RAGHUVARAN S
Manager - Finance Control Delivery | Project Management Professional (PMP)
Chennai
Summary
A Certified PMP Professional and seasoned Accounting and Finance expert with over 15 years of corporate experience, excelling in the precise and efficient management and execution of projects. Possesses extensive expertise in financial control and reporting, Balance sheet reconciliation and substantiation, Credit analysis, Risk management, Business analysis, Change management, and General ledger oversight.
Overview
2026
2026
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager - Finance Control Delivery
Standard Chartered Global Business Services Private Limited
07.2023 - Current
- Manage requirements from initiation to closure by working with business stakeholders and technology delivery teams.
- Adhere to change management standards & procedures, including documenting and capturing all artefacts (BRD, Requirements, Data Dictionaries, Signoffs, Minutes of meetings) required by project governance.
- Prioritise Change BoW based on Business criticality and balance out the change release throughout the year with effective utilisation of Tech resources.
- Change rollout to be seamless into BAU and required support to be provided post implementation.
- Ensure all BAU aspects of the change and user verification is covered prior to sign-off without any compromise on the data quality.
- Manage process, communication & expectations around Data Quality/Service Delivery on Financial Analytics (MSTR & Teradata) and Management Reporting Cubes (Oracle Essbase).
- Responsible for ensuring the expected system stability and data quality is maintained month on month while achieving certain improvements.
- Conducted cross functional team discussions (internal / external) to resolve issues.
- Rigorously Following up - Issue Management tracking mechanism, namely, raising problem ticket, CR, logging into issue tracker, follow up for resolution etc.
- Work on strategic fixes for the issues by prioritising the Change BoW.
- Ensure good understanding of function specific concepts and KPIs
- Lead the Impact Assessment/Business Analysis and UAT across multiple platforms in the Performance Management Reporting space.
- Always Ensure operations risks are highlighted in a timely manner at appropriate levels and devise an action item and implement the same.
- Took responsibility and ownership for conducting team engagement activities.
- Completed assign mandatory e-learnings on time and share the best practise to the team.
- Adhere good conduct and follow the Bank Policy and Procedures.
- Ensure Data Privacy and Date Confidentiality.
Manager - Finance System Operation
H.S.B.C [EDPI] Pvt. Ltd
01.2014 - 07.2023
- Engaging, implementing and managing the Balance Sheet Reconciliation & Substantiation certification process module for all new legal entities in HSBC to ensure better control, strengthen the account reconciliation, Substantiation and certification process.
- Coordinating with stakeholders and GFOC regulatory compliance team to get the Regulatory documentation sign off for all the new legal entities during the implementation.
- Validation & uploading of Fx rates, GL & SL balances , identification of new accounts, deactivated accounts & static data preparation on monthly basis.
- Performing Change request, Data upload, unassigned accounts and Maintenance activities in the system.
- Assessment & Review of input data for General Ledger postings which facilitates Balance Sheet Reconciliation Reporting , which in turn discussed in Senior Management (CEO/CFO) monthly meetings & Audit, Risk & Compliance Committee (ARCC).
- Ensuring continuous interaction with business partners including monthly Governance calls to discuss deliverables, issues/challenges and addressing the concerns.
- Coordinate with various teams and raise support ticket for all issues, analyses root cause and assist in efficient resolution of all production processes.
- Need to assist the users to raise exceptions as per the FIM guidelines.
- Coordinating various projects for automation i.e. Mosaic, Robotics etc. Interacting between Clients and technical team to get an automation done.
- Understand the business need and collaborate with stakeholders to define the solution.
- Preparation of monthly dashboards , ARCC and monthly Governance Decks.
- Handling escalation and single point of contact for clients for raising any issues / concerns.
- Tracking of system issues , releasing User Communications & follow up until resolution
Project Management
HSBC
- Strong Business analysis, requirements gathering and design skills .
- Experience in delivering significant change and collaborating with stakeholders in different locations.
