Senior Finance Professional
British Telecom
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :16 years, 5 أشهر
British Telecom (April 2012 - at present)
Senior Finance Professional
• Acting as an “Assistant Finance Manager”, handling and managing month end closing reporting.
• Monthly variance analysis of revenue, cost and SG&A and reporting of any issues, risks & opportunities, including flash reporting.
• Monthly management reporting, updating reporting decks & management reviews with finance management as required.
• Assisting finance directors & controllers with standard and ad-hoc MIS reports.
• Working with finance manager to create and review quarterly forecasts and annual financial plans, including reporting & analysis to explain changes against given standards.
• Supporting audit team with internal control process and with Sarbox compliance to provide adequate backup for the numbers.
• Analysing, investigating and explaining key movements and trends in major P&L lines and preparation of monthly financial metrics and key business drivers specific to different products.
• Demonstrating the companies values with the team and motivate them to adhere with.
• Knowledge of a multi-dimensional business planning and consolidation reporting tool such as Hyperion, Essbase, other application etc.
Achievements
• Successful transition of a new FP&A role from UK.
• Derived £1m GBP cash flow impact through ‘Early payment project’ across consumer level business unit.
• Saved £0.6m GBP for the business by closing down old purchase orders in the system which results less system accruals and favourable profitability impact on the Profit and Loss account.
• Standardization of management reports and automation of the same to reduce time taken in preparation and enhancing the quality of reports.
• Taken up the responsibility of new role very fast within just few days from the predecessor, streamlined the process and laid down the SOPs for internal control purpose, and created good rapport with business partners.
• Recognise with quarterly and monthly awards many times throughout my tenure.
• Helped to create cross back-up roles between business units to make internal control system efficient and to minimise the business risk.
• Helped other teams of the business on different projects on their cost transformation projects.
Ernst & Young (December 2009 - September 2011)
Financial Analyst
• Worked as a Financial Analyst in “Transaction advisory services” team to support our clients in “Mergers and acquisitions” deals to provide a true picture of the target companies by analysing their financial statements and internal control system.
• Helped our clients in preparing financial models/statements for the purpose of due diligence, while reviewing the internal control policies and other complimentary information.
• Analysing historic and current financial information, also analysing projections and assumptions used for the same
• Preparation of complimentary schedules for profit & loss and balance sheet items for their authentication as a due diligence auditor.
• Identification of key management questions, deal issues, assessing their impact on the transaction
• Company profiling, M&A (deal analysis) and comparable company analysis (Comps).
• Leading the team for providing the required deliverable to the client.
Achievements
• Provided quality deliverables and key points in mergers and acquisition projects which impacted deal value.
• Got promotion within a year of joining the company basis of my hard work and dedication.
• Have been recognized by Extra Miler Award for demonstrating good ownership and sense of urgency in handling the projects.
• Lead the projects as a “Project lead” in such a short span of time.
Genpact (July 2007 - December 2009)
Process Associate
• Month end closing and reporting activities
• General ledger accounting and reconciliations
• Preparation and posting of journals related to cost re-classification, prepayment and accruals.
• Efficiently maintained standard and ad-hoc MIS reports for the client.
• Given training to new comers and acted as a quality check for the work of subordinates.
Achievements
• Went for on job training (OJT) to Chicago for transitioning a new process from US to India.
• Won quarterly “Proto-Star” award twice along with many Bronze awards for the performance and demonstrating the Genpact values.
• Led the quality check team for the deliverable of the process.
Accounting IFRS, US GAAP & US GAAS Specializes in Finance
PGDBA (finance) from Symbiosis Center for Distance learning, Pune in 2011
• B.Com (H) from Delhi University in 2007 Areas Of Exposure • Knowledge of GAAP, GAAS and Federal Taxation (Corporation & Partnership) along with accounting concepts and other areas of financial statements. • Consolidation and reconciliation of financial statements, also performing analysis on financial statements of the companies for the purpose of reliability of accounts and supporting our clients for the best prospective option for "Mergers and acquisitions". • Knowledge of end-to-end transitioning a process from client to service provider end. • Exposure of project management and experience in leading the team for the required deliverables as a project lead.