Vishal Patel

C: 848-***-****

Email: ad3dux@r.postjobfree.com

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Database Management

Financial Reporting

Payroll Processing

General Ledger Reconciliation

Multi-lingual

Financial Analysis

Auditing

Budgeting

Data Entry

Document Preparation

File/Office Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Novo Nordisk, Princeton, NJ April 2023 - Present

Finance Manager

Prepared monthly financial reports and related analyses.

Invoice & vendor management: Setting up new vendors in the accounts payable system, processing invoices for the legal operations, creating purchase orders, working with accounts payable on troubleshooting any payment issues

Making sure all contracts are in place for law firms and vendors

Manage monthly accruals and reclasses when needed for assigned cost centers

Working with legal team budget owners to ensure their spending is in line with budget/outlook, updating forecast for cost centers monthly

Partner with Novo Nordisk North Amercia Finance, and Legal departments on behalf of finance and operational matters

Provides input in financial planning process, creating and maintaining financial models.

Supports senior analysts with comprehensive research and analysis.

Studies and recommends ways to automate or improve current financial reporting processes.

Assists with department expense and capital budgeting, tracking, reporting, month end, and quarter close expenses and costs.

Ensures monthly closing are completed in a timely and accurate manner.

Prepares ad hoc analyses and presentations as needed.

Closely work with the commercial team to understand the market dynamics & impact on top line

Track sales by product as well as customers. Keep track of budget & communicate any forecast deviations to management.

Coordinated accounting matters with other departments, locations, and divisions.

Resolve purchase/service order (PO) and billing discrepancies for the Service Providers, IT Software, and PC expenses, including maintenance of the PO’s and invoice payment reconciliation across the globe.

Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ October 2022 - March 2023

Finance Manager / Contractor

Supports manager and brand team groups in development of the annual business plan (including responsibility for development of headcount) and periodic financial projections

Analyzes financial data and effectively challenges budget and projection assumptions to ensure that data collections are accurate and appropriate

Supports the monthly and quarterly financial close process (working with brand team members to ensure expenses are appropriately recorded), reviews and reports actual results, focusing on comparison of results to budget, prior projection and prior year with investigation and in-depth understanding of key variances; meets regularly with brand team members to review results.

Understands details and provides concise commentary on key drivers of the variances for each client group to corporate staff reporting team.

Supports other various internal and/or alliance partner finance-oriented reporting and operating processes

Assist business partners with budgeting and forecasting as well as monitoring against actual results.

Work with business partners /leadership to problem solve both business and finance related issues.

Assist leadership with decision making by providing support and financial analysis.

Reporting and monitoring of immunology inventory.

Collaborate with outside distributors / service providers to monitor inventory levels of all key immunology products to ensure compliance with policies.

Share inventory levels with the therapeutic area finance leadership and assist with standard and non-routine analysis / support.

Manage reporting for immunology headquarters.

Participate in the monthly consolidation, reporting and analysis of the immunology’s financial goals and budget needs

Cross-train on multiple tasks to provide critical back-up support. back-up responsibilities include budget restatements; ad-hoc analytical support.

Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ July 2019 - April 2022

IT Finance Analyst / Contractor

Handle month-end, quarter-end and year-end closing activities.

Assist in the creation of month end financial statements and reporting on all monthly financials.

Analyze financial information detailing assets, liabilities, and capital.

Evaluate and implement process and system changes where necessary, which include working with IT and other stakeholder groups

Prepares balance sheet, profit and loss statement, and other reports to summarize current and projected company financial position.

Prepare journal entries, accruals/reclass and variance analysis

Handle the settlement and tie-out process for bi-lateral power activity for a given month

Assist internal and external auditors.

Modify, document, and coordinate the implementation of accounting and accounting control procedures.

Monitors the actual spend of the Service Providers, IT Software, and PC expenditures, which includes Trans actual analytics and journal entry preparation.

Conducted special studies and develops or recommends accounting methods and procedures.

Coordinated accounting matters with other departments, locations, and divisions.

Resolve purchase/service order (PO) and billing discrepancies for the Service Providers, IT Software, and PC expenses, including maintenance of the PO’s and invoice payment reconciliation across the globe.

