1. CURRICULAM VITAE
Rajesh Sharma
MBA (Finance), B.COM
Contact No.: +91 9958005164 E-Mail: rajesh73sharma@hotmail.com
Address: 1244, Sector 19, Faridabad, Haryana. 121 002
CAREER OBJECTIVE
Looking for a challenging position in a professionally managed and reputed organization that provides me with ample
opportunity to apply and enhance my knowledge, skills and capabilities for the development of the organization along with my
own growth.
PROFESSIONAL SNAPSHOT
Overall 18 years of experience in Finance, Operation’s Accounting, Research & Clearance, Reconciliations Transitions,
Change Management, Business Continuity Management with strong leadership skills as follows :
- Strong Stakeholder Management Skills
- Strong Customer/Counter Part relationship
- Focused Approach on re-building the broken processes
- An effective People Leader
Current Employer - The Royal Bank of Scotland Group: Part of GFS India, working as a Senior Manager (People Leader) in
Systems & Ledger Control Department that is responsible to maintain and support General Ledger and various Reporting
platforms.
Worked with American Express India Pvt. Ltd for 12 Years as a Manager.
Worked with Indraprastha Medical Corporation Ltd (Apollo Group of Hospitals) for 4 years as an Account’s Assistant.
Worked with Jumbo Tourism – Faridabad (Travel Related Service Company) from May1994 till July 1994.
WORKING EXPERIENCE
The Royal Bank of Scotland: Current Profile – At present leading 2 teams:-
Ledger Control South – The team supports the Asset Financing and Invoice Financing Business for the Bank by maintaining
the following plat forms for the business:
- Oracle General Ledger System used to record the Lombard Asset Financing Business
- Hyperion Reporting Tool
Risk and Treasury Systems Team India: Team supports the following Risk and Treasury Systems used to report the numbers
to the Regulators
- GRDW, GRDM, FRANK, HERA (Co-Rep Reporting)
- Related Month End, Quarter End and Year End activities.
Also responsible for conducting and supporting the following Risk and Control related initiatives for the entire department:
• SOX Adequacy and Effective Testing of the Controls in place
• SOX Pack Review and Updation
• Consolidating & Presenting monthly KPI and KRI Dashboards to the Head of the Department
• Conducting and Supporting the External Auditing
• BCP Planning and Testing
• Setting the Objectives and Development needs of the team
- Completing Appraisals
May 2012 – May’2014: Associated with Market and Investment Banking Division, as a Manager, responsible to manage a
team of 5 Associates engaged to ensure correct presentation of Daily Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Account to the
Traders/Business Unit Controllers (BUC) for the trades generated through different Source Systems like Wall Street, ECO,
System X, GFX and International through effective Source System Reconciliations.
• Identification, reconciliation and resolution of Breaks on daily basis, identifying the permanent fixes on the historical
issues causing recurring breaks by partnering/liaising with Production IT, IT Developers, BUC, Upstream Teams, etc.
• Releasing Monthly Metrics/Dash Board to the senior management showcasing the performance i.e. achievements, focus
and pain areas being managed by the team to further attract the focus on the issues requiring urgent
attention/assistance from the top management.
• Process re-structuring and re-engineering, change management, preparation of KRI’s & KPI’s
• Focus on Standardization, Governance, Controls, SOX, BCP, External and Internal Audits, timely Hiring are the added
initiatives being lead apart from the BAU.
2. American Express India Pvt. Ltd: April 2000 – May 2012: 12 years of experience in the Financial and Shared Services Global
Captive KPO. Worked for different regions in Reconciliation & Accounting Shared Services,
From Jan’2011 till May’ 2012: Part of Global Business Services (GBS): associated with International Membership Rewards
Team in Global Operations Accounting as a People Leader responsible for:
• Evaluation of the deals being signed with the GNS and Membership Reward Partners,
• Month –end Accounting and Analysis of related Expense/Liability and Revenue/Receivables
• Reconciliation and Clearance of related Receivable and Payable accounts.
