Richa Wadhawan

Finance professional with 15 years of experience in Financial planning, Management Reporting, Forecasting and Budgeting. I Ex-NatWest I Ex- Barclays I Ex-Amex

Finance Manager in Natwest

• Exco packs by monitoring and analysing monthly variance against Budget, MTD and YTD with commentary. Co-ordination with various business groups for accruals inputs, month-end reports, and ad hoc queries
• Budgets/Forecasts –Involved in Budgeting /forecasting cycle process for NWM business by performing data analysis, preparing the overall budget templates, liaising with the business partners for Headcount, one-off and MDR’s and ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the right budget being uploaded
• Managing and reviewing the month end activities-accruals, ledger close, flash preparation, BS verification for the team members. Have supervised and trained the subordinates during month close
• Prepared Legal entity pack reporting giving the fully loaded cost view to senior stakeholders
• Preparation a new CFO Finance pack for Legal Entity giving MoM and YTD views on P&L, Balance Sheet with commentary, risk and issues, headcount analysis etc.
• Supported in preparation of the quarterly advance tax file based on the expected future assumptions of the year end costs based on projections
• Supported in Audit deliverables by checking the supporting documents, liaisoning with team members, business partners and audit teams. Prepared the Audit pack for the CFO post audit close.
• Headcount reporting- Managed the Headcount reporting for the Joiners/Leavers and presentation in the reporting format for business use
• Managed escalations and ad hoc queries from business partners and provided innovative solutions while ensuring adherence to SLAs.