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Neha Jayaram

Summary

8+ years of experience in Retail Operations, Budgeting, Team management, Risk Management, Compliance Audit and Project management.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Assistant Manager

HSBC
09.2022 - Current
  • Monitor Global HORIS submissions and maintain static data for 101 sites.
  • Coordinate with various site Finance, Mastergroup management and IT teams to ensure timely processing of static reference maintenance, site submissions, Review & Approve for the reporting period and addressing any issues.
  • Lead monthly Dashboard calls with Business, sharing performance metrics of the process for respective reporting months and highlighting focus areas for the reporting period.
  • Ensuring all the customer Maintenance is mapped as per the CIS\CLPT team.
  • Address queries related to Financial and Non-Financials raised in HORIS, liaising with source systems for clarifications.
  • Ensuring accuracy and quality control checks is placed in HORIS.
  • Provide assistance for adaption HORIS Changes and supporting to review post UAT modifications.
  • Lead the posting of Historic Data restatements to correct Prior HORIS numbers with approvals from Business.

Compliance Specialist

ALLEGIS GLOBAL SOLUTION
09.2021 - 09.2022
  • Managing and Guide INDIA/APAC/EMEA team to handle risk-related user escalations, review individual Global Supplier accounts and transactions to identify a risky behaviors including fraudulent activity, large credit exposure and regulatory non-compliance
  • Reviewed and updated existing compliance policies and procedures
  • Performed risk assessments to identify areas of non-compliance and potential risks.
  • Conducted periodic internal audits to ensure compliance with applicable regulations.
  • Monitoring of metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) to support the measurement of information systems control performance in meeting business objectives
  • Investigated complaints related to the violation of standards or regulations.
  • Collect and analyze supplier financial statements to determine the financial stability of the organization and make recommendations to program office actions to address high-risk suppliers.

BUSINESS PROCESS LEAD

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICE
03.2021 - 09.2021
  • Design, develop & deliver insightful financial reports, dashboards and analyses for executive leadership.
  • Management of processes and reporting across Finance in support of monthly forecast, annual planning, Board of Director meetings and Earnings Call preparation forecasts
  • Provide proactive and timely financial analysis that highlights risk and opportunities to drive better business decisions
  • Develop and/or enhance existing financial models used to review financials and perform variance analyses
  • Stakeholder management by understanding the expectation of Onshore business partner and proactive in implementation.

SENIOR FIN-OPS ANALYST

AMAZON DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
11.2017 - 03.2021
  • Carrying out the different audit plans as designed by Internal Audit Team and performing the full audit cycle over operations effectiveness, financial reliability and compliance with all applicable directives and regulations
  • Validate the audit analysis finding, drive communication with vendor/vendor manager regarding recovery of amounts and liaise with the Vendor Contact Management team to resolve potential disputes with the vendor
  • Reduces the costs of products through vendor allowances, it reduces advertising expenses through cooperative marketing, and it reduces the costs of processing returns with the help of various allowance agreements setup with the vendors
  • Working across stakeholders to gather requirements, drive alignment and deliver results
  • Planning product ranges and preparing sales and stock plans in conjunction with buyers
  • Internal Post Audit Process for US, UK, IT, FR, ES, DE and CA Post Audit claim predictions for the future years.

ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE

TESCO
08.2015 - 09.2017
  • Responsible for Stock Reporting and Accounting for ONESTOP Tesco Stores
  • Publishing of Weekly Stock day's cover report for Management review
  • Processing journals on weekly and periodic basis, journals such as Damage stock, Alignment, Direct Delivery adjustments for Stores and so on
  • Reconciliation of Balance Sheet Accounts such as Stock account, Alignment, Damage Stock, and various control accounts
  • Participate in monthly close calls with the controller's organization for P&L Review.

Education

Bachelor of Commerce -

CMR College, Bengaluru University
01.2015

Pre-university -

Bishop Cotton Women Christian College
01.2012

Tunbridge High School-ICSE Board
01.2010

Skills

  • Microsoft Excel
  • Proficiency in advanced MS Office (Excel, Outlook, Access, PowerPoint)
  • Basic Knowledge in Business intelligence - Power BI
  • Basic knowledge in SQL writing and editing
  • Microsoft Visio 2019
  • Developed expertise in Forecasting and Budgeting
  • Compliance Audit
  • SAP - ERP, JIRA and Cognos
  • SOX Audit
  • Knowledge of working in Oracle Financial Applications

Accomplishments

  • Awarded as the outstanding performer of the month - Tesco 2016
  • Received a LASER On-the-Spot received - Amazon
  • Received JDI Award for Saving 481 Hours and 120 Hours - Amazon
  • ACES Kaizen Contributor - Amazon, 2020
  • HORIS Team won Best team award in Q3 FSO Town hall.
  • Simplified R&A extraction from 3 hours to 5 minutes with coordination with CPP team
  • Led women's day event (i.e. | Can and I Will) and IPL (i.e. FSO Cricket ka Double Tyohaar) and received applauds from our colleagues
  • Presented in 3 Pluse meeting in collaboration with HORIS Team
  • Nominated and shortlisted for the FINSTAR

Projects

1) Strategized QC Check Project which measured a Quality performance by conducting a weekly QC meets.
2) Part of Culture of insights Project in the financial Reporting team
3) Vision Tool - Proposed this tool to automate the manual allocation and automate the dashboard for the score  card in the process.
4) Knowledge Transfer and QA framework - Part of building QA framework and SOP improvements projects.
5) Inflow Analysis project - Inflow Analysis project research reports provide actionable insights on business
strategy inflow and market trends to help business leaders make decisions.
6) Manual claim creating Process Project - During audit of vendors potential claims is identified which are not appeared as exception in tool.
7) Enabling Group -For solving People Concerns, highlight Process  Challenges,  addressing  opportunities
highlighted through Connections scores and bringing in innovations (Feature creation, High level automation etc.
8) Youngster and People Engagement

9) Project InnovateX - Currently coordinating and supporting to HMI MENA team to simplify the process as
Scrum Master along with fellow colleague

Languages

English
First Language
English
Advanced (C1)
C1
Marathi
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Hindi
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Kannada
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2

Custom

References available upon request.

Timeline

Assistant Manager

HSBC
09.2022 - Current

Compliance Specialist

ALLEGIS GLOBAL SOLUTION
09.2021 - 09.2022

BUSINESS PROCESS LEAD

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICE
03.2021 - 09.2021

SENIOR FIN-OPS ANALYST

AMAZON DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
11.2017 - 03.2021

ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE

TESCO
08.2015 - 09.2017

Bachelor of Commerce -

CMR College, Bengaluru University

Pre-university -

Bishop Cotton Women Christian College

Tunbridge High School-ICSE Board

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