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Anitha Lakshmi

Bangalore

Summary

A dynamic result-oriented finance and accounting professional with 11+ years of experience in Record to Report, Process transformation and financial reporting. Ability to drive process efficiency initiatives as part of project excellence through standardization, automation, lean methodology and cost saving methods. Implemented remote process transitions.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Report Ops Analyst

Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd
09.2018 - Current
  • Team leadership & performance management
  • Leading and mentoring a BSAR team to achieve quality deliverables aligned with management and client expectations
  • Conducting performance reviews and ensuring adherence to set standards
  • Maintaining a monthly planned leave tracker and submitting it to management
  • Leading the daily catch-up call with the team & discussing the issues and taking measures to resolve them
  • Creating SOPs & Reviewing the monthly BSAR SLA, Governance deck and other reports
  • Preparing the BSAR Planner and allocating the reconciliations to the team members and setting the target to close the BSAR task as per SLA
  • Reviewing all OPEX documents on monthly basis which is updated by team members
  • Connecting with Financial controllers to explain the open items in BS accounts for their respective entities
  • Initiating and helping them by providing proper justification and business case which can help them to decide on writing off historical open items and balances
  • Monitoring common mailbox for queries raised by clients and resolving them within a stipulated time
  • Supporting the automation team for automating a few process, which indeed helps reduce the manual interaction in the process
  • Record to report – Month End Close & Balance sheet reconciliation
  • As part of R2R team, I was independently responsible for processing and supporting TSO team for C&B general accounting, Month end closing process and financial reporting
  • Cash management – Daily bank posting, Bank clearing account reconciliations
  • Reviewing/Performing reconciliation for critical and high-risk balance sheet accounts which included AR, AP, accrued payable and receivables, prepaid, provisions and reserve accounts
  • Preparing and posting journal entries which included accruals, prepayments, amortization, validation reclasses and other ad hoc journal entries during the period
  • Preparing open item trackers for account reconciliation which provides insights of non-reconciling items consisting of explanations and reasons which included action point, action owner, aging period, tentative time of closure etc.
  • Monitoring prepaid journals during month end close
  • Verifying the prepayments schedules balance vs TB balance before close
  • Performing Manual vendor payment based on client requests
  • Preparing and maintaining journal tracker for the period and sharing the same with the financial controllers for their sign off
  • Posting ad hoc journals in the month end and responding to ad hoc queries and requests from the client
  • Extracting the TB balance on monthly basis
  • Preparing month MEC calendar and sharing with clients
  • Performing closing activities in MEC based on client confirmations
  • Scheduling and discussing with the clients on the call about monthly process review updates
  • Conducting team huddles on daily basis to discuss about the process daily volumes
  • Coordinating with auditors (PWC) and ensuring audit compliance
  • Fixed assets
  • Handling fixed assets operations for EMEA region for 2+ years
  • Preparation of loaders for asset creations, asset cost adjustment and assign tag numbers based on the asset category and asset profile
  • Perform system depreciation for assets
  • Preparing purchasing /retirement/transfers and depreciation balancing reconciliations to ensure there is no data mismatch between Project costing v/s Asset management module
  • Perform accelerated depreciation for the assets that are planned to be disposed or have early disposals
  • Awards & recognitions:
  • Received Star of the Business award for best performer of the Q end
  • Got Award from Clients for Stabilizing new process with quality and timeline
  • Contributed significantly to meeting SLAs.

Lead

Capgemini Business Services
12.2014 - 01.2018
  • Inter Company (R2R/ Financial Reporting), Reporting Intercompany reconciliation status to the client on a quarterly basis in weekly governance call, Integration of Reporting AR & AP status reports in separately to client
  • Performing R2R activities and other month end activities such as posting and approving of journal entries (rule based/ad-hoc/Provisional/accrual/reclassification), intercompany reconciliation, forex revaluation, trial balance preparation etc., Preparing any other ad-hoc reports as requested by the management and clients
  • Ensuring all day-to-day activities and month end activities performed are following audit requirements without miss in controls
  • Posting monthly AR and AP invoice as per client requests and quarterly rule-based invoices
  • Performing the various account reconciliations and schedule preparations like GL and Sub GL Reconciliation, and Balance sheet Reconciliation
  • Ensuring that timely payments are made to the vendors, customers along with the scrutiny of Vendor’s Account in SAP
  • Clearing the General Ledger accounts open items based on the clearing details
  • Closing of books of accounts monthly basis as per the TAT
  • Handling escalations & preparing Root cause analysis reports to share with management
  • Independently managed 2 cluster with multiple Legal entities
  • Performed Quarter end close and monthly Reconciliation statement and prepared detailed report explaining open items
  • Preparing issue log and governance pack for the month and discussing open issues with Country controllers and ensuring action is closed before next period close
  • Prepared/updated process documents as and when new process was put in place and changes occurred in existing process
  • Ensured all activities performed are following Global Process Model and ensured all supporting’s are captured for audit cover
  • Supported External and internal auditors by providing evidence and supports for the samples eligible for audit

Accounts Executive

Cleanway Management Systems India Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru
06.2012 - 08.2014
  • Preparing Monthly Vendor bills and sends to the vendor.
  • Preparing monthly employees’ salary and generating ESI and PF Challans.
  • Preparing Reconciliation statements to know the actual difference, payment balance, due dates, and payment status. · Handling salary related queries and completing the all activities within the TAT and SLA.
  • Training for new resources, providing the information for audit purpose and process related changes.
  • Posting journal entries. Updating daily Bank entries into the ERP.
  • Performing monthly reconciliations.

Accounts Assistant

Therelek Engineers Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru
05.2011 - 05.2012
  • Processing day to day journal entries. Updating daily Bank entries into the ERP.
  • Performing monthly reconciliation of critical accounts (Bank, Credit Cards etc)
  • Handling of daily Cash & Bank Transactions, Entry of Vouchers and Monitoring of Daily Fund Flow.
  • Review of employee expenses to ensure reimbursements are in accordance with policy
  • Inventory tracking and maintaining the master data for inventory such as pricing of raw material procured etc., ·
  • Tracking accounts payable of the client and issuing checks and payment of bills for the same.
  • Preparation of accounts receivable aging report and sharing with the client for payment collection.

Education

Bachelor of Business Management -

Tumakuru University
Tumakuru

Master of Business Administration -

Jain University
Bengaluru

Skills

  • SAP End User
  • Record-to-Report (R2R)
  • Team Leadership
  • Month End Close
  • User acceptance testing
  • ERP Implementation
  • Project Management and Project Governance
  • Implementation of automation, solutions through RPA
  • MS Office Applications
  • SAP ECC 6
  • Workday
  • Power App

Awards & recognition

  • Received Star of the Business award for best performer of the Q end.
  • Got Award from Clients for Stabilizing new process with quality and timeline.
  • Received 2 spot award for best performer of the Q end.
  • Received 1 Souring eagle award for best performer of the Q end.
  • Won Master Blaster Award for best performer in the Team

Timeline

Report Ops Analyst

Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd
09.2018 - Current

Lead

Capgemini Business Services
12.2014 - 01.2018

Accounts Executive

Cleanway Management Systems India Pvt Ltd
06.2012 - 08.2014

Accounts Assistant

Therelek Engineers Pvt Ltd
05.2011 - 05.2012

Bachelor of Business Management -

Tumakuru University

Master of Business Administration -

Jain University

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