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Pushpalatha M

Senior Finance Analyst
Bangalore

Summary

Highly organized and dependable candidate adept at effectively managing multiple priorities while maintaining a positive attitude. Demonstrated willingness to take on additional responsibilities to meet team goals. Dedicated finance professional with a proven track record of achieving company objectives through consistent and organized practices. Skilled in thriving under pressure, adapting to new situations and challenges, all with the ultimate goal of enhancing the organizational brand.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
5
5
Languages

Work History

Senior Financial Analyst

Johnson Controls
12.2022 - 11.2024
  • Provided valuable insights by leading monthly variance analysis reviews between actual results and budget/forecast expectations.
  • Developed comprehensive financial models that informed strategic decision-making for the organization.
  • Reviewed statistical information to determine financial trends for use in investment planning.
  • Improved budget forecasting through meticulous monitoring of expenses and revenue streams.
  • Increased financial accuracy by conducting in-depth analyses of financial data and trends.
  • Facilitated accurate expense tracking through diligent maintenance of general ledger accounts and reconciliations.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to drive process improvements and increase operational efficiency.
  • Streamlined financial reporting processes, resulting in more efficient delivery of critical information to stakeholders.
  • Maximized company resources by performing ad-hoc analyses supporting cost reduction initiatives across departments.
  • Conducted detailed financial analysis to identify and evaluate changes in operations, trends and potential areas of improvement.

Senior Finance Associate

Sycomp Technologies
12.2020 - 07.2022
  • Supervise the end-to-end Order to cash process including Cash application, Accounts receivable/ billing and credit with collections functions.
  • Ensure timely and accurate closure of books globally and its reporting to regions/BU
  • Manage the accruals, provisions calculations and its postings.
  • Maintain and reconcile the GL accounts, other reconciliations ensuring all transactions are accurately recorded and documented.
  • Conduct month end closures with the teams to ensure that all goals and tasks are planned.
  • Manage interactions with other internal finance and collection teams for period closing.
  • Manage team to document SOP update for changes and improvements in underlying process and facilitate client reviews and alignments.
  • Conducted reviews and evaluations for cost-reduction opportunities.
  • Prepared vouchers, invoices, checks, account statements, reports and other records and reviewed paperwork for accuracy.
  • Generated sales tax reports for each operational jurisdictions, monitored bi-weekly payroll and prepared and paid out sales commissions.
  • Checked payroll, vendor payments, commissions and other accounting disbursements for accuracy and compliance.

Treasury Analyst

DXC Technology
04.2018 - 06.2020


  • Performing monthly close activities such as preparing journal entries, reconciling balance sheet and profit and loss account
  • Daily, monthly, and quarterly EOD sweep structure
  • Preparation of monthly cash remittance targets of units of monitoring actual
  • Difference between GL and bank are mostly relating to Non executed payments, cash in transit, reconciliation items and others
  • Investigated and resolved discrepancies during the Treasury bank reconciliation process
  • Analyses and audited cash receipts and updated customers’ accounts accordingly by posting cash receipts, checks, and bank deposits in relevant database systems
  • Researched payment issues and outstanding checks
  • Performed basic accounting tasks, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, preparation of financial statements, and cash flow analysis
  • Ensure the preparation and timely submission of all statutory compliance and reports related GST
  • Used tools such as Excel, Workbooks, and Access to submit reports to corporate office as appropriate
  • Use Power BI for developing reports and dynamic dashboards, and any additional BI tools
  • Create informative dashboards and analytics for various departments of the operations team using advanced excel skill and extracting the data by self and publishing the same into database
  • Perform quality checks for data correctness and prepare data with fine attention to details
  • Experience in extracting data from different data source, Assure net, SQL, Oracle database.

