Strategic and results-oriented Senior Finance Professional with 17 years of progressive experience in Record to Report (R2R) operations, General Ledger Accounting, Financial reporting, Operations Management, Customer handling, Finance Governance, Risk & Compliance . Proven track record of managing global teams, leading process transformation initiatives, ensuring SOX/GAAP compliance, and delivering accurate and timely financial closes. Adept at stakeholder management, Blackline tool ,ERP(SAP & Oracle) implementation, and driving operational excellence in shared service and BPO environments.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Manager Finance Governance R2R and Blackline Functional Owner
Diageo Business Services India Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore
01.2023 - 06.2025
R2R/ATR
As a GPO Record to Report and Functional owner of Blackline i am managing below functions.
R2RPerform R2R policy review and make periodic changes based on the changes in process in line with IFRS/ GAAP.
Perform assessment & reviews of internal control designs related to GL Open items, GL Ownership Matrix, GL Reconciliation completeness, Blackline controls.
Managing ongoing transformation projects from Planning till UAT and implementation. Blackline and S4 HANA migration from SAP ECC are major.
Approving authority for KPI's for open items, GL completeness exceptions and Unassigned reconciliations after reviewing the issues, Activities transitions (Market to GCC) with due diligence and SLA's review.
Perform Audit with the internal auditors and share the audit findings Globally on a quarterly basis to improve the quality of BS reconciliations.
Provide query solutions to all towers based on R2R policy & Blackline framework.
Overseeing & Responsible for smooth R2R service delivery.
Lead the team of GPE's of sub functions along with dotted line reporting of regional delivery leads.
Blackline
Blackline Leading a team of Admins (System/Business/Local) to ensure proper functioning of BS reconciliation and Transaction matching module.
Implemented control tests (Interface testing, auto certification thresholds etc) in line with ITAC control and facilitate external audit for Blackline as well as controllership.
Projects done for automation of reconciliations for multiple regions to ensure less manual efforts.
Approve Access requests, BL licenses management and managing trainings to new and existing users.
Manage ongoing application maintenance, upgrade, development and testing based on requirements.
Managing daily system maintenance between Blackline and SAP and also ensure monthly cutover following with opening of next month.
Global publication to BL users on Blackline updates/ changes.
Group Manager (Insurance Client)
WNS Global
Pune
06.2022 - 01.2023
Managing Monthly reconciliations of suspense account based on the policy level.
Managing Cash and bank related activities.
Managing the collection and disbursement process.
Managing service level agreements on timeliness and accuracy.
Managing month end activities involves journal entries approvals.
Managing a team of 46 employees who deliver the services to clients.
Responsible for their training requirement, Growth and annual closure of Annual performance ratings.
Senior Manager (Service Delivery Lead)
Genpact LLC
Noida
02.2022 - 06.2022
Managed the Ramp down of STAT process for one of the Fortune 500 client in Medical Pharma as SDL.
Leading a team of 18 professionals.
Coordinating with KPMG for local reports, Transfer pricing adjustments calculations and filings.
Coordinating with E&Y for audit request and Audit fieldwork follow ups.
Reconciliations, Month end closing & reporting, Monthly and Quarterly flux analysis of Balance sheet accounts.
Delivering Balance Sheet packages for SEC reporting.
Responsible for publishing reports to internal management as well as external clients.
Operations Manager
Accenture
Gurgaon
06.2015 - 02.2022
Managed multiple key roles in FP&A & R2R for the worlds largest hospitality Giant (General Accounting/R2R, Audit and control & FP&A).
Promoted from Senior analyst to Specialist Level 9 in 18 months for exceptional performance in transition of FP&A process.
Lead Corporate R2R tower along with Audit, R&C & FPNA with team size of 23.
Managed team to perform deliverables as per define SLA including balance sheet commentary, Discipline Balance Sheet review, FR&A Quarterly Balance Sheet analysis, Over-under analysis, Entire balance sheet reconciliations, Variance analysis, Bonus activities, Severance activities, Amortization activities, Accruals activities, Suspense activities, prepaid expenses and income activities, Payroll activities, Standard Entries, ADHOC queries.
Managed monthly, quarterly and yearly closure of books as per define SLA and within accepted KPI's.
