Padmavathi M
Bengaluru
Summary
A highly result oriented Analytical professional with a solid financial and statistical reporting background.13+ years of working experience in the Advertisement & Retail Industries. Outstanding ability to perform complex Reporting/Budget & Forecast/FPNA /General and Ledger/Accounts Payable/Receivable/Intercompany.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant Manager
Dentsu Aegis Network India Pvt Ltd
11.2018 - Current
- To deliver Month End Closure (MEC) activities including P&L and Balance Sheet finalization with variance analysis & movement comments
- Managing a team of 3 members and responsible to ensure the outcome of reports produced by each individual and responsible for providing feedback about the performance to Management during appraisal cycles
- CFO Deck reports for Global Brands with comments
- Ensure accurate delivery of BPC reporting across Interco, Finance, CPS & Planning cube
- Key responsibility in delivering optimum reports for management view between 2 reporting applications BPC (Finance cube for actuals reporting) and SAC (Planning cube this is for budgeting and forecasting)
- Ensure to deliver high level comments on variances by effectively analyzing and coordinating across teams to understand and provide accurate comments
- Perform optimum review of activities like Revenue, Payroll, T&E expense report, Other Cost, Balance sheet reconciliations
- Active participation in budget and forecast preparation requirements and perform the BPC & SAC submissions
- Develop & maintain effective partnerships with stakeholders to understand requirements, set expectations, address concerns, and discuss them with the team/reporting manager as required
- Responsible for maintaining updated Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
- Audit handling (Year-end and Statutory Audit)
- Handling Group query on Analytics YOY/MOM, and against RF/Budget along with comments on the movements
- To implement continuous improvement initiatives (CII) by identifying process lapses, offering the best possible solutions
- Support larger team in the delivery of ad-hoc requests
Process Lead
Graphx Solutions India Pvt Ltd
06.2015 - 10.2018
- Updating day-to-day Business transactions and reconciling all control accounts
- Handling Accounts Payables: Bills, Credit memos and Bill Payments
- Handling Accounts Receivables: Invoices, Receipts and Deposits
- Updating Bank transactions and Reconciling
- Reconciliations – Credit Cards, Loan, Vendor, Customer and Ledger accounts
- Entering Month End Accrual entries
- Financial Transaction processing and review and ensure correctness in P&L, General Ledger, ensuring month closings etc
- To ensure reconciliations are complete on monthly/weekly basis
- Providing daily and weekly budget cash flows to the client
- Providing weekly reviewing points and variance analysis to clients
- Preparing MIS reports as per requirement
- Preparation of each balance sheet schedule
- Assigning work to new joiners and review the same
- Ad hoc analysis non-standard, urgent request of financial information and Handling queries on reports delivered
- Process simplification: Standardization of existing reports across various regions/user groups
- Performed activities, onboarding new clients from email confirmation to process setup
- Documentation & training of other team members on process and new reports
- Reviewing the Financials statement and present to the client monthly and yearly basis
- Ensuring we don't miss on TAT for the files allocated to us so that we meet our SLA
- Performing the Internal QC perform analysis and provide the inputs to the team lead and manager
- Review the financial statements like Profit & Loss (Month wise & Location wise), Balance Sheet, and Control account recon Reports, bank unclear transactions prepared by FA/SFA
- Cash Out & Open Batches report – Daily
- Presentation of pre and post financial statements to client
Senior Analyst
Capgemini General Ledger Team- (Unilever)
11.2013 - 05.2015
- Transaction processing (like preparation and upload of journals in SAP, Expense/Revenue accruals, reclasses, other accounting related transactions for ensuring timely closure of general ledger every month
- Balance sheet reconciliations for assigned countries on time and resolving open line items in the reconciliations to reflect the accurate numbers in the financial statements
- Handling corrections, reversals for wrong postings
- Preparing the Summary sheet of various schedules
- Calculating exchange difference and clearing netting GL account
- Review of balance sheet accounts of team members
- Mails follow up with reconciler, authorizer & reviewer to complete B/S a/c reconciliation (in Unirex portal) with in timeline set
- Working on payroll activities balancing companies P&L and Balance sheet a/c
- Reconciliation of payroll CBT’ s and co-coordinating with bank team
- Preparing reports like success log, error log, and SA doc
EXL Services (KPMG)
09.2011 - 11.2013
- Reviewing and Comparative analysis of financial statements namely Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement, Statement of Operation, Statement of Shareholder’s Equity and so on provided by clients
- Preparing Lead sheets from the financial statements like Trial balances
- Handling multiple reports, working with formula, pivot tables & pivot charts, and various others excel sheet components for accurate data
- Posting the Trail Balance, Statement of Operations and Balance Sheet in client’s software (IDEA) and generating the reports as per the client’s requirement
- Coordinating with Team Lead for the work assigned and seeing that the deliverables are processed by the associates well within the target time and the Turn-Around-Time (TAT) is not missed
- Ensuring that the associate time worked for the respective engagement is captured in the Time Nx for correct billing for KPMG
- Handling the team as a Backup Team Lead and Co-ordinate with the team to process the entire document on time to meet SLA and reporting to the Manager
- Preparation of Various Reports like Client Billing Hours, Process Related Reports, Appraisal Reports, Day to Day (DTD) Reports of each team member monthly etc
- And submit the reports to the Manager
- Preparing the Summary sheet of B/S a/c schedules
Education
Master’s degree - Finance & Marketing (MBA)
Bangalore University
01.2011
Bachelor of Commerce - B.com
Gulbarga University
01.2009
CIMA(CGMA) Persuing - Finance
CIMA
LondonSkills
- P&L Review
- Variance Analysis
- Balance sheet reconciliation
- Budgeting and Forecasting
- Audit expertise
- Reporting and documenting
- SAP
- QuickBooks
- BPC
- SAC
- Great Plains
- MS Office and D365
Languages
Kannada
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Proficient (C2)
C2
Telugu
Advanced (C1)
C1
Timeline
Assistant Manager
Dentsu Aegis Network India Pvt Ltd
11.2018 - Current
Process Lead
Graphx Solutions India Pvt Ltd
06.2015 - 10.2018
Senior Analyst
Capgemini General Ledger Team- (Unilever)
11.2013 - 05.2015
EXL Services (KPMG)
09.2011 - 11.2013
Master’s degree - Finance & Marketing (MBA)
Bangalore University
Bachelor of Commerce - B.com
Gulbarga University
CIMA(CGMA) Persuing - Finance
CIMA
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