HARISH S A
Finance and Accounts - Manager
Bangalore
Summary
I envisage myself as being a valuable contributor to the success of an organization, whose areas of activities are in synergy with my professional expertise. I believe my professional skills and the experience I have gained over the years will add significant value and depth to my job assignments.
Extensive experience in the BPO and Shared Services (SSC) industry, GCC, specializing in Finance & Accounts for leading manufacturing and IT companies. Expertise in General Ledger (GL), Record to Report (RTR), Profit & Loss (P&L) management, variance analysis Expertise Accounts Payable (P2P). 3 Way Match, 2 Way Match, payment disbursement, Vendor reconciliation, Travel and Expense Report and query handling Successfully led three major transitions for manufacturing units.
Operations Management: Report to the Business partners across the Globe on Metrics, performance and improvements, cost efficiency, Adherence to controls Engaging and coordinating Business Analysis sessions for understanding client business processes and working on process improvement. Preparing process Maps, Flow Charts for RTR Processes.
People Management: Recruitment, induction, training, Appraisal and Team rating for employees.
Monitoring of team performance to ensure compliance with Key Performance Indicators and Service Level Agreements.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Manager
Diageo Business Services India
09.2017 - Current
- Company Overview: Diageo Business Services India, Bangalore (DBSI)
- Contributed to multiple roles and departments throughout this tenure.
- Part of the Process Excellence (Governance) team, Managing, governing and defining the process.
- Collaborate closely with the service delivery team, across GBO centers and Finance Controlling team to address process-related queries.
- Perform continuous analysis to identify and prioritize high impact process improvements, efficiency opportunities and cost saving opportunities.
- Handles necessary escalations to maintain efficiency and ensures senior management is informed of significant issues or opportunities.
- Review and Approve Balance sheet reconciliations, FX rates, and monthly and budget rates in SAP.
- Review and approve for Sox control Designs for the activities.
- Review and approve of Audit Schedules and MIS reports.
- Drive process improvements in finance and system accounting (Ex; Adding GL Accounts to Automated Fx revaluation, thereby cost saving to the organization with accuracy and compliance.
- Manage internal and external audits, ensuring compliance with SOX controls.
- Develop and oversee policies.
- Ensuring the books /reporting periods are closed as per the Global eTimeable scheduled timelines for Sub-ledger (WIP, FA, AP, AR, Material), Bank and General Ledger.
- Leading the team in executing month-end close processes and automated jobs globally, ensuring adherence to stringent reporting deadlines.
- Led the Bank Reconciliation, Inter-Company processes and closely work with Accounts Payable and Accounts receivable and Tax team during reporting.
- Good stakeholder Management.
- Supporting for SAP ERP upgradation to S4Hana environment.
- Supervise the team responsible for maintaining and delivering the Authorization Matrix within Finance tools, Rate update, Automated jobs monitoring. Resolve the queries of OSWALD workflow tool, RTR Admin, Rate update and Authorization Matrix.
- Drive process improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
- Set up and monitor General Accounting Process Automation (GAPA) jobs for Diageo’s global entities, overseeing approximately 7000 jobs Auto-executions per month.
- Analysing and providing details of various accounting activities, namely COGS Overhead Allocation, Fx Revaluation and Monthly regrouping reports.
- Contribute to various projects, namely JADE-2, PENZANCE, Blackline, and S4Hana.
- Provide key insights and data on GAPA jobs to internal and external global stakeholders.
- Supervise the team on the activities of Upload balances to the DELTA tool for ICO transaction matching and Blackline for Balance sheet Reconciliation. Authorization Matrix.
- Complete cycle of people management (Recruitment, training, career development and appraisal cycle).
- Diageo Business Services India, Bangalore (DBSI)
Team Leader → Team Manager
Capgemini Business Services India Pvt Ltd
08.2013 - 09.2017
- Company Overview: Supporting for Leading Global Manufacturing
- Successfully transitioned and stabilized process for a Sweden-based manufacturing client, migrating operations to Bangalore.
- Led Procure-to-Pay (PTP), Order-to-Cash (OTC), and R2R operations during book closures and management reporting cycles.
- Managed the process across Sweden, the Czech Republic, and Poland, overseeing general accounting, financial reporting for 40 entities using the BPC tool, intercompany transactions, fixed assets, balance sheet and bank reconciliations, MIS reports, and trend analysis.
- Led high-volume intercompany reconciliations across 35 global entities, handling 15,000 invoices per month valued at 1.5 billion SEK, achieving zero mismatches.
- Conducted country service delivery calls, collaborating with finance teams to drive process standardization and transformation.
- Actively worked on set-up off COE team such as reporting, Journals and Balance Sheet Recons and led the reporting team for Global entities including the Corporate Office.
- Developed robust process controls and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency and compliance.
