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Abrar Shaikh

Abrar Shaikh

Specialist Financial Analyst
Bangalore

Summary

Accomplished finance professional offering close to 12 years of distinguished experience in the fields of Management Reporting, Data Quality & Governance, Financial Auditing, Data Analysis & Interpretation, Financial Planning & Analysis, Project Management and Client Relationship Management. Proficient in Business Intelligence tools like Data Visualization with acquired efficiencies in providing reporting solutions; well versed with the usage of financial analysis techniques, tools, and concepts to provide insights to management on driving business results. Efficient organizer, team player, and decisive leader with the ability to motivate teams to excel and win.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Specialist Financial Analyst

Oracle India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
07.2021 - Current
  • Lead various transformation and automation initiatives to help build newer reporting solutions on Sales Intelligence and Data Visualization.
  • Hierarchy maintenance and management and working on downstream projects that rely on standard hierarchies for FP&A activities.
  • Responsible for data quality management cutting across various systems and ensuring seamless reporting for all business finance teams.
  • To ascertain potential opportunities for process improvements and work with teams like OAL, CoE, and Project Management to accomplish them.
  • Aligning with development teams (OAL & DevOps) as a business representative for FP&A Projects.
  • Training and mentoring team members on various aspects of data quality, financial reporting, standard hierarchies, etc.

Lead Financial Analyst

Oracle India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
04.2016 - 06.2021
  • Build customized reporting solutions on BI platform to cater to FP&A reporting demands.
  • Monitor and interpret current month Revenue, Expenses & Headcount related reports to identify data gaps and work with corresponding team to fix such gaps.
  • Manage daily operations on hierarchy management and work with FP&A teams to process daily changes on the hierarchies.
  • Carry out data quality activities by comparing various sets of data from different systems and ensure all data related issues are addressed on a timely basis.


Team Lead

Ocwen Financial Solutions Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
07.2013 - 04.2016
  • Managing a team of 12 analysts who are responsible for report preparation and remittance on portfolios as per the contractual due dates.
  • Conducted assigned internal audits across various locations and ensured that appropriate controls were in place.
  • Reported audit findings and made recommendations for improvement in operations and reduction in cost.
  • Monitoring and maintaining the performance metrics for the team within the area of responsibility and lead staff toward exceeding stated business objectives.
  • Provided timely, relevant, and accurate production reports and analysis of the organization’s performance to facilitate decision-making towards the achievement of the budget and strategic plan.
  • Monitoring and analyzing trends from QA results and generating QA reports on a monthly basis thus communicating process performance to the Senior Management.
  • Implementing process improvement initiatives within the Business Unit by implementing new ideas/concepts.
  • Overseeing the adherence to all regulatory requirements and service standards; reporting any potential risks identified within the process
  • Preparing reports for the senior management helping them in monitoring compliance SLAs

Investor Reporting Analyst

Ocwen Financial Solutions Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
06.2011 - 06.2013
  • Monitored the loan level remittance files for individual portfolios with utmost adherence to reporting the timelines.
  • Ensured the accurate and timely submission of reports and funds transfer to investors and trusts as specified by the servicing agreement.
  • Facilitated coordination between the Investor Reporting department and the trust or investor (like JPM, Wells Fargo, Deutsche Bank, BONY, Citi Mortgage etc.) to answer questions and assist in the prompt resolution of the queries.
  • Prepared monthly reports on daily wires and assisted a team of 4 members in the Daily Wires Activity.
  • Handled the reconciliation of general ledger accounts; prepared balance sheet reconciliation and cleared exception items.
  • Analyzed the cash projection analysis to meet monthly remittance disbursement to Investors.

Education

MBA - Finance

M P Birla Institute of Management
Bangalore
07.2009 - 06.2011

BBM - Finance

East West College of Management
Bangalore
07.2005 - 05.2008

Skills

    Business Intelligence (BI on OAC)

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Hobbies

Reading

Watching Talk Shows/Interviews

Timeline

Specialist Financial Analyst

Oracle India Pvt Ltd
07.2021 - Current

Lead Financial Analyst

Oracle India Pvt Ltd
04.2016 - 06.2021

Team Lead

Ocwen Financial Solutions Pvt Ltd
07.2013 - 04.2016

Investor Reporting Analyst

Ocwen Financial Solutions Pvt Ltd
06.2011 - 06.2013

MBA - Finance

M P Birla Institute of Management
07.2009 - 06.2011

BBM - Finance

East West College of Management
07.2005 - 05.2008
Abrar ShaikhSpecialist Financial Analyst