Akshata Kamath
Andheri, Mumbai,MH
Summary
Result driven Financial Analyst with over 7.5 yrs of experience in financial planning, analysis & reporting. Adept at leveraging data to drive strategic decision making and improve financial performance. Possess a keen analytical mindset with a proven ability to dissect complex financial data and translate findings into clear, impactful business recommendations. Committed to maintaining the highest standards of accuracy and integrity in all financial endeavors
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead - Analytics , Corporate Finance
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
04.2023 - Current
- Instrumental in bringing about a digital transformation in Financial Planning & Analytics area by establishing process for digital reporting using the visualization tools. Designed and rolled out 20+ dashboards thereby eradicating information asymmetry, enabling seamless management reviews and providing single version of truth across the organization
- Design thinking & implementation of CFO Cockpit view dashboard covering 50+ operational and financial KPIs, providing a 360-degree view of organizational financial performance. Further configured periodic alerts delivered to the CFOs mailbox to flag outliers which meet a specific criteria thereby giving actionable insights for decision making.
- Thought leadership in bringing about a transformational change by enabling 'data democratization' and 'self service analytics' giving the business users access to tools to create their own analytical dashboards rather than relying on the centralized IT team thereby saving considerable time and effort and enabling the business to drive their own analysis.
Assistant Manager, Risk Analytics & Internal Audit
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
04.2020 - 03.2023
- End to end ownership to carrying out Risk analytics & Internal audit of various finance processes including Employee Payroll, Contract to Revenue and Bill to collect. Identified gaps in the processes and suggested recommendations to improve the overall process efficiency. Implementation of recommendations in the Payroll area resulted in savings of ~10 crore INR in terms of excess salary released due to control failures in process of 'Leave without pay' salary processing.
- Instrumental in 'Internal Audit transformation' by leveraging technology to build 'rule based engines' thereby enabling 'Continuous Control Monitoring' of more than 100 risk scenarios to the process owners facilitating them to take timely corrective actions.
- The 'digital transformation of internal audit function leveraging the power of analytics by in-house team helped TCS win the 'Future CFO Excellence Awards 2023' for operational excellence in internal audit, governance and compliance organized by CXOciety, Singapore.
Senior Executive, Financial Planning & MIS
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
11.2017 - 03.2020
- Performed Revenue, Cost and Margin governance including performance tracking, identifying revenue leakage and cost optimization. Developed 'Benchmarking reports' to identify high/low performing units in terms of various financial parameters
- Assisted in review of financial/business performance of units, highlighted issues and recommended corrective actions
- Prepared periodic financial reports (Monthly, Quarterly) for senior management reviews
- Thought leadership in solving 'Big data problems' and driving the 'Automation' of the repetitive manual workings with the help of technology like R and Python. Process automation resulted in saving of 8 man days/quarter, reduced the manual errors and also enabled effective audit trail of the activities performed thereby providing significant time to users for analysis and focus on real process improvement areas
Executive, Compliance & Internal Control
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
11.2016 - 10.2017
- Driven the governance, designing and implementation of issuance of 300+ organization wide digitized Letter of Authorities (LOAs)
- Instrumental in bringing about a process change to digitize the entire process of issuance of LOAs , thereby reducing
turnaround time to issue an LOA from erstwhile 7-10 days to less than a day's time
Article Trainee
Ray & Ray Chartered Accountants
10.2013 - 09.2016
- Carried out income tax filings, tax audits and accounting for private limited companies, firms and individuals for 2 years having exposure and experience in preparation of returns, preparation for income tax scrutiny submissions and liaison
with Income Tax Department - Worked as an Internal & Statutory Audit executive for a year having experience in carrying out Internal Audit & Risk assessment analysis of large manufacturing companies, educational institutes and private limited companies
Education
Chartered Accountant - Finance , Accounting , Taxation
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
05.2016
Company Secretary - Corporate Law
The Institute of Company Secretaries of India
02.2019
Bachelor of Commerce -
Mumbai University
03.2015
Skills
Technical skills
- Financial Planning & Analysis
- Big Data Analyst
- Qlik Sense & Power BI expert
- Basics of R Programming language
- MS Office tools (Excel, Word, powerpoint)
Leadership & other soft skills
- Resilient
- Team Management
- High Emotional Intelligence
- Result oriented
- Customer centric
Accomplishments
- Awarded with “Star of the month” award twice for exemplary performance in driving analytics dashboard and LOA digitization
- Awarded with “Special Initiative” award for carrying out the IFC Management Testing of various finance processes
- Awarded with “Special Initiative” award for conducting training sessions on the analytics subject for fellow finance colleagues
Certification
Certified Qlik Sense Business Analyst (2019), Pearson Vue
Music, Fitness Enthusiast
- Fitness Enthusiast - Dedicated to maintaining a high level of physical fitness through regular weightlifting. Enjoy hiking fostering resilience and a love for challenging physical pursuits
- Music - Passionate about singing and playing piano. Performed at various society events thereby demonstrating public peformance skills
Languages
English
Hindi
Marathi
Konkani
Timeline
Lead - Analytics , Corporate Finance
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
04.2023 - Current
Assistant Manager, Risk Analytics & Internal Audit
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
04.2020 - 03.2023
Senior Executive, Financial Planning & MIS
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
11.2017 - 03.2020
Executive, Compliance & Internal Control
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
11.2016 - 10.2017
Article Trainee
Ray & Ray Chartered Accountants
10.2013 - 09.2016
Chartered Accountant - Finance , Accounting , Taxation
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
Company Secretary - Corporate Law
The Institute of Company Secretaries of India
Bachelor of Commerce -
Mumbai University
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