Monisha Batra

Background

Monisha is an experienced Manager in the US Tax team at Grant Thornton Cayman Islands. 

She has spent her professional career within the financial services sector in professional practice. Monisha works with her team to provide a comprehensive experience to Grant Thornton clients from advising clients on potential elections, to reviewing and finalizing tax computations and signing tax returns. Her experience around hedge funds, private equity and fund of funds is spread across working on multiple clients over the last decade. 

Experience

Monisha began her career in asset management tax with a Big-4 firm in India, where she worked on significant asset management accounts for six years. Her experience spanned tax compliance and investor reporting for a large portfolio of private equity and hedge fund clients. 

She was actively involved in delivering tax training to new hires and experienced professionals for over four years. From there she moved to another Big-4 firm In Bangalore as a Manager for two years and then an Experienced Manager for another year, where she was involved in planning, forecasting, scaling team size and book of business by 60 percent, and compliance services. As a certified interviewer, she was an active participant in recruitment drives with an attempt to recruit top talent for the firm. She actively works with teams to ensure timely delivery of high-quality deliverables to clients. 

Industry experience

Monisha has extensive experience in the US tax domain in the financial services industry. Her former and current clients include hedge funds, fund of funds and private equity funds. Monisha has worked with two Big-4 firms before joining Grant Thornton and has in-depth client interaction and engagement handling experience in addition to the technical know-how. She has gained experience to understand the complexities involved around US tax implications of tax reforms, K1-K3s, aside of the asset management core.

Professional qualifications and memberships