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.
Senior Executive in R2R Process, FA Corporate at EXL Services India Pvt. Ltd.Senior Executive in R2R Process, FA Corporate at EXL Services India Pvt. Ltd.
Manager Team Lead Corporate, Commercial and Small Business Banking at Republic Bank (EC) Limited (Formerly Bank of Nova Scotia)Manager Team Lead Corporate, Commercial and Small Business Banking at Republic Bank (EC) Limited (Formerly Bank of Nova Scotia)
<ul><li>Profile: Record to Reporting (R2R)</li><li>Performing financial reporting and controlling for across all the entities (in Hyperion and Oracle = JD Edward).</li><li>Performing End to End P&L finalization (Review of accruals, Negative Cash Accrual, prepaid amortization schedule, FX Adjustments, creation, deletion and capitalization of fixed assets, posting of depreciation etc.) & taking calls with Controllers during Months end for further review of P&L.</li><li>Banking process includes positive pay exceptions, stop payment, voiding checks with AP team. Checks movement to unclaimed property. Payment proof, remittance details.</li><li>IFRS lease computation complying with IFRS 16 in CoStar – Real Estate Manager system (this is only for lease).</li><li>Preparation of webforms and variance analysis report and sharing with stakeholders with detailed information.</li><li>Performing Balance sheet reconciliation with adherence of policy and clearance of open items along with relevant details of lines which is overaged however will be staying for long time (i.e.- Bonus and dividends, Common Stocks, Security Deposits).</li><li>Facilitating team operations by discussions through the sharing of information and knowledge, identification of teamwork issues, development of problem-solving recommendations, and recommendations of standardizing team operations.</li><li>Cross train resources in order to have backup of each other to help team synergy helping team members to take leaves when required without bothering of work/process deliverables.</li><li>Conduct weekly, biweekly and monthly meetings with stake holders as per their agreement.</li><li>Create opportunities for team members to provide input on procedures/processes and share their expertise with other team members.</li><li>Working knowledge of ERP systems People Soft, ART (Reconciliation software of Oracle), JD Edward, Teradata, Cetova, Hyperion (HFM), Cadency, Blackline, SAP, NetSuite, Workday Adaptive, Coupa, Tableau, CoStar, Alteryx.</li><li>PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS</li><li>Given 12 lean ideas in area of Month End Close journals, Balance Sheet Reconciliations, and Bank Reconciliations.</li><li>Part of a green belt project on quality of reconciliations and BOT implementation (work in progress) – controllership impact</li><li>Bring automation & Marco enabling dash board MIS reporting for monthly SLA, KPI, IC balances, Cash forecasting etc.</li></ul> at Genpact India Pvt. Ltd<ul><li>Profile: Record to Reporting (R2R)</li><li>Performing financial reporting and controlling for across all the entities (in Hyperion and Oracle = JD Edward).</li><li>Performing End to End P&L finalization (Review of accruals, Negative Cash Accrual, prepaid amortization schedule, FX Adjustments, creation, deletion and capitalization of fixed assets, posting of depreciation etc.) & taking calls with Controllers during Months end for further review of P&L.</li><li>Banking process includes positive pay exceptions, stop payment, voiding checks with AP team. Checks movement to unclaimed property. Payment proof, remittance details.</li><li>IFRS lease computation complying with IFRS 16 in CoStar – Real Estate Manager system (this is only for lease).</li><li>Preparation of webforms and variance analysis report and sharing with stakeholders with detailed information.</li><li>Performing Balance sheet reconciliation with adherence of policy and clearance of open items along with relevant details of lines which is overaged however will be staying for long time (i.e.- Bonus and dividends, Common Stocks, Security Deposits).</li><li>Facilitating team operations by discussions through the sharing of information and knowledge, identification of teamwork issues, development of problem-solving recommendations, and recommendations of standardizing team operations.</li><li>Cross train resources in order to have backup of each other to help team synergy helping team members to take leaves when required without bothering of work/process deliverables.</li><li>Conduct weekly, biweekly and monthly meetings with stake holders as per their agreement.</li><li>Create opportunities for team members to provide input on procedures/processes and share their expertise with other team members.</li><li>Working knowledge of ERP systems People Soft, ART (Reconciliation software of Oracle), JD Edward, Teradata, Cetova, Hyperion (HFM), Cadency, Blackline, SAP, NetSuite, Workday Adaptive, Coupa, Tableau, CoStar, Alteryx.</li><li>PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS</li><li>Given 12 lean ideas in area of Month End Close journals, Balance Sheet Reconciliations, and Bank Reconciliations.</li><li>Part of a green belt project on quality of reconciliations and BOT implementation (work in progress) – controllership impact</li><li>Bring automation & Marco enabling dash board MIS reporting for monthly SLA, KPI, IC balances, Cash forecasting etc.</li></ul> at Genpact India Pvt. Ltd