Chalapathy Chandrappa

Senior Corporate Accountant at The Stronach Group
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(386) 825-5501
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Greater Toronto Area, Canada, CA

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Narayan Kulkarni .

We worked during early GRS days of HPE. He used to manage AP recons. His eyes for detailing and control on process is really an highlighter. He is hardworking , dependable and team player. He was a SME and go to person for the process he handled . I am happy for all his accomplishments till date. I wish him all the success in his future career!

Yathish Kumar, ACMA, CGMA, MBA

Chalapathy is Enthusiastic, Energetic and Open-minded person, he is always looking for better working solution and ready to take challenges. I had great experience working directly with him in HP and I was his supervisor for few years. I still remember those days when he was handling critical project and his involvement was crucial considering his expertise and knowledge of the process, he had contributed exceptionally and delivered the results within the expected timeline. He was great resource and key subject matter expert. He was dedicated and career oriented . I’m happy for all his accomplishment in his career. All the very best Chalapathy for your future career endeavors !!!

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Credentials

  • ACCA Certificate in Global Business Services
    ACCA
    Mar, 2017
    - Nov, 2024
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
    Scrum Alliance
    Jun, 2021
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

    • Canada
    • Gambling Facilities and Casinos
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Corporate Accountant
      • Sep 2023 - Present

    • Accounting Bookkeeper
      • Dec 2022 - Sep 2023

      • Accurately entered over 1,000 invoices into QuickBooks by manually reviewing data, ensuring correct coding, categorization, and classification of expenses for accurate financial reporting • Organize and update vendor profiles in QuickBooks, ensuring accurate payment terms and contact information, resulting in 100% accurate records. • Improved efficiency by reducing the time required to process credit card transactions by 15% by implementing a system that accurately reconciled credit card reports with receipts, coded each transaction, and matched charges to receipts • Reconciled intercompany accounts and managed chargebacks, ensuring accurate financial transactions across entities. • Generated monthly invoices for 10 clients within QuickBooks, increasing revenue by 30% by applying payments to the corresponding invoices • Prepared bank reconciliations using QuickBooks, ensuring accurate alignment between financial records and bank statements by reviewing the records and statements and fixing any mistakes in the systems in order to provide timely and accurate financial information to management Show less

    • France
    • Automation Machinery Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Financial Analyst
      • Oct 2019 - Jan 2022

      • Preparing bank reconciliations for over 30 bank accounts in APAC countries by extracting GL reports and bank statements and comparing them to identify reconciling items.• Performed regular GL balance validation by conducting detailed reconciliations between the General Ledger (GL) and corresponding sub-ledgers on a periodic basis. This involved thorough analysis and cross-referencing of financial data to ensure accuracy and consistency, identifying, and resolving any discrepancies.• Prepared loan and interest schedules for the entire company for all loans taken from Banks and Intercompany, calculated interest on the loans, and accounted for the entries in the books.• Prepared GL accounts ageing reports and performed analysis by adding the key notes to the reports and sharing the reports with the Manager to support decision-making.• Prepared various P&L account reconciliations for audit requirements by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing account information and trends.• Prepared and posted daily journal entries in SAP, reviewed journal entries prepared by others, and achieved an accuracy rate of 100% for the year.• Skillfully compiled an array of Management Information System (MIS) reports by extracting and thoroughly analyzing General Ledger (GL) data from SAP, facilitating comprehensive insights for management evaluation.• Prepared and submitted monthly financial reports, including analyzing and explaining variances. Show less

    • Project Accountant
      • Jul 2017 - Sep 2019

      • Creating the Sales Orders/Project Code/WBS element in SAP based on the PO received from the project managers or customers for services.• Responsible for booking timesheets in SAP, booking travel and engineer's claims in projects, and issuing invoices to the customers.• Project Review: Checking Actual Cost booked against plan cost and Actual Revenue booked against planned revenue.• Time sheet booking in SAP (CATA posting), collaborating project managers and engineers to collect time sheets, and accounting timely in the books.• Supervised and ensured strict adherence to contract budgets, carefully tracking hours and expenses for each project. Prepared and delivered timely reports on project time tracking, facilitating accurate financial analysis.• Issue the invoices to customers and follow up with them for payments.• Performing the recovery analysis by project level, comparing cost against sales, Attend the customer's mail and phone calls to address the queries related to invoices issued and resolve any discrepancies.• Preparing sales, orders, Profit and Loss accounts, and balance sheets for the automation plant.• Performing all the reporting activities in HFM: order reporting, Sale reporting, phases I and II, updating Monthly Mandatory forms, removing locking controls, and BMP reporting. Show less

    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Finance Associate IV
      • Sep 2011 - Jul 2017

      Started My Career at Hewlett Packard as a Financial Associate after my education. Following are my responsibilities as Financial Associate. • Preparing GRIR, Vendor Payable, Accrual’s GL reconciliations, and working on clearing the reconciling items. • Validating GL balances by performing reconciliations between GL(LH1) and sub-ledgers (FI1, IJ1&PJ1). Following up with respective business units for clearance of reconciling balances and suggesting an appropriate course of action. • Investigating blocked invoices for the payment and making sure on-time payment to vendors. • Following up with debit balance vendors for the recovery. • Preparing and posting month-end and year-end adjustment journal entries in SAP. • Handling Audits (Internal and EY Auditors) on reconciliation issues. • Preparing Balance Sheet GL’s Flux Analysis (i.e., comparison of Month/Quarter End Balances for all the Vendors.) and reporting the same to the Controllership. • Handling escalation calls and emails, following up with Controllership and Operations teams to get the invoices paid on a timely basis, and Performing Month end reporting. • Preparing journals for accrual reversals and balance classes Show less

Education

  • Humber College
    Post Graduate Certificate in Project Management, Project Management
    2023 - 2023
  • Humber College
    Post Graduate Certificate In Financial Planning, Financial Planning
    2022 - 2022
  • Bangalore University
    Master's degree, Accounting and Taxation
    2009 - 2011
  • Bangalore University
    Bachelor's degree, Accounting
    2006 - 2009

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