Mahesh N
Bengaluru
Summary
Dynamic finance professional with 19 years of experience, including a pivotal role at IBM, driving process automation and enhancing financial reporting accuracy. Proven expertise in balance sheet reconciliation and stakeholder engagement, complemented by strong analytical skills and a commitment to compliance. Adept at leading teams to achieve operational excellence and strategic goals.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Senir Manager - Finance and Admin Operations
IBM
05.2013 - Current
- Oversaw finance and administration functions as Delivery Manager, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
- Senior manager in this role will be responsible for supporting the preparation and review of month end close activities and monthly balance sheet reconciliations.
- Managed all month-end close and balance sheet reconciliation certification processes.
- Finalized month-end close and balance sheet reconciliations efficiently and accurately.
- Reviewing Balance sheet reconciliations like BRS, Intercompany, Accrual, Fixed assets, Prepaid and Tax reconciliations.
- Reviewing and providing approval for Monthly Scheduled Journals, Accruals, Prepayments and Reclassification Journals.
- Partnered with stakeholders to drive process improvements, controls, and process automation.
- Established trust and fostered relationships with business partners and internal experts throughout project delivery.
- Delivered MI reports within agreed timescales, enabling timely management updates on issues and potential SLA breaches.
- Perform self-review and identify key risks and opportunities to improve.
- Ensure proper controls are in place for all deliverables and are always adhered to. Monitoring controls effectiveness
- Maintaining high-quality standard operating procedures. Identifying potential risks and remediation of process deficiencies.
- Facilitated PMO meetings with stakeholders to discuss project progress and address concerns.
- Supported internal and external audits, facilitating compliance and accuracy in financial reporting.
Process Associate
Hewlett Packard
Bangalore
04.2010 - 03.2013
- Prepared and posted monthly journals in SAP to ensure accurate financial reporting.
- Executed recurring journal entries to fulfill business requirements.
- Executed weekly bank reconciliations and final monthly reconciliations to maintain financial integrity.
- Conducted daily client review calls to provide project updates and address concerns, ensuring smooth month-end close.
- Preparing a Cash Flow Statement daily to manage sufficient funds to run the program
- Capital expenditure analysis and reporting.
- Raising recharge invoices to Inter-Companies & payment allocation in AP module
- Preparation of both customer & vendor aging reports
- Prepared Daily dashboards, KPI reports and Daily workflow reports.
- Receiving the journals (Prepayments, Accruals, Provisions and Other Manual Journals from Country Team and processing them into SAP as part of Journal Processing).
Assistant Accountant
KPCL
Shivanasamudram
10.2007 - 12.2009
- Executed month-end accounting activities, ensuring timely financial reporting.
- Performed manual accruals and journal vouchers, ensuring accurate AR/AP reconciliation during month-end close.
- Executed BSR-Balance Sheet Reconciliation, ensuring accuracy of financial statements.
- Prepared VAT and sales tax reports, filing them accurately in government portal to maintain compliance.
- Managed employee payroll processes, ensuring accurate and timely payments.
- Role of Reconciler and Reviewer for Inventory Reconciliations.
- Adherence to Statutory & External audits.
- Inventory Analysis
Education
BBM - Finance
University of Mysore (Nisarga College of Management, Kollegal)
01-2007
PUC - Computer Science from Department of Pre-University Education, Karnataka
Shanthi PU College, Malavalli
01-2003
Skills
- Financial reporting
- Month-end close
- Balance reconciliation
- Financial analysis
- Adherence to Financial Compliances
- Audit compliance
- Finance expertise
- Financial concepts
- Process automation
- KPI report analysis
- Reporting tool migration
- Workflow platform launch
- Project transitions management
- Business transformation
- Process assessments
- Data analysis
- Decision-making
- ERP
- SAP tools
- Oracle
- AS400
- Analytical problem solving
- Stakeholder engagement
- Team leadership
- Effective communication
- Timely delivery
- Resource allocation
- Strategic planning
- Problem solving
- Strategic planning
- Financial reporting
- Financial reporting
- Relationship building
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 1985-07-03
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
Languages
Languages Known : English, Kannada, and Hindi
Hobbies and Interests
Hobbies:, Playing cricket, reading books, and taking initiatives in team fun activities as fun SPOC.
PERSONAL INFORMATION:
Languages Known : English, Kannada, and Hindi
Accomplishments
- SPOC for the Intelligence Workflow (IW) platform project and played a vital role in developing a new reporting tool.
- Received appreciation from the client for the exceptional client service in identifying value at risk, aged open items, and clean-up project.
- Standardized processes to establish a frictionless delivery module, contributing to overall operational excellence.
- Automated IC balance confirmation and daily stock reconciliation activities; IC sub-ledger invoice processing – 2 FTEs benefited.
- Received the yearly exception award in 2024 for exceptional performance in the year on new tool implementation.
- Collaborate to achieve results in October 2025.
Declaration:
I solemnly declare that all the above statements furnished are true to my knowledge. Place: Bengaluru Mahesh N
Timeline
Senir Manager - Finance and Admin Operations
IBM
05.2013 - Current
Process Associate
Hewlett Packard
04.2010 - 03.2013
Assistant Accountant
KPCL
10.2007 - 12.2009
BBM - Finance
University of Mysore (Nisarga College of Management, Kollegal)
PUC - Computer Science from Department of Pre-University Education, Karnataka
Shanthi PU College, Malavalli