• Executive Director/Under Secretary in Finance department (1 August 1991-1 December 1992)
• Managing Director/Under Secretary in Industries/Small Scale Industries department (1 December 1992-1 June 1994)
• District Collector And District Magistrate/Under Secretary in the Land Revenue Management & District Administration/District Administration in Sambalpur (1 June 1994-1 November 1995)
• Director/Under Secretary in the Textiles department (1 November 1995-1 January 1996)
• Director/Deputy Secretary in the Textiles department (1 January 1996-1 January 1996)
• Director/Deputy Secretary in the Finance/Institutional Finance department (1 December 1996-1 February 1997)
• Deputy Secretary in Commerce in the Commerce & Industry department (06 February 1997-15 November 1999)
• Private Secretary/Deputy Secretary Equivalent in the Staff Officers/Ministers Office in Commerce & Industry department (15 November 1999 – 12 January 2001)
• Deputy Secretary Equivalent in the U.N. Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) (12 January 2001 – 31 August 2003)
• Additional Seceretary/Director in the Personnel and General Administration in the General Administration Department (22 September 2003 – 13 October 2003)
• Special Secretary/Joint Secretary of Personnel and General Administration/General Administration in the General Administration Department (13 October 2003-2 October 2006)
• Commissioner/Joint Secretary of Transport in the State Transport Department, Odisha (25 September 2007 – 12 February 2008)
• Commissioner & Secretary/Joint Secretary of Health & Family Welfare in the Health & Family Walfare Department, Odisha (12 February 2008 – 14 August 2008)
• Commissioner/Joint Secretary of Finance/Commercial Taxes in the Commercial Taxes Department (14 August 2008-28 August 2009)
• Joint Secretary of Planning & Program Implementation in the Planning Commission (28 August 2009-9 July 2014)
• Joint Secretary of Personnel and General Administration/Cabinet Affairs in the Cabinet Secretariat (9 July 2014-27 August 2016)
• Principal Secretary/Additional Secretary in the Finance Department (28 August 2016 – 21 October 2019)
• Finance Secretary in the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM), New Delhi (22 October 2019-8 January 2025)
• Finance Secretary of the Department of Revenue, New Delhi (9 January 2025-31 July 2025)
• Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) (1 March 2025-Present)
• University of Birmingham, England
• M.A. (Hons) in Economics from the Panjab University
• M.B.A. (Master of Business Administration) University of Birmingham