Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Timeline
Professional Attributes
Professional Attributes
AccountManager
S V Gandhi Vanakayala

S V Gandhi Vanakayala

GL, R2R, Reconciliation Transition
Hyderabad

Summary

As an Assistant Reconciliation Accountant, ready to handle financial matters of the organization and to ensure that the amount in company's accounting ledgers match with the bank balances. Also, to make sure and follow the guidelines and policies of cash in an adequate and effective way.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education

Work History

SENIOR SPECIALIST

International Flavors and Fragrances, IFF
2021.08 - Current
  • Nature of work : GL, Bank, Tax Reconciliations
  • Currently working on Reconciliations for Latin America second big region Argentina
  • Monitoring the month end activities which include closing of sub ledgers, General ledger account, Reporting and reconciliations
  • Follow up on the open items and clearing them on a timely basis - to avoid potential write-offs leading to huge
  • P&l impact
  • To Prepare and present monthly / quarterly dashboards with senior leadership and setting up reviews with business controllers & Finance Managers
  • To build and monitor performance metrics, with principal focus on ensuring timely delivery of month end reports, reconciliations and other deliverables
  • To ensure appropriate financial policies, procedures, and internal controls are in place, documented, and operating as intended
  • Reviewing the MJE postings SAP by team and following up them to attach documents in SAP for every journal entry posted by team
  • Performing a crucial task of reconciling of no of GL accounts from SAP to Blackline reconciliation tool
  • Highlighting the discrepancies and issues with the client
  • Worked with them to resolve the issues
  • Performing the EMEA / LATAM GL and tax reconciliations and clearing the open items by sending following up emails to respective team
  • Cross trained with the EMEA intrastate and ESL reconciliation and take the responsibility to perform along with my LATAM reconciliation responsibility
  • Performed all the US Indirect tax filings, payments and took initiative when the team is having resource crunch.

Senior Specialist (K)

Corteva Agriscience India private limited
2018.12 - 2021.08
  • Have hands on knowledge on Blackline reconciliation tool, SAP, Great Plain and Manual reconciliations.
  • Proactively identifying Fraud activity, inactive accounts and accounts carrying zero balances and reporting to the respective business.
  • Preparing open item report on WD+4 and send it to responsible persons to clear, and take approval for posting manual journal entries (MJE) of monthly closing postings, bank charges entries, accruals, reclass and prepaid entries to clear suspense items.
  • Preparing final open item report after completion of reconciliation and send it team for comments. Preparing Dashboard monthly reporting deliverables for management review after completion of Reconciliation.
  • Preparing Tax reconciliation also like Bank, Cash, GL B/S and P&L, Withholding/Perception, Input output VAT suspense and clearing control accounts.

PROCESS DEVELOPER

Genpact India Pvt Ltd
2016.06 - 2018.11

Nature of work : Closing, Reporting and Reconciliation responsibilities.


Responsibilities :

  • To ensure compliance with reconciliations requirements (NBCU Corporate Criteria) and to identify and give a projection of unreconciled accounts and design action plan to mitigate the number and to setup calls with stakeholders.
  • Performing a crucial task of reconciling of no of GL accounts from SAP to Blackline reconciliation tool.
  • Preparation of Depositary accounts which will have huge line items where each line item will be reconciled by manual matching recording all the Credit card and AR transactions of Grill Amex, Visa, Discover, Cash and AR studio Credit Card Transactions
  • Record the charges of bank, and other omitted items in GL and preparing AP, Deferred Revenue, sales tax, Recons at quarter time as it is non key recons.
  • Monitoring the month end activities which include closing of sub ledgers, General ledger account, Reporting and reconciliations
  • Follow up on the open items and clearing them on a timely basis - to avoid potential write-offs leading to huge P&L impact.
  • Focus on ensuring timely delivery of month end reports, reconciliations and other deliverables
  • Prepare and posting month end close journals Accrual, Prepaid, Adjustment, Re-class, Reversal, and other miscellaneous expenses manually with the approvals
  • Preparing of Daily Bank Reconciliation Between AP Payment and Bank Statement and listing out the open items after daily Bank activities and going to following up with concerned teams like P2P, OTC & Business Unit team to clear them
  • Extracting Bank Statement from NBCU site and sending them to respective Business Unit teams on Daily basis
  • Ensure all the reconciliations are prepared and submitted on time without any misses
  • Extracting Trail Balance (TBs) from WD+1 to WD+5 and it convert into excel format for Text Format and send them to Business Team
  • Extracting open item report from Blackline Tool especially focused on >90 days open item and Ensure all the open items identified are closed before the next reconciliation period starts.

