Financial Analyst Risk Management

Vaishnavi K

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaishnavi-kanumuri-91146b191/ Senior Audit Specialist/ Senior Financial analyst with an MBA in Finance and Analytics and 8+ years’ experience in financial analysis, auditing, risk management, and financial reporting. Skilled in financial modelling, forecasting, budgeting, and internal controls analysis. Proficient in US GAAP, SOX compliance, SEC reporting, and various financial tools, including SAP, SQL, Tableau, and Excel (Advanced). Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive operational efficiency and data-driven decision-making. CPA candidate with a strong passion for financial strategy and business optimization.

Core Skills & Competencies

• Financial Auditing & Reporting (US GAAP, SOX Compliance)

• Risk Management & Internal Controls

• Financial Data Analysis & Forecasting, Financial modelling.

• Microsoft Office (Advanced Excel, Access, PowerPoint)

• Advanced excel, SQL, SAP, SAP/HANA, Tableau, IDEA, Tally ERP

• Audit Board, IDEA, Voyager, TBeam, SharePoint

• SEC Reporting, 10-K and 10-Q Filings

• Wealth & Asset Management, Portfolio Analysis, Budgeting and variance analysis.

• Public & Private Accounting

• Process Improvement & SOP Development

• Stakeholder Communication & Team Leadership

Professional Experience

Client: Grant Thornton LLP, India (Aug 2024 – Nov 2024) Role: Senior Audit Associate

Completed 10+ audit engagements and contributed to the implementation of Leading Effective Audit Practice methodology.

• Managed multiple client portfolios, ensuring quality deliverables within deadlines.

• Reviewed and verified financial statements, intercompany tie-outs, and SEC filings.

• Led control testing walkthroughs, documented control procedures, and performed risk analysis.

• Assisted with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), including walkthroughs of the client’s various processes, testing the design, implementation and operating effectiveness of internal controls, evaluating the results, and remediating any deficiencies.

• Trained and Guided interns and associates through the process and helping them to meet relevant deadlines.

• Conducted audits on Oracle HCM, ERP, and cloud applications, identifying security vulnerabilities.

• Led the teams to handle pilot public clients in conducting quarterly and year end audits.

• Creation of engagement profile, updating financial statement amounts, mapping of accounts to processes, running MUS sampling to generate sample size and details, and updating internal controls.

• Participated in the annual Risk Assessment process, including scheduling and participation in meetings with partners, and the scoring and documentation of risk ratings.

• Developed audit plans and tailored procedures in methodology tool, in coordination and consultation with the engagement managers and partners.

• Performed analysis using large data from Excel, Tbeam and SQL servers.

• Reviewed and executed financial statements, line items individual workpapers, face of financials and reconciling balance sheets and P and L accounts.

• Analyzed corporate rollup of balance sheet and income statement fluctuations and obtaining the reasonings from the client to support the movements.

• Performed final quality reviews of financial statements reporting under US GAAP.

• Processed monthly draw submissions and the disbursements to contractors and suppliers

• Assisted with the development of global Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), workflows INDUSTRIES HANDLED

• SEC Listed Holding Companies

• E-Commerce

• Real Estate

• Commercial

• Not for profit organizations

• Manufacturing

• Stockbrokerage

• Food and Services

Client: Grant Thornton LLP, India

Role: Audit associate 2, (Nov 2020 – Aug 2024)

• Handling of data analytics and analysis of Journal details and trial balance details of various US clients.

• Executed year-end audits for public and private clients across various industries.

• Performed Cash, AP SFUL, JE Completeness, revenue, PPE, inventory, and AR testing for diverse sectors.

• Assisted in 10-K and 10-Q filings, SOX compliance walkthroughs, and journal entry analysis.

• Utilized IDEA tool for sample creation and reconciliation of financial transactions.

• Executed all phases of the audit process including planning, reporting, engagement management, substantive testing for all sections, financial analysis, review and analysis of internal control compliance and presentation of audit findings to management.

• Verified interim and final financial statements by performing internal and external tie outs for both public and private companies.

