Dona Ghosal

I am a Finance Expert with end-to-end knowledge of FPnA.

An Associate

Manager by designation, I have worked in FPnA and R2R in both the Outsourcing and Shared Services environment. With 10 years of experience in Finance, I have built and developed my skills in Budgeting and Forecasting, AOP, Data Presentation using the Waterfall method, Data and Variance Analysis, Month end Close Cycles, Posting and Approving journals as a Manager, Reconciliations, P&L Statement Analysis and Commentary (Budget vs Actuals/Forecast vs Actuals), Variance Analysis (Cost vs Revenue, Cost vs Cost and Revenue vs Revenue) and MIS Reporting. Experienced in managing stakeholders, both onshore and offshore.

I have handled a team of 25 people. I am highly skilled in working with SAP S4 HANA, Blackline, Peoplesoft and Power BI. I am a travel enthusiast, and I enjoy exploring new places, food, culture and meeting new people.

I am a trained and qualified Indian classical dancer and also enjoy working out and staying fit.

Associate Manager - Pepsico Global Services - Hyderabad, India

(2025-09)

Transitioned the role of Direct Material Lead for Manufacturing sites in UK Leicester directly from UK Stakeholders. Travelled to United Kingdom for the transition and have brought in the role to India Capability Centre Hyderabad.

• Understanding and performing the Finance weekly reports for the sites keeping the parameters of Direct labours, Direct materials and miscellaneous costs factors
• Forecasting the monthly cost for Direct labour, Direct materials and Manufacturing overheads
• Preparing the accrual journals for Direct labours and the manufacturing overhead labours
• Cost Variance analysis for the labour hours as per the SAP and power BI
• Commenting on the favourability and adversity in cost for the current period
• Performing the month end close controls and reporting
• Checking Inventory stock counts and MI24 analysis
• Managing the team and preparing their work allocations
• End to End knowledge about the factory lines of production and the time required in production
• The various challenges faced on a day-to-day basis during production of the snacks. Eg – Slicer machine blockages, Fryer machine stopped, Boiler overheated
• The shift level reports that are generated daily and the different roles that are involved in production along with the hourly rates. The segregation of work among the labours

Deputy Manager - Pepsico Global Services

(2024-01 - 2025-08)

• Performing contract pricing analysis
• Cost vs cost analysis
• Stakeholder management

Commercial Management Analyst – CMA (Mid senior level) - British Telecommunications (BT E-Serve PVT LTD)

(2023-06 - 2023-12)

• Working on the health of the contract (Revenue making /loss making)
• Forecasting the contract revenue
• Analyzing the risks in the contract

CDM Expert – Subject Matter Expert - British Telecommunications (BT E-Serve PVT LTD)

(2021-08 - 2023-05)

• Revenue Assurance
• Preparing and updating SOP's post transitions. (had the opportunity to complete 1 transition in this organization)
• Stakeholder management
• Working on the governance of the team, streamlining of process and finding out new business opportunity

CDM Support - British Telecommunications (BT E-serv India)

(2020-04 - 2021-07)

• Preparation of backing sheet to bill the customers for their network /telecommunication usages
• Analyzing the rentals and the usages basis report
• Providing resolution services to customers/clients in- terms of commercial finance, services and incident managements

Senior Process Associate - TCS

(2018-09 - 2020-03)

As a part of a new project, got the opportunity to pioneer the design and testing of the project being transitioned from Tata Steel Jamshedpur. Had the opportunity to transition the Vendor Reconciliation activity of TATA Steel from Delhi and Jamshedpur. Experienced in reporting activities like FMEA failure mode effective analysis.

• WorkFlow design and testing in SAP
• Performed quarterly reconciliations of the subsidiaries of Tata Steel of AR category of accounts
• Implementation and testing of Blackline tool for preparation and submission of reconciliations
• Preparing daily dashboard of the Tata Steel project entitled to be published on a daily basis to stakeholders and higher management
• Prepare and publish location based dashboards for all vendor locations of TATA Steel, on a daily basis

Process Associate - Genpact

(2016-11 - 2018-08)

Initially worked in Accounts Payable for a year, was a part of the query resolution team where I was handling South African client.

• Worked in Record to Report (RTR), Auditing and reconciling the accounts, Preparing journals and posting
• Provided trainings to the new team members
• Worked as an HR Spoc

M.COM - Finance - University of Calcutta (2014 - 2016)

B.COM (Honours) (2014)