Joy Kahaly

• Accomplished Manager Finance with extensive experience in Building and lead accounting team responsible for accounting shared service center including general accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable administration and T&E
• Headcount Management & People Allocation:
• Oversee headcount planning, forecasting, and reporting for the company's shared services functions.
• Partner with HR and department leaders to ensure headcount allocation is aligned with business needs and financial objectives.
• Provide strategic insights and recommendations related to people-related costs, including salary, benefits, and bonuses.

• Accomplished Manager Finance with extensive experience in Building and lead accounting team responsible for accounting shared service center including general accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable administration and T&E
• Headcount Management & People Allocation:
• Oversee headcount planning, forecasting, and reporting for the company's shared services functions.
• Partner with HR and department leaders to ensure headcount allocation is aligned with business needs and financial objectives.
• Provide strategic insights and recommendations related to people-related costs, including salary, benefits, and bonuses.
• Lead the budgeting, forecasting, and analysis of G&A expenses across the organization.
• Develop and execute a strategic vision for the Finance & Accounts service delivery center, aligning its goals with the overall business strategy, Manage the delivery of Finance Shared Service Centre activities to a high standard for entities across Europe, Middle East, US and Asia Pacific
• Was involved setting shared service center for JSW, JSPL in India, Weatherford in USA and Damac In UAE.
• Regulatory Compliance Regulatory Tax and Compliance Audit review of reconciliation of GST/TDS Export and Import duty and MSME Vendors W9 and 1099
• Develop and maintain accounting policies and procedures, ensuring that they are in accordance with US GAAP
• Design, implement and maintain accounting and financial reporting controls, ensuring compliance with SOX 404
• Talent Management Recruit top talent to the Accounting and FP&A teams and mentor team members, helping them reach their peak potential; foster a culture of continuous improvement complete with benchmarks for measuring successful performance
• Quality Assurance Ensure high service quality and adherence to service level agreements (SLAs) while implementing quality control measures and best practices
• Oversee budgeting and follow-on discipline to ensure spending is kept under control
• Drive recommendations for growth strategy for Accounting Shared Service center including system and operational processes
• Operations Excellence Identify automation opportunities to reduce manual effort that makes the process more efficient.
• Establish service level agreements and key performance indicators to measure the productivity and quality of service of the accounting shared service center
• Process improvement Develop and implement strategies to improve the overall efficiency and customer satisfaction of the accounting shared service center.

  Education and Experience:

• Analyze data and feedback to identify opportunities to enhance performance, improve processes and save cost of the accounting shared service center
• Green Belt Certified professional with a strong background in process improvement, automation projects for F&A
• Transitions Experience in transitioning processes from western locations to a shared service center, and in harmonizing processes

Cost Accountant

MBA Finance