Vandana Chauhan

• Improved the month-end closing process by implementing new reconciliation procedures, resulting in a reduction in errors by 25%
• Oversee general ledger reconciliations and account analysis
• Handled the analysis and reporting of financial transactions, leading to more informed strategic decision-making
• Collaborated with other department leads to streamline workflows, improve interdepartmental coordination, and achieve business goals collectively.
• Responsible for monthly review and approval of journal entries and account reconciliation on a timely basis and applying all required controls
• Promoted a positive work environment by fostering teamwork, open communication, and employee recognition initiatives.
• Working knowledge of OIBEE tool, Oracle R12, ONESOURCE (Tax Tool), ARCS (Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud Service)
• Monthly Calls with the Controllers to discuss any challenges or issues
• Assist in Internal and External audits
• To make sure numbers are being reported correctly as per the exception category and maintain data accuracy
• Provide leadership, guidance, and training to the R2R team
• Trained new team members on ERP systems and process to keep team operations productive and efficient

• Perform month-end journal entries, accruals, prepayments etc
• Prepared reconciliations of general ledger accounts and resolved any accounting discrepancies as well as documented how accounts are being used and determined if adjusting journal entries are needed and processed journal entries
• Identified and analyzed the unusual or reconciling items and taking appropriate actions to resolve exceptions
• To assist / help auditors receive all necessary documentation
• To monitor all the transactions on a regular basis
• Part of the weekly call with the onshore team to discuss the open items and plan of action get them closed out

• Analysis of Capex items - To Identify and verify the expense items which should have been capitalized
• Intercompany reconciliations and Cash receipts & payments items reconciliation
• Balance Sheet reconciliations - Preparation of accounts like Trade accounts payable, other accrued expenses and responsible for submission of these reconciliations in Blackline tool
• Balance Sheet Analytic – To perform control checks on sub-ledger (Debtors, Creditors) operations
• Preparation / Changes in SOP’s – To assist and train new team members on the process, to minimize the chance of errors
• Ensure speedy & timely resolution of queries to maximize client satisfaction
• Lead the client calls to discuss the progress on ongoing activities & upcoming activities
• Process Improvement initiatives: To Co-ordinate with technical team in terms of any changes like addition or deletion in the reports that helps the user to have all the fields required for the report
• Worked on Project (expense coding correction in system) to assist in rectifying expenses coding in the system on the basis of expense type
• To make sure the user is able to identify Billable/Non-Billable items with accuracy

• Worked on preparation of management accounting reports
• Campaign expense analysis report - Commitment value (plan expenditure) funded against a campaign and what is the un-invoiced amount
• Support external financial reporting team - Change requests for multiple reports in terms of formatting, date, year, profit/ loss, numbers, formulas which were embedded, to check if its correctly linked with other supporting files
• Use of web Hyperion financial management (HFM) tool to update landing zone of expenses to get latest numbers or for comparison purpose (MOM/YTD)

• Prepare monthly division financial reporting using Hyperion
• Prepare and process month-end journal entries
• Prepare Intercompany Invoices
• Prepare SOX documentation
• To provide support to internal and external auditors
• Prepare GL reconciliations like PO accrual, Prepaid, Fixed asset
• Prepare schedules like fixed deposits / payroll / employee loans
• Proficiency in System Applications & Products (SAP) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Solution, Hyperion financial management (HFM) & Microsoft Applications (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and Oracle (version R12 & 11i)

Process Improvement initiatives:

Prepared a standard journal template which helped in

reducing the time taken for the task and also to maintain

accuracy.

• Invoice processing using system applications SAP, JDA & Promatis
• T&E processing
• Setup and maintenance of Vendor & Employee Database in Oracle
• Maintained tracker to track daily volumes and accuracy Invoice processing using system applications SAP, JDA & Promatis