Finance Assistant (Temporary Staff)
British Embassy
Total years of experience :16 years, 11 Months
•Responsible for day to day operation of the Post’s (UAE, Doha, Kuwait, Muscat&Bahrain) official account.
•Responsible for the maintenance of Post’s local budget records and ensure that an up to date, accurate budget record is prepared on request.
•Preparing an accurate funding profile for the financial year, setting out the amounts needed each month to fund the Post bank account.
•Responsible to carry out the accounting using Prism an Oracle Based Software and responsible for making payments only through electronic banking and ensuring the authorized signature is there for offline payments.
•Ensuring all transactions are as up to date to carry out Month end closure and also to carry out the reconciliations Report.
•Prepare and run the reports as per the need from the management and share the required supporting documents.
•Responsible to intimate the Supervising Officer if there is any discrepancy.
•Responsible for Middle and Senior level hiring across industries
•Additionally responsible for Finance & Administration activities payroll and invoice processing.
•Handling recruitment across industries such as oil & Gas, Hospitals, Manufacturing, Banking, IT, Retail, FMCG etc.
•Handled positions like Sales, Finance, General Administration, Project Managers, QA/QC Inspectors, Doctors, Engineers etc..
•In the absence of Assistant Manager responsible for handling the team of home based recruiters and manage client requirements.,
•Have closed a critical position with a client in the oil & gas industry with in 15 days of my joining and been appreciated by the management.
•Being New to the Middle East Market have been successful in closing some critical positions and given an advantage of taking the ownership of handling clients individually.
•Have extensive experience in recruiting sales professionals across LoBs and verticals.
•Developed recruitment strategies to ensure closures within quick turnaround time and as per planned budgets.
•Liaising with Business Unit Heads to understand the requirements and manage expectations.
•Design and manage leadership hiring processes from Budgeting till clearance.
•Involved in addressing the Senior and Middle level sales positions such as Inside sales, Presales, Business Development and Account Managers.
•As an individual contributor, engaged in complete life cycle of recruitment - client management, understanding the job specifications, collecting mandates, sourcing candidates, scheduling them for interviews, organize technical panels, taking HR interviews, salary negotiation, offer generation, policy clarification and ensured smooth closure of various levels.
•Sourcing methodologies used - Job Portals, Professional Networks like LinkedIn and Networking, reference generation, head hunting and organization mapping.
•On-boarding of the new hires that includes completing all the joining formalities as per the companys guidelines and statutory requirements.
•Periodic reports on the training status of the unit to senior management. Ensuring all employees complete the minimum amount of training mandated by the organization
•Was involved in building database for the leadership hiring team through LinkedIn.
•Responsible of offers & joiners dash board publications and report generation.
•Positioned more than 100+ sales professionals by self.
•Planned and organized many weekend recruitment drives.
•Apart from Sales hiring also involved in Technical recruitment and closed the position in a quick TAT.
•SPOC for sales hiring and received many appreciations from Senior Management for timely services.
•Appraised twice and got Out Standing performance rating.
•Handling recruitment across verticals and Units like BFSI, Manufacturing, Public Services (E&UGovt ), Engineering, Healthcare etc.
•Responsible for sourcing and screening qualified professionals, for various skill sets across domains matching the requirements of the clients.
•Carried out the Accounting function and General Administration.
•Focused more hiring talents from Banking industry (Retail Branch Banking and Wealth Management).
•Sourcing and screening / Negotiating the candidates to ensure best fit for the requirement.
•Scheduling & coordinating interviews with the Hiring Managers.
•Managed offer process including reference checks, offer letter generation and offer acceptance/declines.
•Preparing invoice for the joiners and following up with the clients for the payments releases.
•Proficient in MS-Office and maintaining MIS effectively on weekly and monthly basis.
•Successfully closed Middle and Senior level positions of Major Banking Clients.
•Achieved 76 % of my target within three months of joining in the newly adopted domain.
•Closed critical positions with Citi Bank and appreciated by the management.
•Clients handled - Citi Bank, ING Vysya Bank, Axis Bank, Dhanalakshmi Bank, Indusind Bank, Development Bank of Singapore, Barclays Bank
•Hiring talents of various verticals & domains includes BFSI, Automobile, FMCG and Manufacturing.
•Hunting down resumes for the given requirement from different job portals.
•Job postings in Job portals based on the manpower requirements.
•Involved in End to end recruitment model.
•Negotiate offers by partnering with Hiring Manager, Senior Management, and other groups.
•Regular follow up with the candidates until they join in the client organizations.
•Responsible and well capable to handle clients independently.
•Preparing Invoice once the candidate joined on the board.
•Maintaining MIS effectively on weekly and monthly basis.
•Effectively placed Senior Level professionals and received many client appreciations from VP levels.
•Closed many Senior and Mid-level critical positions across various verticals and domains.
•Clients handled - Cholamandalam MS, Chola DBS, Citi Finance, AIG, Max Newyork Life Insurance,
DB, GE Money, Toyota Kirloskaer Motors, Henkel India Ltd, Sanmar Group, TTK Group, TVS Group.
•Overseas Clients - Suhail Bahvan Group, OTE Group, Al Hassan Group, Genetco etc.
• Deputed as a Sales Relationship Manager, Identified channels to increase branch profitability and has been successfully implemented a hassle free branch process.
• Recruiting Direct Channel Partners for Small ticket and large ticket Personal Loans.
•Motivating the direct Channel Partners to Book High ticket personal loans to achieve the desired targets.
•Conducting Exclusive Training sessions on Small ticket and credit card based Personal loans.
•Taking care of all branch activities - SPOC.
•Deciding on the credit limit for small ticket clients.
•Liasioning with operations team for earlier disposal of cheques.
•Tie ups with freelancers and agencies and providing training on the policies.
SRM School of Management Masters of Business Administration April 2004 to April 2006
Stella Maris College Bachelor of Science April 2001 to April 2004