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Aneesh Alex

Bangalore

Summary

Results-oriented Finance Leader with expertise in driving financial strategies and enhancing operational efficiencies. Manages complex accounting processes, ensures compliance with USGAAP and statutory requirements, and supports cross-functional collaboration. Aims to leverage analytical skills and leadership abilities to contribute to the financial success of an organisation.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

R2R Team Manager - Corporate Functions

Cargill Business Services
Bangalore
10.2025 - Current
  • Managed end-to-end accounting, reporting, and financial close activities for the APAC Corporate Functions R2R portfolio across 9 countries, leading a team of 15 finance professionals.
  • Managing, reviewing and approving all the R2R activities for Corporate Functions on a day-to-day basis and the activities due on Month End, Quarter End and Year End along with statutory and US GAAP audits.
  • Defined and aligned yearly performance goals with team objectives, facilitating achievement through targeted support and guidance.
  • Collaborated with team members to meet and exceed performance targets, fostering a results-driven team environment.
  • Evaluation, review and addressing performance issues through mentoring and coaching.
  • Conducted resource hiring processes to identify and recruit top talent for various roles within the organisation.

R2R Team Manager - Treasury Accounting

Cargill Business Services
Bangalore, India
11.2016 - 09.2025
  • R2R Manager for Treasury Accounting team handling APAC, EMEA and NA regions of Cargill with a team of 8 members.
  • Handled end to end accounting and reporting of multiple Treasury entities from its transition from Treasury hubs to Bangalore shared service centre.
  • Expertise in SAP, WSS, Oracle, JDE, PBI, Blackline, One stream application
  • Conducted multiple knowledge sharing sessions on derivative accounting, accounting flows etc. for the benefit of team and their deep understanding areas of ERPs, ME reporting, financial consolidation & derivative accounting.
  • Managing, reviewing and approving all the R2R activities for Treasury Accounting on a day-to-day basis and the activities due on Month End, Quarter End and Year End along with statutory and US GAAP audits.
  • Managed R2R and Treasury accounting activities, including month-end journals, accruals, PnL analysis, advanced reporting, balance sheet reconciliations, variance analysis, and consolidation of financial statements ensuring compliance with US GAAP and statutory audit requirements..
  • Process champion award for 2023 and excelled all the performance Reviews & feedback from stakeholders in the past.

General Accounting R2R - Senior Associate

Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2012 - 11.2016
  • Performing all the Records to Reports activities for General Accounting group. Balance Sheet Reconciliations, Bank Reconciliations, Journal entries for accruals, bank charges, reclass, Month End close activities etc.
  • Assisted in driving the project for Bank reconciliation outstanding items which has impacted in reduction of the outstanding items. Collected the open items for one year and prepared a Root Cause Analysis of the outstanding items. Proposed the controls to fix the outstanding items at cash application and at the upstream level. Client has put the control in place which has impacted in completely eradicating the cause of the outstanding item. Client and the Audit people from Onshore have highly appreciated on the Project which has impacted in the reduction of the outstanding items.

Education

MBA - Master of Business Administration - Finance

University of Bangalore
05-2011

Bcom - Bachelor of Commerce -

University of Calicut
05-2008

Skills

  • Financial analysis
  • Hedge Accounting
  • Derivative Accounting
  • FX PnL
  • Balance sheet reconciliation
  • Intercompany accounting
  • ERP implementation
  • Stakeholder management
  • Month-end close
  • Variance analysis
  • Team leadership
  • Continuous improvement
  • Performance evaluation
  • Project management
  • Audit support
  • Process standardisation
  • Communication skills
  • Leadership
  • Problem-solving
  • Analytical and critical thinking

Interests

  • Reading
  • Gardening
  • Aqua scaping
  • Capital Market Analysis

Timeline

R2R Team Manager - Corporate Functions

Cargill Business Services
10.2025 - Current

R2R Team Manager - Treasury Accounting

Cargill Business Services
11.2016 - 09.2025

General Accounting R2R - Senior Associate

Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2012 - 11.2016

MBA - Master of Business Administration - Finance

University of Bangalore

Bcom - Bachelor of Commerce -

University of Calicut
Aneesh Alex