1. KALPESH GOHEL
101, Lockerbie Avenue. Leicester. LE4 7NL.
Tel: (0116) 2946100, Mobile: 07469 756675
Email: kalpesh.gohel@gmail.com
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Profile:
I am a highly motivated self-starter academic with over two decades of experience in processing environments.
During this time I have worked within various roles including: MI Business Analyst, Network Administrator, Software
Programmer, Financial Analyst, Projects officer, Accountant and Settlement & Reconciliation Analyst (International
Acquiring Settlement & Reconciliation).
Microsoft Excel has been my passion and I have possessed Excel VBA for over 15 years. I have gained a high level of
expertise in financial analysis and developing financial models. I use VBA programming to get enhanced functionality and
automation beyond Excel, which enables integration with other Microsoft Office applications and to connect with
databases like Microsoft Access. I am currently working towards my Green Belt accreditation within Six Sigma, having
been trained to this level. Using Six Sigma methodology along with VBA has helped me to achieve significant process and
financial benefits for the organisation.
Technical Skills:
Hardware: IBM PC’s, Networking, Hardware & Software Installation.
General O/S: MSDOS, Windows – 9x, Windows NT/2000//XP, Vista.
Languages: C, C++, C#, JAVA, Visual Basic 6.0, VB.Net,
Applications: MS Office 2010 Suite, Tally, IBM AS/400 Personal Communications (RUMBA), CODA,
Financial, Visual Paradigm (UML), MasterCard Online, Visa Online, FTP, InSight 1 & 2,
Norkom, Company watch, eTCS, OneMI , Radina6 ,IBM Cognos , CMB OneMI etc.
DBMS / RDBMS: Ms – Excel-2010, Access-2010, Oracle 8i, MS – SQL.
Electronic skills: Design, trouble shooting, testing, measuring, assembling, repairing,
Cabling, soldering. (All as GE Standard).
Other Key Skills:
 Six Sigma Yellow/ Green belt DMAEC methodology.
 Excellent knowledge of trouble-shooting and strong problem solving, Strong leadership skills, dependable and a good
team player.
 Ability to work under pressure and pick up new skills quickly.
 Strong leadership skills, dependable and a good team player.
 Fluent in Gujarati, Hindi
Career History:
HSBC Bank Plc.
(51 De-Montfort Street, Leicester (LE1 7BB) – MI Business Analyst.
Undertake analysis and production of revenues, costs, headcount, for CMB Banking UK.
Designed and implemented MI package to support risk governance capture of critical data for CMB UK.
Preparation of monthly management reports.
Continuously improve and redesign reporting through proactive development & feedback from the business and
providing a general analytical service for the solution of business problems.
Identifying analytical enhancements to Bank systems and processes producing appropriate user requirements and
ensuring end user acceptance testing.
Support the requests of various business areas within Leicester to enable continuous improvement projects to be driven
Liaise with all key stakeholders.
Key Achievements & Software Development:
Automation of MI using VBA programming resulting in daily time saving of 3 hours.
Creation and implementation of performance tracking and performance management tools for 160 staff, resulting in
savings of 4 hours per person per month.
Impact analysis of salary review and redundancy, resulting in enhanced staff satisfaction and progression for 160 staff.
Process review for back office work, resulting in a 6% volume reduction and efficiency improvements.
Implementation of risk data capturing processes resulting in a 360 degree feedback loop for all staff.
Programming for multiple audit comparison and root cause data for account opening.
Automation of feedback Emails to remove manual processing, saving time and ensuring greater accuracy.
Time capture software deployment for efficiency management, giving real time information on productivity.
Created MI capture statistics for newly created DRM team that manage 6000 accounts. Process created from scratch.
Monthly MI capture system produced for Senior Management within CMB involving Insight and One Mi.
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2. Creation of weekly and monthly MI for 3 centres enabling senior managers to view all key performance and HR
statistics.
HSBC Bank Plc.
(120, Edmund Street, Birmingham B3 2QZ) - Technical Projects Officer (Settlement Department).
Technical orientated support role that involves the development of Excel spreadsheets, Visual Basic & Access
databases to improve operational processes across the Centre of Excellence Card Acquiring platform.
 Assist the operational teams with identifying improvements and taking a lead role in the implementation of various
projects.
 To undertake the daily operation of the Settlement and Reconciliation processes, ensuring that all processes were
completed in accordance with audit requirements and within agreed service levels.
 To ensure all procedures and training guides are in place to provide the best level of support and training.
Software Development:
 Creation of automated systems to aid settlement of funds between Card Schemes and Merchants and booking foreign
exchange deals. I was awarded an Employee of the Month Award for the creation and implementation of an
automated settlement Excel VBA Macro.
 Written a VBA Excel Macro to enable the team to automatically reconcile more than 70 accounts. This resulted in a
saving of 4 FTE positions and reduced error rates.
 Financial Accounting System software and Inventory Maintenance software with MS Visual Basic, spreadsheets
using VB Macro to perform Financial Analysis functions.
 Assisting our Global Service Center with developing and implementing a program for forecasting data in to Access
database and creating chargeback comparison worksheets. I was awarded a Certificate of Outstanding Support for my
efforts on this project. This project removed a 6 month back log of chargebacks and ensured full automation of the
process meaning all further chargebacks now corrected on day of receipt.
 Following audit issue, a new VBA Excel Marco was created to retrieve MI data Settlement and Reconciliation more
than 238 Accounts – this resulted in being awarded with an Investors Award. This automated a manual process.
 Through various macro based automation projects I saved 2.8 Full Time Employee (FTE) costs in 2011/12.
 I have written VBA Excel Macro automation projects for MasterCard ATM and VISA ATM DCC projects. This was
a new project for dynamic currency conversion that reduced FTE by 4.
Achievements
 Awarded with a Certificate of Stunning Service (2007) for enabling a number of accounts to be automatically
reconciled and for my outstanding support in the reconciliation department (HSBC Bank).
 Commit to quality Award, Employee of the Month Award 2007- HSBC.
 Certificate of Stunning Service, Star performance award and outstanding support to the GSC Dept in 2008 – HSBC
 Peoples Hero July 2009 & Mar 2010 HSBC and Investors Award – 2011 For ( MI Automation projects)
SNL Financial, Ahmedabad. India.
Financial Analyst
 Developed numerous forecasting models to examine company’s projected short- and long-term growth, based on key
indicators, sales projections, cash flow analysis, valuation, assets, liabilities, and credit risks.
 Aggregated data and generated sales and revenue reports for senior management.
Educational Qualifications:
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (Studying ACCA Part-time).
Advance VB.Net Programming: Leicester College - Leicester.
C-DAC Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Computing
(A Scientific Society of Ministry of Information Technology Govt. of India: ACTS, Pune .India)
(Skills Acquired: C, C++, Visual Basic, JAVA and Oracle).
D.I.S.M. Diploma in Information and System Management: APTECH – India.
Master of Commerce- SG Uni. Surat, India: My special subjects are Costing Accountant and Financial management.
Bachelor of Commerce - SG Uni. Surat, India: My Special subjects are Advance Accounting, Taxation and Statistic.
References: Available: Upon request
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