Syed Shakeebur Rahman, Financial Analyst III

Syed Shakeebur Rahman

Financial Analyst III

Global e-Business Operations Private Limited (HPE)

Location
India - Bengaluru
Education
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor of Commerce
Experience
17 years, 7 months

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Total years of experience :17 years, 7 months

Financial Analyst III at Global e-Business Operations Private Limited (HPE)
  • India - Bengaluru
  • My current job since July 2016

Job Profile: Finance - Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Costing.

Determines cost of operations by establishing standard costs by collecting HPE WW Call Center operational data.
Guides cost analysis process by establishing and enforcing policies and procedures, providing trends and forecasts, explaining processes and techniques, recommending actions.
Preparing budget, actuals and forecasting at P&L level for WW HQ CSC business units, support annual operating plan exercise and ensure accuracy of forecasts is maintained.
Identifies financial status by comparing and analyzing actual results with plans and forecasts.
Improves financial status by analyzing results, monitoring variances, identifying trends and recommending actions to management.
Review Actuals reporting in P&L cube, EDW (Enterprise Data Warehouse (Yotta)) and SAP S4 AO, during month-ends for accuracy, completeness and timeliness.
Provide analytical support for periodical business reviews and decision making.
Participate in cross-functional meetings to resolve recurring issues.
Compile required management reports and provide adequate level of variance explanations.
Passing Journal entry, re-class entry, IC billing in Equate during month/quarter and year end close.
Reconciles transactions by comparing and correcting data.
Extract hyperion data for analysis.
Maintains master database by entering, verifying, and backing up data
Establish good relationships with all key business partners and providing support in key financial decisions.
Other ad hoc duties as required to fulfill the roles of the finance function as and when required.
Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Projects:
RMR Project (Resource Management Reporting) for HPE WW Call Center.
HPE Segmentation Project (Business Area and Hardware Product Line).
South Africa VAT Project for IC Equate Call Center Billings.
Aruba O&O Revenue Project.
NGIT S4 Project.

Achievements during my tenure at HPE:
Recognized and rewarded for supporting the budget process and cleaning up the master database.
Recognized and rewarded for being key resource for RMR framework project by setting up finance master data for 6k HPE WW call center employees.
Recognized and rewarded for being part of HPE segmentation project and representing from call center finance standpoint by working with PWC team and for making restatement for 2yrs and for restructuring the Business Area and Hardware Product Line.
Recognized and rewarded for being part and implementing South Africa VAT project by changing the VAT rules for IC equate call center billings.
Recognized and rewarded for supporting Aruba O&O revenue project for call center support.
Recognized and rewarded for actively leading from Finance call center standpoint in NGIT S4 Hana project.

Leas Finance Analyst at Ernst & Young
  • India - Bengaluru
  • December 2011 to July 2016

Job Profile: Finance and Accounts - Global Settlements Group -Inter -Firm Accounts (AP/AR).
Handling EMEIA countries (UK&I, France, Luxembourg, GSA Netherlands, Belgium and Nordics).
Handling team of 6 members.
Monitoring the daily work and ensure work is completed and SLAs are met.
Reviewing AR invoices/credits billed by team members.
To make sure all the AR Invoices are raised before the cutoff date for the request received from Engagement Managers and Engagement partners.
Contact Engagement Managers and Engagement partners to provide the supporting document to finalize the AR invoices.
Send the finalized AR invoices to countries with supporting document to process and make the payment.
Prepare the monthly AR billed report and send it to the Engagement Managers and Engagement partners.
Maintain Engagement code list as an when there is a change.
To find out the AR invoice details for payments received and work with cash application team to apply the payments.
Analyzing, follow-up and settlement of AR Open items in the books of accounts.
Dispute handling and coordinating with EY partners to get the dispute resolved.
Reconciling the balance with countries AP report with our AR report.
Preparation of AR aging summary and escalatable reports to present it to the Management.
Auditing AP invoices processed by team members.
Preparation of Inter Firm Reconciliations for EMEIA Countries.
Auditing/Quality Analysis of the reconciliation prepared by the team and to confirm its compliance to business standard.
Analyzing AP debit balance report and request countries for refund.
Handling Email queries and Escalations.
Auditing the process on frequent basics and place a control.
Updating the process documentation when there are any changes in process.
Conducting daily team huddles with regard to any new process updates.
Confirming the pay cycle on final day for EMEIA countries.
Attending monthly calls with counter parts to discuss deviations.
Confirming the Inter- Firm balances during month end to the countries.
Preparing the volume reports and sending it to Management.
To create a backup ensuring that there are nil negative impacts on process during crisis.
Assisting manager in preparing reports as and when requires


