Ashwini Kumari

Detail-oriented Finance & Accounting professional with 10+ years of experience in general ledger management, reconciliations, procure-to-pay operations, compliance, and financial reporting. Proven track record of improving accuracy, resolving discrepancies, and supporting month-end close within global timelines. Skilled in Oracle, SAP FICO, ERP systems, intercompany accounting, and statutory compliance, with strong analytical ability and stakeholder coordination skills.

Procure Pay Operations Analyst at Accenture Solutions Private Limited (2022-10 – 2026-01)

• Managed end-to-end Procure-to-Pay (P2P) operations, including processing PO and Non-PO invoices using SAP, Oracle R12, and Oracle Cloud, ensuring accuracy and compliance with finance policies.
• Performed invoice validation, duplicate checks, and character verification, improving invoice processing accuracy and minimizing payment errors
• Managed month-end close activities including journal entries, accruals, trial balance review, and intercompany reconciliations.
• Providing solutions to the client in the area of basic FICO settings i.e., G/L Accounts, Accounts Payable, Account Receivable.
• Supporting for Help Desk Tickets and Change Request for AAM company codes
• Preparing change request documents on Configurations.
• Following up on UAT documents.
• Responsible for Unit and Integration testing and Regression testing for Change requests.
• Changes to additional configuration settings as required by the client.
• Clarifying the tickets as per the risk and time taken to solve the issues and solving them as client priority.
• Proactively discuss critical issues with other functional consultants for timely resolution.
• Participation in regular FICO team meetings and updating open tickets.
• Coordinating & advising client on process related issues regularly.

Senior Accounts Executive at BPU & Co., Chartered Accountants (2020-10 – 2022-06)

Client Name: Arvind Lifestyle Brands Limited

• Managed accounts payable/receivable cycles including reconciliations.
• Monitored aging reports and followed up for timely collections.
• Prepared financial reports and MIS summaries for management review.
• Supported statutory compliance, audits, and financial documentation.
• Conducted root cause analysis for invoice discrepancies, payment delays, and vendor disputes, implementing corrective actions to improve process accuracy and TAT
• Coordinated with auditors, tax advisors, and cross-functional teams to support audit requirements and ensure regulatory compliance.

Team Leader at SSAA & Associates, Chartered Accountants (2013-04 – 2019-09)

• Core responsibility is to analyze the user issues and providing satisfactory resolution to customer within time frame
• Interacting with users directly for solving their issue and understanding the business process
• Able to resolve the high priority tickets within the time frame provideds
• Working on Incident management tickets, Service Requests and Problem management tickets
• Involved in FI sub modules like GL, AR, AP, Tax configuration.
• Payment terms configuration changes as per user requirement
• Maintaining new tax percentage as per user requirements.
• Performing the SIT after changes and get UAT sign off documents from user.
• Adding the configuration changes and transporting to the production servers as per the client fresh requirements after obtaining necessary authorization on quarterly basis
• Supporting, Knowledge sharing and guiding team members to perform and deliver
• Clear understanding of business process and Preparation of end user manuals and making necessary documentation. Worked collaboratively with cross team in resolving issues and guided new team members.

MBA in Finance – VTU University (2012)

B.Com. – Mangalore University (2009 – 2010)