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Prashant Ajgaonkar

Mumbai

Summary

MBA in Finance with 23+years’ experience in Finance Operations, Controls & Accounting with leading investment banks (Citibank, JP Morgan), ITES BPO (LTM, WNS, TCS) & Pharma (Teva). Exhibited Strong Partnership with Finance, Risk & Compliance, Technology teams.

Proven expertise in Balance sheet substantiation, reconciliation, Chart of Accounts (COA).

Driving governance and acting as a senior escalation point to ensure accurate Books and Records (B&R) across complex, multi-system operating models. Professional offering several years of achieving success in industry. Highly qualified and skilled leader. Priority on driving business growth and motivating teammates to consistently exceed goals.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience
4
4
Certification

Work History

Sr Specialist Business Analyst

LTM
08.2022 - Current

Citibank: Oracle Cloud

  • Played a key role in developing the COA, by creating Chart of Accounts for EMEA entities and Global P2P Accounts.
  • Provided expertise in analyzing historical data and compliance for setting up new Chart of Accounts (COA) in Oracle System.
  • Spearheaded creation of 7K+ accounts and descriptions in Oracle system, addressing complexities across multiple systems and ensuring accurate mapping in downstream to upstream IT systems.
  • Facilitated the DSMT upload into Oracle Cloud during UAT testing.
  • Assisted QA team in doing SIT & also performed UAT Testing to validate daily data integration of different attributes between Fullsuite vs Oracle Cloud platforms

Broadridge

  • Led Cost Plus Model Project Enhancement Rollout: Partnered with India operations team for requirement gathering in BRD & FSD and enhance MVP by designing detailed 'As-Is' and 'Future State' process flowcharts for finance (AP, AR, IC, HC); prepared weekly status reports for global CAO and facilitated daily configuration update meetings.
  • Streamlined client mapping for revenue reporting with BroadGPT and Dun & Bradstreet report, enhancing accuracy of global consolidation.
  • Designed Test Scenarios and Plan, where I created standardized test formats for all India Finance processes to support robust validation and quality assurance

Senior Manager Finance Ops.

Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Limited
10.2017 - 06.2022
  • Lead a Global Shared Service Centre for 70 members, Transitioned 42 legal entities & 18 countries – Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, T&E, Fixed Assets, Reconciliation & Multiple Projects.
  • Drove transformation of shared services operations for finance processes including accounts payable, travel expense management, receivables, fixed assets, general accounting, journal entries, bank reconciliation, and mergers & divestitures for multiple legal entities across countries.
  • Provided strategic and transformational capabilities and expertise to improve financial transparency and regulatory compliance to position financial operations as a strategic business partner.
  • Strictly adhered to IGAAP & USGAAP guidelines, managing invoice processing, supplier payments, vendor master-data, T&E, Cash Application, Fixed Assets Management, Bank reconciliation and General Ledger Accounting and functions for a $16B organization.
  • Enhanced internal control environment to more effectively monitor transaction risk and financial exposure.
  • Updated governance meetings with India CFO, controllers, compliance director, and local CFOs globally to ensure alignment on financial operations.
  • Concept-to-execution leader of sub projects and programs related to Shared Services Transformation – led due diligence and project planning for data and process transition for the mega Finance SSC transition.
  • Collaborated cross-functionally and with Business Leaders & local CFO’s to seamlessly transition project scopes and corporate governance.

Associate (Manager)

JP Morgan India Private Services Ltd
Mumbai
11.2013 - 10.2017
  • Balance Sheet Certification & Substantiation, MIS Reporting.
  • Leading 5 members team for overall Global Supplier Services (GSS) Controls team for General Ledger Reconciliation & Substantiation (GLRS) & MIS process, understanding controls paradigm and contribute to strengthening risk/controls environment for all account reconciliation.
  • Performed monthly certification and substantiation of balance sheet accounts for liability & fixed assets accounts under the General Ledger Reconciliation and Substantiation (GLRS) process tool, including account owner certification, risk assessment, and red-status reporting in the GLRS tool.
  • Monitoring sign-off of all certification records of AP, T&E, FA accounts & reporting of aged outstanding balances.
  • Developing various reports with reconciliation status, aging open items, & others for management reporting.
  • Oversaw MIS reporting and facilitated the availability of tools for efficient data reporting to GSS users.
  • Mumbai

Proprietor

CareerWalker Professional Services
12.2012 - 11.2013
  • HR Recruitment & Associated with different business consultant.
  • Partnered with consultancies (TR Manpower, Ashtivinayak) to deliver recruitment services and manage HTML tagging projects, overseeing candidate sourcing, coordination, and end-to-end hiring support.
  • Managed full recruitment lifecycle, including candidate research via job portals (Naukri, Monster), conducting interviews, coordinating with hiring managers, and ensuring timely feedback and offer closure.

Deputy Manager F&A Operations

WNS Global Services
12.2009 - 11.2012
  • Led team of 35 FTE, supervising 2 Assistant Managers and 4 Team Leaders in finance functions including P2P, R2R, general ledger accounting, month-end activities, journal entries, budgeting entries, cash management, intercompany accounting, variance analysis, and balance sheet reconciliations for motor company, while managing transitions and projects.

