Mahalakshmi M E

• Manage day-to-day accounting operations, and ensure accurate and timely recording of financial transactions.
• Perform bank reconciliations, ledger scrutiny, and account reconciliations to identify and resolve discrepancies.
• Monitor accounts payable and receivable, ensuring timely payments, collections, and settlements of outstanding balances. Verify invoices, payment requests, supporting documents, and accounting entries before processing.
• Process vendor payments after validating invoices, approvals, supporting documents, and applicable tax deductions.
• Reconcile vendor statements, and resolve outstanding balances and invoice discrepancies.
• Monitor recurring operational expenses, and ensure accurate cost allocation to the relevant accounts.
• GST Compliance and Reconciliation: Filing for GSTR 1 and GSTR-3B, ITC verification, and Reconciliation.
• TDS calculation, verification, and filling compliance.
• Statutory payments and due date monitoring.
• Prepare periodic financial reports, reconciliation statements, and MIS reports for management review.
• Investigate transaction mismatches, and accounting errors, coordinate with relevant teams, and ensure appropriate resolution.
• Maintain internal and external audit requirements, per documentation and support.
• Analyze gross margin fluctuations per service tier (e.g., fiber, broadband, enterprise dedicated lines).
• Reconcile revenue generated from broadband, leased-line, enterprise internet, and other ISP services against billing and collection records, as applicable.
• Reconcile billing system reports with accounting records, and investigate revenue mismatches.
• Monitor customer outstanding balances, aging reports, collections, and overdue accounts.
• Coordinate with billing, operations, and customer service teams to resolve billing discrepancies and payment allocation issues.
• Maintain fixed asset records for network equipment, routers, switches, servers, fibre infrastructure, and other capital assets, as applicable.
• Record asset additions, disposals, depreciation, and asset-related accounting entries.
• Verify employee reimbursements, administrative expenses, and other approved payments.
• Coordinate monthly payroll processing in collaboration with the HR team, ensuring accurate calculation of employee salaries, allowances, incentives, deductions, and net pay.
• Maintain payroll documentation and ensure confidentiality of employee compensation information.
• Verify applicable PF, ESI, professional tax, and TDS deductions from employee salaries.
• Reconcile payroll statutory liabilities with accounting records and payment challans. Support timely statutory remittances, return filing, and compliance documentation, as applicable.
• Assist in annual salary tax calculations, investment declaration verification, and Form 16-related activities.

Key Achivements

• Fraud Detection & Loss Prevention: Identified and investigated irregularities in direct customer cash collections, uncovering suspected fraud involving approximately ₹50 lakh through financial reconciliation and transaction verification.
• Financial Risk Mitigation: Highlighted collection discrepancies, and supported corrective action to strengthen accountability and safeguard company revenue.
• Internal Control Enhancement: Contributed to improving cash collection verification, reconciliation procedures, and monitoring controls to reduce the risk of financial irregularities.

• Assisted in statutory audits, internal audits, and verification of financial statements.
• Performed vouching and verification of purchase, sales, expense, and other financial transactions.
• Assisted in preparation of financial statements, trial balance, and ledger scrutiny.
• Supported preparation and filing of GST returns and Income Tax returns, as applicable.
• Verified invoices, bank statements, cash transactions, and supporting financial documents.
• Assisted in bank reconciliation and identification of discrepancies in accounting records.
• Supported tax audit documentation and compliance with applicable accounting and statutory requirements.
• Prepared audit working papers and maintained financial records and supporting documents.
• Coordinated with clients to collect financial data and resolve accounting discrepancies.