Kavitha Guruprasad

• Prepare, drives operational and financial metrics in support of key decision making (forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis).
• Ability to build Financial Modules.
• Gather, analyze, prepare and summarize recommendations for financial plans, trending future requirements and operating forecasts.
• Participate in projects related to financial systems or business processes.
• Participate in month/quarter-end accounting close activities.
• Support any regulatory/compliance audit or reporting requirements, as needed.
• Prepare the Sales invoice for the County for all the programs.

• Provide direct accounting and operation support such as expense tracking, accounting system administration, invoice processing, vendor registration, vendor management, month-end processing, reconciliation, contract execution, and budget management.
• Managing accounts payable, accounts receivable, and payroll departments.
• Provide financial operations support in tracking annual capital & expense spending, including annual budgeting.(Opex and Capex)
• Ensure monthly financial results are stated accurately and by GAAP. This includes the preparation and posting of journal entries.
• Managing the Procurement process with the Team. P2P (Purchase to pay/procure to pay) experience.
• Managing financial analysis in reviewing business operations and spending data with a solid understanding of income statement analysis
• Create and maintain critical financial templates, including reports for ad-hoc assignments for team support
• Managing business operations and project financial review, including financial statement and comparison analysis
• Participate in the development of programs, systems, and projects to increase the efficiency of processes and operations
• Provide internal process support in submissions related to invoice payments, creation of budget requests, purchase requests & purchase orders, PUMIs, and all other financial functions.
• Communicate and work across teams for collaboration with Finance & Operations groups, i.e., Purchasing, Accounting, Legal, Tax, Engineering, and HR.
• Perform other duties and ad hoc tasks contributing to the organization’s support.
• Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.

• Performed balance sheet analysis.

Assisted Financials in the formation of financial forecasts and plans.

• Conducted audits to inform the Lead Financial Analyst's reports for budget recommendations and financial forecast reports.

• Interpreted company financial statements and analyzed commodity prices, sales, costs, expenses and tax rates.

• Prepared the journal entries, closed accounts and reassessed the cash balances.

• Exposure to meaningful work in an innovative environment.

• Customized development plans.

• Prepared the journal entries, closed accounts and reassessed the cash balances.

• Use analysis to influence and drive action within finance and our business partners by using fact-based, holistic and forward-looking perspectives.

• Forecasting models to optimize and identify the strategic financial direction for the regional office.

• Isolate key drivers, quantify impacts, and forecast implications to the business.

• Monitor actual distribution cost transactions in the General Ledger and review consolidated DC & Administrative department data for errors and highlight significant trends / variances from budgeted / forecasted performance goals. Maintain Administrative department forecasts and speak to variances from budget / forecast.
• Responsible for preparing generation of the annual budget and five-year strategic plan for distribution centers and administrative departments. Work in conjunction with DC & Network Implementation groups in understanding Capital spend (budget / forecast) and help manage the DC Procurement functions with other network teams.
• Collaborate with individual Project Manager to prepare Month/Year end Journal Entries
• Financial Analysis and reconciliation of variances at Year End
• Organize and file Year End Journal Entries and executed IT Contracts
• Update & Create FY'19 Project Financial Templates utilizing Excel
• Assist in consolidation of project approval supporting documentation
• Ad-Hoc reporting

• Conducted weekly revenue forecasts and performance analysis. Implemented changes to increase performance and overall results based on market trends.

• Perform daily and weekly billing and collection calls and correspondence in a fast paced, goal-oriented Accounts Receivable Department.

• Provide customer service regarding collection issues and internal billing inquiries.

• Verify appropriateness of customer refunds, process credits, process small balance write offs, and provide customer reconciliations

• Weekly and monthly reporting on AR balance and collections including Accounts Receivable Aging reports

• Posting Cash receipts

• Completed entire month end close process for prepared and analyzed monthly journal entries as well as the cash flow, balance sheet, Income statement and Trail balance and Analysis of Financial Statement.

• Managed a team of five members in the accounts payable department for day-to-day activities like processing of invoice, Payments to the vendor, resolve vendor queries, daily workforce allocations.

