Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Awards
Disclaimer
Timeline
Generic

Suraksha Kudlekar

Bengaluru

Summary

Dynamic Finance and Operations Analyst specializing in e-commerce sales audit and payment reconciliation, with extensive expertise in managing high-volume transactions. Demonstrated success in overseeing end-to-end reconciliation processes between payment service providers, order management systems, and banks, ensuring precise revenue recognition and regulatory compliance. Proficient in SAP, Excel, and ReconNet, with a strong focus on identifying revenue leakages and automating exception reports to achieve 100% accuracy in financial postings. Skilled in collaborating with technology, financial planning and analysis, and operations teams to enhance financial workflows and drive efficiency in fast-paced online business environments.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Financial Operational Analyst, Sales Audit

Ralph Lauren Sourcing India LLP
02.2023 - Current
  • Performing daily reconciliation between sales reports and payment service provider (PSP) settlements (Adyen, PayPal and Amex) in ReconNet to ensure accuracy of collections.
  • Conducting reconciliation of payment service provider (PSP) settlements with bank deposits.
  • Posting journal entries in SAP for sales, settlements, chargebacks, Fees and adjustments after reconciliation, ensuring compliance with accounting standards.
  • Investigating mismatches in transaction data (short settlements, chargebacks, duplicate entries, payment failures, missing sales) and coordinated with PSPs, banks, and internal teams (OMS, ESB and Inventory) for timely resolution.
  • Supporting month-end closing and audit requirements by preparing reconciled reports and documentation for management review.
  • Monitoring and clearing 60+ days aged items by investigating long-pending reconciliation differences between sales, PSP, and bank statements.
  • Preparing monthly accrual fees reports and collaborating with the FP&A team to ensure timely posting of accrual entries.
  • Balance Sheet Reconciliation: Reconciling balance sheet accounts in floqast tool on monthly basis as per group guidelines and Explanation of GL account ending balance, preparation understandable supporting documentation by using independent data sources.

Accounts Receivable Analyst

Ralph Lauren Sourcing India LLP
07.2021 - 01.2023
  • Responsible for day-to-day Cash Application in SAP & AR Reporting and for month end closing
  • Downloading Bank Statements and Providing daily bank statements to credit control team
  • Day-to-day management of incoming customer receipts and posting to the appropriate customer account and invoices daily for numerous accounts with multiple currencies through research and accounting details provided by Credit Control team
  • Allocation of cheque payment through lockbox
  • Process approved adjustments such as write offs.
  • Follow guidelines established for Short Pays and Overpayments
  • Generation and distribution of invoices based in Business/customer request
  • Creation of manual invoices and Credit notes based on Details provided by Business Units/Credit team
  • Working on CAP forms to create Customer codes in SAP
  • Co ordinating with Master data and AP team to process Customer refund ASAP
  • Processing RIBA/DD Submission for EMEA regions
  • Handling Intercompany netting process
  • Assists with Monthly AR reporting activities such as allocation of Discount Report, Trade Receivable GL reconciliation, Bad Debt reclass Report, Advances received report and Refund GL reconciliation report.

Finance Specialist

ABB Global Industries and Services Pvt Ltd
01.2017 - 07.2021
  • Allocation of customer payments to open invoices in SAP ensuring timely and accurate allocation.
  • Performed daily bank reconciliation of customer receipts, investigating short payments, unapplied cash, and unidentified receipts.
  • Coordinated with customer service teams to resolve payment discrepancies and clear open items.
  • Identifies and coordinates remittance issues with Local Front Office/Credit Control team Corrects application errors when necessary
  • Transferring unapplied cash to unallocated account at the month end and regular follow up with local front office for details
  • Quality check on daily basis to ensure accounting must be done to respective GL, Currency, and Invoices.
  • Updating Issue log on timely basis.
  • Assists with daily, Weekly and Monthly AR reporting activities such as allocation of Receipts & Providing final pending list to Local Front Office and Matching Trial Balance and FBLSN on WDO, on WD1 running customer statement for respective period & Circulating to Business, Final AR Receipt Report, AR Ageing Report, Consolidated AR Age Analysis , Discount Report, Target Report, African Debtors Report, KPI, Tax Receipt Report and DPR Report
  • GL Reconciliation: Reconciling AR Subledger and ledger accounts in STAR tool on monthly basis as per group guidelines and Explanation of GL account ending balance, preparation understandable supporting documentation by using independent data sources.
  • General Accounting- Group Reporting: Supported General Accounting (RTR) team for month end reporting of financial and non-financials. (Part of cross stream training)
  • Reporting of financials & non-financials in Hyperion at Business Line (BL) and Product group (PG) level as per US GAAP on monthly basis. Financials Includes balance sheet, P&L, cash flow statement and other internal reports as per company requirement (Like Headcount, Functional cost, and Revenue bifurcation reporting) for their further decision making. Non-financials include reports related to company orders, order backlog (OBL), OBL reconciliation and head count etc.

Education

MBA - Finance and Marketing

R.V. Institute of Management Bangalore (Bangalore University)
Bengaluru, India
06-2016

Bachelor of Commerce (Bcom) - accounting

Bhandarkars' Arts & Science College
Kundapura
06-2014

Skills

  • Accounts Receivable, Sales Audit, Accounting Record to Report, Finacial Analysis reconciliation
  • Possess knowledge of Accounting Software’s like SAP FICO, Trintech (Cadency),ReconNet, BIW, Infinium and HYPERION, Floqast, OMS, ESB
  • Team management including coaching freshers, sharing knowledge
  • Capable to manage end to end activities individually and independently
  • Be able to prioritize workload and multi-task in a challenging environment
  • Ability to resolve client/customer queries and handling escalations

Accomplishments

  • Successfully identified and resolved a payment service provider related issue related to tender Ideal and able to initiate preventive action by discontinuing the use of a particular payment tender processor and stop revenue loss
  • Identified and flagged an accounting issue causing incorrect impact between two balance sheet accounts due to manual refund processing outside the OMS system
  • Identified that credit notes were missing from transaction log (T-log) files and flagged the issue with the OMS team for correction.
  • Improved reconciliation accuracy for exchange orders by implementing automated checks
  • Worked on Project CABB- Cash application and Breakfast for ZATAD to improve cash posting accuracy through automation/streamlined reconciliation workflows

Awards

Won Spot awards under “Excellence” at ABB.

Won Extra Mile award twice and PAT on the back award at Ralph Lauren.

Disclaimer

I hereby declare that the information provided above is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Timeline

Senior Financial Operational Analyst, Sales Audit

Ralph Lauren Sourcing India LLP
02.2023 - Current

Accounts Receivable Analyst

Ralph Lauren Sourcing India LLP
07.2021 - 01.2023

Finance Specialist

ABB Global Industries and Services Pvt Ltd
01.2017 - 07.2021

MBA - Finance and Marketing

R.V. Institute of Management Bangalore (Bangalore University)

Bachelor of Commerce (Bcom) - accounting

Bhandarkars' Arts & Science College
Suraksha Kudlekar