Kumar Gaurav

A focused professional and strategic planner with nearly 12 years of rich experience in designing and implementing financial systems to facilitate enhanced financial control and make the business process more robust. Steered Finance and Accounting matters including financial compliance Government policies and procedures, treasury and general ledger ownership. Personality Traits: Executive Presence, Leadership Qualities, Analytical Skills, Strategic/Political Agility, Attention to detail

• Successfully completed the Fixed Assets transition project within the established timeline and budget, minimizing disruption to business operations.
• Played a Pivotal role in the successful impelmentation of SAP ERP
• Led the completion of pending Audits.
• Successfully initiated and implemented a MIS, resulting in a 20% reduction in data processing time and a 15% increase in decision-making accuracy.

• Kalyani Steels, Over INR 500 cr, 05/2023, Present
• Akzo Nobel, 11/2021, 05/2023, Netherland
• SMR Motherson, 07/2019, 11/2021
• KPMG Gurgaon, 12/2017, 06/2019, Gurgaon
• P. R. M., 04/2013, 12/2017

• Generating insights and analysing trends
• Analyses current and past trends in key performance indicators; monitor performance indicators, highlighting trends and analysing causes of unexpected variance.
• Performing day-to-day accounting activities, including preparation and maintenance of financial records, ledgers, and journals in SAP
• Ensuring compliance with accounting principles, standards, and regulations.
• Assist in the preparation and coordination of audits, both internal and external
• Assist in the development and implementation of financial policies and procedures.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting activities
• Monitor and reconcile financial transactions and bank statements.
• Analyses landed product cost across sites and calculates labour rates as part of the product costing process.
• Provide support in completing AR business case for capex.
• Analyses inventory levels and alerts navigator on potential SLOB risk
• Monitors capex, cost of quality and manufacturing productivity.
• Develops financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives (such as ALPS/Continuous improvement, ISC cost of quality, footprint reduction)
• Provides inputs to Commercial FP&A on the impact of raw material changes on COGS to enable early pricing actions.
• Planning and Budgeting
• Drives the continued development of the QRF and other planning and forecasting processes, in particular the COGS forecasting process.
• Consolidates inputs from the ISC teams and navigators for submission of QRF and Budget into the required platforms.
• Measures forecast accuracy and highlights to the Navigators areas for improvement.
• R2R Function
• Support in an accurate and timely way the monthly, quarterly, hard-close and year-end-financial closing for the entities in the region.
• Active interaction with other RAC Accounting professionals, Accounting Controller(s) and GBS about accounting subjects, transaction processing and performance.
• Support R2R Regional Process Delivery Lead and the R2R Team Lead in ad-hoc activities.
• Support consolidation of legal entity statements and local statutory reporting in the region
• Internal Audit
• Review and ensure that internal controls are implemented and operating effectively and efficiently across the organization.
• Active participation in the Internal Audits conducted by the third party (Big4) and working closely with the audit firm staff to ensure quality audit observations through Rock Submission.
• Reviewing the audit work and giving value-added inputs
• Driving timely closure of audits by working closely with the process owners and audit firm
• Open Internal Audit observations closure
• Conducting reviews of SOPs every quarter and suggesting control improvements

• Executing in monthly & quarterly closing Schedule and reporting global Signals and KPI parameters.
• Ensuring proper and complete day to day maintenance of accounts in SAP environment
• Finalization of monthly Trial Balance, Sales, Inventory, Day 1 and Day 7 reporting for management
• Variance analysis of actual numbers with budgeted numbers, budget finalization activity.
• Review of MIS reports relating to Production, Planning, Maintenance and Quality and suggesting line of improvement
• Collecting departmental budget requirements and presenting annual budget for management review.
• Approvals of accounting related to Business Travel, labour cost, overheads and fixed assets in adherence to company’s empowerment rules and accounting policies with ensuring compliance with direct and indirect taxation.
• Checking of monthly, quarterly and yearly Cost in Process and Assets Capitalisation with investment moving plan.
• Weekly Payment Batch preparation and extended checking of all Extended checking of payment batches.
• Preparation and presentation of business segment wise manufacturing statement and major expense analysis report to management.
• Proficient in partnering and implementing the Hyperion Financial Management Consolidation System.
• Weekly/Monthly reporting to top management in MRM
• Proposed and implemented Dashboard for the purpose of management review and also successfully implement the debtors and creditors aging platform and other KPI parameters
• Appreciation received for incorporation of 5 years forecast data and execution of annual budget plan.
• Evaluating internal control procedure and preparing audit reports with a view to highlight the shortcomings and suggesting improvements.
• Coordinating with HQ Auditors of the company and ensuring completion of Internal / Statutory/ Tax Audits
• Review of GSTR reconciliation.
• Reviewing monthly salary process and TDS.

• MS Office Suite
• Power BI
• Advance Excel
• IFRS Certificate course (KPMG)
• SAP (HANA)
• Empro
• Citrix
• E-biz
• Tally

• Father's Name: Sh Subash Kumar Sinha (Govt. Employee)
• Date of Birth: 02/28/84
• Marital Status: Married