Finance Manager
STAR INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS LLC
Total years of experience :14 years, 9 Months
As Finance Manager at Star Industrial Products LLC (May 2020 - Till Date):
Daily reporting.
Managing and coordinating monthly reporting, budgeting and reforecast processes.
Providing back office services such as accounts payable, collection.
Monitoring cash flow.
Looking for cost-reduction opportunities.
Developing relationships with external contacts such as auditors.
Supervising staff.
Working with major banks to remit and settle funds in client or master accounts by sending 103 and confirming on 320 swifts.
Daily borrowing and lending funds from banks and major financial markets after getting the best rate from market.
Preparation & Verification of Import / Export Letter of Credit.
Preparation & Verification of various types of import documents - LC, CAD & TT based etc on daily basis.
Preparation of Board Resolutions for Account Openings, organizing and managing the account opening task, KPI’s and various managerial reports.
Handling treasury areas, preparation of daily cash flow statement and managing receivable and payable.
Passing journal entries, verifying the accuracy.
Preparation of Financial Statement and bank reconciliation
Processing of Vendor Invoices
Processing of employee expense claims
Ensuring accuracy of payments against compliance channels such as purchase orders
Ensuring all expenses are booked into accurate general ledger accounts
Issuance & settlement of corporate card transactions
Processing of financial accounting journals entries, month end accruals, prepayments
Payment of Utility bills
Ensuring all expenses are booked within agreed SLA’s and payment terms
Responding to vendor queries and expediting urgent payment requests
Reconciliation of general ledger accounts
Reconciliation of vendor statement of accounts
Preparation of MI reports - P&L, Cost Centre Reporting,
Adherence to filing and document management as per records management policies
As Team Leader - JP Morgan’s Private Wealth Management (Mar’09 - Feb 2010):
Working with GSC PB PCS RECONCILIATION (Private Banking) process.
Leading a team of 8 team members & daily reconciling asset that included reconciliation of shares as per FED, DTC and TIPS.
Performing suspense recons, handling outside custodians, solving outages and investigating issues, foreign cash, foreign asset and reversals as per donor location requirements.
Working on a project to create a database in Access, which leads to create KPI, MIS Reports, Dashboard on a click of single button for all the Asia locations, saving 0.5 FTE.
As Operations Analyst - Treasury Operations (Money Market Operations) (Jan’05 - Feb’09):
Monitoring end-to-end process including money market deal processing, settlements, confirmations and reconciliation for all the EMEA locations.
Imparting cross-functional training, developing team rapport and imbibing the right work culture, ethics and JP Morgan values.
As Team Member -Loans & Collateral Operations - Transaction Processing (May’03 - Dec’04):
Preparing spreadsheets (EMI) in excel & handling principal and interest payments for commercial clients.
Formulating exception and interest fee discrepancy reports & daily kpi reports.
Renewing and Repricing Loans as per Market Trend & addressing clients queries with Zero Days TAT.
Conducting quality checking of the loans processed.
Major Accomplishments:
Stellar role in safely migrating process from Bournemouth (London) to Mumbai in 4 weeks, whereas the migration was scheduled for 8-10 weeks. Still have maintained accuracy in processing deals without any errors and department had made a saving of USD 3 million from the date of migration to the date.
Successfully completed 6 months secondment at Global Emerging Markets (JPMC - London).