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Having worked for three years of articleship in a CA firm before getting employed, I was not overawed by my first meeting with my boss (View Comments)
Sheetal Srivastava
Posted On Tuesday, February 02, 2010 at 05:02:30 PM
Suresh Rao, CFO, Mindteck shares his first job experience
First day
I joined my first employer on the February 8, 1988. The company was Indo Gulf Fertilizers and Chemical Corpn Ltd (IGFCC Ltd), now a part of Aditya Birla Nuvo. While strolling around the Indogulf Township that evening, I saw Italian expatriates (from Snamprogetti SPA) sun bathing with families by the poolside in a hostel complex that was actually meant to house Graduate Engineer Trainees (GETs) and guys like me. I turned green with envy but consolation came in from the thought of being an occupant there once the fertiliser plant got commissioned and the collaborators would have left for their homeland. It also dawned on me that no sooner the plant was in operation, I would be a resident of one of the best industrial townships in the country.
Meeting the boss
Having worked for three years of articleship in a CA firm before getting employed, I was not overawed by the occasion or my first meeting with my boss. He was very kind. He could sense what had hit me immediately on arrival and asked me to just settle down and get comfortable before starting any work. He was a relatively young chap in early thirties which made equating with him relatively simpler and we hit it instantly. For the first time in my life I learnt how to refer to case laws from numerous volumes of published Court judgments. By the time we separated after about two years when he left us, he had made me an expert in Corporate Income tax, in my own right.
Bittersweet memories
The memories have been more of the sweeter kind. I got a chance to meet Aditya Birla, who quickly prescribed for me a slew of exposures in all functions and departments of Indogulf. The experience of meeting him in person has stayed with me even today. Brisk promotions and consequent addition of more furniture in the furnished accommodation kept me with Indogulf for more than five years. When I departed, the efforts the management of the company made to retain me left me humbled and I feel indebted to them for all the good things they said and did, including offering me a CEO’s position in a captive packaging unit that operated close by.
Fun and learning experience
Contributing significantly to corporate tax planning and expanding of mental horizons was the most memorable of my learning experiences. The opportunity to interact with many of the luminaries of corporate tax thought leadership left an indelible impression on my psyche. I enjoyed going over to New Delhi on the eve of every Union Budget announcement, toyed with the forecasts on what could be the announcements, quickly analysing them through the night in an overnight train journey (much to the amusement and irritation of my co-passengers) and finally presenting the conclusions to the management the following morning.
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