Achievements during my tenure at E&Y: Performer award for the month June 2012, Sept and Dec 2013.

Process Improvement: (Turbo Idea) Implemented the idea which saved 500 EUR P.M and missing hard Invoice copies issue got resolved.

GB Project Summary:

Have been a team member of GB Project which was led by Manager.
Project was initiated for timely accounting of the invoices by GSG Team with in a weeks’ time as per EY GSG calendar.
Performed various analyses as the root causes of the issues.
The target was to ensure 93% of the invoices that are sent in adherence with the GSG Calendar are accounted in a quarter post completion of the project.

Financial Associate IV at Hewlett Packard
  • India - Bengaluru
  • May 2006 to August 2011

Company: Hewlett Packard as Financial Analyst.
Duration: From May 2006 - August 2011 (5.4 years)
Department: Finance and Accounts -Accounts Payable, Inter Company Billings and Reconciliations.

2. Hewlett Packard

Job Profile: Accounts payable process (P2P)
• First point of contact for Accounts Payable USA region (P2P)
• Processing the invoices/credit notes using 3 way matching process (Invoice/PO and GR) in SAP within the expected Turnaround time.
• Providing invoice/payment status/purchase order status to the vendor's using SAP application and resolving all queries within the expected Turnaround time.
• Follow up with IT team to release the invoice from OB10 block.
• Working with the critical vendors and resolving issues on priority.
• Follow up with Vendor management team to update the correct Vendor information.
• Follow up with Operations to process the overdue invoices on priority and make payments.
• Handling escalations for the process.
• Responsible for the preparation of Volume & Utilization tracker for the whole team
• Responsible for training new hires, giving them knowledge of the process
• Promote teamwork and cooperative efforts.
• Actively lead any additional responsibility delegated
• Coordinating with different teams to improve the process and providing training to agents
• Coordinate the team activities in the absence of Team Lead.
• To create a back up ensuring that there are nil negative impacts on process during crisis.

Inter Company Billings and Reconciliations
• Intercompany Accounting (I/C Accounting, I/C Settlements, Reconciliation and Reporting.
• Review the Posting of journals for various debit notes and credit notes raised during the month.
• Review the Invoices posted for inter company entities by team members.
• Review Inter-company reconciliations for 3 regions APAC, EMEIA and USA done by team members.
• Handle escalations and attend monthly calls to discuss deviations.
• Matching SAP & Interim balances.
• Consolidating weekly and monthly financial reports.
• SPOC for team members to explore the new team mates on there trainings & day to day activities
• To create a back up ensuring that there are nil negative impacts on process during crisis.


Achievements during my tenure at HP:
• Best performer of the Quarter (Nov-Jan '08)
• Best performer of the month. (September' 06)
• Best performer of the month (June '07)
• Best performer of the month (February, June and September' 08)
• Best performer of the month (March 09, April 09, May 09, July 09, Nov 09 and Dec 09)
• Best performer of the month (March 10, May 09, July 10, Aug 10 and Sep 10)
• Received customer appreciation emails regularly.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Bachelor of Commerce
  • at R.C College from Bangalore University
  • April 2005

Specialties & Skills

Analysis
Financial Reporting
Reconciliation
Accounts Receivable
Accounts Payable
ACCOUNTING
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE
FINANCE
FINANCIAL ANALYST
RECONCILIATIONS
Inter Company
Forecast and Budgeting
Financial Planning and Analysis

Languages

Hindi
Beginner
Urdu
Beginner
English
Beginner
Kannada
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Certificate Programme in Finance & Accounting (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2014
Valid Until:
January 9999