Saifullah is seeking a challenging career leveraging 7 years of experience in finance domains including investment banking, finance, accounts operations, custody operations, and middle office operations. He has strong technical skills in programs like Multifonds, FSR, Basware, Oracle, and HUB. Currently an Assistant Manager at Citi, previous roles include fund administrator at HSBC and process associate at Genpact. He aims to establish relationships and enhance leadership skills long term.
1. MD SAIFULLAH
+91 7838721855 saif78655@yahoo.in
Objective
Seeking a challenging career in an organization where there is an opportunity to leverage my
finance domain knowledge, establish relationships, enhance technical and leadership skills for a long-
term career
Profile Summary and Technical Skills
A result oriented professional with 7 years of experience in Investment Banking, Finance and
AccountsOperations,Custodyoperations,Middle Office OperationsandFunctional Testing.
Proven deliverer of best practices, process improvement ideas and building relationships with
internal andexternal clients
Self-starterwithexcellentorganizational skillsandabilitytoprioritize workload.
Quicklearner,attentiontodetail,goodworkethicsconcerningmeetingdeadlinesandreliability
Excellentcommunicationandinterpersonal skills.
Operating Systems: Windows XP/7, MS-Office, Multifonds, FSR, Basware, Oracle, HUB(HSBC
Universal Banking).
Work Experience
CITICORP ServicesIndia Limited
Position:-AssistantManager (InvestorReporting)
Duration: Dec 2013 till date
Job Responsibilities:-
Distributionof WorkLoadamong the teammembers.
Reviewingthe workdone bythe Teammembers.
Monitorthe developmentof variousreportsrequiredbythe investors.
Providingvarioustypesof reporttothe investorsonDaily,Monthly,QuarterlyandYearlyBasis.
Generate weeklyandmonthlyprogressreportsof variousteams.
Provide adhocreportstomanagementbasedonrequirement.
Creationandmaintenance of StandardOperatingProceduresandChecklists.
Taking daily/weekly calls with onshore colleagues, clients and resolving queries and giving status
updates.
2. Performing the Functional Testing of the FSR report against the Multifonds. Then accordingly
liaising with the IT team to develop the report accordingly. Working on products like Equities,
Bonds,Swapsetc.and validatingthe same againstthe Multifonds.
Maintenance andcreationof reportingtemplatesandstaticdatato supportreportproduction.
Production of high quality investment data and information in the form of periodic reporting to
internal andexternal departmentsona monthlyandquarterlycycle.
Requirement gathering with regards to various data needs, reporting & trade processing
requirements including impact analysis and connectivity setup requirements for the for the
various Middle Office and Fund Accounting systems such as Multifonds , Fund Services
Reporting,Motoetc
Ensuring information requests and reports are delivered within agreed timeframes and to the
requiredstandard.
Contributing towards the improvement, centralisation and standardisation of information
deliverytothe Clientbusiness.
Provide assistance tothe ClientReportingteamwithall aspectsof Citi Standards.
Liaison with internal and external departments to ensure new information requests are fully
analysedandsolutionsdeveloped.
Defining and review User Acceptance Testing (UAT) test management & training approach.
Preparationof testscenariosandtestcasesand supportIT teamsduringUAT
HSBC ElectronicData ProcessingIndia Ltd
Job Title:Fund Administrator (Custodyand Clearance - Custody Operations)
Duration: Mar 2010 – Dec 2013
Was one among the core teammembersfrompriortothe processwentBAU.
Job responsibilities:
Generationof Invoicesbasedontransactions& Custody.
Reconcilingthe Invoiceswiththe ManagementReports.
Sendingthe InvoicestoClientandpostingJournals.Preparingmonthlyjournal entries,ensuring
that all account activityisrecorded,balance accruals,andresolvesroutine discrepancies.
3. AccountOpening,thatissettingupof new account inthe system.
Regularlytrackingunbilleditemsandensuringthese are billedontime andaccurately.
