Sakshi Gupta

P&L Management

• Managed month, quarter, and fiscal year -end close process including detailed analysis of P&L preparation of journal entries, reconciliations with accurate & timely reporting of financial decks.
• Streamlined month end process.

Budgeting & Forecasting

• Handled one of the biggest contract of organization which included monthly submissions of outlook & budget, providing detailed variance analysis of actual vs budget along with commentaries needs to submit to senior management for financial decks.
• Consolidation of decks (budget submission and commentaries) on vertical level and presenting to senior leadership.
• Preparation of long-term Budget plan for 5 years and highlighting key insights & risks leading factors Implement best practices in forecasting methodologies resulting in improved accuracy.

Stakeholder Management

• Worked with cross functional teams (commercial, GL, billing, operations) to align on business objectives and help in long & short terms strategy and financial accuracy.
• Regular presentation to client director, Senior finance business partner related to monthly outlook numbers inclusion risk & ops associated to it.
• Handling 10+ Stakeholder for different contract at a time of different Geographies and different verticals.

Audit, working capital regulatory compliance and other achievements

• Collaborated with auditors during annual financial audits, ensuring smooth audit process (mostly big 4's).
• Handling of Change management process through various stakeholders for managing additional requirements beyond the scope.
• Functional Assistance in generating Regulatory & SOX reports for compliance.
• Negotiated favourable payment terms with suppliers improving cash position & reducing financing costs.
• Managed working capital, including accounts receivable, accounts payable, inventory to optimize cash flow and conducted in depth analysis of balance sheet, identifying opportunity to improve liquidity and reduce costs.
• Single handedly managed one of the biggest contract of 100+million.
• Led the project for standardization of practices across organization.

Business Analysis and Leadership:

• Requirements Gathering for various contracts, project managers, internal & external stakeholders to create requirement documents (BRD).
• Working with Financial stakeholders for their system related requirements on business planning activities, Budgeting, for casting and P&L analysis.
• Leading the project to Implement best practices in forecasting methodologies resulting in improved accuracy (SAP implementation.)
• Functional support in IT projects implementation, UAT and other phases of the project.

• Lead team of 7 people to performed analytical review on all formats of reporting with focus on trend analysis and ratio maintenance for computing variance of expenses of Current vs Actuals.
• Valuation of inventory as per US GAAP
• Provision computation of inventory on the basis of NRV and age based methods.
• Computation and building inventory against purchases and accounting for COGS against sales.
• Reconciliation & Reporting of Actual physical inventory with financials. Providing weekly MIS for Inventory Hygiene control measures like Not found and count pendency and reporting of inventory ratios every month to higher management.
• Validating and closing FA module each month and providing the schedules as per the audit requirements.
• Reconciliation of FAR with financials and closure of end to end physical verification of assets.
• Handling of GST Registrations, GST Returns, Direct Tax compliance.

• Direct & Indirect Taxation (Income Tax & GST) Compliance for clients.

• Lead team of 5 people to handle operations of Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Fixed Assets, General Ledger (GL), Financial Analysis.
• Played business analyst role to give requirements on GST implementation into IT system.

• Handled a team of 3 people.
• Handled the first audit (Statutory and Internal) carried by Big 4 for various functions.
• Implementation of the internal controls matrix and preparations of Risk Control Matrix (RCM), Internal Financial Control over Financial Reporting (IFCR) and SOP (Standard Operating Procedures).
• MIS reports for vendor ageing and provide analytical view of the outstanding balances.
• IFRS Implementation.

• SOX Compliance, Budgeting, Forecasting, P&L Reporting.

• Planned and executed accounting audits to validate records and systems for compliance.
• Interpreted financial statements, account records and detailed numerical data to make accurate audit assessments.
• Handled diverse client portfolio work, establishing goals and supporting achievement to deadline.