CONSULTING PROJECTS:

Consultant,Confidential,New York, New York[April 2012 – July 2012]
Leading Accounting, Tax, & Business Advisory Boutique

• Engineered a pro-forma financial statements generation tool that allows associates to enter inputs & assumptions and automatically generates pro-forma financial statements resulting in a three fold improvement in productivity, vastly reduced margin or error and substantially improved analytical output.
• Evaluated, redesigned and improved the firms audit reconciliation tool. Newly deployed tool allows for rapid reconciliation & comparison of clients trial balance data. Automated error tracking makes for easier review and analysis resulting in significant reduction of error rate and two fold improvement in productivity for audit staff.
• Analyzed, systematized and optimized the firms business planning and valuation model pertaining to industry and market research. The enhanced model allows staff to collect, organize and produce more accurate industry and target market projections that coordinate with the financial statements generation tool.

Business Consultant,Confidential,Westport, Connecticut[July 2009 – November 2011]
$125 billion Investment Management Firm

• Redesigned the employee assignment grading tool for the CEO leverager team that now allows the team to vastly automate the process of grading employee responses to assignments. Tool architecture allows for robust capture data from SharePoint and IPAD generated response datasets.
• Leveraged an existing tool to craft the program reporting tool allowing the finance technology group the ability to comprehensively report on a key multi department initiative covering multiple projects from various groups. Newly deployed tool takes input from various teams and produces reports that allows CFO to monitor and measure progress by program participants while holding group managers responsible.
• Developed a unique tool using data mining formulations to uncover repetitive data patterns in the firm\'s monthly American express dataset. Newly crafted tool which included a robust department reporting module resulted in giving the accounts payable team a vastly automated process of bucketing expense data resulting in a 5 fold improvement in productivity.
• Solved the need for a comprehensive responsibilities and project tracker reporting tool by conceiving and creating one for the revenue team. The new tool provided an organized and flexible forum for the storage of all key group milestones, tasks and deliverables while producing concise reports for management and stakeholders.
• Identified expense patterns by designing the compliance report creator using data mining formulations to extract expense data and department information for the corporate accounting team.
• Conducted workflow analysis of travel & expense reimbursement process with accounts payable team to collaboratively develop and configure an updated travel and expense tool resulting in significantly increase insight into employee expense while vastly automating back office processing and data upload into Solomon Dynamics.
• Planned, crafted and deployed the first Issues Log Metrics tool to give finance management detailed insight into all sub optimal issues being logged in a SharePoint database against the department’s people, processes and technology. Significant data granularity and actionable intelligence are now visible in the automated management reports generated by this tool.
• Integrated Solomon Dynamics data on outstanding invoices to create the department\'s first comprehensive invoice aging tool that analyzed, bucketed and created ready to email reports resulting in a threefold improvement in productivity for the accounts payable team.
• Partnered with finance administration team to build consensus between multiple revenue teams on new grading methodology for calculation of the firm\'s extensive client billing process. Followed this by completely revamping the billing reconciliation and metrics reporting tools for this critical finance function resulting in a fourfold improvement in productivity.
• Conceived, designed and deployed the department’s first and most comprehensive vendor analysis tool that gave accounts payable team crisp insight into multiple dimensions of their vendor relationships.
• Consolidated 3 tools for the revenue team and deployed the new billing summary tool that automated capturing of external data, formatting, highlighting and calculations enabling the team to get ready for the new billing quarter with greatly reduced margins of error.
• Enhanced the rebate calculation and reconciliation process for the firms’ largest funds by redesigning the rebate calculation and reconciliation tool resulting in a threefold increase in productivity.
• Automated the fee reconciliation of the firms’ largest fund investors to the data received from the fund administrators, greatly reducing error margins while increasing revenue analyst productivity by at least two fold.
• Worked closely with budgeting team stakeholders to develop a creative management dashboard that give finance management tactical insight into the groups pain points, productivity & accuracy metrics.
• Conceptualized and created a cash flow metrics tracking tool that gave managers the ability to compare and contrast multiple cash flow projections and variances between projections and actual.
• Designed a management reporting tool to provide reports on the status of department expense tracking template production enabling teams to meet deadlines and make tactical decisions on resource allocation.
• Redesigned visuals providing increased insight to the management committee and shareholders on financial reports.
• Reengineered general ledger analysis templates being used by budgeting team resulting in vastly more productive and less error prone income statement and balance sheet account analysis.

