Ms. Poonam Chaudhry took over the charge of Financial Adviser & Chief Accounts Officer on June 2, 2010.  Born on February 15, 1971, she completed M.A. in Geography and M.Phil from Jawahar Lal Nehru University , Delhi and thereafter joined Indian Audit & Accounts Service on September 4, 1995.

           In the Indian Audit & Accounts Department, she was posted as Dy. Accountant General and Sr. Dy. Accountant General in the offices of Accountant General, Haryana, Maharashtra, New Delhi and Gujarat between 1997 and 2007.  During this period, she carried out work in the areas like Administration, Pension, Receipt Audit, audit of Ministries like Ministry of Home Affairs, Social Justice & Empowerment, Human Resource Department etc.  As Director of Audit (Defence Services), she looked after the audit of Western and South Western Commands of the Army independently between 2007 and 2010. During this period, she was posted as sole auditor of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir Regional Offices of Food Corporation of India for a brief duration.  She also acted as the visiting faculty in various International and National Institutes.  

She has audit experience at international level as well.  She was associated with the Audit and Accounts of World Health Organisation (WHO) in the year 2004 and again in 2005.