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Hanish Sethi

Operations Associate

Delhi, India19 yrs experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 19 years of experience in Finance Operations.
  • Expert in financial planning and analysis.
  • Proven track record in process optimization.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Finance professional with expertise in financial planning, analysis, and process optimization.

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Skills

Core Skills

Financial Planning And Analysis (fp&a)International Financial Reporting Standards (ifrs)Financial ControlsProcess ImprovementFinance DigitalisationProcess GovernanceProject ManagementData AnalyticsManagement ReportingTeam Management

Other Skills

Financial PlanningAnalysis (FP&A)Reports OptimizationFinancial AnalysisAutomationCloud MigrationFinancial ReportingData Issues RemediationVariance AnalysisData ManagementChange ManagementOperational RigourProcess Re-engineeringDemand ManagementPerformance Appraisal

About

Experienced Finance professional with a demonstrated history of working in Finance Operations over 19 years, skilled in Management Business Performance Reporting, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Process Migrations and Transitions, Finance Transformation/Digitalisation Projects, ESG Reporting, People Leadership, Financial Controls, KPIs and Metrics Reporting in world’s leading Banking Institutions and Oil & Gas Pioneering Organisation. Managing cross function large teams in finance operation with deep experience of inspiring team members. My passion and forte is building future ready talent by deepening technical and leadership capabilities. Played a vital role in Migration & Transition of Finance processes from global locations (Europe, America and Asia). Have done the migration feasibility and service proposition assessment for establishing the Service Level Agreement. Excellent communication with strong decision making capabilities and proven abilities in managing change management key projects like Reports Optimisation, Data Issues & Manual Adjustments Remediation, Business Intelligence tools migrations. Lean six sigma & Python certified professional with proven ability to enhance operations excellence through implementing process improvements projects like Global HSSE Costs Performance Reports simplification, Automation of UK Managed Entities reporting process. Worked on Short Term International Assignment(STIA) as Retail MI Expert for Shell Italia, played a key role in strategic finance decision making through my financial analysis capabilities. Drive improvement in digital landscape, automation and standardization through systems and tools to maximize efficiency and actionable insights. Ensure quality, accuracy and integrity of information stored in our systems, enabling a single source of truth. Actively drive workload balancing and cross-team support to counter-act the workload peaks driven by the financial process cycles Experience with reporting & analytical tools, like Power BI, Qlikview, Qliksense, Business-Intelligence environments, SQL, etc. Strong influencing ability, people-focus, adept at inspiring, coaching and mentoring high energy and high capability finance team, effective communication, with proven collaboration mindset, ability to make decisions in ambiguous situations and in absence of complete information. Demonstrate commercial mindset and strong business acumen, proven ability to deliver actionable insights in complex and global business set-ups

Experience

19 yrs
Total Experience
3 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
9 yrs 5 mos
Current Experience

Hsbc

3 roles

AVP - Financial Accounting - IFRS and Management Reporting

Jan 2024Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Efficiently managing the Europe IFRS and FP&A activities primarily involving monthly IFRS submissions, P&L and BS review, Actuals vs Forecast vs Budget variance analysis with meaningful business insight commentaries to senior management
  • Spearheading team of 8 members including monitoring of finance functions involving in IFRS and business reporting, designing & implementing systems, policies & procedures to facilitate financial controls
  • Devising Strategic Financial plans, including long-range forecasting, budging and scenario modeling to support business
  • Collaborate with various functions and team to gather and analyse financial data for reporting and forecasting purposes
  • Lead accounting, reporting, tax, treasury, and audit compliance related to India GAAP, IFRS, manage tax panning & audits
  • Prepare high quality presentations and support to Head FP&A/CFO on business performance tracking
  • Efficiently manage SVB Bank Merger & Acquisition requirements, perform financial due diligence & post-merger integrations
  • Elimination of 3500 reports (76FTE benefit) in span of one year through implementation of Reports Optimization(RO) Project
  • Build and develop a high performing finance team, fostering collaboration, excellence and continuous improvement standardize finance processes and controls across teams
  • Ability to manage and lead the Ledger close and BAU reporting process with effective Financial controls in place
  • Facilitate automation of Business Finance Actuals submissions & Reporting through Python
  • Playing a pivotal role in UK Cloud implementation aims to migration of all Financial & Management Reporting on Cloud platform and elimination of all manual workaround to increase the process efficiency
  • Liaise with technology and finance teams to understand the challenges, prioritize based on impact & give visibility to leaders
  • Supporting to ESG forum for their requirements, providing insight and counselling team on initiatives
Financial PlanningAnalysis (FP&A)International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)Management ReportingFinancial ControlsFinancial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

