Qualified Chartered Accountant & Company Secretary. Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong worth ethic, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.
· Executed statutory audits for diverse clients across industries in the EMEIA region, ensuring compliance with IFRS and other regulatory requirements. –
· Led a team of professionals in delivering high quality Data Analytics related work papers relating to revenue, receivables, PPE, payables, payroll etc.
· Managed teams, assigned tasks and reviewed their work to ensure quality and timely delivery of audit work papers to the onshore partners.
· Conducted risk assessment and internal control evaluation resulting in identifying control weaknesses and process improvements.
· Prepared comprehensive audit reports, highlighting findings and recommendations.
· Collaborated with the onshore partners for business development.
· Responsible for the legal entity control functions for the bank entity.
· Liaising with various regional stakeholder on progress and strategic migration for CoE model as a part of local regulatory reporting team
· Responsible for the timely and accurate submission of MAS returns, statutory and other local regulatory reporting
· Ensure compliance with the Corporate Accounting and Control policies
· Ensure timely and accurate Head office reporting
· Maintain high level of internal control standards
· Keep abreast with the recent regulatory and accounting developments / changes and analyze impact and ensure compliance of these changes
· Involved in automation of process from Microsoft tools to Alteryx, preparing SOPs and testing of final workflow.
· Perform & Review daily P&L, P&L attribution, P&L commentary, Investigate Flash vs. Formal differences & other MI
· Monitoring FOBO’s (Front office, Back office) – providing commentaries to stakeholder.
· Maintain trader mandate, monitor Volcker limits.
· Submit Clean & Hypo P&L for back-testing
· Balance Sheet control and commentary, Month End adjustments and Balance Sheet Substantiation & Review key controls: FOBOs, adjustment substantiation and New, Amends & Cancels trades review.
· Perform key weekly & monthly reporting to senior management & Performing month-end reconciliation of sub-ledger balance at product controller and Front office system level. Monthly cost allocation to various traders.
· Attend to queries from internal and external audit and reviews and maintain key stroke documentations for key PC processes, risk assessment and SOX documentation.
· Liaison with other departmental areas (e.g. Front Office, Operations, IT, Financial Control) and attending to ad hoc queries.
· Facilitating traders by opening books (Each strategy is allocated a new book) for any new strategy. Closure of books on identification as dormant.
· Leading a team and working on their career advancement
· Responsible for collating monthly revenue data for Cognizant. Ensuring monthly revenue recognition and invoicing so that no revenue will be at risk.
· Ensuring that no revenue has been recognized without invoicing and advance billing done to the client has been recognized as revenue in the subsequent months without any delay.
· Also, Unbilled Revenue is accounted properly and Collections in the future periods are in Place with the Statement of Work Order.
· Coordinating with the project teams and ensuring that the deliverables are achieved as per agreement with client and if there is any delay, revenue has been revisited based on the efforts rendered and true down taken accordingly.
· Supported External Auditing team on local GAAP & SOX audits.
· Examination of accounts of companies categorized under various industries including Insurance Industry, manufacturing Industry, hotel industry, Film Production Industry, Hospitals and finance industry.
· Examination of statutory compliance; stock valuation; inter-group transactions; revenue recognition criteria and accounting; and other norms applicable to the companies comprised in the industries mentioned above. Limited review of listed companies as per clause 49 (SEBI).
· Review of compliance of special norms governed by RBI and SEBI and other operational procedures with regards to the banking and finance industries including NBFC's and Audit of trusts registered under the Indian Trust Act,1882.
· Involved in Internal Audit of Non-Banking finance company.
· Computation of taxes and advance tax computation for individuals, firms, LLPs and companies. Tax audit of Indian companies and their subsidiaries including domestic transfer pricing assignments of specified domestic transactions.
· Engaged in other assignments such as review of internal financial controls of companies, and consolidation of group company accounts involving foreign subsidiaries.