INDEPENDENT FINANCE PRACTICE DUBAI, UAE

Financial leadership, delivered as an operator, not an observer.

Nuvira Global is an independent finance practice based in Dubai. Technical accounting and IFRS advisory, interim and project finance leadership, FP&A and performance management, implementation of tax and governance requirements, incentive plan design, and independent reviews and financial deep dives. Every engagement is delivered by the founder, a Chartered Accountant and former CFO.

19+ yrsCA (ICAI) · B.Com (Hons)
Founder-ledFormer CFO
US$250M+Capital raised, company-side
Dubai MainlandLicence 1608360
01 The Firm

Delivered by the founder, within your team and alongside your existing advisors.

Nuvira works with boards, CEOs, CFOs and finance teams across corporates and growing businesses. The practice covers technical accounting and IFRS, finance leadership, FP&A and performance, implementation and controls, independent reviews, and incentive plans.

A traditional consultant writes a report and leaves. Nuvira takes ownership, works inside your team, and stays until the outcome is delivered. Every engagement is led personally by the founder, end to end.

02 Service Lines

Six areas of work, one person accountable for all of them.

IFRS & Technical Accounting

  • Advice on complex and judgemental accounting matters
  • Technical position papers and accounting policies
  • Support through audit discussions and new standards

Finance Leadership

  • Interim or project CFO for a subsidiary, JV or asset
  • Cover through a transition, vacancy or integration
  • Building or rebuilding a finance function and reporting

FP&A & Performance

  • FP&A transformation across planning and forecasting
  • Redesign of KPIs, metrics and management reporting
  • Cost, margin and business performance analysis

Implementation & Controls

  • Corporate Tax, Pillar Two and transfer pricing embedded
  • Board, lender and investor reporting packs rebuilt
  • Controls, governance frameworks and audit readiness

Independent Reviews & Deep Dives

  • Fact-finding reviews of a transaction, project or unit
  • Business cases, feasibility studies and financial models
  • Cost overrun, contract and vendor spend reviews

Incentive Plans & ESOP

  • Design and structuring of employee incentive plans
  • Valuation and share-based payment accounting
  • Plan documentation, governance and administration
03 Founder & Managing Partner
Manish Kumar
Chartered Accountant (CA, ICAI) · B.Com (Hons)
Former CFO, Hike 19+ Years India · UAE · US · Singapore
Manish Kumar, Founder and Managing Partner of Nuvira Global Connect on LinkedIn

Manish has spent 19 years in finance roles across four countries, most recently as Chief Financial Officer. His work has covered finance function build-out, multi-entity IFRS reporting and technical accounting, planning and performance management, M&A execution, employee incentive plans, controls and governance, and reporting to boards, auditors and institutional investors.

At Hike, over 13 years from Finance Manager to CFO, he built the finance function from the ground up, owned reporting, technical accounting, controls and operations across multiple jurisdictions, led M&A end to end, and designed and administered employee stock option plans.

He has worked company-side on more than US$250 million of capital raising, owning diligence, documentation and investor reporting to Bharti, SoftBank, Tencent, Tiger Global and Foxconn.

Earlier roles at Tata Motors and Logica/CGI Group covered IFRS implementation, merger execution, and SOX governance across 36 international entities.

04 Typical engagements

Where engagements usually begin.

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If any of this resonates, that is exactly where Nuvira delivers.

Talk to Manish
05 Contact

Start with a conversation.

Emailmanish.kumar@nuviraglobal.co Phone / WhatsApp+971 526 652 523 LinkedInManish Kumar

The first conversation is thirty minutes, direct with the founder, at no cost. If Nuvira is not the right fit for your situation, you will hear that early and in plain terms.