Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Achievementsawards
Socialfootprints
Personal Information
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Lakshmi N.S

Bengaluru

Summary

Secure a responsible career opportunity to fully utilize my training and skills, while making a significant contribution to the success of the company.

Secure a responsible career opportunity to fully utilize my training and skills, while making a significant contribution to the success of the company.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Internal control Specialist

OGSC
04.2023 - Current
  • Observation, review, discuss R2R, P2P & O2C process documentation with controllers & perform walkthroughs to assess control effectiveness & identify risks and reduce them to an acceptable level
  • Conduct testing of control attributes as a whole & ensure that all evidence of review and approval signature is documented
  • Publish the GAP assessment once the controls scope from PY to CY is completed and list down all the key controls referring to the Risk and controls matrix before Phase 1 testing
  • Follow up on open audit issues and facilitate agreements with business process owners to ensure timely closure of action plans.

Payroll Compliance specialist

Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd
10.2020 - 03.2023
  • Concept of Risk & Compliance, Processes, subprocesses & activities as well as their relationship
  • Understand policies & procedures to bring effectiveness and efficiency of operations, aiming reliability of financial reporting, and compliance
  • Perform high risk audit folders & do encrypt all the sensitive data before exchanging with EY auditors and parking P13 journals to Non leading leger (HFM)
  • Accountable for Guts dashboard handling including raising tickets for audit queries with the GAAP team & other agencies as needed
  • Assessment will involve determining if internal controls are functioning as intended and identifying any controls that are vulnerable or ineffective
  • To decrease the risk to an acceptable level, perform more tests and communicate audit findings to the relevant departments, asking them to implement a management action plan to fix the identified issue and or deficiency.

General Ledger & General Ledger, R2R specialist

Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd
12.2015 - 10.2020
  • Review and responsible for world's famous and complex domain is Payroll & reconciling balance sheets and investigating issues across multiple departments and archiving competent support on the certification tool to meet SOX requirements
  • Ensuring accuracy in financial reporting
  • Responsible for reviewing month/quarter/year-end close processes including parking and posting bounce back checks, rejected salaries, pension true-ups assisting with Actuarial reports, Tax true-ups supporting accruals to under/overpaid challans & other ad hoc journals as needed
  • The monthly governance call involves discussing R/T/L components and sharing MoM
  • Investigating unnatural balance Over 50K USD value as high priority and prepare reports by self /with the support of business
  • Building IC checklist, diving RCA, listing dynamic changes in process takes place to negotiate where scope for PCRF demanded.

Concurrent Audit

Proprietary Concern (Mr. Venkata Narayana Vedanta)
07.2013 - 09.2015
  • Exposed to execute statutory audits of Bank, Energy audits and Tax audits of various clients
  • Verifying Loan proposals, re-performing stock audits, study the internal control system related to billing, payment collection, collection of debts and payments of wages, electricity charges, etc
  • Analyzing business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments and projecting future revenues and expenses.

Internship

JBRK Audit firm
06.2009 - 07.2012
  • Tax assessment for Individuals, LLP, firms, and private companies
  • Develop, analyze budgets, prepare periodic reports per Client's proposals to avail credit with Banks
  • Ratio analysis and preparation of Key performance Indicator for firms
  • Prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting and other tax requirements
  • Test a company's financial information, operational information, IT systems, applications, procedures, security, and applicable laws governing and its compliance.

Controls & Compliance Specialist

RTRand Controls
  • Internal audit concepts & SOX compliance requirements
  • Listing common controls & country specifications @one stop (Say Bible to refer to) which assists new handlers and both internal & external auditors in no time
  • Assessing the business risk and operating effectiveness of the controls tested on population records, based on guidelines in line with the methodology and SOX suite.

General ledger & Reporting

  • Review month/Quarter/Year-end close process & BS reconciliations
  • Investigated issues spanning multiple departments
  • Prepared required monthly and quarterly reports
  • Suggesting ideas on improving engagement productivity and identifying automation opportunities for improving client service
  • Prioritizing people connects, providing ongoing feedback and training to enhance the team's skills and knowledge.

Taxation

  • Document internal information requests and responses ensuring compliance with statutory and tax audit requirements
  • Exposed to execute statutory and Tax audit of various clients
  • Tax assessment for Individuals, LLP, firms, and private companies.

Education

Skills

  • Good communication skills
  • Decision making & problem-solving skills
  • Ability to work in a demanding environment
  • Prioritize tasks and workload in order of importance

Achievementsawards

  • Eliminating non-value-added tasks and implemented PLX assisted tool where scope is available & saved manual hours.
  • Achieved 5 out of 5 CSAT.
  • Presented Star of Business Award in 2019.
  • Emerging leadership program winner in 2022

Socialfootprints

  • Mental Wellness advocate (Hosted open house talk shows addressing 1.8K employees in batches across Accenture PAN India)
  • Shakti project lead.
  • Celebrate Bdays and arrange potluck.
  • Arogya ambassador and WIT member.

Personal Information

  • Father's Name: Mr. Satyanarayana
  • Date of Birth: 06/19/84
  • Marital Status: Married

Languages

English, Kannada, Telugu & Hindi

Timeline

Internal control Specialist

OGSC
04.2023 - Current

Payroll Compliance specialist

Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd
10.2020 - 03.2023

General Ledger & General Ledger, R2R specialist

Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd
12.2015 - 10.2020

Concurrent Audit

Proprietary Concern (Mr. Venkata Narayana Vedanta)
07.2013 - 09.2015

Internship

JBRK Audit firm
06.2009 - 07.2012

Controls & Compliance Specialist

RTRand Controls

General ledger & Reporting

Taxation

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