Shreeja Unni
Troy,MI
Summary
Experienced Senior Seasoned Accountant successful at cultivating effective working relationships at all levels while being decisive and persuasive communicator with proven problem-solving, leadership and planning abilities. Proven track record of performing work ethically while maintaining integrity of all financial data.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Accountant & Sr. Financial Analyst
Ally Financials
11.2021 - Current
- Working within Ally’s Debt Accounting & Securitization Operations (DASO) organization plays a critical role in providing accurate, timely, and relevant financial information, advice, and transaction support to key stakeholders of the company's largest operating unit.
- Engage in securitization investor report creation, review, and distribution, ensuring servicing activity results are accurate and timely.
- Coordinate monthly activities and address securitization servicing questions with internal customers, trustees/administrators, and securitization investors.
- Responsible for legal entity accounting, review, and analysis
- Assist with the accounting close process (e.g. prepare journal entries, financial statement account analysis, etc.) and prepare related monthly account reconciliations
- Ensure corresponding account reconciliations are properly supported and in compliance with global policy; research transactions that drive journal entries and make sure there is adequate documentation to support general ledger balances (and provide explanation of how the accounts work)
- Assess current accounting practices and adopt changes to Generally Accepted Accounting Practices (GAAP), as applicable. Assist with the research and implementation of technical accounting and disclosure matters, and develop comprehensive documentation that links our business unit accounting practices to the relevant accounting policies
- Evaluate processes and procedures for efficiency and effectiveness, and make improvements where possible
- Research and analyze current state accounting and link the current state accounting practices to their future equivalent
- Assist with ensuring the completeness and accuracy of account reconciliations and general ledger accounts, which requires liaising with other accounting functions impacting the DASO general ledger (e.g. Securitization Accounting)
- Liaise with key stakeholders and other functional areas, such as FP&A, Risk, Treasury, IT, etc.
- Liaise with both internal and external auditors
- Assist with special projects / ad-hoc requests as needed
- Develop comprehensive accounting documentation for new servicing and accounting system, based on a 'To Be' vision of processes
- Present deliverables to operations and accounting stakeholders
- Assist in testing of new system GL output - Moving from legacy system CARS to Alfa
- Using Jira software to track our workflows & issues so that the project is managed in a timely manner
- Assist with deployment activities including readiness training for various stakeholders within the CFO organization
- Liaise with key stakeholders and other functional areas, such as Corporate Accounting, Operations, and IT
- Continuously identify business process improvements
- Participate in other project related work and adhoc analyses
- Learning the auto finance product accounting at both an operational and regulatory level
- Validation of accounting test cases (reviewing test results to ensure system is behaving as expected)
- Provide accounting representations to ensure any downstream accounting impact is recognized and properly tested
- Collaborate as part of a team to resolve and troubleshoot issues
- Perform analyses using Excel and some SQL postings from Oracle
- Document processes and findings.
Vice President-Finance
Sistar Mortgage / MLO
02.2019 - 11.2021
- Working as Vice President Finance for Sistar Mortgage and its sister company - Pioneer Plastics - manufacturing company
- Monitoring the accounting of day-to-day transactions in Quickbooks Enterprise by team and the impact on the General Ledger
- Managing the team and guiding them with the bank accounts and maintaining the balances on a day-to-day basis for smooth operation of businesses
- Interaction with various Banks to apply Warehouse Lines for the operation of mortgage business
- Preparation of branch expenses and profits to ensure profitability is passed on to the branches on a semi-monthly basis
- Analysis of variances comparing with previous period thus to identify any improvements that can be made for the benefit of the Company
- Managing accounts payable for the company and instructing the team to timely release the vendor invoices that are due for payment
- Working with the HR team on the payroll functions for the company for timely release of the payments to employees, state taxes & the health benefits
- Preparation of any complex journal entries that may arise during time
- Managing the book closing functions of the company
- Hands on experience in using Quickbooks software, initiating wire transfers, ACH, direct deposits
- Also, working as a Mortgage Loan officer and generating loans for the Company.
Accountant
Epromptus Inc
01.2017 - 01.2021
- Worked as an Accountant for a staffing and consulting Company - Epromptus Inc
- Handled accounting day-to-day transactions in Quickbooks - Online, A/R, A/P, Payroll, Bank reconciliations, cash flow statements, journal entries, closing books of accounts.
Financial Business Analyst
Credit Suisse Services India Pvt Ltd
03.2015 - 04.2016
- Worked as a Financial Business Analyst for the CFO Change division of Credit Suisse
- Key liason role between Finance line and IT in deploying and building solutions to time sensitive CFO initiatives
- Understand business drivers, requirements and processes of FA/PC/Capital/Ops users in relation to posting to General ledger
- Translate business requirements into functional requirements (posting rules and associated static), document in clear, concise and comprehensive manner, and articulate to IT teams for their understanding
- Perform data analysis on Production data to assess impact of business requirements on existing data flows
- Perform detailed data analysis to assess and address data completeness and data sourcing gaps within the posting platform
- Support project teams during the definition of testing requirements for posting
- Perform Functional Testing, identify and analyze defects, and work with IT teams in their resolution
- Facilitate User Acceptance Testing for FA/PC/Capital/Ops users, analyze defects raised and work with FA/PC/Capital/Ops users and IT teams
- Collaborate and align with FA/PC/Capital/Ops users and IT teams to deliver project outputs and achieve project objectives
- Coordinate with Integrated Release teams to ensure changes are complete in the Integrated Environment; support creation of Production Readiness
- Hands on experience on Oracle PL/SQL commands
- Understanding of DAL oracle based architecture which supports all Finance reporting activities.
