Kumar & Biju Associates LLP
Chartered Accountants
The Team
KUMAR & BIJU ASSOCIATES LLP (K&B), founded in 1989, is a professional firm of Chartered Accountants with offices in Kerala, Dubai (U.A.E) and Associate Offices in Chennai, (Tamil Nadu) and in Bangalore (Karnataka).
The firm was founded by M.B. Sanil Kumar FCA along with T.B. Biju FCA, M. Narayanakumar FCA and Late J. Sreekumar FCA, all of them with proven track record of professional practice and exposure even before they came together to form the partnership. Partners of K&B, along with other senior professionally qualified staff have a combined experience of over 200 man years. K&B now has eight partners, each managing a branch or a vertical.
The firm comprises of a team of dedicated staff that have high accounting and financial knowledge. They include Chartered Accountants and other professionals with experience to handle all kinds of jobs and assignments. All the assignments handled by the firm are supervised by a Chartered Accountant. The macro level planning is done by the partners reviewing the progress of each job on a weekly basis. The managerial and supervisory level staff execute the assignments on a day to day basis. Any issues arising on the assignments are brought up in the weekly meetings and modifications if required are approved by the Chartered Accountants / Partners.
We are excited to introduce performance driven team members of our Firm.
Partners
M.B. Sanil Kumar FCA
Managing Partner
M.B. Sanil Kumar, the Managing Partner heads the firm and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) since 1989. With over 35 years of experience in every aspect of the entire spectrum of the accounting/ finance profession.
He has in-depth knowledge and exposure to assess and evaluate the practices relating to audit, direct/indirect taxes including planning for corporate & non-resident Indians. He is equally adept in providing services of consultancy on accounting, company law, taxation & foreign exchange regulations, management and financial consultancy, techno-economic feasibility study, pricing, cost management & corporate planning across various industries. His services are sought after by many corporates and multinational clients.
Sanil Kumar was part of the technical team that assisted the Kerala Government to set up the Horticultural Development Programme funded by the European Economic Community (EEC) and also the World Bank assisted Kerala Urban Development Programme. He has assisted the Department of Tourism., Govt. of Kerala for development of tourism projects at many places.
Sanil Kumar is the financial consultant to South Indian Megastars of the entertainment industry, Mr. Mammootty, Mr. Mohanlal and Ms. Manju Warrier. He is also the advisory consultant to many celebrities of the Indian Film Fraternity. He also provides wealth management services to select HNI clients.
He was also in the consulting team for developing Al Ain International Airport and procuring Hovercrafts Amphibious planes for the Coast-Guard of UAE, procuring luxury aircraft for Ras Al Khaimah Royal Family and Al Ain Royal Family.
Sanil Kumar has been instrumental in hand holding and motivating many youngsters, by organizing seed capital for their dream projects, which led to his services being sought by the Government of Kerala to spearhead a special initiative called the `Startup Village’ which today has grown into such a large organization that the Government of India used its key methods in developing the Start Up Mission India.
He is a philanthropist at heart and is credited not only with involvement in various projects for social upliftment of the underprivileged and needy but also in promoting arts and crafts and the upliftment of the artisans’ community. He is the founder of Saturn Global Foundation, a charitable trust created for social welfare projects (through which charity has been done for more than Rs. 3 crores) and is also a Trustee of Design Trust of India, a non-profit organization set up for the purpose of promotion of the arts and crafts of India, along with Mr. Vipin Vijay, noted film maker and winner of two national awards and Mr. Riyas Komu, famous artist and co- founder of the famous Kochi Muziris Biennale
Trivia: Sanil Kumar has been rated with a score of 880 out of 900 points by CIBIL for his credit worthiness which is the maximum score that any individual can get from the Credit Information Bureau.
T.B. BIJU FCA
Senior Partner – Cochin Branch Head
T.B. Biju is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
As a professional practitioner, T.B. Biju has over thirty years of experience. As Senior Partner, he heads and administrates the entire functioning of the Cochin office, leading a team of thirty five staff.
Starting his practice on his own, he later formed the partnership with M.B. Sanil Kumar and co-promoted Kumar & Biju Associates. His experience covers taxation, financial advisory, amalgamation of companies including liaison and co ordination for implementation of mergers, Internal & Statutory Audit with emphasis on review of operations and improving their effectiveness. His experience also covers areas in project planning, formation of companies, finance and capital structuring etc. He took part as a consultant in the World Bank assisted Kerala Urban Development Programme and also performed the audit of the Asian Development Bank assisted Cochin Urban Poverty Reduction Project (CUPRP), Pilot and Main Phase for the years 1995-96 to 2003-2004.
M. NARAYANA KUMAR FCA
Senior Partner – Calicut Branch Head
M. Narayana Kumar is a Fellow Member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and has a professional experience of more than 32 years. He enrolled as a Chartered Accountant in the year 1991 after graduating from University of Kerala. Starting his career as a sole practitioner, he later joined Kumar & Biju Associates LLP as one of its founder partners. He is now the Senior Partner heading the Calicut branch. He has been leading the firm with uncompromising discipline, dedication and an untiring focus on continuous improvement and value addition for the clients. He believes that his client’s success is his success.
