SHANTANU  SHARMA        Mobile:  +  (971)  55  5018413  E-­‐Mail:  shantanusharma@live.com  

Address: Flat  101,  New  Bridge  Hill-­‐1,  Motor  City,  Dubai,  United  Arab  Emirates  

Professional  Profile    

� A   Qualified   Chartered   Accountant   with   over   14   years   of   experience   in   the   domain   of   Financial   Planning   and   Analysis,  Management  Reporting,  Performance  Management,  Cost  control,  Budgeting  &  Forecasting,  and  Financial  Control.    

� Skilled   in  creating  value  added  MIS  and  presentations  with  business  drivers   including  various  complex  matrix  style  performance  reports  and  analysis  at  product  and  segment  level  

� Deft  in  conducting  analysis  to  assess  business  performance  &  profitability  implications,  identifying  business  risks  and  opportunities.    

�  Adroit   at  designing  and   implementing   systems  &  processes   to  ensure   timely  availability  of  business   information  necessary   to   facilitate  critical  decision-­‐making  process.  

� Proven  ability  to  improve  and  standardize  operations,  finance  systems,  processes  and  internal  controls  and  create  overall  efficiencies    

Career  Contour  

 Standard  Chartered  Bank  (Regional  office-­‐Dubai)  as  Senior  Manager  Finance                                                                                                                                                                              (Feb  2012  onwards)    Role   Essence:   Accountable   for   managing   the   business   finance   function   for   the   countries   in   the   MENAP   region.   Additionally   heading   the  business  finance  function  for  newly  created  “Commercial  Client  segment”  for  MENAP  region  (Middle  east,  North  Africa  and  Pakistan  region).  

 

� Analysis  and  preparation  of  materials   like  “Business   review  packs”  and  “Performance  scorecards”   for   regional  business  heads   for   their  monthly  Business  Review  for  MENAP  countries  including  insightful  analysis  and  feedback  to  tell  the  story  and  provide  a  basis  for  action.    

� Investigate   and   understand   key   business   drivers   behind   the   numbers   and   provide   clear,   concise   commentaries   and   timely   analysis   to  identify  risks  and  opportunities  to  enhance  business  performance  

� Provide  insights  and  advice  to  the  business  heads  on  the  Budget/Forecast  numbers  and  risks  /  opportunities    

� Provide  monthly  early  view  and  flash  to  the  senior  management  and  business  heads  

� Drive  a  disciplined  cost  culture  with  cost  intelligence  that  allows  the  senior  management  teams  to  tightly  manage  direct  controllable  costs  and  ensure  investment  spend  is  appropriately  allocated  with  due  accountability  for  return;    

� Proactively  drive  and  manage  the  capital  and  liquidity  agenda,  focusing  on  capital  discipline,  return  optimization,  balance  sheet  capacity  and  funding  cost  through  continued  engagement,  leadership,  and  delivery  of  the  right  behaviour  to  maximize  return  of  the  bank.  

� Supervising  monthly  management   reporting,  various   reconciliation,   control  mechanisms  and  control   reports   in  compliance  with   time  &  accuracy  norms.  Ensure  that  appropriate  financial  regulations  and  controls  in  places  and  use  at  all  times.  Performing  key  control  checks  to  ensure  all  controls  are  working  consistently  and  effectively  and  implementing  and  corrective  actions  if  required.  Escalate  control  issues  in  the  appropriate  risk  forums  for  their  speedy  resolutions.  

� Producing  insightful  analysis  on  specific  areas  of  business  performances  as  and  when  required  by  various  department  heads.  

� Work  with  senior  management  on  any  strategic  agenda  and  contribute  to  other  ad  hoc  initiatives  as  they  arise.    

� Drive  standardization  and  sharing  of  best  practices  across  countries  in  the  region  

� Reengineer  processes  to  improve  productivity,  improve  controls  and  quality  of  key  reports.  

 

Standard  Chartered  Bank,  Bahrain  as  WB  Business  Finance  Head                                                                                                                                                                                                                  (May  2007  to  Jan  2012)    

Management  reporting  

� Monthly  closing  for  management  books  after  performing  all   the  relevant  checks,  reconciliations  and  posting  of  all   the  entries,  ensuring  the  GL  is  complete,  accurate  and  in  compliance  with  all  group  policies/  IFRS  requirements.    

� Monthly  submission  of  management  reporting  pack  for  revenue,  costs,  balance  Sheet  and  RWA  for  wholesale  banking  division  

 

Performance  Management  

� Preparation   of  monthly   Performance   packs   such   as   Business   review   packs   and   performance   scorecards   along  with   business   KPI’s   for  business  heads  covering  trends,  variance  analysis,  volumes/margin  analysis  and  returns  etc.  

� Provide  meaningful   and   insightful   commentaries   on   performance   to   CEO,   CFO   and   Business   heads   covering   revenues,   costs,   balance  sheet,  RWA  and  other  key  business  drivers  

� Provide   “Client   profitability   analysis”   including   key   client  metrics   and   scorecards   such   as   Top/bottom   revenue   generating   clients  with  return  on  RWA,  Multi  product  and  multi  market  ratios,  RM  performance  scorecards,  to  the  business  heads  and  relationship  managers  

� Providing  to  the  segment  and  product  heads  performance  analysis  explaining  material  movements  in  the  P&L,  variance  against  budgets  and  helping  them  to  build  their  rolling  forecasts.  

