Evita Fernandes
Mumbai,India
Summary
Experienced professional focused on reconciliation and financial accuracy. Capable of identifying discrepancies and ensuring accounts balance through strong analytical skills and attention to detail. Able to streamline processes and reduce errors by leveraging knowledge of financial systems and reconciliation best practices.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
2004
2004
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Reconciliation Specialist
Wio Bank
08.2021 - 01.2023
- Building a digital bank from scratch with a great team. As part of the setup, I have the below responsibilities:
- Helped in choosing the correct recon tool for the bank (vendor selection)
- Working on the matching criteria for all operations team reconciliations-Payments,Cards, Nostro
- Coordinating with the teams within ops/IT to arrange data
- Working closely with the SmartStream team on AIR to build the recons for go-live, conduct testing and user trainings.
- Daily recons, highlighting breaks to respective teams and management based on matrix
- Month end balance proofing for Finance
- As a Risk Champion-Assisting the Ops HoD and the Risk team with outlining the Risk framework within the Ops dept. coordinating with all Ops teams and conducting Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) workshops to understand their process better and identify risks.
Senior Officer: Operations MIS, Reconciliation
RAKBANK
12.2017 - 08.2021
- Managing the offshore centralized suspense reconciliations team
- To ensure all reconciliations are completed by the team within the agreed SLA.
- To address queries from the concerning departments/teams.
- Ensuring all outstanding entries are cleared at the earliest.
- Preparing reports for month end submission to Finance
- Preparing reports and conducting monthly meetings with CFO, Director Operations and Ops Department heads on the month end status of all outstanding entries greater than 60 days
- Timely updation of the process notes and conducting quality checks on the daily tasks
- Assisting the project team on the initiation of the Auto Recon project.
Operations Officer: Operations Excellence
RAKBANK
11.2015 - 11.2017
- Measure Standard Processing time and thereby determine full time employee requirements across all operation processes.
- Critically analyze processes across operations and review policies of the bank to identify improvements and re-engineering opportunities.
- Document and validate process steps in a logical manner ensuring completeness and thoroughness.
- Provide suggestions and recommendations to units to improve productivity, quality and control.
Operations Officer: Operations Projects
RAKBANK
06.2015 - 11.2015
- Vendor Selection: Auto Reconciliation project- Analyzing and evaluating various vendors to select the best suited reconciliation system across the bank
- Conducting vendor demos with concerned departments
- Working with HR, IT, Operations and Projects departments to ensure all approvals are in place to onboard the new Recon system
- Creating Business Requirement Documents (BRDs) to gather business information.
- Updating various stakeholders on the timely progress of the project.
Contract
TechPartners ME
09.2013 - 11.2013
- Migrating cash reconciliations from TLM 2.6 to TLM 2.7
- Analyzing client requirements to enhance existing match rate
- Creating new match rules to incorporate new requirements
- Conducting UAT with business users.
Project Lead-Business Analyst
Syntel Services Limited
09.2012 - 05.2013
- Travelled to USA to transition the Production support piece of Checkfree Recons.
- Worked to enable smooth transition of the Production Support piece of Institutional Private Clients (IPC) recons (cash and position) from SEI, USA to Syntel on CheckFree.
- Ensuring that all daily files for IPC load in the system before the SLA.
- Set up new accounts on CheckFree Recon as and when there is a new request.
- Investigate and resolve all queries of the Recon Team relating to the rec.
Operations Officer
Syntel Services Limited
08.2010 - 08.2011
- Trained and certified by STL (SmartStream Technology Limited) on TLM 2.6
- At Nomura working on Cash and Position recons for the US region in the Fixed Income business
- This project included migrating from the source system NTAPs to IMPACT and then migrating the reconciliations from Intellimatch to TLM.
- Information gathering from the Business users and writing the Business Requirements Document BRD, designing rules, training users and creating user and design documents.
- Conducting UATs to enable the smooth transfer from Ntaps to Impact and Intellimatch to TLM Production
- Handling postproduction queries and tracking change requests.
Consultant: Project Analysis Restructuring and Re-engineering (PARR Team)
Deutsche Bank
07.2009 - 03.2010
- Company Overview: Head Strong Payroll
- Handling projects on 2.6 Aspire (Recon Admin, Design Studio, Web Connect)
- Designing reconciliation-Queues, Passes, pass lists & Initiations, Workflow elements (Events, Event Lists, Rules), User Roles & Access Limits, Creating static data, Dashboards & Views, Field Mapping, Cash/Position Manual Input, Message Maintenance
- Designing and building Passes as per the business requirement document and POC.
- Conducting UAT and assisting users with their queries and provide test support for ongoing production bug/quick enhancement fixes.
- Head Strong Payroll
Senior Analyst: Operations, TLM Design Team
Nomura
10.2006 - 07.2009
- Company Overview: Erstwhile Lehman Brothers
- Coordination with the IT and User Team for effective communication between IT, User, design Team for gathering requirements.
- Designed US, Europe, Asian reconciliations in TLM as part of GSSR Migration.
- Design the reconciliation model in TLM by: TLM account creation, building matching rules, and creation of TLM dashboards and documenting the design process. Ensure completion of design adhering to the project deadlines.
- Facilitate the UAT and go live in TLM, in coordination with technology.
- Training users, tracking, Follow-up and Closure of Issues and concerns that arise during UAT.
- Erstwhile Lehman Brothers
Team Member: Shared Technology Operations, Global Cash Reconciliation Asia Pacific
JP Morgan Chase
05.2004 - 08.2006
- As a reconcilement Unit of GCR Mumbai, to reconcile nostros cash statements received from correspondent banks against nostros ledgers on SmartStream Reconciliation (SSR) system.
- Matching of sight matches, bulk matches, tolerance matches, monitoring and resolving incoming SSR cases.
- Outstanding items are investigated for ownership and resolution.
- Review and update Standard Operating Procedures as necessary and ensure all records/documents are maintained /archived for team procedures & Audit requirements.
- Clients supported - Investment Bank, Treasury & Securities Services, Institutional Trust Services, Global Treasury & Business Services.
Education
B.Com. - Accounting
University of Mumbai
Skills
- Excellent communication skills and able to put views across confidently
- Well-developed interpersonal skills and organizational skills
Timeline
Reconciliation Specialist
Wio Bank
08.2021 - 01.2023
Senior Officer: Operations MIS, Reconciliation
RAKBANK
12.2017 - 08.2021
Operations Officer: Operations Excellence
RAKBANK
11.2015 - 11.2017
Operations Officer: Operations Projects
RAKBANK
06.2015 - 11.2015
Contract
TechPartners ME
09.2013 - 11.2013
Project Lead-Business Analyst
Syntel Services Limited
09.2012 - 05.2013
Operations Officer
Syntel Services Limited
08.2010 - 08.2011
Consultant: Project Analysis Restructuring and Re-engineering (PARR Team)
Deutsche Bank
07.2009 - 03.2010
Senior Analyst: Operations, TLM Design Team
Nomura
10.2006 - 07.2009
Team Member: Shared Technology Operations, Global Cash Reconciliation Asia Pacific
JP Morgan Chase
05.2004 - 08.2006
B.Com. - Accounting
University of Mumbai
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