Sowmyalakshmi Jayaraman

Business Development Executive

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs experience

Key Highlights

  • Expert in ASC 606 and IFRS 15 compliance.
  • Proven track record in revenue lifecycle management.
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Revenue Operations expert in the SaaS and Fintech sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Revenue RecognitionNetsuiteFinancial Analysis

Other Skills

ASC 606AccountingAnalytical SkillsAuditingRevenue AnalysisRevenue AccountingRevenue ForecastingAccrualsAutomationFinancial ReportingCompany LawForeign Exchange ManagementTreasuryMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft Excel

About

• Senior Revenue Analyst and Semi-Qualified Chartered Accountant with extensive experience in the SaaS and Fintech sectors. • Working knowledge and practical application of ASC 606 / IFRS 15 • Ability to identify, design and implement process enhancements • Ability to collaborate and coordinate with members of the Global Team in various geographies • Have strong soft skills like leadership; interpersonal, team and communication skills both verbal and written. TECHNICAL SKILLS 1) ERP & CRM: NetSuite (Advanced Revenue Management - ARM), Salesforce, PeopleSoft, Oracle. 2) Regulations: US GAAP (ASC 606), IFRS 15, Ind AS, Statutory Audit, Tax Audit. 3) Tools: Advanced Excel (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP, XLOOKUP), MS Office Suite. Open to connecting with Finance leaders and Revenue Operations / Accounting professionals.

Experience

10 yrs
Total Experience
1 yr 9 mos
Average Tenure
10 mos
Current Experience

Confluent

Senior Revenue Analyst

Jul 2025Present · 10 mos · Bengaluru · Hybrid

  • Cloud Marketplace
  • A) Reconciliation: Managed end-to-end revenue lifecycle for AWS/Azure/GCP marketplaces, ensuring precise data mapping and deferral accuracy. Engineered data mapping between partner reports, backend usage data, and NetSuite to ensure precise revenue deferral and recognition.
  • B) Prepare cash, marketplace fee, and marketplace journal entry mapping files, and drive the related NetSuite entries end to end to streamline the month-end close
  • Data Integrity & Reconciliation:
  • 1. Perform a "three-way match" process between SFDC, Tableau, and NetSuite to validate license delivery, ensuring revenue flow is both timely and accurate. This is a critical control that drives Revenue across a line of products.
  • 2. Perform SFDC – NetSuite sales order reconciliations and investigate variances and resolving discrepancies
  • 3. Executing procedures for ARM $0, negative revenue, and revenue element reviews and confirming valid reasons for any inconsistencies, escalating when needed.
  • 4. Review contracts and invoices on hold by checking SFDC, NetSuite to assess if revenue recognition criteria are met before release.
  • Cross-functional collaboration:
  • a. Partnering with Deal Desk, FP&A, Order Management, Billing & Collections, PS/Services, Data Engineering, Business Systems to resolve queries, enhance controls, and improve global data quality.
  • b. Provide comprehensive support for interim and year-end audit procedures.
  • c. Prepare detailed technical workings to support the Balance Sheet Disclosures.
NetSuiteRevenue RecognitionASC 606

Finastra

Accounting Operations - Senior Revenue Analyst

Aug 2022Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Contract assessment of revenue contracts (Licenses / Cloud / Services) in line with IFRS 15
  • Prepare contract summary, validate revenue allocation and allocate performance obligations in line with Standalone Selling Price.
  • Preparation, analysis, maintenance and balance sheet control sign off relating to AIDI Schedules.
  • Preparation, analysis and maintenance of schedule for RLF Revenue
  • Analysis of credit memos to assess the impact and appropriate accounting treatment
  • Analysis of large variance customers at an opportunity level to set the revenue expectation in line with the contractual document in Net Suite. Co-ordinate with the billing team to address the differences between actual billing and the contract terms.
  • Work on month-end; quarter-end activities, performing accounting assessments, posting manual journal entries for books closure. Liaise with FP&A team to analyze and validate the revenue variances at a customer-contract level and preparation of variance summary at a product level.
  • Lead a process-walkthrough session with the Internal Auditors (to familiarize) on the revenue and balance sheet controls. Providing in-depth support to Internal Audit engagements.
  • Preparing audit documentation work-papers and supporting Statutory Audit.
  • Involved in different process automation projects
AccountingFinancial AnalysisNetSuiteRevenue RecognitionAnalytical SkillsAuditing

