Arushi Goel
Finance Analyst | Travel & Expense • Accounts Payable • Stakeholder Management • Reconciliation
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Finance professional with 7+ years of experience across Travel & Expense, Accounts Payable, and post-payment audit, currently supporting global finance operations at Boston Consulting Group. Skilled in expense auditing, stakeholder Management, policy-compliance review, reconciliation, and duplicate-payment detection across multiple regions, with growing use of AI tools to improve audit accuracy and analysis. Lean-certified, with hands-on command of SAP, Oracle, Concur, Chrome River, and AppZen.
Experience
Global Finance – Travel & Expense at Boston Consulting Group (2021-09 – Present)
- Support BCG's global expense management operations across APAC (India, Middle East, ANZ) and EMEA (Africa, France, Turkey), managing stakeholder relationships with ~20 stakeholders including end-to-end communication and resolution of audit queries.
- Lead a team and audit expense claims for policy compliance, accuracy, and documentation adequacy; run post-payment duplicate-payment audits and identify recoverable claims and strengthen controls.
- Conduct month-end reconciliations including return analysis, X-error resolution, corporate card vs. system reconciliation, and employee spend behavior trends.
- Supported onboarding and configuration of AI-powered audit tool AppZen; built an Excel dashboard to assess its AI risk-detection accuracy
- Leverage AI tools (Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT) to drive audit analysis, reporting, and process automation
- Developed RACI matrices and conducted periodic SOP reviews to strengthen role clarity and process adoption across markets
- Partner with local finance teams to resolve policy/audit queries and lead transition projects for onboarding new geographies
- Deliver expense analytics on spend trends and employee behavior, recommending process-optimization strategies; resolve queries via ServiceNow and run monthly compliance sessions with employees and EAs.
Global Finance – Accounts Payable at Boston Consulting Group (2021-09 – Present)
- Managed end-to-end Accounts Payable operations for Germany, overseeing daily processing of PO and Non-PO invoices, and processed vendor payments accurately in line with agreed payment terms and cash flow priorities.
- Drove reduction of parked/blocked invoice items through root-cause analysis and proactive follow-ups with vendors and internal teams
- Analyzed vendor aging reports and performed bank reconciliation to ensure accuracy of cash postings and clean, audit-ready books
- Prepared monthly AP reconciliation and aging reports, ensuring sub-ledger to GL alignment and investigating variances (duplicate payments, timing differences, unmatched invoices) for month-end close
- Led smooth transition and knowledge transfer of business processes, including SOP preparation and maintenance, resulting in successful Go-Live with zero critical issues
- Built interactive Tableau dashboards for real-time visibility into AP metrics, aging trends, and vendor payment status; delivered P2P process training to new hires and performed quality checks to maintain audit compliance.
Finance Analyst – Travel & Expense / Accounts Payable (EMEA) at Accenture Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (2019-08 – 2021-09)
- Processed PO and Non-PO invoices across different business units, ensuring 100% compliance with company policies and procedures.
- Prepared weekly payment proposals, invoice ageing reports, and performed duplicate payment checks.
- Support escalations, process documentation, and continuous improvements within accounts payable function.
- Resolved invoice discrepancies and vendor queries within defined SLA.
- Performed month-end AP reconciliation between sub-ledger and GL, identifying and resolving variances.
- Investigated reconciling items (duplicates, Aging) and drove resolution.
- Participated in user acceptance testing (UAT) for newly migrated business units.
Accountant – Accounts Payable (APAC) at Genpact India Pvt. Ltd. (2018-07 – 2019-08)
- Processed PO and Non-PO invoices for third-party vendors (UK, Belgium) and performed OCR validation against source images.
- Resolved vendor queries on invoice processing and timely payments.
Education
MBA in Finance – Symbiosis International University Distance Learning (2018-01 – 2020-12)
B. Com – Chitkara University (2015-01 – 2018-12)