M. Narayana Kumar has wide exposure and in-depth knowledge in direct taxes and GST matters and has represented many cases of repute before the tax authorities successfully.
He has rich experience in the field of accounting, auditing, tax planning for both corporate and non resident Indians, procedural compliance consultancy in GST, Corporate Laws including procedural compliance. M. Narayana Kumar is very enthusiastic and constantly looks for opportunities to expand the scope of profession and has also achieved consistency in delivering the best of services.
PRADEEP KUMAR T. FCA
Senior Partner – Varkala Branch Head
Pradeep Kumar T. is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and he heads the Varkala office. He has over twenty two years’ of experience in India and UAE. During his professional practice in Abu Dhabi he was consultant for DHL and Danas Shipping UAE. He is well versed in all areas of Auditing and Taxation. He is also involved in several Management Consultancy assignments in areas of costing, financial studies, evaluation etc.
ASHA SREE M. NAIR FCA
Partner – Trivandrum Branch
Asha Sree M Nair is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India having qualified in the year 2012 and holds a Post Graduate Degree in Commerce from the University of Kerala.
She is very actively involved in conducting several Corporate Audits, Statutory Branch Audits of Banks and Concurrent /Inspection / Revenue audits of Branches of Nationalized Banks. She is also involved in conducting Due Diligence on behalf of Companies / Banks for large borrowings / loans and funding. She has also undertaken Audit of many Societies and Charitable/Religious Trusts.
Besides she has experience in Audit & Assurance services including Statutory Audits, Internal Audits of a variety of business enterprises. In addition to having a Post Graduate Diploma in Management, she is also a qualified Information Systems Auditor.
SARATH V. FCA
Partner – Trivandrum Branch-in-charge
Sarath V is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India having qualified in the year 2011 and a Commerce Graduate from the University of Kerala. He has completed the post qualification courses DISA, Certificate Course on Concurrent Audit and Certificate Course on GST conducted by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
He was employed with leading KPO’s working out of Techno Park, Trivandrum before joining Kumar & Biju Associates LLP in 2019 as an Associate. His area of expertise include Statutory Audits of Banks and Public Sector undertakings, Internal Audits, Tax Audits, Income Tax Hearing & Assessments including search and settlement cases, Preparation of Project Reports for financial linkages with banks and RERA certifications.
MEGHA NARAYANA KUMAR FCA, DISA (ICAI)
Partner
Megha Narayana Kumar is a Fellow Member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. She qualified as a Chartered Accountant in the year 2016. She is an Information Systems Auditor as well.
After completing her articleship in Kumar & Biju Associates LLP she later joined the firm as a Partner. She is part of Calicut branch of the firm and is the youngest female partner of the firm. Incredibly focused and mature beyond her years she has rich professional exposure. She believes in encouraging and supporting her clients by educating them and simplifying the rules as much as possible to facilitate informed decision-making. She has rich exposure in the field of accounting, auditing, company law, Income tax and GST matters which in turn has helped the clients substantially. Megha Narayana Kumar has also represented cases of repute before the tax authorities successfully. She has in- depth knowledge in preparing project reports as well.
She was awarded gold medal for scoring cent percent marks in her twelfth board exams. Her passion to step up her learning curve made her pursue Diploma in Information system audit post qualification course held by ICAI, which she qualified in 2018.
KIRAN S KUMAR ACA
Partner – Thrissur Branch Head
Kiran S. Kumar is an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He enrolled as a Chartered Accountant after graduating from Mahatma Gandhi University. He has also qualified as a Chartered Certified Accountant from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA, UK ).
Starting his career as a sole practitioner, he later joined Kumar & Biju Associates LLP and was part of Calicut branch of the firm. He is now heading the Thrissur Branch. Prior to starting out as a sole proprietorship he had worked for Kreston Menon, Chartered Accountants, UAE. He has in depth knowledge and exposure in the field of accounting, taxation, company law, internal audit, operational audit, GST.
He also serves as a faculty member in Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Calicut and various institutes for CA, CMA, CS courses. He perfectly balances his role as a Partner in the firm and a faculty in various institutes with his tireless passion for teaching.
Whole Time Associates
Adv. Santhosh Kumar V.
Santhosh Kumar V. is a practicing Advocate since 2013 and is a registered member of the Bar Association of Kerala. Besides his Bachelor’s Degree in Law he also has a Post Graduate Degree in Commerce and went on to complete his Post Graduate Diploma in Taxation. He was working in K&B for 15 years from 1998 to 2013. Now he is the ‘In-House’ consulting Lawyer for Kumar & Biju Associates LLP.
He has wide exposure and in-depth knowledge in the field and has represented successfully many cases of repute before the Civil Authorities.
Santosh Kumar has considerable exposure to assess, evaluate and is specialised in Civil procedures, legal drafting and documentation.
