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Shashank Narayanan

Chennai

Summary

Results-driven Analyst with a strong background at Barclays Global Service Centre, specializing in Business Intelligence Dashboards and Process Optimization to drive financial performance. Proven success in trend analysis and communication skills, leading to informed business decisions and enhanced team collaboration. Notable achievements include significant advancements in product performance analysis, highlighting expertise in financial accounting. Aiming to leverage analytical skills to further optimize business strategies and outcomes.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Analyst

Barclays Global Service Centre
Chennai
08.2022 - Current

Prepared detailed monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports for senior management and stakeholders with regard to revenue generated from each sub-product within Corporate Payments Services.

Conducted financial analysis to support key business decisions, identifying causes for deviations, and taking appropriate actions as necessary.

Created Payment Product Level Financials, which assisted the business in analyzing the current product performance and identifying causes of deviation from expected performance.

Supported the senior stakeholders in forecasting activities, analyzed historical financial data to identify trends, and set up calls with the business to understand the current market situation and their expectations for future performance.

Trained and guided new team members on BAU and ad hoc queries.

Created a forecasting model to understand the impact of adverse economic conditions on product performance, and submitted the same as part of regulatory requirements.

Handling ad hoc queries from senior management for substantiating performance analysis reports, and preparing customized reports as required on a daily basis.

Finance Trainee

ITC Limited
Chennai
02.2019 - 12.2019

Responsible for Freight Master Management and Updating, WSP Audit Coordination.

Responsible for FG aging and analysis, provision for FG creation, and inventory adjustment entry.

Responsible for fixed asset and depreciation variance and analysis.

Current and Non-Current Advances, Deposit Classification, and Variance Analysis.

Responsible for inter-branch adjustment entry, GST return preparation, and GST ledger reconciliation.

Articled Assistant

B Jain & CO and M C Ranganathan & Co
Chennai & Kolkatta
10.2016 - 02.2019

Inventory, Stock Count, and Reconciliation for the Manufacturing Industry.

Verification of Sales and Purchase, Statutory Compliance, Human Resource,

Fixed Assets and Depreciation for Companies in the Manufacturing Industry.

Conducting a concurrent audit of Canara Bank, responsible for verification of

NPA classification of advances.

Inventory, Stock Count, and Reconciliation for the Automobile Industry.

Responsible for Purchase and Stores, General Maintenance,Human Resource

and statutory compliance for Taj Hotels (Branch-Varkala, AGH, Samudra).

Responsible for sales, purchases, fixed assets, depreciation, human resources and

ERP Verification and Statutory Compliance for Companies in the Automobile Industry (Craftsman Automation Ltd, TVS).

Education

Chartered Accountant - Accounting And Finance

ICAI
Chennai
05-2022

B.Com(H) - Accounting And Finance

Calcutta University
Kolkatta
05-2016

Skills

  • Business Intelligence Dashboards
  • Process Optimization
  • Trend Analysis Expertise
  • Effective Communication
  • Financial Accounting Expertise

Languages

English
First Language
Hindi
Intermediate (B1)
B1
Tamil
Elementary (A2)
A2

Accomplishments

  • Received Recognition for providing better insight with regards to Payments Product Performance which helped the Business identify gaps to expected performance and better forecast future performance
  • Received Recognition for identifying missing income that was not reported as per Business expectations.
  • Received Recognition for leading Accruals Deep Dive to identifying the purpose for posting accruals and helping Finance Control and FBP to take a decision as to which Accruals should be posted and which should be dropped

Timeline

Analyst

Barclays Global Service Centre
08.2022 - Current

Finance Trainee

ITC Limited
02.2019 - 12.2019

Articled Assistant

B Jain & CO and M C Ranganathan & Co
10.2016 - 02.2019

Chartered Accountant - Accounting And Finance

ICAI

B.Com(H) - Accounting And Finance

Calcutta University
Shashank Narayanan