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Amita Prabhakaran Nair

Amita Prabhakaran Nair

Financial Accountant
Bengaluru

Summary

Currently working as a financial controller for an IT services and consulting company, handling the RTR process (General Ledger accounting). Worked in a project for Goldman Sachs a leading investment banking firm, performing vendor level cost analysis, cost allocation, AP vs Accruals recon, Amortization of expenses, CER reporting for prepaid and accruals, other reporting etc. 1.8 yrs experience preparing & recording & reporting marketing costs related provisions and allocations for one of the largest retail and hospitality organization - Landmark Group for their regions Bahrain and Qatar. 7.7 yrs experience in Managing, Analyzing & Reporting the accounting & financial functions in a Mailroom Management company mainly for corporate customers. A keen analyst with a distinction of reviewing, investigating and correcting errors and inconsistencies in financial entries & documents that leads to transparency in reporting to the internal management and external auditors. Demonstrated excellence in ensuring compliance with applicable company policies, contracts and regulations. Skilled in handling audit assignments; pivotal in collating and validating inputs required for audits and sharing the same with audit team; coordinating for queries raised by auditors and successfully completing audits within agreed timeframes.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
4038
4038
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Languages

Work History

Financial Controller

Capgemini Technology Services India Ltd
12.2022 - Current
  • Ensure smooth month end close process, prepare and maintain financial reports and schedule (balance sheet reconciliation and PL variance analysis)
  • Co-ordination with business controllers and auditors for statutory audit, interim audits, corporate tax filing and indirect tax compliances
  • Financial packages submission – balance sheet, income statement, reconciliation between management reporting and statutory reporting and timely response to group queries for group reporting
  • Preparation of financial statements & chaired with auditors to understand the audit requirements and liaised with other finance teams to ensure that audit deliverables are compiled with and the timelines for sign off of financials have been met
  • Manage one direct report, providing mentorship, performance feedback, and support in daily operations

Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
02.2020 - 11.2022
  • Overall analysis of Communication & Technology expenses at global level
  • Accruals – release and expenses amortization as when invoices received
  • Vendor level analysis and reporting
  • Contract log / Data master updating
  • High value payments check
  • Scrubbing of accruals mainly for Asia & EMEA, and supporting the GS team for US region
  • Calculating and recording the monthly provisions entries related to marketing costs for the regions Bahrain and Qatar
  • Intercompany reconciliation – at Inter concept, Inter region and at Resource group level (Parent company)
  • Calculating and recording transactions related to Loyalty programme done by Landmark as a part of their promotional activities
  • Analyzing and classifying the marketing related expenses debited by the Resource group, to the respective GL accounts and cost centers
  • Preparing monthly and quarterly Territory level Finance Assurance report for reconciliation purpose
  • Preparing the monthly Balance sheet schedules related to marketing expenses for the respective territories

Manager Accounts & Finance

Mailit Mailroom Management Services P. Ltd
10.2010 - 05.2018
  • Managing & overseeing the daily operations of the Accounts department
  • Monitoring & analyzing accounting data and producing the financial reports or statements (fortnightly /monthly / quarterly / half yearly /yearly)
  • Establishing & enforcing proper accounting methods, policies and principles
  • Coordination & completion of annual audits
  • Applying observations & recommendations to operational issues / strategic plans & reviews
  • Providing recommendations in case of financial related decision making
  • Improving systems and procedures and initiating corrective actions
  • Looking after the acquisition & allocation of funds
  • Performing budgeting where necessary
  • Monitoring the allocation & utilization of other company resources
  • Monitoring the Accounts receivables / payables (Age wise analysis)
  • Maintaining the cash booking records
  • Overseeing the proper maintenance of Books of Accounts
  • Managing the Accounts team & tackling their grievances if any
  • Conducting the teams review
  • Guiding the team regarding the accounting policies / procedures & other company policies
  • Overseeing the petty cash advances & settlements
  • Handling the bank transactions (related to loans & overdrafts etc.)
  • Overseeing the bank balances & reconciliation
  • Approving the petty cash vouchers (Admin / Ops)
  • Oversee the billing reconciliation of reimbursable expenses
  • Monitoring the vendor grievances
  • Overseeing the billing process
  • Monitoring the client claims / credit notes settlements done by the company
  • Making the statutory and tax payments
  • Monitoring the client and vendor contract renewals
  • Overseeing the client profiling process
  • Overseeing the vendor registration process
  • Processing of the TDS returns
  • Conducting the weekly review with the Managers

Education

PGDFM - Financial Management

Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research
Mumbai, India
04.2001 - 01.2016

M.Com - Commerce

Mumbai University
Mumbai, India

BMS (Finance) - Finance

B. K. Birla College of Arts, Science & Commerce
Kalyan, India

Skills

  • Oracle Finance software

  • SAP FICO 60 (End user program - Fresher)

  • Thomson Reuters OneSource for Financial reporting

  • Tally ERP 9 software

  • Microsoft Word

  • Microsoft Excel

  • Microsoft PowerPoint

Hobbies

Listening music, watching travel/food vlogs, drawing & painting

Additional Information

  • Recognized by Capgemini as Xtra Mile performer for outstanding performance.
  • Recognized by Tata Consultancy Services as outstanding performer twice, for both the projects that I worked.
  • Awarded as the best performer at Mailit Mailroom Management Services P. Ltd.

Timeline

Financial Controller

Capgemini Technology Services India Ltd
12.2022 - Current

Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
02.2020 - 11.2022

Manager Accounts & Finance

Mailit Mailroom Management Services P. Ltd
10.2010 - 05.2018

PGDFM - Financial Management

Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research
04.2001 - 01.2016

M.Com - Commerce

Mumbai University

BMS (Finance) - Finance

B. K. Birla College of Arts, Science & Commerce
Amita Prabhakaran NairFinancial Accountant