in
Pune serving the Life as well as the Non – Life entities. He was
responsible for internal audits of various key corporate business
processes (for example, Underwriting, Reinsurance, General
Accounting, Investments, MIS and Budgeting, Compliance with
the Insurance Act and Rules, Compliance of the Insurance Laws
and Regulations, Claims etc.). He was also responsible for the
audits of the Branch and Regional Offices.
During this period, Anirban was seconded to Allianz CP General
Insurance Company, Thailand with a responsibility of setting up
the Internal Audit Department, writing standard operating
procedures for the Company and training the staffs in the internal
audit department of the Company. The Company was a joint
venture between Bajaj Auto Limited and Allianz AG of Germany. It
had a network of 40 offices spread across India. The Company
offered technical excellence in all areas of General and Health
Insurance as well as Risk Management.
September 2000 to July 2003
KPMG (Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkata)
Anirban had worked in KPMG in their Assurance Divisions in
Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkata. During his tenure in KPMG, he had
successfully managed large multinational clients in various large
companies like -
 A large consumer products and technology company
headquartered in in Amsterdam with primary divisions
focused in the areas of electronics, healthcare and lighting;
 An Indian multinational banking and financial services
company headquartered in Mumbai, offering a wide range of
banking products and financial services for corporate and
retail customers through a variety of delivery channels and
specialised subsidiaries in the areas of investment banking,
life, non-life insurance, venture capital and asset
management.
 A global engineering company headquartered in Copenhagen,
Denmark focussed in Material Handling, Mineral Processing
and Cement Industries.
 Various IT and ITeS companies which are headquartered in
Chennai and Bangalore. Notable amongst them were Polaris
Software Labs, Global Software and Indium Software
 An Emerson Industrial Automation Group Company
specialized in the manufacturer of AC, servo and DC variable
speed drives, motors, and automation solutions for
commercial and industrial applications.
 A leading worldwide manufacturer of electrical and electronic
products including Air Conditioning and automotive
electrical systems
 A leading tea Manufacturers / Suppliers of tea bags, specialty
teas, flavoured tea (headquartered in UK)
 An advertising company based out of Mumbai and Kolkata.
May 1992 to September 2000 (including Articleship)
PwC (Kolkata and North America)
Anirban started his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Anirban
spent around 8 years including his articleship tenure (May 1992 to
September 2000) in the Assurance Services of PwC. He had
successfully carried out statutory audits, tax audits, due diligence
reviews and internal audits of large public companies like Birla
Tyres, Kesoram Industries Limited, Brook Bond India Limited,
Philips Carbon Black, Cochin Carbon and Chemicals, MSA (India),
internal audits of Sahara India, Stock Holding Corporation,
Peerless General Finance, due diligence reviews for Landis & Gyr,
Siemens etc.
During this period, Anirban was selected by PwC India Leadership
for a prestigious secondment program and has been on
secondment to PricewaterhouseCoopers, Philadelphia, where he
was involved in carrying out statutory audits, internal audit, due
diligence review assignments of large Multinational Corporations.
During his stint in the US, Anirban had worked in various US
locations like Palm Coast Florida, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and
Chicago.
Industry and Subject Matter Expertise
Core Manufacturing Expertise (Subject Matter Expert in
Metals and Mining)
Anirban has deep expertise in the core and large scale
manufacturing industries, spreading out in sectors like Metals,
Mining, Tyres, Textiles, Carbon Black, other consumer / industrial
products and chemicals.
Within manufacturing, Anirban has been a subject matter expert
in metals and mining. His experience in the ferrous metals sector
spans from iron ore mining, coal mining, sourcing and
procurement (raw materials, strategic sourcing, service
procurement, procurements in the areas of logistics and external
processing agents, maintenance and repairs items procurement),
internal controls in the manufacturing operations, logistics and
distribution cycles, capital investments decisions etc.
Similarly, in the non-ferrous space (especially in the aluminium
and copper sectors), Anirban has extensive risk and internal
control knowledge and experience of the entire production cycle,
from upstream mining and raw material (coal, copper concentrate
and bauxite) inputs to primary metal production, fabrication and
distribution.
Anirban through his experiences in working very closely with Tata
Steel, JSW Steel and Hindalco Industries, gained deep insights
especially in the areas of coal procurement and coal inventory
management. Anirban has deep practical experience and long-
term relationships with leading metal companies in India. Anirban
has deep functional expertise in internal audit services, Sarbanes-
Oxley services, Enterprise Risk Management and Corporate
governance in metals and mining entities. In these engagements,
Anirban successfully manages internationally coordinated teams.
Achievements
 Invited by Tata Steel to take sessions in the Company’s most
prestigious “Finance Gurukul” program at Tata Steel
Management Development Centre
 Invited by the Institute of Internal Auditors, Mumbai Chapter
to take a full day session on “Report Writing Skills” for its
members
 Invited by the Institute of Internal Auditors to take part in
Panel Discussion on Making Internal Audit redundant
through Technology
 Successfully organising social events at the Community
including Fundraising for social and community issues
 Successfully trained PAN India on PwC Internal Audit
Methodology and Aura 4.0 training for approximately 300
users in Risk Advisory Services.
Interests
 Listening to music (especially Hindustani Classical,
Instrumental and compositions from the past),
 Writing poems in vernacular (observing the world within me
or around me)
 Cooking (I find it relaxing)
 Some voluntary work for the neighbourhood
 And off-late, some interest in photography and reading
history books on India.