POOJA KUMARI
?: poojakum82@gmail.com
?: +971562967886
?: Dubai, UAE
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IMPACTFUL FINANCE PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
–With 15+ years of noteworthy credits
- Bringing to the table estimable professional record in leading financial, accounts and related business processes -
- History of association with well-known and established organizations in India and UAE -
- Financial Business Leadership || Financial Planning & Analysis || Financial Modeling || AP, AR, & Account Reconciliation || General Ledger & Process Improvement || Risk Management/Financial Control || Operations Alignment || P&L Management || Cash Flow Management || Forecasting & Budgeting || Pricing & Costing || Payroll Processing & Preparation || Business Performance Analysis || Financial Best Practices || Vendor & Stakeholder Relations || Ad Hoc Analysis || Process Documentations & Reporting || Business Presentations || Technology Integration || Building Performance Driven Teams || Change Management || Customer Centric Approach & Experience Management || SOX Compliance & Documentation || Statutory Reporting - US GAAP/IFRS -
- Sector Experience: Oil & Gas / Electrical / BPO - Financial & Shared Services / Banking -
- Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), United Kingdom -
- Offered thought leadership in monitoring several projects concurrently and meeting tight deadlines
- Evolved robust and challenging financial & accounting policies & systems and forwarded process improvement initiatives while providing a balance business & finance perspective place and attaining top and bottom-line profit
˜ Summary of Skills & Achievements ˜
- Chosen and has been the first choice of senior managers for presentations & process revisit/redesign of the Finance Department functions - for management reviews as well as training purposes.
- Created management tools to measure financial and operational performance viz. financial ratios, trend analysis, key performance indicators, sales forecasting, budget model and management reports.
- Differentiate business success by achieving 98%+ of forecasting accuracy.
- Exhibited prowess in analysing data, providing financial advice, supporting new business projects and planning budgets
- Thorough understanding of financial & business processes in various departments such as Sales, HR & Marketing
- Instrumental in developing essential business service offerings and building customer relationships to accelerate growth.
- Technically sound with hands-on experience in employing MS Office Utilities (Word, PowerPoint, Excel); SAP; Oracle and Hyperion. BRIEF OVERVIEW
• Experienced in handling wide array of functions, ranging from financial budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, financial modeling & strategic planning, trend analysis, business segment profitability analysis, maintaining database to representing finance performance to senior management
• Turned around the company with effective cost control & reduction techniques, increased profits through financial governance and aligned deliverables that enabled achievement of agreed profitability targets and service levels in compliance with plans and forecasts in a timely manner.
• Evangelized the transformation of Business & Financial outlook - driving business commercials and growth strategies including expansions, new projects, cost management, market growth and risk management.
• Apt in providing leadership, management and oversight to the operational team and financial analysis group focusing on translating business objectives to successful results.
• Demonstrated excellence by evaluating / enhancing performance of team (comprising of 5 members) against the set targets, participating in recruitment, training the new team, and providing valuable feedback for improvement.
• Solid experience in finance, accounting, audit, coupled with hands-on experience in supervising overall activities of stores, sales, and MIS
• Proficiency in ensuring compliance with accounting standards & procedures along with reconciliation & finalization of various accounts within preset time deadlines
? PROFESSIONAL ENHANCEMENT?
?Six Sigma Basics, DMAIC & Lean Projects @ Longview Solutions – Khalix & Encore
? Quality Alignment to Work, Corporate Etiquette Skills, Customer Interaction for Success
? Corporate Criteria as per US GAAP (for Reconciliations), E-Learning & Account Reconciliations
? Knowledge Curve 1: Closing Basics, Financial Reporting, & US GAAPS Basics
? Upgraded Version of SAP, SAP Overview, SAP Upgrade Project, & Excel Level 1 & 2
? Writing for Success, UK Payroll from ‘LexisNexis -Payroll Alliance’, & Change Management
? EMPLOYMENT CHRONICLE
BEYOND NUMBERS – DUBAI, UAE JUL 2018 TO DATE
Finance Planning & Analysis Manager
Establishing FP&A services for the clients of the organization. Key Achievements in the role -
? SWOT Analysis for the client organization
? 5 Year Sales projection , detailed by sector, segment, customer & product, in alignment with sales leadership and each sales representatives for an esteemed client. This document/database was termed as an “Intellectual property” of company by CEO.