Trackingpaymentsinthe nostroaccount and passingappropriate journal entriestorecoverthe
payment.
Gatheringfinancial datafordisclosure tomanagementandregulatorsonaroutine basis.
Providingassistance toAccountManagersseekingguidance onvariousaccountingandbilling
issues.
PostingManual paymentsasand whenpaymentisreceivedfromClient.
Making paymenttothe stock exchange anddepository.
Passingvariousadhocand adjustmententriesinthe P/Laccountsand appropriate ledgerand
cost center
Clientqueryresolutionthroughemail.Handlingof escalations.
Trainingnewemployeesinthe endtoendprocess.Trainingthe existingemployeesonchanges
and conductingrefreshercourse.
Creatingdocumentationof anynew processtransitionedtoIndiaandupdatingthe existing
documentswithchangesasand whenapplicable.
Settingupof fee schedulesandsettingupnew clientrecordsinthe billingsystemalongwithQC
and verificationof alreadysetupaccounts.
PerformaginganalysisandsendingMISreportstothe Accountmanagersto follow upwiththe
clientsonthe outstandingamounts.
Review andapprove the entriespostedbyotherTeammembers.
Constantlycheckingthe systemstoensure all clientsare setupinthe billingsystemsontime
and accurately.
Creationandmaintenance of DailychecklistandCQI.
Genpact
Job Title:Process Associate (Accounts Payable – Invoice Processing)
Duration: Nov 2008 to Mar 2010
Job Responsibilities:
Invoice processing , in the Accounts Payable team.
Processing the invoices for making payment to the editor, authors, doctors, professors with accuracy
with the agreed timeframe for the Reeds Elsevier group.
Responsible for processing the invoices of the employees of the Reeds Elsevier Group.
4. Providing the Kofax reporting and the daily reporting to the senior management team.
Achievements
With HSBC
Have been awarded the Memento (Shukran)
Successfullylearntandperformedthe AccountOpeningandFee Billing Activitiesof all the four
jurisdictionsnamely (KUWAIT,BAHRAIN,OMAN ANDUAE)
Performedtestingactivitiesforall the 4Jurisdictions(KUWAIT,BAHRAIN,OMAN ANDUAE) for
the newGHSS roll out.
Have trainedseveral NewJoinersandprovidedproperandtimelyfeedbackfortheir
development.
Have handledthe processseveral timesinAMO’sabsence.
With Genpact
Have been awarded the Certificate of Recognition.
Have beendeclaredthe StarPerformer.
Successfullytransitioned(remotelyin-syncwiththe OJTcandidate Invoice Processingsub
processof UK , IRE( Ireland) and NL (Netherlands).
MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS
Responsible for training new comers to get accustomed to the process
Attending all the weekly and BAU (Business As Usual) calls with the business partner
Responsible for providing weekly and monthly data to the higher management such as CQI data
(Continuous Quality Improvement), SAM report (System Access Matrix), FTE Analysis etc.
Involvement in the HSBC Group Audit.
Root cause analysis of errors and implementing proper control points to avoid such errors in the
future.
Ensuring that team has proper knowledge about the process and in case of any knowledge gap,
providing proper training to fill the knowledge gap.
5. Educational Qualification
M.B.A 2015 Annamalai University
B.Com (H) 2005-2008 CalcuttaUniversity,Calcutta
Class XII(ISCCommerce) 2003-2005 LingLiang HighSchool,Calcutta.
Class X(ICSE) 2002-2003 LingLiang HighSchool,Calcutta.
Personal Profile
Date of Birth 2nd Jan, 1986
Father’s Name K.M. Abdullah
PresentAddress: B-336 Mohan Garden,Uttam Nagar,New Delhi-110059
PermanentAddress: 3 , NawabBadruddinStreet,Kolkata - 700073
Languagesknown: English,Urduand Hindi
Hobbies: CoinsCollection.
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