Assistant Manager
Genpact
Jaipur & Gurugram
12.2008 - 06.2015
Worked with UK & US based GE business and leading Australian bank in the field of F&A (GL Accounting, Reconciliation, Closing & Reporting) and handled the team size of 8 FTE's.
Quarterly preparation and reporting of balance sheet analysis, balance sheet movement and tracking of extraordinary items recorded.
Preparing BS account reconciliation for all the US State & Federal & Tax accounts, Journal Vouchers creation and postings.
Strong exposure of Cash Accounting and Cash Reconciliations.
Daily & Monthly customer reporting for process updates for Bank recons daily Matching and open items reporting.
Participation in Quality Calls for improvement in the Process & worked closely with Client to provide quick and satisfactory query resolutions.
Handled audit queries of Internal Audits as per business requirements and worked on process improvement projects.
Relationship Manager
ICICI Direct
Jaipur
06.2008 - 12.2008
Understand the requirement of customer and share the investment options.
Online Trading tips sharing with the SRM clients.
Handling after sales queries from HNI clients.
Cross selling of Multi product (LI, GI,FD,Personal Loan, Home Loan and Car loan).
<ul><li>Company Overview: Group Company of PUIG, Spain</li><li>Team Leadership & Process Excellence: Organised the transformation of the Finance & Accounts function, establishing performance-driven goals, and embedding a culture of accountability and continuous improvement. Drove operational efficiency through process redesigns, SOP implementation and optimal resource deployment, leading to measurable improvements in turnaround time and accuracy.</li><li>Strategic Partnering with CXOs: Acted as a key advisor to the CEO, CFO, and other CXOs on business planning, pricing strategies, and business model pivots to support scale-up and profitability. Contributed to investor communications with data-backed insights to enhance stakeholder confidence and secure strategic funding.</li><li>Cross-Functional & Global Stakeholder Management: Functioned as the strategic finance business partner to cross-functional heads and the PUIG global finance team, aligning local execution with global financial strategies and compliance requirements.</li><li>ERP Transformation & System Automation: Led end-to-end ERP reimplementation to address system gaps, enforce role-based controls, and automate core finance processes—resulting in enhanced data accuracy, faster reporting and improved internal controls.</li><li>Costing, Inventory & Profitability Optimization: Designed and implemented plant-level costing models to ensure accurate COGS determination. Improved inventory management across pricing, consumption tracking, and aging analysis—enabling better working capital control and cost efficiency.</li><li>Manufacturing Finance & Statutory Compliance: Supervised end-to-end accounting for manufacturing operations and ensured full statutory compliance.</li><li>Financial Reporting, MIS & Profitability Analytics: Delivered accurate and timely monthly MIS reports, including P&L, Balance Sheet and KPI dashboards with deep-dive variance analysis across stores, business verticals, and geographies. Supported board-level decision-making through insightful presentations on financial health and business performance.</li><li>Budgeting, Forecasting & Business Planning: Led the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and rolling forecasts, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and market dynamics. Monitored key financial metrics to enable business decisions and proactive cost management.</li><li>Statutory, Internal & Tax Audit Management: Finalized standalone and consolidated financials under Ind AS and IFRS, ensured timely group reporting and compliance with international standards. Delivered clean and timely closures of statutory, tax, and internal audits in coordination with Big 4 auditors. Strengthened audit readiness through pre-audit diagnostics and rectification of recurring control gaps.</li><li>Regulatory Compliance & Risk Management: Ensured end-to-end compliance which includes ROC, RBI, FEMA, Income Tax, GST, Transfer Pricing, DTAA, and Customs. Reviewed cross-border contracts and transactions to ensure arm’s length pricing, accurate TDS application, and proper documentation under Transfer Pricing regulations.</li><li>Commercial Negotiation & Contract Governance: Led commercial negotiations and structured deals with vendors and franchisees. Reviewed key business contracts to ensure financial viability, risk protection, and compliance with regulatory standards.