1. SANJIT KUMAR SAHOO
Mobile: 09962844769 E-Mail: sanzit@gmail.com/sanzit@live.com
Aspire to work in challenging job environment that utilizes my professional expertise &
experience and offers ample of learning opportunities.
PROFESSIONAL BRIEF
 An erudite professional with a valuable experience of more than 7 years in Audit, Accounts and
Financial Analysis.
 Ability to provide Timely, Consistent, Clear and Accurate financial reports for informational, auditing
and operational use.
 Ability to handle multiple tasks, set priorities and meet deadlines.
 A keen communicator with excellent analytical, team building & relationship management skills.
 Conversant with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) & Indian Accounting Standards
 Familiar with US GAAP with respect to Software Revenue Recognition
ORGANISATIONAL PURVIEW
Hewlett Packard - Financial Analyst Dec 11 – Till Date
Month End Close
 Involved in month end close activities for a large contract (RBS), monitoring month end close in SAP
and making suitable accounting adjustments such as:
o Revenue Accrual & Revision
o Revenue Adjustments
o Severance revenue and cost deferral/release
o Deferral and Amortisation of transition cost
o Cost cross charge between cost centers
 Maintaining register for global disputes in billing and making appropriate provision in P&L at month
end.
 Verifying and facilitating the approval of invoices from sub contractors against the services rendered
as per signed SOWs and making appropriate cost accrual entries in System.
 Preparing revenue and cost expectation numbers and monitoring the variance with actual numbers
in system on a daily basis during month end close.
 Facilitating close meetings with Service Delivery Head and Finance Lead to review the month end
close activities and discussing the variances between forecast and actual numbers.
 Preparing close consolidation for management review.
 Checking Cost Allocation between different contracts and recharging the cost to respective contracts
Budgeting, Forecasting & Variance Analysis
 Setting up Flash meetings with Service Delivery Heads and Finance Leads to finalise Budget/Outlook
numbers, updating the numbers into system and tying out the system numbers with forecast file.
 Preparing flash consolidation for management review.
MIS & Statutory Reports
 Generating MIS Reports based on requirement like Actual/Outlook, Headcount, Contracts, Revenue
and Expense Reporting using SMR (Standard Management Reports) and Business Objects.
 Statutory Reporting for transferring cost from one legal entity to another legal entity as per transfer
pricing rules.
 Providing support in generating reports for quarterly audits.

2. Cognizant Technology Solutions - Jr. Executive - Finance July 09 - Sept 11
 Verifying contract documents and identifying correct revenue recognition method as per US-GAAP.
 Coordinating with the project team in resolving issues with respect to Revenue Recognition &
Invoicing.
 Participating in month end end closure process as per the Finance Close Calendar.
 Facilitating monthly revenue flash process for the worldwide revenue, reporting the flash figures with
project level, customer level and associate level break up and making customer level variance
analysis.
 Running monthly final revenue process, passing journal entries and reconciling the revenue numbers
with GL.
 Posting monthly cost accrual entries for the sub-contractors’ cost & making loss provision for the
onerous contracts.
 Keeping track of the multi-element contracts (i.e. contracts that require different accounting
treatment to each element of services) and ensuring appropriate treatment as per group policy.
 Keeping track of the large projects that involve Knowledge Transition (KT) and suggesting the
appropriate cost and revenue treatment as per the corporate policy.
 Preparing utilization Report for all fixed bid projects which is shared with the Global Work Force
Management Team.
 Providing training to the project team, on the concepts of revenue recognition of IT /Software
related services provided by Cognizant and help them understand the end to end billing and revenue
process in PeopleSoft.
 Suggesting enhancements in PeopleSoft and coordinate with the technical team for making
enhancements and conducting Testing before the enhancements could move into production.
 Preparing quarterly audit schedules and reconciling the figures with Balance Sheet/P&L Account.
o Audit Schedule ( end to end verification of quarterly revenue and invoicing)
o Gross Margin Analysis as per management threshold. (Variance in revenue +/- USD
500K and variance in margin +/- 5%)
o Un Billed Revenue and Revenue Billed in Advance (UAR)
o Fluctuation Analysis of UBR/RBA
o UBR to be billed in the following month
o Loss Making Schedule – Making provision in the projects where there is a probable loss
M/S. N. C. Rajagopal & Co. - Audit Assistant [April 05 - Oct 08]
 Statutory Audit of companies including banking and insurance companies
 Tax Audit of companies
 Internal Audit of Companies
SCHOLASTIC
 Chartered Accountant from Institute of Chartered Accountants of India in Nov 2008 (52.4%)
 B.Com from Utkal University in 2003 (64%)
 Diploma in Computer Applications from Centre for Electronics Design & Technology of India in 2001
(72%)
 XII from Council of Higher Secondary Education, Odisha (67%)
 X from B. B. High School, Dhenkanal (76%)

3. TECHNICAL KNOWHOW
Accounting Package : SAP, PeopleSoft, Tally
Reporting Package : DSS Business Intelligence, SMR, BW/EDW/e.FW
Operating System : Windows 7/Vista/XP, DOS
Office Package : MS Office 2010 (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook)
PERSONAL DOSSIER
AUDIT EXPOSURE
Contact Address : Mahaveer Mansion, D-14, Floor – I,
60/20, Abith Colony, Alandur Road,
Saidapet, Chennai – 600 015
Date of Birth : 6th
July 1983
Sex : Male
Marital Status : Single
Nationality : Indian
Hobbies & Interests : Browsing Internet, Travelling, Listening Music, Playing Cricket & Volley Ball
Strengths : Self-confidence, Strong determination, Patience, Ever learning attitude
Languages Known : English, Hindi, Oriya and Tamil (Manageable)
Industry Company Locations Statutory
Audit
Tax
Audit
Banking & Insurance Punjab National Bank Ltd. New Delhi, Mumbai, Chandigarh,
Bhopal, Indore, Patna, Ranchi
•
United India Insurance
Company Ltd.
Chennai
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Royal Sundaram Alliance
Insurance Co Ltd.
Chennai
• •
Star Health & Allied
Insurance Company Ltd.
Chennai, Mumbai, Pune, Nashik,
Bangalore, Mangalore, Hubli
•
Manufacturing Vishnu Lakshmi Mills Pvt.
Ltd. (Cotton)
Coimbatore
•
Khoday India Ltd. (Liquor) Bangalore •
Construction,
Real Estate
Developers
East Coast Construction &
Industries Limited
Bangalore
•
Golden Crest Developers
Pvt. Ltd.
Chennai
• •
Chennai Citicentre Holdings
Pvt. Ltd. (Multiplex)
Chennai
• •
Shipping East Coast Terminal
Operations & Port Services
Limited
(ETA Group)
Chennai
• •
Four M Maritime Pvt. Ltd.
(ETA Group)
Chennai
• •
Pharmaceuticals
Wholesaler
LPH Pharma Pvt. Ltd. Chennai
• •
Book Publisher and
Seller
New Century Book House
Pvt. Ltd.
Chennai
• •
Trade and
Convention Center
Tamilnadu Trade Promotion
Organization Pvt. Ltd.
(Chennai Trade Center)
Chennai
•
Coffee Business Fresh & Honest Café Limited Chennai, Bangalore Internal Audit