• Reconciled bank statements, credit card and deposits. Prepared analysis associated with accounts.

• Posting the Journal Entry for accurate payment of commissions, salaries, wages and reimbursements, manage all tax items in a timely and accurate fashion.

• Maintenance of vendor information, including W-9's, as needed and year-end 1099 issuance and reporting as well as the completion of the 1096 transmittal to the IRS

• Perform weekly process of disbursements via manual checks, wires, and ACHs

• Audit employee's expense report to ensure all company policies and procedures are followed

• Managing and overseeing the daily operations of accounting department. Monitoring and analyzing accounting data and produce financial reports or statements. Establishing and enforcing proper accounting GAAP Methods, Policies and principles.

• Prepare, review and submit annual budget. Discussion with department for the variance after month end close.

• Allocations of the expense for the intercompany transactions.

Prepared journal Entries, reconciliations and trend analysis as required for Monthly Close

• Managed and ensured accuracy of revenue, receivable and expense accrual Accounts.

• Interacted with intercompany departments to review and validate financial Information.

• Cross trained and assisted with cash disbursement responsibilities.

• Engaged with internal Audit team to complete documentation regarding SOX compliance.

• Reconciliation of Statutory compliances like TDS and Service Tax.

• Accomplishes accounting and organization mission by completing related results as needed.

• Co-coordinating with Auditors in Statutory & Internal Audits.

Responsible for Daily Metrics & MIS report to management relating to defects, invoice processing, invoice rejection, holds data and TVC report.

• Responsible to collect the refund check for any duplicate payments and mandatory documents from supplier by contacting through phone or email.

• Responsible for month end close activities.

• Responsible for handling queries, Uploads, Reconciliations after the month close.

• Apportioning the General Ledger, reconciliation and accrual for the appropriate invoice.

• Monthly fixed asset and prepaid allocation to perform the task.

• Training New Joiners.

• Responsible to identify Manual hold invoices and work with the requestors to release the hold.

• Coordination with payment team to get the preapproved invoices paid on time.

• Responsible to coordinate with the requestors and release the system hold

• Integrated of data received by clients based on the general corporate principles.

• Integrated with Clients counterparts who provided data.

• Invoice processed tracked reports and coordinating with members in invoice processing.

• Have good experience in working on response tool (Query and Clarification management database), which escalated and resolved queries using the same.

Have worked on a number of client queries involving complex research and have played an active part in the various projects handled by the team.

• Collection and interpretation of accuracy report on daily and monthly basis.

• Overall all looking into the Accounts Payable and returns of clients in the Invoice processing and payments project.

• Comparing Actuals with Forecast and Report Bridge to Top Management.

• Preparation of Export documents – COB, Bill of Lading, Bill discounting.

• Preparation of Bank ILC, PO, PO acceptance, Loading Advices and Forward Contract.

• Prepared Bank & Vendor reconciliation statements, Purchase requisition Creation & Supplementing Purchase orders.

• Preparing Audit and Financial Reports for Quarterly, Half and Yearly.

• People Management

• Guided, trained and motivated the team during Oracle implementation.

• Ensured that all relevant documentation like SAP T–codes are prepared and communicated to direct repartees enabling them to effectively carry out their functions.

• Making myself available as a mentor in assisting direct reports to develop in their positions.

• Delegate tasks to direct repartees in line with skill, knowledge and ability and where necessary identify skill gaps and training requirements

Knowledge of corporate actions performed by companies & their filings.

• Giving effect to corporate actions in respective databases.

• Integration of data received by various sources based on the general corporate principles.

• Knowledge about security identifiers and market identifiers.

• Interaction with publisher counterparts who provide data.

• Fair knowledge of various stock exchanges and their functions.

• Have good experience in working on the Response tool (Query Management database) & have escalated and resolved queries using the same.

• Have worked on a number of client queries involving complex research and have played an active part in the various projects handled by the team.

• Collection and interpretation of financial data of commercial / industrial companies from annual reports, quarterly reports and press releases.