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.

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.

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.
• 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