Gangappa B Uppar
Finance And Accounts
Bangalore
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Team Lead F&A
Infosys BPM Limited
Bangalore
08.2019 - Current
- (EY project transitioned to Infosys) Responsible for verifying and approving all foreign currency import of service and supply invoices
- Preparing Form 15CB requests & co-ordinate with Chartered Accountant for collecting Form 15CB’s
- Preparing Form 15CA XML and uploading in Income Tax portal for generating Form 15CA
- Preparing the Bank letters and ensures all foreign currency invoices are paid on time without any delay or escalations
- Reconciling of Forex Gain/Loss transactions on weekly basis and ensures Forex entries are posted in the system
- Making sure all the Tax Documents are collected from all the suppliers on yearly basis before processing the invoices
- Validating all the clauses on Tax Documents as per client guidelines and submits it to Tax team for evaluating
- WHT applicability
- Processing of Intercompany cross charges, EBIX, Contractors and Sub-Contractors and other third-party payments regularly Verifying & approving of all CAPEX & OPEX vendor’s invoices in all aspects viz
- PO, Agreements, Tax & etc
- Verifying statutory compliance documents, other supporting documents & ensures invoices are accounted on time for payment process
- Analyzing TDS applicability on each invoice and ensures invoices are accounted with proper GL codes Validating GST input credit and GST Reverse Charge Mechanism & ensures invoices are accounted on daily basis Create the payment XMLs of vendor invoices as per the due dates and upload XML in Bank portal for payment release
- Analyzing Bank reconciliation open items and provide the mappings to Treasury team for knocking off the same and ensures open items are lying in less than 30 day’s buckets
- Quarterly reconciliation of vendor accounts & getting a sign off
- Responsible for providing the monthly & yearly accruals on vendor invoices
- Cater to Statutory & Internal Audit requirements and respond to Auditor’s comments and ensure that all schedules & observations are adequately addressed
- Handling queries of Bankers, Suppliers and Business & ensures its addressed on time
- Handling a team size of 15 members and ensures timely training and their growth.
Finance Manager
Jones Lang LaSalle
Bangalore
11.2017 - 02.2019
- Responsible for the preparation of monthly financial results, budget and quarterly forecasts and completion of the reporting requirements Prepare and analyze accurate monthly financial and management reports, including income statement, balance sheet, budget and variance, projections and forecast Issuing of client invoices & monitor processing of invoices Follow up & ensure timely collections of client payments by providing weekly aging reports Manage cash applications and making sure all cash receipts are applied properly Responsible for reviewing weekly Accounts Payable payment batches and their authorization Responsible for suppliers and customers quarterly account reconciliation & taking care of necessary adjustments
- Responsible for monthly Bank Account reconciliation & timely closing open transactions
- Responsible for monthly cost and revenue accruals and accounting the same at every month end Ensure that all financial transactions are processed accurately, in a timely manner, and in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles Suggest modifications and improvements to existing processes and help in the evaluation of such changes Handling queries of Customers, Bankers and Suppliers to provide on time support by resolving the queries
- Cater to Statutory & Internal Audit requirements and respond to Auditor’s comments and ensure that all schedules & observations are adequately addressed
Assistant Manager Finance
Bharti Airtel Ltd
Bangalore
08.2014 - 02.2017
- Collection Accounting, Financial Reporting and Analysis for PAN India Postpaid Collections, Accounts
- Receivables & GL Closing responsibilities Preparation of MIS schedules, AR-GL Schedules, Audit schedules, Bad debt provisioning etc Responsible for Vendors & Channel Partners commission accounting & processing payments Own the General Ledgers review for posting of daily & monthly (Closing) GL entries
- Reconciliation of intercompany accounts & GL account analysis Daily monitoring health & hygiene of the account balances vide timely and quality account reconciliations Bank Reconciliation and preparing related schedules viz
- Cheque in Transit, Cheque in Hand, Unclaimed
- Credit Schedules & etc
- Drive & collect the TDS Recovery from the Vendors & Channel partners Validation & account the Service Tax & TDS on Commission for all the vendors & for all the Circles
- Cross verify the Service Tax with vendor invoices & make sure that it is matched with GL & provide the complete details with back up to get the CENVAT credit
- Conducting periodical process review meetings to evaluate the performance and offering suggestions for betterment Accountable for SLA and TAT on daily operations, maintain high service standards by achieving stringent
- SLA metrics and quality parameters
- Coach and guide team to help succeed in deliverables of team well in time Taking care of KRA’s & Appraisals of the team
Assistant Manager Finance
American Tower Corporation
11.2013 - 05.2014
- Accounts
- Receivables Management Verify the monthly billing data of all customers and provide confirmation to centralized billing team for generating invoices Reconciliation of Power & Fuel consumption data with O&M team for OPEX billing & ensure that all invoices related supporting are available before receiving soft copy of invoices from billing team Receiving invoices from billing team & verify computation (First round invoice check) and other parameters before submitting to customers Resolving all invoice related queries from customers & get it certified for payment process Follow up collections with customers, by providing invoice wise outstanding Report collections to corporate team along with payment advices of all customers & complete cash applications on Oracle ERP Validate deductions made by customers on invoices, generate necessary approved Credit notes Quarterly reconciliation of Account Balance with all customers & obtaining balance confirmation
