Abdullah Baig

Roles & Responsibilities

F&A Operations for APAC Entities (June 2021 - Current)

• Leading a Team of 20 Finance Professionals for the smooth operations of Finance & Accounting operations.
• Managing the end to end F&A operations of 8 APAC entities
• Supported change management by understanding and addressing impacts of new accounting policies, financial statement initiatives and non-standard transactions.
• Managed banking reconciliations and monthly balance sheet statements.
• Initiated comprehensive account assessments to check viability, stability and profitability of business operations.
• Managed journal entries, collection efforts, reconciliations and payroll processing.
• Implemented updated production, productivity, quality and customer service standards to improve company financial standing.
• Proposed and published metrics and KPIs to be incorporated into monthly financials and scorecards.
• Identified improvement changes regarding key processes for internal controls and accounting procedures.
• Performed routine closings, maintained clean, accurate and accessible records and kept close eye on transaction updates throughout each quarter.

Financial Statements Review & Consolidation (Oct 2013 - May 2021)

• Ensuring all the Financials are reviewed with in the set timelines for the below Regions
• APAC Region (Asia Pacific, Australia & China) for 15 Companies
• EMEA (Europe Middle East & Africa) Region
• NDEU (NTT DATA Europe Union) Region
• North America Region (NTT DATA Services)
• Italy & Latin America Region (Everis Group)
• Preparing & Review of Quarterly Financial statements such as Balance sheet, Profit & Loss and Cash Flow items which are reported in 52 financial statements as per IFRS Standards via SAP BPC
• Ensure accurate consolidation of APAC (15 Entities) group financial data on a quarterly basis and ensuring the below adjustments are accurately considered for the Consolidations

Minority Interest Calculations.

Foreign Currency Translation adjustments.

Good will Calculations

IC Reconciliations such as AR vs AP & Sales vs Cost

• Follow up with the User Companies to clear open items which have a variance of more than 200 & 50 million JPY.
• Hands on experience on SAP BPC Consolidation Tool.
• Variance Analysis: Quarterly Balance Sheet and P&L Review.
• Preparation of Financial MIS i.e. Cash Flow, P&L & Balance sheets as per the management requirement and its variance analysis.
• Taking ownership of the production of high quality financial accounts and reports for the Group and subsidiary companies.
• Ensuring the company complies with all regulatory requirements regarding financial reports.
• Taking ownership of the Group’s multi-currency consolidation process (including extensive joint venture accounting) for both monthly internal management and statutory purposes.
• Management of intercompany agreement
• Coordination of issuance of the consolidated financial statements under IFRS
• Improvement the quality of the Group’s consolidated financial reporting

Team Managing Activities:

• Upgrade the team members skills and try to increase their efficiency personally and in process knowledge
• Guide the Team and the process in the right direction exhibiting the right leadership skills and attitude
• Build a strong and initiative-taking environment within the team engaging them in activities apart from the daily routine activities - Team Building activities, Outreach program participations, Festival and Fun activities
• Ensure all team members to follow & update their check lists, Team huddle tracker, Transactions tracker and etc. without any misses
• Ensure to have regular team meetings, 1-O-1's & review of PDP's with team members
• Ensure team gets trained on new activities and make sure that all team members are on same page and provide support wherever it is required
• Providing effective feedback to the team members and be approachable to team any point of time to share their concerns if they have any
• Conducting Monthly team meeting for setting the expectations and discussing the achievements and failures of the team members
• Ensure all the team members have balanced workload and ensure effective allocation of work within the team. Ensure completion of cross trainings within the team
• Spearheaded department training to enhance employee performance and boost employee productivity.
• Reduced process bottlenecks by training and coaching employees on practices, procedures and performance strategies.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Month-end, quarter-end and year-end closing
• Maintain and operate standard period-end closing schedules
• Quarterly balance sheet and P & L Fluctuation Analysis
• Identify daily activity in bank accounts
• Reconcile various Company bank accounts for several different corporate entities
• Post journal entries in Oracle, the company general ledger accounting software package
• Work closely with Treasury to identify bank loan wire activity
• Prepare and distribute 1099s to vendors
• Track and maintain fixed asset ledger by coordinating with IT and Accounts Payable; prepare schedules for reporting of fixed assets
• Monthly expense variance analysis
• Consolidation, inter-company transactions and reconciliations including foreign currency accounting
• Balance Sheet Account reconciliations
• Assist with the preparation of other reports provided to management
• Assist with year-end audits
• Assist with preparation of month-end financial statements, cash flow statements, budgets
• Assist with quarterly and annual tax filings
• Undertake ad hoc projects as required

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Processing the Employee’s Credit card payments to the bank.
• Performing monthly Reconciliation.
• Performing Reconciliations & Analysis of Employee’s account.
• Follow up with the employees to close the open/unaccounted balances in their accounts.
• Providing required access to the employees.
• Processing the Employee’s Expense Reports for the reimbursements.
• Audit employee expense reports for accuracy and compliance with the Travel and Expenses policy (T&E)
• Address all inquiries and/or complaints in a timely and professional manner
• Ensure that SLA and KPIs are completed with the required quality and speed
• Investigate and resolve T&E related issues and queries
• Provide data for the analysis to local management.
• Provide excellent customer service to employees and other parties
• Recommend process improvements to generate efficiency and productivity