Melissa Sara Mathew
Bangalore
Summary
ACCA professional with over 4 years of progressive experience in Client Financial Management and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A). Proven ability to manage large-scale client financial operations, lead budgeting and forecasting cycles, and deliver actionable financial insights to senior leadership. Expertise in financial close activities, contract analysis, and implementing financial controls. Possess strong technical knowledge, including ability to interpret review and accounting standards and strong project management skills along with excellent communication and leadership skills. Experience in preparation, analyzing, and verifying annual reports, financial statements, and other records.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Client Financial Management - Analyst
Accenture PLC
Bangalore
01.2024 - Current
- Manage the end-to-end financial operations for a complex, large-scale $1 Billion client contract, ensuring strict adherence to all financial terms and compliance.
- Lead and execute core monthly and quarterly financial close activities, including revenue billing and rigorous internal controls testing.
- Develop and maintain annual budgeting and rolling forecasting models to predict performance and inform strategic decisions for the client portfolio.
- Conduct detailed variance analysis and prepare executive summaries for presentation during monthly financial review meetings with client delivery partners and senior management.
- Perform profitability and pricing analysis for new work streams and contract changes, ensuring optimal commercial outcomes.
- Utilize advanced financial tools, including SAP, Power BI, and Salesforce CRM, to drive data analysis and improve business communication.
Financial analyst
Alight Solutions
Cochin
06.2021 - 08.2023
- Execute and oversee month-end financial close activities, ensuring the accurate and timely preparation of financial statements and reports.
- Lead the budgeting and forecasting process, collaborating with department heads to develop comprehensive financial models that align with organizational objectives.
- Conduct detailed variance analysis, identifying trends, potential risks, and opportunities, and delivering actionable recommendations to senior management.
- Perform in-depth cost-benefit analyses to evaluate project proposals, providing valuable insights to support strategic investment decisions.
- Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports, in strict adherence to regulatory compliance standards.
- Assist in audit programs conducted for shared services.
- Budget/Forecast revenue and costs for specified P&L through use of metrics, historical trending reviews and close working relationships.
- Review P&L, understand all activity and provide driver and account based variance analysis.
- Organize and lead monthly financial reviews with onshore business partners and internal financial leadership.
- Financial risk & opportunity tracking and reporting.
- Processing needed journals (reclasses & accruals).
- Supervise creation and correct set up of all necessary financial tools and templates.
- Continuously adopt process improvements and work towards improving efficiency in the performance of financial reporting and management with the use of appropriate financial reporting standards.
- Ability to read complex contracts and understand the financial terms and schedules.
- Serve as Corporate hub for inter-company accounting, managing intercompany transactions, policies and communication and companywide reconciliation of inter-company account activity.
- Ad-hoc financial support.
- Alight Solutions (NYSE: ALIT) Part of a global function reporting to CFO for covering USA and Europe operations.
Education
Professional Qualification - Finance Management, Performance Management, Strategic Business Leader
Association of Chartered & Certified Accountants (ACCA)
Bahrain, India01.2020
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) - Computer Applications
Mahatma Gandhi University
Kottayam, India04.2017
Skills
- Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
- Client Financial Management
- Budgeting & Forecasting
- Strategic Business Partnering
- Revenue Recognition & Billing
- Internal Controls & Governance
- SAP
- Power BI
- CRM Salesforce
- Advanced Excel
- Workday
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 07/22/96
- Nationality: Indian
Languages
- English
- Hindi
Accomplishments
Accenture Summit Spotlight Go Getter Award – 2 consecutive quarters for proactive business support
Timeline
Client Financial Management - Analyst
Accenture PLC
01.2024 - Current
Financial analyst
Alight Solutions
06.2021 - 08.2023
Professional Qualification - Finance Management, Performance Management, Strategic Business Leader
Association of Chartered & Certified Accountants (ACCA)
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) - Computer Applications
Mahatma Gandhi University