JACINTHA CHETTIAR ADPAK

Summary

Treasury cash manager leading 5 members team. Managing bank loans with various banks across EMEA region. Maintaining Borrowing base and repo accounts, performing mark-to-markets on existing loans, coordinating with trade finance team and banks for making material payments to counterparties, utilization of incoming sale funds , Maintaining cash balances, Reporting cash position and forecasting.

Key Tasks

BAU/ Process:

• Manage day-to-day flow of operations and payment authorization.
• Keep up-to-date and accurate funding accounts for internal departments.
• Perform routine checks for maintaining clean, accurate and accessible records and close eye on transaction update and escalations.
• Established and enforced internal controls, workflows and policies for tracking, reconciling and reporting revenues and expenditures.
• Validated existing process and reporting activities to assess quality and conformance, identify problems and implement corrective actions.

Team administration

• Communicate clear instructions, Objectives / KPIs Providing constructive feedback in performance appraisal with team and sketch their career path.
• Actively engage in hiring, on-boarding new joiners and prepare their training plans.
• Mentoring and coaching new joiners as well as existing staff.

Analytics and controls:

• Setting and reviewing internal controls to monitor critical areas of financial control and devised corrective actions to address risks or deficiencies and avoid operational risks.
• Engaging with internal controls team to facilitate internal/ external audits.
• Preparing/ Monitoring various key critical reports for senior management that directly impact the PNL, e.g. Cash balance report, Loan Rates report, Old loan report etc.
• Parity building and applying best practices across various process by periodic review of Standard operating procedures. Engaging in regular stake holder meetings to identify scope of improvements in existing processes.
• Project Titan: SME for 'Titan', creating requirement documents, engaging in calls with stakeholders, planning and managing the UAT & monitoring any ELS issues.

Summary

Worked as transaction processing specialist in electronics payment team & analyst in billing team.

Payments Team

• Processed electronic wire transfers for 9 APAC branches through SWIFT, Telex, E-serve.
• Handled booking, processing & verification of multi currency FX deals.
• Maintained static data on payment system to improve straight through processing without manual intervention.
• Reported Nostro movement for all currencies & handled enquires relating to payments and ensured all cut-offs & controls are met.
• Published EOD control report to stake holders.
• Provided training and support to onboarding employees.

Billing Team

• Key Task was billing 14 APAC branches corporate clients for services provided.
• Performed new account set up, account closures, product pricing maintenance & amendments.
• Manually performed non automated billing activities.
• Handled clients queries with relation to their billing accounts.
• Learned all required tasks quickly to maximize performance. Contributed to team success by completing jobs quickly and accurately.
• Pursued learning opportunities to advance knowledge and take on leadership position.