Smitha Varma CS
Smitha Varma is an Associate Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. Since then, after obtaining her ICSI registration, she went on to complete her Masters in Commerce and is currently pursuing her Law studies parallelly.
She has over two years of practical experience in assisting secretarial works with a leading Practicing Company Secretary in Trivandrum and since then for the past seven years she has been practicing as a Company Secretary.
Panikar Pinky Narayan FCA
Panikar Pinky Narayan is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India having qualified in the year 2013. She is an alumna of Government Law College, Trivandrum and the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and has experience of more than ten years in the field of Auditing, Taxation and FEMA Compliances.
Her forte is in dealing with audit and appeal matters before Income Tax Authorities related to Charitable Organizations and is very actively involved in conducting several Corporate Audits, Statutory Branch Audits of Nationalized Banks and PSUs and Consultancy on overseas Investments. Besides, she has also completed a certification course on concurrent Audit of Banks from ICAI and also a qualified Information System Auditor.
Adv. Arun R. Nair
Arun R. Nair is a practicing Advocate and is a registered member of the Bar Association of Kerala. Before practising as an advocate, he was handling Accounts and Administration for more than twenty years in various companies before starting his independent practice.
He was heading the Finance Department of the companies that he worked for and was responsible for the entire Accounts, Finance and Administration functions and other Secretarial and Statutory Compliances.
He has wide exposure and in-depth knowledge in the field and has represented successfully many cases relating to Trade Marks, Copy Right and Patents. He has handled cases before authorities relating to direct and indirect taxes and has exposure to legal drafting and documentation.
Harikumar N. FCA
Harikumar N. is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) with more than 10 years of experience. He is a commerce graduate from the University of Kerala.
He also holds a Diploma in Information System Audit of ICAI and his area of expertise is in corporate audit and assurance services. Besides, he has been conducting Statutory & Tax Audits, Internal Audit of large & medium scale organisations, carrying out Bank Audits and providing services in the field of accounting and Income Tax.
His key skills also include financial audits, compliances in the fields of both Direct and Indirect Tax matters. He has expertise in Examination of Accounting, recording and reporting of financial transactions and on matters to do with financial management and accountability.
A.J. Mathews
Sr. Manager (Technical)
A.J. Mathews has a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and he assists M.B. Sanil Kumar. the Managing Partner, with all matters regarding Endorsement Agreements of clients, assignments and projects of clients where specialised assistance is required. Having worked across many business sectors, he carries rich experience and is also presently the COO of Saturn Global Foundation (SGF) of which M.B. Sanil Kumar is the Managing Trustee. The vision of the Board of Trustees at SGF and the mission charted by the Team is coordinated and implemented by him on a day today basis. He oversees the operations of the Trust to create healthy, educated and happy communities. He also works along with the donors of SGF to partner in the commitment of SGF to social causes.
Chandrasekharan Nair K.
Public Relations Officer (PRO)
Chandrasekaran Nair K. is the PRO tasked in maintaining the positive image of the Firm. He often is our first contact for the organization seeking to reach out in an informed way. His communication skills are excellent and he liaises with all Government Departments, Statutory Bodies and Law Enforcement Officials for all official matters relating to the Clients/ the Firm. He handles and communicates information internally and externally of the Firm and that of the clients.
Since 2014 he has been an integral part of the Firm after his long tenure with Kerala Khadi Village and Industries Board, Government of Kerala.
Staff
The staff at Kumar & Biju Associates LLP is made up of highly trained and qualified employees specialising in areas of accountancy, finance and taxation. Across the six branches K&B has more than 225 personnel for efficient management of assignments. With the state of art PC’s/laptops and networking peripherals, the office has an advanced computerized working environment for its practices.
The firm has, in its service, experienced and eminent personnel in various disciplines like costing, accounting/auditing, management, law, agriculture, electronics, engineering and architecture for providing advisory services on the projects and assignments handled by the firm from time to time.
The firm also has` in- house’ fully qualified Chartered Accountants, Company Secretaries, Advocates, and even retired/ Senior Ex Government Officials along with Registered Valuers.
Besides the in-house team, the firm has numerous associates across India it works with, on specific assignment basis, drawing upon their expertise in their respective domains, to fulfill the needs of it’s clients.
Remembering one of the Founding and Senior Partner
(Late) J. SREEKUMAR
Senior Partner – Former Trivandrum Branch Head
J. Sreekumar s/o the late K. Jayanthan Nair – (A Leading Lawyer of Trivandrum Bar).
He is survived by his wife, son and daughter.
He was a well respected and much loved member of the K&B family. His contribution to the firm is so immense and the loss in his passing away is so profound that as homage, he will always live on not just in our hearts but also in our website.
Sreekumar was a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Being a native of Trivandrum, he was in practice almost 30 years in Trivandrum.
In his own way, late J. Sreekumar was a visionary who started his own professional practice and who later joined the Firm as a co-founder to be an integral part of the organization.
He left for heavenly abode on 15th May 2022 at the age of 62.
He was someone who would credit the Firm for his professional brilliance.
We at Kumar & Biju Associates LLP fondly remember him for his signature, enthusiasm.