Most coaching institutes have a faculty structure: a roster of teachers, a syllabus, and an expectation that students will navigate the gap between passing the exam and building the career on their own. NPA Global's model is deliberately and structurally different.
Chief Career Mentor
CA Ankit Niyati
Chief Mentor, NPA Global
The professional behind NPA Global's international finance programmes
CA Ankit Niyati is a Chartered Accountant and NPA Global's Chief Mentor. He teaches ACCA Financial Accounting (FA), Financial Reporting (FR) and Strategic Business Reporting (SBR), and leads the mentor team that guides every student from counselling to qualification.
Chartered Accountant
Chief Mentor
ACCA Faculty — FA · FR · SBR
The Model
Why the Chief Mentor Model Matters
One Point of Accountability
One person — with a clearly defined background, a verifiable career history, and a specific teaching philosophy — is responsible for the strategic direction of every student's journey through NPA Global.
Beyond the Exam
our Chief Mentor does not just teach the papers. He shapes the approach: which exam windows to target, which optional papers to choose, how to position a BCom + ACCA combination for an MNC finance interview.
Built for Working Professionals
How a working professional with 6 years of accounting experience should think about an FP&A transition. Personalised study plans designed around real schedules — not full-time student assumptions.
Career Mentorship, Not Coaching
This is the difference between a coaching institute and a career mentorship system. NPA Global is the second. The goal is not the certificate on the wall — it is the role on the offer letter.
How He Teaches
Teaching Philosophy
Programme
ACCA
our Chief Mentor teaches ACCA not as a qualification to be passed but as a professional framework to be understood. The FR paper is not just about IFRS journal entries — it is about how a finance professional at an MNC thinks about reporting, what a Big 4 auditor looks for when they review your work, and what the difference between Indian GAAP and IFRS means for the careers students are building.
Every paper is taught with that context. Context is what creates professionals. Knowledge alone creates exam passers.
Every paper is taught with that context. Context is what creates professionals. Knowledge alone creates exam passers.
Programme
CMA USA
CMA USA is, in our Chief Mentor's view, the most underutilised qualification in the Indian finance market. It is the credential that speaks directly to the FP&A function — the fastest-growing area of corporate finance — and yet most finance professionals in India do not know what it can do for their career.
His goal with CMA USA is not just to help students pass Part 1 and Part 2. It is to help them understand the career that the qualification is opening and to have a specific, actionable plan for how to enter it.
His goal with CMA USA is not just to help students pass Part 1 and Part 2. It is to help them understand the career that the qualification is opening and to have a specific, actionable plan for how to enter it.
Audience
Working Professionals
Working professionals have been failed by the finance education industry — not through malice but through a model that was designed for full-time students and applied, with minimal adaptation, to people with jobs, families, and schedules that do not leave six hours a day for study.
our Chief Mentor's approach to working professionals is built around a single principle: the plan must fit the person, not the other way around. His personalised study schedules for working professionals, combined with honest career transition guidance, are the most distinctive element of NPA Global's offering for this audience.
our Chief Mentor's approach to working professionals is built around a single principle: the plan must fit the person, not the other way around. His personalised study schedules for working professionals, combined with honest career transition guidance, are the most distinctive element of NPA Global's offering for this audience.
A Note on the Free Counselling Session
Every student who wants to speak with our Chief Mentor can. The free counselling session — available in person at the Indore campus or online — is not handled by a junior counsellor or a sales team. our Chief Mentor or a senior member of the NPA Global mentorship team is present for every session. The quality of that first conversation is, in his view, the most important quality indicator the institution can offer.
Watch
Hear It from our Chief Mentor
A 90-second introduction — his background, why he joined NPA Global, what he wants for every student who walks in, and an invitation to book a free session.
Video: our Chief Mentor — Introduction
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Talk to our Chief Mentor — It's Free
Book your free counselling session. No junior counsellors, no sales pitch — a real conversation about your career and which qualification gets you there.