Sunita Raikar

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Herndon VA 20171 E-mail: acchsp@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• A resourceful and dynamic Finance Analyst / SAP functional consultant with over 6 years extensive experience in

Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Bank Reconciliation.

• Expertise in the business workflow of Payables and Receivables, Intercompany reconciliation.

• Excellent Skills to support strategic planning, goal setting, enhance decision-making, and improve customer

service.

• Confident communicator, written and verbal with good documentation ability.

• Able to prioritize work to achieve deadlines, be adaptable and proactive to resolving problems.

• Expert in formulating business process reengineering within enterprise wide systems.

• Lead a team where work involved tracking and measuring performance against key success criteria, identifying

opportunities for efficiencies via continuous improvement tools like Lean, Kaizen, Focused Improvement, One

Point Lessons (OPL’s) and other CI tools. Assist team members to adhere with audit requirements.

• Proficient in streamlining business processes by recognizing and avoiding bottlenecks, thereby reducing cycle time

and improving system efficiency and employee productivity.

• Excellent Documentation skills using Departmental Procedure Manuals (DPM) for creating detailed functional

specifications.

• Expert in Root Cause Analysis, task prioritization, maintaining healthy customer and supplier relationships.

SAP FICO Expertise:

• Strong Knowledge of accounting principles and financial analysis, experienced in requirements

gathering and a sound understanding of business processes.

Configuration and Customization:

• Organization structure – Company Codes, Chart of Accounts, Business Areas, Controlling Area

• General ledger – Leading and Non Leading ledger, Field Status Groups, GL Accounts, Automatic Account

Determination, Number Ranges and Document types, Intercompany Transactions, Currency configuration

• Accounts Payable – Configuring and Customizing Vendor Master Data, Vendor Groups, Number Ranges,

Vendor Payment, setting up Automatic payment, Payment terms, House Bank, Invoice Processing,

Document Parking, Outgoing payment, Reporting.

• Accounts Receivable – Configuring and customize Customer Master Data, Customer Groups, Number Ranges,

Customer payment, Order to Cash process, Credit Management, Reporting

• House banks, Automatic Payment Program, settings for employee tolerance groups, Partial and Residual

Payment, Credit memo/Dunning.

• Cost Center and Profit Center Accounting – Cost Allocation, Cost Elements, Cost Centers,

• Profit Centers, Standard Hierarchy, Assessments and Distributions

• Month end closing procedures

• Asset Accounting – Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Area, Account Determination.

• Depreciation Posting, Depreciation Calculation, Asset Retirement

• Year end Closing procedure and Reporting

• Integration- Knowledge on integration of SAP FICO with other SAP modules (I.e. MM,SD)

EDUCATION

• Preparing for Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP, USA)

• Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (PGDBA) in General Management (UK)

• Bachelor of Commerce (Mumbai University)

Business Analysis: Business Requirements, Business Process Analysis, Requirement Gathering,

Value Stream Mapping, Continuous Improvement.

ERP : SAP R/3 FICO module (AR, AP, GL, AA), JD Edwards, Coda, Kerridge, Sage Line 50

Operating Systems: Windows 2000, XP and MS-Office, Excel (Worked on Automated Macros, V lookup)

MS Office 2003 (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook), MS Visio.

CAREER HISTORY

General Mills India Ltd, July 2009 to May 2011.

Trade Finance Analyst.

This Project for the Trade Finance team was initiated with a view to streamline the deduction management process related

to Trade Items in the business. This supported the sales team and also supported the overall finance function of the

organization. Project involved configuration and customization of FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AA

In SAP R/3 FICO.

Responsibilities:

• Examine the existing Process for accounts receivables and payables in SAP FICO and Trade payment system.

• Conduct discussions and brain storming sessions to identify gaps in the process.

• Identified, researched, investigated, analyzed, defined and documented business processes using Case Scenarios.

• Analyzed available solutions to improve processing time and method.

• Maintain customer a/c aged trial balance, run month end procedures.

• Deduction management for chargebacks, resolving discrepancies with required research and analysis in

SAP /TPS.

• Assist in implementation of SAP FICO as an ERP.