Assists in maintaining the financial data integrity of the SMDB System.

Provided support in the fixed asset monitoring for both software and hardware.

Supports the IT Portfolio Project Management (PPM) reporting and analysis.

Assist in ad-hoc projects as needed.

NRG, Princeton, NJ March 2017- October 2018

Staff Accountant/ Contractor

Responsible for accounting, reporting and analysis for various coal transactions.

Perform month end close functions and ensures financial statements are in compliance with US GAAP.

Prepare and analyze financial statements and monthly reports.

Conduct initial analysis of financial results and understanding of variances. Support FP&A and Commercial Operations with as-needed analysis.

Handle settlement and tie-out process, including invoicing and issue resolution, with various counterparties for coal transactions.

Prepared balance sheet reconciliations and margin trend analysis.

Responsible for organizing, validating and submitting EIA monthly/annual reports and FERC Electric Quarterly

Participate in financial process improvements, internal and external audits, and special projects.

Advise management on financial impact of alternative commercial business decisions.

Solves complex problems by taking a new perspective to identify solutions.

Work closely with Commercial Operations and Plant Operations to understand various operational issues and related accounting implications.

Interact closely with plant personnel to ensure coal consumption data and coal receipt data is properly reflected in Aligne-Fuels inventory costing system.

Work closely with other accountants as necessary to ensure complete accounting, reporting, and analysis for designated area of responsibility.

Work with other accountants to complete monthly and annual U.S. Department of Energy’s EIA reporting requirements.

Cross-train to support multiple plant locations and various coal processes.

Comply with Sarbanes Oxley Sec. 404 legislation as it relates to the work processes for Fuelworx Accounting and Inventory systems.

Assist in ad-hoc projects as needed.

Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ July 2016 - February 2017

Staff Accountant/ Contractor

Accounting and reporting of fixed assets in the general ledger and sub-ledger.

Prepare financial statement analysis and reconciliations.

Prepare and post monthly journal entries for fixed assets, subsidiaries and inventory valuation.

Monitor and reconcile intercompany transactions.

Ensure maintenance of internal controls within job function.

Assist with preparation for quarterly external and internal audits as needed.

Ad hoc projects and analysis as needed.

Identify and research account discrepancies

Define and post re-class entries as needed

Review general ledger accounts and correct journal entries

Perform accounting analysis, such as, but not limited to, balance sheet accounts, expense and salary accruals, department expense analysis, prepaid and insurance, employee relocations, travel advances, etc.

Assist in performing monthly balance sheet, income statement and changes in financial position/budget variance analysis

Process manual journal entries, validate recurring entries have posted

Bausch Health Companies, Bridgewater, NJ January 2015 - June 2016

Staff Accountant / Contractor

Reviewed all invoices for appropriate documentation and approval prior to payment.

Sort and distribute incoming mail, Audit and process credit card bills.

Prioritize invoices according to cash discount potential and payment terms.

Match invoices to checks, obtain all signatures for checks and distribute checks accordingly.

Respond to all vendor inquiries, research and correct discrepancies.

Maintain files and documentation thoroughly and accurately, in accordance with company policy and accepted accounting practice.

Issues and tracks purchase orders. Maintain accounts payable files and records.

Performs data entry and spreadsheet management. Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Ad hoc projects and analysis as needed.

Prepared income and balance sheet statements, consolidated statements, and various other accounting statements and reports.

Reviewed and verified the accuracy of journal entries and accounting classifications assigned to various records.

Reported the company’s finances to management, offering suggestions about resource utilization, tax strategies, and assumptions underlying budget forecasts.

EDUCATION

Rutgers University/ Rutgers Business School Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems Jan 2014

GPA: 3.4

Minor in Accounting

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Certified in Microsoft Access, Excel (Pivot Tables, Macros, VLookups, HLookups)

Software: SAP, SharePoint, ServiceNow, Hyperion, PeopleSoft, Omni Flow, TurboTax, QuickBooks, Oracle Accounting software, Microsoft Dynamics, Sage 50, Align Fuels, HFM, SOX

References Available Upon Request

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