- Consistently met and service-level agreements (SLAs) with 100% Green KPIs, ensuring adherence to Statements of Work (SOW).
- Prepared detailed P&L analyses, identifying and implementing cost-reduction strategies, including workforce optimization.
- Process Improvement on reconciliation, Journals and reporting.
- Managed all aspects of team leadership, including recruitment, training, performance appraisals, and career development for a team of 30+ Team members.
- Supporting for Leading Global Manufacturing
Team Leader – Procure to Pay (P2P) & Transition
Affiliated Computer Services of India (P) Limited
05.2012 - 08.2013
- Company Overview: Affiliated Computer Services of India (P) Limited, Bangalore (Xerox)
- Led the transition of Procure to Pay (P2P) processes for Indonesia Manufacturing company, covering Accounts Payable, Vendor Master, Travel & Expense, and Disbursement activities.
- Served as the Operational Lead for setting up the Accounts Payable process for Direct Material purchases.
- Designed, stabilized the first phase of migration of Direct Material processing, Master Data creation process. And process improvement made on payment to vendors and employees (Auto payment run process).
- Developed and documented process workflows, handoffs, desk procedures, and standard operating procedures.
- Affiliated Computer Services of India (P) Limited, Bangalore (Xerox)
Team Leader – General Ledger Center of Excellence (COE)
Affiliated Computer Services of India (P) Limited
10.2005 - 04.2012
- Company Overview: Affiliated Computer Services of India (P) Limited, Bangalore (Xerox)
- Established the General Ledger COE team for the APAC region, overseeing all GL activities and financial reporting.
- Managed month-end planning, including checklists, journal voucher (JV) tracking, JV reviews and approvals, and reconciliation reviews.
- Oversaw the maintenance of the Chart of Accounts, General Ledger accounts, and cost centers.
- Implementation of accounting policies and corporate control circular letters (CCL), as well as account and organizational changes (AOC) issued by the corporate office.
- Review of Various reports MIS reports, Monitor KPIs and SLAs ensure the compliance with performance benchmarks, budget vs. actual variance reports, year-end schedules, and GL reconciliation logs.
- Review of General Ledger accounts, vendors, and customers, ensuring accurate mapping of GL accounts.
- Developed month-end plans and checklists, prepared trial balances, and conducted JV accrual analysis.
- Assisted internal and external auditors by providing comprehensive financial schedules and reports.
- Managed vendor aging reports and reconciliations, along with GR/IR and local vendor account reconciliations.
- Introduced duplicate invoice reports, vendor payment approvals, and ensured timely disbursements.
- Affiliated Computer Services of India (P) Limited, Bangalore (Xerox)
Education
CA Intermediate Group 1 -
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
M.Com - undefined
Skills
Process Improvements
ACCOUNTING ERP SOFTWARE / Tools & Applications
- SAP, Aurora, Movex, FOCUS, Tally
- BPC, eTBR,
- Blackline, Assurnet and eARMSg
- Oswald, NEWGEN, BPOpen, ODM,
- Power BI
Certification
Certified in GEM & GPM (Global Process Model) and First Line Manager (ENABLE) Certification.
Awards
- Diageo - Bar Award, Black Label and Gold Label (individual) Awards
- Gold Label Team Award
- Capgemini – 3 Times Best Team Awards
- Xerox - Six-time Best Team Player Award
Accomplishments
- Successfully Transitioned for Manufacturing Units and Factory Accounting, and Set-up cost run activities.
- Moving Manual revaluation to Automated Fx Revaluation from various teams (ICO, Customer, Vendor, and Treasury departments under one team), FTE savings to the orgn.
- Successfully transitioned (on-site Sweden) set up, and stabilized the Record to Report (R2R) process for 40 entities.
- Led the successful Accounts payable (P2P / S2P) transition for Indonesia Direct Material Vendor Master, T&E process stabilizing the process within three months. And setting up of Payment runs
- Extensive on-site and off-site transition experience, managing multiple successful migrations.
- Established the Center of Excellence (COE) for Financial Reporting, enhancing process efficiency and standardization.
- Received multiple awards, including the Best Team Award and individual recognition for process stabilization and excellence.
- Optimized process by removing unwanted steps (Waste), Cost reduction to the organization while maintaining efficiency, adherence to control and accuracy
Timeline
Senior Manager
Diageo Business Services India
09.2017 - Current
Team Leader → Team Manager
Capgemini Business Services India Pvt Ltd
08.2013 - 09.2017
Team Leader – Procure to Pay (P2P) & Transition
Affiliated Computer Services of India (P) Limited
05.2012 - 08.2013
Team Leader – General Ledger Center of Excellence (COE)
Affiliated Computer Services of India (P) Limited
10.2005 - 04.2012
M.Com - undefined
CA Intermediate Group 1 -
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
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