SAP
Gaurav Arora
Finance Professional
Summary
Finance professional with 8+ years of experience in financial and accounting services. My expertise lies in Accounts Payable , Reconciliations,German Language and Month-end Closing. Worked as Lead Financial Analyst, for Swiss Bank UBS being a part of HCL Technologies for 4 years.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Assistant Manager
Damovo Group
Faridabad
06.2022 - 01.2023
- Engaged in Month-end close activities , Accruals
Calculations, Expense Flash and MIS reporting. - Analyzing the invoices received for the current
month in SAP-SCL and booking all the accruals
accordingly. - Ensuring correct accounting of invoice and
accuracy in expensing to right accounting codes (cost and expense codes) - Communicating with top leadership, suppliers for
any specific queries and dealing any out of hand
escalations in German language. - Coordinating with various counter parts in Europe for
smooth reporting and day–to–day activities. - Reconciling inter-company transactions covering
group cost transfer settlement. - Performing day to day accounts payable,payment and month end closing task for AP accounts.
Senior Associate
Resources: Publicis Group
Gurgoan
03.2021 - 06.2022
- Processing and delivering invoices to agencies
and clients within the stipulated SLA. - Ensuring the completion of the internal and
external audits within the predefined timeframe
and budget; preparing MIS and various reports as
per the requirement. - Managing multiple clients and their end to end
billing for Germany region. - Attend weekly call with Manager regarding the
unbilled amount that has to be billed to the clients. - Cross trained in another process “Production
Billing”.
a) Approval/Rejection of Invoices in SAP software
created by Agencies in Germany. - Collection of invoices, account
reconciliation. - Attend calls with Agencies in Germany regarding
the Client requirements or regarding any update
from client.
Analyst
Oaknorth Bank
Gurgoan
09.2019 - 02.2021
- Serve as first point of contact for client enquiries
regarding ONAI's credit analysis Process. - Research local data sources and liaise with date
vendors. - Assist the global credit team with local language
involving translation. - Meet targets for reducing time spent on credit
analysis, improving credit outcomes. - Comparison of customer's past performance to the
present performance. - To support other processes within the team and
training the new hires
Team Lead
HCL Technologies-UBS Bank
Noida
10.2015 - 09.2019
- Lead the various projects for continuous process improvement.
- Processing of Payroll and evaluating the Head-
Counts for every month and analyzing the variance. - Performing Variance analysis on Balance Sheet and
Profit & Loss line items by providing commentaries to
key stakeholders for month on month movement. - End to end processing of Vendor invoices raised to
various FIL entities by suppliers for goods and services
and ensuring correct VAT coding as per the
European VAT standards. - Posting Journal entries and weekly calls with the key
stakeholders. - Reconciling inter-company transactions covering
group cost transfer settlement. - Handling 5 team members , reviewing the work on a daily bais.
- Monthly variance analysis of payroll and reconciling
whether variance align with headcount movement. - Communicating with top leadership, suppliers for
any specific queries and dealing any out of hand
escalations in German language.
Finance Associate
Fidelity Worldwide Investments
Gurgoan
09.2013 - 09.2015
- End to end processing of Vendor invoices raised to
various FIL entities by suppliers for goods and services
and ensuring correct VAT coding as per the
European VAT standards. - Ensuring correct accounting of invoice and
accuracy in expensing to right accounting codes
(cost codes and expense codes) - Efficiently managing the AP Helpdesk ,to ensure
timely resolution to supplier & administrator's queries. - Review purchase orders issued to vendors and ensure the correctness of data.
- Performed account reconciliation and analysis.
Education
Bachelor of Accountancy -
Delhi University
New Delhi 07.2008 - 06.2011
MBA - Finance
Symbiosis
Pune 02.2013 - 03.2015
German Language - B2 Semester
Max Mueller Bhavan
New Delhi 02.2014 - 07.2016
Skills
German Language
Advance Excel
Quick Learner
Time Management
Team Player
Software
Oracle
DAP
Blackline
Concur
Coupa
Personal Snippet
Date of Birth: 23/09/1990
Linguistic Abilities: German, English and Hindi.
Marital Status: Married
Nationality: Indian
Hobbies: Travelling and Watching Movies
Timeline
Assistant Manager
Damovo Group
06.2022 - 01.2023
Senior Associate
Resources: Publicis Group
03.2021 - 06.2022
Analyst
Oaknorth Bank
09.2019 - 02.2021
Team Lead
HCL Technologies-UBS Bank
10.2015 - 09.2019
German Language - B2 Semester
Max Mueller Bhavan
02.2014 - 07.2016
Finance Associate
Fidelity Worldwide Investments
09.2013 - 09.2015
MBA - Finance
Symbiosis
02.2013 - 03.2015
Bachelor of Accountancy -
Delhi University
07.2008 - 06.2011