Sneha Venkatakrishnan

BUSINESS FINANCE & PROJECT MANAGEMENT

• Worked extensively on MIS and books closure for AR related activities.

• Assisted in training Sr. manager finance POCs across sellers and services providers on the overall Audit and Assurance SOPs.

• Worked on GLPG and category level trend analysis and MOM impact on revenue assurance.

• Supported in statutory audit closure of 8 major sellers

• Worked closely with CXOs of multiple sellers in identifying the problems and implementing processes to mitigate the same

• Supported extensively on end-to-end finance UAT/PVT testing of major financial projects for Amazon India.

• Worked on many finance automations and process streamlining.

• Assisted in streamlining the budget vs actual analysis for AR related work streams.

• Coordinated with multiple stakeholders and ensuring timely and efficient delivery of complex projects.

AR PROCESS REVIEW

• Supported in streamlining seller AR processes through setting up effective reconciliation processes for Vendor Return and Liquidation Revenue streams.

• Collected data and developed detailed reconciliation SOP that helped identify trends and create visibility on revenue, expense and profitability.

• Provided extensive training to a large team to help understand basics of Revenue accrual and accounting on these processes having significant impact in Financials and cash flow.

• Establishing hands of the wheel process as part of automation across sellers and different teams.

• Experience in managing, evaluating, analyzing data quickly and creating meaningful business reporting.

• Helped coordinating with all relevant stakeholders to setup automation of reconciliation outputs that helped in significant reduction of manual efforts.

Major industrial sectors covered:

IT and ITe S Service, Retail, Print Media.

Major areas handled:

• Preparation, review and filing of monthly GSTR 3B and GSTR 1.

• Preparation and filing of GSTR 9 and 9C.

• Assistance in routine advisory to clients on indirect taxation matters (GST, Foreign trade policy,etc.) which includes applicability of tax, classification of goods or service, determining rate of tax, eligibility to tax benefits/exemption etc., eligibility of input credits, applicability of tax under reverse charge mechanism, etc.;

• Filing of refund claims of GST against exports of services and liaison with the Department, representing before officers and obtaining refund orders.

• Assistance in drafting Opinions/Memo on indirect tax issues .

• Assistance in drafting reply to show cause notices and Appeals against the notices received from the tax department.

• Been involved in complex HSN assignment project involving a wide range of products for a major retail chain

• Been part of Due Diligence assignments from Indirect Tax perspective to help investors identify potential threats or significant non-compliances.

Major industrial sectors covered:

Retail Fashion, Manufacturing and Sale of Cement, E-Commerce, Healthcare

Major areas handled:

• Assisted in closure of Statutory Audits of entities wherein ensured compliance with all financial aspects covered under Indian GAAP & Companies Act 2013.

• Assisted in handling of tax audits of entities wherein ensured compliance with Income Tax Act, 1961.