Sarika Nair, Senior Analyst

Sarika Nair

Senior Analyst

Infosys Consulting

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Banking And Finance
Experience
3 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :3 years, 9 Months

Senior Analyst at Infosys Consulting
  • India - Pune
  • My current job since March 2023

-Support IT portfolio planning and demand management for investments and operating expenses
-Facilitate of business case creation for the services under the portfolio
-Perform portfolio forecasting based on the inputs from the portfolio owner and the individual service owners
-Reconcile actuals against forecast and generating variance analysis and commentary
-Provide quarterly Group Financial Outlook (GFO) submissions, financial data and insights for the leadership reviews
-Conduct ad-hoc analysis on financial data
-Attend the daily/weekly catch-ups and team meetings with the Squad Leads/Service Owner/Portfolio Owner
-Co-ordinate with portfolio owner / service owners for maintaining, tracking and reporting of finance, status, risk and issues
-Support with data for governance packs
-Assist Portfolio lead in audits and reviews
-Articulate plans and insights to cross functional team members and management
-Manage and track the program status throughout the lifecycle
-Lead ongoing reviews of business processes and develop optimization strategies
-Conduct meetings and presentations to socialize ideas and findings
-Support the project team in developing and implementing solutions
-Contribute to sales pursuits, offering development and participate in firm building initiatives
-Co-ordinate with the suppliers and budget holders for timely submission of purchase requests and invoices
-Manage large projects and programs in a multi-vendor scenario and globally spread team and deliver the outcome leveraging
-Agile principle and applying DevOps capabilities

Engagement Financial Advisor, Analyst at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
  • India - Hyderabad
  • January 2022 to February 2023

Working for one of the Platinum client Johnson & Johnson, New Jersey.
Maintain compliance with clients’ policies, perform internal financial analysis including budgeting, forecasting, and cost variance analysis, and help manage projects’ billing and receivables process.
Monitor project performance and determine improvement areas by developing key performance indicators and frequently communicate with the project team, finance department, and other project stakeholders to keep projects on track and within the scope of cost.
Team and collaborate with other EFAs across the practice, including our practitioners in India.
Providing advice to leadership on our projects.

Audit Associate at Kpmg
  • India - Cochin
  • September 2020 to January 2022

Assists in the conduct of an audit engagement under supervision and may be responsible for undertaking small non-complex audits which will involve pre-audit scoping and preparation, identifying audit risks and performing preliminary evaluation of client’s internal control structure to identify weaknesses and areas for management consideration and improvement.
Assists with audit planning procedures including audit tests using the firm’s audit methodology ensuring that key matters not identified at the planning stage are brought to the attention of the client management team and assists with assessment.
Completes allocated tasks to a high standard which meet set reporting and auditing standards.
Assists with preparation of the simpler financial statements, or reviews client-prepared financial statement and other management reports to develop understanding and increase knowledge of various entities and accounting issues.
Monitors own WIP and ensures a positive contribution is made to departmental billing. Builds confidence in dealing with clients and knowledge of more in depth tasks, developing the ability to take on more complex engagements and builds relationships to ensure client retention and growth.
Training and mentoring Audit Interns.

Education

Master's degree, Banking And Finance
  • at SCMS Cochin School Of Business
  • June 2020
Bachelor's degree, Business Administration And Commerce
  • at Mahatma Gandhi University (kottayam)
  • May 2018

Specialties & Skills

Variance Analysis
Account Reconciliation
Budgeting and Forecasting
Financial Planning and Analysis
MS Office
PowerBi
Fieldglass
PMP Certified
Financial Planning

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Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Malayalam
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

Project Management Professional (Certificate)
Financial Accounting (Certificate)

Hobbies

  • Photography, Travelling, Music, Dance, Sports
    Team Captain of basketball and volleyball for college team.