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Chintan Khant

Secaucus,NJ

Summary

  • Finance professional with over 19 years of experience in planning/ forecasting, Controllers and Treasury functions with a proven ability to lead and drive results through strong partnerships with senior stakeholders across the organization.
  • Proficient in designing and implementing systems/procedures for achieving financial discipline and enhancing the overall efficiency of the organization.
  • Worked in multiple locations across the globe - India, Costa Rica and United States

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Vice President, Finance

Citibank
08.2011 - Current

Fund Transfer Pricing

  • Support ongoing funds transfer pricing execution and adherence to policies and controls, including all regulation and/or guidance which impacts FTPExposure to Citi's balance sheet and develop understanding of data and technology infrastructure supporting the liquidity reporting process.
  • Supporting strategic and transformational efforts to enhance FTP policy, frameworks, and funds transfer pricing systems
  • Appropriately assessing risk when business decisions are made and actively monitoring FTP reporting to effectively manage the bank's balance sheet

Daily Balance Sheet - Citigroup

  • Overview of Citi's Daily Balance Sheet for OCC requirements with a portfolio of $2 Trillion
  • Managing and leading a team of two highly skilled senior analysts
  • Analyzing and addressing the inconsistent movement in the Balance Sheet daily
  • Daily review of the Balance Sheet, tracking issues and improvising the underlying data with the Global Process Owner (GPO)
  • Cultivated strong relationships with key stakeholders, including customers, vendors, regulators, and community leaders to promote collaboration and long-term success.
  • Leading ad-hoc analytics on themes that arise at senior management's request or through proactive research of potential issues

Close Assurance and Analytics: RUK, Romania and Bulgaria

  • Lead for the Close Assurance and Analytics (CAA) process for key EMEA countries; Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Romania & Bulgaria for E2E reporting and analysis of US GAAP financials
  • Preparing and providing detailed analytical insights into the monthly results to senior stakeholders within Citi
  • Leading and chairing the monthly financial calls with the CFO and Country Controller
  • Led the standardization initiative - Created, designed and executed a standardized query across EMEA countries on the Flexcube Platform
  • Closely working on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), R&C requirements and Audit Documentation


Financial Planing & Analysis: Forward Looking Activities - Planning, Outlook, and Forecasting

  • Managed Outlook and Plan forecasts for the entire EMEA region, SPOC for all planning related adhocs for the region
  • Working closely with country FP&A, business teams & support teams (Global functions, Expense workstreams, product FP&A)
  • Providing strategic insight on financial trends for key countries and timely identifying areas for business improvement
  • Ensuring Interest revenues and expenses are aligned with the Balance Sheet and aligning the Compensation with Headcount
  • Performing variance analysis to identify & resolve performance deviations from established P&L and balance sheet goals
  • Established a culture of continuous improvement, fostering innovation and driving sustainable growth across the organization.
  • Leveraged technology to automate workflows and streamline processes, resulting in increased productivity

Team Leader

JP Morgan
08.2006 - 07.2011
  • Responsible for delivering monthly expense reports for the Corporate Sector to the CFOs and delivering Firmwide Technology & Operation Expenses to CFOs
  • Managed a team of 4 analysts and provided extensive support in Budgeting & Forecasting for Direct & Indirect expenses
  • Weekly Headcount Reporting to provide week by week, month on month and year to date headcount information to LOB CFOs, Finance Directors often customized as per their requirements
  • Assisted business heads in generating the forecast and plan numbers in the yearly planning cycle

Education

Certified Associate -

Indian Institute of Banking And Finance
02.2007

Junior Associate -

Indian Institute of Banking And Finance
07.2006

Diploma in Banking And Finance -

Indian Institute of Banking And Finance
08.2004

Bachelor of Commerce -

University of Mumbai
03.2003

Skills

  • Emerging Risk Data Collection (ERDC): A new regulatory requirement on account of Covid-19 pandemic
  • Scorecards: Preparing Scorecards for analyzing Senior Management performance with key performance metrics
  • Working knowledge of MS Office, Hyperion Essbase, , Ruby (Driver based forecasting tool), Inquiry Framework, Smartview
  • Business Objects Flexcube: Created, designed, and executed Standardized query across all EMEA countries on the Flexcube Platform
  • Cost Centre maintenance: Single point of contact for the entire team, managing communication, allocation of work and real time status of the request
  • Virtual Communication: An initiative to enhance Team bonding and communication within teams located in different countries (Onshore – Offshore models)

Timeline

Vice President, Finance

Citibank
08.2011 - Current

Team Leader

JP Morgan
08.2006 - 07.2011

Certified Associate -

Indian Institute of Banking And Finance

Junior Associate -

Indian Institute of Banking And Finance

Diploma in Banking And Finance -

Indian Institute of Banking And Finance

Bachelor of Commerce -

University of Mumbai
Chintan Khant