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Manjusha S Variar

Manjusha S Variar

Bengaluru

Summary

Dedicated and focused Project Manager with an overall 13+ years of experience skilled in leading data governance initiatives and process improvements 5 years of project management experience and 8 years in Finance & accounting, client due diligence and regulatory compliance. Flexible, detail-oriented and adaptive team player with expertise in data analytics, process improvements, management reporting and training & development.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Associate

JP Morgan Chase
03.2022 - Current
  • Focused on continuous process improvement measures
  • Coordinated resources across multiple departments and teams as needed for successful completion of projects
  • Maintained records of all documents related to each project including specifications, change orders, invoices
  • Communicated effectively with stakeholders to ensure project goals are met on time and within budget
  • Drafted reports summarizing progress made on projects for review by executive leadership team
  • Monitored progress of each project to ensure timely delivery of deliverables in accordance with established quality standards
  • Collaborated closely with senior management on long-term strategic planning initiatives related to projects in development or execution stages
  • Conducted regular status meetings with internal teams and external partners to track progress against established milestones
  • Presented findings from data analysis in a clear, concise manner that was easily understood by stakeholders at all levels of the organization
  • Actively sought out feedback from stakeholders throughout the duration of a project in order to identify areas needing improvement or adjustment.

Associate/Senior process executive

E&Y
08.2015 - 02.2022
  • From 2015-2019 worked under EY payroll and 2019-2022 under the payroll of Infosys BPM due to Project transitioning by EY
  • Oversee a team consisting of 5 FTE processing roughly 3000 transactions per week
  • Preparing SOPs (Standard Operating Procedure) to establish a smooth transitioning of the process
  • Also keeping a regular check to update the SOP on a timely basis
  • Providing data for monthly MBR calls with clients and stakeholders
  • Also provide other ad hoc and regular reporting as per management requirements
  • Identify trends in expense/payments activity, and auditing fraudulent expenses based on the Country configuration and regulations
  • Conducting regular fraud audit, to ensure reimbursements are in compliant with the expense policies
  • Quality checks of the team to improve zero error and increase the efficiency of the work
  • Managed internal teams and participated in planning, requirements gathering, design, configuration, testing, deployment and business readiness activities to ensure Project success.

Senior Analyst

Goldman Sachs
08.2013 - 08.2015
  • Ensuring Counterparties are complied with ESMA Regulatory standards as part of European Market Infrastructure Regulation
  • Providing all necessary information required to GS Legal Counsel in negotiating and executing contracts and other Regulatory agreement
  • Reporting the Weekly Risk analysis to the higher management, and implementing new procedures to reduce the occurrence of such errors in future
  • Performing regulatory checks for all GS clients with regards to UK FATCA compliance and reporting to HMRC.

Analyst

JP Morgan chase
09.2010 - 09.2012
  • Setting up and maintenance of counterparties in internal systems
  • Monitoring the different Fixed Income and Derivative trade queues to ensure settlement and clearing modes are correct and ensuring 100% accuracy in the settlement process
  • Handling Post and Pre-market settlement exceptions on various trade monitor queues that require changes to counterparty.

Education

Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting And Finance

Bangalore University
06-2010

Skills

  • Knowledge in SAP Finance and Controlling
  • Data governance
  • Change management
  • Excellent PC Skills - Word, Excel, PowerPoint
  • Ability to establish and leverage team/client relationships
  • Ability to understand concepts related to identifying and assessing risks
  • Beginner level Alteryx and Tableau

Certification

PRINCE2 Certification, Pursuing

Projects

Risk Mitigation

  • Averted potential knowledge and training gaps incurred due to multiple attritions, streamlined and created a project for standardizing and finding a centralized repository for all SOPs

Efficiency

  • Orchestrated the adoption of a new case management platform that resulted in process efficiency, enhanced email controls and improved management visibility on emails.
  • Conducted data governance and streamlined 1 system for all manual payments, manual payments processed from 5 different platforms

Cost Reduction Achievement 

  • Robotics implementation on payment automation, partnered with technology teams in creating a BOT for auto approval of expenses that resulted in 1.5 FTE save

Quality Assurance 

  • Perform quality checks/ internal audit on the reconciliation and break management processes to highlight gaps and issues and provide management insight on the recon practices

Timeline

Associate

JP Morgan Chase
03.2022 - Current

Associate/Senior process executive

E&Y
08.2015 - 02.2022

Senior Analyst

Goldman Sachs
08.2013 - 08.2015

Analyst

JP Morgan chase
09.2010 - 09.2012

Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting And Finance

Bangalore University

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