Senior Associate

Bharti Airtel
07.2016 - 04.2018
  • Worked varied hours to meet seasonal and business needs.
  • Trained and supported new team members, maintaining culture of collaboration.
  • Developed new sales opportunities through development and rollout of promotional plans.
  • Defined work plans in alignment with stakeholder requirements.
  • Achieved client satisfaction and loyalty by establishing collaborative relationships, facilitating needs assessment.
  • Improved customer satisfaction by quickly and effectively addressing inquiries and complaints.
  • Served as keyholder, overseeing business opening and closing operations.
  • Promptly mediated disputes between associates to promote better collaboration and avoid work disruption.
  • Maintained confidentiality on projects, with clients and regarding corporate data to alleviate data breaches.
  • Answered incoming telephone calls and processed incoming and outgoing mail to support office staff.

Finance and Accounts Officer

Amicorp Management
08.2014 - 07.2016
  • Created spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel for daily, weekly and monthly reporting.
  • Actively listened to customers, handled concerns quickly and escalated major issues to supervisor.
  • Responsible for preparing bank reconciliation statements monthly.
  • Handles the tasks of preparing accurate details of monthly suppliers as well as intercompany accounts payable reconciliation statements.
  • Clears outstanding reconciliation items within two months if any.
  • Performs other accounting tasks under the instructions of Finance Manager.
  • Reviews bank accounts, checks balances against ledger amounts and verifies that the amounts match with the financial statement like asset, liability, expenses, and revenues.
  • Prepares file forgery claims, journal entries, and reorder copies of cleared checks.
  • Maintains proper record of file bank statements, notices, reports, and other supporting documentation.
  • Supported and reported prior/current period adjustments and maintained bank reconciliations.
  • Checked the accuracy of monthly accruals, revenue close, variance analysis, and performed inter-company reconciliations to ensure volume allocations and prices were correct.
  • Monitored and reviewed accounting and system generated reports for accuracy and completeness

Accounts Receivable Executive

Accenture
01.2013 - 07.2014
  • Responsible for providing entitlement of contracts to customers by creating contracts, renewing the contracts, making any changes to the customer database, and involving the customers in oracle 12i(ERP)
  • Credit validation and reconciliation, ensuring that customers are involved on regular basis for the services rendered
  • Delivering the invoices to customers through consolidation and distribution track report, renewing the invoices request manually, electronically and processing as per account profile
  • AR and Financial adjustments to the invoices in ERP, validating the customer store list and generating invoices as per store list, errors free processing of all billing transactions in oracle
  • Processing transactions within service and operation level agreement
  • Validating customers signed legal agreement and purchase orders, approving hardware and annual annuity orders to recognize sales credit
  • Analysing and reconciliation of customer database with the contracts maintained in oracle
  • Handling the customer disputes related to the invoices and Serves as the single point of contact for customer’s service entitlement and billing.

Education

MBA - Finance And Taxation

ShirdiSai Engineering College
Bangalore
06.2010 - 03.2012

Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting And Finance

Bangalore University
Sarjapur
06.2005 - 03.2007

Skills

Cash reconciliation

Software

Oracle 12

Netsuit

Power BI

Concur

SAP

Certification

Finance Analysis and Reporting

Additional Information

  • Demonstrated consistent high-quality work per client surveys
  • Achieved perfect attendance and punctuality for three quarters straight
  • Used excellent team leadership and adhered to strict deadlines to make the Month End and Year end closure successful

Timeline

Senior Financial Analyst

Johnson Controls
12.2022 - 11.2024

Finance Analysis and Reporting

01-2022

Senior Finance Associate

Sycomp Technologies
12.2020 - 07.2022

Treasury Analyst

DXC Technology
04.2018 - 06.2020

Senior Associate

Bharti Airtel
07.2016 - 04.2018

Finance and Accounts Officer

Amicorp Management
08.2014 - 07.2016

Accounts Receivable Executive

Accenture
01.2013 - 07.2014

MBA - Finance And Taxation

ShirdiSai Engineering College
06.2010 - 03.2012

Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting And Finance

Bangalore University
06.2005 - 03.2007
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