Business Consultant Confidential,White Plains, New York[February 2009 - May 2009]
Independent IT Consulting Firm

• Designed and created a tool for the collection of IT production services data for the firm\'s institutional clients. Tool gave the firm the ability to set standardized criteria for data collection from any institutional client. The production services initiative was a global IT transformation initiative intended to establish specialist teams within all global business units for providing industry leading production support practices.
• Crafted a management reporting module that generated automated reports giving CEO great insight into client\'s individual IT projects and actionable intelligence on system wide production bottlenecks and pain points.

Project Consultant,Confidential,New York, New York[November 2005 - May 2006]
$20 million Investor Backed Equity Research firm acquired by Investment Technology Group (ITG)

• Conceived, crafted and created a robust tool that captured trial balance data from Peachtree and automatically create consolidated financial statements for multiple corporate entities.
• A module that mapped and compared chart of accounts for each month was also created to allow controller the ability to include and exclude any general ledger account in a flexible manner.
• Likewise the GAAP and intercompany adjustment module gave controller the ability to make any manual adjustments and overrides to ensure compliance.
• Executed the designing and creation of a series of nimble automatically generated management reports that gave investors and board of directors increased insight into the firm’s financial position.

Consultant,Confidential,Nowwood, MA[November 2001 - December 2001]
Leading Staffing Company.

• Creation of model that took in existing financial statements data and user inputs to automatically generate a series of proforma financial statements and management reports on revenues, profitablity and headcount.

EXPERIENCE:

President,Confidential,White Plains, New York[Feb 2004- Present]
$35 million Business Consultancy &Financing Services Company

• Provide creative solutions for senior managers at institutional clients by crafting customized tools created in the familiar excel canvas which deliver actionable intelligence, decision making support and generate strategic & tactical insight.
• Custom solutions encompass process design & engineering, management & customer reporting, compliance & financial reporting, dashboards, key performance indicators (KPI\'s) & metrics.
• Currently in the process of creating a unique online property offering small business owners the ability to create their own business plans while offering a one stop knowledge center on small business financing, starting a business and other industry specific resources.
• Provided business planning consultancy for startup, acquisition and expansion of small businesses.
• Arranged financing including securing of business loans, lines of credit, commercial and residential real estate financing.
• Closed over $35 mil. in loans in 2006. Created and managed a team of financing professionals which conducted business loans, commercial and residential real estate financing origination activities for southern New York State and automotive facility financing nationwide.
• Established revenue generating professional alliances under TAP (Trident Alliance of Professionals) to include working with cpa’s, attorney’s, realtors, business and personal bankers and financial planners to offer business planning and financing services to their clientele.
• Designed, created and implemented a unique platform of service delivery for handling business loans and real estate financing from origination to post-closing resulting in a loan closing rate of 95%, amongst the best in the industry.

Assistant Vice President,Confidential,Tarrytown, New York[Jan 2003- Jan 2004]
$350 million Mortgage banker

• Closed $10 million worth of commercial & residential loans for company. Lead a team of 6 mortgage professionals and was responsible for loan origination and processing.
• Commercial origination entailed cash flow analysis of subject property, capitalization rate estimates, projected of operating free cash flows and debt service coverage on multifamily, mixed use, special use, office space and retail real estate. Origination entailed analysis of mortgage financing options for applicants, evaluation of household debt, income and ability to borrow; choice of appropriate mortgage financing vehicle for applicant, evaluation of financing options and pre-approvals for first time home buyers.
• Created Model to capture firm wide loan origination and servicing activity with management reporting module.
• Designed a unique service platform for consumer education with one-of-a-kind publications & newsletters covering various aspects of residential financing.

Financial Advisor, Confidential,New York[Jan2002-Dec 2002]
$1.6 trillion Wealth Management Firm

• Closed $10 million worth of commercial and residential mortgages and $3 million of business loan applications. Was first in firm to sell LIBOR based arms along with other traditional mortgages.
• Conceptualized, designed and created custom calculators and marketing material to improve client experience and enhance better understanding of mortgage products.
• Focused on mortgages and lines of credit for individuals, small business owners and service professionals.
• Created models for firms mortgage products analysis against competitors.

