Saket Vidyarthi

Strategic global role delivering value added services alongwith managing a large team in a dynamic environment, achieving 100% ESAT score.

• Supporting business finance function within the CFO Org and is aligned to Global Banking business. The Banking team is responsible for performing B/S and P&L validation, forecast reviews, business reviews and performance reporting for various banking products including Global Corporate Banking, Global Commercial banking, Investment banking and business banking.
• Working in a matrix environment and interacting with multiple senior stakeholders including Global Head for Banking & other product and regional CFO's alongwith wider Finance, Technology, Risk, HR, Audit and other functions.
• Leveraged technology to provide solutions to key risks by eliminating ~40 MS Access databases and transforming reporting through Oracle resulting in increased productivity and cost savings across the organization.
• Created center of excellence (COE) for expense recovery related to Investment Banking deals and optimise resources and standardised practices as part of developing strategic initiatives and long term goals.
• Built high-performance teams through effective recruitment practices focused on competency alignment coupled with ongoing performance management processes.
• Driving strategic initiatives to bring in operational efficiencies using emerging technology tools like Tableau & Alteryx.
• Championed talent development programs, promoting employee engagement and retention while enhancing overall workforce capabilities.
• Aligned organizational objectives with company mission to increase business growth and integrate work strategies by collaborating for location strategy.

• Leading a team involved in FP&A for the annual planning cycle and helping in taking strategic decision by providing various analysis to the senior management including FD's & CXO's
• Providing simulations related to headcount and related costs for various scenarios and helping business finance teams in making decisions related to location strategy.

• Led a team of associates responsible for FP&A and cost centre level reporting at country level
• Reviewing daily, weekly & monthly P&L, Exco packs
• Flash reporting, waterfall explanation of variances as compared to plan & prior periods
• Working directly with country CFO & helping in creating various analysis to help business in decision making.

• Lead multiple teams involved for FP&A & flash consolidation
• Transitioned the role from UK which involved working closely with the CFO & finance directors
• Involved in the planning cycles including budgets and strategic cycles & consolidating the financials at the product levels

• Quarterly & off quarterly Balance Sheet review for one of the Line of Business at an international level and doing analytical reviews
• Consolidating, analyzing, & validating relevance of variance comments & discussing the same with the regional finance directors & other senior stakeholders to be included in Finance Board Packs for earnings release
• Forecasting of P&L for one of the regions and discussing the results with the market controllers and providing them update for reasons of any major variances
• Monthly accounting for US GAAP based deferral models for revenue & expense recognition using excel based models
• Responsible for booking accruals & other expense from book closure perspective.

• Played a key role in remote transition of the process from US and trained & coached other team members
• Regularly interacted with the controllers in US
• Coordinated for the ISO 9001 certification
• Prepared reports for the process required for audit certification.