Zeeshan Bhutto

 CURRENT ASSIGNMENTS:
• Middle East implementation for CBS (POC from finance team).
o Discussing and finalizing new COA in lieu of systems changes.
o Analysing and producing MIS including business as well as regulatory (CB & BRF)
o Defining and maintaining of accounting setups for products based on product papers.
o Conducting familiarization presentations / user training at UBL UAE Fincon
• UBL Ameen (Islamic banking) branches implementation in CBS (Including Head Office branch)
o Defining of accounting setups and COA maintenance
o Resolution of branch issues related to GL (Profit disbursal issues etc)
• ATM Settlement branch migration on CBS
o Verification of GL postings and GL mappings from legacy
• MIS development and verification (Finance / GL related as well as product based)


 ONGOING ASSIGNMENTS:
• Migration of Credit Card portfolio including merchant payments (Point of contact for Finance).
• COD centralized booking (via virtual branch), verifying and scrutinizing the financial impact.
• Review and maintenance of Chart of Account.
• Change management of SL and GL Mappings between legacy and new architecture.
• FINCON MIS requirements (regulatory, operational and other adhoc) ensuring completeness and correctness.
• Trial balance review, suspect balance trouble shooting and advising relevant stakeholder of the adjustments required if any.
• Presenting to higher management (including CFO) on status of major issues as well as other policies in case of problems faced.
• GL balancing / reconciliation after migration/transfer of branches onto new system.
• Review of outstanding entries during reconciliation of Inter-Branch balances where auto recon is not available. In addition, making sure any corrective actions required are carried out successfully by the concerned.
• Responding to audit related queries and exceptions.
• Head office MIS optimisation and cleanup (For Finance and Liabilities / Deposit departments in particular).
• Reconciling Deposit and Advances balances (Including Accrued and Due Mark-ups in case of Advances) with the GL
• Vendor correspondence and ageing in case of system issues having financial impact.
• Automation of reconciliation (Deposit, Customer Lending and other Financial Aspects).
• Treasury MIS reporting requirements including exchange related issues resolution.
• AML alerts review and finalization for bank wide rollout.
• GL migration of branches under the new core banking system SYMBOLS(R)

 COORDINATOR:
• For post migration internal audit teams
• Coordinating audit concerns with business teams
• For follow-ups from relevant business groups.
• As part of the migration team for Boat Basin, Clifton, Corporate Portfolio and Consumer Portfolio branch(s).






 ISSUE RESOLUTION:
• For Customer and Account Information migration issue management,
• For branch and other departmental personnel towards identification, classification, prioritization and subsequent resolution of issues (Erroneous SL balances, extraordinary transactions etc) raised within deadlines.
• Troubleshooting MIS as well as ensuring provision of ad-hoc requirements from the finance and liabilities department.

 Dynamic involvement in the Business Analysis of UBL Treasury, including:
o Foreign Exchange
o Money Markets
o Equity Markets

• Treasury Infrastructure
• Business Requirements, including current gaps in the operational function.
• Worked on accounting impact and ledger comparisons between systems.
• Reviewed regulatory aspect as well (CFS Regulations etc)

 Undertook Training on Core Banking Treasury system SYMBOLS® and compared business requirement with available functionality including;
o Extensively testing the system.(Revaluations for FX, Mark to Market for Shares, PIB, T-Bills)
o Analysing impact of transactions in system (Via Reporting, Queries, GL Queries)
o Testing Actual Business scenarios during Parallel Runs.

 Analyzed UBL UAE requirements including custodial management services and UBL Custodian services
o Current and Other Portfolio management (Equity)
o Blotters (FX, MM and Equity)
o Inter-Bank Gaps
o Analyzed and finalized MIS requirements for Foreign Exchange Exposure Limit (FEEL)
o Worked on NOP reports.
o Worked on Mark to Market Reports
o Discount / Premium Amortization reporting (IRR Basis)
o Short Sell against Reverse Repo reports.
o SGL Confirmation Letters ad well as brief overview of RTGS Systems.

 Involved in the finalization and documentation of accounting requirements for different money market products and portfolios (AFS, HFT and HTM) as per IAS requirements as well as for other treasury products based on current financial reporting requirements.