Accounting Manager
Vigilant Technologies, LLC
02.2011 - 04.2013
- Handled the entire accounting process for US , Canada & India operations
- Handled day to day accounting , A/P. A/R, Payroll functions, financial statements preparation as per US GAAP, cash flow statements, bank reconciliation statements.
- Deciding on the billing rates for staffing business to be profitable.
- Preparation of management reports to show the revenue, profitability, variances in the profits & loss on month on month basis to help the management in taking the strategic decisions for the future in regards to revenue generation.
Senior Accounting Analyst
Credit Suisse Services India Pvt Ltd
02.2009 - 07.2010
- Handled the Legal Entity Controllers function for Japan region.
- Traveled to Tokyo for deploying the tasks to Pune, India and making sure the transition and deployments happened in a smooth & most efficient way
- All necessary documentation with desired quality were delivered & was able to achieve 97% documentation on time & quality while being at Tokyo itself which was a point of appreciation from the management
- Preparation of Legal Entity Packs i.e Profit & loss & Balance Sheet & the corresponding supportings for one of the entity in Tokyo
- Also commenting on the major variances for balances as compared with previous months
- Preparation of daily & monthly trial balance based on the reports obtained from Peoplesoft & monitoring the balances in the general ledger & reporting any exceptions to the counterparts
- Monitoring the balances in suspense accounts & reporting the same to the concerned parties in Japan for clearing the same on a daily basis
- Preparation & posting of month end journals in the application called GLAD
- Preparation of MIS reports which included reports to Bank of Japan as per specific requirements, reconciliation reports, ad-hoc reports as per the instructions from higher management
- Co-ordinated actively in the formation of CA CPE Study Circle, conducting & organizing various seminars which is the topic of interest to the employees working in industry in the campus of Credit Suisse, Pune
- Also have received the prestigious CFO award from the CFO of the company for the formation of this study group.
Financial Analyst
JP Morgan Services India Pvt Ltd
02.2008 - 10.2008
- Handled the Corporate Reporting functions for Korea Location
- Involved in the transition of corporate reporting functions from Mumbai to Bangalore for the Korean entities
- Preparation of the schedules for four Legal Entities in Korea independently (which involved the bank branch & the subsidiary companies) and delivering it to the Controllers in Korea for their review & sign off which forms the part of consolidation at JP Morgan Chase Bank, New York
- Handled the month end submissions independently within the time frames set which included closing the books of accounts, transferring the profits & losses to retained earnings, submitting the numbers into a different systems which feeds the submissions to the systems at New York
- Monitoring of General Ledger on a daily basis, which is maintained in Oracle, and analyzing the movements in the accounts and Following up for the exceptions noted while analyzing the general Ledger with the client for its corrective action
- Comparing the movements of accounts & their balances from one system application to another, as there are large numbers of systems involved in the Company
- Also have involved myself in the Corporate reporting functions for Australian Location and training my colleagues with the corporate reporting functions
- Have obtained an applause card from the trainer & manager on the very first month of deliverables thereby recognizing my potential to handle the things independently.
Audit Intern
B.K Ramadhyani & CO
10.2001 - 11.2004
Education
Chartered Accountant - Equivalent To CPA
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)
11.2007
Bachelor of Commerce -
Symbiosis College of Arts & Commerce, Pune University
04.2004
Skills
- Certified Chartered accountant / Financial Analyst with over 18years of relevant experience in the field of accounts and financial management
- Financial packages: SAP , Oracle, Peoplesoft, QuickBooks & Tally, IQMS, Alfa-Advantage, JIRA, Confluence
- GAAP Accounting
- Variance Analysis
- Consolidation Accounting
- Intuit QuickBooks
- Financial statement review
- Annual reports, SEC Reporting, Form 10D's, Loan level reporting
- Critical Thinking and Analysis
- Operational and Ad-Hoc Reporting
- General accounting
- Internal Controls
- Financial Management
- Team Building and Leadership
- Financial Statements
Projects And Assignments
Handled statutory audits, internal audits, concurrent audits and tax audits for various organisation including auto industry, banks and consulting companies.
Timeline
Senior Accountant & Sr. Financial Analyst
Ally Financials
11.2021 - Current
Vice President-Finance
Sistar Mortgage / MLO
02.2019 - 11.2021
Accountant
Epromptus Inc
01.2017 - 01.2021
Financial Business Analyst
Credit Suisse Services India Pvt Ltd
03.2015 - 04.2016
Accounting Manager
Vigilant Technologies, LLC
02.2011 - 04.2013
Senior Accounting Analyst
Credit Suisse Services India Pvt Ltd
02.2009 - 07.2010
Financial Analyst
JP Morgan Services India Pvt Ltd
02.2008 - 10.2008
Audit Intern
B.K Ramadhyani & CO
10.2001 - 11.2004
Chartered Accountant - Equivalent To CPA
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)
Bachelor of Commerce -
Symbiosis College of Arts & Commerce, Pune University
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