Cerner corporation

Revenue Accountant

Dec 2020Aug 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Ensuring appropriate revenue treatment of new contract deals at client level and ensuring compliance with US GAAP / ASC 606 and the Company's revenue recognition policies
  • Perform revenue recognition deal review for multiple line of business such as Subscriptions License, Professional services, Shared Computing Services and Application Services.
  • Subject Matter Expert for Contract Renewals
  • Accounting for Bad debts, Write-offs, and Credits by submitting appropriate contract adjustment forms and determining the revenue impact
  • Perform fluctuation analyses to assess quarterly trends on contract revenue lines
  • Addressing ad-hoc requirements of cross-functional teams (Sales, Account Receivables, Credit and Cash Collections, etc.) to resolve revenue, billing, and other issues
  • Account for contract modifications by preparing appropriate amendments
  • Resolving backlog review tickets
  • Support quarter / year-end activities
  • Training and mentoring new joiners
Revenue Recognition

Pkf sridhar & santhanam llp

Consultant

Jun 2017Jun 2018 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Diverse Experience across Insurance, FMCG and Manufacturing Sectors
  • Assisted the company in R2R and preparation of financial statements
  • Coordinating between the Statutory Auditors and Management in submission of audit evidence and other documents that were required as part of the audit, providing explanations along with supporting documents on the entries passed, assisted in filling the audit schedules
  • Other Responsibilities
  • I led the audit team in the following assignments
  • Review Engagement for the purpose of audit of Group financial statements
  • Limited Review as per SRE 2410
  • Audit of Special Purpose Financial Statements for group reporting purposes
  • Issue of Certificates for special purpose

Haribhakti & co.

Executive

Aug 2016Mar 2017 · 7 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • Worked and Led the below Audit cycle
  • Developing risk- based annual audit plans detailing the scope, nature and timing of audit activities.
  • Preparation of Audit Scope of Work
  • Developing the Audit Framework
  • Carry out the audit procedures in accordance with the Generally Accepted Auditing Standards under Indian GAAP
  • Verify the compliance of various statutes for accounting as well as disclosure requirements, including encouraging/advising management to adopt the best practices for Financial Reporting
  • Finalizing Audit and discussion of major observations/inefficiencies identified with process owners
  • Ensure that audit documentation is in compliance with quality standards of the Firm.
  • Preparing Draft Audit Report and giving recommendations to management for improvement in business and financial processes and activities.
  • Mentoring new Article assistants
  • Provide effective counselling, training, coaching and mentoring to team members to assist them in fully developing their potential
  • Supervise, review and validate the work performed

Karra & co

Articled Assistant

Jun 2012Jun 2015 · 3 yrs · Alwarpet, Chennai

  • My exposure during articleship covers Statutory Audit of private and public limited companies, Audit of charitable trusts, Internal Audits of private limited companies.
  • I worked as part of the audit team in the statutory audit of a reputed public sector bank.
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  • Key Achievement
  • Assignment - Statutory Audit of a Private Limited Company in Health Care Management Sector
  • Received Appreciation from Client, Audit Manager and Partner for pointing an error of principle in "Income Recognition" that went unnoticed in the previous years.
  • This error resulted in material misstatement of profits of the company that it required "Disclaimer" in the audit report.
  • The Client held a meeting with the Audit Team presided by me, formulated accounting practices (in alignment with their operations) to be implemented in their upcoming years.
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  • I have also conducted a management study on "Revenue Leakage and Cash Management".
  • An IT company approached our firm stating that they were making huge profits but ended being deficit of cash continuously. To locate the issue, we started studying their revenue and expense model.
  • The study covered the following activities:
  • Extensive coordination with the management and staff in understanding the various phases of a process
  • Analysing the benefits and drawbacks of their revenue and expense milestones
  • Ageing their debtors and creditors
  • Coordination with the overseas wing of the company in understanding cross-border transactions and impact of for-ex fluctuations
  • Preparation of report specifying
  • Areas of revenue leakage
  • Areas where cash collection could be improvised
  • Better accounting practices and briefing how the methods suggested could improve the cash position of the company.

Education

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

Semi-Qualified Chartered Accountant. (Group 2 of CA Final - Pending)

Jan 2011Jan 2016

The Institute of Company Secretaries of India

Executive Programme

D G Vaishnav College, Arumbakkam

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) — Mathematics

Jan 2009Jan 2012

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