Niharika Gupta
Bangalore
Summary
An experienced Scrum Master and Accounting/Finance professional with over 10 years of experience in Health Care, Clinical Research Organizations, and IT. Offering expertise in Invoice Processing, Accounts Payable, and Vendor Management
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Grants Payment Senior Associate(SME)
Labcorp Drug Development
Bangalore
03.2021 - Current
- Performed and facilitated Sprint planning, design, estimation, retrospective, daily stand‑up meetings, and sprint demos.
- Monitored and track progress, prepare status reports, resolve issues, coordinate tasks, and activities directed toward completing project goals.
- SME for requirements gathering, change requests, User Stories writing, Acceptance Criteria, Test Case scripts, and End-To-End implementation of Bot (automation).
- Extensive use of SQL queries.
- Managing study life-cycle process in Grants systems to ensure optimal use of system capabilities.
- Ensure smooth end-to-end process completion by coordinating with Payment Manager, Study Team, Data Integration team, and budget team.
- Communicate with Project, Finance, Clinical teams, and Accounts Payable for resolution of incoming queries and escalating as necessary.
- Prepare business cases, reports, and presentations for senior management.
- Trained and mentored over 90 newly hired employees to become productive team members.
Sr. Financial Analyst (Process Lead)
IQVIA (Quintiles)
Bangalore
04.2013 - 07.2017
- Managing team of investigators responsible for processing payments, setting up payment plans, and reconciling account balances.
- Worked closely with business partners and TMs to allocate work and keep headcount on schedule, and transitioned EMEA IPA process to Quintiles Bangalore.
- Maintain global reporting on key metrics in coordination with team (daily, weekly, monthly). Ensure accuracy of standard and ad hoc reporting.
- Provide ongoing coaching, and mentoring team members.
- Performed ad-hoc data/information/analysis requests and handling new client inquiries.
- Responsible for organizing and filing important process documents (SOP).
- Global Finance Operations - Invoice Processing, Vendor Management & Auditing, Disputes Management.
Finance & Accounts Executive
Jaquar & Co Pvt. Ltd
New Delhi
12.2010 - 10.2012
- Managing Import Payables and Export Receivables. Analyzing aging discrepancies and resolving them.
- Verify receipts, bank charges, and interest entries in journal. Check to see if bills are due. Payments, bank charges, and interest entries should be verified.
- Accounting reconciliation between company accounts, debtor and creditor accounts, and bank accounts.
Process Associates
TCS E-Serve
New Delhi
03.2010 - 12.2010
- Performed reconciliation of intercompany accounts and bank accounts, including research, follow-ups, bookkeeping journal entries, and aging analysis for unreconciled items.
- Booking journal entries for month-end closing and reporting for Citi Financial N.A. Preparation of various MIS.
Accounts/MIS Executive
Delta Electronics
New Delhi
05.2009 - 02.2010
- Established various MIS Reports (Sales, Purchase, Closing stock, Production, etc).
- Preparation of CMA (Projected Balance Sheet) for Working Capital Loan. Bank Reconciliation Statements and other Financial and Accounting work.
- Assessed business requirements to forecast annual budgetary operational costs
Education
MBA -
Lucknow University
Lucknow2009
Skills
- Scrum Master
- Sprint Planning and Execution
- Agile Methodology
- Project Management
- Customer Requirements Analysis
- Planning and Coordination
- Excellent Communication and Problem-Solving
- Coaching and Mentoring
- JIRA
- SQL Server
- MS Office - Power Point/Excel/Doc
- CTMS / IGPS
- EDC - iMedidata / Veeva Vault
- Invoice processing
- Accounts Payable
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Certification
Certified Scrum Master(CSM) - Feb'23
Timeline
Grants Payment Senior Associate(SME)
Labcorp Drug Development
03.2021 - Current
Sr. Financial Analyst (Process Lead)
IQVIA (Quintiles)
04.2013 - 07.2017
Finance & Accounts Executive
Jaquar & Co Pvt. Ltd
12.2010 - 10.2012
Process Associates
TCS E-Serve
03.2010 - 12.2010
Accounts/MIS Executive
Delta Electronics
05.2009 - 02.2010
MBA -
Lucknow University
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