Chinnu Soby
Bangalore
Summary
Finance professional with 6.5 years of experience in accounting and compliance, including 3 years as a Staff Accountant specializing in GAAP for startups and 3.5 years in compliance managing regulatory requirements and financial risk. Skilled in financial reporting, accounting principles, and regulatory compliance, helping businesses maintain accuracy and efficiency in their financial operations.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff Accountant
Kruze Consulting
06.2022 - 03.2025
- Managed bank reconciliations, profit & loss reviews, and balance sheet analysis for 25 to 30 startup clients monthly, ensuring financial accuracy and compliance with GAAP.
- Performed revenue recognition and maintained capitalization tables, ensuring accurate tracking of ownership structures.
- Reviewed and analyzed accounts using QuickBooks, ensuring accurate financial reporting.
- Worked across various payroll platforms, including Gusto, Rippling, Justworks, and Trinet, to ensure seamless payroll processing for clients.
- Adapted to different accounting tools and client-specific applications, demonstrating flexibility and efficiency in financial operations.
- Utilized an internal working schedule (built-in Excel sheets) for financial tracking and reporting, leveraging formulas and data analysis for accuracy.
- Assisted in month-end and year-end close processes, improving efficiency and reducing reporting discrepancies.
- Collaborated with clients to streamline financial processes, supporting strategic decision-making and compliance.
Sanctions Investigator
PayPal India
05.2021 - 06.2022
- Supported and reviewed production transactions across various queues such as 'Politically exposed people' cases, venmo transactions, sanctioned countries, and accounts under watch list
- Monitoring transactions to ensure compliance within company and region
- Processed 800-1000 compliance issue cases per day meeting a productivity of 107%, quality of 98% and efficiency of 100%
- Performed analysis for high-risk customers to determine their risk factor
- Awarded with Rising star award & Cultural champion award
Compliance Executive
Redha Al Ansari Exchange
06.2020 - 11.2020
- Company Overview: UAE
- Analyzing the suspicious transaction reporting and take appropriate actions/escalate such cases to the Head of compliance
- Authorized clearances for alerts on watch list
- Monitoring of remittance of foreign currency transaction
- Maintained of logs such as central bank notices, laws & regulation changes, watch list, black list & police inquiries
- Perform screening and EDD (Enhanced Due Diligence) for Corresponding Business partners, Local exchange houses, agents, business partners, etc and KYC (Know Your Customer) process for the incoming / new account opening before on-boarding Corporate / SME / Entity Customers
- Assistance to the compliance team for back office works, database maintenance & analysis and internal controls for all branches (41 branches) of Redha Al Ansari Exchange
- Handled AML/KYC, On boarding related training to the FLA
- UAE
Financial Crime Specialist
Wells Fargo
07.2018 - 02.2020
- Conducted customer identification process on individuals
- Validated onboarded customer and client data in order to be compliant with the latest banking regulations as per the PATRIOT act, Banking secrecy act, Anti money laundering act, Anti bribery act and anti terrorism funding
- Processed 200 cases a day achieving 99% accuracy and a 140% productivity
- Maintained an accuracy of 100% for 7 months in a row
- Awarded top performer in the team for 5 months
- Trained new joiners in procedures and assisted business management heads in procedural changes
- Utilized excel with Vlookups & pivot tables to analyze productivity of team as well of process
- Worked on Automation of procedure that covered 475 scenarios, which completed the work of 6 team members of 5000 cases per day. The dollar saving of $5,700 per month for the process.
Education
Masters of Commerce - Finance
CMR Institute of Management Studies
Bangalore01.2018
Bachelor of Commerce - Finance
Jyoti Nivas College
Bangalore01.2016
Valedictorian - Achieved 90% average in all accounting subjects
St. George Higher Secondary School
KeralaSkills
- Monthly account/bank reconciliation
- Monthly journal entries
- Payroll processing
- Bookkeeping
- Financial reporting
- Payroll process
- GAAP accounting
- Revenue recognition
- Expense tracking
- Financial statements review
- Accruals and provisions
- Microsoft Excel
- V Lookup
- Pivot Tables
- Variety of Formulas
- Know Your Customer
- Anti Money Laundering
- Enhance Due Diligence
References
1) Bradley Kusumo
Senior Managing controller
Kruze Consulting
bradley@kruzeconsulting.com
+62 811-9591-828
2) Subineel Chakraborti
Assistant controller
Kruze Consulting
schakraborti@kruzeconsulting.com.
+91 9513820504
3) Mr. Shyju Beltazer
Head of Compliance
Redha Al-Ansari Exchange
shyju@redhaalansari.com
+971 505801644
4) Sudheendra Lakshminarasimha
Manager – Risk and Compliance
CDMSR Wells Fargo, India
Sudheendra.Lakshminarasimh a@wellsfargo.com
+919845128991.
Timeline
Staff Accountant
Kruze Consulting
06.2022 - 03.2025
Sanctions Investigator
PayPal India
05.2021 - 06.2022
Compliance Executive
Redha Al Ansari Exchange
06.2020 - 11.2020
Financial Crime Specialist
Wells Fargo
07.2018 - 02.2020
Masters of Commerce - Finance
CMR Institute of Management Studies
Bachelor of Commerce - Finance
Jyoti Nivas College
Valedictorian - Achieved 90% average in all accounting subjects
St. George Higher Secondary School
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