Fahmeeda Akhtar
Bangalore
Summary
Dynamic PMO and HR Specialist with a proven track record at Standard Chartered, excelling in budget tracking and financial reporting. Adept at resource allocation and vendor management, I leverage strong problem-solving skills to drive project success and optimize costs, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
PMO and HR Specialist
Standard Chartered Global Business Services
05.2020 - Current
- Manage project budget and track actual project spends versus forecast.
- Track invoices and vendor payments.
- Track resource/effort utilization and compare against project forecast.
- Programme cost review and analysis.
- Production of regular programme/project cost reporting and trends.
- Support the capitalization processes.
- Support the project cost allocation processes.
- Maintain controls of external vendor onboarding and PO control process.
- Financial control across bank's Fit For Growth (FFG) programmes.
- Maintenance of programme reporting cost structure within networks portfolio.
- Financial reporting to senior leads.
- Track vendor contracts, billing and support on supply chain management processes.
- Tools Exposure: Clarity, JIRA, Oracle, SuccessFactors and other in-house applications.
Engagement Financial Advisor
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt. Ltd
12.2015 - 05.2020
- Reporting on the status of the new and existing opportunities that Partners and Senior Managers win to the Firm.
- Pricing - work on multiple cases to ascertain the best approach on owing a project in order to get best margin.
- Client creation.
- WBS Set-up.
- Track Progress of New SOWs, Change Orders and Purchase Orders.
- Financial reporting on a bi-weekly basis.
- Project budgeting.
- Provide an analysis to the Partners and Project Managers on project wellbeing and call out any areas that need attention.
- Track and Manage Unbilled and Account Financials.
- Plan/Forecast/Actual Variance Analysis.
- Billings & Collections tracking.
- Firm Compliance Support: Backlog & Estimate to Complete.
- Expense Analysis, Audit and Reconciliation.
- Contract Management Repository (Document Preservation).
Senior Project Management Administrator (Assistant Manager)
IBM India Pvt. Ltd
10.2014 - 12.2015
- Scorecard - Arriving at the spend data, Average Daily rate, Attrition numbers for Global Shell Account.
- Debt Tracking - Invoice query resolution and assisting the AR team for payment allocations.
- Ensuring that the invoices are paid on time.
- DSO Management - Day Sales Outstanding. This involves forecasting the cash collections at the beginning of the quarter and matching them with the actuals at the end of the quarter.
- New singings and contract extensions - Working with the Tower Leads to update the sector on new bids and contract extensions, singing value and status etc.
- Revenue forecasting - Work on the weekly revenue forecast and report the operations team on the revenue that will be generated on each contract over the quarter.
- Invoicing and billing the customer for the services rendered. Follow up on the approvals.
- Work with Risk managers and Project Managers on the risks associated with the project on a monthly basis.
- Invoice accruals during month end to ensure the revenue hits the books of accounts as the invoices are billed a month later.
- Cost analysis during workdays to ensure right costs have flown into right projects.
- Administrator for a client tool, IQN - Handling all the access requirement and ensuring CBN (Continued Business Need).
- Variance analysis of Actuals versus Forecasted revenue to aim at better forecast in the future.
- Reviewing the billing requests prepared by the team and submitting to client for approval.
- Create high level dashboards that show performance of the project on a monthly basis.
Project Management Administrator
IBM India Pvt. Ltd
07.2012 - 10.2014
Process Associate and Senior Process Associate
IBM India Pvt. Ltd
07.2007 - 06.2012
Education
B.com - Finance
Bangalore University (NMKRV College for Women)
01.2007
PUC -
MES Pre-University College
01.2004
SSLC -
New St. Joseph's English Primary and High School
01.2002
Skills
- Project management
- Budget tracking
- Financial reporting
- Contract management
- Resource allocation
- Programme analysis
- Vendor management
- Project forecasting
- Cost control
- Problem solving
- Supply management
Accomplishments
- Received TEAM CHAMPION Award for taking charge of additional roles in the process and helped the process to stabilize.
- Being recognized and certified as Subject Matter Expertise in Vendor Management and awarded by the client for cleaning 6000 vendor accounts.
- Received appreciation from IBM Partner for streamlining Invoicing process and creating a difference in DSO days.
- Transitioned new roles to the team (Travelled to Lisbon during 09/01/09 - 10/01/09) from IBM.
- Awarded STAR (Super Talented Achiever).
- Received appreciations from counterparts for best performance.
- Have been felicitated with Talent Sparks award for the year 2015.
- Received Spot Award for excellent project deliverables.
- Received Outstanding award for working with the partners on a complicated pricing request.
- Travelled to US from Deloitte for a testing.
Personal Information
- Bangalore
- Date of Birth: 08/12/1987
- Marital Status: Married
Languages
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Proficient (C2)
C2
kannada
Proficient (C2)
C2
Timeline
PMO and HR Specialist
Standard Chartered Global Business Services
05.2020 - Current
Engagement Financial Advisor
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt. Ltd
12.2015 - 05.2020
Senior Project Management Administrator (Assistant Manager)
IBM India Pvt. Ltd
10.2014 - 12.2015
Project Management Administrator
IBM India Pvt. Ltd
07.2012 - 10.2014
Process Associate and Senior Process Associate
IBM India Pvt. Ltd
07.2007 - 06.2012
B.com - Finance
Bangalore University (NMKRV College for Women)
PUC -
MES Pre-University College
SSLC -
New St. Joseph's English Primary and High School