</li><li>Treasury & External Commercial Borrowing (ECB): Managed fund planning and liquidity management including ECB drawdowns, bank negotiations, and interest optimization. Improved working capital cycles through proactive cash flow forecasting and receivables control.</li><li>Internal Controls & Governance Framework: Led organization-wide reviews of internal control systems, identified process gaps, and redesigned or implemented over 40 SOPs and IFCs. Established a governance structure for financial discipline, risk mitigation, and policy compliance across departments.</li></ul> at Kama Ayurveda Pvt. Ltd. & PUIG India Pvt. Ltd.<ul><li>Company Overview: Group Company of PUIG, Spain</li><li>Team Leadership & Process Excellence: Organised the transformation of the Finance & Accounts function, establishing performance-driven goals, and embedding a culture of accountability and continuous improvement. Drove operational efficiency through process redesigns, SOP implementation and optimal resource deployment, leading to measurable improvements in turnaround time and accuracy.</li><li>Strategic Partnering with CXOs: Acted as a key advisor to the CEO, CFO, and other CXOs on business planning, pricing strategies, and business model pivots to support scale-up and profitability. Contributed to investor communications with data-backed insights to enhance stakeholder confidence and secure strategic funding.</li><li>Cross-Functional & Global Stakeholder Management: Functioned as the strategic finance business partner to cross-functional heads and the PUIG global finance team, aligning local execution with global financial strategies and compliance requirements.</li><li>ERP Transformation & System Automation: Led end-to-end ERP reimplementation to address system gaps, enforce role-based controls, and automate core finance processes—resulting in enhanced data accuracy, faster reporting and improved internal controls.</li><li>Costing, Inventory & Profitability Optimization: Designed and implemented plant-level costing models to ensure accurate COGS determination. Improved inventory management across pricing, consumption tracking, and aging analysis—enabling better working capital control and cost efficiency.</li><li>Manufacturing Finance & Statutory Compliance: Supervised end-to-end accounting for manufacturing operations and ensured full statutory compliance.</li><li>Financial Reporting, MIS & Profitability Analytics: Delivered accurate and timely monthly MIS reports, including P&L, Balance Sheet and KPI dashboards with deep-dive variance analysis across stores, business verticals, and geographies. Supported board-level decision-making through insightful presentations on financial health and business performance.</li><li>Budgeting, Forecasting & Business Planning: Led the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and rolling forecasts, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and market dynamics. Monitored key financial metrics to enable business decisions and proactive cost management.</li><li>Statutory, Internal & Tax Audit Management: Finalized standalone and consolidated financials under Ind AS and IFRS, ensured timely group reporting and compliance with international standards. Delivered clean and timely closures of statutory, tax, and internal audits in coordination with Big 4 auditors. Strengthened audit readiness through pre-audit diagnostics and rectification of recurring control gaps.</li><li>Regulatory Compliance & Risk Management: Ensured end-to-end compliance which includes ROC, RBI, FEMA, Income Tax, GST, Transfer Pricing, DTAA, and Customs. Reviewed cross-border contracts and transactions to ensure arm’s length pricing, accurate TDS application, and proper documentation under Transfer Pricing regulations.</li><li>Commercial Negotiation & Contract Governance: Led commercial negotiations and structured deals with vendors and franchisees. Reviewed key business contracts to ensure financial viability, risk protection, and compliance with regulatory standards.</li><li>Treasury & External Commercial Borrowing (ECB): Managed fund planning and liquidity management including ECB drawdowns, bank negotiations, and interest optimization. Improved working capital cycles through proactive cash flow forecasting and receivables control.</li><li>Internal Controls & Governance Framework: Led organization-wide reviews of internal control systems, identified process gaps, and redesigned or implemented over 40 SOPs and IFCs. Established a governance structure for financial discipline, risk mitigation, and policy compliance across departments.</li></ul> at Kama Ayurveda Pvt. Ltd. & PUIG India Pvt. Ltd.
