Mounika Malapati
Chartered Accountant
Bangalore
Summary
Qualified CA with 7 years of experience in FP&A, Client Financial Management, Data Analytics and UAT Testing for GL Migration. Having 3 years’ experience as article assistant in Audit firm with significant exposure of Tax assignments, Statutory and Internal Audits, Bank Audit.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
2016
2016
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Lead FP&A (Client – Kenvue)
Ascendion Engineering Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
12.2024 - Current
- Part of Kenvue GCC Finance team
- Cash Flow Management: I manage critical financial components such as Cash Flow, Charge-Out Model, Payroll funding, CapEx, and Statutory Income, ensuring stability and compliance
- BUF/FP&A Activities: Oversee Budgeting, Forecasting, and Financial Planning activities, including actuals reporting and managing legal entity responsibilities such as tax compliance and audits
- Setting up Governance process for Credit card usage by employee
- Tech & Data Collaboration: Work with Tech & Data and EBS PMO to implement Kenvue financial systems, automation of financial process and KPI’s
Associate Operations Manager
Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd
03.2023 - 12.2023
- Lead for UKG CFM
- Responsibilities include review of SOW, Pricing & Pricing review, Sale Bookings, Budgeting & Forecasting, Actual revenue analysis, Profitability Analysis, leading Forecast Review calls with Regional Delivery leads
- Internal Control Compliance reporting
- Review calls with Client Lead on monthly basis on performance of client portfolio
Finance Analyst (FP&A)
Cisco Systems (India) Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
08.2018 - 03.2023
- Responsible for OPEX management, PR approvals and review and preparing forecast for GC
- Worked closely with regional controllers in tracking actuals vs forecast OPEX spend and analysis for any deviations
- Working with Regional finance controllers in providing Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly reports to manage and assist in preparing Forecasts and meeting the overall budgets
- Providing in-depth weekly reports to various stake holders like Sales/ Finance Directors which presents the growth of the company, BE views, top customers/ deals, linearity, achievement towards forecast/Commit at each region level & SL2 level
- Variance analysis
- Creating and designing of reporting & analysis templates (financial modeling) that would create scale, standardization, and efficiency for broader finance organization
- Knowledge transfer/ training teammates to execute the reports effectively
- Participated in CDP (Compliance Development Program) and worked with GRC team for two months on an assignment on Site Audit
Analyst
JP Morgan Services India Pvt Ltd
06.2016 - 04.2018
- Worked as financial analyst under CIB EMEA and APAC SAP projects team
- Prepared and tested various regulatory reports like FFIEC 009, FFIEC 030, FR 2314, FC O2, Depository reports etc., for filing with federal bank in SAP with legacy system
- Successfully built Entity level reconciliation template in excel required for testing financials at various test cycles and tested
- Took lead and ownership to ensure Local GAAP reporting set up is working as expected in SAP for Madrid JP entities, also performed negative testing to ensure Local GAAP ledger processes are not impacting corporate ledger view and vice versa
- Tested accuracy of financial data across various ledger platforms during migration of ledger to SAP (MERIT/ORACLE to SAP) at multiple levels like BS, P&L, Client, Trading Partner etc
- And various reports at each test cycle and raised issues/defects wherever necessary and assisted in resolving them
- Gained knowledge and provided walkthrough calls with Onshore Legal Entity Controllers of the financial ledger (SAP), CDGL (Reporting tool), and SAP BPC etc
- Resolved queries and gained appreciation
- Performed various central checks like FMS Reconciliation, Attestation (SAP vs CDGL vs SAP BPC), FX exchange rate checks between legacy and SAP ledger, Multi Currency process, Equity pick up
- Involved in discussion on project analysis and assisted the technical leader by testing the effectiveness of the system
- Gained strong comprehension of various automated financial process such as Equity Pick Up, FX Trade out in SAP ledger platform
Articleship
AN Kapali & Co
04.2012 - 04.2015
- Drafting of Annual Accounts, Compliance with AS
- Regular Bookkeeping in Tally
- Statutory Audit of all kinds of entities, Internal Audit of Private Limited Companies and PSUs and Tax Audit of all kinds of entities
- Bank Audit -Experience in drafting Long Format Audit report (LFAR), Verification of stock statements and documentation of pre- and post-sanction of advances
- Ensured the follow up on Return on Capital Adequacy (ROCA) and NPA classification
- Preparation & Filing of Income Tax Returns and TDS Returns
- Preparation & Filing of ROC Returns and Forms
- Assisting in Income Tax Assessments (Scrutiny)
- Assisting Clients in Fund Raising (Bank Loans)
- Assisting Clients with Regular MIS Activities
Education
CA -
ICAI
B. Com - undefined
Acharya Nagarjuna University
Skills
MS-office with Advanced Excel
- Essbase
Hyperion- Smart view
- SQL
- Power BI
- Salesforce
- Oracle General Ledger
- SAP Business Objects
- SAP BPC
Accomplishments
- Received Star Award for contribution to the SAP Migration team during 04/01/17.
- Among top ‘2’ rank holders throughout school.
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that information furnished above is true to my knowledge and supporting documents can be provided on request.
Timeline
Lead FP&A (Client – Kenvue)
Ascendion Engineering Pvt Ltd
12.2024 - Current
Associate Operations Manager
Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd
03.2023 - 12.2023
Finance Analyst (FP&A)
Cisco Systems (India) Pvt Ltd
08.2018 - 03.2023
Analyst
JP Morgan Services India Pvt Ltd
06.2016 - 04.2018
Articleship
AN Kapali & Co
04.2012 - 04.2015
B. Com - undefined
Acharya Nagarjuna University
CA -
ICAI
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