• Monthly Dashboard Reporting of the business to all the stakeholders.
From Mar’2007 till Jan’2011: Part of Global Accounts Reconciliation – JAPA team, responsible to manage the listed
activities through a team of 12:
• Reconciliation Preparation: Preparation of different segments of Balance Sheet reconciliations of JAPA region in
accordance with the reconciliation policy in place.
• Research & Clearance: Research & Clearance activity on the open items in Foreign Exchange related accounts and
accounts related Wholesale Currency Business in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong.
• Reporting: Reporting the status of the accounts along with the summary on potential outstanding values to the
respective Market Controllers on monthly basis.
• CSA & Metrics: Reporting of CSA & Metrics on reconciliation and clearance to the MIS team.
• Line of Business Calls: Responsible for preparing and rolling out the Call Deck to the business unit controller to provide
an update on the reconciliation status of the accounts.
Project Management:
• Transition from Walker to Oracle: Amex transitioned its GL database system from Walker to Oracle wherein i was part
of the team that was responsible for creating the Sub-Ledgers through Oracle for Fixed Assets, Vendor Payable, Prepaid
Accounts, etc. I was basically responsible to provide the necessary key inputs required forming effective sub-ledgers for
the said accounts and finally to perform the UAT on the new Oracle reports to be used for reconciliation purpose.
• Transition of Reconciliation Policy and Reconciliation Tool: I was the core team player of this project in terms of
providing the inputs, rolling out the new reconciliation policy to the customers across geographies making them
conversant with the new policy and the usage of new reconciliation tool.
• Migrations: Responsible for migrating Research and Clearance of 150 Accounts related to Foreign Exchange Business
(FES).
• Remittance Processing: Have worked as Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Remittance Processing peace
Cross Departmental Projects: Worked on various cross departmental projects like:
• Global Reconciliation Project on Reserve & Write-Off Accounts,
• Project on Voice of Customer – To Pre-pone the SLA’s of delivering reconciliations to the account owners.
• Six Sigma Green Belt Project – Identification and Implementation of Governance around reconciliation process.
• Automation of Remittance Process – with an output by reducing 4 man hours work to just 15 minutes and automating
the related journalisation.
Indraprastha Medical Corporation Ltd (Apollo Group of Hospitals): April 1996 – April 2000
• Maintaining Books of Accounts under Financial Package Tally 5.0
• Preparation of Sub-ledger reconciliation on A/R, A/P.
• Facilitating Corporate Audits.
• Preparation of Daily Cash Audit Report, Daily MIS (Department wise revenue generation from OPD and IPD).
• Reconciliation of ledgers and preparation of schedules falling under the head Salaries and Wages.
• Stocktaking and stock valuation at the time of finalization of accounts.
• Responsible for finalizing the books of accounts.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Recipient of various rewards on extra-ordinary performance and successfully working and managing multiple tasks.
Awarded for Delighting Customers by considering VOC.
As a People Leader, delivered outstanding results in Employee Survey for 3 consecutive years, results for year 2008 are
mentioned below :
96% - Aggregate
100% - My Leader
100% - Encouragement
100% - Will to Win
100% - Recognition
100% - Tools & resources
3. ♦ Date of Birth : 07th
September 1973
♦ Languages Known : English, Hindi, and Punjabi.
♦ Father’s name : Lt. Sh. A.R. Sharma
♦ Hobby : Playing Chess, Listening Music.
♦ Mobility : Delhi/NCR
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Place: Faridabad Rajesh Sharma
PERSONAL DOSSIER
Degree/ Certificate Institute/ University
Year of
Passing
MBA Finance (DLP) IMT, Ghaziabad. 2005
PGDBM: Business
Management
Bharatiya Vidhya
Bhawan, New Delhi.
1996
B. Com
Delhi University -PGDAV
College
1994
10+2 C. B. S. E. 1991
10th
C. B. S. E. 1989
Diploma in Computers
First Computer
1991