HANAMANTAGOUD HOSAGOUDAR

• Autonomously supervise and manage teams involved in expense audit, processing, operations, and payments.
• Serve as the initial point of contact for internal escalations, navigating through process challenges.
• Possess comprehensive knowledge of Travel, Expense, and Card programs, collaborating effectively with regional travel managers.
• Proficiently understand and navigate systems such as Concur, Workday, Appzen (Concur Detect), SAP and Card feed programs.
• Direct the team towards strategic objectives, identifying business opportunities, and ensuring proactive communication with management.
• Manage financial close-related activities, including accruals, T&E schedules, and reconciliations.
• Review team tasks, identify delays, and provide solutions for timely completion.
• Exercise judgment in highlighting risks and opportunities, training junior team members, and addressing auditors’ requirements.
• Collaborate with the Global Process Owner, manage approvals, and understand statutory requirements and legalities.
• Assume responsibility for identifying compliance risks and providing remediation strategies.
• Prepare and maintain up-to-date process documentation, emphasizing continuous improvement.
• Contribute to ongoing projects by actively participating in testing activities and engaging with individuals across the employee life cycle.

• Responsible for leading month-end close process, including reviewing journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, and performing financial statement analytics.
• Manage a staff of senior accountants through all daily accounting activities such as invoicing, contract review, revenue recognition, and answering customer questions.
• Support new business initiatives through identification of accounting requirements and ensure implementation of financial controls and process and system solutions.
• Work with cross functional teams to ensure proper implementation of system changes
• Identify opportunities for process improvements; suggest and implement improvements to scale and automate manual procedures
• Perform ad-hoc research on technical accounting issues
• Ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP and SOX requirements
• Assisting with deliverables and special projects involving cross-functional teams

• Manage Fixed Assets Accounting group based at Bangalore supporting all the Global VMware locations
• Closely Monitor the company's capitalization policy and ensure that they are adhered to by the GL Accountants
• Monitor expenses and ensure that items to be capitalized are capitalized and not expensed off
• Manage monthly close process Assist the regional GL manager for the overall month-end, quarter-end and year-end close Review journals entries, ensure that proper backup is attached, correct categorization is done and required approvals are obtained
• Monitor and review Fixed Assets account reconciliations for global entities prepared by GL Accountants through Black line
• Prepare monthly and quarterly consolidated fixed assets roll forward schedules
• Conduct a monthly close meeting with the regional GL manager to discuss accounting issues
• Manage maintenance of documentation of policies, procedures and controls
• Review the schedules prepared by the GL Accountants for the external auditor's quarterly financial reviews and annual financial audit
• Review the preparation of 10-Q and 10-K financial disclosure information by the FA Accountants
• Responsible for maintaining SOX compliance
• Prepare ad-hoc management reports
• Maintain the integrity of general ledger and financial records
• Manage preparation of intercompany accounting and account reconciliation
• Assist with monthly analytics for month end review by management
• Ongoing participation in oracle testing cycles
• Provide input on employee's performance to the manager for performance evaluation
• Provide timely and effective feedback on the progress and facilitate dialogues for improvements Identify soft skill requirements of the team members and encourage continuous learning
• Responsible for maintaining various tax books such as Fed, State, Non State, AMT.

• Maintenance of statutory books of accounts like cash book, bank book, Purchase and Sales Registers
• Cash Maintenance, Bank Records and Periodical Bank Reconciliation
• Processing contractors and consultants monthly running bills (Invoice Processing)
• Preparation of Final Accounts
• Preparation of financial statements for management reporting purposes
• Preparation of monthly and quarterly Budget
• Sales Tax and Income tax calculations, filing of monthly and annual returns
• Preparation of quarterly Profit and Loss account and Balance sheet
• General Office Administration.

• Finalization of Annual Accounts
• Statutory and Tax Audit of private / public limited companies, Educational Institutions, Partnership firms, Proprietary concerns, Trusts and Non-governmental organizations
• Internal Audit of private / public limited companies, Partnership firms, and reporting thereon
• Payroll Accounting and Audit
• Bank Audit and Audit of Insurance Companies
• Fixed Assets Accounting, Preparation of Schedules and Depreciation Accounting
• Computation of Income Tax and filing of Income Tax Returns of individuals and firms.