Rambabu Keerthi
Finance - Lead
Bangalore
Summary
My education, training and experiences enabled me to perform my duties and responsibilities to achieve management’s expectations. I have strong analytical skills, organization, and communication. I am also detail oriented, highly focus on accuracy, timeliness and continuously seek improvement in the performance of assigned tasks. Actively working in F&A domain since last 16+ years. I am experienced in ERPs like SAP and Oracle. I have been involved in multiple finance transformation projects. Lean trained with project management skills. Key interests are client engagement, project management and finance controls.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Accountant (Team Lead)
Harman (GSSC)
09.2019 - 11.2024
- RTR - Fixed Asset accounting, Revenue recognition and Reporting
- Role: Fixed Asset Accounting - PPE process – WBS creation of Assets in SAP and till capitalization of Asset.
- Maintain of Fixed assets tracker.
- Review and approve list of assets for capitalization.
- Review and approve Journals and recons prepared by the team – in blackline.
- Preparing monthly trade shows related JE re-class and accruals.
- Calculating the Extended Warranty Income Deferrals and prepare JE.
- Preparing the checklist for the team and assigning as per the respective handler.
- Preparing various accruals like warranties, Royalty, Deferred, revenue and expense accruals.
- Clearing the billing errors in SAP, for those invoices which are not cleared in SAP created by sales team - VFX3 and VF04 errors.
- Sending the emails to clear errors to the respective team for Billing document.
- Participated in Blackline R2R implementation lifecycle, including gathering information for system configuration, testing, and go-live support.
- Tested and implemented Blackline modules for (Journal Entry, Tasks, Transaction Matching, Account Reconciliations to meet specific business needs and accounting processes.
- Month end close process - Preparing and submitting cashflows and GCPS for reporting in month end.
- COPA submission in SAP.
- Compliance Audit – Internal/External – Monthly CDS submissions.
- DTP review for team on timely updating.
- Team handling – Activity tracker, - task assignments, trainings to new team members.
- Project implementations – Involved in Blackline implementation.
Team Lead
Capgemini
03.2012 - 06.2019
- Company Overview: (OFFICE DEPOT and OFFICE MAX)
- Vendor Programs – Billing and Collections- Rebates, Deductions processing
- Preparation of monthly management & client reports from various data sources (Essbase, SAP etc.) & also providing explanatory analysis to senior management
- Reviewing the Reconciliations, Journal entries and approve.
- Based on escalation matrix, handling escalation e-mails to concerned department for open items
- Lead, motivate, counsel, develop and coach team members to meet departmental KPIs and project SLA’s
- Identify, facilitate and implement process improvement ideas
- Effective liaison with various departments within operations to gain support and resolve issues
- Resource planning, Hiring and backup planning.
- Customer Relations ship & Satisfaction.
- Vendor programs- reviewing trade vendor agreements.
- Based on escalation matrix, handling escalation e-mails to the concerned department for the open items.
- Carry out billing, Over and above (discounts) and reporting activities per specific deadlines.
- Return consolidation allowances and return to vendor accrual and collection.
- Processing the CK’s (BOA) and WT’s (WELL’s FARGO) received from vendors.
- HP Collections Big Deals Activity as Big Deals Special Incentives.
- Lock Box Handling-Pulling Checks and Wire Transfers.
- Freight RCC and RTV and new store allowances Calculations.
- Handling requests raised by vendors for debit memos and backups of whole team.
- (OFFICE DEPOT and OFFICE MAX)
Process Developer (NISSAN Automotive)
GENPACT
06.2007 - 03.2012
- Company Overview: HYDERABAD
- Responsible for the Balancing of all retail, Lease and Wholesale receipts and Accounts payable processing for disbursements to Debtors and Customers as well as Reconciliation and Review of General Ledger Accounts
- Handling Cash Accounts like ACH, LOCKBOX, BILL Matrix and Dealer Accounts.
- Performing daily Reconciliations to clear open items of cash entries.
- Accounts receivable transactions.
- Working on Escalation matrix of open items with department Supervisors.
- Posting required Journal Entries in SAP for open items offsets in respective General Ledger.
- Meeting SLA target on month end for all the reconciliations.
- Preparing the Dash Boards and Deck for Weekly calls.
- And working on visual management reporting to management on process activities.
- Clearing and doing follow up on aged open items.
- Balancing the system activities between Sub-ledger and General ledger.
- Identify the missing transactions from the daily interface.
- Working on open items above 90+ for whole Team.
- Report to customer on all Open items with age-wise analysis for all the reconciliations on month end.
- Reconcile of All month end recons before work day 10.
- Preparation of Cross training plans to team members and preparation of SOPs with Exceptions.
- Handling the team and fully involved in validation, assigning tasks to team members, motivate them to accomplish the tasks with in the deadlines, testing, auditing and implementation.
- HYDERABAD
Education
MBA - Finance and Marketing
Osmania University
Bachelors - undefined
Sri Nava Bharath Degree college
Skills
RTR
Revenue
Billing and collections
Fixed assets
Rebate and coop calculations
Dispute resolutions
SAP (FI-CO)
BLACKLINE
Oracle
Recon plus tool
COGNOS
Lean trained
Analytical skills
Accomplishments
- Silver award in the first month of production in the PILOT Processes
- 2 Lean awards for successful lean project implementations
- Best organizer of fun activities
- Zero open items in all GLs handled
- Best team award and Star Performer awards
- Hall of Fame awards and client appreciations
Areas Of Proficiency
- RTR
- Revenue
- Billing and collections
- Fixed assets
- Rebate and coop calculations
- Dispute resolutions
Erp Experience
- SAP (FI-CO)
- BLACKLINE
- Oracle
- Recon plus tool
Transition Experience
- Poland, Knowledge transfer for RTR and OTC activities
- Kolkata, Reverse transition for knowledge transfer within Capgemini
Personal Information
- Father's Name: Mallesham
- Notice Period: Immediate Joiner
- Gender: Male
Timeline
Accountant (Team Lead)
Harman (GSSC)
09.2019 - 11.2024
Team Lead
Capgemini
03.2012 - 06.2019
Process Developer (NISSAN Automotive)
GENPACT
06.2007 - 03.2012
Bachelors - undefined
Sri Nava Bharath Degree college
MBA - Finance and Marketing
Osmania University