Ashish Manglani
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Ashish Manglani

Ashish Manglani

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Profile Overview
Over seven years of corporate financial analysis/accounting experience. I am working on completing the FAR section of the CPA exam. I am working with Amazon Inc as a warehouse associate on a part-time basis. Furthermore, I am working in the capacity of a Front Desk associate with the Cub Run Recreation center on a part time basis as a volunteer.


Professional Experience
Amazon Inc. November 2018 to present
Ambassador/Sortation Associate
• Maintain the accuracy of orders delivered in terms of time, by ensuring that the majority of the routes planned for the day are completed by the sortation associates
• Training new associates in regards to the steps involved in effectively completing the pick and stage process
• Ensuring that the safety policies of Amazon are implemented and followed by all the warehouse associates while completing their tasks.

Cub Run Recreation Center (Fairfax County Park Authority) June 2018- Present
Front Desk Associate (Volunteer)
• Greeting the visitors to the recreation centers
• Assist the visitors with questions about classes, the recreation center rules via phone and in person
• Check in the visitors to the recreation center by swiping their membership passes
• Occasionally handle sale of passes or other site-specific items

Sellerie de France November 2017
Senior Bookkeeper
• General Bookkeeping
• Accounting- Assist CPA with monthly and yearly reporting including, but not limited to: prepaid account, accrued expenses, and depreciation.

JSW Steel USA, Baytown, TX January 2009 - April 2016
Financial Analyst

Financial Analyst: January 2012- April 2016
• Played the role of a liaison between the financial institutions and the organization to effectively manage the various funding arrangements created for the purposes of operations and purchases of raw materials.
• Measured and reported the company’s overall performance through effective and timely industry competitive ratio analysis to the CEO,CFO and other member of middle management.
• Ensured timely servicing of the various liabilities taken by the organization by ensuring that the necessary principal and interest on the loans was paid as per scheduled.

Staff Accountant January 2012- April 2016
• Assisted in the process of financial accounting and reporting working alongside with the senior accountant
• Compiled a variety of reports such as trial balance, costing statements, cash flow statement, inventory analysis reports, collections report, monthly purchase and usage of raw materials report.
• Assisted in the process of month end closing by performing key activities. I reconciled the bank statements at the end of each month in order to arrive at the final cash balance. In addition worked on passing the necessary adjusting entries to the accrual made, based on the actual expenditures incurred. I updated the individual reports for various consumable such as natural gas, electricity, tools and materials used by the mill for the month. Based on these reports I was able to provide the variance of the actual usage versus the budgeted usage to our senior management and accountant.
• Occasionally I was also responsible for passing the journal entry in the book for the biweekly payroll once the payroll had been processd.
Compliance reporting January 2012- April 2016
• Worked with the relevant divisions in the organization such as environmental, labor, tax, finance and banking so as to gather the necessary information to include in the compliance report.
• I compiled an excel spreadsheet as per a set format and sent it to our parent company in India for their review.
• If and when there had been and instance of non-compliance the relevant department had to provide an explanation to our colleagues in India for the non compliance. This had to be mentioned on the monthly as well as quarterly compliance reports.

Accounts receivable associate: January 2009- January 2012
• Spearheaded the receivables effort to improve collections on a monthly basis and successfully exceeded the collection targets set by management.
• Worked with members of the sales department to establish effective communication channels with the customers to ensure better efficiency of the collection process.
• Prepared accounts receivable aging reports for the presentation to the CEO and CFO for their review and feedback. Worked with invoicing team and customers to reduce the amount of past due balances based on the aging report.
• Improved coverage of all the customers in the list by sending statements of account and other necessary material such as invoices,credit memos to the customers, sales department and other relevant parties.


IMAKE Consulting (ABSXchange LLC) February 2007 - July 2007
Financial Analyst
• Analyzed the prospectuses regarding the issue of various kinds of debt obligations such as CDOs, asset backed securities, mortgage backed securities and collected the pertinent details for the preparation of documents for investors to view.
Education
Ge George Mason University December 2008
Master of Science in Accounting (MSA)

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)
Master of Business Administration (MBA) December 2006
• Investment and Financial Services Management
• Corporate Finance

Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Bombay, India
Diploma in Financial Management June 2003

Jai Hind College, Bombay, India
Bachelors of Management Studies Major: Finance May 2002

Industry Accepted Qualifications
• Successfully completed level 1 of the CFA exam administered by the CFA institute
• CPA exam candidate, working towards completion of FAR section.

Technical Skills:
• Software packages: SAP 730, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access; HTML, VBA, Steel Process Tracking System(SPTS), Common Reporting System(CRS), Great Plains, R software
• Language proficiency: Proficient in speaking and writing French

Notable Skill Sets:
• Organized, highly detail-oriented with exceptional analytical skills
• Effective team player, able to lead the team collective towards the achievement of designated goals
• Able to work independently and strive to achieve the best possible outcome
• Able to acquire the necessary expertise to work with the systems of the organization and accounting methods efficiently