Dynamic finance professional with extensive experience in nostro and payment reconciliations at State Street Corporate Services India. Expert in Agile methodologies and SQL, adept at driving project milestones and enhancing deliverable quality. Proven track record in improving process efficiency and mentoring junior associates, showcasing strong project management and analytical skills.
Key member of big bang migration program of ISO 20022 adoption.
MT to MX conversions (MT 1xx, 2xx, 5xx 9xx series, PACS and CAMT messages) with Target 2, ISO20022 and CBPR+ platforms.
Functional expert in Testing, Business Analysis, Client Experience (CX) into Treasury Products viz. Foreign Exchange, Money Market and FX Swaps, Faster Payments, SWIFT
Substantial experience in Mortgage-Claims, Reconciliation, Tax Payments, Trade Settlement process & Payments
Hands on experience on swift messages such as MT54X, MT1XX, MT2XX, MT304, MT527
Expertise in Intellimatch, PEGA & TLM Application
ISO 150022 & ISO 20022 Payment Messages
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Associate Nostro & Payment Reconciliations and Investigations
State Street Corporate Services India
Bangalore
10.2020 - Current
Assessed the entire FX/MM processing chain for potential wire issues
Utilized Intellimatch for reconciling breaks in ledgers and statements.
Gather and convert requirements into feature write-ups in JIRA, including stories with acceptance criteria and specification by example (SBE)
Contributed to project milestones by monitoring tasks in JIRA.
Coordinate with Development and QA teams to enhance deliverable quality.
Conducted thorough functional testing.
Worked with the development team and project leads to prepare a process flow diagram and present it to various stakeholders.
Provided direction and guidance to junior associates on complex tasks.
ASSOCIATE in Client Data Services
HSBC EDPI Bangalore
Bangalore
12.2016 - 02.2017
Performing Onboarding and Off boarding function
Managing and closing all Fixed Income accounts when KYC goes missing
Reviewing the requests from different sources and taking logical steps to complete those requests
Drive process consistency by regularly auditing back-office data.
Reviewed policies regularly to ensure relevancy to critical business aspects.
OFFICER in Cash Management Operation, Payment Investigation & Reconciliation
Standard Chartered (Scope International) Bangalore
Bangalore
07.2015 - 12.2016
· Prepared report on Remittance settlement of all inward high-risk currency deals like, RUB, MXN, JPY etc. at the end of the day and sending to higher management.
Regularly prepare SOD and Global Market Funding reports.
Reconciliation of Ledger & Statements breaks in Intellimatch and TLM
Handled SWIFT messages including MT103, MT202, MT192, MT199, and MT299.
Implemented necessary actions for issue resolution with management approval.
Handling critical issues related to process and do necessary action for resolution with proper approval from management
Contributed to the assessment of testing conditions to boost efficiency.
Complying with Group Money Laundering Prevention policies and procedures to the extent applicable and report all suspicious transactions to higher authority
Preparing EOD reports which is being communicated to country (MIS) Processing payments
Maintaining and passing the incoming instructions to the respective team and handling the queries
Education
BBA - Finance & IT
PJ College of Management &Technology
Bhubaneswar
06-2012
Skills
Agile Methodologies
Waterfall Methodologies
SDLC
Trade Life Cycle
Project management
SQL and databases
Extracurricular_activities
1st Position in Dance Cluster Level Competition
Silver medal in Regional Level Judo
Green Belt in Martial Art
Hobbies & interests
Travelling
Listening to Odia Classical Music
Interacting with people
Professionalcompetencies
Enthusiastic, Multi-tasking, flexible and fast learner with a good personality.
Work effectively with diverse groups of people and stiff deadlines.