RETAIL STORE ACCOUNTANT

Coromandel International limited
2015.05 - 2015.12


  • Verification of vouchers, receipts collected against petty cash payments and Physical verification of "Stock" for its quality, quantity on weekly basis
  • Deposit cash on bank on regular basis relating to what we sold on last day and preparing EOD, month end, year ending reports, and send it through mail to higher authorities
  • Maintaining all the licenses relating to the pesticides, fertilizers and taking permissions with AO
  • Preparing all registers relating to transactions
  • Assisting staff in monthly closing activities and preparing account reconciliations statements.

Education

Accounting And Finance

MCOM - GITAMS UNIVERSITY
Vizag
2011.05 - 2013.05

CA Inter

ICAI
Vijayawada
2010.01 - 2012.05

Finance

B.COM - Andhra University
Ramachandrapuram _ VSM College
2006.05 - 2009.05

Accounting

Intermediate CEC
Ramachandrapuram - VSM College
2004.05 - 2006.05

Skills

    Strong problem solving and Decision-making skills

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Accomplishments

  • Marked State 7th rank in my intermediate.
  • Joined as Process developer in single FT as a fresher.
  • Operational excellence award for maintaining consistency in the Process for Q2’18. Awarded with Best Debutant Bronze Award for Best Performance in two Quarters and Received the customer sponsored award during the year end close for 2017 for significant contribution.
  • Key Member in FP&A team of U.S client of GENPACT, within span of 6 months getting another process and maintain the process as single FPA.
  • Have Good Knowledge in Accounting Concepts and convections, Financial Statements presentation
  • Actively participated in the company events.

Timeline

SENIOR SPECIALIST

International Flavors and Fragrances, IFF
2021.08 - Current

Senior Specialist (K)

Corteva Agriscience India private limited
2018.12 - 2021.08

PROCESS DEVELOPER

Genpact India Pvt Ltd
2016.06 - 2018.11

RETAIL STORE ACCOUNTANT

Coromandel International limited
2015.05 - 2015.12

Accounting And Finance

MCOM - GITAMS UNIVERSITY
2011.05 - 2013.05

CA Inter

ICAI
2010.01 - 2012.05

Finance

B.COM - Andhra University
2006.05 - 2009.05

Accounting

Intermediate CEC
2004.05 - 2006.05

Professional Attributes

  

  • Completed CA inter Group 1 with 4.8+ years of overall work experience in, Record to Reports (R2R), General Accounting (GL).
  • Process developer – R2R domain which includes leading NBCU Reconciliations processes – performing monthly and quarterly closing and Reporting, General Ledger Accounting activities.
  • Reporting directly to Controller, responsible for general ledger account reconciliations, month-end close, and preparation of Financial Statements in accordance with GAAP.
  • Proficient in ensuring Quality Assurance and 100% customer satisfaction.
  • Multitasking skills and ability to work under pressure.
  • Training – Being a Process developer in R2R domain, facilitated a lot of trainings for the newly joined and was a point of contact for dispute resolution relating to Reconciliation issues across teams.

Professional Attributes

  

  • Completed CA inter Group 1 with 4.8+ years of overall work experience in, Record to Reports (R2R), General Accounting (GL).
  • Process developer – R2R domain which includes leading NBCU Reconciliations processes – performing monthly and quarterly closing and Reporting, General Ledger Accounting activities.
  • Reporting directly to Controller, responsible for general ledger account reconciliations, month-end close, and preparation of Financial Statements in accordance with GAAP.
  • Proficient in ensuring Quality Assurance and 100% customer satisfaction.
  • Multitasking skills and ability to work under pressure.
  • Training – Being a Process developer in R2R domain, facilitated a lot of trainings for the newly joined and was a point of contact for dispute resolution relating to Reconciliation issues across teams.
S V Gandhi VanakayalaGL, R2R, Reconciliation Transition