Krushil Shah Email & Phone Number

• Consolidating the LSM Expense Financial Plan and Headcount data• Providing reports to the business with their view of the plans and preparing board papers• Analysing the data to compare the plan vs Actuals, whilst also specifically looking at the IT Project strategies and deliverability• Continue with the Finance Business partner role duties at the same time

• Implementing a process for business partnering with the main HO Support functions and Underwriting support teams• Building and providing key reports to the business to help manage the costs• Building and developing the budgeting model at LSM, with continuous improvements and increasing detail• Creating a rolling forecast environment to ensure we are continuously updating the budgets throughout the year• Liaising with procurement and tax teams to ensure contracts are correctly setup• Implementing a new accrual process to ensure costs are accrued on a monthly basis and accurately• Providing commentary for the monthly reports to the senior management on variances month on month and vs budgets• Providing inputs for a new system implementation to assist in the setup of a new chart of accounts and general ledger

London, England, United Kingdom

• Cost Analysis Project – Analysing costs, allocating costs to centres and profitability by centre• Building a consolidation model for budgeting and presentation to the board

London, England, United Kingdom

• Compile the budgeted costs for a 5 year forecast for all payroll and other expenses (including project costs)• Liaison with the business to ensure costs are monitored on a monthly basis by providing cost centre reports and analysis • Building desk and fund profitability models to apportion costs across desks and deliver expected outcomes for future periods• Manage the Accounts payable team and ensure invoices are posted correctly and paid on time• Manage the Groups expense accounting, provide variance analysis and comments for the Management and Exco to review on a monthly basis• Collated and interpreted information to prepare board compensation committee papers• Regular liaison with HR department to monitor compensation outcome and to calculate employee outcomes for share vesting’s• Undertake payroll accounting for UK, Europe and Asia including the share scheme accounting and accruals• Assisted in the Group Cashflow on a monthly basis by providing the projected expenses expected to be paid for the month• Provide the Group with the Fixed Overhead Requirement calculations for the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA") returns on an annual basis• Gathering information for VAT and company tax calculations on a quarterly and annual basis for UK, Europe and Asia

London, United Kingdom

• Direct management of the calculation and accrual of share schemes, Groups Compensation schemes, share based payment accounting under IFRS 02 and USGAAP and calculated Group EPS under IFRS and USGAAP• Collated and interpreted information to prepare board compensation committee papers• Regular liaison with HR department to monitor compensation outcome and to calculate employee outcomes for share vesting’s• Undertake payroll accounting for UK, Europe and US• Manage the Groups expense accounting, provide variance analysis and comments for the Group audit committee papers• Act as first point of contact for auditors within the Groups audit process• Liaison with the business to ensure project costs are monitored and accounted for • Established relationships with departments across the business with the aim of ensuring expenses are correctly accounted, provided reports to the business for analysis and cost management• Developed and managed a high performing team of three senior accountants and a trainee, continuously raising the bar and managed performance using best performance tools• Thorough analysis of the Groups main administration entity accounts, financial statements, participate in board meetings for entity sign off• Selected to evaluate assigned Groups European entities and financial statements prepared under local GAAP• Provided information required under both FRS 101 and USGAAP group and subsidiary accounts• Recognised as key finance person for foreign exchange revaluation and translation, ensured that the system is revealed and translated on a monthly basis and reported on any P&L variances• Worked to achieve Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance by 31 December 2018 following the listing on NYSE

London, United Kingdom

• Served as key person on the project for the system implementation, seconded from role as Compensation and Expense Manager as a result of knowledge gained on system • Liaison between Finance and IT; due to knowledge was considered the finance Super user for SAP, WeBi and Business Analysis of Office (“BAO")• Supported with the Implementation of SAP ERP• Designed and implemented the Chart of Accounts• Carried out reviews of all finance processes to assist in implementation of the accounting system• Thorough investigation of ways to enhance financial processes to work with the new software• Prepared key process documentation for design and implementation in SAP• Prepare automated test scripts for Integration, User Acceptance and Regression tests • Worked with external consultants to ensure data migration was done correctly• Created Excel workbooks the migrate 50% of the remaining data which was complex for the consultants, this involved dealing with high volumes of data• Reconciled migrated data in the new system• Assisted in building new reports for the Group using WeBi and BAO• Developed and delivered training to all the users to ensure compliance and standardisation across the business• Key features implemented in SAP, workflow, park and post, automated matching, validations and substitution, revaluation and translation, custom journal upload

London, United Kingdom

• Managed and developed a trainee accountant through a variety of motivational and analytical techniques• Targeted to manage gross revenue and performance fee accruals and billing• Built a commission module using Microsoft access and excel for accrual and reconciliation purposes, became the key finance contact for third party rebates and commissions for the Group• Managed joint venture relationships with respective partners, providing and reviewing accounts, arranging board papers, board meetings, dividend calculations and payments• Responsible for calculation of provisions relation to guarantee products• Managed, prepared and reviewed financial statements for the main trading entities and other holding companies under UK GAAP and IFRS, iXBRL, and tax submission under iXBRL• Responsible for accounting of European entities under local GAAP• Prepared and reviewed regulatory filings for the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA") using BIPRU rules• Built new model to assist in calculating credit risk and FX risk for the CRD IV reporting• Managed relationships with third party administrator to ensure correct information was being provided for accounting• Prepared accounting and fillings for US regulators and government census information• Review AUM movements and provide analysis• Calculated performance fees receivable from clients• Worked on 2 mergers during the time (New Star in 2009 and Gartmore in 2011), and assisted in the integration of the firms.

London, United Kingdom

Worked as a cash management assistant.

London, United Kingdom

Accounting

Business

Certificate Level Diploma Part 1 & 2

Information Technology

Sage & Quick Books accounting software

Gce