AVP - Management & Business Reporting

Promoted

Dec 2017Dec 2023 · 6 yrs

  • Managing UK Management & Business reporting primarily involving monthly P&L and Balance Sheet review, Actuals vs. Forecast vs. Budget variance analysis, reconciliation between staging cubes and different systems to ensure data integrity for reporting purposes
  • Responsible for UK managed entities and other subsidiaries P&L and Balance Sheet MI submissions and review for reporting purposes. Completed the 16 UK others entities tranching to FTP platform to enable straight through process of business reporting.
  • Handling senior stakeholder of HSBC UK Bank by executing monthly de-brief calls, discussing on process improvement initiatives and accelerated reporting submission timelines.
  • Efficiently managed the Data Issues & Adjustments remediation work-stream resulting in elimination of ~500 manual adjustments across business finance.
  • Analysing monthly movement in P&L and Balance Sheet and providing meaningful insight commentaries to business for sign-off on reporting submission.
  • Mentoring and coaching of team members on process related initiatives, contributing in their development need and career path.
  • Implemented the Issue and Change log governance to enable rigours in continuity of process execution.
  • Managing BCBS Process documentation and approval sign-off involving review of PLA/SLA, KPIs,System Access Matrix, Data Retention Matrix and BRCM
  • Managing Finance Digitalisation and Automation initiatives like automation of legacy processes and reduction in FTE efforts. Simplifying and standardisation of processes through robotics automation and digitalisation tools like Qliksense, Python, Xceptor and Macros
Project ManagementFinancial ControlsData Issues RemediationVariance Analysis

AVP - Projects and Governance

Oct 2016Nov 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Handling a Projects and Governance role in Business Finance team.
  • Successfully led process improvement project Reports optimisation by standardisation of non-standard reports and elimination of non value added reports through demand management and process re-engineering initiatives includes robotics and non robotics automation.
  • Facilitation in Re-engineering targets and Incident Management across Business Finance team which involves regular co-ordination with senior management and function leads.
  • Efficiently managed Operational Rigour work steam by setting up the operational rigour dashboard for indicator on process performance, Internal Peer Review Process to ensure that existing reviews and controls are working fine.
  • Working on Change Management Process for governance on final reports delivery and input management, recording to errors and root cause analysis of errors and process related issues.
Process ImprovementChange ManagementOperational RigourProject Management

Standard chartered bank

2 roles

Senior Manager - Group Management Reporting

Sep 2015Oct 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Responsible for monthly Regional Management Group(RMG) reporting packs which includes preparation of 8 regions and 2 SC group packs with commentaries on business performance, Actual vs Budget vs Forecast variances.
  • Responsible for Countries Management group(CMG) reporting packs which include preparation of 60+ countries monthly business review meeting presentation slides on, Actual vs Budget vs Forecast variances analysis on different banking segments/products/customer performance.
  • Handling queries of all regional CFOs, GPMs(Global Performance Managers) on monthly Regional Performance and Country Performance.
  • Leading Global Standard Reporting Team of 10 directs and 12 indirect reports, managing their performance appraisal, coaching and mentoring for their career path in the current organisation.
  • Responsible for hiring, FTE allocations & billing, migration of new activities and stakeholders management
Management ReportingPerformance AppraisalStakeholder ManagementTeam Management

Senior Manager - Finance Transformation(Financial Analytics Project)

Mar 2014Aug 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Responsible for Financial Analytics Project end to end data quality analysis which involves complex data validation and co-ordination with Regional CFOs.
  • Managing Project requirements, resource allocation, delegation, quality review and control.
  • Responsible for Financial Planning & Analysis team which deals in annual Budgeting, quarterly Forecasting and monthly Actual vs Budget variance analysis reports.
  • Manage Management Reporting packs for Singapore Country which involves P&L and Balance Sheet Analysis.
  • Review of Global Ranking Dashboard and Financial Analytics Packs for project progress.
  • Manage team, conducts their performance reviews, define career paths and coach them in their day-to-day analysis to meet the business goals.
  • Supporting to Business Functional Specification Design, performing sanity checks, process simulations, mitigating the people and technical issues in implementation of Microstrategy BI.
Financial AnalyticsData Quality AnalysisBudgetingFinancial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)Project Management

