Abhishek Das
Senior Finance Manager
Chennai
Summary
Qualified MBA with a basic graduation in Commerce, having rich experience close to 14 years; more recently with a reputed F&A Organization. Acquired proficiency in effectively providing back-end support. Thorough understanding of the processes involved in business transactions, extensively worked on SAS, ORACLE (OFA & Discoverer 11i.), Tableau, Power BI, COGNOS & Hyperion Applications.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Language
Work History
Senior Manager
SCB Global Business
Chennai
01.2021 - Current
- Group Property Finance within P2P
- Key member of the team supporting all the stakeholders
- Job Responsibilities:
- Managing Property P&L, Recharges and multiple business specific requirements of Property Group Finance Reporting at each Property level
- Partnered with R2R team to resolve the issue of SAP CLM and ensured all the leases have been captured at bank level
- Partnered Property, Functions finance and various GFS workstreams to drive and implement change agenda for Property Finance activities including process simplifications, quality improvements, data analytics and new systems such as SAP etc
- Creating Depreciation schedules from Fixed Assets Registers and forecasting the depreciation for coming years
- Accountable for running the full scope of Property Finance activities
- Understanding the split of non-rechargeable items like Vacant Desk, Project in WIP, Notional Rent etc and reporting to country Head of properties for better understanding
- Analyzing recharges at rate per desk, rate per HC and rate per SQ.FT to understand the movements in recharges across business and functions
- Managing the analysis of IFRS 16 Lease interest and Lease Depn booking for the Leased properties based on short-term and long-term lease periods
- Analyzing Vacant Desk cost and advising country finance on the reduction of those cost
- Prepare Global and Country level decks for the Property Group MTs on monthly basis
- Part of multiple projects for automating various reports into Tableau
- Spear heading Target setting and Corporate Plan exercise for Property for 65 countries to achieve top-down budget and loading the bottoms-up country targets to Hyperion and Forecasting.
Manager
SCB Global Business
Chennai
01.2016 - 01.2021
- CCIB Group Revenue / PvB Business (Referral program)
- Managing outlook process for Group CCIB
- Managing the CCIB scorecard process and coordinate with the various stakeholders to drive the tracking of various parameters
- Work in a critical weekly deliverable which involves presenting financials to Group CCIB CFO along with additional insights
- Support the Group CCIB Finance team with the underlying data on performance during peer-to-peer analysis
- Partnered with Senior Leaders to drive and deliver on performance management reporting and analytics through high quality MI and stakeholder engagement
- Calculation of all risk metrics and RoRWAs, based on various factors producing multi-product and multi-market competencies
- Production and analysis of Asset and Contingent reports, Period end balance movements and various other revenue and balance metrics that help stakeholders in taking correct decisions for planning future approach
- Core member of referral program handling group and responsible for carrying out different activities including the MIS
- Coordinated with HR on the calculation of bonus for eligible RM’s based on AuM and Revenue for referral program
- Worked closely with all countries and businesses for Yearly Forecast & Annual plan
- Implemented and worked with Business Intelligence Tools and Dashboard reporting
- Created efficiencies with automation for all the MIS.
Finance Specialist (Associate Manager)
HCL
Chennai
01.2014 - 01.2016
- For the FP&A (Financial Planning and Analysis) Team
- Key member of the team supporting all Finance Directors, Area Managers & Regional Directors on the Financial Analysis & Planning requirements
- Job Responsibilities:
- Transitioned the Group Technology planning and forecasting process from onshore location (UK)
- Creating, Analyzing, investigating and explaining through commentary the key movements and trends in Flash and Financial reports
- Working in collaboration with onshore counterparts during budgeting and forecasting cycle and doing the run rate analysis for phasing out the expenses for the remainder of the year
- Liaising with onshore partners and helping them generate different management reports for high level conversations among different stakeholders
- Analyzing the variances against forecast and budget for month to date and year to date expenses
- Weekly Headcount Reporting to provide week by week, month on month and year to date headcount information to BA CFOs, Finance Directors often customized as per their requirements
- Extensive support in Budgeting & Forecasting during planning for Direct & Indirect expenses across assigned area of responsibility
- Responsible for quality control and preparation of daily, weekly, monthly and dashboard reports using Excel VBA
- Act as an effective backup for assigned role/s & responsibilities with onshore & offshore team, also create backup for the self
- Ad-hoc reporting and analysis in ERP for other departments as required
- Responsible for providing Trend Analysis for forecast inputs
- Responsible for month-end, quarter-end and year-end close for assigned functional areas
- Mentoring and guiding the Team and effectively working together in handling various situations
- Conducting Monthly review meetings with Team members.
