- Managing a team of 5 members in the AP & revenue audit & reconciliations process for a luxury chain of Hotels for their Paris property, project management from a migration / offshoring standpoint. - Improve the operational systems, processes and policies specifically, support better management reporting, information flow management, business process and organisational planning- Manage, increase the effectiveness, efficiency of Support Services through improvements to each function, coordination, communication between support and business functions- Do long-term planning, operational excellence, oversee overall financial management, planning, systems and controls, development of individual program budgets- Invoicing to funding sources, including calculation of completed units of service- Supervise and coach team members- Management controls put in place well designed and operating effectively to minimise losses due to mismanagement, errors, frauds and omissions- Ensure receivables are registered, deposited and recorded in departmental and Receiver General - Accounts in a timely and accurate manner - Ensuring Manual booking of invoices (urgent cases) & speedy processing of urgent payments- Allocation of mails to team members, adherence to TAT & backlog management- Project planning, implementation and allocation of mails- Conducting daily huddles, motivation & monthly performance sharing - Resource planning: recruitment, training, development, one to one meetings and performance appraisals- Reporting: periodic KPI reports, presentations for senior management & clients, client & escalation handling- Quality control on mails & accuracy of details given (Accounting data in ERP Software)- Training, cross-training for back-up creation- Ensuring SOP's are created and updated (SIPOC/Flowcharts/content)- Weekly meeting with business clients, escalation handling and query resolution

- Responsible for seamless transition of Finance functions with adherence to compliance & legal requirements Accounting/Reconciliation/Financial Reporting/Regulatory Reporting/Analytics/FP&A/Finance Systems/Project Management roles- Leading migrations from various regions (i.e. HSBC France, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand) including understanding and mapping of respective functions- Responsible for end to end migration of the project covering all non-negotiable as per Tollgate Requirements, post feasibility completion- Established standardised migration methodology by engaging relevant stakeholders from Global Resourcing - Developed and responsible for Central Migration Team’s deliverables including methodology adherence for all projects, maintain centralised repository for required documentation- Responsible for preparing and sending the Dashboard to various parties- Ensuring migrations are executed as per the Finance migration methodology- Create Process Maps and Procedure Manuals of As-Is Process and To-Be process/deployment charts for process to be migrated- Rigorous migration planning – Entailing detailed Migration Plans, Communication plan, training methodology- Ensure Cost tracking is done for each migrated role & subsequent benefit tracking mechanism- Prepare Cost benefit analysis for various migrations- The role also required coordination with support functions viz. IT, Compliance, BCP, Training teams, Technology and Finance team to ensure compliance and smooth Migration.Track onshore training assessment and conduct weekly calls with business partners and operations to ensure identification & resolution of gaps/ issues- Adapt to the region-specific requirements to meet any migration challenges. Build an effective communication plan to avoid any last minute surprises- Conduct Post Migration review on projects with business partner & by providing reasoned explanation to ensure that agreement is reached by both parties

Period end Close:- Verify and uploading of month-end Journal entries - Responsible for assisting the business area to resolve any significant issues and to achieve on any recommendations from reviews- Work with the business to ensure issues are appropriately recognised, findings presented and implementation action plans finalised, within agreed review timelines- Periodic follow up with businesses to monitor implementation of agreed action plans and ensure these are a track for completion by expected timelines- Assigned a full spectrum of finance functions entailing invoice validation, account payables, bank reconciliations, and inter-company charge-backs- Train, mentor and coach new recruits- Instrumental in formalisation of SOPBalance Sheet Reconciliation:- Responsible for preparation and review of more than 250 balance sheet accounts on a monthly basis- Ensuring that Post reconciliation cycle open items chaser, JE Posting and escalation metrics is followed rigorously to clear outstanding items- Review & approval of JE related to open items- Preparation & analyse Reconciliation Summary Report for Onshore & GFC management review.- Preparation of Dashboard and other MIS Reporting for monthly review for Onshore GFC management review- Publishing the Monthly KPI’s for Business excellence team review - Supported the Assure NET system Implementation for bringing all the HBFR accounts into Assure NET- Helped to introduce new templates to manage the transition from Manual reconciliation environment to Assure NET- Identify & recommend improvement opportunities and pass productivity benefit to Business Partners- Rendering support & contributing towards process improvements through implementation of new systems, elimination of non-value-added work and streamlining of functional procedures- Managing the performance management for the team.

