With over 11 years of experience in the finance industry, I am a result-oriented professional excelling in reconciliation, SWIFT payments, automation, and transaction monitoring. Throughout my career, I consistently provide process improvement ideas, demonstrate expertise in cash application, and effectively manage stakeholders. My commitment to maintaining long-term customer relationships is evident through high-quality service and strong communication etiquette.
· Providing support for relevant Canadian and/or corporate projects and initiatives, including
SAP, Frontier and Operations enhancement projects
· Providing audit support (regulatory, external, and internal) by providing requested documents
and explanations
· Managing processing of feeds to the general ledger
· Performing testing and validation of changes implemented by the IT team to ensure
functionality and quality standards are met.
· Review and approve daily wire transfers and manual journal entries
· Process accounting for policy transactions and prepare journal entries
· Ensure that accounting requirements are met on a weekly, monthly, and/or quarterly basis
within required timelines
· Prepare monthly account reconciliations
· Preparing monthly reconciliation reports of various accounts including tax accounts, Seg
Fund, annuity etc.
· Preparing bi-weekly report to highlight all the unclaimed items.
· Investigating the pending items in the accounts and resolving them on a timely basis to keep
the accounts up to date.
· Identifying the process gaps and coordinate with management and stakeholders to resolve.
· Assisting internal auditors by giving process walkthrough.
· Preparing accounting and manual journal entries for segregated funds and credits in the bank accounts.
· Handling month-end closing transactions to clear the bank fees and interest.
· Processing bank sweeps, wires, and checks.
· Preparing and updating Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
· Suggesting process improvement and automation ideas to increase the process efficiency.
· Processing and repairing of incoming and outgoing wire payments of Saxo's clients within agreed SLAs.
· Investigation of missing funds by communicating with agent/correspondent banks through various swift
messages (MT199, MT195, MT999 etc.).
· Working on various swift messages to process payments. (MT910, PACS008, PACS004, MT103, MT202).
· Training of new staff by providing them classroom sessions on SWIFT.
· Maintain cooperative relationship with internal and external clients.
· Reconciliation of Nostro accounts on day to day basis and research on discrepancies or breaks if any.
· Process improvement and increase accuracy by error tracking and analyzing.
· Perform bank accounting related activity (Journal entries) in SAP to ensure everyday balance is matching.
· General ledger Reconciliations, Cash Application which includes processing of Lockbox Checks, money movement, Credit cards.
· Coordinate with AP, T&E teams regarding vendor returns & Refunds.
· Approval and processing of invoices & payroll payments (bulk payments).
· Manage risk by putting controls in the account payable payment process
· Responsible for reviewing account procedures documentation
· Process improvement by continuously suggesting ways to reduce manual work.
· Manage escalation by resolving queries raised by client.
· Processing manual and EFT of prime customers of Coutts and Adam & co. accurately and as per the Service
Level Agreements (SLA).
· Supporting IT in testing the final product by highlighting all flaws in systems.
· Reconciliation of Nostro account and finding out breaks if any.
· Experienced in processing payment and settlement via Chaps, EBA, SEPA, TARGET2, Fedwire, ACSS etc.
· Monitoring fraudulent payments and Money Laundering activities.
· Training of new staff to ensure smooth business operations and the development of the staff.
· Updating team dashboard on monthly basis in order to show clear picture of team to management team.
· Assist manager in preparing BCP document and error analysis.
Swift Payment
Microsoft Excel
Reconciliation
Automation and testing
Journal Entries
Stakeholder Management
· Automation of telephonic payments
· Successful migration from old reconciliation tool to the new one.