? 5 Year Budgets/Projections (ZBB based) management accounts, comprising of P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement, Performance ratios. This document was designed to show 10 years of company’s actual and budgeted performance (last 5 year & next 5 years), detailed at each level of GL accounts and department/functions.
? Many process improvements in book keeping processes, accounting policies usage and reporting for business partners.
? Industry localization feasibility analysis resulting in additional profits margins projections.
? Regular FP&A activities establishment including regular budgeting templates , SOPs, forecasting variance analysis, Risk & Opportunities.
EATON CORPORATION – DUBAI, UAE DEC 2015 TO JUN 2018
Sr Financial Planning and Analyst
Directed a multitude of responsibilities viz. organizing & forecasting strategic economic planning to attain profits in business units; managing & combining annual budgets of regions to support sales and various department heads. Key deliverables include interfacing with managers to investigate recent pulse for revenue optimization and developing & verifying database to implement tool and dashboard reports. Re-designed presentations and process to assist company management and deliver training sessions for enhancement of staff abilities. Analysed financial performance of specific goals to streamline workflows of headquarters.
Key achievements in the role -
? Completed annual tasks with 95%+accuracy according to allocated budget by following strict deadlines.
? Multiple simulation and feasibilities studies aiming at both quantitative and qualitative value addition
? Received appreciation from regional leaders for developing and executing relevant/decision making new analysis planning for management pack.
? Merit of being handpicked by the upper management to work in coordination with General Manager.
? Capitalized on the overall industrial and domain skills in presentations & process revisit/redesign of the Finance Department functions - for management reviews as well as training purposes.
? Developed and successfully ran ‘Finance Connect’ as an ‘employee engagement champion’ for finance team building & growth.
EATON COOPER INDUSTRIES, DUBAI, UAE SEP 2010 TO NOV 2015
Finance Supervisor
Spearheaded end-to-end accounting for Saudi region; reviewed invoice bookings for Middle East Region and monthly closing & reporting for both UAE & Saudi region. Other deliverables include reconciliation of GRIR, MRBR, AP-vendors, & balance sheet of P&L accounts for reporting and assessed overall accounting and invoice bookings globally. Managed and delivered KPIs, complex Open PO/orders, and projects within time and budget to assure generation of new business. In the supervisory role, supported hiring new talent and their orientation & training. Provided leadership in the areas of KPI’s monitoring and periodical Performance review of direct reports and employee team-building & developmental activities, in line with overall HR planning and guidelines.
Key achievements in the role -
? Recorded H3’ performance rating within 3 years by managing account on corporate level with Cooper Internal Control Team.
? Made feasible changes in procedures for Annual Standard Costing of 15000+ materials and standardized the same which paved a way in yielding better results than before.
? Transportation costs management and reconciliation was recognized as the best managed account on corporate level by Cooper Internal Control Team.
? Strengthened business by doubling savings up to $200K and improving products rates by skillfully negotiating & communicating with freight vendors.
? Increased productivity by developing automated complex accounting applications and coordinating information requirements.
? Brought-down admin work and saved paper for company & suppliers by spearheading all aspects of ‘go green’ applications.
? Exceeded output by 5 FTE hours within a span of a month through creation of automatic accounting applications.
GOODYEAR MIDDLE EAST, DUBAI, UAE AUG 2008 TO SEPT 2010
Financial Accountant
Leveraged skills in preparation & analyses of Annual Operating Budgeting (AOP) – Indirect Expenses & Balance Sheet; monthly review of AOP in light of current conditions & changes; variance analysis for actual vs. AOP; and monitoring & analysis Trial Balance & Cost centers for the location. Held accountable for month closing and financial results reporting for Middle East Location and administered AP Department (Finance Assistant ). Facilitated Finance Director in handling legal matters; managing customer database & contracts in coordination with sales team; and shouldered projects for process improvements.
