Project Process

Aruna Kumari Govindaswamy Shanmugam

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Apartment 8 1C

Phone: 713-***-**** (Husband’s number)

Email: **************@*****.***

Job Objective

A certified Finance Professional seeking opportunity in the area of financial planning, analysis and General

Ledger.

I have 10 years of experience in Service Industry in different roles in F&A vertical like Operations, FP&A, Revenue

Recognition and in Transition and migration projects before shifting to the US post wedding in Feb 2012. Pocess a valid

EAD.

Professional Synopsis

A competent professional with over 10 years of cross functional experience in the areas of Operations for

Budgeting & Forecasting, Variance Analysis, Reconciliations (BSR, GL recon, Control and Clearing account

reconciliation), Software Revenue Recognition, Trade inventory and Trade Expense vendor payables, Credit

Analyst,.

Creating chart of accounts, journal entires, assisting in audit both internal and external.

Consolidation of financial reports and overall analysis

Last job held was with Accenture Pvt. Ltd. Banglore.

Experience in working on ERP modules SAP, Oracle Hyperion, Cognos & PeopleSoft.

Good with Access, Excel (macros, pivots), Powerpoint and Word applications

Areas of Expertise

Lead :

Accenture, Bangalore ( Sep 2011 Jan 2012)

Specialist for Client Finance Management, which involved contract management for finance companies handled by

US based third party client.

Responsible for a team of 8 – reporting, career pathing and deliverable management.

IBM Daksh Business Process Services, Bangalore (Aug 2006 to Sepr 2011)

Lead the Transition for F&A projects of IBM Daksh Business services Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore

Onshore Transition of Clearing Centre, Spend Analysis, Order Revenue compliance and Software Revenue

recognition.

Software Revenue Recognition process ( Third Party Client of IBM) Green dollar project of IBM. Geo

Supported – North America, EMEA, APAC. The process involves revenue recognition and Forecasting

based on US GAAP guidelines. This is the interesting stint with the process Software Revenue Recognition,

now stabilized and handled without escalations. Received many client appreciations for this complex process.

Industry supported – Semiconductor Capital equipment supply.

Spend Analysis Project IBM ( Geo Nordics ). Involved travel to Denmark and Sweden to Transition of

Spend Analysis process for Nordic regions. Providing exposure to CFO reporting on Budgeting, Target,

Variance analysis, root cause analysis for deviation from Budgets and Control points to be established to stay

within the established limits.

Accounts Payable Project for Honeywell – Onsite transition of Vendor Payable project from ANZ location to

global delivery centre at HP Bangalore

Honeywell Industries Pvt Ltd (Dec 2003 to Dec 2005)

Senior Business Process Executive

Remote transition involving evaluating credit risk, making recommendations on and/or setting temporary credit

limits on new accounts and following an established procedure on collections.

Working closely with site sales, marketing organizations and Corporate Treasury to structure financing alternatives

for customers requiring special financing.

Ensuring past due and collection metrics are achieved on a portfolio of accounts .

Hewlett Packard (Aug 2001 to Dec 2003)

Processor and Superuser

Part of transition team responsible for migration for ANZ F&A Onsite operations to the Bangalore Delivery

center for Vendor Payables.

Designated as Process Lead (super user) and was responsible for introducing, maintaining process controls,

Knowledge Cascade. I also initiated quality processes to ensure Payment on Time and Payment right First time

concept, which improved the precision rate by 80%.

I was instrumental in changing the method of metrics followed at the client’s end during transition.

Payment right First time concept, which improved the precision rate by 80%.

I was instrumental in changing the method of metrics followed at the client’s end during transition.

Achievements & R&R

“Thank you” awards and appreciations for improvising process with new ideas implementing excel formulae and

macros.

Completed two Yellow belt projects on reducing errors, while improving accuracy. Currently working on a green

belt project.

"Individual Championship" for seamless transition of the End to End Clearing Center process also appreciated by

PE and VP Finance Transformation.

Education

MS (Finance) from ICFAI University (Diploma Level) equivalent MBA Finance.

Currently pursuing Advanced Diploma in MS Finance.

Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) from St.Josephs College of Commerce, Bangalore University. Passed with

Distinction

Pre University from BHS, Bangalore. Secured aggregate of 89%

One year PGDA course from Aptech Computers.

Aruna Kumari G S

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