- Preparing the test cases for any new implementation and conduct the three level of testing including Functional , user acceptance , negative and also performance to verify the requirements are met.
- Conducting meetings and presentations to share ideas and findings.
- Working closely with clients, development and testing team on all enhancement and new implementation.
- Tracking the overall testing transition and project throughout the lifecycle.
- Preparing KPI, BIA, BCP documents and get it signed off with relevant authorities.
Accounts Associate
Olam Information Services Pvt ltd
02.2013 - 03.2014
- Handled both Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable functions for the Freight Process.
- Follow-up of freight charges with internal teams for various products.
- Involved in reconciliations with the customer (intercompany) and suppliers accounts due to various disputes.
- Facilitated payments to different suppliers across the globe in different currencies on a monthly basis.
- Preparation of journals for expenses and income incurred for the freight.
- Preparing Financial Reports & handling month close activities.
- Postings in AP, AR and GL module in Oracle.
- Preparing Freight Report and debtors report on weekly basis .
Senior Credit Analyst
Flextronics Global Shared Services.
11.2010 - 02.2013
- Perform semi-annual reviews of all customers through review of publicly available material, including Dun & Bradstreet, along with other 3rd party reports and references.
- Compared items, such as liquidity, profitability, credit history and cash with other companies of same industry and geographic location
- Perform credit risk assessments of new customers..
- Managing, Monitoring and Mitigating Credit Risk .
- Determine and recommend appropriate payment terms and credit limit for customers
- Maintain internal databases with credit risk & credit limit information.
- Assist with the billing of detention and application of contract exceptions.
- Ensure early identification and prompt escalation of any deteriorating credit.
- Continuously review the o pen AR ageing MIS to identify and select delinquent's accounts for collection and coordinating with sales and customers for early liquidation of those accounts
- Interaction with the site/customer on a regular basis through calls/mails regarding the customer's relationship and prospect of business
- Updating the credit limit, risk rate, credit payment term and EFX details in BAAN and Oracle ERP systems
- Execute the Audit report for the team.
- Involved in reconciliations of credit risk rating with payment terms.
Education
MBA - Finance And Marketing
Anna University
Chennai 06.2008 - 2010.05
B.Com - Commerce
Madras Christian College
Chennai 05.2005 - 2008.05
Skills
MS- office [Excel, Word, PPT]
MIS Reporting
Process implementation
Project Management
Credit analysis and Risk Management
Team Handling and Training Activities
Test Case Preparation
Ticketing Tools - JIRA, Service Now
ERP's Credit point Software BAAN, ORACLE,SAP, Fourth shift
Web Based Tools- AssureNETGL, ETL - Mosaic
Balance sheet Governance
Requirement gathering from client/stakeholder
Certified Project Management Professional
Achievements
- Gone extra mile and received GEM Award in 2024 for quick learning and delivered year end reporting.
- Appreciating my capabilities and dedication got the Star of the quarter in 2012 [Flextronics pvt.ltd]
- Awarded for significant contribution to the achievement of the organizational goals and objectives with Individual Contributor Award twice in 2011.[Flextronics pvt.ltd]
- AOB recognitions from business partners for rendering seamless FCD activities.[HSBC]
- Actively participating, initiating the fun committee and GFC CSR initiates .[HSBC]
- Got many “ At Our Best ” awards for various positive reasons from Off shore and Onshore.[HSBC]
Timeline
Manager - Finance Control Delivery
Standard Chartered Global Business Services Private Limited
07.2023 - Current
Manager - Finance System Operation
H.S.B.C [EDPI] Pvt. Ltd
01.2014 - 07.2023
Accounts Associate
Olam Information Services Pvt ltd
02.2013 - 03.2014
Senior Credit Analyst
Flextronics Global Shared Services.
11.2010 - 02.2013
MBA - Finance And Marketing
Anna University
06.2008 - 2010.05
B.Com - Commerce
Madras Christian College
05.2005 - 2008.05
Project Management
HSBC
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