� Providing  to  the  CFO,  CEO  and  business  heads  the  early  view  of  the  numbers  on  weekly  basis.    

� Tracking  the  balance  sheet  and  co-­‐coordinating  with  business  to  provide  the  ALCO  balance  sheet  projections  on  monthly  basis.  

� Understanding  and  explaining  the  RWA  and  Return  on  RWA  impact  on  the  business  to  facilitate  decision  making  

 

Cost  Analysis  &  Management  

� Lead  the  understanding  of  the  cost  base  among  the  cost  centre  owners  by  providing  Cost  MIS  to  all  cost  centre  owners  and  give  strong  analytics  around  various  costs  items  including  allocations  and  one-­‐offs  to  improve  transparency  of  cost.  

� Highlight  risks  and  opportunities  in  costs  budget/forecasts  to  the  costs  centre  owners  and  senior  management.  

� Ensure  a  transparent  and  explainable  robust  cost  charging  mechanism  for  the  country  and  between  various  units  of  the  banks.  

 

Budget  and  Forecasts  

� Provide  insight  and  advice  to  the  business  heads  on  the  Budget/Forecast  numbers  and  risks  /  opportunities.  

� Provide  support  on  Budget/  forecast,  ensuring  the  professional  delivery  of  a  well-­‐considered  and  owned  Budget/Forecast  to  the  group.  

� Improve  /  standardize  the  major  deals  pipeline  process  and  ensure  robust  ALCO  projections  

 

Others  

� Ad  hoc  analysis  and  presentations  based  on  the  requests  of  the  business  heads.  

� Settlement  and  resolution  of  queries  for  various  stakeholders  like  CEO,  CFO,  Business  heads,  Product  control,  Group  finance  etc.  

 

Projects/assignments  undertaken  in  Standard  Chartered  Bank-­‐  

 

� Set  up  and  implementation  of  new  business  segment  “Commercial  Client  ”  as  per  the  new  re  organisation  announcement  in  the  MENAP  region  in  General  Ledger,  TP  systems,  PMI  and  various  MIS  etc.  

� Participated  in  General  Ledger  accounts  and  global  Market  department  standardisation  project    

� Represented  business  finance  in  implementation  of  Performance  &  Risk  Management  information  systems  in  Bahrain  &  Saudi.  

� Represented  business  finance  in  implementation  of  TP  systems  like  IMEX,  RCMS,  ACBS  in  countries  like  Bahrain,  Qatar  and  Saudi  

� BCRS  reconciliation  process  set  up  in  countries  in  MENAP  region.  

� Represented  for  the  implementation  of  GL  enrichment  layer  for  TP  systems  to  automate  the  accounting  entry  flow  between  TP  and  GL.  

 

Genpact  India  Limited,  India  as  Assistant  Manager                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      (May  2005  –  Apr  2007)  

• Role  Essence Financial  Accounting,  Balance  Sheet  analysis,   Income  Statement  analysis,   Interest   Income  &  Expense  Analysis,   Fixed  Assets,  Intercompany  Reconciliation,  RIWAC  Calculation,  accounts  Reconciliation    

Scope  International  Pvt.  Limited  as  Business  Analyst                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                (Dec  2002  –  May  2005)    

• Role  Essence Preparation  of  Financial  Statements  as  per  UK  GAAP  &  IAS,  Consolidation  of   financial  statements,  RIWAC  Reporting,  Inter  Company  reconciliation,  Preparation  of  Business  Performance  Pack  Central  Bank  statutory  returns,  Other  MIS  Reports      

Sharp  Business  System  India  Ltd,  as  Zonal  Accounts  Executive                                                                                                                                                                                                                            (Nov  2000  –  Dec  2002)  

• Role   Essence Sales   and   debtor   Accounting   and   Credit   Control,   Inventory   management,   Sales   Tax,   Cost   Accounting   &   Control,  Management  Information  Reports,  Internal  Audit  of  the  Branches.  

 S.N  Dhawan  &  Co,  India    (CA  Article  ship)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    (August  1996  –  Aug  1999)  Completed  article  ship  with  a  reputed  firm  S.N  Dhawan  &  Co.    During  article  ship  participated   in  statutory  and   internal  audits  of  number  of  reputed  large  size  manufacturing  and  banking  companies  like  Escorts  Ltd,  Escorts  Yamaha  Motors  Ltd,  IFFCO  Ltd.,  Punjab  &  Sind  Bank      Academic  &  IT  Skills  

 Chartered  Accountant  from  India  –  2002,    

B.com  (H)  from  P.G.D.A.V  College  (Delhi  University)  in  1996  

IT  Skills:   PeopleSoft,  Oracle  Query  based  Client  Management   information   systems   (Performance  Management   Information   systems  &  Risk  

Management  information  systems),  Oracle  Finance,  Hyperion,  ESSBASE,  MS  Excel,  word  and  power  point.  

Personal  Dossier  

 Date  of  Birth-­‐:  11th  July  1975  

Nationality-­‐Indian  

Linguistic  Abilities  -­‐English  and  Hindi  

Visa-­‐Employment