Functional Skills

Accounting
Quality Assurance
Regulatory Filings
Project Management
Data Analysis
Agile Software Development
Operational Efficiency
Data Management
Finance Transformation
Communications
Real Estate Investing
Private Equity Investing
SQL Analysis
Data Mining
User Acceptance Testing

Software Skills

Microsoft Office
Jira
PowerBI
SQL
SAP HANA
Confluence

Certifications

CPACertified Public Accountant

Sector Experience

Business Services
Financial Services
Real Estate
Technology
Fortune 500
Top Consulting Firms

Experience

HOOPP Information Technology
Senior Business Analyst (Trade team)
1/2023 - 8/2023
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to support in-house trade applications, addressing critical issues and refining business processes to enhance data integrity and reporting accuracy
• Led detailed requirement gathering sessions with stakeholders and translated business needs into actionable technical solutions for the development team
• Spearheaded system testing efforts for new updates, ensuring robust validation of business processes and system performance
• Supported data integrity through rigorous data mapping and quality assurance, critical for enhancing functionalities.

HOOPP Information Technology
Senior Business Analyst(Real Estate & PE)
5/2021 - 1/2022
• Worked closely with product owners and developers to define and manage the end-to-end solution for real estate accounting projects, utilizing agile methodologies (JIRA and Confluence)
• Supported SAP HANA and Tableau reporting requirements, ensuring clear data dependencies and business alignment
• Led backlog grooming, user story creation, and assisted product owners in prioritizing features critical to customer engagement. Accomplishments Successfully guided the transition to a new platform for real estate accounting, playing a key role in coordinating testing requirements and ensuring smooth migration.

Capgemini Information Technology
Data Analyst & IT Business Analyst (Manulife
1/2020 - 5/2021
• Perform source (book of records) to target (reporting) data mappings, business rules and data definitions
• Utilized Power BI and SQL to create actionable reports and dashboards, supporting critical business decisions
• Work with end users, domain SMEs, backend, and data warehouse engineers to guide preparation of and improvement of reports
• Starting with accounting data and providing for enrichment / transformation logics to meet the reporting needs of different users. Perform data profiling, cleansing and manipulating data to fulfil analytical business requirements
• Provide and contribute in implementation of checks on reporting and reconciliation between different sources
• Analyse process and requirements gathering through various elicitation techniques like document study, interviews, workshops leading to successful development and implementation of technical and operating model changes
• Translate client's requirements into different tangible deliverables such as produc

The Citco Group Limited Accounting
Senior Financial Analyst (Private Equity)
9/2019 - 1/2020
• Managed Net Asset Value (NAV) preparations and financial reporting, ensuring accurate portfolio and cash reconciliations for private equity clients
• Collaborated with international teams to streamline operational workflows and ensure regulatory compliance. Accomplishments Developed macros that significantly improved data processing times, resulting in operational efficiency improvements.

Northern Trust Accounting
Senior Financial Analyst (Financial Control)
11/2017 - 7/2019
• Administer the migration of Magnetar Capital having AUM of USD 13 billion to NT Hedge Fund Services platform
• Manage a team of 10 direct reports to perform BAU and guide them with professional development
• Perform final review of month end NAV (Net Asset Valuation) packages and a range of quarterly regulatory filings
• Perform and review year-end Financial Statements to ensure accuracy of each fund's annual reports and act as a point of escalation for clients and external auditors. Accomplishments Showcased out of the box approach by querying an ongoing redundant monthly activity which was later discontinued.

Wipro Information Technology
Business Analyst (Transformation;
8/2015 - 7/2017
• Structure and perform reconciliation analysis for risk and finance process. Perform migration of reconciliation process to a new platform Intellimatch from manual MS access process
• Ensure clear mapping of change by capturing the future state models and highlighting changes to the current processes thus enabling effective and smooth transfer of core operating procedures
• Work collaboratively with business and IT to initiate and support changes in the reconciliation rules (managed through scheduled releases) which included business requirements, development, user acceptance testing, implementation, and communication to users
• Perform comprehensive root cause analysis to expose critical drivers of performance and propose process improvements. Accomplishments Credit Suisse - Developed comprehensive, system wide auto matching rules by identifying data elements and defining data attributes for 4200+ data elements. HSBC - Managed the assigned budget and schedule for delivery of 'Loca

AXA BUSINESS SERVICES Accounting
Senior Analyst (Investment Accounting and Reporting)
2/2014 - 5/2015
• Valuation and accrual /deferral of investments held
• Preparation and analysis of various local regulatory reports as a part of group disclosure requirements
• Manual posting of entries in SAP which could not be interfaced in SAP automatically. Accomplishments Took the responsibility of the entire process in short span of 3 months. Presented process improvement ideas and collaborated with in-house IT team to automate month end process, which resulted improved accuracy and 10 hours' time saving/month.

HSBC Accounting
Analyst (Fund Accounting)
3/2012 - 2/2014
• Responsible for generating complete Portfolio valuations for traditional mutual funds ensuring the NAV is correctly computed for the valuation day
• Booking of capital activities (Subscriptions & Redemptions in fund), fees (fixed and NAV based), currency contracts (Spots & Forwards), etc. to capture the impact on NAV. Accomplishments Performed migration and transition of 250 traditional funds from onshore location (HK).