Sannu Saver Lobo

A qualified accountant (CIMA-UK) and results driven with invaluable experience in leading and developing a successful finance and accounts team. Skilled in many financial and accounting fields such as Accounts payable, Accounts Receivable, Intercompany accounts, Banking and treasury, Payroll accounting and General Ledgers in the finance shared service. Having the ability to handle complex assignments effectively & possessing the confidence to work as part of a team or independently.

Finance professional poised to drive financial strategy and operational efficiency. Known for optimizing financial processes and ensuring compliance with industry regulations. Emphasizes collaborative teamwork and achieving impactful results, leveraging strong analytical and leadership skills.

• Received appreciation from the client for stabilizing and maintaining 100% accuracy within a span of three months.
• Suggested various process improvements which proved instrumental in minimum time consumption and reduced the workload and elimination of errors.
• Received the “Exemplary” award
• Received Best team award for 2 times for maintaining 100% accuracy and meeting SLAs form Client as well as Rewards & Recognition.
• Received an outstanding performer award.
• Received an “Excellent Customer Service” award for every year from 2007 to 2011 from the client.

• Ability to deliver outstanding results through critical thinking, communication, interpersonal effectiveness, and business acumen.
• Enriched experience in managing entire Finance Shared Service Centre (FSSC), Process Operations with an aim to accomplish corporate plans & goals successfully.
• Used instincts, insights, judgement, and timing to succeed on tough deals.
• O Finance SSC, Operations Managements focusing on maximising stakeholder satisfaction, process compliance, etc.
• O Process Improvement initiatives, Quick problem solving, System integrations for multiple entities.
• Abilities in coordinating with internal/external stakeholders for running successful business operations and experience of implementing standard operating procedure (SOPs) and service standards for business excellence.

• Group Financial Reporting: Consolidating the financial reports of subsidiaries and reporting to the parent company.
• Reduced Operational Expenses: Led cost optimization project that involved negotiations with the suppliers and thereby reducing the cost of product and services. Optimized the suppliers throughout multiple entities by obtaining longer credit terms (60 from 30 days) that helped to manage the working capital efficiently.
• Fixed Asset: Over 10 years of Fixed Asset accounting experience from creation of capex numbers, creation of fixed assets, monthly depreciation run, FA reviews and reporting. Timely disposing of assets from the ledger and keeping the FA ledgers tidy.
• Banking and Treasury: Weekly funds forecasting for the AP spends, managing multiple bank accounts, bank reconciliation review and liaising with Treasury manager and the credit control Manager for the working capital requirements.
• Payroll Accounting: Managing the UK payroll accounting entries with numerous GLs with employee benefits options, HMRC tax.
• Intercompany: Managing the Intercompany with timely billings and ensured to have them on the intercompany ledgers. Settling the payment and receipts via netting. Intercompany reconciliation review to make sure all the ledgers are reconciled.
• Purchase Card: Managing the all the entities Purchase cards in a central system and ensuring the spends are vouched with supporting documents by the user. Posting accruals for any missing receipts and unapproved spends.

• Purchase Return- One of our clients had a high volume of purchase return process for white goods. Due to poor record keeping it was challenging to identify the actual returns and the suppliers always dispute saying they have not received the product back due to this co has to pay for the purchases that was returned. Suggested the proper return goods authorization by calling the supplier and use the same number while returning the product back so the supplier can identity the return properly and refund or issue a credit note for the returned product. This process helped to save over $1.2M in a year and was well appreciated by the client.
• Merger and Acquisition: Was part of the M&A and integrated number of acquired companies accounting system to our system seamlessly. Have prepared a checklist and the template that helped the business to carry out all the financial data migration to the existing system with ease. In the past the acquired company's merger used to take up to 1 year post acquisition but it got reduced to 6 months with the use of template and checklist.
• Worked on BSR to reconcile the Balance Sheet GL as per Global Policy. Identified migrated data, Wrong entries, Wrong GL mapping, Other Segment data inclusion etc. Consolidated all the unidentified line items and categories those line properly. Mapped in respective GL, rectify those. Standard template implemented across various segments.
• Worked on reducing the Debtors outstanding balances and achieved more than 75% reduction year on year for internal and External Debtors.

• A self-driven and highly energetic, motivate with the ability to adapt to the workplace.
• An avid interest and inclination towards the company.
• An exemplary character and conduct with a high level of dependability and trust.