Rakesh Patel Ca Email & Phone Number

Auckland, NZ

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

• Driving cultural change in the Finance function to focus on; - Purpose - Driving actionable insights from monthly results. - Collaboration - Connecting analyst pools across Genesis to share knowledge. - Capability.
• Developed ‘Spicy squad’ to dive innovation and simplicity within Finance functions. The key outcomes were simplifying the customer month end processes and increasing control across balance sheet reconciliation processes.
• Implemented Squad funding at Genesis. This enabled 100+ timesheets to be stopped, driving efficiency for the customer tribe. This also gave insights into the cost of running the customer tribe and increased quality of.
• Supported Program Sync to create a list of prioritised projects for the Customer tribe.
• Established financial guidance for customer tribe. This included capitalisation guidance under an Agile way of working.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Commercial Manager - Corporate
• Educated stakeholders to develop commercial understanding of the P&L to drive value for the business this included - Developing software support model to identify owners of software and investigating opportunities.

Auckland

• Group Functions Senior Commercial analyst
• Commercial business partner for IS, PCS and Co-operative affairs.
• Lead budget/ forecasting process, communicated outcome to FMT members
• Seconded into Group consolidation team over year end to support Group consolidation
• Seconded into Global Ingredients velocity work stream to provide commercial review of GI
• Established process to give better insight into spend

Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Prepared UK GAAP statutory accounts for all entities within the bmi group structure.
• ‘IFRS Champion’ – monitored and developed accounting processes and principles to meet IFRS, group policy and current statutory requirements.
• Ensured correct valuation and accounting for Slot portfolio.
• Managed financial derivatives including fuel hedging and emissions trading.AchievementsEstablished reconciliation processI fundamentally changed the reconciliation process at bmi. From discussions with all stakeholders.

London, United Kingdom

• Managed outsourced resources – Genpac approximately 4 staff.
• Managed the monthly close and quarterly close.
• Prepared and posted journals in SAP/Oracle
• Prepared month end accruals, including those around revenue recognition in accordance with group policy
• Prepared/ Reviewed balance sheet reconciliations
• Organised and ran teleconferences with international teams.

Auckland

• Mighty River Power(Electricity utility)
• I was the senior on the engagement, responsible for 2-3 junior staff. As the most knowledgeable about the client my role involved mentoring coaching to junior and senior staff.
• I reviewed the complex debtors space, I was able to restructure the audit program to ensure all associated risk was covered, from this I identified a.5 MM NZD audit adjustment which I effectively raised to the client.
• For this engagement I was award a EY award for high performance. ING(Finance/ Funds)
• During the interim audit I performed tests on client mandate controls, corporate actions and also bank reconciliations.
• During year end engagement I reviewed the NAV of the portfolio using third party confirmations and also Bloomberg. Navman(Manufacturing and Distributing)

Executive Education- Strategic Cfo

Management Diploma, Business/Managerial Economics

Bachelor’S Degree, Business/Commerce, General