Senior Finance Specialist - General Accounting and Reporting (R2R) at ABB GLOBAL BUSINESS SERVICES AND CONTRACTING INDIA PRIVATE LIMITEDSenior Finance Specialist - General Accounting and Reporting (R2R) at ABB GLOBAL BUSINESS SERVICES AND CONTRACTING INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
<ul><li>Profile: Record to Reporting (R2R)</li><li>Performing financial reporting and controlling for across all the entities (in Hyperion and Oracle = JD Edward).</li><li>Performing End to End P&L finalization (Review of accruals, Negative Cash Accrual, prepaid amortization schedule, FX Adjustments, creation, deletion and capitalization of fixed assets, posting of depreciation etc.) & taking calls with Controllers during Months end for further review of P&L.</li><li>Banking process includes positive pay exceptions, stop payment, voiding checks with AP team. Checks movement to unclaimed property. Payment proof, remittance details.</li><li>IFRS lease computation complying with IFRS 16 in CoStar – Real Estate Manager system (this is only for lease).</li><li>Preparation of webforms and variance analysis report and sharing with stakeholders with detailed information.</li><li>Performing Balance sheet reconciliation with adherence of policy and clearance of open items along with relevant details of lines which is overaged however will be staying for long time (i.e.- Bonus and dividends, Common Stocks, Security Deposits).</li><li>Facilitating team operations by discussions through the sharing of information and knowledge, identification of teamwork issues, development of problem-solving recommendations, and recommendations of standardizing team operations.</li><li>Cross train resources in order to have backup of each other to help team synergy helping team members to take leaves when required without bothering of work/process deliverables.</li><li>Conduct weekly, biweekly and monthly meetings with stake holders as per their agreement.</li><li>Create opportunities for team members to provide input on procedures/processes and share their expertise with other team members.</li><li>Working knowledge of ERP systems People Soft, ART (Reconciliation software of Oracle), JD Edward, Teradata, Cetova, Hyperion (HFM), Cadency, Blackline, SAP, NetSuite, Workday Adaptive, Coupa, Tableau, CoStar, Alteryx.</li><li>PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS</li><li>Given 12 lean ideas in area of Month End Close journals, Balance Sheet Reconciliations, and Bank Reconciliations.</li><li>Part of a green belt project on quality of reconciliations and BOT implementation (work in progress) – controllership impact</li><li>Bring automation & Marco enabling dash board MIS reporting for monthly SLA, KPI, IC balances, Cash forecasting etc.</li></ul> at Genpact India Pvt. Ltd<ul><li>Profile: Record to Reporting (R2R)</li><li>Performing financial reporting and controlling for across all the entities (in Hyperion and Oracle = JD Edward).</li><li>Performing End to End P&L finalization (Review of accruals, Negative Cash Accrual, prepaid amortization schedule, FX Adjustments, creation, deletion and capitalization of fixed assets, posting of depreciation etc.) & taking calls with Controllers during Months end for further review of P&L.</li><li>Banking process includes positive pay exceptions, stop payment, voiding checks with AP team. Checks movement to unclaimed property. Payment proof, remittance details.</li><li>IFRS lease computation complying with IFRS 16 in CoStar – Real Estate Manager system (this is only for lease).</li><li>Preparation of webforms and variance analysis report and sharing with stakeholders with detailed information.</li><li>Performing Balance sheet reconciliation with adherence of policy and clearance of open items along with relevant details of lines which is overaged however will be staying for long time (i.e.- Bonus and dividends, Common Stocks, Security Deposits).</li><li>Facilitating team operations by discussions through the sharing of information and knowledge, identification of teamwork issues, development of problem-solving recommendations, and recommendations of standardizing team operations.</li><li>Cross train resources in order to have backup of each other to help team synergy helping team members to take leaves when required without bothering of work/process deliverables.</li><li>Conduct weekly, biweekly and monthly meetings with stake holders as per their agreement.</li><li>Create opportunities for team members to provide input on procedures/processes and share their expertise with other team members.</li><li>Working knowledge of ERP systems People Soft, ART (Reconciliation software of Oracle), JD Edward, Teradata, Cetova, Hyperion (HFM), Cadency, Blackline, SAP, NetSuite, Workday Adaptive, Coupa, Tableau, CoStar, Alteryx.</li><li>PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS</li><li>Given 12 lean ideas in area of Month End Close journals, Balance Sheet Reconciliations, and Bank Reconciliations.</li><li>Part of a green belt project on quality of reconciliations and BOT implementation (work in progress) – controllership impact</li><li>Bring automation & Marco enabling dash board MIS reporting for monthly SLA, KPI, IC balances, Cash forecasting etc.</li></ul> at Genpact India Pvt. Ltd