Bhavya Gupta

Month-End Closing:

• Oversee and manage the entire month-end closing process to ensure accurate recording and reporting of financial data.
• Supervise the preparation and review of journal entries, accruals, and account reconciliations to ensure completeness and accuracy.
• Coordinate with various departments to gather necessary financial data and resolve discrepancies.
• Ensure proper recording and reconciliation of all intercompany transactions.
• Monitor adherence to the month-end close calendar, meeting all internal and external reporting deadlines.
• Perform GL-SL reconciliation and identify variances.

Financial Reporting:

• Prepare and review monthly financial statements, including balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements.
• Provide detailed variance analysis and commentary on financial results, highlighting key trends and drivers.
• Prepare management reports and presentations for senior leadership, offering insights and recommendations based on financial data.
• Ensure compliance with relevant accounting standards (e.g., GAAP, IFRS) and internal financial policies.
• Collaborate with external auditors during the audit process, providing necessary documentation and explanations.

Process Improvement:

• Continuously assess and enhance month-end close and reporting processes to improve efficiency and accuracy.
• Implement best practices and automation tools to streamline financial reporting and reduce closing timelines.
• Identify and mitigate risks related to financial reporting, ensuring robust internal controls.
• Stay updated on changes in accounting standards and regulations to ensure company compliance.

Team Leadership:

• Lead and mentor a team of finance professionals, providing guidance and support in month-end closing and reporting tasks.
• Foster a collaborative and high-performance work environment, encouraging professional development and continuous learning.
• Conduct regular performance reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.

Collaboration and Communication:

• Work closely with the finance team and other departments to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting.
• Serve as a key point of contact for financial reporting queries from internal stakeholders.
• Communicate effectively with senior management, delivering clear and concise financial updates and insights.

• Aligned with the Conagra Foods Record-to-Report (RTR) team, responsible for managing inventory reconciliation in compliance with corporate reconciliation policies using the SAP environment.
• Monitored and resolved IDoc errors and daily variances for US clients, preparing aged IDoc and aged variance reports to ensure data integrity.
• Conducted monthly inventory reconciliations between warehouse records and SAP data, ensuring timely and accurate reporting of discrepancies.
• Acted as a point of contact for warehouses, addressing queries via email and calls, and completing post goods issue (PGI) and post goods receipt (PGR) transactions.
• Led weekly meetings to discuss and resolve inventory balance posting issues in SAP and warehouse systems, enhancing data consistency and reducing errors.
• Oversaw month-end, quarterly, and year-end inventory closings, including reconciliation and analysis of key postings to ensure accurate financial reporting.
• Prepared and posted manual entries to align inventory balances between the warehouse and SAP systems, minimizing reconciliation gaps.
• Created and maintained a monthly performance dashboard for the team, tracking key metrics, adherence to Service Level Agreements (SLA), and compliance.
• Provided training to new hires and acted as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) within the team, sharing best practices and contributing to team development.
• Successfully managed the most critical warehouses, receiving appreciation from the onshore team and the Star Performer of the Quarter award.

• Managed cash and bank management activities as part of the Record-to-Report (RTR) team, ensuring adherence to predefined Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for US and Canada entities.
• Performed positive pay exception handling on a daily basis through Citi bank portal, coordinating with the Accounts Payable (AP) team to process or reject cheques as needed.
• Executed stop payment requests received from the client within established SLAs, maintaining high levels of accuracy and compliance.
• Provided clients with cheque status updates and downloaded cheque copies for cashed transactions to support their inquiries.
• Downloaded bank statements for US and Canada entities for daily banking journal entry (JE) processing, ensuring data accuracy and integrity.
• Passed daily banking JEs, reviewed and uploaded them into Oracle and CGL systems, then coordinated with the JE team for posting.
• Led the team in implementing a new Banking & Cash Management (BCM) process, transitioning manual daily banking JEs and cash & bank reconciliations into BCM tools to resolve mismatches.
• Allocated and managed all ad-hoc requests related to daily desk work, including stop payments, purchase order (PO) cancellations, and hierarchy setups based on team workload and priorities.
• Booked accrual JEs, re-class JEs, and prepared adjustment entries to support accurate financial reporting and month-end closings.
• Maintained various operational trackers, including close trackers and team responsibility lists, to monitor task completion and team performance.
• Supported month-end close activities by preparing and uploading JEs in Oracle and CGL, ensuring timely and accurate submission of financial entries.

• Bank Statement Management: Download and review daily bank statements from RBS bank to track incoming collections and address any unapplied or unidentified receipts.
• Payment Processing: Accurately process and apply all incoming payments for customer accounts from various sources, including Electronic Fund Transfers (EFTs), credit cards, cheques, lockbox, and wire transfers.
• Daily Payment Application: Ensure accurate and timely application of all daily payments into Oracle, managing EFTs, ITLs, lockbox transactions, cheques, and credit card payments.
• Adjustments & Reallocations: Perform allocation, reallocation, small value write-offs, and withholding tax adjustments based on requests from the onshore team, with approval from the Accounts Receivable (AR) Manager.
• Reconciliation Reporting: Prepare various reconciliation reports, including aging 7 bucket reports, balance sheet reports, and receipt registers, to monitor and manage receivables effectively.
• AR to GL Interface: Run the AR to GL interface to ensure that all processed payments are accurately reflected in the General Ledger (GL) accounts, maintaining data consistency.
• Deposit Reconciliation: Perform reconciliation of daily deposits to the cash postings, ensuring that all payments are accounted for accurately.
• Client Remittances: Ensure timely scheduling of remittances from clients to maintain up-to-date receivables and cash flow.
• Month-End Closing: Manage month-end closing activities, including report generation and distribution using automated accounting systems, ensuring compliance and accuracy.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Initiate and lead weekly calls with the collection team to boost collection efforts and address any payment-related issues effectively.
• Discrepancy Management: Identify and communicate any discrepancies in payments received to the onshore team, working collaboratively to resolve issues and improve payment accuracy.

• Outstanding Report Distribution: Prepare and distribute outstanding aging reports to various agencies in the Europe region to ensure timely payments and adherence to collection targets.
• Payment Follow-up: Actively follow up on short payments and partial payments, working with customers to determine payment schedules and close pending cases.
• Collection Efforts: Initiate and lead collection efforts through email and calls to boost collection rates and maintain healthy receivable balances.
• Account Discrepancy Resolution: Investigate and resolve account discrepancies, ensuring accuracy and integrity of financial records.
• Client Support & Issue Resolution: Provide support in resolving client issues, acting as a key liaison to ensure prompt and satisfactory resolution.
• Financial Reporting: Prepare and produce timely consolidated financial reports for regional offices, ensuring accuracy and consistency in data.
• Credit Note Preparation: Prepare credit notes in Oracle to account for income and commission claims submitted by clients, ensuring accurate recording and reporting.
• Bug Analysis & Technical Coordination: Analyze system bugs and coordinate with the technical department for resolution, ensuring smooth financial operations.
• Payment Application: Accurately apply payments received in banks into Oracle, including EFTs, to maintain up-to-date accounts.
• Report Management: Utilize reports such as AR07 and AR10 from Oracle to identify and process unapplied payments, ensuring accurate cash application.
• Daily Balancing & Reconciliation: Perform daily balancing and reconciliation of deposits with cash allocations in the system to maintain financial accuracy and support month-end closing activities