SUMMARY:

• Around 7 Years of experience in Analytics and Financial Reporting in Finance, Banking, Telecommunications and Retail sectors.
• Skilled at consulting with clients to delineate and analyze their situations and develop strategic solutions to further their goals.
• Strong understanding of financial reporting.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certified.
• Demonstrated experience implementing process and systems improvements.
• Knowledge of GAAP and other related accounting and finance standards, policies and procedures. Knowledge of SEC and FASB reporting requirements.
• Expertise in financial reporting, forecasting, planning and analysis experience, in a dynamic, multi-unit retail environment.
• Proven dedicated business support in a consultative or change agent roll.
• Able to work collaboratively with other functional departments and provide key financial and strategic thinking to their business ideas.
• Excellent modeling capabilities including cash flow, discounted cash flow, NPV, and IRR
• Strong understanding of the P L, balance sheet, and cash flow statements and creating algorithms within spreadsheets that allow for quick and efficient sensitivity analyses.
• Experienced in primary and secondary market research. Prepared company, industry and economic outlooks, analytical reports, briefing notes and correspondence.
• Expertise at Advanced Excel, Access queries, VBA, SQL, BO, Sybase and Bloomberg API.
• Experienced with reporting / financial tools such as Hyperion Essbase, Cognos.
• Experienced in data mining and creating competitive and business intelligence reports
• Hands on experience in using Bloomberg, Factiva, Hoovers, LexisNexis, OneSource, D B, S P, Moody's, Thomson Research, and Venture Source.
• Good leadership and team-building skills, coupled with the ability to direct strong teams in managing customer relationships.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including verbal and written communication skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Role: Consultant

• Continuously identified new opportunities to leverage analytics in order to improve product operations and develop cost savings.
• Provided business impact analyses to help determine the return on investment regarding strategic investments
• Evaluated and suggest process improvements to streamline the current month-end close process
• Provided practical and timely financial information, business analytics and information to ensure the department is effective in creating and executing the company's strategic operating plan
• Managed month end financial reporting close process by coordinating all systems and users, GL, and precise review of data prior to reporting
• Provided insights, analysis and rigorous on demand forecasting with astute understanding of price elasticity and channel dynamics across geographies.
• Led numerous quality improvement efforts across multiple teams, improving SLA performance.

Confidential

Manager Financial Planning and Pricing

• Managed and maintained financial models and statements for the Lending Business for all platforms Retail, Health Care, Sponsor, CF, Franchise, Bank Lending Group and Bank .
• Supported preparation of daily rate changes, estimates and drive their financial model.
• Develop and manage lending models that can be used by developers, sales people, and others external to the group to rapidly qualify project opportunities maintain and update assumptions on regular basis
• Collated data to develop assumptions into the models scrutinize assumptions for reasonableness and challenge assumptions when necessary
• Performed various sensitivity and scenario analyses on current and potential transactions to support group decision-making around project development and pricing
• Coordinate with regulatory, external consultants to proactively be aware of and accurately model incentives that may be available
• Prepared Board quality presentations and documentation as required.
• Developed models to generate automated reports to provide timely and relevant management information to drive improvement in financial results and strategic decisions
• Prepared weekly and monthly dashboard variance analysis to plans and provide detailed analytical analysis to support business and client decision in sales, operations and risk
• Provided and communicated monthly management reporting to support business decision-making
• Implemented financial modeling improvements in planning and forecasting to enhance process efficiency.
• Supported and developed models to suite the new initiatives, and testing the models for consistency without impacting other areas that have not changed and accurately captured the results of changing business economics and structure.
• Managed the Lending model for internal and external Audits for financial reporting on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis, including assuring compliance with SEC, FASB, and SOX Act financial reporting requirements.
• Educated end-users of available financial tools through training change management resources like User Manuals and Road Shows.
• Implemented process and systems improvements by reducing 1800 man hours for Bank Loan Group, Franchise, Sponsor, Bank, HealthCare, and Retail a year and thus improving the efficiency by 97 by adopting Lean and Six Sigma approach.
• Performed ad-hoc analysis as and when requested.

Confidential

• Developed and present reports in an executive dashboard, a graphical presentation of KPI's post analysis to answer specific business questions.
• Developed possible future financial scenarios with the help of BI tools which provides visibility into performance against budget and the way staffing costs and employee or supplier performance affects revenue and customer satisfaction.
• Helped Projects teams define financial goals, develop business plans and monitor costs and revenue during execution.
• Developed an integrated model that predicts future financial outcomes based upon historical data and the relationships that created them.
• Developed data driven financial dashboards, reports and analytic functions that derive key performance indicators KPIs for sales, supply chain procurement and workforce management functions.
• Evaluated financial risk, prepared financial forecasts, financing scenarios and other documents concerning strategic management, and wrote reports and recommendations
• Performed various financial analyses or support on projects, cost containment or revenue enhancement opportunities, and related recommendations such as headcount, productivity.
• Developed monthly/quarterly financial forecasting process by working with the business.
• Conducted regular financial reviews with management examining actual results compared to budgets/forecasts and forward looking opportunities/risks.

Confidential

Role: Consultant

• Designed, developed and delivered BI solutions such as reports, cubes, dashboards, ad hoc data access solutions using Cisco's best practices.
• Worked with business users, source system SMEs and other to identify the information they need, what it means, where it is to come from and when and what the quality expectations are
• Maintained the semantic model, including definitions and derived rules, and the BI infrastructure security model.
• Debug report issues by analyzing the data sources and SQLs to provide quick resolutions
• Primary administrator of much of platform metadata, including definitions, business and data quality rules, sourcing and performance
• Reviewed designs, code and testing with the project team as appropriate Worked closely with BI technology vendors for any need arising due to production support, product upgrades, or development.
• Spearhead requirements, assess current state as well as strategic goals and devise plans for delivering the most appropriate solution.
• Understand the data in, and interfaces to, information in enterprise applications and is thus the interface between the end users and their data
• Closely worked with DBAs to fix performance bottlenecks in reporting.
• Collaborated with Tech Ops for guidance on hosting and deploying reporting environment.
• Collaborated with ETL developer and participate in data model designs.
• Troubleshoot BI tools, systems and software as well as performance tune BI applications
• Worked closely with the database designers, DBA and other parties to ensure the solution expectations are continuously met
• Ensured the data quality boundaries are well defined and part of the data movement required
• Supported staff of enterprise applications to gather and understand the structure of, and how to interface with, their informational structures
• Gathered and analyzed relevant source data and work with appropriate personnel, e.g. Business Analyst, Data Stewards, application support, to address any unexpected results
• Ensured the relevant meta data is captured and available and as responsible for its population and ongoing maintenance

Confidential

Role: Jr. Engineer

• To handle inventory and prepare requisitions for stores.
• To maintain all auxiliary engines, boiler, main and auxiliary machinery.
• Maintained daily log of various activates that are due to be performed and that which are performed.