• A/R & A/P account groups, interest calculation types, interest indicators, accounts for item interest calculations,

check lots, payment terms, and bank determination for all payment transactions, tolerance groups and credit limits

for customers. Defined credit control areas and dunning Areas, configured country/company code specific payment

methods, manual incoming/outgoing payments, open item clearing, credit memos, partial payments, installment

payments, residual payments, claims and disputed payments, reason codes and discounts, account assignment

model for recurring entries.

• Lead a team for 9 team members. This involved tracking and measuring performance against key success

criteria, identifying opportunities for efficiencies via continuous improvement tools like Lean & assist team members

to adhere with audit requirements.

• Also responsible for preparation of Aged Analysis Reports, Pareto Charts to track supplier outstanding on timely

basis.

• Assist Trade Manager on key business projects, priorities and reports as required.

• Assist Trade Manager in monitoring for employee relations issues, maintaining healthy customer and supplier

relationships.

• Basic knowledge of other industries like lending and insurance.

WNS Global Services Ltd, Mumbai, India Oct 2007 to June 2009.

Finance Analyst -A/P

Wns Global Services is one of the largest Business Process Outsourcing Company in India that serves various third party

customers. Worked on Project Avon and was involved in transition of the entire process, restructuring and improvising the

process for accounts payable, receivables and general ledger.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business requirements about the application from the team and converted these into technical

functional requirements for the IT team.

• Intercompany reconciliation, Manage fixed assets database.

• Created detailed workflow diagrams of existing and proposed systems (As is and To Be, DPM).

• Created process flow diagrams using Visio.

• Conducted project related presentations.

• Verified and handled payables accurately and timely on CODA and JD Edwards.

• Credit card payments, run month end procedures.

• Preparing MIS as per available data assist team requirements.

Eurocarparts Ltd, London, UK, Aug 2006 – Aug 2007

Cash & Bank Accountant.

Eurocarparts is the UK’s leading distributor of parts for all makes of cars and light commercial vehicles. Job involved

liasioning with the purchase team, suppliers. Purchase, sales ledger scrutiny was involved. It also included working in

Treasury Department as a Cash and Bank Accountant where branch cash reconciliation was major responsibility.

Responsibilities:

• Optimize the integrity of the Purchase Ledger and related Financial Reporting systems on KERRIDGE

accounting software.

• Obtaining correct authorization and nominal ledger coding of invoices.

• Prompt and Accurate Supplier payments in accordance with agreed payment terms.

• Tracking and chasing supplier related queries.

• Branch Banking Reconciliation, keeping records for all accounts.

• Final month end reconciliations for each branch.

• Assisting the tax manager for payment of all taxes.

R.Chandra Gems Ltd, London, UK, Nov 2005 – Aug 2006

Accounts Assistant.

Industry was related to Jewellery and diamond distribution. Work included overall assistance in all accountancy functions.

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining Company Accounts on SAGE LINE 50.

• Maintaining Purchase Ledger, Sales Ledger, and Bank Reconciliation for GBP and USD accounts.

• Dealing with foreign exchange transactions.

• Stock Control, Petty Cash analysis.

• Generating Reports for Customer Outstanding, Supplier Outstanding, in SAGE LINE 50.

Fact Personnel Ltd, Mumbai, India, Oct 2003 – Aug 2005

HR Consultant.

Industry is a recruitment firm in Mumbai active in all types of recruitment. Worked in the finance and Legal recruitment

section to ensure candidature was made available to companies that the consultancy had tie-ups with and follow up on

interview and selection further.

Responsibilities:

• Short listing, Screening and Scanning and matching Candidate CV’s to available jobs for company review

• Arranging candidate interviews.

• Managing client and candidate database, assisting with candidate salary negotiations.

EFunds Intl.Ltd, Mumbai, India, Nov 2002 – Sept 2003

Team Member.

Industry falls into the Business Process Outsourcing sector in India. Job involved attending to inbound sales calls and

achieve compliance.

Responsibilities:

• Attending to inbound customer calls from US and UK.

• Meeting Compliance to achieve targets.

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