Farhan Zafar Sait
Bangalore
Summary
A results-driven finance professional with proven expertise in daily cash processing, foreign currency trade booking, and wire transfer settlement for private equity, and hedge fund clients.
Skilled in managing high-volume transactions, leading teams, mitigating operational risks, and ensuring compliance with internal controls.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Aaaociate, Prime Brokerage - Cash and Custody
Goldman Sachs
Bangalore
02.2023 - Current
- Manage end-to-end daily cash movements, ensuring timely and accurate posting in business systems for private equity and hedge fund clients.
- Facilitate foreign currency trades with internal trading desks, and confirm settlements with receiving institutions.
- Oversee wire transfer activities, verifying adequate funding, and sweeping excess balances into overnight deposits.
- Lead and supervise the cash operations team, approving and finalizing all transactions.
- Allocate workloads efficiently, balancing daily workflow to meet deadlines, while ensuring accuracy.
- Maintain operational control procedures to minimize processing errors, and regulatory risks.
- Liaise directly with Tier 1 clients to resolve inquiries, provide updates, and maintain high standards.
Senior Tax Analyst
Goldman Sachs
Bangalore
12.2019 - 02.2023
- Deep understanding on tax jurisdiction and associated events.
- Documenting different types of tax forms.
- Identify and mitigate risk within the function with minimal or no errors.
- Ensuring that all transactions performed within are being withheld at right rates.
- Proactively interact with clients to gather information and resolve queries raised.
- Maintaining a clean inventory for self and the team, perform effective EOD checks.
- Client-side interactions with least turn-around time for client requests.
- Supervise and train new recruits within the tax operation team.
Tax Analyst
Ernst & Young U.S. LLP Global Delivery Services
Bangalore
05.2018 - 12.2019
- Prepare the state income and franchise tax returns.
- Ensure timely and accurate reporting of State & Local income taxes by identifying, researching and evaluating tax positions.
- Prepare work papers and returns.
- Prepare and review state income tax provision and reconcile state tax accounts.
- Worked with internal stakeholders including HR, controllers group and onshore team to ensure data is received and analyzed effectively.
- Support state tax audit initiatives by assisting with the preparation of response to information requests.
- Maintain tax calendar to ensure timely filing obligations.
Summer Internship
Vaishnavi Group
Bangalore
04.2017 - 05.2017
- Establishing communication with potential customers to determine the reasons why they change their purchase decisions.
- Did a research on different methods used in Marketing including detailed analysis of 'Closed Lost' Enquiries at Vaishnavi North 24, a recent project of Vaishnavi Group at that time.
- Received exposure in functions of Sales and CRM (Customer Relationship Management).
- Learnt the main functions of Marketing done in a Real Estate Development Company Brand Building and Lead Generation.
Education
PGD - Business Administration
St. Joseph's College of Commerce
01.2021
B.Com -
St. Joseph's College of Commerce
01.2018
HSC -
Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain Independent PU College
01.2015
SSC -
Frank Anthony Public School
01.2013
Skills
- Cash management
- Tax compliance
- Regulatory adherence
- Transaction oversight
- Client relationship management
Certification
- Certificate Course on Corporate Governance, KPMG, 2016
- Entrepreneurship Development Program, National Entrepreneurship Network- Wadhwani Group, 2016
Leadership Experience
Vice President, Eco Club, St. Joseph's College of Commerce, 2016-17
Disclaimer
I declare that the above information is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Timeline
Aaaociate, Prime Brokerage - Cash and Custody
Goldman Sachs
02.2023 - Current
Senior Tax Analyst
Goldman Sachs
12.2019 - 02.2023
Tax Analyst
Ernst & Young U.S. LLP Global Delivery Services
05.2018 - 12.2019
Summer Internship
Vaishnavi Group
04.2017 - 05.2017
PGD - Business Administration
St. Joseph's College of Commerce
B.Com -
St. Joseph's College of Commerce
HSC -
Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain Independent PU College
SSC -
Frank Anthony Public School