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Work History
Education
Skills
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GABRIELA D'CUNHA

GABRIELA D'CUNHA

Dubai

Summary

Experienced Financial Analyst with a background in managing and interpreting financial data to support business decision-making. Strong skills in budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling paired with the ability to communicate complex financial concepts clearly. Notable impact made on previous work through identifying cost-saving opportunities and enhancing operational efficiency. Resourceful Financial Analyst with progressive financial industry experience across auditing, financial controls, budgeting, accounting and tax specialties. Strong leader with excellent motivation and communication skills to build and manage high-performing teams.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Project Financial Analyst

IQVIA
03.2017 - 03.2020

Company Overview: US MNC - Healthcare

  • As a project financial Analyst, worked for the FP&A PMO billing and collections for the US team
  • Worked for USA, EMEA and APAC regions
  • Executed the contract review, contract setup, pricing review and invoice review in liaison with project managers for various contractual and billing related activities
  • Contract Validation- Review the contract document, verifying the contents, and validating the PO
  • Project setup in QLIMS system & upkeeping the project data
  • Generation of revenue, invoicing for Milestone Projects
  • Reconciliation of invoices and credit note with AR, GL, and Collections team
  • Coordinate with the US, EMEA and APAC regions to resolve the revenue and project related activities
  • Worked on descope, cancelled contracts and contract closure
  • Compliance of checklist with the SOX audit team for Internal Control
  • Functioning as the point of contact for all queries related to AR on Service now
  • Preparing the SOP and documentation for the finance process
  • Preparing internal reports and the Dashboard for the executive leadership to support their decision making
  • US MNC - Healthcare

Client Financial Management Analyst

Accenture
03.2020 - 07.2021

Company Overview: Irish-US MNC

  • Undertaking training for new team members and resolving their query
  • Updating the process documents with the latest updates and provide insights to the team
  • Analyzing the end-to-end budget and providing recommendations to the Project Manager
  • Analyzing the cost-efficiency of the budget
  • Reviewing the budgets vs actuals, perform variance analysis and make recommendations for improvement
  • Worked on Rate review and Ad hoc contracts to reduce the unbilled amount
  • As a CFM Analyst, analyze the contract financials by adhering to Accenture policies and internal controls in compliance with US GAAP
  • Manage client contract financials in Accenture books
  • Preparing monthly budget and analyzing the monthly profitability with the budget
  • Preparing financial models for ongoing contracts to maintain profitability
  • Coordinate with the project team in forecasting and reviewing consultant hours and costs
  • Perform the variance analysis by analyzing forecast vs
  • Budgeted variance for contract financials
  • Process the booking of sale post the contract is signed between both parties
  • Create the WBSE and cost collector for various contracts
  • Provide business advisory role to the leads of the contract on cost saving and implementation of effective control
  • Daily/weekly/monthly calls with CAL, and PM and resolving queries regarding invoicing and cost for the contract
  • Helping the leads to understand the financial health of the contract and help them to take corrective measures, to avoid financial uncertainty
  • Recorded Journal entries and processed invoices monthly
  • Collaboratively worked across all departments globally to win the deal
  • Resolving queries with the CAL and PM
  • Irish-US MNC