Shell

2 roles

Sr. Specilaist -Busines MIPA (Global Planning & Appriasal Manager)

Nov 2011Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Company Profile:(Royal Dutch Shell is the largest most diversified international investor in India's energy sector among all global integrated oil companies)
  • Accountabilities
  • Efficiently managing Annual Budgeting(T&R) activities for downstream S&D business which involves 1000 FTEs costs planning, capex and opex expenditures for S&D business
  • Proficiently preparing and analyzing monthly Retail Site P&L Actual vs Budget variances report
  • Preparing QPA (Quarterly Performance Appraisal) packs for EVP and Retail Director for decision making on strategic financial planning towards capital investment and disinvestment
  • Expertly preparing and analyzing the Retail Sites Profitability, TM Profitability, and Segment Profitability Reports on monthly basis.
  • Efficiently managing scheduled calls, KPI Metrics and continuous improvement ideas for team
  • Highlights
  • Honored by DS Finance award from the Global EVP Finance for improving data quality and automated reporting enable decision making in portfolio projects of Retail Site Profitability.
  • Achieved reduction of 1 FTE in scope of my GB Project benefits realization.
  • Successfully completed the Italy Retail MI migration and GSAP Implementation process
BudgetingCost PlanningData AnalysisFinancial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)Financial Controls

Specialist MIPA(Retail MI Expert)

Dec 2008Oct 2011 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • Migrated Downstream Retail MI FP&A activities from Italy.
  • Responsible for Retail Site Profitability reports for Retail Sales Team.
  • Performing Strategic Planning Reposts for Italy Downstream Retail Business Director.
  • Preparing Regional and Geographical Profitability Analysis.
  • Managing Retail Business Margin Analysis Report. Participated in GSAP and BW Reporting implementation Project.
  • Successfully managed the Retail Site Profitability MI integration Project and played key role from Offshore counter part.
BudgetingFinancial ReportingKPI MetricsFinancial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)Financial Controls

Independent mobile infrastructure pvt. ltd

Sr. Executive - Budgetary Control

May 2008Dec 2008 · 7 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Company Profile: (IMIL was leading telecom tower company founded by a former Goldman Sachs Chairmen later acquired by American Tower Corporation in 2009)
  • Accountabilities.
  • Preparing and analyzing monthly P&L Actuals vs Budget variances report.
  • Co-ordinate with Budget holders to control unplanned costs and over spent expenses.
  • Preparing monthly Financial MIS and Cash Flow Statement.
  • Managing Budgeting and Forecasting to ensure proper utilization of cash.
Financial ReportingRetail MI IntegrationFinancial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Max neeman international

Finance Officer

Dec 2006Apr 2008 · 1 yr 4 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • (Max Neeman Medical International is 100% subsidiary of Max India Ltd. It is a leading CRO based out of India provides clinical research services to global pharmaceuticals, biotech and device companies)
  • Accountabilities
  • Proficiently ensured delivery of Financial MIS – Balance Sheet ,P&L and Cash Flow Statement
  • Actively participated in Budgeting activities(Capex and Opex Expenses Plan)
  • Expertly managed banking operations – Loans, Reconciliation, Bill Negotiation & Bank Limits.
  • Efficiently conducted project costing and invoicing (Budgeting and milestone invoicing)
  • Efficiently handled the statutory compliances – Service Tax, TDS and Income Tax
  • Actively handled Accounts Payable activities i.e. verifying supplier bills and payments entries
  • Highlights
  • Efficiently managed the 3 people’s team and requirements of Financial Controller
  • Successfully handled statutory and internal audit independently
Financial MISBudgetingCash Flow ManagementFinancial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Education

Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune

MBA — Financial Management

Jan 2004Jan 2006

Delhi University

Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) — Accounting and Finance

Jan 2000Jan 2003

Sarvodaya, Vikaspuri

Higher Secondary — Accounting and Finance

Jan 1999Jan 2000

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