PRIYA GUPTA, CPA, CA

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PROFILE SUMMARY

Finance professional with 12 years of comprehensive experience in budget finalization, budget monitoring, forecasting, AP/AR management & process improvement with a focussed goal of forging a successful career around FP&A

Successfully managed the system automation to ensure improve financial and operational efficiency

A dynamic leader believing in collaborative work, effective and prompt communication and building strong relationships across teams and functions in fast-changing environments ORGANISATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Audio Visual Services Canada Corporation (Knows as encore) 2019- Present Encore deals in the event management business in various hotel properties by providing technical assistance in hosting renowned events in virtual, hybrid & in person mode. Senior Manager (FP&A)- Reporting and Cash Management Jan 2022 -Present Accounting Manager Oct 2020-Dec 2021

Financial Consultant July 2019- Oct 2020

Added value by developing the blueprint to automate the payroll posting of 1500 employees while working on below FP&A tasks:

Supporting in finalization & monitoring of annual budget in Anaplan

Responsible to present dashboard to senior leaders on forecasted financial statement & cash flow position.

Performing weekly sales forecast or revenue flash to support decision making

Forecasting 13-week cash position and EBIDTA to cash bridge

Explaining variance to corporate on actual vs. budgeted and actual vs. forecasted financial statements

Leading the payroll accounting and compliance related to Worker compensation, Health Tax etc. of all associated Canadian entities

Providing the continuous guidance and support to junior staff to perform sales commission /3rd party commission calculation as per agreements

Collaborating with HR, Payroll department and government bodies to ensure timely payment, reconciliation, and reporting of payroll levies

Merino industries Limited Nov 2011 – July 2019

Merino Industries Limited is a manufacturer and trader of interior solutions with a wide array of products for homes, offices, commercial and public areas. Another line of business includes CPG and trading of imported products

Budgeting and Auditing Manager Apr 2018 -June 2019 Cost Analyst and Planning Manager Sep 2016-Apr 2018 Manager-Financial Planning & Analysis Aug 2013 - Aug 2016 Accounting Manager Nov 2011- July 2012

Added value to the organisation by providing automated and efficient operational and financial process that was capable to detect fraud, provide improved reporting for business decision making while worked on below areas: - Budget finalization and monitoring: -

Supported the CFO in budget finalisation and periodic budget monitoring of regional, international and CPG market segments while leading a team of six employees

Responsible to perform ratio & variance analysis and to prepare dashboard for senior leaders Risk management, Process improvement and Compliance

Communicating with stakeholders to understand operational and reporting challenges and identifying opportunities to improve business processes to ensure adequate operational & financial control

Designing and implementing end to end process (including SOPs, KPIs, reporting) to ensure efficiency, and effectiveness of processes

Performing sensitivity analysis, monetary impact analyses, and scenario testing to monitor and evaluate the financial performance for proposed strategies and ongoing key initiatives

Providing input to internal and external consultant to automate processes

Ensuring Labour and other related law compliance for temporary employees/contractors

Validating Letter of credit documentation and bank guarantee terms in line with company interest Supply chain Management & Inventory management

Performed the analysis of import data to gain competitive insights, to deal with international supplier to get competitive rates & to decide the consumer pricing

Forecasted the demand to import material while maintaining the inventory turnover ratio

Finalization of logistic agreement with express service provider like DHL, GATI, Fedex, Safe Express

Negotiating with labour contractor to get a competitive rate. Costing and pricing

Worked on product costing to decide price of the product in domestic and international market

Designed the scheme for clearance of slow moving or non-moving stock AP/AR Management

Managed AR/AP team to ensure timely collection, payment, reconciliation & claim settlement

Responsible to review of credit terms granted to the CPG segment customers.

Evaluated the legal validity of agreements with distributors in consultation with the legal department

Responsible for cash flow forecasting and to report notional interest burden due to working capital blockage Finalization of accounts

Leaded a team of three employees in full accounting cycle & closing process

Responsible to prepare the financial statement as per GAAP

Responsible to perform third-Party commission calculation in compliance with the agreement

Responsible to prepare schedules and working papers to support the year end audit PROJECTS

Automation of payroll posting by developing integration table between ORACLE and SAP

Implemented project profitability analysis model, thereby Increasing overall profit by 5%

Successfully implemented O2C manual designed in consultation with external consultants

Provided the blueprint and support to IT developer to customize an ERP module to automate stakeholder variable pay out calculation

Successfully automated consumer goods scheme approval mechanism ACADEMICS

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Chartered Profession Accountant -AICPA (In progress) Chartered Professional Accountant – CPA Ontario, Canada Diploma in IFRS- ACCA, UK

Chartered Accountant – ICAI, India

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Master of Commerce – 2012, Indira Gandhi National Open University, India Bachelor of Commerce – 2010, Delhi University, India TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY

Proficient in working on ERP Infor, SAP, Microsoft Dynamic, UltiPro BI, Kronos, Compass, Sales force

Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) CORE COMPETENCIES

• Budgeting • Forecasting • Project profitability management •System automation •Inventory management •AP/AR management •Payroll accounting• Internal audit • Business process improvement • Data analytics •Financial reporting • Stakeholder management • Team management • SOP development

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