ERP Functional Lead and Transformation Project Lead

SAKSHI BHASIN Phone: +91-708******* Email – ****************@*****.***

Self-driven, highly motivated and commercially-aware Finance professional with performance evaluation, analytical and Inter-personal skills-set achieved through work diversity and academic excellence Key Skills: Financial Analytics, ERP Implementation Lead, Process Transformations, Budgeting & Forecasting, Business Presentations; Client Coordination and Stakeholder Communications WORK EXPERIENCE

Proprietor, Cyril Consultants November 2015 – Present Accounting & Financial Boutique firm, engaged in varied projects spread across account book keeping, financial analysis & performance metrics, Operational Processes Transformation, ERP implementation Functional Consultancy and Back-office support setup Following is some of the Projects undertaken so far:

* Functional Consulting for AP (incl. P2P, Fixed Assets, Cash Management) module for implementation of Oracle Fusion ERP for US IT client: 8 geographies, US $130m turnover, non-synchronised processes across entities. Led the liaising & preparation of Business Requirement and GAP assessment report

* Project management Lead and Functional Consulting for implementation of Workday financials ERP for French PE backed Customer Management Company

Region Netherlands: 10 entities, 2 countries, Eur 160m turnover. Project is live in 5 months. This project was taken over midway during architect and design phase, when issues were being faced by the client in project management operations

Region Greece: 5 entities, 2 countries. Limited resources on client side for execution; thus, assumed an additional role of end-user from client side and in-depth involvement during designing and testing phase

Region UK: 9 entities, 3 countries, Eur 200m turnover. Project was completed in record 4 months, with no major issues post go-live

Region Nordics: 10+ entities, 9 countries. No Synchronized processes across countries, multiple charts of accounts followed. Initial step was to standardise one process, before moving onto Workday ERP

* Transformation of Month-end process for US-based PE backed client. This involved understanding of current business flow and Specific requirement(s) of Stakeholders. Automation of reporting & analysis was done, wherever possible. Additional Dashboards were setup for monthly and quarterly analysis. Closing time was reduced by 3 days

* Set up of Budgeting and Forecasting process for India based Food & Beverage company having INR 500m turnover. This involved defining KPIs, computation of standard cost of materials, labour & overheads and setting up monthly process of measurement and performance analysis

* Set-up of Weekly Consolidated Cash Flow (weekly report, leading to the monthly) for French Headquartered BPO business, with Operations across Europe, Asia and South Africa. This involved discussion with individual countries to understand specific requirements and local compliances, if any. This incorporated multi-currency exchange rate conversions & fluctuations

* Conversion of UK GAAP accounting books into IFRS for UK based BPO client. This involved detailed working around revenue recognition and Transfer Pricing. Continual liaison with external and internal HQ auditors for accuracy and completeness of information Financial Analyst, Siemens Financial Services (SFS), UK April 2012 – July 2015 A leading Leasing Financing and Asset Management company; part of worldwide-known Siemens Group Role included:

* Compilation and comprehensive monthly analysis of BS & PL using Hyperion & Esprit platforms

* Ownership for compilation of quarterly Board Meeting KPIs commentary for CFO submission

* Responsible for setting up budget & forecast for business Overheads and having monthly review with budget holders Key Achievements:

* Assisted Senior Project Manager from Head office (Germany) in system integration of accounting standards (accrued income specific) as per the local guidelines in SFS India business. Also, led the automation of suspense cash allocation process with local operations team

* Collaborating role within the project team during financial implementation of SAP accounting system in completing functional and integration testing of P2P and Fixed Asset modules and provided training to non-finance people for operation system use

* Assist the Reporting Manager with quarterly and annual reporting requirements such as Tax, VAT and external Audit queries Financial Consultant, Webhelp TSC (formerly HEROtsc), UK December 2011 – March 2012 UK’s leading provider of innovative business outsources solutions to clients spread across UK Role included:

* Evaluation of KPIs of different campaigns on a weekly basis and continual monitoring of any issues therein

* Responsible for the migration of financial data and reports in company’s new automated financial system

* Communicating regularly and effectively with other support teams and reinforcing the partnerships Key Achievements:

* Set-up of the automated reporting model for weekly evaluation of varied business campaigns

* Central role in completing a business report understanding the key drivers & their inter-relation for business Change and performance management

* Liaise with Technical experts and Business Insight team during the system migration; chalked out the complete plan for financial data transition

* Provided Financial Jargon training to non-financial campaign’s team to reduce knowledge gap between Finance and Operations

* Took initiative to get involved in overall budgeting of different campaigns for the financial year Voluntary Work (Part-Time)

Vice President (Member Induction & Mobilisation), Leaders for Tomorrow, New Delhi, India July 2008 – March 2009 Not-for-Profit Forum engaged in creating social enlightenment, with eminent experts from media and politics on its panel.

* Management of financial and physical resources to ensure effective coordination of programmes at college and city level

* Led the team in establishing member base in own college. Team grew to thirty active members

* Conducted interviews for appointment of other college representatives and held regular catch-up meetings

* Varied Fund-raising initiatives were held in different college annual fests ACADEMIC PROFILE

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), Fellow Completed in mid-2015

Bayes Business School (Formerly Cass), September 2010 - August 2011 First Division Masters in Finance, City University, London

Modules:

Corporate Finance Valuation (Advanced) & Restructuring, Risk Management, Behavioural Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Statement Analysis & Reporting, Asset Management, Project Finance and Research Management Skills

Awarded Sareen Foundation Scholarship of £10,000

Shri Ram College of Commerce, July 2007- May 2010 First Division Bachelor of Commerce (Honours), University of Delhi, India Modules:

Financial Management, Fundamentals of Investment, Management Accounting, Micro & Macro Economics and Business Organisation & Management

Awarded KPMG Merit Scholarship for commendable performance ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Financial Systems fluency: Workday, Oracle Fusion, Hyperion, SAP, Sage, Exact References: Available on Request

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