1. Rohit Kalia
Cell: (732)598-8587
80 Oxford Court
Englishtown, NJ 07726
RohitKalia2004@yahoo.com
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Objective To pursue a career in accounting and financial services
Education Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (BS Accounting) May 1999
Technical MS Office 2010 (Excel, Word, Powerpoint), Windows7
Skills Citrix, Sungard, Advanced excel skills(V-lookups, H-lookups, Pivot tables, Macros, Nested tables), SAP, Efreedom, Powerpoint, Cognos,
Ariba, Computron, Quikbooks, Hyperion, Access, DCT Reporting, Oracle based Peoplesoft, Frx Reporting, FARO Reporting, Flexi
Accounting, Peachtree Accounting, Timberline Accounting, Contract II Accounting
Achievement Strong technical working knowledge of GAAP & STAT
Work
Experience
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield Apr12-Present
External Reporting - Financial Analyst IV
• Perform Blue Book statutory reporting, management discussion and analysis, footnote disclosure, supplementary schedules,
on Horizon Blue Cross parent company with Total Assets over $6 billion and Total Revenue over $ 500 million and submit deliverables
to NAIC state regulators by the mandatory state deadline
• Perform the equity method of accounting and analysis for equity investment exceeding 20% and/or exert significant influence
• Analyzed investment securities for their proper classification and wrote a memo to senior management explaining the criteria for proper
classification on Available for sale equity securities vs. Held to maturity debt securities for over $2 billion
• Analyze Schedule D investment activity for STAT & GAAP reporting packages and generate quarterly investment reports for financial
Reporting
• Prepare pension & 401k audit file for external auditors
• Proposed and successfully implemented ABC (activity based cost) methodology to allocate the IT budget of approximately $700 million
• Facilitated and improved reader understanding of the accounting and analysis of Pension, OPEB accounts for sharper analytics
• Made inquiries while analyzing the investment statements and pinpointing errors overlooked by the treasury and the FPA group
• Analyze earned revenue vs. unearned revenue based on revenue recognition criteria
• Saved the company $2 million by pinpointing an over disbursement made by treasury group and kept all the key stakeholders engaged
until the matter was confirmed and resolved
• Enhanced the MD&A format for senior management by providing thoughtful business insights
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield Feb09-Apr12
General Accounting - Financial Analyst III
• Manage the quarterly Other than temporary impairments on equity and debt securities for Horizon Blue Cross parent company for
approximately $2 billion
• Perform a comprehensive analysis on exempt and non-exempt company-wide annual incentive plan for approximately $50 million and
present it to senior management
• Manage the employee benefits process and explain actual vs. budget variance to FPA in quarterly update meetings
• Provide budgeting and forecasting to the financial planning and analysis group for related processes
• Supervise and approve over 90 days Non admit journal entries, IT project accruals, service accruals and analysis prepared by direct
reports
• Prepare and analyze the monthly indirect Cash flows for the treasury group to ensure that the organization meets its working capital and
short term liquidity needs as well as make proper investment decisions, furthermore present it in the monthly CFO meeting
• Analyze the semiannual pension and other post-retirement benefit disclosure provide by the third party administrator (Towers Watson)
on total retirement investments exceeding $50 million and impacting the profit and loss statement for net periodic cost and balance sheet
adjustment for overfunded or underfunded status for the Defined Benefit Pension Plan.
• Analyze the allowance for doubtful account from billing and prepare a comprehensive analysis for senior management
• Streamlined and improved the allowance for doubtful and employee benefit processes to eliminate non-value added steps, improving
and automating the processes without sacrificing quality
• Manage the investment process including available for sale, held to maturity securities for Parent and related subsidiaries and act as a
liaison between Sungard and the investment custodian
• Review expenses for software and hardware fixed asset, prepaid cost by IT and advise Project Managers in IT on capitalization policies
for ongoing projects over approximately $500 million
Pfizer Nov07-Feb09
Consultant-Senior Financial Analyst
• Prepare Cash Flows statement for responsible legal entities
• Prepare Basic & Dilutive EPS calculation
2. • Provide guidance to project managers on capital vs. expense policies
• Provide GAAP guidance to project manager on technical issues
• Provide FAS 109 analysis on responsible entities
• Research GAAP technical issues on accounting treatment for transactions
• Prepare supporting schedules for(10K,10Q)
• Analyze/book FAS 123(R) equity compensation issued to employees/business partners
• Assist in the booking/analysis of Securitization(FAS 140) of assets
• Calculate EPS, Diluted EPS, Weighted Average of common shares outstanding
Wyeth Pharmaceutical Mar05-Nov07
Senior Financial Analyst
• Managing & accounting for debt issued on Wyeth Corporate & Wyeth Corporate Holding's books
• Managing Plain Vanilla Derivative accounting under FAS 133, update related schedules for the Annual Revenue Hedging Options
program
• Coordinating & analyzing the financial reporting of six legal entities(Berdan Captive Insurance, AHIL, MDP, AW Holding, AC
Acquisition, AHP Holding)
• Coordinating with treasury on carrying value of Debt Maturity, Mark to market of Hedge Option & Swap's
• Preparing quarterly packages on Hedge Options, Debt Analysis, Swap's for external auditors
• Responsible for updating and presenting Sarbanes Oxley process & control to external auditors on Debt, Hedge Options, & Swap's
Aventis Pharmaceutical (Acquired by Sanofi) Jan03-Mar05
Senior Financial Analyst (Legal Consolidations Group)
• Responsible for month end book close process and quarterly financial reporting for the following legal entities (Whitney Bay Insurance,
Armour Pharmaceuticals, APC Holdings)
• Developed Aventis's policy & procedures for cash management
• Prepare and present to management detailed analytical reviews of balance sheet account on a quarterly basis
• Prepare three-year strategic plan by forecasting balance sheet data for subsidiary companies, cash and cash equivalent and other notes
payable used in company's plan and forecast process
Hewlett Packard (Pre-merger Compaq) Aug 99-Jan 03
Staff Accountant
• Responsible for bank and cash reconciliations for all regions
• Assist is preparation of monthly financial reporting book
• Prepare cash flows(Indirect Method)
• Analyzing contracts to distinguish between capital vs. operating leases and recommending the proper accounting treatment
Reference Available upon request