Gursahib Singh

• Identified partnership opportunities and established favorable business connections. Provide strategic, analytical & tactical support for budgeting & planning process, guiding the business in financial aspects and support decision-making
• Develop financial business plans i.e. Annual Operating budgets (AOP's) along with long term 3-5 years strategic business projections with detailed benchmarks.
• Designing and re-building management/ KPI reporting architecture and dashboards using tools such as Tableau, Alteryx, Advance Excel and Financial Systems like: Business Objects and Hyperion
• Monitored budget and revenue trends, analyzed monthly P&L against forecasts to prepare high-level variance analysis for better insights
• Facilitate financial review meetings with business groups (PA leaders, Directors & Senior Partners) and work with business managers to ensure effective financial and cost management
• Assisting business on capacity & resource planning by keeping track of the FTE's positions (i.e. Billable/Non-Billable/Contractors), opening of new roles, backfill positions & staging of roles
• Acting as a thought partner and executing transformational change the business projects/initiatives which aims to improves the Finance system/processes, enhance productivity and operational efficiencies . Forecasted trends and recommended improvements based on financial risk analyses.
• Facilitated software & process integration to streamline accounting and financial processes. Also, re-designed team structures to improve operational efficiencies and drive cost savings.
• Executed vendor setup and payments, serve as primary contact for the Business teams, AP & Procurement teams to facilitate end-to-end vendor management
• Manages end to end accounting controlling for all related projects, being key SPOC for project accounting matters with all stakeholders
• Prepared and managed large capital expenditure budgets to effectively handle infrastructure investment and long-term operations.
• Trained new and existing staff members in various financial procedures to prepare for job requirements.
• Oversee the performance management activities for the direct reports in the team & training Interns in Boston (GS Boston) and Analysts in India (GS Delhi)

• Working on client assignments and projects, thus synthesizing current business intelligence data to produce reports and polished presentations, highlighting findings and recommending changes.
• Tracking Net Sales, cost of goods sold and unadjusted margin at various project level and sales order level
• Calculating the Cash conversion cycle on monthly basis at entity/project level using DSO, DIO and DPO and forming stratergic solutions to bring down the high CCC
• Reporting the Net Working capital requirement and capturing the variance drivers using Waterfall model
• Highlighting the various projects/sales order with high backlog, deferred revenue, unbilled revenue and accounts receivable, liasoning with the project managers to enforce optimum levels
• Identifying mismatch in actual and budgeted cost at commodity level and provide variance analysis
• Developed a automated Pricing model based on the product/services & regional allocation strategy of the firm
• Directed business analysts in executing and delivering various tactical and strategic plans.

Dubai Onsite Project Experience: Deployed onsite on a short term project to work closely with the HSBC middle east team. Major responsibilities handled during the time frame were

• Identifying project requirements, developing transition plans, tracking project progress, highlighting and mitigating risks and negotiating on timelines with the onshore team
• Working closely in a simulation environment with the onshore team to understand their FP&A process, reporting structure, tools used, analysis needed and effectively completed the pre-go live phase maintaining project SLAs'
• Creating in depth knowledge documents for process knowledge gained onsite to be used for tracking SLAs' and training offshore Indian resources
• Conducted FTE Analysis w.r.t. to work transitioned and skill sets needed, getting final sign off from business partner for post go live phase responsibilities
• Offshore Indian resources on process knowledge gained onshore and liasoned between offshore team and onshore team to ensure smooth knowledge transfer

Other responsibilities :-

• Planning of the following year’s budget for technology, broken down at Project and Programme level
• Coordinate with project manager on the monthly forecast
• Provide analysis/support in the budget forecast for all HSBC Trade system group
• Managing and reporting of the finance contribution and recharge for IT project
• Develop scenario model to help understand the ROTI (Return on Technology Investment)
• Providing comparison of actual vs budget backed with commentary
• Preparing the presentation of all flagship projects for steering committee on a monthly basis
• Resource management and analysis of resource utilization in various projects

• Studying & extracting useful information from client’s financial data.
• Analyzing the financial position of the client by doing detailed analysis of Profit and Loss, Balance sheet and cash flow statements.
• Highlighting the variances in the client’s management accounts and audited accounts
• Reporting the one-off adjustments made in the accounts
• Analyzed unstructured information to derive key insights
• Queried databases for information needed for report processing
• Performed quality assurance to meet appropriate standards and facilitate improvement of processes
• Discovered root causes of problems and identified appropriate solutions

• Conducted weekly staff meetings to motivate staff members, address concerns and questions, plan improvements and evaluate progress toward goals.
• Assisted senior professors in preparing research papers to be published in research journals.
• Played vital role in organizing various business meets, annual summit and conferences.
• Worked as a key member of the Industry interaction Cell to facilitate the placement process for the students
• Responsible for promoting international campuses by way of participating & organizing seminars around the country
• Significant contribution towards revenue generation of the organization
• Deliver dynamic, engaging presentations to large audiences at seminars and corporate houses and International clients.
  Involved in with Corporate Tie-Ups: Education Consultants and various Foreign as well as National Universities
• Planning for various meets for the Ambassadors of distinguished countries. Assisting the Foreign Delegations coming to Amity Universities for tie-ups and generating businesses
• Leading a Team of people for the Marketing Activities to be done at various locations of India