GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE COUNSEL · FOUNDER-LED BUSINESSES · GCC AND INDIA

Beside everydecision.

We build and run the finance function, hold the compliance register, ready the deal file and write the policy — then sit beside the founder who has to decide.

MIS & BOARD PACKS · VAT AND CORPORATE TAX · COMPLIANCE REGISTERS · DEAL READINESS
WRITTEN POLICY · AI ENABLEMENT & RESEARCH · A RETAINED COUNSEL'S SEAT
AI-ENABLED, HUMAN-SIGNED · EVERY LIMIT PUBLISHED
THE FOUNDER'S RECORDEMPLOYED ROLES, 2008–2026
18+YEARS · INDIA AND THE GULF
5JURISDICTIONS · INDIA · UAE · QATAR · BAHRAIN · KSA
AED 500M+REVENUE GROUP · FINANCE LEADERSHIP
AED 100M+FOUNDER-LED GROUP · AUTHORISED SIGNATORY
−30DEBTOR DAYS · IN SIX MONTHS
−10DAYS OFF A TWO-COUNTRY CLOSE
300KSKUS TO 3PL-READY · IN 30 DAYS
7 BUILT · 2 SOLDBUSINESS LINES SET UP · BRANDS DIVESTED
4TAX FRAMEWORKS STOOD UP IN-HOUSE
THE FOUNDER'S RECORDEMPLOYED ROLES, 2008–2026
18+YEARS · INDIA AND THE GULF
5JURISDICTIONS · INDIA · UAE · QATAR · BAHRAIN · KSA
AED 500M+REVENUE GROUP · FINANCE LEADERSHIP
AED 100M+FOUNDER-LED GROUP · AUTHORISED SIGNATORY
−30DEBTOR DAYS · IN SIX MONTHS
−10DAYS OFF A TWO-COUNTRY CLOSE
300KSKUS TO 3PL-READY · IN 30 DAYS
7 BUILT · 2 SOLDBUSINESS LINES SET UP · BRANDS DIVESTED
4TAX FRAMEWORKS STOOD UP IN-HOUSE
WHAT WE DO · THE FIVE HOUSES OF COUNSEL

Five houses. Each built, proven, and left running.

Five places the practice stands beside a founder's decisions. Each is a piece of machinery with a name and a room of its own on this site.

Most businesses don't struggle for lack of ambition. They struggle because nothing reliable sits beside the decision: no number that can be trusted, no filing that is current, no control that catches the problem while it is still small.

The practice is built for founder-led businesses across the GCC and India turning over AED 20 million and upward, whose finance function has outgrown the person who built it — and who have nobody to ask. It takes a small number of standing engagements.

Eighteen years across India and the Gulf taught us one thing: reliability is built, function by function, until the whole desk holds. That is the work.

Hitesh Mang, founder of Wazir — portrait, Dubai, September 2026
THE SEAT IS A PERSON

The founder replies. Not a team, not a bot.

Wazir is the standing practice of its founder — a chartered accountant (ICAI, M. No. 552585) who spent eighteen years inside other people’s finance functions before building one of his own.

Six of those years were in India: statutory audit and tax in a chartered practice, then internal controls and fraud investigation for manufacturing and services clients — learning how businesses actually fail, before being asked to stop it happening. Twelve were in the Gulf, as the finance operator inside a founder-led luxury retail and distribution group, a regional facilities-management leader, and an institutionally backed fragrance group. Five jurisdictions. Tax frameworks stood up in four of them, substantially in-house. Two brand divestments negotiated and closed. A treasury held together through a regional blockade. Three entities and two currencies reporting to one traceable source of record.

The results shown across this site are that eighteen-year career record, delivered in employed roles before the Wazir name existed. Each is identified by sector, scale and period; client identities and confidential information are withheld. What the practice sells is the method that produced them.

Every engagement is taken personally; every conclusion on this site is a description of work he signs. Career chronology: LinkedIn.

Wazir: the counsellor who stood beside the king.

Why the name →
HOW THE WORK IS MADE · AI-ENABLED, HUMAN-SIGNED

The tools are anyone's. Knowing what their output is worth is not.

That sentence is the strategy. We name the platforms, credit them, and teach them — because the practice's edge was never a secret tool. Machines draft, code computes, and a person decides and signs.

SOURCEDocuments, ledgers, published rules — read at the authority's own page.
MACHINEDrafts, extracts, checks. Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, named with credit as their user.
CODEEvery number we sign lives here: arithmetic, reconciliation, filing dates. Never a model.
HUMANJudgement, correction, signature. The only box that can sign — and the one you are paying for.

We call this auditable consulting.

Source the claim, show the assumption, name the machine, retain the evidence, publish the correction — and a person signs. No client data enters a general-purpose tool unredacted. No model owns a number we sign. No tool is used until its terms have been read at source. The register of what each tool is never given is public: the containment register →

THE WAZIR’S BRIEF · FORTNIGHTLY

What moved, and what is due.

The numbers that touch a balance sheet in the GCC or India, the filing dates that cannot be missed, and three lines from the desk on what actually changes a decision. Free, dated, sourced.

Open The Brief →
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