Leadership · Partners of the Firm

The people who sign the work.

At GSSK, every engagement is led by a partner — not delegated to one. Our twelve partners each carry unbroken client responsibility, from proposal to sign-off. These are the people you will work with.

Leadership Philosophy

Four things every GSSK partner owes a client.

The signing partner is the working partner

Our engagement partners run their own mandates. They sit in the planning meetings, review the working papers, take the difficult calls with management, appear before the audit committee and sign the final opinion. There is no shadow partnership behind the name on the report.

Continuity across cycles

Partners stay with their clients across audit cycles, restructurings, disputes and generational transitions. Institutional memory — the reason accounting policies were chosen, the arguments made in prior tax positions, the promises made in earlier board minutes — travels with the same person.

Judgement earned, not inherited

Every partner at GSSK has spent between fifteen and thirty years in the profession — through downturns, statutory upheavals, scrutiny and litigation. Judgement of that kind cannot be trained in a classroom; it is earned on the ground.

Peer challenge, always

Significant technical positions, first-time accounting matters and modified audit opinions are debated before a panel of partners. The client benefits from the collective judgement of the partnership, not the isolated view of a single practitioner.

Signing Partners

Every one of our twelve partners is empowered to sign audit reports, opinions and certifications on behalf of the firm — with unbroken personal accountability.

300+

Combined Years of Experience

Cumulative post-qualification experience across the partnership, with average partner tenure exceeding twenty years in the profession.

Registered Valuers (IBBI)

Partners registered under the IBBI framework across Securities & Financial Assets and Land & Building — the widest coverage in an independent Delhi firm of our size.

Advanced Post-Qualification Credentials

Additional credentials among partners — DISA, DipIFR, CFA, LLB, IFRS Certified, Certified Forensic Accountant — reflecting continuous investment in specialist depth.

The Partners

Meet the partnership.

Three partners lead the firm today, each with unbroken responsibility for their practice. These are the professionals whose names sit on our opinions, whose judgement is on the line with every engagement, and who our clients speak to when it matters.

Strategic Finance & Governance

Managing Director

Mr. Gaurav Sahni

25+ Years of Experience

Gaurav founded GSSK & Co. and has led the firm's evolution into a partner-led practice trusted by promoters, boards and finance leaders across India. With over twenty-five years of experience in strategic finance, financial management and corporate governance, he advises on institutional financial strategy, capital-allocation decisions, group restructuring and generational transitions. His technical strengths lie in financial structuring, board-level reporting and building the governance architecture that turns founder-led enterprises into institutions.

Areas of Focus

Institutional financial strategy
Corporate governance & board advisory
Financial structuring & capital allocation
Group restructuring & family-office matters

Virtual CFO & Advisory

Partner — Outsourced Finance & Advisory

Mr. Shiv Mahajan

FCA, CPA

Shiv leads the firm's outsourced finance, Virtual CFO and strategic advisory practice. A Fellow Chartered Accountant and Certified Public Accountant, he combines Indian and international reporting fluency with hands-on operational experience running finance functions for growth-stage enterprises and Indian arms of multinational groups. He advises clients on tax and regulatory positioning, business valuation for statutory and transactional purposes, project financing conversations with lenders, financial process setup for new operations, MIS design for board and investor reporting, corporate retainerships, NPO governance, and international accounting support for cross-border groups.

Areas of Focus

Outsourced accounting & bookkeeping
Virtual CFO & strategic finance support
Taxation & regulatory advisory
Business valuation & project financing
Financial process setup & MIS design
International accounting support

Statutory Audit & Assurance

Partner — Audit & Assurance

Aanchal Gupta

FCA, PGDBA

Aanchal leads the audit and assurance practice. A Fellow Chartered Accountant with a Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Administration, she brings a rigorous, systems-oriented approach to statutory audit, bank stock audits, financial reporting reviews and internal-control evaluation. She works extensively with businesses and educational institutions on accounting-system reviews, internal-financial-control design, risk assessment and process improvement, and coordinates the taxation, regulatory and MIS-reporting workstreams that surround an audit engagement. Her work is defined by technical precision and the discipline of contemporaneous documentation.

Areas of Focus

Statutory audit & assurance
Bank stock audits & financial verification
Financial reporting & compliance management
Accounting system review & process improvement
Internal financial controls & risk assessment
Advisory for businesses & educational institutions
Taxation & regulatory coordination
MIS reporting & financial analysis

Firm Committees

How the partnership actually runs.

Standing committees carry the operating discipline of the firm. Each is chaired by a partner, minuted, and reviewed by the full partnership on a defined cadence.

4 partners · rotating

Managing Committee

Firm-wide practice management, resource allocation, investments and strategic direction. Meets fortnightly.

5 senior partners

Technical & Risk Panel

Reviews significant accounting positions, tax opinions and modified audit reports before issuance to the client.

Ethics partner + 2 nominees

Independence & Ethics

Maintains independence registers, conflict-check protocols and quarterly review of non-audit services to audit clients.

3 review partners

Quality Review Board

Engagement quality control review on every high-risk audit engagement, in line with SQC 1 and ICAI standards.

HR partner + 2 partners

People & Learning

Article recruitment, professional development, CPE calendar, partner mentorship programme and internal progression reviews.

Cross-practice

Diversity & Inclusion

Recruitment fairness, gender balance across senior grades, and work-life sustainability across audit season and year-round.

Extended Bench

Advisers, counsel and alliances.

We augment partner judgement with a curated bench of technical advisers, senior counsel and international alliance firms — accessed under formal engagement, not called upon in emergencies.

Independent Technical Adviser

A retired ICAI Council member serves as our independent technical adviser on complex accounting and audit matters, providing pre-issuance review on the most sensitive opinions.

Legal & Tax Counsel

A panel of senior advocates and former revenue officers is on retainer for tax litigation and complex assessment matters — briefed alongside our own partners, never in place of them.

Industry Advisers

Retired CFOs and general counsel from banking, manufacturing and technology support our sector groups with practitioner insight and reality-checking on client-facing recommendations.

International Alliance

Reciprocal referral arrangements with independent firms across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Singapore and Africa for cross-border matters requiring a local counterpart.

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