<ul><li>Profile: Record to Reporting (R2R)</li><li>Performing financial reporting and controlling for across all the entities (in Hyperion and Oracle = JD Edward).</li><li>Performing End to End P&L finalization (Review of accruals, Negative Cash Accrual, prepaid amortization schedule, FX Adjustments, creation, deletion and capitalization of fixed assets, posting of depreciation etc.) & taking calls with Controllers during Months end for further review of P&L.</li><li>Banking process includes positive pay exceptions, stop payment, voiding checks with AP team. Checks movement to unclaimed property. Payment proof, remittance details.</li><li>IFRS lease computation complying with IFRS 16 in CoStar – Real Estate Manager system (this is only for lease).</li><li>Preparation of webforms and variance analysis report and sharing with stakeholders with detailed information.</li><li>Performing Balance sheet reconciliation with adherence of policy and clearance of open items along with relevant details of lines which is overaged however will be staying for long time (i.e.- Bonus and dividends, Common Stocks, Security Deposits).</li><li>Facilitating team operations by discussions through the sharing of information and knowledge, identification of teamwork issues, development of problem-solving recommendations, and recommendations of standardizing team operations.</li><li>Cross train resources in order to have backup of each other to help team synergy helping team members to take leaves when required without bothering of work/process deliverables.</li><li>Conduct weekly, biweekly and monthly meetings with stake holders as per their agreement.</li><li>Create opportunities for team members to provide input on procedures/processes and share their expertise with other team members.</li><li>Working knowledge of ERP systems People Soft, ART (Reconciliation software of Oracle), JD Edward, Teradata, Cetova, Hyperion (HFM), Cadency, Blackline, SAP, NetSuite, Workday Adaptive, Coupa, Tableau, CoStar, Alteryx.</li><li>PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS</li><li>Given 12 lean ideas in area of Month End Close journals, Balance Sheet Reconciliations, and Bank Reconciliations.</li><li>Part of a green belt project on quality of reconciliations and BOT implementation (work in progress) – controllership impact</li><li>Bring automation & Marco enabling dash board MIS reporting for monthly SLA, KPI, IC balances, Cash forecasting etc.</li></ul> at Genpact India Pvt. Ltd<ul><li>Profile: Record to Reporting (R2R)</li><li>Performing financial reporting and controlling for across all the entities (in Hyperion and Oracle = JD Edward).</li><li>Performing End to End P&L finalization (Review of accruals, Negative Cash Accrual, prepaid amortization schedule, FX Adjustments, creation, deletion and capitalization of fixed assets, posting of depreciation etc.) & taking calls with Controllers during Months end for further review of P&L.</li><li>Banking process includes positive pay exceptions, stop payment, voiding checks with AP team. Checks movement to unclaimed property. Payment proof, remittance details.</li><li>IFRS lease computation complying with IFRS 16 in CoStar – Real Estate Manager system (this is only for lease).</li><li>Preparation of webforms and variance analysis report and sharing with stakeholders with detailed information.</li><li>Performing Balance sheet reconciliation with adherence of policy and clearance of open items along with relevant details of lines which is overaged however will be staying for long time (i.e.- Bonus and dividends, Common Stocks, Security Deposits).</li><li>Facilitating team operations by discussions through the sharing of information and knowledge, identification of teamwork issues, development of problem-solving recommendations, and recommendations of standardizing team operations.</li><li>Cross train resources in order to have backup of each other to help team synergy helping team members to take leaves when required without bothering of work/process deliverables.</li><li>Conduct weekly, biweekly and monthly meetings with stake holders as per their agreement.</li><li>Create opportunities for team members to provide input on procedures/processes and share their expertise with other team members.</li><li>Working knowledge of ERP systems People Soft, ART (Reconciliation software of Oracle), JD Edward, Teradata, Cetova, Hyperion (HFM), Cadency, Blackline, SAP, NetSuite, Workday Adaptive, Coupa, Tableau, CoStar, Alteryx.</li><li>PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS</li><li>Given 12 lean ideas in area of Month End Close journals, Balance Sheet Reconciliations, and Bank Reconciliations.</li><li>Part of a green belt project on quality of reconciliations and BOT implementation (work in progress) – controllership impact</li><li>Bring automation & Marco enabling dash board MIS reporting for monthly SLA, KPI, IC balances, Cash forecasting etc.</li></ul> at Genpact India Pvt. Ltd