Consultant, Merchandise Planning Resume

SUMMARY:

Experienced Finance professional with over 5 years of experience specializing in Product Control and IT systems

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Consultant, Merchandise Planning

Responsibilities:

Understanding and working closely with the Planners to execute the use of the process enhancing tools which is being launched across regions
Collaborate with Merchants and Allocators on preseason and in season plans to align on sales and inventory strategies. Provide support to the team while implementing the plans across seasons and brands into the system
Active role partnering with planning peers and management in creating, updating, enhancing tools and process that supports financial integrity and allows for flexibility and innovation
Partner with the change team to analyse the gaps in the system adopted to enhance the planning process across regions
Actively listen, engage and respond to business partners and leadership in response to opportunities and challenges
Work with technical resources to enhance use of Analytics tool and its effectiveness

Confidential

Senior Analyst, Product Control

Responsibilities:

Responsible for producing daily, monthly and quarterly financial and key performance indicator reports
Recipients include Product Control Senior Management, Regional CFO, Market Risk, Group Finance, Operational Risk management, Internal Audit, External Audit as well as Regulatory Bodies for Fixed income & Equities division across APAC and EMEA region
Prepare and Analyse impact of erroneous client trades executed by the traders
Reconcile between front office spreadsheets and the back office P&L systems which pertains to all P&L activity including valuation of positions, cash balances, funding and provisions. These responsibilities require a good understanding of trade information process flows between different departments within the bank (Front Office, Operations and Financial Accounting departments)
Manage and ensure accurate reporting of P&L in the dashboards for Line and Business controllers.
Reconcile the P&L numbers with general ledger for the month end control reports

Confidential

Business Analyst, BFSI

Responsibilities:

Worked as a functional representative at client locations in Australia and Singapore for implementing systems which would enhance the bank’s customer care cycle and communicating the functional aspects of the requirements to the development team
Validate test cases and design documents to ensure scope coverage
Facilitate and perform “requirement analysis” along with creation of high level solution and business requirement document
Support high & low level functional point estimates
Document the following Quality documents for the successful delivery of the Project:
Requirement Analysis Sheet
Requirement Understanding Document
Requirement Traceability Matrix
Software Requirement Specification
Document FSDs through requirements elicitation with Use Cases/ Mock - up Screens
Work on creating RFPs with regional sales managers to provide presales support
Research and analyse the latest technology trends in banking for existing and prospective clients across geographies
Financial Analysis to understand the behavioural and spending pattern on technology in Banks