• Creation of engagement profile, updating financial statement amounts, mapping of accounts to processes, running MUS sampling to generate sample size and details, and updating controls.

• Lead assistant to the senior for the preparation and review 10-K and 10-Q filings for various clients in a variety of industries.

• Reconciled the AR aging details and performed AR testing’s creating samples using IDEA tool along with control documentation and What can go wrong analysis.

• Performing audit for monthly close accounts to detect frauds.

• Contributed to the development and training of assistants and interns by acting as a liaison between the staff and the seniors.

Company: Cognizant technology solutions

Role: Senior financial analyst/ SPE (Nov 2015- March 2018).

• 3.3 years of experience in Banking and Financial services. Driven as Subject Matter Expert with leadership, motivational skills, problem solver and Auditing and Quality.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Drafting Standard Operating Procedures in line with Client operations, requirements and Compliance rules.

• Developed financial models to support business planning and investment decisions.

• Prepared and analyzed budgets, forecasts, and variance reports.

• Conducted cost-benefit analysis for new business initiatives.

• Identified and implemented process improvements in reporting, forecasting, and budgeting activities through automation and system enhancements.

• Developed and presented comprehensive financial reporting packages for senior management, including variance analysis, key performance indicators (KPIs), and ad-hoc financial models

• Analyzed financial statements, profit & loss accounts, and balance sheets and Provided monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports.

• Ensured compliance with US GAAP, IFRS, and internal financial policies.

• Undertaking rapport-building activities with the clients and conveying their valuable feedback for better decision making to the Management.

• Attended to the daily management / onshore conference Calls with investors and cascading the information to the rest of the team.

• Deployed training for new joiners and conducting accreditations for measuring their performance.

• Ensured Effective inventory management through queue management & Workflow management.

• Prepared the job aid for the process with all the latest updates and made the job aid/update tracker. available in share point for quick reference for all the associates.

• Partner with business owners in improving business processes & document all changes for future references.

• Flag out all unscheduled down time scenarios on time to track loss of production & report out to all investors and internal clients.

• Monitored transactions of more than 40 associates and provided relevant feedback on time.

• QC - Error Categorization for the defects, QC analysis report, QC dash boards are updated daily and monthly basis.

• Prepared Root Cause Analysis (RCA) on the breaks/fails and suggesting necessary measures to avoid their occurrences.

• Performed side by side with the low performers and helped improvising their production and quality, Certify the new associates.

• Prepared update trackers for the process and teams, All the updates received from investors were tracked and cascaded to the team on regular basis. Company: Logik Minds

Role: Financial analyst (Nov 2014- Oct 2015)

• Analyzed and interpreted financial results, operational costs and forecasts (P&L Impacts)

• Provide budgeting and forecasting guidance to enhance financial efficiency.

• Analyzed financial data and produced monthly reports, including key metrics and financial results.

• Conducted risk analysis and recommend strategies to mitigate financial risks.

• Assisted in cost-benefit analysis for new projects and business expansions. Certifications:

• Completed certification course of Harvard Business School in Basics of Accounting, Business Communication, Finance, Mathematics, Spread Sheet Modelling, and Quantitative techniques in Management.

• Certified in ITT (Information technology course under ICAI) and Orientation Program (ICAI).

• Certified in course of introduction to derivatives from CFI (corporate finance institute).

• Certified in Financial Risk Management under EY CAFTA.

• Certified in Capital Investment: Risk Analysis in Capital Budgeting from Becker.

• Recognized with certificate of achievement for exceptional performances, Spotlight and Opel /unicorn awards, Achieved gold medal in B-COM.

• Achieved pat on back awards and High performer for the best performance in Grant Thornton.

• Achieved third place in Dalal street simulation stock market challenge. Academic Qualification:

• MBA (Finance and analytics), IFIM Business School (Currently JAGSOM) Bangaluru, INDIA– CGPA 6.21/10.00.

• Qualified CPT (CA Common Proficiency test) and IPCC (Chartered Accountant) (Group 1)

• B. Com, Royal degree College – May 2014, Osmania university, INDIA– 74 %

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