Advanced Analyst

Ernst and Young
08.2021 - 12.2022

Company Overview: UK - Big4

  • As an advanced analyst at the GCR Tax team, managed multi country contracts that deliver GCR services to clients centrally, ensuring global compliance, risk mitigation and control the overall contract performance
  • Assisted the commercial leads and account leads to navigate the business, through commercial complexities
  • Managed global accounts and help translate financial data to commercial terms
  • Performed the contract management activities like scope and fee updates, change request updates
  • Ensured the revenue is managed in the Engagement by creating the EEP for the client, ensuring it matches the pricing
  • Reviewed the financial reports by reconciling expenses, invoices, and collections, reviewing actuals vs budget, forecasting, code management and controlling
  • Measuring financial success of the engagements and accounts strategy
  • Managed the financial plan in accordance with the resources onboarded and measure the success of the engagement and account strategy driving efficiency
  • Created EEP for codes and send them to the GDS Lead
  • Downloaded the Time and expense report and uploaded for ETC in Mercury
  • Process the RFI, RFP and RFQ and send to the local team for subcontracting
  • Created UPS ETC for various engagements for the COE team
  • Worked on new contracts, change order and reconciliation for the engagement
  • Create the SOPs for Invoice and EEP and check for any variances
  • Manage the ETC for clients and interact with MBAs to check the performance of the Engagement
  • Set up the opportunity, create the pricing, and create the EEP's in Mercury/SAP
  • Review the scope of work to monitor contractual activities
  • Review the billings and ensure the client has processed payments via bank
  • Bill the global clients of the company as per the contractual terms
  • Review the payments with the assistance of accounts department
  • Analyze the outstanding receivables and follow up with the client for the specific period
  • Follow up for outstanding receivables with global clients
  • Review the contract for discounts and refund if any

Financial Analyst

Lansburg Shipping LLC
01.2023 - 12.2024
  • Review the scope of work to monitor contractual activities
  • Review the billings and ensure the client has processed payments via bank
  • Bill the global clients of the company as per the contractual terms
  • Review the payments with the assistance of accounts department
  • Analyze the outstanding receivables and follow up with the client for the specific period
  • Follow up for outstanding receivables with global clients
  • Review the contract for discounts and refund if any
  • Ensure all the billing related reporting activities are performed
  • Submitting VAT on a periodic basis

Education

PGDM - Finance

St. Joseph's Institute of Management
Bangalore
04.2016

Bachelor of Commerce -

St. Aloysius College
Mangalore
04.2014

Skills

  • SAP
  • PeopleSoft Oracle
  • Power BI
  • Tableau
  • SharePoint
  • Salesforce
  • Cash Application
  • Mercury
  • MS Excel
  • PPT
  • Word
  • SQL
  • CMT
  • BOT Automation
  • Cash Flow Statement
  • Bank Reconciliation Statement
  • General Ledger
  • Trial Balance
  • Journal Entries
  • Profit & Loss Account
  • Balance Sheet

Additionalknowledge

  • Cash Flow statement
  • Bank Reconciliation statement
  • General Ledger
  • Trial Balance
  • Journal entries for accrued/prepaid - income and expenditure
  • Profit & loss Account
  • Balance sheet

Contact

  • +91, 7338129628
  • +971, 564309275

Extracurricular Activities

Won Inter-Collegiate Chess championship in 2013. Won the runners-up for District Level chess in 2009. Active member of the Toastmasters Association and Gavels club for public speaking. Participated in the National Level College -ACME fest in 2013. Part of the organizing committee for the National Level College fest.

Hobbies and Interests

  • Reading
  • Cooking
  • Playing chess
  • Sight-seeing

Toolsandapplications

  • SAP
  • PeopleSoft Oracle
  • Power BI
  • Tableau
  • SharePoint
  • Salesforce
  • Cash application
  • Mercury
  • MS Excel
  • PPT
  • Word
  • SQL
  • CMT
  • BOT automation

Careerachievements

  • Received the extra miler award for QC from the CFO at IQVIA.
  • Lead the QC team to maintain high quality standards for contracts.

Accomplishments

  • Award for the best Quality from the CFO of IQVIA

Timeline

Financial Analyst

Lansburg Shipping LLC
01.2023 - 12.2024

Advanced Analyst

Ernst and Young
08.2021 - 12.2022

Client Financial Management Analyst

Accenture
03.2020 - 07.2021

Project Financial Analyst

IQVIA
03.2017 - 03.2020

PGDM - Finance

St. Joseph's Institute of Management

Bachelor of Commerce -

St. Aloysius College
GABRIELA D'CUNHA