Shiju Samuel
Thane
Summary
Expertise in the Accounting domain with an overall experience of more than 16 years across finance verticals like Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, and Record to report across diverse industries such as Manufacturing, Retail, FMCG, Pharma, Music & Internet.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Manager - F. & A.
AERIES TECHNOLOGY GROUP PRIVATE LIMITED
07.2019 - Current
- Solution Design and transition management for new clients
- Maintained effective Service Level Agreements (SLAs) & Contract Parameters and reported the same to stakeholders
- Ensured continuous improvements by benchmarking the best-shared practices
- Led the transition and stabilization of the GL Accounting and Accounts Receivable process for a North American client
- Transition of chargeback dispute resolution to ATG Mumbai
- Monitoring team deliverables and leading process improvements projects
- Analysis and reporting of Weekly Aged AR balances along with commentary on collections and trend analysis
- Deferred Revenue reconciliation and Revenue Recognition
Financial Acct Advisory Specialist
ACCENTURE SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
08.2017 - 07.2019
- Led the transition and stabilization of the accounts payable process for North America region
- Monitoring the OE docs and managing the internal targets for CTS, IPP and PKT / DKT.
- Leading the Robotics and Automation projects for all towers (PTP, RTR and Sales Audit) within F&A for my account
Deputy Manager - Ops
WNS GLOBAL SERVICES PVT. LTD.
04.2014 - 07.2017
- Monitoring the month-end planning and execution of deadlines
- Review of Balance-sheet reconciliation and commentary for management reporting
- SAP to HFM reconciliation & rectification of any discrepancy
- Hyperion Reporting (HFM) and handling stakeholder queries
- Weekly / Monthly Ops review presentation and reporting to the client.
- Review and finalization of monthly KPI stats and SLA Reporting prepared by team leads and reporting of the same to onshore counterparts
- Ensure all audit comments and deficiencies are fully remediated and drive toward a deficiency-free environment
- Review of potential duplicates processed in SAP and performing RCA on the same
- GRIR Reconciliation and Payment run reviews
- Month End Intercompany reconciliations and accrual postings
- Preparing the various MIS reports including performance matrices like KPI stats, SLA reporting, and weekly performance deck
- Monitoring internal and external review points to ensure effective and efficient CAPA is placed in the process
Contractor – Accounts Officer
BRITISH GAS EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION INDIA LTD.
10.2013 - 03.2014
- Employee expense report and follow-up for recovery
- Fixed assets additions / Review of DDA
- Preparation of monthly FCA for review and signoff
Senior Executive - Accounting
ALEXION BUSINESS SERVICES PVT. LTD.
05.2012 - 10.2013
- Joined the shared services for Alexion in India as a Senior Executive for accounting and was serving Asia Pacific, Europe, and North American regions
- Successfully completed the transition and stabilization for Australian and UK accounts payable function and cash application for the Europe Region
- Successfully implemented Concur tool for India
- Handling global admin and reporting functions for Concur
- Handling the month-end closing activities and accrual reporting
- Preparing the monthly Dashboard and other KPIs
- Ensure all audit comments and SOX deficiencies are fully remediated, and drive toward a deficiency-free environment
F & A Executive
GENERAL MILLS INDIA PVT. Ltd.
02.2010 - 05.2012
- Joined General Mills as F&A Executive allocated to the Europe Division
- Handling of the Accounts Payable division of General Mills Europe division
- Successfully completed the business testing and transitioned the new freight payment processing process which has reduced the TAT of Freight invoice posting from 7 days to 1 day
- Interacting with the vendors and businesses to resolve various issues related to Releasing of payments
- Handling the team and monitoring the SLAs and other deliverables in the absence of the Manager
Process Associate
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD (TCS)
06.2007 - 02.2010
- Joined Accounts Payable (AP), a sub-process of Finance & Accounts, & initially my role was to look after specialty areas such as Expedite invoices, Raw material invoice payments, Credits, etc.
- Handling supervisory & monitoring activities such as Sample Audits, Potential Duplicate audits, Recycled voucher Audits, Exceptions, etc.
- Preparing various MIS reports like “Weekly Exception Report, Inter-company Aging Report, SLA Report, Monthly Accrual report” etc.
Education
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting
Mulund College of Commerce
Mumbai, India2007
H.S.C - Commerce
Mulund College of Commerce
Mumbai, India2004
S.S.C -
Model English High School
Thane, India2002
Skills
- Solution Design & Transition Management
- Procure to Pay, Order to Cash & Record to Report
- Collection Management and Analysis
- Team Leadership
- Hyperion Reporting (HFM)
- MIS reports including performance matrices like KPI stats, SLA reporting, periodic performance deck
- Deferred Revenue reconciliation and Revenue Recognition
- Balance Sheet & Intercompany Reconciliation Review and Analysis
- Microsoft Office Suite expertise
Certification
- Completed Advanced diploma in Information systems (ADIS)
- Advanced diploma in Application programming (ADAP).
- Currently pursuing US CPA.
Languages
English
Hindi
Marathi
Malayalam
Accomplishments
- Successfully completed more than 15 transitions from Onshore locations to India
- Awarded with the Topaz Go Getter (Best Performer for the quarter award) for good and consistent performance in the newly launched Paxar Process.
- Received the Certificate for the Champions' League (Best team of the quarter across locations) for the best green belt project of the quarter.
Timeline
Manager - F. & A.
AERIES TECHNOLOGY GROUP PRIVATE LIMITED
07.2019 - Current
Financial Acct Advisory Specialist
ACCENTURE SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
08.2017 - 07.2019
Deputy Manager - Ops
WNS GLOBAL SERVICES PVT. LTD.
04.2014 - 07.2017
Contractor – Accounts Officer
BRITISH GAS EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION INDIA LTD.
10.2013 - 03.2014
Senior Executive - Accounting
ALEXION BUSINESS SERVICES PVT. LTD.
05.2012 - 10.2013
F & A Executive
GENERAL MILLS INDIA PVT. Ltd.
02.2010 - 05.2012
Process Associate
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD (TCS)
06.2007 - 02.2010
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting
Mulund College of Commerce
H.S.C - Commerce
Mulund College of Commerce
S.S.C -
Model English High School
- Completed Advanced diploma in Information systems (ADIS)
- Advanced diploma in Application programming (ADAP).
- Currently pursuing US CPA.
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