Selvi T C

Financial Reporting - Workiva Centre of Excellence Lead

• Lead a team of 7 in delivering interim and annual financial statements for 14+ entities across Europe and the US, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance.
• Collaborate with 70+ SMEs during AFS preparation, resolving 1500+ discussion threads by anchoring decisions using global benchmarks and standardized reporting principles.
• Drive governance through weekly calls with regional heads—aligning on reporting requirements and risks, audit progress, and AFS status to ensure consistency across geographies.
• Maintain the insourced AFS model (previously outsourced), supporting sustained savings of ~$125M
• Lead the integration of audit workflows into Workiva, including audit requests, PBC uploads, audit comments and queries—centralizing documentation and enabling end-to-end audit visibility.
• Build automated dashboards within Workiva to visualize P&L components by geography and business segment—accelerating analysis and enabling clearer reasoning behind financial movements.
• Act as a Workiva ambassador, conducting training sessions across Europe and brainstorming with teams—including the CFO’s office—to simplify 10-K and 10-Q processes and expand platform utilization.
• Automate notes, narratives, permissions, and controls by leveraging a combination of Workiva functionalities—enhancing reporting efficiency, reducing manual effort, and strengthening process integrity.
• Perform independent reviews and certifications of financial statements prior to release, including variance analysis, ledger reviews, and targeted SME engagement.

Financial Analysis - Receivables Reporting

• Oversee Fair Market Valuation of receivables across retail and wholesale segments, using internal trends, interest rate movements, credit loss data, and macroeconomic indicators to generate valuation inputs.
• Lead cash flow analysis of new contracts across 9+ European regions, segmented by product, volume, and value—engaging with local teams to analyze trends and reasonings for quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year movements.
• Present quarterly insights to the CFO, backed by segment-wise analysis and direct engagement with regional teams to explain key drivers.
• Streamline receivables analysis using Workiva, enabling audit trails, automated reminders, and real-time insights—saving ~3.5 hours per quarter and improving commentary quality from local teams.

Talent Development and Hiring Initiatives

• Lead L&D across Ford Credit, onboarding and mentoring 30+ new joiners, while streamlining training for 100+ employees through targeted technical and soft-skill programs in collaboration with the central talent team.
• Serve as an active member of the interview panel, having conducted over 60 candidate interviews within one year, supporting strategic hiring decisions across multiple functions.

Transaction Losses Accounting and Analysis

• First member in India to establish the transaction losses accounting and analysis framework—owning SOP creation, accounting template design, month-end close processes, and continuously enhancing and streamlining workflows.
• Collaborated daily with US teams to manage automated journal entries across all Stripe regions, identifying anomalies, posting manual adjustments, and ensuring global consistency.
• Led the monthly reconciliation and fluctuation analysis of transaction loss accounts using ARCS, maintaining accuracy and audit readiness across entities worldwide.
• Managed specific loss reserves for merchants with commercial business risks by conducting deep analytics on large vendors with abnormal negative balances, identifying potential exposures, and partnering with risk teams to assess and book reserves.
• Utilized SQL to extract and analyze large datasets, delivering actionable insights to internal stakeholders across finance and risk functions.
• Supported external audit requests across all regions including India, covering both interim and consolidated audits.

Finance and Strategy

• Spearheaded a 6-month pilot project to assess India’s capability for high-impact finance roles—leading to the creation of a dedicated Finance & Strategy team in Stripe India.
• Analyzed actuals vs forecast variances for top marketing and operations vendors, using Gappify to validate invoice processing and identify discrepancies.
• Engaged with global payables teams, vendors, and business units to investigate variances and present findings to the US FnS head.
• Designed and implemented checks, validations and visual representations to strengthen the review process, improving accuracy and stakeholder confidence.

• Managed monthly, quarterly, and annual financial accunting and anlayis for 30+ international US GAAP-based real estate entities, ensuring accuracy and compliance across the portfolio.
• Oversaw the full lifecycle of entities from incorporation to dissolution, maintaining regulatory alignment and operational continuity.
• Engaged with US-based property managers to conduct detailed analysis and audit of underlying components—gathering supporting documentation and investigating drivers behind financial variances.
• Supported front office sale decisions by preparing 12-month forecasts for 15+ entities, analyzing historical trends, and coordinating with cross-functional teams and property managers to estimate gain/loss outcomes.
• Executed centralized processes including quarterly intangibles reporting for 10+ entities and preparation and presentation of cash position analysis for 120+ entities to portfolio managers.
• Presented fluctuation analysis across financial statement components, pipeline deals, and sale scenarios to the director—delivering strategic insights across the US real estate investment portfolio.
• Influenced and implemented Yardi adoption across 15+ entities, streamlining accounting operations through real-time cloud-based collaboration, and trained US-based property managers to ensure effective platform usage and process efficiency.

• Contributed to statutory and limited reviews for a standalone health insurance company ensuring regulatory compliance and financial integrity.
• Part of concurrent audit teams for a public sector bank and the investment function of a leading general insurer, reviewing operational controls, investment compliance, and transaction accuracy.
• Supported the statutory audit of a prominent trading company operating on ERP-SAP, gaining exposure to system-based audit procedures and inventory controls.
• Led the ICFR audit for a major automobile company, evaluating control design and operational effectiveness across key financial processes.
• Gained hands-on experience in entity formation, including LLPs, charitable trusts, and companies—supporting documentation, registration, and compliance workflows.
• Assisted with income tax assessments, appeals, tax audits, and IT filings, along with providing management support services across client engagements.
• Gained hands-on experience in GST compliance, including new registration, return filing, reconciliation, and audit support across multiple client engagements.
• Engaged in the preparation of Transfer Pricing documentation for multiple organizations