Abhay Agrawal

• Aligned with FMG handling different asset classes like Bank Loans, Hedged Loans, Unhedged Loans, Private Securities, Public Foreign Securities.

• Implemented Alteryx in FMG department, resulting in 4 FTE savings to the stakeholder

• Daily Trade settlements, Fails management, interaction with Middle/Front office, Derivatives desk, counter party, agent banks, Customers to resolve variances

• Developing & reporting Control Reports, Key metrics & Monthly Control Packages

• Funding for Bank Loans Projects at portfolio level, Cash movements within portfolios, maintaining treasury balances

• Responsibility for monthly GL Variance Analysis, Late entries, SOX Audit, Middle office, Front office, Agent banks queries, FTU etc..

• Reconciliation between PAM(Ledger), Aladdin(Trading) & Bank to maintain asset positions, cash positions at portfolio level for MetLife & clients

• Three YB projects related to Suspense Aging, Private Securities Break in Aladdin & Bank Loans Open items closed with 2+FTE benefit

• Team of 11 in 2016 grown to 20+ FTE over 4 years, is responsible for complete accounting of daily cash, interest & principal payments, trades, etc..

Delivered 3 Lean Six Sigma Projects in 4 Years

• Ensure smooth functioning of team, organizing shoots, events, etc...

• Conducting 1-to-1, finalize ratings, and handling other admin work

• Collecting client feedback & communicate the same to team members

• Working with owners of the firm to ensure smooth running of operations & client management

• Complete client data management, accounting, and other data analysis

• Successfully transitioned 2 FTE process outsourced to third party, back to BT India

• Performing monthly P&L and B/S review-variance analysis along with commentary

• Month End Accruals, follow up and Monthly connect with various Stakeholders.

• Worked on quarterly forecasting by partnering with the business segments and marketing teams to understand the outlook of revenue, reporting the same to senior leadership and the Global Finance team

• Preparation of Monthly & Quarterly Business update decks consisting of Variance to Budget/Forecast with commentary

• Organizing monthly review calls with country controllers. Discuss team performance and next steps

• Build strong partnership with UK onshore team and minimize/manage escalations

• Working very closely with the Senior Management to define SLAs, metrics, process improvement measures etc…

• Onsite US/U.K Taxation accounting closing and reporting as per US GAAP (FAS 109/ASC 740)

• Analysis of profit statements between current quarter & previous quarter and prepare explanation for the material variances

• Variance Analysis (actual v/s budgeted) for the client in order to calculate projection figures for the coming quarters

• Filing of completed work papers and consolidated files with client’s higher management and addressing to their questions after discussion with accounting & tax controllers

• Handling audit queries and Binders (PWC and KPMG); proposing Journal Entries

• Updating G/L viz. Tax stream; Comshare

• Reviewing of import file updated from Perm/Temp adjustments work papers for One Source Tax Provision application & validate the numbers.

• Responsible for quarterly submission by local offices (APAC, EMEA Region) to NY head quarters, performing key accounts reconciliation, and preparation of Regional Analytics documentation as a part of SOX compliance

• Preparation of process SOPs and discrete items. (FIN- 48, Valuation Allowance, Remediation, True-Ups) dashboards, Effective Tax Rate Analysis