SONAL AGARWAL

Legal Entity Controllership & Financial Reporting

• Lead a team of 10+ professionals responsible for transfer pricing controllership and governance across global legal entities, ensuring accurate financial reporting, compliance with tax-approved methodologies, and adherence to regulatory requirements.
• Managed controllership and financial reporting activities across 10+ jurisdictions, ensuring compliance with US GAAP, IFRS, and local statutory requirements.
• Played a key role in transitioning Brexit-related EU controllership activities to India, establishing and scaling a team of 5+ professionals through knowledge transfer, process standardization, and capability development.
• Oversee month-end close, balance sheet reconciliations, management reporting, and key control processes to maintain a robust financial governance framework.

Complex Transactions & Governance

• Executed complex legal entity restructuring initiatives, including Brexit-driven reorganizations, assessing accounting, regulatory, tax, and operational impacts
• Managed accounting and controllership aspects of strategic transactions, including sale-and-leaseback arrangements and other business restructuring activities
• Contributed to transfer pricing governance forums, supporting alignment of intercompany frameworks with evolving tax, regulatory, and business requirements

Finance & Business Transformation

• Core member of a General Ledger transformation program focused on redesigning multi-GAAP ledger architecture, equity pick-up processes, consolidation workflows, and minority interest treatment to support a scalable, controlled, and audit-ready finance data model.
• Leading the redesign of inter-affiliate recharge methodologies to simplify operating models, strengthen governance, improve tax efficiency, and enhance transparency across global legal entities.
• Led finance transformation and AI-enabled process optimization initiatives to improve reporting accuracy, operational efficiency, and scalability
• Partnered with Engineering and business stakeholders to redesign critical finance data flows, strengthening data integrity, auditability, and control effectiveness
• Drove automation and process simplification initiatives that enhanced finance operations, governance, and stakeholder reporting