Shilpa Sharma
Contact No: 512-***-****
Senior Accountant
**********@*****.***
OBJECTIVE:
"Seeking a challenging role in business analyzing that may involve client
interfacing and facilitate me to provide the best to the esteemed
organization and also gain knowledge in the due course."
Summary:
Over 4 years of experience as a Senior Accountant in Finance and
Accounting domain including but not limited to:
. Business Research
. Testing and Evaluation
. Investment Research
. Accounts Payable
. Business Development
. Accounts Receivable
. General Ledger
. Payroll
. Order Management
. Auditing
Proven ability to work on databases, software / tools like:
. OEMS
. Wide Orbit
. CompuSoft
. PeachTree
. Intuit Payroll
. PeopleSoft
Ability to handle multiple clients, internal stakeholders and yet deliver
high quality output within stipulated timeframe (TAT) and process
framework (SLA - Service Level Agreements) as required by the clients'
SOP (Standard Operating Procedure).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
GenNx 360 India Advisors PVT LTD, Gurgaon
May 2011 - May 2012
Role: Senior Accountant- Finance & Administration
About GenNx 360 Capital Partners: www.gennx360.com is a private
equity 3.0 firm and industrial B2B companies in the middle market in
US. It deals in buying, operating, selling and managing risk of
portfolio companies. It has a strong footprint in US markets and
believes in SFR (Self funded reinvestment) methodology that touches
each core business function, achieving dramatic cost reductions and
efficiencies growth and enterprise value by reinvesting freed-up
capital.
Job Responsibilities:
. Plan and execute management audits to identify internal control
weaknesses and report to the Senior Business Analyst.
. Support management with audit and testing plans; draft initial
testing scope.
. Contribute to the development and maintenance of audit and
testing plans.
. Conduct testing such as tests for detailed activities and
transactions.
. Assist in evaluating the controls put in place and identify
control gaps.
. Document and maintain supporting information to present and
discuss findings.
. Exploring opportunities for maximizing investment yield and
deliver cost saving.
. Banking: Downloading, Checking & Reconciling Bank Statement,
Updating Peachtree with the Bank Entries, preparation of Money
Transfer files, Wires and Scheduling of ACH Payments in Broadway
Federal.
. Payroll: Running Pay-cycle for Payroll Processing, Preparing
Payroll for the Employees and Draw-details for Partners, Payment
of Monthly & Quarterly Payroll Taxes, Filing of State & Federal
Payroll Tax Returns.
. Accounts Payables: Processing of Payable Invoices Payments for
the Vendors, Reconciliation of Accounts Payable, AMEX Statements
and of Unclaimed Expenses of Partners.
. Accounts Receivables: Updating of Receivables from Portfolio
Company (Acquired Businesses), CARP, Updating of Deal-Cost
Tracker.
. Reporting: Reporting and Review of Projected Cash Flow(FASB),
Reporting of Financial Statements (Partially) to the General
Partners as per the GAAP, Reporting of Deal Cost to Chief
Auditor, Reporting of Budget Variance.
. Reconciliation: Annually, monthly and quarterly reconciliation
with various ledgers (Cash A/c, Salary Account etc.) and shadow
system. Preparation of various monthly, quarterly and yearly
financials schedules. Review the 1099- MISC forms you received
from each company for accuracy.
. Preparing Revenue Analysis Reports in Peachtree along with
analysis of historical revenue reports with commentary.
. Preparing MIS reports based on due diligence expenses analysis
for suggesting and ensuring corrective action on Expenses
Incurred, Preparation of SLA trackers, making use of
spreadsheets and different statistical software to analyze the
facts of the revenue reports.
. Conducting Calibration study to ensure sharing of knowledge
among all team members.
. Investment Research for private equity business.
. Creation of equity research reports and investment summaries.
. Financial research primarily using Google finance.
Platforms/Tools worked upon/with:
. "Peachtree" - Used for updating and closing of daily and month-
end Journal Entries / General Ledger.
