RARiva Agarwal
@rivaagarwal
Business Analyst and Business Development
Chandigarh, India
Riva Agarwal is a highly adaptive professional with a diverse profile spanning project management, business consulting, business development, analysis, and financial reporting. She possesses a global perspective and thrives in people-oriented environments. Her expertise includes drafting software requirement specifications, managing financial data, and conducting detailed business analysis for various industries.
Experience
Assistant Project Manager & Sr. Business Analyst
WE Excel Softwares
Drafting Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Scope document and Request for Proposal (RFP) for a new Accounting Software “iProfit” and other business specific software’s Draft and maintain business requirements and align them with functional and technical requirements. Propose solutions, define specifications and needs, manage financial data bases, filing systems, software systems and monitor capital expenditures. Translate stakeholder requirements into different tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, workflow/process diagrams, data flow diagrams, comparison charts. Managing internal teams to build business requirements specification, to ensure integrated delivery and to follow-up at all stages of documentation and development for multiple software’s.
Operations Manager
Riva Industries Ltd
Maintain financial data bases, filing systems, software systems and monitor capital expenditures. Migrated companies book of accounts form Tally to Quickbooks. Prepared tax returns, cash flow statements, tax summaries, disbursement summaries and other necessary forms. Conducting statistical analysis of financial data using Excel.
Consultant (Public Sector Advisory)
Grant Thornton
Project Management Consultant (PMC) providing assistance to Punjab Small Industries and Export Corporation (PSIEC) for leveraging assistance and for Release of Grant Funds available under various Govt. of India schemes. Preparation of Diagnostic Study Report, Detailed Project Report, Financial Closure and Cluster Development Plans. Assist various stakeholder consultations with industry, demand assessment, infrastructure requirement, mobilization of industry, technology benchmarking, business plan, etc. Providing handholding support in preparation of all the supporting documents for favorable SIDBI/ bank appraisal, responding to queries of Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises / Ministry of Food Processing Industries and State Government and preparing the supporting document accordingly for the purpose of In-principle & Final Approval. Mobilisation of more than 10000 units in various industrial clusters for formation of SPVs to implement the project and conducting awareness program for leveraging the assistance under the scheme.
Accounts Analyst
AVAAP
Assist with accounting close, including various analyses, reports, journal entries, reconciliations on a monthly basis and performance of analytics used to ensure financial statement accuracy. Developed financial reports for forecasting analysis of data across various financial systems. Analyze monthly revenue recognition to ensure compliance with GAAP (ASC 606). Responsible for the business process units including Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Invoicing and Payroll. Analysis of chargeback items like travel and other miscellaneous expenses, including review and correction of variances. Performing account analysis and reconciliation, including bank statements and intercompany general ledger accounts. Worked on Concur, Mavenlink and QuickBooks.
Education
University of Pittsburgh
M.Sc in Accounting
Accounting
Panjab University
B.Com (Honors in Finance)
Finance