- Monthly tenancy sing off with all customers Preparing AR aging, DSO’s & publish to all stake holders Timely collection of outstanding & reducing PBDD Weekly AR review with the management & take necessary actions Maintaining AR related records viz
- MSA, RFIB certificate & PSU (BSNL) related docs Supporting Internal & Statutory audit issues and fulfilling audit requirements / query resolution etc
- Responsible for month end book closure and financial reporting
- Payables Management Verifying & accounting of all CAPEX & OPEX vendor’s invoices in all aspects viz
- PO, Agreements, Tax & etc
- Payout monthly land lord rentals & security deposits by taking care of escalations & supplementary deeds Processing EB related invoices such as site EB bills, EB permanent power connection & additional security deposit Verifying & processing of employee reimbursements as per the company policy Quarterly reconciliation of suppliers & getting a sign off Statutory compliances & taking care of liability payments – VAT, TDS, Service Tax & Professional Tax Preparing monthly VAT data & submits to tax consultant for filing monthly returns Issuing of Form -16 & C-forms to vendors on quarterly basis Preparing Bank reconciliation statement on monthly basis
- Physical stock verification at warehouse on monthly basis
- Ensuring timely payments to vendors and other statutory related payments within TAT
Assistant Manager
ZTE Telecom India Pvt. Ltd
05.2006 - 10.2013
- Finance & Accounts
- Receivables Management Verification of contracts with customers for tax implications, terms & conditions on delivery & payments, implications of liquidity damages & getting contracts vetted by legal experts before signing contracts
- Responsible for contract management & implementations
- Ensure all contracts are getting updated into contract register in a timely manner
- Responsible for booking all the customers sales orders in the system
- Issuing of all customers Service & Equipment invoices viz
- E1/VAT/CST/HSS/Service invoices Ensure correct Invoice booking under appropriate account codes with statutory compliance
- Follow up collections from customer’s viz
- BSNL, ITI, MTNL, Aircel, Reliance, SSTL & Idea
- Responsible for booking daily customer collections & completing cash applications against particular invoices in the system
- Resolving collection discrepancies with the customers & taking of necessary actions
- Driving and ensuring customer account reconciliation & obtaining balance confirmation
- Collection of C Forms from all the customers to avail the tax concessions Interact with customers/KAM’s to resolve outstanding issues Preparing “DUE & OVER DUE” statements on daily basis & publish the same to all stake holders
- Preparing monthly collection report & submit to Head Quarters at Shanghai, China Preparing detailed analysis and reports to give a picture of debtors/collection/revenue Reviewing and analysing general ledger accounts for month end closings Supporting Internal & Statutory audits and fulfilling the audit requirements / query resolution etc
- Payables Management Responsible for contractors & sub-contractors invoice processing and taking care of the payments according to
- PO terms & conditions
- Responsible for PAN India employee reimbursements as per the company policy
- Responsible for payment of ccompany admin expenses such as office & guest house rentals,equipment rentals, vehicle rentals (Monthly and Daily basis) and office & guest house operational expenses
- Coordinating with HR for full &final settlement process and monitoring the payments for all exit employees
- Driving and ensuring vendor account reconciliation & obtaining balance confirmation
- Issuing of Form -16 & C Forms to all the suppliers
- Preparing employees & vendors aging report & recovering old loan/advance payments
- Validate AP GL, accrual and other control account reconciliation Creating Supplier masters, Tax Codes, Item Codes & COA’s in ERP System Devising policies/system to ensure internal control, correct account & accurate payment within the timelines Ensure & improve compliance of SOP of Accounts payable Verification of Trial balance for accounting and accuracy of taxes such as Professional tax, TDS, VAT, & Service
- Tax, Ensure all sub ledgers are posted & transferred to GL
- Verifying GL interface and posting entries to GL if any issues on hold.
Accounts & Inventory Executive
UCB India Pvt. Ltd
01.2005 - 05.2006
- Receiving of pharma inventories from factory & verify the same through STN
- Arrange inventories at stores with batch & expiry date wise
- Invoicing to all distributors throughout Karnataka on daily basis & dispatch the same
- Follow up the collections from distributors by providing invoice wise o/s statements
- Responsible for preparing of all cheque collections & depositing into Bank on daily basis Verify the collections & account the same in the system & report it to head quarter
- Undertaking the bi-weekly stock verification & report it to head quarter
- Filling of monthly returns viz
- VAT FORM 100
- Accolade: Awarded “Best Team” for the year 2009 during my tenure for employee reimbursement at ZTE Certificate of “Excellence for Outstanding Performance” in 2009 by ZTE Group CFO Awarded as “Star performer” in Finance Department for the year 2010 by ZTE India Honored Excellence Award for “Driving Expenses Control” in HY2, 2012 at ZTE India Honored for “Exceptional Contribution” in enhancing financial controls in vendor reconciliation in the year
Education
CMA Intermediate - undefined
The Institute of Cost Accountants of India
Bachelor's Degree - Commerce (Finance
Karnataka University of Dharwad
Skills
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Timeline
Team Lead F&A
Infosys BPM Limited
08.2019 - Current
Finance Manager
Jones Lang LaSalle
11.2017 - 02.2019
Assistant Manager Finance
Bharti Airtel Ltd
08.2014 - 02.2017
Assistant Manager Finance
American Tower Corporation
11.2013 - 05.2014
Assistant Manager
ZTE Telecom India Pvt. Ltd
05.2006 - 10.2013
Accounts & Inventory Executive
UCB India Pvt. Ltd
01.2005 - 05.2006
CMA Intermediate - undefined
The Institute of Cost Accountants of India
Bachelor's Degree - Commerce (Finance
Karnataka University of Dharwad
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