Experience

Embassy of Canada | Ambassade du Canada

• Canada
• International Affairs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Common Services Assistant

  • Oct 2016 - Present



Danube Group

• United Arab Emirates
• Retail Building Materials and Garden Equipment
• 700 & Above Employee

• Branch Accountant

  • Sep 2015 - Oct 2016

  Responsibilities: ● Handle cash and cash related transactions of all branches of Danube (UAE & Overseas). ● Handling the entire payment process from raising the purchase order, issuing GRN, GRN Costing, Invoice booking, and payment processing. ● Verifying and processing payments to vendors and service suppliers after preparing the supplier reconciliation, managing utility payments, preparing cheques and TT Forms. Ensuring that all the branch payments are processed on time so as not to disrupt the operations. ● Generation of various reports for management purpose, bank reconciliation, filing all documents. ● Coordinating with other departments and branches. ● Assist with preparation of periodic financial statements. Correspond with other departments to ensure proper accounting for purchases and expenses. ● Review accounting entries for accuracy and correct errors. ● Assist with yearend audits. ● Performing other financial / administrative tasks as may be required. ● Coordinate and support the respective branches on the reconciliation process in accordance to group compliance guidance. ● Follow up with the business on clearing the reconciliation items on a regular basis. ● Support finance manager to put the necessary controls in place to ensure No Revenue leakage ● Processing the staff salaries, and other payments for Danube Welfare Centre. Achievements • Reduced the time lag in disbursing the payments to the branches to maximum one week in case of petty cash reimbursements, and maximum 2 days in case of utility, rent, and other critical payments. • Implemented proper control system over documents by maintaining a tracker for document movement, and timely follow-ups with respective departments to ensure payments are disbursed within the deadlines. Show less



Tesco Bengaluru

• India
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Account Executive

  • Oct 2009 - Apr 2014

  Reconciliation of Custom Duty Accrual Account (Account Number 20190) Ensuring that the Custom Duty Payments declared to Government matches the Duty Accrued by Tesco every month and investigating the reasons for variance. Analyzing the Custom Duty Payments every month to find out the cases of duty overpaid/underpaid to the Government so that the same could be claimed or paid on time so as to avoid any possible penalty, and accounting the same in Oracle. Resolving queries pertaining to Custom Duty Compliance. Send Divisional updates on Duty payments on goods imported for the month. Analyse the reasons for deviations against the monthly forecast if any. Provide timely, relevant and accurate reporting & analysis of the custom duty payment for each division/department against prior year and forecast Posting Journals Entries in Oracle and preparing reconciliations of the “Custom Duty Accrual” Account every month. Liaison with auditors for the annual audit reports. Achievements Automated the process of checking Duty Rates and Invoice Values which helped to save approximately 10 business working days. Resolved the outstanding duty queries pending in the account from the past 2 years worth £ 2 Million, and regularized the custom duty accrual process. This help to save 2 hours in preparing reconciliations every month. Process Documentation done across various sectors of Custom Duty Accounting Process. Improved the manual process of Force clearing lines, saving 4 business hours. Completed Retail Certification of Tesco (Bronze). Show less



EY

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Tax Analyst

  • Dec 2009 - Aug 2011

  In the role of Advanced Analyst – US Corporate Taxation December 2009 to September 2011 The US Corporate Tax Team in Ernst & Young GSS supports the business in US. I was part US Corporate Tax Team, which prepares US Tax Returns and Work papers and Files the same with IRS. Responsibilities ● Responsible for the preparing various work papers in excel to calculate taxable payable using US Tax laws for Corporate and Partnership Firms, and SMLLC’s. This involves coding the Trial Balance, posting Journal Entries and preparing final accounts to calculate the Taxable Income. ● Preparing Draft 1065, 1120, 1120S, SMLLC Returns, State Returns, State Extension Vouchers, Form 5471 and 8865 for various US Companies in Go System and One Source. ● Develop and/or match appropriate support schedules or calculations for all items on prepared returns and develop the appropriate tax support files for each return. ● Clearing e-file diagnostics on the returns in Go System and One Source. ● Updating assets in FAS, One Source, or Go System as required by the client, so as to calculate the Depreciation as per Tax. ● Training and helping newly hired professionals at work. Achievements ● Promoted to Advanced Analyst - October 2010 ● Received numerous ‘Extra Miler’ awards for extra effort in projects, for A ssisting other colleagues, and for being flexible to meet project requirements and topping the team in utilization. ● Trained and assisted new hires in projects, and was part of the teaching program that revised the technical concepts with the entire team. ● Earned extra credits in various topics and attended various classes as we were required to update our accounting knowledge in tax ● US managers repeatedly assigned projects to me as they were satisfied with my previous results Show less



Infosys BPM

• India
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Process Executive

  • Jun 2008 - Dec 2009

  Responsibilities ● Worked in the AP (Accounts Payable) Team for a UK Client. ● Verify invoices information against purchase orders, Identify errors or discrepancies and resolve it before processing and process them in accordance with policies and procedures. ● Deal with vendor queries via mail/phone and resolve them ● Responsible for Posting P.O. Based, Non P.O Based, and Manual P.O Based Invoices in SAP after 2 way matching, and Auditing and processing Travel and Expense (T&E) Claims – Posting the audited T&E claims in SAP, and ensuring that they are paid soon. ● Pulling reports from SAP to check the quality of Invoices posted, and to identify duplicate invoices and reversing duplicate invoices posted in SAP, so as to avoid duplicate payments. ● Ensure that prepayments made to suppliers are followed up and appropriately cleared in the system. ● Training new joiners. Achievements ● Constantly certified for being appreciated by customers for excellent service. ● Maintained a steady rank in performance. Show less