Shiraz Alam
New Delhi
Summary
Results-driven Assistant Manager - Finance & Accounts with over 14 years of expertise in financial research, balance sheet reconciliation, and close operations in high-pressure environments. Skilled in investigating variances, resolving aged items, enhancing controls, and providing audit-ready reconciliations. Strong track record in stakeholder engagement and process optimization.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Assistant Manager - Finance & Accounts
Exl Services
Noida
07.2022 - Current
- Lead and oversee end-to-end reconciliation for critical balance sheet and P&L accounts, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timely sign-off.
- Drive deep-dive financial research to investigate breaks, aged items, and unexplained variances using historical data, journals, and source documentation.
- Resolve complex discrepancies through cross-functional coordination, reducing long-outstanding items and operational risk.
- Review and challenge reconciliations prepared by team members, enforcing accounting standards and internal control requirements.
- Partner with clients and stakeholders to communicate reconciliation status, explain variances, and agree on corrective actions.
- Support month-end and quarter-end close, delivering reconciliations within strict timelines.
- Enable audit readiness by providing substantiated reconciliations, clear narratives, and supporting evidence.
- Identified control gaps and process inefficiencies, implemented improvements to prevent recurrence and enhance turnaround time.
- Performed escrow and security reconciliation of cash collateral, ensuring accurate closeout during bankruptcy discharges to mitigate financial risk.
- Coordinated with team members to streamline accounting processes, resulting in improved overall efficiency.
- Approved and qualified applications for financing, closed sales contracts and cross-sold insurance products while complying with state laws.
Senior Analyst- Finance & Accounts
Exl Services
Noida
02.2013 - 06.2022
- Executed high-volume reconciliations for bank, cash, intercompany, and suspense accounts to ensure accuracy and integrity of financial data.
- Performed detailed transaction-level research to identify posting errors, system issues, and unmatched items.
- Prepared and validated journal entries to correct misstatements in line with accounting policies.
- Ensured compliance with internal controls, SOPs, and audit requirements.
- Managed accounts receivable and payable processes, facilitating accurate financial reporting, reconciling account transactions, assisting in month-end closing, and providing supporting documentation for audits.
- Maintained aging trackers and dashboards to enhance visibility on open items and track resolution progress.
- Preparation of cash ledger and ITDs
- Preparation of Booked Premium Receivable
- Supported transitions, KT sessions, and process stabilization during team changes.
Senior Account Executive
Mentor Graphics
Noida
06.2012 - 01.2013
Financial Analyst
Innodata Isogen
Noida
08.2011 - 05.2012
Education
B.Com - Commerce / Finance
HNB Garhwal University
Roorkee 04.2001 -
MBA - Commerce / Finance
Punjab Technical University
Jalandhar Skills
- Complex Account Research & Issue Resolution
- Balance Sheet
- GL & P&L Reconciliation
- Bank Accounts
- Clearing Accounts
- Variance Analysis
- Root Cause Identification
- Month-End Close
- Quarter-End Close
- Audit Support
- Compliance Readiness
- SOP Development
- Process Optimization
- Client Coordination
- Onshore-Offshore Coordination
- Review
- Quality Control
- Mentoring
Certification
- Charted Finance Manager(CFM)
- Advance certificate in financial accounting (ISBM)
- Accounting Fundamentals -Corporate Finance Institute® (CFI)
- Reading Financial Statements -Corporate Finance Institute ® (CFI)
Accomplishments
- Significantly reduced aged reconciliation items through structured research and proactive follow-ups.
- Entrusted with high-risk and critical accounts, handled independently with minimal escalations.
- Strengthened audit outcomes by delivering clean, well-documented reconciliations.
- Consistently met aggressive SLAs while maintaining quality benchmarks.
Values offered
- Prepare Business Requirement Reports, Feasibility Studies
- Drive QAs and audit of reconciled contracts.
- Coordinate development efforts in to effective training programs.
- Coordinating with client for smooth processing.
- Define change mgt process to ensure that updates to process are fully documented and understood by all stakeholders.
Systems And Tools
- ERP: SAP
- Advanced MS Excel (Pivot Tables, Lookups), PowerPoint
- Reconciliation & Reporting Tools
Timeline
Assistant Manager - Finance & Accounts
Exl Services
07.2022 - Current
Senior Analyst- Finance & Accounts
Exl Services
02.2013 - 06.2022
Senior Account Executive
Mentor Graphics
06.2012 - 01.2013
Financial Analyst
Innodata Isogen
08.2011 - 05.2012
B.Com - Commerce / Finance
HNB Garhwal University
04.2001 -
MBA - Commerce / Finance
Punjab Technical University