• Oversight in all facets of budgeting, including the departmental budget preparation in compliance with the company guidelines• Administration of the monthly forecast completion for all company departments• Keen assessment of the monthly Business Unit’s financial reports while simultaneously assisting and communicating with the senior management to meet corporate objectives and actualize profit improvement opportunities• Leadership over the account receivable accountants and accomplishment of ad hoc requests on quarterly and annual accounting• Systematic organization of procedures for process improvement such as billing, month end close, and forecasting• Supervision of the testing procedures for the IFRS implementation and changeover from manual to systems based budgeting and forecasting (BPC); along with the process and procedures for outsourcing accounts receivable function from Markit North America Markit India Team

• Expanded tasks of managing the new retail divisions (CK Underwear and CK Specialty Retail) while handling the budgetary and forecasting for CK collection stores in New York, Paris, and Dallas• Creation of standard templates for expenses and revenues received from other departments, along with the budget models• Encoding of templates to be accessed by all stores and the central office departments• Coordination with the heads of different departments for the strategic building of all expenses and overheads• Service as the primary point of contact among all CK retail divisions on templates for submission to the management• Organization of budget packages such as detailed P&L. balance sheet, cash-flow, capital projections, by-store analysis, and financial highlights• Management of the uploaded templates and data by store for monthly rolling re-forecast of P&L and balance sheet• Development of models in determining risks and opportunities for the new store opening, focusing on the impact of existing stores; as well as spreadsheets in delivering a better analysis per month/quarter/year of the actual results compared to budget and forecast• Application of skills in the preparation of accruals and review of all accounts reconciliations performed by shared service center, along with the investigation of any discrepancies or unusual items• Documentation of weekly sales reports and collaboration with the IT Department and Sales Audit to investigate any discrepancies in the system or for any non-polling sales items• Proactive engagement with contractors, landlords, and the vice president of real estate to guarantee all necessary documentation for collection of allowances• Key role in authorizing all non-cost of sales invoices clothing allowance submissions and project and capital items• Accomplishment of ad hoc requests in relation to quarterly and annual audit

• Instrumental part in the development, application, and oversight of the financial processes and controls to assist the company in its international wholesale transactions; international sales program; and international distribution excess inventory• Application of skills in the preparation of 2003/2004 budget close for Gap Outlets international sales program along with the month end close and subsequent variance analysis• Generation of monthly forecasts for the international sales program and the company’s international wholesale transactions• Capability to effectively organize and lead the customer invoicing and expert letters of credit and ensure accurate revenue accounting and inventory tracking and reserves in adherence to GAAP• Thorough management of the collections of accounts receivable• Expert oversight of the inventory management, encompassing the implementation of a new system for the international sales program for the division to be aligned with all other Gap divisions in the aspects of inventory evaluation and reporting• Execution of the ad hoc analysis and report validation for the Oracle implementation and Sarbanes Oxley documentation re-profit and loss and balance sheet controls