Equity Trader, Confidential, New Jersey[April 2001- Oct 2001]
$600 mil. Equity trading firm.

• Responsible for trading firms proprietary funds. All trading short term in nature. Securities traded included NASDAQ listed securities, AMEX and NYSE listed securities.
• Trading platforms included Attain, SNET, Island, Bloomberg, Terranova.

President, Confidential,New York[Jan 1996 – April 2001]
$5 million Investment Management Firm

• Actively managed $5 million in retail client funds. Responsible for all aspects of investments, short & long term trading as related to firm’s proprietary funds. Determination of optimum portfolio structure including long, short and income generating strategies. Wide use of options for hedging and portfolio return enhancement resulted in returns far above S&P 500.
• Conducted and used proprietary research on investments that increased return on portfolios by 5% on average. Economic analysis for medium term trading involves monitoring econometrics such as unemployment rate, GDP, PPI & CPI, industrial production, capacity utilization, housing starts, business inventories, retail sales, NAPM report, construction spending, consumer confidence & productivity. Inter-market analysis by monitoring CRB indices, currency, equity and fixed income indices. Analyzed spreads in fixed income market, yield curve, spreads between 10year US Treasury and Fed funds rate, 10 Year Treasury and short term paper, US Treasury v/s BAA or BBB bonds.
• Created presentations and models to analyze trading blotters and understand profitable and non-profitable positions.

Investment Analyst, Confidential,New York, New York[Sep 1993- Jan1996]
$250 million Investment Management Firm

• Actively involved as investment analysis and portfolio management of $250 million of fixed income and equity assets under management. Played a key role in growing assets 400% from $50 million to $250 million. Returns for client were in the top 10 to top 25 percentile of asset classes as tracked by Nelsons. Product classes included domestic & global equity and domestic fixed income.
• Implemented global top-down investment model which entailed geo-political & socio-economic analysis of individual sovereigns. Analysis covered secular & cyclical trends covering major sectors of sovereigns and their impact on the valuation of capital markets. Investment process included monitoring currency cross rates, commodity prices and trends; movements in gold and energy. Focused on real GNP growth, inflation, corporate P/L’s, central bank policy and interest rates. Individual security analysis included balance sheet, income and expense statement and cash flow analysis.
• Engineered models to ensure compliance of firms returns calculations of investment products with AIMR standards; designed automation in billing processes to reduce error in fee calculations.

Assistant Analyst, Confidential,New York[Sep 1991 - Aug 1993]
$1.4 billion Financial Guarantee Company

• Assisted in overseeing surveillance of $30 billion health care bond portfolio of insured credits.
• Created customized reports denoting credit quality, maturity, and rating age of insured health care portfolio.
• Conducted detailed study of geographic exposure to MBIA\'s outstanding insured issues at the county level which stood at over $200 billion; conducted similar study regarding interest cost savings to local governments. Study was used widely by company during Hurricane Andrew in ’92.
• Models created to simulate portfolio impact of calamitous low probability natural disasters.

Confidential,New York[Sept 1992 - May 1993]
Center for Applied Research ( CIRR)

• Collaborated and developed a series of data tables and visuals for the production of first study on the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), post collapse of the Soviet Union.
• Redesigned and engineered the model for the collection of national data on the growth and status of credit unions in the national economic landscape. Newly designed model allowed for nimble and robust data updates, projections and visual production.

EDUCATION:

Confidential,University, White Plains, New York. MBA (Finance - Investments & Portfolio Management) [Jan 1994]
Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India, Hyderabad, India. Diploma in Basic Finance [Aug 1990]
Confidential,University Bombay, India. Bachelor of Commerce [December 1989]

COMPUTER SKILLS:

• Very high proficiency & creativity in MS Excel.
• High proficienty & creativity in MS PowerPoint, Publisher, Word, Camtasia & other desktop productivity applications.

LICENSES:

• Securites & Insurance: FINRA Series 7, 63, 55 & 65 | New York State Health & Life Insurance.
• Real Estate: RegisteredMortgage Broker NY State | Licensed Real Estate Salesperson NY State.

OTHER:

• Member, Omicron Delta Epsilon - the International Honor Society in Economics