Tanuja Sawant

• Month-End Efficiency: Ensured timely and accurate completion of month-end procedures, reducing monthly closing time to day 7 through effective oversight of facility cost reallocation, accruals, and payroll entries.
• Balance Sheet Expertise: Conducted monthly balance sheet reconciliations, addressing discrepancies and communicating issues to business unit managers, took on the complex balance sheet accounts (accrued payables, prepaid split, etc.) after F&O transition, resulting in the reduction of reconciliation discrepancies.
• Variance Analysis: Assisted in month-end financial reporting, including variance analysis and report preparation for operational review, presented results to senior management and operations teams. Anticipated and enhanced reporting accuracy by providing detailed supporting documents.
• Budgeting and Forecasting: Played a crucial role in forecasting for annual company and client budgeting processes, assumed responsibility for specific budget categories such as facility costs.
• Ad-Hoc Analysis: Produced valuable ad-hoc financial analyses, including cost breakdowns, labor expenses, and accrual-to-actual variances, providing critical insights for decision-making.
• Process Improvement: Collaborated in testing the F&O system, streamlining processes by transitioning manual applications to formula-driven Excel models, reducing manual processing time.

• Month-End Activities: Led month-end activities, including preparing prepaid and accrual entries, monthly billing for multiple clients, and performed balance sheet reconciliations, resulting in a reduction in reconciliation discrepancies.
• Payroll Responsibilities: Managed payroll postings including; validation, and payroll accruals, ensuring accuracy and compliance with company payroll policies.
• Financial Insight and Explanation: Delivered clear and concise financial insights and explanations to various stakeholders, helping them understand variances between actual and budgeted figures, facilitating informed decision-making.
• Accounting Process Analysis: Conducted a thorough analysis of existing accounting processes, evaluating both routine and non-routine transactions. Identified and implemented recommendations for process improvement.
• Budget and Forecast Preparation: Played a key role in preparing information inputs such as working days and fringe for the company budget and forecast in the Vena system, ensuring data accuracy and timely submissions for effective financial planning.

• Year-End Audit Support: Provided crucial assistance and support to the corporate controller during the preparatory work for the year-end audit, ensuring that all necessary documentation and financial data were readily available.
• Strengthened Financial Management: Through meticulous attention to detail and proactive problem-solving, earned recognition and praise from senior management for strengthening financial management processes. This resulted in a significant reduction in errors in reporting, funds disbursement, and general bookkeeping, bringing them to near-zero levels.
• Cash Flow Optimization: Actively managed accounts receivable by overseeing regular collections and charges from all national retailers. By addressing issues in a timely manner, improved the Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) metric and successfully collected over $100,000 in disputed invoices.
• Process Efficiency: Streamlined various time-consuming journal entries by transitioning them to re-occurring processes using ERP Microsoft Dynamics NAV. In addition, introduced efficiency by replacing the manual credit card charging process with an Excel report.
• Financial Performance Monitoring: Responsible for preparing month-end and year-end balance sheets, and bank reconciliations. These activities included conducting comprehensive variance analyses to identify and validate discrepancies.

• High-Volume Transactions: Gained extensive accounting experience by efficiently managing a high volume of financial transactions. Over each quarter, Completed and processed more than 1,000 purchase orders and customer invoices. This level of responsibility honed skills in accuracy and attention to detail.
• Vendor Account Reconciliation: Ensured the precision of billing information by diligently reconciling more than 30 vendor accounts on a weekly basis. This process contributed to financial accuracy but also strengthened vendor relationships.
• Regulatory Compliance: Role extended to maintaining compliance with Commercial Vehicle Operators Registration (CVOR) standards. Recorded driver manifests, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements.
• Effective Collaboration: Fostered effective collaboration by interacting with various stakeholders, including vendors, upper management, and peers. This collaborative approach facilitated seamless operations and communication within the organization.