. "Intuit Payroll" - Used for Running payroll and calculation of
taxable income as per federal laws.
. "MS Office 2007" - Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
2007.
INFOSYS BPO LTD, Jaipur
Sep 2009 - Dec 2010
Role: Process Executive- F&A and Order Management (Sep '09)
About the Organization: Infosys BPO Limited (www.infosysbpo.com ) is
an end to end business process outsourcing service provider and is a
subsidiary of Infosys Technologies Ltd., (NASDAQ: INFY). With 12
global delivery centers, the company has strong footprints in the
Americas, APAC, Australia and Europe. The company has a workforce of
over 18,000 employees and revenues of $352.1 million as of March 31,
2011.
About the Client: A diverse media concern with interests in newspaper
publishing, broadcast television stations, and licensing and
syndication. The company has presence in 14 markets in the United
States and has equal number of community newspapers and 10
broadcasting stations. With pro-forma revenue of about USD 800
million in 2009, the company has close to 5000 strong workforce spread
across the U.S.
Job Responsibilities:
. Reconciliation and cash application
. Discount / Campaign Management
. Conducting quality audit among peer group; identifying risks and
mitigants .
. Preparing productivity report on a weekly and monthly basis
. Timely completion of Assignments within deadlines (TAT) by
coordinating with various team members.
. Working on Applications of billing software (OEMS) to reduce
cycle time for billing & collections.
. Accountable for resolving and responding to client queries.
. Mentoring the new resources including day to day performance,
analyzing their quality of work, guiding & motivating the team
to achieve quality and productivity targets.
. Building up the weekly Dashboards and Handling Client calls.
. Leading Team Huddles to discuss the progress of process on daily
basis.
Major Achievements:
. Improvement in Management of Receivables: Provided the
management with detailed information about the invoices to
inculcate discipline in routine accounting for revenues,
receivables & collections etc. Implemented and managed a
complete reconciliation between Client's records & Infosys E-
records that was not performed since the last four years.
. Internal Audit & Implementation function: Conducted an Audit of
different business processes and provided recommendations to
Senior Management to improve business processes and related
internal controls. This reduced the Turn Around Time (TAT) by
40%.
. Assessed the Service Quality Plan for the engagement on special
request and provided detailed feedback to the management, and
this reduced the frequency of errors by 33%.
Platforms/Tools worked upon/with:
. "OEMS" - (Operational Excellence Management System). An in-house
proprietary solution of Infosys BPO to facilitate workflow and
facilitate hands-on real-time management between Client and
Infosys Operations team. The solution also provides real time
reporting, visibility, TAT management to end users of both,
Client and Infosys.
. "Wide Orbit" - A backend F&A management system of client. This
system is used to execute the required deliverables mentioned
earlier.
. MS Office 2007/2010 - Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and
Outlook 2007.
SHANKAR LAL SHARMA & CO, Jaipur (Income Tax & Sales Tax Firm)
Jan 2006 - Jan 2008
Role: Accounts Executive
Job responsibilities:
. Reconciling bank statements, coding and entering accounts
payable, preparing payments (checks) for signature, invoicing,
managing accounts receivable and/or customer account
collections, inventory control.
. Maintenance and Issue of petty cash.
. Recording of Daily expenses in Journal (Journal entry).
. Preparation of Client Challan-Sheet, Maintenance of Accounts
Receivables / Payables.
. Filling E-return by using Compusoft program.
. Financial Auditing: Tracking of Capital Receipt and Expenditure,
Revenue Receipt and Expenditure.
. Quarter - End Activities: "Closing" activities, Analysis and
Recording of transactions in a Journal.
. Prepare various reports surrounding the metrics of the
department.
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:
. MIB - Master in International Business, 2009, Rajasthan University,
India.
. MBA- Master in Business Administration, 2009, GJ University, India.
. B.Com-Bachelor in Commerce, 2006, MDS University, India.