ARUN KUMAR A
Financial Accounting Associate
Bangalore
Summary
A highly driven professional with the unique blend of knowledge over Finance, Accounting & Regulatory Reporting with a strong grasp of technology and data with demonstrated skills of spearheading initiatives to improve value to clients.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Financial Accounting Associate
Wells Fargo
Bangalore
2 2023 - Current
- Integral part of Derivatives Centre of Excellence Team, worked extensively on Regulatory Reports, Accounting and FX data strategy automation.
- Reported TIC D - Report of holdings of, transactions in, financial derivatives contracts with foreign residents, FR 2436 - Semi annual report on derivatives activity, Country Exposure Report - 009 (Schedule D), FX Settlement Survey, Semi-annual foreign exchange volume survey , TFC1 and TFC 2 ,TIC BC and TIC BQ on monthly and quarterly basis respectively.
- Developed automated reports for TIC D, Semi-annual survey and Triennial survey reports working with shared services team providing them with the logic and performing testing in DEV, UAT and PROD environments.
- Spearheaded Power query and SQL decoding project to decode automated files for better understanding and audit compliance.
- Performed MAE's, GL reconciliation on weekly basis and monitored dashboards to bring DNRA database in line with GL.
Global Finance & Business Management Analyst 2020
JP Morgan Chase & Company
03.2022 - 01.2023
- Firm-wide Regulatory Reporting and Analysis : Reported FR-Y14Q Pre Provision Net Revenue Schedule to Federal Reserve Board.
- Performed data aggregation from various LOB's using Neutron tool and performed variance analysis for Income Statement and Balance Sheet schedules of FR-Y 14A/CCAR.
- Initiated Tableau Analytics for 14Q PPNR schedule for trend and variance analysis with the intent of automating procurement of variance commentary from various Lines of Business in the Firm.
- Owned Tableau Analytics activity for all other schedules of FR-Y14Q to bring potential insights from the data for better control.
Financial Analyst
HP Inc
04.2020 - 03.2022
- Spearheaded and streamlined GST input recovery process on Airfare tickets, working with external vendors, GIP team and Indirect tax team towards $127K recovery for FY 18-19 and 19-20.
- Recovered $255K of US sales tax wrongly accrued and paid to the CA and Texas Sales tax authorities for FY 20-21.
- Developed and Implemented Data Analytics and Reporting for Global Employee Expense Management Team using Power BI.
- Performed complex reconciliations in business travel account to resolve late payment levy from supplier.
- Created collaborative workspace for team using tools from Microsoft environment to facilitate hassle free remote working.
CA Intern
HP Inc
03.2019 - 02.2020
- Initiated and spearheaded GST input recovery process on Airfare tickets, working with external vendors, GIP team and Indirect tax team towards $127K recovery.
- Automated EEM compliance metrics for quarterly reviews, also bringing greater insights with power of data visualizations using Power BI , appreciated by WW Controllership.
- Automated the EEM email alert to employees overdue with their credit card dues using Microsoft Power Automate.
- Worked with EEM team in setting up rule engines in EEM tool for statutory compliance.
Senior Article Trainee
Zachariah George & Co. Chartered Accountants
12.2016 - 02.2019
- Developed and implemented Financial Models for several clients for Budgeting, Variance analysis, Cash forecasting, Financial forecasting, KPI dashboards, thus streamlining and automating entire process using MS Excel, Power BI, Microsoft Power Automate, and other tools.
- Finalization of Financial Statements for domestic clients in compliance with AS and IND AS.
CA Article Trainee
Chinnappa & Associates Chartered Accountants
11.2015 - 10.2016
- Integral part of Statutory Audit team including Tax Audit clients across various industries.
- Accounting and finalization of financial statements for domestic clients.
Education
US CPA -
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Bangalore 08.2021 - 02.2022
CA Inter -
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
Bangalore 05.2015 - 11.2016
B.Com - Finance And Accounting
Kristu Jayanti College
Bangalore 05.2012 - 05.2015
Skills
Problem Solving
Analytical Reasoning
GAAP and Regulatory Reporting
Financial Planning and Analysis
Advanced Excel
Power BI & Tableau
SQL
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Timeline
Global Finance & Business Management Analyst 2020
JP Morgan Chase & Company
03.2022 - 01.2023
US CPA -
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
08.2021 - 02.2022
Financial Analyst
HP Inc
04.2020 - 03.2022
CA Intern
HP Inc
03.2019 - 02.2020
Senior Article Trainee
Zachariah George & Co. Chartered Accountants
12.2016 - 02.2019
CA Article Trainee
Chinnappa & Associates Chartered Accountants
11.2015 - 10.2016
CA Inter -
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
05.2015 - 11.2016
B.Com - Finance And Accounting
Kristu Jayanti College
05.2012 - 05.2015
Financial Accounting Associate
Wells Fargo
2 2023 - Current