MS Office (Advance)
Varun Gandhi
New Delhi
Summary
Seeking challenging assignments in Finance with a growth-oriented organization.
Operations/Finance professional with 10+ years’ experience in the industry with reputed Organizations, managing daily Operations Multiple offsite Migrations / Customer Relation Management and successful initiation, execution & service delivery in a diverse range of business areas in various financial systems(Oracle, Hyperion). Financial Applications (Oracle E-Business Suite & Tableau) in Testing, Implementation, Work transition from Project to BAU and Production Support. Adept at managing stakeholder relationships, leading audits, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Strong analytical skills with expertise in investigating financial discrepancies, conducting control testing, and driving process improvements. Proven ability to handle tight deadlines, optimize workflows, and deliver accurate financial reporting.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages
Work History
Financial Control Associate - (Assistant Manager)
Natwest Group
01.2014 - Current
- Perform timely and accurate reconciliations of P&L and balance sheet general ledger accounts and b/s substantiation
- Respond to finance user queries and daily activity support to finance teams, working with stakeholders & technology team for resolution of the existing issues and queries.
- Reconciliation between Oracle with multiple source and system reconciliation (R2R)
- Application support for Lombard Oracle and Walker (General Ledger), Hyperion Financial Management (HFM)
- Performing the impact assessment of any planned change projects (e.g OPUS Up gradation) which would impact the Ledger of the Bank.
- Woking on the end to end System controls and making sure that data follow in system is correct
- Provide timely MIS report and monthly KPI for management review.
- Transit the process from UK Onshore Team through virtual trainings and involved in creating and updating Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for review and approvals.
- Part of the Migration team to update the Business object Reporting tools to TABLEAU
- Query Resolution of Oracle Module(Lombard and Projects)
- Responded to finance user queries and daily activity support to finance teams, working with stakeholders & technology team for resolution of the existing issues and queries.
- Review of various Source System Reconciliations performed by Team as BAU.
- Ensuring all the Sox Controls are duly followed and conducting spot audits also handling queries from Auditors
- Management of month end close process for General Ledger of the Bank (Lombard Business).
- Managing Internal Audits and other SPOT audits across Oracle Modules / Walker for RBS Group.
- Ensured processes are consistently executed and adhere all procedures and policies.
Senior Process Associates – Record to Report
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
02.2011 - 01.2014
- Delivery management by overseeing BAU with adherence to SLA & deadlines for global client.
- Ensuring timely completion of various reconciliations including :
- Bank Reconciliations
- Suspense Account Reconciliations
- Generating and Preparing weekly and monthly management reports.
- Working on 13 month trend, year to year comparison, working on Budgets and Forecasting
- Doing Simplification Project for manual working for financial reporting purpose and these reports are needed for the preparation of monthly and quarterly reporting templates.
- Preparing Bank Reconciliation for 5 countries and follow with concerned persons of respective countries for unreconciled items and submits the BRS to respective country management as per SLA.
- Management of month end close process.
- Work on Financial Reporting process of CEVA
- Doing Simplification Project for manual working for financial reporting purpose and these reports are needed for the preparation of monthly and quarterly reporting templates.
- Preparation of different schedules for reporting in HFM
- Working on Hard and Soft validations of HFM
- Responsibilities also include handling the client’s/team’s request and getting the projects initiated and managing them till delivery
- Pitching in for other processes on the floor to meet the agreed targets.
- Won Summit Awards for 'employee of the quarter' (Accenture)
- Won monthly Award by Business head for smooth process transition(RBS)
- Appreciated for outstanding professional achievement & valuable contribution as 'Star of the Quarter (RBS)'
Account Executive
Radhey Sham & Sons.
05.2006 - 03.2008
- Performing Daily Accounting Activities for Receipts, Payments, Purchase, Sales, Fixed Assets Register and Other Journal entries.
- Preparation of Profit & loss and Balance sheet
- Handling with Clients and Sale staff
Education
MBA - Finance
01.2010 - 12.2010
PGPM - Marketing
01.2010 - 12.2010
B.Com - undefined
01.2001 - 12.2001
Skills
Financial and operational reportingProblem-solvingDecision-making capacityProcess and procedure developmentPerformance improvements
Industrial Experience Training
NESTLE INDIA LTD., Managing Control over Losses., 6 weeks
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 09/30/85
- Marital Status: Married
Software
Oracle E-Business Suite
Hyperion Financial Management
Tableau
Intellimatch
Timeline
Financial Control Associate - (Assistant Manager) - Natwest Group
01.2014 - Current
Senior Process Associates – Record to Report - Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
02.2011 - 01.2014
MDU Rohtak - MBA, Finance
01.2010 - 12.2010
MDU Rohtak - PGPM, Marketing
01.2010 - 12.2010
Account Executive - Radhey Sham & Sons.
05.2006 - 03.2008
Punjab University - B.Com,
01.2001 - 12.2001
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