- Remotely understood processes for Desk Instructions, CSA, Controls and Metrics- Translated edited and collated French documents and training material- Drafted SOP’s for process migrations, formulated process flow charts, POAs/ POD’s and SLA’s- Responsibilities involving training and knowledge transfer within the team, validation and processing of hard copy invoices received from France, processing payments accordingly along with payment batch run in Oracle AP (French Tool)- Oversaw payments through bank transfers, cheques and Auto Debits and Journal Entries for all treasury entries in Oracle-GL- Performed month-end activities like accruals created for invoices not received and bank reconciliations done in XRT/ SAGE to clear bank transactions for five different banks- Created and sent reports to France on financial situation of P&L accounts- Preparing & Maintenance the Month End close checks are in place as per the Group Mandate- Prepare the monthly cost accrual numbers based on budget numbers. Finalising all the direct & indirect cost for AMERICAN EXPRESS BUSINESS TRAVEL(FRANCE) & posting of related JE- Preparation of Balance Sheet commentary post books close & explain movements- Manage Cash Management and Treasure activities on a monthly and Quarterly basis- Preparing analysis of various product lines for the entity- Booking all the Inter-company transactions for the Country and doing monthly reconciliation- Variance analysis of the inter company transactions on a monthly and quarterly basis- Preparation of the reconciliation tracker and review of the reconciliation post close- Managing the Oracle 11i transition from Oracle 9i from data validation stage till completion- Preparations of Dashboard and other MIS Reporting for monthly review- Part of the team responsible for reducing the manual JE in the Oracle 11i for the whole France region- Managing External (PWC) audit preparation and completion at the country level for France Business Travel

- Part of the Accounts Payables & PE Close & reporting team, publishing monthly and year-end financial statements- Planning and scheduling the close activity for all the businesses as per Corporate Guidelines- Preparation & Posting of Month end Journals before Close- Define Roll up structure in Oracle for the newly acquired businesses pre close- Run the close process in Oracle post finalization of numbers in Primary & reporting sets of books- Preparation of Balance Sheet commentary post books Close & explain movements- Prepare and post adjustments entries post close after consultation with respective businessAnalysis of CTA (Currency Translation Adjustments) as per FAS 52, explaining the various currency movements in the numbers- Post close reconciliation & posting of related JE

- Hired in the Economic Mission to strengthen the Indo French Trade and facilitate setup and expansion of French companies in India.- Assisted French companies by preparing quotes, fostering joint ventures, and seeking government approvals- Provided team leadership, planning and strategic direction to business missions of various French corporate delegations in the field of skin and beauty products, footwear, textiles and woollens; B2B meeting support for identification of Indian partners/distributors- Conceived and developed concrete business development solutions for products of various consumer goods and French luxury brands - Client advisory services for those in primary operations stage in India - Advice, guidance and business support on several French brands to start their joint manufacturing and collaborative ventures in India - Drafting of analytical reports on specific products, market analysis and informative notes on Indian business and economy; the latter, prepared for purposes of internal reference, contributed to several sector-specific guides for India - Compilation, editing and diffusion of market intelligence and analysis report

- Entrusted to manage the International Itineraries for French clients entailing ticketing, hotel reservations, car rentals, and customising package tours among many others- Used AMADEUS, Central Reservation System (CRS) for ticketing- Performed bank reconciliations and miscellaneous reservations- Mitigated risk by authorizing booking processed by the team members- Ensured complete resolution of customer queries well within the TAT’s- Managed Rosters & leaves for the team- Handled calls from European clients related to travel queries- Monitored and controlled duplicate and fraud bookings- To book flights and negotiate fares with air lines, call clients in France regarding their flight bookings- Responsible for preparing the chart of holidays, weekend-breaks, roundtrips and business trips as per customers' needs- Distinction of exceeding personal and team targets (income generated, number and kind of products sold)- Accountable for managing and authorising bookings made by the team members while documenting, reporting and solving complaints and losses