Saurabh Pradhan Email & Phone Number

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Financial Controls: Monitoring and reconciling account balances, ensuring validity and correctness, and resolving discrepancies with Tech.• Internal Controls: Leading finance control and risk agenda, conducting RCSAs, and managing KRIs.• Quality Assurance: Independently assessing reconciliation and substantiation processes across the Bank.• MJE Control: Managing MJE policy, ensuring compliance and proper documentation.• Procedure Manuals: Overseeing SOPs creation and conducting process reviews.• BCP Coordination: Coordinating the finance function’s BCP policy and implementation.• New Product Approval: Supervising the process, ensuring external source reports for GL accounts.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Team Management: Leading a team of 5 and ensuring timely submission of regulatory and HO reports. Ensuring compliance with accounting principles and guidelines.• Strategic Support: Providing information for sound decision-making to stakeholders.• Financial Reporting: Preparing and finalizing J-GAAP, US GAAP, and IFRS financial statements, ensuring compliance with banking, company, and tax laws. Preparing and verifying Management Accounting reports.• New Products: Assessing and implementing financial reporting impacts of new products within the bank.• Automation: Supporting automation activities, including implementing CBS.• Regulatory Compliance: Monitoring changes in rules and guidelines by regulators and HO, implementing necessary changes. Keeping watch over internal accounts and ensuring compliance with H.O guidelines and local regulatory requirements.• Reconciliation: Monitoring reconciliation of Nostro and internal accounts.• Customer Support: Providing timely information and resolving queries for internal and external stakeholders.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• People Management: Leading a team of 18 CAs, overseeing IFRS and French GAAP financial statements for CIB entities in APAC.• IFRS Standards Implementation: Spearheading the implementation of new IFRS standards, including IFRS 9, IFRS 16, IFRS 2, and IAS 19/19R, ensuring compliance and seamless integration.• Project Management: Leading the General Ledger migration and new implementation across APAC, ensuring smooth transitions and data integrity. Realizing 15% efficiency gains through LEAN projects and automation solutions like Alteryx. Heading change management within the Financial Accounting and Reporting department.• Process Management: Managing and reviewing head office reporting for 34 legal entities in APAC, ensuring adherence to new IFRS standards.• Tax Reporting: Analyzing and implementing tax impacts of new IFRS standards, providing valuable insights to senior management.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Preparation & presentation of annual financial statements for BNP Paribas Subsidiaries located in North America in accordance with IFRS.• Performing monthly and quarterly Financial Accounting for BNPP New York, BNPP Canada and subsidiaries (Bank and intercompany reconciliations, deferred/corporate tax accruals)• Reconciliation and substantiation of PNL for the entities handled• Performing monthly and quarterly variance analysis to substantiate the periodic movement in balances.• Perform Fx sell down checks on a monthly basis for BNP Paribas Canada and its subsidiaries to enable ALM team to hedge open Fx positions in market.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• P&L Reconciliation: Performing daily and monthly P&L reconciliation between source system and reporting tool, identifying discrepancies, and implementing corrective actions to ensure reporting quality.• P&L Management: Managing the P&L process daily, from reconciliation and issue resolution to obtaining Business Unit sign off and P&L reporting.• Financial Statements: Preparing Annual/Semi-annual Financial Statements for clients as per IFRS and US GAAP requirements.• Reporting & Resolution: Reporting and resolving manual adjustments and breaks.• NAV Delivery: Delivering NAV for each entity on a weekly and daily basis.• Regulatory Reporting: Conducting monthly and quarterly regulatory reporting of fund performances.

Ca, Accounts & Finance

M.Com, Commerce