Group Leader
EXL
Bangalore
01.2009 - 01.2014
- For the FP&A (Financial Planning and Analysis) Team, directly handling a three member team
- Key member of the team supporting all Finance Directors, Area Managers & Regional Directors on the Financial Analysis & Planning requirements
- Job Responsibilities:
- Responsible for preparing Activity Based Management report thru SAS reporting tool
- Preparing Revenue Budgets and Forecast packs for the Country Managers
- Providing Corporate with expense “Budget guide”
- Research and resolve business unit’s enquiries for assigned functional areas
- Responsible for providing variance analysis to the Area Managers month on month
- Analysis of Head Count is done monthly to track the Fully Loaded Cost of a Headcount
- Providing Monthly Variance explanations on Forecast vs
- Actual to the Finance Director
- Also Responsible for Providing Area Budgets for different areas
- Ad-hoc reporting and analysis in ERP for other departments as required
- Revenue Forecasting & Budgeting and comparing revenue against budgets & forecasts
- Responsible for providing Trend Analysis for forecast inputs
- Responsible for Driving the Head Count Project across all Divisions
- Responsible for developing scenario planning and alternative analysis
- Identifies and recommends improvements for system enhancements, reporting changes, process changes, and procedural updates
- Creating Reports Dashboards on Tool
- Responsible for month-end, quarter-end and year-end close for assigned functional areas
- Responsible for quality control and preparation of daily, weekly, monthly and dashboard reports using Excel VBA
- Perform Annual Budgeting & update financial forecasts regularly based on Business and corporate requirements
- Active member of the Operational Deep Support Team, the mandate for which is to plan, design and execute the various aspects such as knowledge management, training, business and quality projects and standardization of the process
- Working on various projects like Headcount database maintenance
- Mentoring and guiding the Team and effectively working together in handling various situations
- Successfully transitioned “Internal Projects” process and increased the scope of business
- Conducting Monthly review meetings with Team members
- Actively involved in Team’s Appraisals.
Financial Analyst, Operations Manager
Oracle Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore
01.2008 - 01.2009
- Reporting directly to the, Providing Forecast Flash reports for the country managers
- Prepare all financial requirements package
- Research and prepare variance analysis and explanations
- Prepare reporting packages: Aging, Revenue by project, Flash reports, DCB etc
- Creating Templates, Formats, Presentation & Reports for Better Analysis to Management
- Experiences in data mining, Analysis and usage of various MS Excel, SQL functions and formulas
- Conducting variance analysis to determine difference between projected and actual result and implementing corrective action
- Identify process improvements to streamline date collection and report generation
- Involved in training and supporting Team members
- Ensuring timely and accurate reporting to Operations Manager
- Other duties as assigned by Managers.
Account Assistant
Ram Prasad chtd. Accountant firm
odisha
04.2004 - 05.2005
- As a Book-Keeper (Maintaining the details of the clients)
- Assisting team in carrying out various activities like compliance of reports.
Education
MBA -
IBMR, AIMA
01.2005 - 01.2007
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) - undefined
S.V.M College, Utkal University
01.2001 - 01.2004
Skills
COMPUTER PROFICIENCYundefined
Timeline
Senior Manager
SCB Global Business
01.2021 - Current
Manager
SCB Global Business
01.2016 - 01.2021
Finance Specialist (Associate Manager)
HCL
01.2014 - 01.2016
Group Leader
EXL
01.2009 - 01.2014
Financial Analyst, Operations Manager
Oracle Pvt. Ltd
01.2008 - 01.2009
MBA -
IBMR, AIMA
01.2005 - 01.2007
Account Assistant
Ram Prasad chtd. Accountant firm
04.2004 - 05.2005
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) - undefined
S.V.M College, Utkal University
01.2001 - 01.2004
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