Senior Process Executive

Tata Consultancy Services
07.2006 - 12.2009
  • Executed cash and non-cash reconciliation, facilitated Hyperion Financial Management Reporting (HFM) uploads, created journal entries, performed intercompany reconciliation, and prepared documentation for SOX compliance and ISO-9001 auditing.

Team Member

JP Morgan India Private Services Ltd
Mumbai
01.2004 - 07.2006
  • Global Financial Operations (GFO): Post Audits, Invoice Processing.
  • Engaged in diverse projects in addition to routine business tasks, such as processing invoices, conducting post audits, reconciling accounts, clearing credits, and integrating for Apex audits.
  • This process was initiated in January 2004 as an out-sourced function through Intelenet Global Services Pvt. Ltd. and was in-sourced back to JP Morgan with continuity of service from 10 Oct-04.

Accounts Executive

ICICI Bank Home Finance (Aff. With Rafaga Infoknowledge)
09.2002 - 01.2004
  • Retail Home Loans: Reconciliation.
  • Reconciliation accounting entries between FoxPro & Miracle (Oracle Product) for Pre-EMI, EMI, prepayment, & Loan closure, check bounce for Customer ledgers relating to home Loans.

Education

MBA - Finance & International Business

Institute for Technology & Management
Mumbai
09-2009

Bachelors - Commerce, Accounts

Mumbai University (V G Vaze College)
Mumbai
03-2002

Skills

  • Business Requirements Gathering
  • Business Process Improvement
  • Agile Methodology
  • Data Analytics
  • Automation Solutions
  • Financial Analysis
  • Balance sheet reconciliation
  • Process migration
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Leadership
  • Training
  • COA design

Certification

• Certified in Generative AI for Data-Driven Business Decision-Making, Dec-25, IIM Mumbai.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Sept-22.
• Certified in SAP Accounts Payable Boot Camp, Nov-21, LinkedIn Learning.
• Pursuing certification in AI-Driven Data Analytics, Tableau, SQL, Python, SkillArbitrage.

Accomplishments

• Featured in Citibank’s Weekly Newsletter (DMST live), Apr-23, during tenure with LTIMindtree for noteworthy contributions
• Star & Flame Leadership Award, Q1-21 & Q3-20, at Teva for displaying leadership skills for new transition & SAP Concur implementation
• Appreciation Award, (Sept-16 & Jan-16), at J.P. Morgan for contributing to the successful implementation of Concur Cognos BI Reporting tool & GLRS processes
• Certificate of Achievement, 2011, at Ally (WNS Client) for persistent contribution exhibited in the IT Integration project
• Orion Award & Star Fire Award, Q1-11 & Q4-10, at WNS for best performing team in achieving SLA & handling change management
• Champions League Team Award, Q1-08/09, at TCS for outstanding performance in SOX Audit
• Individual Award – Certificate of Excellence, Mar-06, at J.P. Morgan for discovering short cut keys in VIEWS system & detecting duplicate payment of $3.5M in Apex Audit
• Awarded, Oct-03, at ICICI Bank Home Finance Co. Ltd for supporting integration rollout to accomplish from Oracle to FinOne application

Transformations

  • Oracle Cloud
  • IKare
  • Ctrl-Hub
  • SAP Concur
  • DataShark
  • RAMCO & Enaviya
  • Kofax ICS-OCR

Tool Expertise

Oracle Cloud, Full suite, Flexcube, SAP, SAP Concur, Cognos BI, Oracle R11/R12, DataShark, Readsoft, Priority, SharePoint, RAMCO, Envaiya, GLRS Tool, Peoplesoft, Smartstream, Ariba, ICS-OCR (Kofax), Blackline, HFM, ICMS Application, VIEWS, IVIS, One-Stop, Apex Audit, Miracle, FoxPro, BRS software, Jira, ServiceNow, Omniflow, Trackpoint, Onbase

Countries Travelled

  • USA – Detroit
  • North Wales
  • Miami
  • Croatia
  • Israel
  • Malaysia

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 13 Dec 1981
  • Nationality: Indian

Languages

  • English
  • Hindi
  • Marathi

Timeline

Sr Specialist Business Analyst

LTM
08.2022 - Current

Senior Manager Finance Ops.

Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Limited
10.2017 - 06.2022

Associate (Manager)

JP Morgan India Private Services Ltd
11.2013 - 10.2017

Proprietor

CareerWalker Professional Services
12.2012 - 11.2013

Deputy Manager F&A Operations

WNS Global Services
12.2009 - 11.2012

Senior Process Executive

Tata Consultancy Services
07.2006 - 12.2009

Team Member

JP Morgan India Private Services Ltd
01.2004 - 07.2006

Accounts Executive

ICICI Bank Home Finance (Aff. With Rafaga Infoknowledge)
09.2002 - 01.2004

MBA - Finance & International Business

Institute for Technology & Management

Bachelors - Commerce, Accounts

Mumbai University (V G Vaze College)
Prashant Ajgaonkar