Key achievements in the role -
? Planned and executed excellent ‘Cost Centre Accounting’ system by designing application while bridging the gap between cross-functional departments.
? Recognized for implementing excellent process reconciling operations and attained outstanding feedback on balance sheet.
? Designed and successfully rolled-out ‘Cost Center Accounting’ system.
? Diligently reported cost center wise results for 7 functional departments & 5 business regions in addition to costs analysis for the Middle East location.
HALLIBURTON WORLDWIDE LTD., DUBAI, UAE JUN 2007 TO AUG 2008
Accountant - Shared Service Center of Halliburton
Tactically contributed in reviewing & monitoring financial transactions as well as analyzing of Trial Balance & Cost centers for Northern Gulf & UK Business Location. Managed a spectrum of payroll activities spanning input Payroll Processing for UK Business Location and administering the Payroll Accounting for ME & UK which includes Private & State Pensions, Tax & third party payments. Performed complex account reconciliations related to ME and associated analysis with a follow up on the accounts and used Global Accounting Tools (IBT/IST/ART).
Key achievements in the role -
? Awarded with “Special Performance” increment just after 6 months of joining.
? Bagged MVP Award for successful transition of UK Payroll activity.
? Proactively worked in Corporate Governance & Internal Control covering Director Remuneration Report; SOX review & ensuring internal control in place; maintaining books as per US GAAP & local accounting guidelines; and balance sheet reconciliations and analysis for ME & UK Company code.
GENPACT (Erstwhile known as GE Capital International Services), Gurgaon, India AUG 2005 TO JAN 2007
Process Developer - ‘Honeywell Corporate’ Accountant
As a Process Developer - prepared monthly metrics for customers (Honeywell) and organization (Genpact) on performance status as well as aided Assisting Manager in preparation of special reports (quantitative & qualitative) in algebraic & graphical format on team’s performances using various parameters. Steered various initiatives for the team viz. tracking training needs and coordinating for its completion; putting together process cross-training plan.
As an Accountant - ensured reconciliation for Cash & Intercompany Accounts (total of 150 bank accounts) and identifying correcting adjustment entries, as per result of reconciliation followed by preparing Journal entries for same for upload on Oracle.
Key achievements in the role -
? Completed 2 months on-the-job training in USA, Arizona on Client’s (Honeywell) site for the transition of Honeywell Corporate Financial Accounting Process to GENPACT India.
? Entitled as:
? ‘Key Resource’ in the very first Performance Appraisal (EMS).
? ‘Star Performer’ in the very first month of production – during Honeywell Corporate OJT stretched to meet Oct-05 reconciliations and completed 200 reconciliations over and above assigned 60 reconciliations.
? Effectively trained one resource on Intercompany Reconciliations post OJT.
? Availed the opportunity to prepare an esteemed documentation (MS PowerPoint) ‘TG4’, which was approved by ‘Genpact Transition Leader’ and ‘Honeywell Corporate Account Manager’ at first place.
? Earned Performance Rewards from Quality Leader for Lean Projects.
Other Engagements:
PF Services (An Associate of GE Countrywide for Loan Against Property) - New Delhi, India
? Business Development Manager (Jan 2004 to Aug 2005)
M/s PF Services (An Associate of Standard Chartered Bank for Home Loans), ND, India
? Senior Coordinator (May 2002 to Dec 2003)
? EDUCATIONAL BRIEF
ACCA ? Association of certified chartered accountants, London 2007 - 2010
Master of Commerce ? Delhi University, India 2002 – 2004
Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) ? Delhi University, India 1999 - 2002
PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of Birth : May 26, 1982
Nationality : Indian
Gender : Female
Family Status : Married
Driving License : UAE
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