Senior Accountant

Vyju Sugan

Email: *****@*******.*** Phone: 650-***-****

Objective

To pursue a challenging and successful career as a senior accountant that applies my acquired skills and knowledge to maximize the value to the organization

Professional Summary

A highly motivated and result oriented CPA with 8+ years of experience both in USA and in India. Well versed in MS Office 2007, Oracle 11i, Business Objects and other accounting software. Very detailed and result oriented with problem solving skills, can work well under pressure both individually and in a group to meet deadlines.

Experience

Google Inc Mountain View, California March’2011-June’2011

Contractor under Maripet Macabantad

• Assisted the Cash Management Manager in preparing reconciliation analysis for 100+ cash accounts under her control.

• Helped in the reconciliation analysis of 1500+ line time in the main cash concentration account for the north- American operations and reduced it to a 100 items in 1month.

• Worked diligently to perform reconciliations within the close of the month/quarter to book entries where required and reduce the number of reconciling items for the month/quarter end.

• Prepared a spreadsheet for identifying the aging analysis for the reconciling items across 100+ bank accounts. Also tried to work with cross departments to see if details could be available to book entries in atypical cases. This helped in assisting my manager to determine the key areas to be concentrated upon and work towards solving reconciling items in a very efficient manner.

VeriFone Inc--San Jose, California July’09 –Feb’2011

Senior Accountant

• Managed the Prepaid expenses and Current liabilities including the monthly and quarterly accruals for the entire North America operations.

• Prepared quarterly flux analysis and monthly reconciliations for all the US prepaid accounts and current Liabilities accounts.

• Prepared quarter and year end SEC schedules for financial reporting.

• Performed month end closing for different modules in Oracle 11i. This includes AP, AR, Inventory, Purchasing, and GL. This includes running various reports and process to close the sub ledgers and GL.

• Managed, reviewed and analyzed the inventory and non- inventory accruals for the US and Canada operations and reconciled the balances between the sub ledger and GL. This included working alongside with the supply chain group and the AP group to help in determining the PO’s to write off and the PO’s to close in compliance with SOX.

• Prepared the fixed assets and leased assets roll forward for the entire company for the last three quarters. This included 50 subsidiaries and branches for VeriFone Inc

• Worked on revamping the entire payroll accounting process and have come up with a very comprehensive method of payroll accounting whereby the manual entries has been reduced and system based entries and reports have been generated. The new system has also been designed to help the finance department with their budgeting and reporting.

• Trained a staff accountant on the payroll process including preparation of JV’s, Payroll liability accounts reconciliation and payroll cash reconciliation through cash management system in Oracle.

• Managed the accounts for Canadian operations including the Intercompany receivable and payable with different entities within VeriFone and Canada. This included raising invoices on other entities, paying IC invoices and netting of IC transactions keeping in view the exchange rates.

Ciritech Systems Inc (a start up promoting WiMax technology) ---Milpitas, California Feb ’08 – May ‘09

Consultant

• Prepared financial statements-Balance Sheet, P&L. budgets, tracked expenses for MIS reporting purposes.

• Single point of contact for the external auditors for finalizing the financial statements and with various regulatory agencies for compliance with local laws and regulations.

• Prepared several ad-hoc management reports to assist management in determining cash burn rate, cash and funding requirements analysis for investors.

• Substantially reduced cash outflow by 75% to major foreign vendors by successful financial control and accounting organization while maintaining excellent relationship with clients and without any interruption in operations.

Various Contracts

Santa Clara county office of Education May’09-June’09

GE Power Controls, Bangalore, India Oct ’99 – Nov ’99

Philips Middle East & Africa, Dubai, UAE. July ’99 – Oct ’99

Venkat Associates, Regional Public Accounting and Consulting firm Chennai, India Jul ’95 – Jan ’99

Sarvottam and Co., Regional Public Accounting and Consulting firm Chennai, India Aug ’94 - Jun ’95

Senior Consultant

Worked in various domains with clients including GE Lighting India, Synopsys India, and other Blue Chip Indian companies such as Kothari Petrochemicals, Kothari Sugars and Chemicals, Escorts Finance Ltd, CEAT Financial Services, Investment Trust of India and Real Image P. Ltd.

• Managed the entire financial accounting functions including receivables and control of branch spending.

• Audited the merger accounting.

• Conducted investigative audit of the auto loan operations for determining the trends of auto loan defaults.

• Conducted project capitalization audit. Involved in study of the economic feasibility of seven projects and the analysis of frequency of payments, expected return from the project and cash flows.

Systems experience

• Tools: • Oracle 11i,SAP, QuickBooks, Business Objects and MS Office 2007

Education

• CPA- Passed the Certified Public Accountant examination

• ACA- Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Chartered Accountant Program. (Equivalent of C.P.A)

• Bachelor of Accounting-University of Madras, Chennai, India.

Awards

Awarded a Performance Bonus by Synopsys India for completing the audit within a stringent time frame.

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