Nikitha R
Bangalore
Summary
Versatile Junior Manager collaborates on multiple projects with diverse teams. Excellent project management, tracking, issue management and risk management talents. Committed to reliability and efficiency with excellent attention to detail.
Seeking a challenging position in an organization that value performance and commitment, also utilizing my abilities gained through education and experience to achieve Excellence.
Young, Dynamic, Committed professional with Over 14 years expertise in Finance and accounts. Adopt well in high pressure environments with strict deadlines and multiple deliverables. Calibrated communication and expertise in F&A skills.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Junior Manager strategy and enablement
Diageo Business service pvt ltd
06.2022
- Transition STP activities and resources from different regions across the world to DBSI centre
- This would require detail task split study, FTE analysis/hiring and be a support until the project is transitioned and crossed the warranty period
- Lead the project in creating a tool for special payments
- Worked on projects like Entity set up, Closing of an Entity
- Creation of a new tool for special payment requests
- Worked with of Europe & Africa business leads for operation excellence and supporting team with regards to process improvements, sizing, exceptions approvals, KPI’s, Controls & Compliance, SoD
- Define yearly KPI’s and set target to Service delivery team and measure the same on targeted intervals
- Support GAR audit being the face of Service delivery team
- Played a pivotal role in governing global policies and defining Data Transformation Processes (DTPs), offering valuable insights and recommendations for constructive enhancements
- Provided ongoing support to the team in implementing technical enhancements, leveraging expertise to optimize system functionality and performance
- Implemented ARIS module as one stop shop for all the process map and flow charts that gave us visibility to all the process documents in one single place and carve out risks and opportunities for improvement
- Ensure all the manual payments are reviewed and approved by Governance to avoid any fraudulent/duplicate activity
- Ensure all the approval matrixes are updated as and when there are changes in the approver names
- Set up weekly calls with service delivery teams to discuss on open issues and challenges and monitor the same until closure.
Senior Accountant
Novozymes South Asia Pvt Ltd
09.2013 - 06.2022
- End to end cycle of Accounts payable and General accounting
- Processing all types of Invoices (PO and Non-PO Invoices)
- Processing upload Invoices
- Creating manual and automated payments
- Investigating on payment rejection and reinitiating for payments
- Taking care of funds for respective payments as per currency
- Handling all payment related adhoc requests from supplier, business partner, internal and solving the issues ASAP
- Performed debit balance follow ups
- Worked on old item clearings
- Performing accruals for parked documents
- Sending monthly report for transport vendors to analyze budget
- Clearing bank postings and Performing Bank reconciliations
- Performing vendor reconciliations
- Working on generic mailbox and responding to all queries within 24hrs of receipt
- Manage escalations on the highest priority until the issue is solved
- Mentoring the new team members
- Answering Audit queries both internal and external auditors
- Issuing Intercompany Invoices
- Reconciling payables and receivables within affiliates
- Initiating intercompany payments and clearing the payments
- Performing cost reclass
- Postings Accruals and deferrals
- Performing month end close activities.
F&A delivery Senior executive
IBM Global Process Services
06.2010 - 08.2013
- End to end cycle of Accounts payable including vendor master
- Creating and approving vendor creations
- Maintaining vendor records
- Processing all types of Invoices
- Manage escalations on the highest priority until the issue is solved
- Respond to all queries within 24 hours of receipt
- Everyday Quality Check for previous days posted documents
- Handling vendor payments
- Prepare and publish daily and monthly reports on time
- Ensure team members are allocated with adequate volumes to process at all times
- Always maintained the productivity above 95%
- Mentoring the new team members.
Education
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting And Finance
Bangalore University
Bangalore05-2010
Skills
- Finance and accounts
- Accounts payable
- General accounting
- VAT reporting
- STP Governance
- Vendor management
- Invoicing
- Payment processing
- Escalation management
- Quality check
- Reporting
- Team management
- Mentoring
- Debit balance follow-ups
- Accruals
- Bank reconciliations
- Vendor reconciliations
- Intercompany transactions
- Cost reclass
- Month-end close activities
- VAT reporting for EU countries
- Intrastat arrivals and dispatch
- EU sales reporting
- Chart of Accounts standardization
- E-Invoicing automation
- Strategy and enablement
- Transition management
- Project management
- Process improvements
- KPI definition and measurement
- Controls and compliance
- Data Transformation Processes (DTPs)
- System optimization
- Technical enhancements implementation
- Risk management
- Approval matrix management
- Communication skills
- Time management
- Quick learner
- Object-oriented
- Action-oriented
- Disciplined
- Flexible
- Trustworthy
- Innovative
- Quick to adapt
- Conceptual skills
- Presentation skills
- Patience
Personal Information
- Father's Name: Rajamani V
- Date of Birth: 07/08/1989
- Nationality: Indian
Trivial Biography
Young, Dynamic, Committed professional with Over 14 years expertise in Finance and accounts. Adopt well in high pressure environments with strict deadlines and multiple deliverables. Calibrated communication and expertise in F&A skills.
Languages
English, Hindi, Tamil and Kannada.
Hobbies and Interests
Dancing, Travelling.
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that the information furnished above is true to the best of my knowledge.
Timeline
Junior Manager strategy and enablement
Diageo Business service pvt ltd
06.2022
Senior Accountant
Novozymes South Asia Pvt Ltd
09.2013 - 06.2022
F&A delivery Senior executive
IBM Global Process Services
06.2010 - 08.2013
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting And Finance
Bangalore University
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