Team Manager
Cognizant Technology Solutions
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :22 years, 10 أشهر
Providing reporting services in the areas of business analytics & planning, accounting policy & risk, treasury, liquidity and capital management.
Ensuring the Treasury business is in line with compliance guidelines, regulatory requirements and maintaining integrity of accounting and of reporting presentation and disclosure.
Supporting firm’s methodologies and processes for liquidity and funding, management of the balance sheet and Risk Weighted Assets, and ensuring an optimal capitalization structure.
Overseeing operations related to modeling of forecasted Balance sheet based on intra month numbers and providing commentary for large Balance Sheet drivers.
Providing regular reporting packs into the firm’s Executive & Oversight Committees to support their governance responsibilities and provide input into the bank’s monthly Global Executive Board reporting papers and reporting for regulators.
Ensuring adequate, lean and transparent corporate legal structure to underpin bank’s commitment to meeting international standards of corporate governance and to facilitate efficient allocation and use of capital, comprehensive risk management and straightforward funding processes.
Adherence to compliance requirements of process, Buffer Management, Integrated Delivery Excellence, Productivity Improvement, Attrition Management, Employee Engagement and adherence to Service Level Agreements
Working in the areas of financial reporting & analysis.
Involved in monthly forecast process through Cognos and SAS FM.
Working on various scorecards to reconcile actual vs. plan which includes providing key performance indicators, reasons for variances and trends.
Working on identifying and transferring costs associated with different business groups keeping Sarbanes-Oxley regulations in perspective.
Providing inputs to accounting function (i.e. accruals) to ensure accurate and timely recording of historical transaction information.
Designing and developing MS-Excel/MS-Access models to enhance financial reporting, and forecasting processes to transform data into actionable information.
Involved in preparation of monthly and weekly financial packages including regional and business unit profit and loss statements, working capital, forecast compilation, bookings, sales, etc.
Involved in compilation of data for ad-hoc projects on an as requested basis.
Performed onsite transition of all above activities from ADC World Headquarters, Minneapolis, United States.
Transitioned Latin American Regions logistics reporting services.
Enhanced existing reports to provide valued added reporting.
Enhanced productivity by automation of report generation.
Data Consistency checks across critical dimensions based on functional analysis to ensure reliability of worldwide data & to provide top executives with accurate reports.
Consistently performed at 6-sigma level when involved in transaction processing for Accounts Payable.
Transitioned the Latin American entities operations and carried out integrated testing for the process on the in-house application (SWAN) and SAP.
As a part of the global support team for SAP and SWAN was involved in:
o System & process support.
o Handled a team of 5 members
o Implementing system and process controls.
o Regression and integrated testing.
o Bug fix analysis, testing and implementation.
o Project implementations.
o Product development and enhancement.
o Preparation of Business Reference Document (BRD) for Service Requests raised by the global user community.
o Preparation and analysis of the BRD for new system requirements, enhancements, keeping in view SOX and business controls.
Developed an internal web-site consisting of detailed workflow documentation for process and technical reference.
Was involved with the TEVP US team in the capacity of a Subject Matter Expert on US Central and Federal Tax.
Ensured the taxes that were paid as a part of the expense process were both legal and audit compliant.
Instructed and guided team members and other counterparts on the tax applicability and ensuring every payment that was made was tax compliant.
Was involved in understanding and correctly assigning appropriate tax codes as defined by the US Tax Laws and constant knowledge enhancement on this front.
Theory training and handling classroom sessions.
On line training and handling live work situations.
Maintaining and validating statistics for the batch of trainees.
Evaluating and helping trainees capitalize on strengths.