Chithra Ramachandran

• Prepare, manage and review monthly budget. • Maintain external relationship with bankers, legal counsel and vendors. • Validate monthly financial reports and monthly consolidation for the US team. • Review expense report to identify monthly variance and prepare budget variance report. • Manage payroll of employees and resolve queries related to payroll and taxes. • Liaison with the accounting team for all accounting, legal and secretarial work. • Validate all monthly invoices and disbursements of payments

• Effectively led a team to streamline the operations in HR and Finance. • Ensured cost effective systems and controls are in place and adhered. • Formulated, Designed, implemented personnel and financial policies in compliance with regulations. • Planned, prepared and reviewed monthly budget for pan India operations. • Interpreted company’s financial performances by monitoring cash flow and expenditure. • Monitored and reviewed MIS, financial statements prepared by external accountants. • Supervised and monitored account receivables and payables, ensured payment cycle were followed strictly. • Managed pan-India payroll of employees reviewed and been a point of contact for queries. • Liaise with auditors and ensured annual monitoring is carried out. • Developed and maintained external relationships with bankers, legal counsel and vendors. • Managed legal, secretarial documentation and coordinated with investor’s legal & secretarial team.

Blue Dart Express Limited, Mumbai - Senior Executive Finance • Coordination with HR operations to obtain data on employee appointments, resignations & transfers for the purpose of monthly payroll processing. • Support for the parallel run, testing, development & integration of PeopleSoft payroll & absence management module. • Conduct all activities for timely payment of monthly salary of employees across all locations of the organization and ensure that salary disbursements are compliant with the statutory regulations & are as per company policy. • Responsible for making necessary compensation related updation to the employee master at various points during the employment life cycle. • Timely completion of all year-end payroll activities including payment of increment, bonus, incentive payment, income tax declarations & FORM 16 distribution to all employees. • Monitoring sales incentive schemes & payment. • Support in the resolution of all employee queries related to payroll. • Responsible for payment of monthly and annual statutory dues as per due dates. • Bonus payment to active and ex-employees. • Administration of employee Gratuity scheme. • Statutory, internal & process audit compliance & support. • Head Office bank reconciliations.