Hi, I’m
Niharika Chaturvedi
Financial Analyst
Banglore / Hyderabad
Summary
Aim to pursue a dynamic and challenging career, integrating my personal goals with organizational goals.
Overview
5
years of professional experience
Work History
PayPal
Financial Analyst
12.2022 - Current
Job overview
- Manage monthly forecasting and annual budgeting process working closely with business partners to align spend with business priorities.
- Manage monthly close process for all operating and capital spend. * Prepare and present monthly, quarterly financial results including current month/quarter variance and forecast analysis to the BPs and leadership team.
- Collaborate with the Cybersecurity business unit to understand new business initiatives and establish finance and accounting processes to operationalize new initiatives.
- Prepare quarterly forecast along with all KPI dashboard, Finalize Headcount & Expenses forecasting for all GL line items, comparing Actual to plan/ forecast/ prior period to ensure correct quarter-end close.
- Prepare & Present Executive Dashboards and provide overall commentary on trends identified, monthly to the Business & leadership.
- Support Ad-Hoc Reporting and Analysis as and when management needs.
- Process Improvements: Lead the process of automating the Accruals process via EMT tool.
- Implementation of Datamart BI for reporting & dashboards.
- Work out Technology Contract Renewals Report for CISO & CTO to get the licenses/contracts renewed well in time at a feasible deal.
- Work with different teams (FA team, Tax team, COE team, Analytics team, Controllership team) across BU/Org to get things streamlined & processes fixed.
Wipro
Financial Analyst
05.2021 - 11.2022
Job overview
- Work in the Technology department of Blackstone; Analyzing the expenses wrt technology/hardware/software/telecom and the consulting expenses
- Perform variance analysis to highlight the key drivers of the results and provide commentary explaining changes from prior forecasts/budgets
- Deal in calculation and consolidation of the month-end results, the forecast for the remainder of the year, and the budget for future year
- Perform various month end activities viz Accruals/Reclasses; prepare M-o-M Analysis for the variances and provide commentaries thereupon
EXL Service
Financial Analyst
09.2019 - 03.2021
Job overview
- Preparation/Analysis of month end Flash files for respective business units, including analysis of major expense movements as compared to budgets & forecasts, providing commentaries thereafter.
- Prepare monthly reconciliation for the accounts detailing the general ledger balances, research discrepancies and prepare adjusting transactions necessary to make corrections to appropriate accounting records.
- Chargeback & preparation of Cost Allocation reports, raising Debit Notes and uploading vouchers. Bringing in Automation of the Process.
- Automating the Process by creating IBots and streamlining the process with good savings.
Education
RDVVJabalpur
Master of Arts from Economics
04.2001
ICAINew Delhi, India
CA Inter from Accounts, Finance, Taxation, Audit
04.2001
Skills
Forecasting & Budgeting
Variance Analysis & Commentary
Financial Decks
Automation
Process Improvement
Presentation
Smart view (FDW)
Oracle (ERP Tool)
Anaplan
BPC
BW
Hyperion
Think Cell
Obero
SAP ECC
SAP BI
S4 HANA
Datamart
Power BI
Advanced Excel
Planning
Cross-Functional Team Collaboration
Expense Management Tool
Business Partnership
Resource Planning
Accomplishments
- Received Annual Reward & Recognition in the company for understanding customer’s expectations, timely deliveries and overall work & performance.
- Recognized for the time and effort put into aligning information between PCIS 2024 Budget/Forecast and EMT.
Interest
- Bungee Jumping & River Rafting (Jump in Heights, Rishikesh)
- Passion to learn and explore new things/places
- Keen interest in art & craft, attended various workshops
- Interior Makeovers (redesigned the architecture and aesthetics of my house)
- Styling, crafting and designing dresses
- Interschool singing competition
- Scribbling poetry/story/article
- Art of living course (2nd prize)
- Static model making (1st prize)
- Keen interest to learn piano
Projects
Operational Improvement
(12/2019 - 03/2020)
- Automation of a Chargeback Process, driving efficiencies in the work area, speeding up the process and improve the quality of output, thereafter, streamlining the process.
Technological Improvement
(05/2020 - 06/2020)
- Demonstrated proficiency of technical tool & financial systems. BRIEF: Created Agents (IBot Reports) & Analysis in Oracle (OBI), enabling automation of the process, whereby the Reports so created automatically delivered the required Headcount Reports to the desired Business Partners, thereby avoiding any time tag miss, saving time & manual intervention, by taking the active initiation, going out of the scope, by using available material/Google/YouTube.
Process Improvement
(12/2023 - 04/2024)
- Switched the manual process of preparing and uploading Accruals over to Tool based process via EMT Tool. Cleaned up & setup the data from bottoms up tracker to the EMT tool & processed accruals through system.
Continuous Development
(02/2024 - 05/2024)
- Build PPTs from Finmart (Datamart BI Tool) which earlier was build out of excel
- Worked closely & parallel with the Analytics team in getting the Reports automated in Finmart/Datamart BI.
Timeline
Financial Analyst
PayPal
12.2022 - Current
Financial Analyst
Wipro
05.2021 - 11.2022
Financial Analyst
EXL Service
09.2019 - 03.2021
RDVV
Master of Arts from Economics
04.2001
ICAI
CA Inter from Accounts, Finance, Taxation, Audit
04.2001