Firoz Khan
Finance Data And Digital Transformation Specialist
Summary
Specialties: Program and Project Management, Lead Business Analysis, Resource Management, Data Governance and Strategic Finance Transformation. My passion revolves around harnessing data analytics as a strategic enabler, driving impactful transformations.
Experience in Corporate treasury, accounting and financial ledger implementations including new product rollouts/legal entity set ups and other taxation/Compliance Programs/Projects
Experience in Change Management and large scale technology and Operations Migration projects
Hands-on experience in Business Intelligence tools and technologies like Alteryx, Power BI, Tableau and Python.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
year of post-secondary education
Work History
Vice President
Nomura Securities Co. Ltd.
Tokyo
05.2019 - Current
- Leading Finance division to bring efficiencies in BAU processes by adapting to new Technologies and data strategies. More than 4000 hrs saves achieved within 3 years.
- Identified opportunities to improve business process flows and productivity.
- Monitored industry trends, keeping current on latest changes and competition in industry.
- Demonstrated proficient leadership skills to motivate employees and build competent teams by ensuring close focus on training needs.
- Guided teams to adapt strategic Data and Digital solutions by leveraging new tools in trend to make business processes more robust.
- Collaborated with senior management to develop strategic initiatives and long term goals.
- As Business Data Co-ordinator I am responsible for enhancing Data Management Frameworks and Guidelines. Proficient in establishing and enforcing Data Management Standards, adept at swiftly resolving critical Data Management Issues. Acting as a global point of contact for Data Management Framework and local point of contact for resolution of Data Quality Issues.
- Data Governance & Data Quality Lead working on defining and enhancing Data Management Framework and Guidelines for Data Management Standards and resolution of critical Data Management Issues. Leading in resolving the Data Quality Issues for Finance division by working closely with business SMEs as well as IT counterparts.
Project Manager
Nomura Securities India
Mumbai
08.2014 - 04.2019
- Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.
- Achieved project deadlines by coordinating with contractors to manage performance.
- Worked on multiple projects for Product Control Team
- Implemented COBRA implementation for FOBO and P&L reporting
- COBRA is a web based application that provides a secure and auditable platform for Front office (trading systems) to back office (Ledger), P&L reconciliation, adjustment, attribution, reporting and sign off work flows
- Products included Bond borrowing lending, FI OTC, Cash FI and Equities and Repo products
- Requirements elicitation across processes in light of regulatory requirements; Front to Back office system analysis
- Project management, SIT & UAT management and deployment of business solution
- Financial Rules Engine Implementation
- This project dealt with the design and implementation of Financial rules engine (FRE) module in the Trading sub ledger for Stock borrowing lending, Equity OTC, Cash FI and Equity products
- FRE determines the journal posting pattern based on trade event and trade attributes received from upstream (trading) systems
- Data analysis of upstream systems to determine the relevant trade events and trade attributes necessary for Accounting of the relevant asset classes
- Business analysis and design of AS-IS and TO-BE journal posting pattern as per user, regulatory and system requirements; oversight of development, SIT & UAT and deployment.
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Senior Associate
JP Morgan Services India Pvt Ltd
Mumbai
05.2005 - 08.2014
- Prepared Business Requirements Document (BRD), User Stories & Functional Specs by interviewing Business users. Performed gap analysis between business and technical specifications
- Documented as-is vs. new process flow and User Interface diagrams using MS Visio
- Interviewed business teams to understand upstream systems & data flow to integrate with DBIN and CMPP.
- Identified redundant functionalities to get rid of
- Prepared and Performed Regression Tests with QA team
- Assisted development teams in understanding the functional defects in application
- Provide estimations and timelines to stakeholders at various stages of the projects
- Negotiate with business stakeholders whenever necessary in order to meet milestones/deadlines
- Support AD team, QA Team as well as Business users for post production activities
Senior Accounts Executive
JSA, John Stephen Accountants
Mumbai
10.2003 - 04.2005
- JSA is a British company rendering financial, accounting and auditing services to companies in the software industry, based in UK
- Finalizing of accounts of client companies, including report to clients, and notes forming part of accounts
- Employed proactive and collaborative approaches to strengthen relationships and manage customer needs.
- Reconciling bank accounts, sales ledger and other control accounts like VAT and PAYE/NIC and ascertaining the sums due from or payable to the relevant authorities, i.e
- HMC&E or Inland Revenue.
Education
Bachelor of Commerce -
S.R.S.S. College of Commerce And Arts
Mumbai 01.2000 - 03.2001
Advanced Strategic Management -
IIM Kozhikode
Kerala 10.2022 - Current
Skills
Data Management & Data analytics
Program / Project Management
Finance Transformation
Business analysis and testingPython, SQL, MS-Access
Budget Planning
Policy and procedure development
Performance metrics analysis
MS Project, MS Visio, MS suite
Timeline
Advanced Strategic Management -
IIM Kozhikode
10.2022 - Current
Vice President
Nomura Securities Co. Ltd.
05.2019 - Current
Project Manager
Nomura Securities India
08.2014 - 04.2019
Senior Associate
JP Morgan Services India Pvt Ltd
05.2005 - 08.2014
Senior Accounts Executive
JSA, John Stephen Accountants
10.2003 - 04.2005
Bachelor of Commerce -
S.R.S.S. College of Commerce And Arts
01.2000 - 03.2001