Meghana is an experienced Accountant with ~10 years of expertise in Financial statement preparation and reporting, consolidation of FS, RTR and General Accounting, Fixed Asset Accounting, and Process Control Implementation. She is also strong in technical writing, interpersonal skills, and hands-on experience in varied software including SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, QuickBooks, Salesforce, and Bill.com.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Solution Advisor
Deloitte & Touche Assurance and Enterprise Risk Services India Pvt Ltd.
Bengaluru
05.2022 - Current
Led the RTR General Accounting Team, overseeing key functions including Fixed Assets, Balance Sheet Reconciliations, Income Statement accuracy, and Intercompany accounting, ensuring timely and accurate financial closes across multiple entities.
Fully managed end-to-end SLA Metric Reporting to executive leadership, driving transparency and accountability across functions. Led comprehensive Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and implemented targeted corrective controls, resulting in a SLA compliance improvement from 93% to 98%, and establishing a culture of continuous process excellence.
Subject Matter Expert (SME) in General Accounting, recognized for industry benchmarking, strategic process improvements, and operational stabilization in high-impact, high-risk areas.
Spearheaded Automation & Transformation Initiatives, delivering tangible efficiency gains: CIP Automation Tool: Designed and deployed an intelligent rules-based system to automate the identification and capitalization of Construction in Progress (CIP) assets—accelerating asset deployment and ensuring compliance. Internal SLA & Activity Tracking Tool: Led the technical development from concept to implementation of a comprehensive tool for month-end close activity tracking and SLA compliance monitoring, improving visibility and performance governance.
Highly regarded for transparent communication, fostering trust and alignment across cross-functional teams and leadership.
Instrumental in stabilizing complex and problem-prone areas, consistently recognized for turning around underperforming processes and enhancing control frameworks.
Audit Specialist
4AT Consulting LLP
09.2021 - 05.2022
Led a 5-member team in GL accounting and preparation of financial statements of multiple SPAC companies on the QBO platform. Facilitating the weekly, monthly, and quarterly financial reporting to the SPAC companies.
Ensured accurate completion of Record to Report activities, including intercompany reconciliations, journals related to accruals, prepayments, bank transactions, and fixed assets.
Played a significant part in crafting internal control policies.
Project lead and POC for the transition of the General Accounting team for a US-based client. Set up of an Accounting Shared Service Centre in Hyderabad, India.
Associate Manager
Oremus Corporate Services Private Limited
Hyderabad
10.2020 - 08.2021
Led an 8-member team to perform the Balance sheet and Income statement reconciliations and month-end procedures.
Conversion of foreign financial statements from local GAAP to US GAAP for consolidation purposes. Identification of potential GAAP differences and the passing of adjustment entries for consolidation and reporting purposes.
Preparation of consolidated financial statements incl. notes to financial statements of a large US public company. This job also includes the preparation of periodic intercompany reconciliation.
Key Driver for GAAP corrections within the consolidated financial statements.
Consultant
Walker Chandiok & Co LLP (Grant Thornton India)
05.2016 - 03.2018
Team leads for audit engagements overviewing the full cycle of client engagements, managing team members, planning, preparation, and finalization of financial statements & interfacing with client executives.
Audit Senior
B S R ad Associates (KPMG India)
08.2011 - 08.2014
Managed audit engagements including planning, conducting audit test procedures, assessing and reviewing the audit work papers, preparing audit reports, financial statements, and footnote disclosures.
Education
Cleared Exams, Pending Licensing -
Certified Public Accountant
Arizona State Board Of Accountancy
10-2019
Bachelors of Commerce - Finance and Accounting
Osmania University
Hyderabad
03-2014
Skills
Fixed Assets Accounting
Record to Report GL Accounting
GL reconciliations
US GAAP
IFRS
Oracle
NetSuite
QBO
Management Reporting
Flux Analysis
Financial Statement preparation & analysis
Accounting & Auditing
MS Excel
MS Word
MS PowerPoint
MS Visio
Hobbies and Interests
Lettering/Typography
Reading books
Travelling
Volunteer Experience
Freelancer, Society for the Aged and Women, 03/01/16, Present, Assisting a family-run NGO in the preparation of basic books of accounts, monthly cash ledger, reconciliation between the bank statement and cash ledger, and list of monetary and non-monetary donations received in the year.