Rajesh is a Chartered Accountant with over 15 years experience in financial management, accounting, taxation, audit, and compliance. During his time in the Development sector, Rajesh has built significant experience in supporting long term financial planning, regulatory compliance, grant management, project set up, strategic planning, budgeting, expenditure monitoring, and reporting. He has facilitated internal, external, and donor audits, streamlined accounting systems, procedures and practices, and brings expertise in pre-award assessment, SR selection and negotiation, financial report review, monitoring of sub-awards and the identification of actions to improve efficiency and economy. Outside of work, Rajesh travels and plays cricket.