Sairam Nittala

Advanced Accountant

• Part of Digital controllership team for Grid Software Solutions and responsible for supporting the accounting and reporting operations with the help of business finance teams.
• Responsible for general accounting, policies applications and process administration for all cycles including receivables, payables, intercompany etc.,
• Main focus of accounting operations is on UK Legal entities however the reporting could be varied based on the requirement.
• Supporting Ad-hoc queries from FP&A and biz teams during the month closings.
• On the reporting front main focus is on preparation of various DR's like "Contract Assets Ageing and Def Charges & Pro Colle trending" which distributed to the GridSW biz's CFO's & teams and it helps them to keep a track of their projects/ Orders pacing, also these reports will have the visibility to the GridSW CFO's and Biz controllers.
• Supporting the biz with the revenue calculations or Revenue Deck either its for Internal revenue review or for Corporate or for STAT Audit etc...
• Time to time Co-ordinate with the other UK teams who also actually helps behind the scenes to run the biz in easy way, either it could be TAX team, VAT team, SARS team or counter parties with in the GE or projects team etc...
• Assisting the Deloitte and STAT teams with the required audit support for timely completion of Audits and to get the financials signed within time.
• Good exposure to various Accounting ERP's and reporting tools.
• Leverage the non month end time on Analysis and analytics or discussions with the ERP teams on variety of issues or implementations , balance sheet reviews etc...
• I was Part of ERP Migrations for UK, where I need to perform all the required analysis on the pitcher and catcher B/S’s before migration and post migrations.

Deliverables: Payroll, RTR analyst and Accounting reconciliations

• Being a payroll analyst, it is my main responsibility to keep the data confidential and make sure it is accessible only to those who are authorized.
• Work on payroll of US & CAD (North America) in collaboration with the HR Business Partners and counter parts of respective countries.
• Flexible to work in ADP environment.
• Preparation of Headcount for all the business units based on the Workday platform and getting the stat entries posted correctly in co-ordination with the FP&A team.
• Run the Payruns process for every Biweekly, Bimonthly and Monthly to finalize the compensations, contributions and match the same with the banking team for the confirmation of compensations processed & contributions made and account them for respective business units.
• Work on payroll automation of CAD in collaboration with the ADP and do testings for the procedures which were correctly picking up in the automation.
• Reconciliation of GL accounts in BLACKLINE at the month end and ensure all of them were correctly being processed complying with the company policies and correction entries made in subsequent months if required.
• Processing of severance calculations for the terminated associates.
• Flux analysis and fringe calculations based on the actuarial reports in compliance with GAAP.
• Work on various reports of payroll and pass required entries for the current period.
• Ensure and process Intercompany transactions and raise transmittals in case of different legal entity transactions (different foreign currencies) involved, to the respective Business unit heads.
• Process any ad-hoc requests from the counter parts related to salaries, bonuses, severance, new hire details, terminations etc.…
• Hands on experience on SOX compliance and responsible for monthly, quarterly, and yearly SOX testing submissions to the audit team as they requested.
• Leveraging the free time to update the SOP” s or any new automations (which simplify the work).
• Despite having all the lengthy workings involved in the process, maintaining consistency of delivering all the activities within the time-of-service level agreement.
• Maintained good rapport with the counter parts to get the deliverables on time.

Responsibilities: RTR & reconciliation Analyst

• Prepare monthly close entries related to accruals of expenses, revenue, revenue deferrals, postage, expenses, inventory, cash & bank etc…
• Analyze & reconcile monthly activity and accruals of repayments, amortizations as well Organization Alignment changes.
• Prepare the monthly revenue analysis and reconciliations.
• Run the month end Oracle reports for the financial flash to team.
• Accounting team lead for review of journal entry analysis.
• Meet the SLA’s by posting the JE’s on time during the month end.
• Follow up on the backups from the various business unit heads in USA.
• Post the adjustment entries based on the requests and respond to Ad-hoc queries.
• Update the SOP’s and process analysis time to time according to the changes.
• Take the cross trainings within the team, to act like a backup when required.
• Reconciliation of accounts in the “Black line” without any SLA misses.
• Analysis of Journal entries nature on a quarterly basis for the review and decision making of controller level management to take decisions.
• Took a lead on the common updates to the team and initiate the weekly meetings within the team to discuss and exchange the thoughts and progressing of work.

Responsibilities: Accounts Receivable Accountant

• Daily postings of cash and allocation of payments.
• Process customer account adjustments.
• Using separate tool called P&C to check the correct postings on the customer Account in SAP.
• Review bank activity daily and reconciliation.
• Ensure accurate cash postings in customer accounts.
• Clear Open items in customer accounts as well in GL” s.
• Research and resolve misapplied receipts.
• Assist in identifying and resolving payment discrepancies.
• Posting entries in GL and customer account.
• RTR open items and suspense account resolutions.
• Resolving customer queries through Email box (SSFIC).
• Preparing SLA Reports for every month.
• Worked as a backup for the one other country in the same process.
• Preparing ad-hoc reports as and when required.