Leadership

The people behind the practice.

Santhosh Vedavyas, Founder & Practice Lead - Finance & Strategy of mySmartVFO

Santhosh Vedavyas

Founder & Practice Lead - Finance & Strategy
FCA · 25+ Years in Finance

Strategic Finance Leader advising businesses on finance transformation, taxation, governance, and value creation. Career spans Dell India, Goldman Sachs, Tishman Speyer, and U S & Associates before founding mySmartVFO.

Practice covers fractional CFO services, transaction advisory, tax planning, and finance function development. Specialised expertise across direct and indirect taxation, international tax, FEMA compliance, transfer pricing, business valuations, ESOP design, and internal audit.

Nalini NS, Head of HR Services at mySmartVFO

Nalini NS

Head of HR Services
HR Leadership · Compliance · Talent Management

Leads mySmartVFO's HR practice, positioning HR governance as a co-equal pillar alongside finance. Focus: building the HR infrastructure that growing businesses need but rarely prioritize until something breaks.

Specializes in policy frameworks, statutory compliance (PF, ESI, Shops Act, POSH), employee lifecycle management, payroll governance, and documentation discipline.

Puja Murarka, Manager Finance & Tax Consulting at mySmartVFO

Puja Murarka

Manager, Finance & Tax Consulting
Chartered Accountant · Virtual Finance Controllership

Primary point of contact for client portfolios across manufacturing, technology, retail, F&B, healthcare, and packaging. Covers the full controllership layer: current books, compliance ahead of calendar, accurate numbers when needed.

Practice spans GST compliance, direct taxation, financial accounting, statutory filings, reconciliations, and MIS reporting.

What we believe

Finance is fundamentally an enabling function. The best financial strategies are ones founders and teams can understand, execute, and sustain. Complexity for its own sake serves no one. Clarity, integrity, and pragmatic execution do.

We may not always have a seat at the decision-making table. But we influence who does.

The mySmartVFO team at work
The journey

From corporate finance to India's Virtual Finance Office.

The question was never whether Indian SMEs needed better finance leadership. It was whether they could access it.

Six years at a global tech company. Consulting stints with a leading investment bank and an international real estate firm. Co-founding an audit and advisory practice in 2010. Across a decade of practice, one realisation sharpened: growing companies didn't lack an accountant. They lacked an embedded partner who could think beyond compliance and into strategy.

mySmartVFO was built in 2020 to close that gap.

Early 2000s
Where the foundation was built
Six years at Dell India, Bengaluru. Enterprise-scale finance operations, process discipline, data-driven decision-making.
2008 - 2009
Global institutional exposure
Consulting engagements with Goldman Sachs and Tishman Speyer. Financial modeling, investment analysis, institutional-grade reporting.
2010
Independent practice begins
Co-founds U S & Associates, Chartered Accountants. What starts as audit and compliance evolves into full-spectrum advisory across manufacturing, technology, healthcare, retail, and cross-border entities.
2010 - 2020
The pattern becomes clear
One observation keeps recurring: growing businesses do not lack ambition. They lack financial infrastructure. Growth hides inefficiencies. The real picture only emerges when growth slows, and by then, it is often late.
2020
mySmartVFO is born
The Virtual Finance Office model launches. Not another compliance practice. An embedded finance and HR partner for businesses that have outgrown ad-hoc management. Founding principle: clarity, integrity, pragmatic execution.
2020 - 2025
Building the practice
Five years across 10+ sectors. Building finance teams, MIS frameworks, cross-border structures. Nalini NS joins to build HR as a co-equal pillar: policy frameworks, compliance, employee lifecycle management.
2026
Where we stand today
Two offices. Bengaluru and Mysuru. Strategic partners, not transactional service providers. The ambition: to be known as enablers of client success.
Presence

Two offices. One standard of service.

Bengaluru office landmarks

Bengaluru

1542/A, 1st Floor, 28th Cross Rd,
Banashankari Stage II, Banashankari,
Bengaluru, Karnataka 560070

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Mysuru office landmarks

Mysuru

#7, 1st floor, Dakshineshwara Marga,
Ramakrishnanagar,
Mysuru, Karnataka 570022

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